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Burnaware Free 8.9

BurnAware 8.9 removes OpenCandy from Its Free version Installer

February 27, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Burnaware Free 8.9

BurnAware Technologies is quite a popular CD/DVD burning software, and is also one of the software companies that includes OpenCandy in its installer for … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News
Freeware
BrowserAddonsView showing installed browser add-ons

Get the details of Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer Add-ons installed on your computer

February 25, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
BrowserAddonsView showing installed browser add-ons

Print a list of all web browser add-ons installed in your system. Nirsoft has released a freeware and portable tool that displays popular web … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware
Freeware
CCleaner 5.15

CCleaner 5.15 improves Google Chrome Cleaning

February 23, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
CCleaner 5.15

New version of CCleaner– CCleaner v5.15 — has been released and is available to download with improvements and bug fixes. Piriform has updated the cleaning … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News
Freeware
Notepad 6.9 with Folder as workspace feature lets you add folders to the panel

Notepad++ 6.9 adds most wanted ‘Folder as Workspace’ Feature

February 23, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Notepad 6.9 with Folder as workspace feature lets you add folders to the panel

Notepad++ 6.9 has been released and available for download with the  addition of a new feature, security improvements and bug fixes. NPP v6.9 has … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News
Freeware
Kaspersky Cleaner

First Look at Kaspersky PC Cleaner Freeware

February 22, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Kaspersky Cleaner

Kaspersky, a company good at making security products has released a free PC Cleaning tool— Kasperksy Cleaner— in beta and is available to download. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News, Security
Freeware
Edge blocker

Edge Blocker blocks Microsoft Edge browser in Windows 10

February 19, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Edge blocker

Microsoft Edge browser is not only the default browser in Windows 10, it is also the default PDF Reader (read: How to Change the Default … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, Microsoft Edge
Freeware
CCleaner 5.14

CCleaner 5.14 introduces a new Browser Plugins section to manage browser startup Items

January 26, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
CCleaner 5.14

Piriform has released CCleaner v5.14 and is available to download from its website. With this version, Piriform has separated all supported browsers –Internet Explorer, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News
Freeware
Foxit Reader 7.3

Foxit Reader 7.3: Open PDF files from Google Drive and OneDrive

January 23, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Foxit Reader 7.3

Foxit Software has released Foxit Reader 7.3 by adding support for OneDrive and Google Drive cloud services, this means, after adding either or both of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News
Freeware
SpotBright

Download Windows 10 Spotlight Lock Screen Images with SpotBright App

January 9, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu 2 Comments
SpotBright

If you’ve Windows Spotlight turned on for Lock Screen background in Personalization in Windows 10, then the beautiful images that appear from Bing on your … [Read more…]

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Freeware
Free Download Manager 5 Beta UI

Free Download Manager 5.1 Beta Released

December 26, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Free Download Manager 5 Beta UI

Free Download Manager version 5.1 beta for Windows and Mac has been released and available to public for download from FDM website. Back in … [Read more…]

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Freeware

CCleaner 5.13 improves the Registry Cleaning In Windows 10

December 21, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Piriform has released  CCleaner v5.13 and is available to download from their website. If you use registry Cleaner tool included in the CCleaner or … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News
Freeware

Microsoft makes Windows Live Writer open-source, available as Open Live Writer

December 10, 2015 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Microsoft has made their blogging tool Windows Live Writer as Open-source now, its fork is now available as Open Live Writer with some changes. Live … [Read more…]

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