If you are looking for a feature-rich, yet free RSS feed aggregator and news reader, then Awasu is just the tool for you – RSS feeds are offered by most of the leading online news, technology, sports and business web sites and blogs. Reading, searching, adding, synchronizing and archiving feeds, managing podcasts, and using channel plug-ins – these are some of the features offered by the Awasu Personal Edition and they are most likely more than enough for the average and the advanced news reader alike.

Mikogo is a cross-platform program that is extremely easy to use, simple, fast, and reliable and can help you run webinars, show presentations or offer remote support. Even for the everyday users this little tool is extremely helpful – if allows them to share their screens or send files, documents and songs to their friends, even if some of them are working on a Mac while others are running Windows. Mikogo is also speedy and very flexible – it allows for up to 10 people to participate in each session, the presenters can be changed on the fly, each session participant can choose which application running on his or her computer are visible to the others and which are not, and transmission can be paused at any time as well. Mikogo uses 256-Bit AES encryption, which makes the sessions extremely secure.

WinSCP allows you safely transfer files to a remote computer; it uses SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) and SCP (Secure Copy) protocols and supports some of the most widely-used encryption algorithms such as Blowfish, AES, DES and 3DES as well as private keys. WinSCP also lets you perform all the file operations that you might ever need such as renaming, moving and copying files, changing file and folder properties, editing text files with the built-in text editor, and performing numerous additional operations locally or on the remote server. WinSCP also supports PuTTY and has been translated to several languages.

Peer-to-peer programs have made file sharing a breeze and right now one of the biggest and most robust one of them is eMule. It uses two networks – eDonkey and Kad, and doesn’t have one single centralized server, but connects to thousands of clients nodes, which makes eMule reliable and fast. It comes with reward system, which encourages uploading, handles well corrupted downloads and transmits the files in compressed format, which further increases its file-sharing speed. Since eMule is an open source project it comes in quite a few different flavors, called mods – this allows many developers to contribute to the improvement of the program and incorporate great features into the different mods.

If you want to download files of any kind: movies, music, video clips, documents, software, games and books, then Vuze is the tool that you need. With this based on the bittorent protocol application even the largest files can be downloaded in a matter of minutes, providing that you have fast Internet connection and there are enough people seeding them; this allows independent producers and musicians to share their work with millions of users Worldwide without having to spend huge amount of money on bandwidth and servers. It also lets the regular user share any of his files with all his online friends or the entire community.

TeamViewer is an application that gives you remote access to another computer, allowing you to easily connect to your home computer from your office computer or vice versa; it let’s also computer technicians perform off-site work, or can be used simply for sharing files between two computers connected to the Internet. Even though the latest operating systems have built-in remote connection tools, they aren’t very easy to install or configure, which is why TeamViewer has been gaining popularity. You don’t have to create hosts and clients, there is no need for complicated configuration tweaking, or setting firewall and router exceptions – all you need is to run TeamViewer on two computers and you can initiate a remote session right away.

No matter what email client or service you use, you are likely to have your inbox bombarded with spam messages: they can range from solicitations to malicious viruses that can do real damage to your computer and steal some of your private information. In order to prevent these messages getting to your computer, you need a program that is able to intercept them before them before they reach your hard drive and this is exactly what MailWasher Free does.

Luckily for all of us in the past few years we have witnessed the launch of quite a few new browsers – browsers that are faster, better, and easier to use than their predecessors. And even though some computer users are looking for the browser with the most add-ons, whistles and bells, if you are searching for a lightweight, super-fast browser, then K-Meleon should be on the top of your list. Freeware (open source), released under the GNU General Public License and based on the Mozilla rendering engine, K-Meleon is easy to use, highly customizable and lightning-fast.

Gladinet Cloud Desktop is a Windows utility, which allows you to mount your cloud storages as local folders. This permits you to access all your files and images, stored on your FTP servers, Google Picasa albums, Google Docs and Amazon S3 folders, Box.net, Windows Live Sky drive and other online storages with a single mouse click from within the Windows Explorer.

We’ve reviewed a lot of browsers, and while many are taking the threat of web page scripts seriously, there are few that really specialise in what is a relatively new field in the security world. NoScript addresses that imbalance by offering up additional protection from malicious code that can work with or without additional internet security.