There was once a time when floppy drives were used every single day. Nowadays, computer users would be lucky if they even owned one. The reality is that they are no longer needed and this is something that is likely to happen to optical drives in the near future, something that WinToFlash is hoping to solve.

USB Safeguard Free Edition is one of those great products that are aiming to protect computer users and all of their important information. The internet is full of spam, viruses, and infections and so on and programs like this aim to reduce the risk of computer users getting damaged files or folders thanks to surfing the web. Not only this, but as computer users; we at constant risk to hackers who consistently try to ruin our computers and everything on them.

Miranda IM is a great piece of software that has been developed for Windows. The need for a multi-protocol client based on instant messaging for Windows is great and Miranda has managed to satisfy the need. The great thing about Miranda IM is that the features incorporated are clever and do not take up much space. A lot of other instant messaging clients use a lot of a computer systems resources, meaning that they tend to run extremely slowly.

Most people know about ZIP and RAR, two forms of compression that can make large files much smaller to make them easier to transfer over the net. It’s pretty impossible to use the net for long without running into a ZIP file, but about a 7-Zip file? If you’re curious, or if you’ve just downloaded a file that ends in .7z and want to know what’s going on – read on!

If you’re tired of Windows Media Player, PowerDVD and all the other resource hungry players out there, you might want to take a look at this next review – VLC is hands down the best media player for Windows and Linux. Not only is it free and lightweight, it supports a much wider range of features and codec support than many of it’s peers. We take a look at everything the player offers.

FileZilla is a FTP program that allows you to do all of the usual uploading and downloading from FTP servers such as your own website or file archives. FileZilla is one of the most popular FTP programs on the net, and it’s easy to see why.

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program, which is a fancy way of saying it’s a freeware photo editor.

uTorrent is a freeware bittorrent client for Microsoft Windows and Max OS X. It is lightweight, feature rich and powerful.