Format Factory is a free media files converter that allows you to easily convert your video, audio and image files to and from the most popular file formats. It also repairs damaged media files, reduces their size and supports file formats that are used by portable devices such as iPhone, iPod, PSP and BlackBerry. Format Factory also comes with a DVD ripper and has been translated to 50 different languages.

PC INSPECTOR™ File Recovery is data recovery software, which supports NTFS and FAT 121632 file systems and can recover files in more than 20 popular file formats. The tool can retrieve lost data that has been accidentally deleted or damaged due to system failure, malicious viruses or other reasons; it recovers the files with their original time stamp even when the header entry is not available. PC INSPECTOR™ File Recovery is capable of recovering lost data not only from hard drives, but also from memory sticks, USB flash, external disks, Smartmedia™ and other similar devices.

Powerresizer makes working with multiple windows extremely easy and lets you maximize your desktop space; even though some of its functionalities are built-in in Windows 7, it comes with additional features that make working with numerous windows much easier.

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.

GoodSync is a backup/synchronisation package that allows you to keep up to date backups of any files you choose with just a few buttons. The program has been around for many years now and with each release it gains more and more features. We take a look at the latest version to see exactly what GoodSync is capable of.

Download accelerators used to be all the rage back in the days of dialup, especially as many of them introduced features that browsers at the time simply couldn’t do, such as split part downloading and pausing of live downloads. Now the browser market has done some catching up and most people have good broadband connections, are download accelerators a thing of the past? Not if FlashGet has anything to say about it.

One of the best things about the internet and modern technology is that they’ve made music more accessible than ever. Many thousands of us have ripped all of our most precious albums to computer se we can enjoy them wherever we go. The trouble with doing this? Once you’ve got through the first 100 albums, you might notice file organisation is a problem. Poorly labelled tracks, missing artist names and misspelled albums can make searching difficult. Mp3tag can help.

We’ve had it engrained into our minds for some time that backing up our files is very important. Many of us have had to learn the hard way when we’ve lost an important file or sentimental photo collection to the whims of technology. But while there are plenty of backup programs around, few of them focus on backing up your more important system information. We take a look at why it’s worth backing up your drivers as well as your documents.

On paper, it’s difficult to describe the point of Launchy.  We can tell you let it lets you launch your applications quickly, but without a more thorough explanation, that simply sounds like something Windows – especially the later versions – can already do. Launchy can be a very useful little application though, especially if you don’t like the way Microsoft uses the start bar and search functions.

FileZilla Server is an FTP server program. If you don’t know what an FTP server program is, it’s a utility that lets you use your computer as a file server, allowing other people to connect to you and download your files. If you do know what one is, than you owe it to yourself to take a look at FileZilla server, one of the best programs around for setting up and maintaining an FTP server.