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.

Foobar 2000 is an oddly named freeware music player that’s built on the philosophy of being simple but highly configurable, lightweight but powerful. If you’re fed up with the memory usage of popular players like iTunes and MediaMonkey, Foobar is a great alternative – not only does it sound great when playing music, it offers a huge level of customisation. Take a look at our full review.

Although VirtualDub’s own site admits that their software lacks the editing power of programs like Premiere, it’s still an excellent performer and one of the best options around if you’re looking to edit video, with its fast operation speed, third party support and batch processing abilities. At its most basic, VirtualDub is a program that designed to do quick and easy clean up and capture of digital video. We take a look to see just how it handles this often complex task.

There are few things in the computer world that have become quite as convoluted as burning a DVD image. While most people have since become used to burning quick audio CDs or ripping their favourite music, getting a data CD to burn correctly is much harder work. There are so many different formats created by various programs that just trying to figure out what program you’re supposed to use requires some quality time with Google. That is, unless you have ImgBurn, a CD burning program that can handle just about anything you throw at it.

If you’ve got a staggering collection of CDs that you’ve been wishing could join your digital music collection either for space or backup, now might be just the time to do it. Exact Audio Copy does exactly what it says, making perfect copies of audio CDs as quickly as it is possible to do so. The software takes advantage of technology like AccurateRip and multi-reading to provide high quality music rips. We take a look at how Exact Audio Copy works and whether you should entrust your precious music collection to it.

Video files can be tricky things to get your head around. A word document is going to open in word, no matter what the content is. A Jpeg picture will be viewable on your photo editing software on any modern computer without the need to download extra files. Video doesn’t work quite like that, unfortunately. There are so many different codecs and combinations available that you are bound to run into a video file you can’t play sooner or later, and that’s where VideoInspector comes in.

Designed for people who already know what they are talking about when it comes to the world of memory bandwidth and shader cores, GPU-Z is a tool for quickly finding out information about your computers graphic card. If you’re used to overclocking, its in-depth information and real time monitoring of your GPU could be very useful.