When it comes to music players, there are more than a few names to choose from. From the heavyweights like Media Player and iTunes to those light on system resources and high on configurable options like Foobar. MediaMonkey fits somewhere in the middle but offers some very unique features targeted towards collectors. If you’ve got a medium to large size music collection and you’re constantly downloading lots of apps just to sort and organise it how you want, MediaMonkey could be the all-in-one solution you’ve been waiting for.
Sometimes we don’t need to know anything about our computers except how many resources they have available. Sometimes we need to delve a little deeper in order to install new hardware or software, or diagnose any problems. Rarely, we have a need to look at the full information about our computer or a part of it — from the GUID of our network card to the size of our processors Instructions cache. For those situations there’s the excellent – although unoriginally named – System Information for Windows.
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.
SyncToy is a member of the XP ‘power tools’ suite that gives users of the now dated operating some additional functionality without charge. Although some of the power tool set hasn’t been updated for many years, SyncToy has had a more recent upgrade. We take a look at how you can use Synctoy 2.0 to give XP another useful feature.
VirtualBox from Sun is ‘virtualization software’. It allows you to run different operating systems within the application without the need to mess around with the main system itself
Google SketchUp is 3D modelling software that comes in both free and professional flavours. It can be used to create models for Google Earth.
uTorrent is a freeware bittorrent client for Microsoft Windows and Max OS X. It is lightweight, feature rich and powerful.
Audacity is open source software designed to edit and record audio. It runs on a number of operating systems and can edit sounds in a variety of different formats including WAV, MP3 and OGG.
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