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.

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.

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.

The more you use a computer, the slower that computer will function over time. This is a fact, and no matter how much care you take to maintain you file system, micromanagement of things like the cache files are often totally out of your control. KCleaner can help by automating the process of file maintenance, not only clearing files from windows systems but also from popular software applications, too.

Once upon a time, people were perfectly happy to install hard drives with a maximum capacity of less than 1 GB. Nowadays with operating systems alone taking up five times that, we’ve increased the standard size of a hard drive to over over 100 GB, with many computer users having between 500 GB – 1 TB of space. With all that extra capcity, our files are getting harder and harder to organise and keep track of. FlexTk aims to make file management easy with its range of tools designed to quickly maintain even the biggest file systems.

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!