Freelang is extremely useful, simple, lightweight, easy to use and excellent little tool that can help you immensely if you are trying to learn a foreign language. It can be used as a dictionary and also allows you to create your own practice lists; at the time of this writing Freelang offers no less than 247 language wordlists.

Miro is a cross-platform, open source software that provides you with a free high definition media player and video podcast manager. It allows you to search for video files on the most popular movie sharing sites, organize your local media files into libraries, subscribe to audio and video feeds, build playlists, and get access to legal torrents.

Virtual CloneDrive allows you to create up to eight virtual drives, which you can use just as your physical CD or DVD drives. This gives the option to open, browse and use compressed image files “on the fly,” without having to decompress them to your hard drive first. The supported image file formats are ISO, BIN, and CCD and they can reside on the hard drive or a network drive. The speed of this free application is quite impressive and Virtual CloneDrive is also extremely easy to use.

Winamp is by far one of the most popular media players, downloaded by millions of users Worldwide. It can playback all popular media file types, comes with built-in equalizer, the sound quality is good, can be expanded with the help of the countless plug-ins and allows you to easily save and organize your playlists. The latest release comes with portable device sync support, more language packs, support for classic and modern skins, iTunes library import and other exciting features.

If you want to find any files or emails on your hard drive, search the Web, add an extra level of security to your computer and get a number of free gadgets such as Calendar, Google Docs, Youtube and Gmail, News, Weather, then you would love Google Desktop. It brings you a lot of useful little applications, it is extremely easy to use, surprisingly lightweight and not to mention free.

Yawcam (Yet Another Webcam Software) is an application that lets you use your webcam to capture video or still images, upload them to a FTP server, stream videos real time to a website, and has additional features such as motion detection, password protection, stealth mode, scheduler, and many others. Yawcam works well with most of the latest webcams as well as other video devices and can easily be used for surveillance.

If you want to download files of any kind: movies, music, video clips, documents, software, games and books, then Vuze is the tool that you need. With this based on the bittorent protocol application even the largest files can be downloaded in a matter of minutes, providing that you have fast Internet connection and there are enough people seeding them; this allows independent producers and musicians to share their work with millions of users Worldwide without having to spend huge amount of money on bandwidth and servers. It also lets the regular user share any of his files with all his online friends or the entire community.

TeamViewer is an application that gives you remote access to another computer, allowing you to easily connect to your home computer from your office computer or vice versa; it let’s also computer technicians perform off-site work, or can be used simply for sharing files between two computers connected to the Internet. Even though the latest operating systems have built-in remote connection tools, they aren’t very easy to install or configure, which is why TeamViewer has been gaining popularity. You don’t have to create hosts and clients, there is no need for complicated configuration tweaking, or setting firewall and router exceptions – all you need is to run TeamViewer on two computers and you can initiate a remote session right away.

Photoscape is an image editor pack that is great for editing and viewing photos, creating collages, screen capturing, previewing image files on your computer in Windows Explorer, creating animated gifs, splitting photos into several parts, printing, batch editing and renaming your images and more. It supports the most popular image file formats such as jpeg, png, gif and has a built-in raw to jpg converting tool. If you are looking for easy to use, lightweight, yet very functional and above all absolutely free image editing tool, then Photoscape is exactly what you need.

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.