Mozilla Firefox - faster, more secure, easier to use and sporting a new look, this latest Firefox release sets a new standard for web browser innovation. Mozilla Firefox project (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the tabbed browsing and the ability to block pop-up windows.

Features in Firefox include:

- Easy migration: Switching to Firefox has never been easier now that Firefox imports data like Favorites, history, settings, cookies and passwords from Internet Explorer. Firefox can also import settings from Mozilla 1.x, Netscape and Opera.

- Smaller Download: Continuing efforts to make this the most efficient browser, the Windows version of Firefox is now only a 4.7 MB download, making downloading Firefox a breeze for dial-up and broadband users alike.

- New Default Theme: A new default theme provides a bright new look for Windows and Linux users.

- SmartUpdate: A new SmartUpdate feature notifies users of new versions of Firefox to ensure that the browser is always up to date.

Opera started out as a research project in Norway's largest telecom company, Telenor, in 1994, and branched out into an independent development company named Opera Software ASA in 1995. Opera Software develops the Opera Web browser, a high-quality, multi-platform product for a wide range of platforms, operating systems and embedded Internet products. Opera is known as the fastest and smallest full-featured browser, a first choice for people using older PCs and Windows 95 and a brilliant alternative to the default IE from Microsoft. Opera, first of all, is client World Wide Web, that is the program for extraction of the information from WWW as the documents created with help HyperText Markup Language (language of a marking of hypertext HTML). Low requirements to resources of system. Opera will work even on 386 computer about 6 MB of operative memory. MDI the interface. You can open without special expenses of memory any quantity of windows inside one working window, having chosen thus a tabulared or cascade mode.

AutoPatcher is a comprehensive collection of secutity patches released after the last Service pack release (also includes Microsoft Office patches), some addons and registry tweaks that give you peace of mind in the knowledge that your Windows system is up to date, even before you connect it to the Internet. AutoPatcher XP is an installation package designed for Windows XP to quickly patch a system with the most current updates and tweaks available, so you can update your system quick and easily and requires no user interaction once you have selected what to install.

Just simply run this Application, and it will get your machine up to date in a matter of minutes so you can enjoy the better things in life instead of sitting afront of your computer and trying to figure out which update is right for you. The stability and the usability of this program is also excellent. Thanks to its slick GUI and its easy to use interface, updating your machine is a snap!

Besides the updates one finds on Windows Update (which are not portable), Microsoft also issues special updates (called administrative updates or network install updates), which do not require an Internet connection present during the installation process. The user however will have to answer to a series of (for the most part identical) questions. Even this can be an annoyance since it requires the user’s presence for quite some time.

Elecard is a leading provider of video and audio compression technology that is utilized in high quality video MPEG-2 and AVC/H.264 software CODEC products. Elecard is committed to develop the DSP and PC CODEC products providing the market with the most advanced and cost-effective reference designs for innovative applications such as multimedia home devices, broadcasting, surveillance systems, DVR, PVR, HDTV, and many more.
Experience for yourself, download and install the updated Elecard MPEG Player 4 today! The Elecard MPEG Player is DirectShow® compliant software providing high resolution, full quality decoding of MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4 SP/ASP and H.264/AVC* streams. With its decoder optimized for the most efficient CPU usage, Elecard MPEG Player 4.0 is a great choice for those who strive for high performance and robustness using low power hardware. Reliable support of a number of common multimedia formats such as AVI, WAV, MP3, MOV, and others greatly benefits all Elecard MPEG Player consumers by bringing all the richness and excitement of HDTV into their homes.

DXVA support in the Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder significantly decreases CPU usage and provides substantial performance gains. Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder incorporated in Player v 4 is Windows XP Media Center Edition compatible. Windows XP Media Center Edition compatible.

Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder incorporated in the media player is Windows XP Media Center Edition compatible.

Cheetah DVD Burner - Burn Audio, Data and ISO DVDs...Fast! Burn dual layer DVD+R, UDF Video DVD, UDF/ISO DVD, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, CD-R, and CD-RW discs. Burn audio CDs from WAV, MP3, MP2, AVI, OGG, and WMA files. Burn ISO, Bin/Cue images and create ISO images. Erase CDs and DVDs. Copy audio and data CDs with one or multiple drives. The Cheetah DVD Burner also includes an audio CD ripper.

Features:
- Video DVD Mastering - The Cheetah DVD Burner passes the Video DVD Verifier tests and Mastering Applications like the most known Philips Video DVD Verifier.
- Bootable CD/DVD - Create Bootable CD/DVD from .img files
- Supports high burning speeds - Supports use of high write speeds - Designed for high data rates
- Buffer Underrun Protection - Support for hardware buffer underrun protection systems, like BURNproof, JustLink, Power-Burn, SafeBurn, SeamlessLink etc
- ISO Multi-Session - Burn Multi-Session Data CD/DVD with all types of media.
- Disc Finalization - No further writing is possible after the disc is burned.
- Auto Verify Data - Performs a binary compare with the source files.
- Joliet - Burn Joliet directories with 64 char file names

Super Ad Blocker™ is the first ad-blocker to block all new forms of advertisements including slide-in, fly-over, pop-up, pop-under, spyware ads, messenger ads and more! Blocks the major Spyware/Adware applications responsible for serving pop-up ads!

Ease of Use:
Super Ad Blocker is easy to use and understand. Once installed all of its tools and features are available via a single click on your Windows taskbar.

Feature Set:
One unique feature that Super Ad Blocker includes is the ability to block sponsored and search ads, the ads that appear on the top or right side of your screen when using a search engine (such as Google).

The program also does a great job at blocking Flash ads. However, we would like to see future versions display "Ad" or something similar as a placeholder so that you can tell there was an ad there.

Ease of Installation:
Like most popup blocker software, Super Ad Blocker requires you to close any active browser windows before installing it. However, you are told that you need to do so, which allows you to save your work before closing the browser windows.

Agnitum Outpost Security Suite - a robust combination of award-winning firewall, fast and effective anti-malware, personalized antispam and proactive Host Protection module to defend against the majority of Internet risks. Includes automated configuration service and other user aids.
Outpost Security Suite Pro provides the first line of defense against rogue software by proactively controlling how programs behave and interact on a PC. The Host Protection safeguard, which proactively monitors for and blocks the kinds of sophisticated hacking techniques used to compromise or steal data, means that malicious activity is no longer possible. By analyzing threats and displaying actionable alerts, Host Protection stops zero-day attacks and shields the computer against inappropriate operations, rendering it “defended in advance” against security risks like botnets and inadvertent data disclosure.

Outpost Security Suite Pro Benefits:

Safe surfing
The robust, time-tested firewall at the heart of Outpost Security Suite Pro shields you from the web’s darker side. It watches your computer’s every connection, preventing local and remote unauthorized network access. By controlling applications’ inbound and outbound Internet access, the firewall stops malware from communicating to and from your PC.