Necessary applications

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Google Chrome is a browser created by Google Inc. Chrome is definitely one of the fasters browsers and one of the most popular (it is estimated what Chrome is now used by more than a fifth of Internet users worldwide).

Chrome’s developers put a lot of effort in creating a browser is light, fast, has intuitive interface and above all compliant with all standards of World Wide Web Consortium.

Google Chrome uses Webkit rendering engine, used also in Apple Safari browser.

What are the main advantages of using Google Chrome? Well, to let start with saying that at the begining Chrome offers only basic funcionalitties, but configured properly, shows us many interesting options (like translating the website’s content, importing setting from other browsers, and many e-mail widgets, rss widgets).
So, who should be interested in using Google Chrome? In my opinion, above all users searching for a minimalistic, very speed and fully compliant with all standards tool for searching the Internet.

WinZip was created in early 90′s and now (since 2006) is developed by Corel. The previous developed was WinZip Computing (some people may remember its previous name: Nico Mak Compuring). After more that fifteen years and in spite of huge competition, WinZip is still one of the best and the most popular file compressors. That useful and well-known commercial application was created for Microsoft Windows OS.

Despite of the fact that applications such as 7-Zip are free to use, WinZip is still very popular. While using this application we will have no problem with the following formats: ZIP, 7Z, BZ2, TAR, RAR and with over a dozen other.

The program has options such as: diving heavy files, burning data and (especially important for webmasters): sending archived data directly to FTP Server.
So, if you are searching for reliable tool for managing compressed files, think about WinZip.

FFDShow- a reliable open source software to decode MPEG4 and DivX files. FFDShow seems to be really useful especially for the following two groups of users: firstly for those who have relatively old hardware, and/or for those whose software cannot cope with DivX format.

The program is filter that decodes videos. It is a great tool for advanced users (because it has many options that can be modified) and for common users (as it can work immediately after installation). So that, everybody can make FFDShow matching their individual expectations.
The other advantages of the app are: licence, library (libavcodec) and intuitive interface.
So, that open source application is a tool for everyone who search for a cheap and universal tool for managing video files. Whether we use FFDShow with a few other media tools, we will create a poweful media base.

FCLeaner. If you are searching for a free tool for removing data left by applications (like Paint Shop Pro, Adobe Flash Player or Real Player) in Microsoft Windows Operating System, FCLeaner is a software right for you.

FCLeaner, just like other apps in this category, has also two other options: uninstalling of chosen programs and managing the processes that start when the system starts up.
The following applications are only examples of apps that FCLeaner copes with:
-Remote Desktop
-Google Toolbar
-Windows Defender
-Norton Antivirus

-Quicktime Player Cache
-Adobe Photoshop CS2
-Nero Burning ROM
-Sound Forge
-Sun Java
-AceHTML5
-VNCViewer
-WnRAR
-Microsoft AntiSpyware

Preety much every type of disk software is a good software. This time i’d like to show you Gparted, very nice tool for managing disk partitions.

Gparted which is Gnome Partition Editor and it has one main purpose – to let you change your partition organisation without losing any content that is uploaded to disk. Not many apps can do it so i think it’s wise to have this little baby on board, just in case.

GameEx is a nice tool, working on DirectX that plays the role of a good game emulator.

It’s compatible with MAME, Zinc, Daphne, PC games as well as all emulators that are command-line supported. All is done in just a couple of clicks, no specialistic knowlegde is required.

There’s always good to have some units converting software on your computer. UConverter is as good as is gets.

With this little baby you can convert any measurements to another as well as do some scientific calculations. Oil, gas, petrol, energy and many more can be converted in just a couple of clicks. Simple yet powerfull.

Hide IP Easy is one of the most advanced IP changer, extremely useful when it comes to change or even hide an IP adress.

This little tool can almost completely hide your internet identity by providing different IP adress than the actual one. What’s more the location of your connection to the web will also be different. Nice app when it comes to protecting your privacy.

I don’t think that there’s a person who don’t know about 7-zip. This is one of the most crucial apps that everyone of us should have on his computer.

As the name suggests, 7-zip is a compression software which brings some new and better functionalities to compretion ratio. Multiple tests say that it can compres a file from 30% to 70% better than other tools. What’s more it’s completely free of charge, small and extremely easy to use. A must have.

Everyone likes to play computer games. It’s as obvious as that. With GameBoost you can easily optimise your computer performance to make a game run smoother and faster.

This tool is designed to be an all-in-one product optimising not only hardware but also internet connection and some other issues. We’re talking about a increaded ammount of frames per second, memory utilisation ect. So if you’re willing to your favourite game run smoother without buying new hardware, you should definitely try this app.