Adobe Digital Editions 3.0

Ever wondered how you can open eBooks with the format epub, aeh, irx etc. Well there are plenty of softwares in the market, but I am guessing that you will not get the feel of reading it as a book, but more like a pdf document. Well Adobe has found a solution for you. The software devlopment company which makes you pay for every software you download, finally releases a software where you don't have to actually pay for anything.
ADE is available for both Mac and Windows.
To download for Mac click here (16.9 MB)
To download forWindows click here (5.9 MB).

Tixati

Torrents are not even required of mentioning. But still I will write about it for rookies. Torrents are a very complicated version of your home peer-to-peer system. I won't get into the working of torrents but I'll tell you how to download one. To download a torrent you will need a bit-torrent client. Here I will be mentioning a very unfamiliar client. It's name is Tixati. 

I know most of you are using the very familiar "utorrent", but I would suggest you to use Tixati as it is faster and very light. Although the appearance maybe be rather unwelcome, you will get used to it.

Sorry Mac users, Tixati is only available for Windows and Linux.

Tixati can be downloaded from here.

7-Zip

7-Zip has quickly become the de facto leader when it comes to getting a free tool to pack and unpack compressed archives. It supports packing 7z, TAR, ZIP and other formats, and about four times as many for decompression. Throw in some AES-256 encryption and it's a great security tool, too. This software comfortably works on both Mac and Windows

You can download this software from here.

Microsoft Mathematics 4.0

This freebie is aimed mainly at maths and science students, but will appeal to anyone who has need for a graphing calculator with 2D and 3D plotting capabilities as well as step-by-step equation solving. You'll find a formulas and equations library with over 100 commonly used entries, a triangle solver for those wanting to brush up on their sines, cosines and tangents, plus a handy conversion tool covering most measurable units.

Rapid Typing 5

Ever felt the need to be able to type faster and more accurately and could not afford for typing classes. For those of you who face this problem there is an application for this very purpose. Rapid Typing 5 allows you to learn typing step by step in a very easy and friendly way. It is absolutely free (obviously!) and rather light too. Just practicing it once a day for one month can change your typing speed drastically.
Rapid Typing 5 works on Windows, Mac OS and also Linux. You can download it from the following links.
Download Setup
Download Zip Package

Emulation

Ever had that nostalgic feeling of wanting to play Nintendo DS or Game boy but find it hard to make up your mind to run down to the store and actually buy one. Since this is not possible for all of us, I have a solution for you. Its called emulation. Emulation actually allows you to play the games which are only available on gaming devices such as Game Boy or Nintendo DS to be played on your computer. Sounds cool right. And it is also very easy. Here are step by step instructions to do so. These emulators are available for both Mac OS and Windows.

Game Boy

1. Download the Visual Boy Advanced emulator from http://www.emulator-zone.com/files/emulators/gba/vboyadvance/VisualBoyAdvance-1.8.0-beta3.zip.
2. After download is complete extract the contents.
3. Keeping that aside now download the Roms of requires games from http://coolrom.com/
4. After installation open the rom files using the emulator by File -> Open.
5. Play the games usng the basic cursor controls and z, x, a, s

Nintendo

1. Download the DeSuME emulator from http://desmume.org/download/
2. After download is complete extract the contents.
3. Keeping that aside now download the Roms of requires games from http://coolrom.com/
4. After installation open the rom files using the emulator by File -> Open.
5. Play the games using the basic cursor controls and z, x, a, s.

Please note that these emulators are not only applicable for NDS and Game Boy but it is applicable for most of all the gaming consoles. 

Lightworks

Everyone wants to edit their videos for Youtube today. But all the video editors available in the market are rather costly and not easily available. If you face these problems, then Lightworks is the right application for you. Lightworks is a professional free and is available at http://www.lwks.com/ The only drawback is that you need to create a free account in the website to download it. But excluding that it is a pretty neat application (considering the things you do to get a paid application for free and in turn ripping software companies off).
Lightworks is available for Windows and Linux and will soon be available to Mac OS.

Audacity

Have you ever felt the need to edit audio or music and can't seem to find the perfect free software to do so. Yes WavePad is fine to use but it is not free. Therefore here is a software for this particular purpose. Its free, its light and its Audacity. Audacity is available for both Windows and Mac. It does not have so many features as Audition or Sound Forge but it has all the basic features for audio editing.
Download it for free from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Thank You

Dear Blog Readers,
Thank you so much for supporting me in creating my blog. I appreciate it. Really. I am really happy that within the first two days of this blogs release I have attracted up to 79 viewers. I hope you keep in touch with my blog and also recommend it to your friends, family etc. Don't forget to post you valuable comments as these comments and views are the things which keep this blog moving. Keep posted for more softwares that you may  not have heard of but are really useful.
Once again Thanking you all,
Pranav Joy
Blogger

Mp3Tag

Have you ever felt that the mp3 files we download have non required album artwork or you would like to change and put an image of your own in it? Well here is a solution for you. Mp3tag is a software that always you to do just the same. Apart from that you can also edit the info based on the mp3 file like the singer, composer etc.

You can download it from http://www.mp3tag.de/en/download.html.

Oracle VM Virtual Box

This software is potentially useful for the more technically inclined.


VirtualBox is a cross-platform virtualization application. What does that mean? For one thing, it installs on your existing Intel or AMD-based computers, whether they are running Windows, Mac, Linux or Solaris operating systems. Secondly, it extends the capabilities of your existing computer so that it can run multiple operating systems (inside multiple virtual machines) at the same time. So, for example, you can run Windows and Linux on your Mac, run Windows Server 2008 on your Linux server, run Linux on your Windows PC, and so on, all alongside your existing applications. You can install and run as many virtual machines as you like -- the only practical limits are disk space and memory.

VirtualBox is deceptively simple yet also very powerful. It can run everywhere from small embedded systems or desktop class machines all the way up to datacenter deployments and even Cloud environments.

The steps for installing this is given in the following link http://lifehacker.com/5204434/the-beginners-guide-to-creating-virtual-machines-with-virtualbox

You can download Virtual Box from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/virtualbox/downloads/index.html?ssSourceSiteId=otnjp

Blue Stacks

Blue Stacks is an open source software which allows us to run android applications on our PC. Blue stacks is free and it even allows to install third party android applications which we can download from the internet.
Blue stack is also helpful for developers so as to test their developing android applications. This is potentially useful for people to emulate android without using the complicated process of Virtual Box.
This is available for both Windows 7 and also Mac OS X.
Download
Windows - http://bit.ly/bstkdnldpage
Mac OS X - http://bit.ly/bstkmacbe

Object Dock

Do you like the dock on Mac OS X, but can't afford a Mac. We are here with a solution for you. Object Dock is a free and light software for placing a dock at the bottom of the webpage. This application is available for Windows 7.
You can download it from http://www.filehorse.com/download-objectdock/
Here are the steps to install Object Dock.

1. Download and install Object Dock.
2. Right click on the taskbar.
3. Select the option which saays "Auto-hide the taskbar"
4. Finally select the objects you want to place on the Object Dock. 

Menu Maid

At times, you may have felt it boring to find a long list of items in your right click menu, while you right click some or other file. You might have thought of some application that could handle it. If you are a tech geek, then you can easily do it from the registry editor, by running the command- regedit. But if you are not so familiar with that, you may goof up things. So, here comes Menu maid to the rescue, a nice app to arrange right click menu. Download, install and configure right click menu of your screen as per your wish.

This is available for all versions of Windows.

You can download it from http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/MenuMaid.shtml

Madotate

Madotate is a small and cute application which adds your age old windows XP or older version, with some spice. It will simply turn open windows to 3d mode, so that you can arrange them the way you want.
Madotate is also available for Windows 7.

You can download it from http://en.kioskea.net/download/download-271-madotate-3d.

Flutter

Flutter is a start up application by Flutter Inc now owned by Google Inc. This application allows us to control over PC using our webcam. This app is currently available only in Windows 7 and Mac OS X operating system platforms. Flutter has basically 3 commands, Pause/Play, Next and Previous. Flutter can be used on popular applications such as VLC Media Player, Windows Media Player, iTunes, Netflix etc.
Flutter also has its extension in Chrome store. Since Google has bought this start up company, we can likely expect it to be available for Google Play Store soon.

How to use it:

1. Download the application from https://flutterapp.com/ for Windows 7 or Mac OS X.
2. Install the Flutter.msi file.
3. After that open the Flutter shortcut on your desktop.
4. Go through the quick guide process.
5. Then start using it on you applications.

Advantages of Flutter

1. Flutter allows us to control our popular applications without using your mouse or trackpad.
2. Flutter is light and compact and does not slow down your computer even if it runs in the background.
3. It is absolutely free with no extra charges.

Disadvantages of Flutter

1. Has only 3 commands.
2. Can only be used in limited no. of applications.
3. Only works with Windows 7 and Mac OS X
4. Your webcam remains On all the time and that speck of light is rather distracting.

Whatever may be the advantages or the disadvantages but its still a cool app to impress your friends with.

Pranav Joy