XnView is a great image viewer.

Supports viewing, converting, screen capture, slideshow and TWAIN (scanning).

Read more about all the features of XnView.

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Maxthon is a free browser that works with the IE engine. It is highly customizable and fast.

Read all the features here and the current changelog here.

Maxthon is a powerful web browser with a highly customizable interface. It is based on the Internet Explorer engine which means that what works in IE, works the same in Maxthon but with many additional efficient features like Tabbed Browsing Interface; Mouse Gestures; Super Drag&Drop; Privacy Protection; AD Hunter; Google Bar Support; External Utility Bar; and Skinning.

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Mozilla Thunberbird is a full-featured email application that has everything you need to manage your emails and news feeds.

It supports, just like Firefox does, the installation of plugins, dictionaries and themes which makes it even better.

Here is a list of its features.

Note: The Thunderbird downloads page is not updated yet to reflect the new version but you can download it via FTP. I will update the link as soon as the download page changes.

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IcoFX is a great icon editor for Windows. It is free and has many useful tools.

With it you can convert images to icons, icons to images, extract icons from files and more.

The author provides a portable version but it doesn’t get updated as soon as there is a new version, so please check the version when you download the ZIP file.

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FileZilla is an open source multi-platform FTP client. It has the most useful options and is the best of the freeware applications out there.

FileZilla 3.1.5.1 latest changes:

• Connection establishment through SOCKS proxies could fail in some cases
• Clearing private data no longer crashes if quickconnect bar is hidden
• Handle drag & drop of symlinks
• Update remote directory tree if deleting a subdirectory
• Fix parsing of HTTP chunk lengths for the update downloader
• Reduce memory consumption of remote directory tree
• Rewrite the code that added local directories to the queue. New one is faster and avoids some potentially thread-unsafe behaviour of the old code
• OS X: Fix help menu duplication on non-English systems
• MSW: Reset wxWidgets internal display cache if changing display resolution or layout
• MSW: Fixes for silent intaller

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WebShot is a simple utility that gives you the ability to take screenshots and thumbnails of webpages or websites.

You can take screenshots of a single webpage or screenshots of multiple webpages in batch mode.

WebShot 1.63 latest changes:

• Fixed get redirect url & count not working in server dll
• Fixed bug in url redirection loop detection
• Fixed possible crash with zero byte xml automation file
• Fixed adobe flash player script hang dialog popup
• Added automation option to respond to all message boxes

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BurnAware is a good burning application that supports almost all the features of major burning programs. BurnAware is one of the best freeware out there.

Changes in BurnAware Free Edition 2.1.6:

• Fixed “Application Data:…” error appearing while launch program.
• Fixed the bug with launch projects on Unicode systems.
• Updated translations.
• Minor interface modifications.

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SMPlayer is an open source, multiplatform video/audio player, focusing in video features.

It uses the well-known (at least in the open source field) command-line player MPlayer. This means SMPlayer doesn’t need external codecs in order to play the files. This is great because it saves you time and troubles when playing less-known formats.

Note: If you are using Windows Vista, the default settings of SMPlayer will disable Aero temporarily while playing files.

For it to work well with Aero, go to Options - Preferences. In the General tab, select gl or gl2 in the Output Drivers: Video drop down list. Aero won’t be disabled anymore.

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