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BurnAware Free Edition 0.9

Freeware

Designed to burn your data discs, as quickly as possible. It will support just about every burning media from a single 700MB CD through to a Blu-ray writable disc. Assuming you have a Blu-ray burner. BurnAware is so simple that itÆs only designed to burn data discs. Note that itÆs also still in beta.

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me, XP or Vista

Comodo Firewall Pro 3

Freeware

Secures your system against internal attacks such as Trojans, viruses, malicious software and external attacks by hackers. Safeguard your personal data though a simple user friendly single-click interface offering full immunity to attack.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP or Vista

doPDF 5.3.243

Freeware

Installs itself as a virtual printer driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To create PDF files, you just have to print your documents to the doPDF pdf converter. Open a document (with Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or any other software), choose Print and select doPDF.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP or Vista

Chandler 0.7.2

Freeware

Personal information manager (PIM) designed to work irrespective of platform. You can use it across a Windows, Mac or Linux operating system. You can use the desktop application to store your meetings, tasks, notes and more, then share this information with other users through your server.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP or Vista

Copernic Desktop Search 2.2.31

Freeware

Desktop searching has recently become all the rage, and this latest version of Copernic Desktop Search offers many more features than Google Desktop and others. Once installed, Copernic will ask you which types of content you wish to index.

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me, XP or Vista

EssentialPIM Free 2.13

Freeware

Multilingual personal information manager which includes three components: a calendar, note taker and contact manager. It has a very usable interface, with things kept simple but extremely functional. This results in a small file size, and the use of few system resources.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP or Vista