Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer 6.0 has many good features such as a greater security facility to block third party cookies, user-friendly interface, pop-up-blocker etc. But there are issues, which hopefully Microsoft has covered in later releases, e.g. IE 6 has security hole issues, provides no RSS reader and also misses the built-in search toolbar.

Free Download Manager

FDM 2.5 is a powerful & easy-to-use download accelerator/manager. It is a light-weight, powerful and easy-to-use application. This software product is well-known for its user-friendly interface. It can function as a site manager/accelerator, video downloader and scheduler. It supports BITTorent downloads, remembers your passwords, and checks virus on the downloads.

Opera

Opera is one of the best web browsers around. It's fully customizable and easy to use. You can add lots of widgets (fun and useful small web programs) to keep you informed, play games, help you with your web design and more. You can also add as many e-mail accounts as you want and Opera will check them all for you.

Google Desktop

Google Desktop 5.1 by Google helps users search in their PCs with the same power that the Google web site search engine provides. This application can be used to search text within e-mail messages, files, music, photos, stored chat files, etc., stored in your local machine. The sidebar helps organize Favorites, Notes, Unread email and it even provides Time, Weather and Recent News.

µTorrent

A very tiny bittorrent client. Features: - Multiple simultaneous downloads - Configurable bandwidth scheduler - Global and per-torrent speed limiting - Quick-resumes interrupted transfers - RSS Downloader - Trackerless support (Mainline DHT) - Resource-Friendly - Skinnable and Localized - Actively Developed and Improved

Bonjour

Bonjour, also known as zero-configuration networking, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks. Bonjour uses industry standard IP protocols to allow devices to automatically discover each other without the need to enter IP addresses or configure DNS servers.

DNA

BitTorrent DNA is a service that enables faster, more reliable, more efficient access to rich media content online. DNA allows you to download richer content including high-bandwidth movies and games that, otherwise, would be too large or too expensive for content providers to distribute.

Ares

Ares 2.0.9.3030 is a free open source P2P file sharing program. It allows users to share digital contents with another users across the Internet. Each user shares his files, and can download from every other user. Ares 2.0.9.3030 supports BitTorrent protocol. It can play Shoutcast radio stations, as well as hosting channels or conducting chat rooms.

Internet Download Manager

Internet Download Manager (IDM) is an easy-to-use program that allows you to download any software, music, movies, games etc. much faster due to its ability to increase download speed up to 500 percent. The program contains a wide range of customizable features and multilingual interface and supports proxy servers, FTP, HTTP and HTTPS protocols, firewalls, cookies, ZIP preview, etc.

FlashGet

FlashGet 1.9.6.1073 is a download manager that allows to resume interrupted downloads. The installation recomends Windows Vista users not to install FlashGet in the System Disk. FlashGet 1.9.6.1073 uses MHT(Multi-server Hyper-threading Transportation) technique, supports various protocols and has document management features.

eMule

eMule is a free peer-to-peer file sharing client. The program offers a wide range of search possibilities, which include: Servers, web based, and Kad. It is a completely free of charge application also free of adware, spyware and any other kind of intrusive programs.

Safari

Safari is an easy-to-use web browser by Apple. With its simple and elegant user interface, Safari allows you to surf the web in the fastest way ever known in a browser. The only disadvantage I found is that Safari lacks any advanced security settings. You can block third-party cookies and some Web scripts, but you can't enter specific Web sites from which to accept or reject cookies.

LimeWire PRO

Limewire PRO is the fastest program in the world to share files on the Internet. It supports P2P technology, which allows for any kind of file exchange on the Internet. Users can have access to billions of music files, video, photos, games, PDFs, Winword and even ISO files.

Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer

Google Toolbar is an add-on for your browser. Toolbar features: Add gadgets to your Toolbar to view your favorite content from any site. Fill out web forms with a click and even keep multiple profiles, with improved AutoFill. Access your Toolbar from any computer by saving your settings online. Clip content as you browse the web with Google Notebook, now integrated with Toolbar.

Azureus Vuze

Azureus Vuze 3.0 is a Java BitTorrent Client. It allows to share files using a Peer to Peer network (P2P). Azureus Vuze 3.0 can build new torrents, download existing ones, search for any wanted files and download them, interrupt and resume download without losing downloaded parts. It supports 42 different languages.

BitTorrent

BitTorrent 6.0 is a great tool that enables faster, more reliable, more efficient access to rich media content online such as video, music, and games. It works like any other peer2peer program getting files from other users. Every time you click on any BitTorrent link you also send to other users the data of the files you already have. The more you upload, the more you can download.

Download Accelerator Plus

Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) 8.6 - Includes an enhanced Search Tab, improved download mechanism for faster downloads, ZoneAlarm Download Security; Alert Messages and Private Download for Premium users! Now offered with SpeedBit Video Accelerator.

SopCast

SopCast lets you freely and efficiently watch and broadcast audio and video streams, listen to radio stations all over the world, watch TV stations, get Videos on Demand. It uses Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology and is very easy to learn and to use, not needing a server neither large bandwith.

Orbit

Orbit Downloader 2.6.4 is a download manager focused in making easy to download videos, music and streaming media from Myspace, YouTube, Imeem, Pandora and Rapidshare. It supports HTTP/FTP/HTTPS/RTSP/MMS/RTMP protocols and is based on P2P and multi-source downloading technology, with mirrors selection algorithms.

FileZilla

FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server. The client is available under many platforms, binaries for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X are provided. FileZilla Server is an FTP server supported by the same project. It supports FTP and FTP over SSL/TLS.

Hamachi

Hamachi 1.0.2.5 is an UDP-based virtual private networking system to create your own VPN. It has versions that run under Windows, Linux and OS X. The communication between peers is assisted for a third party server (a mediation server). That mediation stops when the communication is established.

BitComet

BitComet is a download manager that uses BitTorrent format, meaning that it can upload or download files using that format over P2P networks. It can use HTTP or FTP Downloads, build torrents from a file on your computer in order to share it with others, download video, mp3 of flash files from any web page (like YouTube). You can even download an eDonkey plugin.

BearShare

BearShare 6.1 is a peer to peer file sharing program only for Windows XP. It requires Windows Media Player 9 or newer, and Internet Explorer 6 or newer. BearShare 6.1 allows users to share music, programs, videos and images across the Internet. You can leave comments and messages to your friends.

Adobe SVG Viewer

Adobe SVG Viewer is plug-in for browsers which will let you view SVG Graphics. According to Adobe, The Adobe SVG viewer supports most SVG elements, as well as CSS properties and DOM elements. Additionally, the ActiveX control has been signed so you don't have problems with the ActiveX security warning introduced with Windows XP Security Pack 2.

Shareaza

Multi-network peer-to-peer file-sharing client supporting Gnutella2, Gnutella1, eDonkey2000/eMule and BitTorrent protocols. Using C++, MFC and ATL, for Windows.