Download Round-Up for the week of August 29th

It was a good week for new downloads and a busy week if you want to try out a new browser or email client. With hump day came new offerings from Firefox (who updated again last minute to 6.0.2 Sunday morning), Google and Opera. What was different is that they all released stable versions so this is a good time to try out something new. The popular Thunderbird email client was also updated with new and beta versions. These are all listed in order (oldest releases first) at the top of the "must have" section so you can browse them easily. Faceback has been really busy especially since we solved the problem blocking anyone outside of the USA. We have given away over 800 of the 1,000 IOBit Malware Fighter keys already. IOBit has also kicked in 500 IOBit Protected Folder Keys and that will start this week. Here are the links:

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And now for all the downloads you might have missed:

New this week:

Freemake Free Audio Converter 1.0.0.0:
Convert audio free to MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, AAC, M4A, OGG, convert audio to MP3 player, iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, extract audio from video, join audio files.
Majorgeeks: People are always looking for conversion utilities so this is a must have in your toolbox. Freemake has quite a few free utilities all highly rated.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Freemake_Free_Audio_Converter_d7149.html

Mozilla Thunderbird 7.0 Beta 1:
Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster and easier than ever before with the industry´s best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters.
Majorgeeks: With the loss of Outlook Express under Windows 7 and the addition of Windows Live Mail that many dislike, Mozilla Thunderbird could be the alternative you are looking for. I had not tried it out in a long time and I love the newer interface, account setup wizard and just about everything. The beta is very stable.
http://majorgeeks.com/Mozilla_Thunderbird_7.0_Beta_1_d7150.html

Worm Sweeper 0.1 Beta
Worm Sweeper is a small and very simple application that will help you remove viruses and other malicious programs from your computer with a push of a button.
Majorgeeks: This new niche tool can assist removing some difficult infections.
http://majorgeeks.com/Worm_Sweeper_d7151.html

Mac OS X Lion skin for Windows 7
Transform Windows 7 to Mac OS X Lion! Free pack, works with CustoPack Tools.
Majorgeeks: We loved our Windows but people usually love the Apple look.
http://majorgeeks.com/Mac_OS_X_Lion_skin_for_Windows_7_d7153.html

Styler
Styler can add a drop shadow to your windows, change Clear Type contrast, change a visual style's color or a wallpaper's and much more ...
Majorgeeks: As the author mentions this takes a bit to get used it but once you do you can completely customize your Windows appearance.
http://majorgeeks.com/Styler_d7152.html

Mac OS X icons
No download or description is available but it should be obvious what this is, a pile of icons that look like Max OSX Lion that you can use on your Windows 7 machine.
Majorgeeks: As mentioned, people love the Apple look.
http://majorgeeks.com/Mac_OS_X_icons_d7154.html

Free Ringtone Maker 2.1
Free Ringtone Maker is an extremely simple and handy Windows software for making your own free ringtones.
Majorgeeks: Needed this last week. Apple makes it hard to add ringtones anyway, but for the rest of you...
http://majorgeeks.com/Free_Ringtone_Maker_d7155.html

EMDB 1.33:
EMDB is a small utility to keep track of your DVD collection. With an automatic import from the database of IMDB, export to csv, text or complete website, thumbnail cover preview, a loan tracker, search function and multi-language user interface.
Majorgeeks: Neat way to manage your DVD collection. Way back when I wondered why bother but I can't even remember some of the DVDs I own
http://majorgeeks.com/EMDB_d7156.html

Coreinfo v3:
Coreinfo is a command-line utility that shows you the mapping between logical processors and the physical processor, NUMA node, and socket on which they reside, as well as the cache’s assigned to each logical processor.
http://majorgeeks.com/Coreinfo_d7157.html

Simple File Lister 1.0:
Trying so hard looking for a file listing utility on Windows? Is it DIR command you are looking for? Look no further. Introducing Simple File Lister, a utility that can do what you want automatically!
Majorgeeks: Don't have a need for this personally but it does what it says and is completely free.
hhttp://www.majorgeeks.com/Simple_File_Lister_d7158.html


Must have updated software this week:



Realtek High Definition Audio 2.65:
Realtek High Definition Audio drivers for Vista and Windows 7. Realtek is a popular on-board sound card found on many brand name computers and motherboards.
Majorgeeks: These are the drivers for Realtek on-board audio found on the majority of computers today. They tend to be updated about once a month.
Vista & Windows 7: http://majorgeeks.com/Realtek_High_Definition_Audio_for_VistaWin_7_d5513.html
Windows XP, 2000 & 2003: http://majorgeeks.com/Realtek_High_Definition_Audio_for_2KXP03_d4902.html

Google Chrome 13.0.782.218 Stable:
Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.
Majorgeeks: With a choice of IE, Firefox, Opera and Chrome you have choices. Chrome is incredibly fast and even comes with free levels of Angry Birds. Try it!
http://majorgeeks.com/Google_Chrome_d5974.html

Opera 11.51 Final
A full-featured Internet browser, Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS News feeds and IRC chat.
Majorgeeks: While not our favorite browser personally, it is still an excellent choice.
http://majorgeeks.com/Opera_d559.html

Mozilla Firefox 6.0.2 Final
Firefox is a small, fast and very easy to use browser that offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the ability to block pop-up windows and the tabbed browsing.
Majorgeeks: Firefox should need no introduction... Now all you need to decide is what version you want to run? Also, the portable version was released but remains a version back sue to a Sunday release. It can run from anywhere and requires no install.
Installation: http://majorgeeks.com/Mozilla_Firefox_6.0.2_Final_d5905.html
Portable: http://majorgeeks.com/Firefox_Portable_d4424.html

Mozilla Thunderbird 6.0.1 Final
Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. Our goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language.
Majorgeeks: One of the best choices in email clients. It has the features of a professional product. Always reminded me of the Outlook that comes with Microsoft Office.
http://majorgeeks.com/Mozilla_Thunderbird_d4064.html

SeaMonkey 2.3.2
Web-browser, IRC chat client, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client and HTML editing made simple - all your Internet needs in one application brought to you by Mozilla.
Majorgeeks: This is awesome if you like Firefox but need additional tools.
http://majorgeeks.com/SeaMonkey_d4956.html

Iobit Game Booster 3.0 Final:
Designed to help optimize your PC for smoother, more responsive game play in the latest PC games with the touch of a button, Game Booster helps achieve the performance edge previously only available to highly technical enthusiasts.
Majorgeeks: Works great in freeware mode, more tools come with the shareware version.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Iobit_Game_Booster_d5952.html

Readefine Desktop 2.44:
Readefine Desktop beautifies Google Reader articles, RSS, plain text and HTML for easy reading.
Majorgeeks: We just added this the week before and it has not gotten a lot of downloads. It's an RSS reader different from any other. Very cool.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Readefine_Desktop_d7140.html

SUPERAntiSpyware 5.0.1118 Final
Detect and Remove Spyware, Adware and Remove Malware, Trojans, Dialers, Worms, KeyLoggers, HiJackers, Parasites, Rootkits, Rogue Security Products and many other types of threats.
Majorgeeks: A handful of tools are your best bet for malware removal. This is one of those.
http://majorgeeks.com/SUPERAntiSpyware_d5116.html

ClrMamePro 4.00:
ClrMamePro is a so-called ROM-manager. If you use M.A.M.E. you know the problem. ClrMamePro will help you keep your ROM collection up-to-date.
Majorgeeks: ClrMamePro is the only tool you need for managing your ROM collection.
http://majorgeeks.com/ClrMamePro_d5294.html

XnViewMP:
XnView is a cross-platform image viewer used for viewing, converting, organizing and editing graphical & video files.
Majorgeeks: This is the newer graphic program from Pierre-e Gougelet, the creator of the very popular XNView. This is the latest beta and it has not been updated since January so it's easy to miss an update of this program.
http://majorgeeks.com/XnViewMP_d6248.html

AVG Technologies updates product line to 2012
AVG is getting ready for 2012 like auto manufacturers by releasing their 2012 product in September of 2011.
Majorgeeks: This link is to the news story that lists all the AVG products we have including AVG Free.
http://majorgeeks.com/story.php?id=30476