Download Round-Up for the week of September 19th

What a week! Quite a few new downloads but so many cool programs were updated that we had to be selective or this list would have went on for days.

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And now for all the downloads you might have missed:

New this week (oldest listed first):


Hardware Freak 1.0.0:
Hardware Freak is a small utility that will give you various information about your system. You can view CPU, BIOS, Motherboard, RAM Memory, Graphics card, Sound card, Hard Drive, External storage devices, Operating system, Optical Media, Networking, Printers, Keyboard, Mouse and USB Ports info with the utmost ease.
Majorgeeks: Not going to lie to you, there are a ton of system information utilities and this one is as good as the others. It's more about which YOU like best.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Hardware_Freak_d7177.html

Metro UI Tweaker Tool 1.0:
Hardware Freak is a small utility that will give you various information about your system. You can view CPU, BIOS, Motherboard, RAM Memory, Graphics card, Sound card, Hard Drive, External storage devices, Operating system, Optical Media, Networking, Printers, Keyboard, Mouse and USB Ports info with the utmost ease.
Majorgeeks: This one will always be the first Windows 8 app added to Majorgeeks. I have used the Windows 8 preview but went back to Windows 7 so this is one of the rare file not tested but comes from a VERY reliable and trusted source.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Metro_UI_Tweaker_Tool_d7178.html

Kingsoft Writer 2012 8.1.0.2948:
Kingsoft Writer is an advanced software designed to enable you to create, view and edit Word documents. As part of the Kingsoft Office Suite, Kingsoft Writer is a powerful and user-friendly word processing program compatible with all Microsoft Word.
Majorgeeks: Kingsoft has come out of nowhere with a lot of great utilities. We love programs to read and write Word documents since the casual user rarely has a need for the full blown (expensive) Microsoft Office.
http://majorgeeks.com/Kingsoft_Writer_d7179.html

Universal USB Installer 1.8.6.4:
Universal USB Installer is a Live Linux USB Creator that allows you to choose from a selection of Linux Distributions to put on your USB Flash Drive.
Majorgeeks: What a great way to see a list of all the Linux distributions and download them. We would love to see some more details on the versions you can download. Since this is new, maybe more features will be added.
http://majorgeeks.com/Universal_USB_Installer_d7180.html

Tweaking.com - Simple Performance Boost 1.0.0 Final:
Tweaking.com - Simple Performance Boost is designed to bring only the safest tweaks to your system to increase speed and stability.
Majorgeeks: Awesome utility for most users. Essentially this incorporate tweaks that everyone agrees are a good idea and can be applied in seconds with no computer knowledge. Makes a backup as well. MG pick. Released as beta, now final.
http://majorgeeks.com/Tweaking.com_-_Simple_Performance_Boost_d7176.html


Must have updated software this week (oldest listed first):


Paint.NET Beta 3.59:
Hardware Freak is a small utility that will give you various information about your system. You can view CPU, BIOS, Motherboard, RAM Memory, Graphics card, Sound card, Hard Drive, External storage devices, Operating system, Optical Media, Networking, Printers, Keyboard, Mouse and USB Ports info with the utmost ease.
Majorgeeks: Popular paint program and highly rated. The betas tend to be very stable so give it a whirl.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Paint.NET_Beta_d5576.html

Mozilla Firefox 7.0 Beta 6:
Hardware Freak is a small utility that will give you various information about your system. You can view CPU, BIOS, Motherboard, RAM Memory, Graphics card, Sound card, Hard Drive, External storage devices, Operating system, Optical Media, Networking, Printers, Keyboard, Mouse and USB Ports info with the utmost ease.
Majorgeeks: Firefox needs no introduction. Try out the next 7x version in beta. Very stable.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Mozilla_Firefox_7.0_Beta_6_d7160.html

SpeedGuide.net TCP Optimizer 3.0.8:
The TCP Optimizer is a free, easy Windows program that provides an intuitive interface for tuning and optimizing your Internet connection. There is no installation required, just download and run.
Majorgeeks: I have been using this for a long time, perhaps since Windows 98 when Windows needed internet and networking optimization. Windows 7 does it well, but I still tweak my settings with this tool. 5 stars all day long.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/SpeedGuide.net_TCP_Optimizer_d2104.html

Readefine Desktop 2.45:
Readefine Desktop beautifies Google Reader articles, RSS, plain text and HTML for easy reading. View multiple articles in a fluid, magazine style layout or navigate one article at a time in a book like multi-column layout.
Majorgeeks: I've mentioned this before just because it is different than every other boring RSS reader out there. Worth a run for that alone.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Readefine_Desktop_d7140.html

Patch My PC 2.0.3 Final:
Patch My PC is a portable and reliable utility designed to check your system against the current version of Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Flash, Mozilla Firefox, Oracle Java, Apple Quicktime, and more!
http://majorgeeks.com/Patch_My_PC_d6943.html[/url]

JAlbum 10:
JAlbum makes web albums of your digital images and aims to be the easiest to use and most powerful tool in this category - and free!
Majorgeeks: Does what it promises. Select a folder of image and upload the folder to share galleries.
http://majorgeeks.com/JAlbum_d5953.html

GParted Live 0.9.1-1:
GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them.
Majorgeeks:It used to be you had to buy an expensive partion tool. Not anymore and this one is excellent.
http://majorgeeks.com/GParted_Live_d5757.html

Mozilla Firefox 7.0 Beta 6:
Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster and easier than ever before with the industry´s best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, a built-in spell checker, extension support, and much more.
Majorgeeks: Love it. Get it. Next.
http://majorgeeks.com/Mozilla_Thunderbird_7.0_Beta_3_d7150.html

Adobe Flash Player 10.3.183.10:
Adobe Flash Player (formerly Macromedia Flash Player) lets you view the best animation and entertainment on the Web.
Majorgeeks: You almost can't live without it, ask any iPhone user. More than likely if you have it installed then it might have updated for you. If not, here you go. Typically a lot of bugs and security issues are addressed so you never want to skip these updates.
http://majorgeeks.com/Adobe_Flash_Player_d5163.html

Adobe Flash Player 10.3.183.10:
The Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller is a useful utility for troubleshooting and for testing detection schemes.
Majorgeeks: If you just read above and said "I can live without it" then here you go. This is official from Adobe to completely remove all flash players. Oh, it's also handy if you are having issues and want to remove and reinstall Adobe Flash.
http://majorgeeks.com/Adobe_Flash_Player_Uninstaller_d6551.html

Google Earth 6.1.0.4738 :
With Google Earth you can explore the earth from above! Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
Majorgeeks: Google Earth needs no introduction, I can't imagine anyone who has never used it.
http://majorgeeks.com/Google_Earth_d4659.html

Tweaking.com - Windows Repair 1.1.0:
Tweaking.com - Windows Repair is an all-in-one repair tool to help fix a large majority of known Windows problems including registry errors and file permissions as well as issues with Internet Explorer, Windows Update, Windows Firewall and more.
Majorgeeks: This tool belongs in every geeks toolbox.
http://majorgeeks.com/Tweaking.com_-_Windows_Repair_d7141.html

Kaspersky TDSSKiller 2.5.23.0:
A rootkit is a program or a program kit that hides the presence of malware in the system.
Majorgeeks: At the time we wrote this, TDSSKiller is one of the best rootkit removers available.
http://majorgeeks.com/Kaspersky_TDSSKiller_d6895.html[/url]

PC De-Crapifier 2.2.7:
The PC Decrapifier will uninstall many of the common trialware and annoyances found on many of the PCs from big name OEMs.
Majorgeeks: This is a one of a kind utility and a simple way to remove bloat from that brand new machine. It's a shame you have to do it, but this makes it easier.
http://majorgeeks.com/PC_De-Crapifier_d5223.html