Saturday, 5 November 2016

Free Download Manager

Jack was downloading a game on his PC. He thought in the mean time he could surf the internet. He found an interesting photo editing software. Clicking the download he was confused on the status of his earlier download. He was also downloading a torrent in another software. Now he became frustrated managing these download going back and forth different applications. He got mad and kicked his PC. Now he is in the hospital with a broken leg!

Do you want to avoid Jack like situations? Then I have the right software for you; and that too for absolutely free! Here I present you the Free Download Manager. One of the best download managers out on the internet.


It is definitely the best free alternative to the premium Internet Download Manager. It is somewhat better than the IDM actually. Some of its features are

  • Direct downloading.
  • P2P downloading such as torrents.
  • Video downloading.
  • Its beautiful yet simple design.
It has a beautiful simple UI. Add, delete, pause and open buttons are at the top. Then there is the downloads table mentioning the thumbnail, name, speed, status, size and date added. Multi select check boxes are available. That means you can pause, delete or start many downloads at once. On selecting a download, details comes up below the downloads table. A special feature called the snail mode is available in this download. Whenever you want to free some bandwidth from the downloading files, click on this tiny button on the left bottom. It will free up maximum bandwidth for you without interrupting your downloads. 



It is an excellent torrent downloader. One can simply replace their current bittorrent client with it. It can catch torrent magnets. It automatically redirects you to torrent details if you a download a .torrent file with it. Then you can download your files with it, like any other torrent client.

Downloading videos with it is a piece of cake. You can either copy and paste the video URL to its add button or right click on the video link and select download with FDM. Quality selector is also available. Download speeds are great and is accelerated.


An Overlook of Settings

The settings are very basic. Startup configurations, torrent association, download location and update settings are under general. Browser integration with Chrome, Firefox, IE and Edge is very simple and works perfectly. Network setting includes proxies and bittorrent settings. Bandwidth can be customized. Advanced features like download memory pre-allocation, download history and power management are quite useful.


With all these features, it definitely is the best free download manager.






Tuesday, 1 November 2016

Apowersoft Photo Viewer

          Google's Picasa was shut down and there is no app on the internet that can actually replace it. But if you loved Picasa only for its awesome photo viewing experience and now want an app to to take its crown, there is one free app that can win your heart.



          Here I present you the Apowersoft Photo Viewer. This simple photo viewer is light weight, specific and beautiful. It is probably the most beautiful photo viewer available for windows.

          The Apowersoft Photo Viewer has basically two parts.
  1. The Showcase or simply photo viewer,
  2. Photo editor.
          The Showcase





          This is the primary thing that you will be interested in. It is probably the most beautiful and simple photo viewer as I mentioned above. One can directly open a picture after setting Apowersoft Photo Viewer as default in windows settings or just open the app, click on the open button, browse you photo and you are done. This app also supports drag and drop; that is find your photo from the file explorer, drag the file to the app space and you are done. The photo opens up without any delay!
          This app can be used in windowed mode, maximized mode or the windows store app like full screen mode. There are not much complications in the main menu, but you can change the languages to the one you prefer and update you app.



           On opening a picture, when the mouse pointer is moved to the bottom, a menu bar appears. On the left edge there is a camera icon that can take a screenshot. There is a ratio button, a edit button, zoom in and zoom out buttons, previous, slideshow and next buttons, rotate buttons,delete button, favorite button and open favorite button. There is a thumbnail toggle button that on turning on shows the available pictures in your current folder. Slideshow can be paused, interval can be changed and can be exited(obviously).


          The Editor



          On clicking the edit button the editor pops up. This a simple MS Paint like editor(Really!). You can doodle on the picture, add text, rotate, resize, apply basic effects(I mean really basic!), and the most useful, crop the picture. 😜
   (Oh yes! You can save this pic! 😉)

    DOWNLOAD FROM HERE ⏬⏬