AVG Antivirus

CNET Editors' note: The Download Now link will download an installer file to your desktop. Remain online and double-click the installer to proceed with the actual download. To learn more about AVG products and to ask questions and receive answers from AVG company representatives, please visit CNET's dedicated AVG Forum. Publisher's DescriptionFrom AVG Technologies USA: Antivirus protection that automatically updates to protect you from continually...

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Picasa

Picasa Web Albums is Google's Web photo-hosting service. Users get 1GB of free hosting, and images can be uploaded and manipulated using Picasa, Google's free desktop photo management application. Users who want additional storage can shell out up to $500 a year to bump up the hosted space to 400 times the size of the free hosting service. Much like everything else Google, Picasa is exceptionally straightforward to use, with a tabbed interface...

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Adobe Flash Player

There should be no doubt that Apple's decision to block Flash from iOS in favor of HTML5 has spurred Adobe to make sure that its media-rich content-building tool and player Flash remains competitive. Flash Player 11 brings hardware-accelerated graphics support to the platform. According to Adobe, the new Stage3D technology in the new Flash Player brings combined 2D and 3D acceleration that is up to 1,000 times faster than the previous Flash...

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Mozilla Firefox

Beta or prerelease software is not intended for inexperienced users, as the software may contain bugs or may potentially damage your system. We strongly recommend that users exercise caution and save all mission-critical data before installing or using this software. Publisher's DescriptionFrom Mozilla: Firefox beta includes dozens of major features and improvements - by testing them early we'll be able to respond to your feedback for future...

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Google Chrome

The bottom line: Competitiveness, thy name is Chrome. Google's browser is one of the fastest and most standards-compliant browsers available. It lacks some of the fine-tuning you'll find in Firefox, but from the minimalist interface to support for future-Web tech like Native Client and HTML5, the browser is a must. Review: Google Chrome has matured from a lightweight and fast browsing alternative into an innovative, standard-bearing browser...

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Transmute Portable

Latest Software   If you happen to have bookmarked a lot of sites using one browser and wanted to use a different one to visit those same sites, there is now no need to find and bookmark them again. Transmute Portable from Darq Software is free software that will do it for you. The standalone application, which doesn't need to be installed, presents a simple interface that requires little, if any, explanation. Just tell it where ...

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WinRAR

Latest Software Download          WinRAR is a lightweight, flexible, and easy-to-use archiving utility that can unpack most archive formats, as well as compress to both RAR and ZIP. Free to try for 40 days ($29 for single license), WinRAR is a top dog in the compression category. WinRAR's interface is about as simple as it gets. Start creating (or add to) an archive by dragging and dropping your files into...

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