Bandwidth Monitor 2 Lite

Here's a simple, easy way to check on your current bandwidth use -- both uploading and downloading -- and to track your usage over time. This freebie displays that usage in a constantly changing chart so you can see the fluctuations in real time. It also shows you the current bandwidth use in a text display.

Bandwidth Monitor 2 Lite is quite customizable। For example, you can skin it and change the time span in which it measures bandwidth। Also very helpful is that it will keep logs of your bandwidth usage, so you can make comparisons over time.

fromhttp://www.computerworld.com

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FlashGet

If you live to download, this freebie is for you. It's a great download manager that will speed up the process, keep you safe and help you organize everything that you've downloaded. Flashget makes downloads faster by using multithreading, and it lets you find downloads via many different protocols, including HTTP, FTP and eMule. It's also terrific at file management, showing you all the files you've downloaded, including information about each. You'll even be able to delete downloaded files from directly in the program.

Making it even more useful is that it integrates with your browser, so whenever you download, it jumps into action। It will also pause and resume downloads and works with your antivirus software to scan for viruses as it downloads.

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Foxit Reader

What's the most annoying Internet-related application of all time? For many people, that question has a simple answer: Adobe Reader. Countless documents online are in the Acrobat format, so there's no way around it: You need Adobe Reader. But it's bloated and prone to crashes, nobody's idea of a good time.

Foxit Reader is a far better solution. It's small and loads much faster, so it doesn't take up much memory when you use it. It also doesn't seem to suffer from the same instability issues as Adobe Reader does. The program also has some nice extras, such as the ability to embed comments. (However, when you embed comments, the page you mark up will show that you're using an evaluation version of the software. You can pay for the Pro pack to get rid of those marks and get some other extras as well.)

Note that when I installed the program, it integrated directly into Internet Explorer as the default PDF reader, but it didn't similarly integrate into Firefox। To make it the default in Firefox, you'll have to select Tools, Options and then click the Manage button in the File Types area. Double-click each of the files that Adobe Reader opens, and tell Firefox to use Foxit Reader instead.