Far Manager is a program for managing files and archives in Windows operating systems. Far Manager works in text mode and provides a simple and intuitive interface for performing most of the necessary actions: viewing files and directories, editing, copying and renaming files and many other operations.

ACDSee is a shareware image viewer software for Windows developed by ACD Systems. The current version is 9. Besides the usual thumbnail viewing of folders and file type conversion, key features of ACDSee include slideshow presentations, CD/DVD burning, HTML gallery creation, image folder syncing and editing/indexing of image metadata like Exif. It is also possible to do minor image manipulation like cropping, scaling and rotating. The price for ACDSee Photo Manager 9 is US$ 39.99. ACDSee is available in English, French, German and Dutch.

What's New:
· Windows Vista™ Certified.
· Faster viewing with Quick View mode.
· Easier photo fixes with One-click red-eye reduction.
· Bring your photos back to life with the Shadow/Highlight tool.
· Lock up your special photos with Private folders.
· Organize your collection with Calendar Events View and more...

NVIDIA® ForceWare™ software unleashes the full power and features in NVIDIA’s desktop, gaming, platform, workstation, laptop, multimedia, and mobile products. Delivering a proven record of compatibility, reliability, and stability with the widest range of games and applications, ForceWare software ensures the best experience with your NVIDIA hardware.

What is Catalyst®?
Catalyst™ is ATI's software and services suite that enhances and accelerates the ultimate visual experience. Real-time 3D and immerse games spring to life with Catalyst®. Catalyst® includes Display Driver, Hydravision™ , Multimedia Center™ and REMOTE WONDER™.

Microsoft DirectX is a group of technologies designed to make Windows-based computers an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements such as full-color graphics, video, 3D animation, and rich audio. DirectX includes security and performance updates, along with many new features across all technologies, which can be accessed by applications using the DirectX APIs.

Total Commander is a file manager replacement that offers multiple language support, search, file comparison, directory synchronization, quick view panel with bitmap display, ZIP, ARJ, LZH, RAR, UC2, TAR, GZ, CAB, ACE archive handling plus plugins, built-in FTP client with FXP, HTTP proxy support, and more.

What's New:
· Corrects an error in the re-packing of RAR archives to other formats.

The main features of 7-Zip: High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression. Supported formats: Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR; Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS. For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip.

What's New
· Speed optimizations for LZMA, Deflate, BZip2 and unRAR.
· 7-Zip now supports file pathnames longer than 260 characters.
· Some bugs were fixed.
· New localizations: Bangla, Bashkir, Nepali.

Note: You can use 7-Zip on any computers, including computers in commercial organizations. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip.

WinRAR is the most comprehensive compression and archiving utility available. Offering cutting-edge variable compression technology that caters to your individual files, a 128-bit encryption mechanism that ensures your privacy, and blazingly fast compression and decompression; WinRAR makes it incredibly easy to backup and protect your most crucial data.

What's New:
· Bugs corrected:
   a) when unpacking TAR archives, WinRAR 3.70 beta versions
   truncated unpacked names by one character if length
   of unpacked file name was 100 characters or more;

   b) WinRAR 3.70 beta versions could fail to properly unpack
   RAR volumes if number of volumes exceeded 100 and volumes
   used the old style naming scheme.

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.
IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 7+ years).

What's New:
· Support for PDF export (PlugIn) (Thanks to ComSquare AG)
· Zooming and scrolling is now possible in slideshow mode
· Many new effects added: Unsharp mask, Fish Eye etc. (Thanks to GENiEBEN)
· New Flash Plugin for Flash 5 or later! (Thanks to Remio)
· Option to transfer files by FTP (Thumbnails window, PlugIn)
· New image option: Auto adjust colors (Thanks to Andras Horvath, www.log69.com)
· New effect: Chromatic Aberration (Thanks to Thomas Strauss)
· Support for VTF format (Valve Texture Format, PlugIn)