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This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]

  • Top 10 Android Apps (Android)
    Android's been around for more than a year, and in that time developers have whipped up some great apps. Whether you're a new Android owner or a pro looking for new tools, these 10 great and free apps belong in your arsenal.
  • Disk Space Fan Analyzes Hard Drive Space with a Dash of Eye Candy (Windows)
    Free utility Disk Space Fan analyzes your hard drive usage to help you determine what's taking up space on your hard drive, representing it all with fancy visualization eye candy.
  • Opera 10.5 Final for Windows Brings the Speed (Windows)
    As expected, Opera made version 10.5 of its browser official this morning, calling it "the fastest browser on Earth" and also touting its Windows 7 integration, HTML5 video support, better private browsing, and more.
  • Free Alternatives to the MacHeist nanoBundle 2 (Mac)
    Popular shareware software bundler and discounter MacHeist has released a new bundle, offering up 7 premium apps for $20. If you don't feel like shelling out the dough despite the hefty discount, let's take a look at free alternatives.
  • Sonar Power Manager Controls Your Computer with Actual Sonar (Windows)
    Sleeping your computer is a useful way to save energy, but free utility SonarPM takes power management an awesome step further: It puts your computer to sleep automatically when you walk away from your desk—using sonar.
  • Rapportive Replaces Gmail Ads with Contact Info, Is Very Cool (Firefox/Chrome)
    Sure it's nice and all that we get Gmail for free, but those ads to the right of open messages aren't really all that helpful. Free browser add-on Rapportive replaces Gmail ads with contact info about the sender.
  • Squeeze Saves Hard Drive Space on Your Mac, Is Free Today, Seems Almost Magical (Mac)
    If you're quickly running out of space on your hard drive (or backup drive), free-for-today preference pane Squeeze lowers the footprint of large files by compressing any folder—without requiring anything fancy to read it again.
  • How to Add Location Awareness to Your Windows 7 PC (Windows)
    GPS-enabled smartphones make it easy to get directions, weather, and many more location based services since they automatically know where you are. With Geosense, you can bring this functionality to any Windows 7 computer even if it doesn't have a GPS chip.
  • Firefox 4.0 Alpha 2 + Chrome-Like Plug-In Isolation = Fewer Browser Crashes (Windows/Mac/Linux)
    Mozilla's second Developer Preview of Firefox 4.0's framework and back-end highlights a feature we'd heard was coming: separate processes for plug-ins. That means if (when) Flash or another plug-in crashes, there's a good chance your browser won't go with it.
  • KeeFox Integrates KeePass and Firefox (At Long Last) (Firefox)
    KeeFox brings tight integration between the cross-platform, open-source password manager KeePass and Firefox, providing automatic logins, form filling, and more.




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