Thoughts of a semi-nerd

My first post in 2012. Happy new year to all my readers. :) This post is the second in 'My Software Pick' series. First part can be accessed here . This list too contains useful utilities. As usual, only legal and legitimate softwares - no crack or pirated copies. 1. Shaplus Bandwidth Meter This is a free tool to track your internet usage.  This tool tracks every KB you download. I have been using this to track my internet usage, for over 5 years. This is a must have for us broadband users to keep our download limit in check, so that we are not surprised seeing our internet bill. Also, this occupies less than 200KB of your disk space after installation and less than 2MB of memory when runs in the background. 2. vlc media player vlc media player is one of best media players out there and it is free. It plays almost all formats. Till date, I have not seen vlc returning errors for a video. In my system, it even played corrupted avi file which was abando...

This is the first part of 'My Software Pick' series. I will suggest some of the best softwares out there, which will be very useful to you too. Only legal and legitimate softwares - no crack or pirated copies. 1. Winrar This software is free legal version of winrar. Winrar can be used to compress and uncompress data and this one does it all for free. The formats supported are zip, rar, 7z, cab, arj and some more formats. 2. CCleaner CCleaner is free system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It can remove unused files from your system, thereby speeding up your system. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. Check this page for full feature listing. I have been using this for over 2 years and its very useful. For latest version of this software, check out the official page here . 3. doPDF Free PDF converter you can use to create P...