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Smart Explorer

Smart Explorer is a very competent web browser. It uses parts of Internet Explorer to function, but with a more powerful and informative interface. Smart Explorer has heaps of handy features, like showing how much of a web page has loaded, and turning pictures and pop-ups on or off. The Smart Groups option is particularly good, it allows you to group several favorites into one menu-item so that you can launch several browser windows, to several websites, all with one click. Windows appear within the program, so they don't clutter up the tool bar. All in all, this is an excellent replacement for Internet Explorer. End some of your Internet frustrations,by downloading Smart Explorer now.

Dr Hardware

A very thorough system benchmarking/analysis tool. It covers almost every aspect of your computer, from what version of windows you are running to what sort of video card you have. It has cute 3d graphs comparing your machine to other machines and it comes complete with links to all of the Microsoft tools necessary to administer your machine. Did we mention very thorough? There is information available on almost every software/hardware component in your computer - and benchmark tests for a large portion of those.

Earjam IMP (Installer)

This small application will quickly and easily download the entire Earjam Internet Music Player. Once downloaded you'll find a rather smart looking (and skinnable) media player with some great visualization modes, encoding and burning capabilities and an integrated net-shopping feature which allows you to download and buy music. Nothing truly groundbreaking here, but still a very good selection of MP3 utilities all in one.

Super Cleaner

SuperCleaner is a clean, sleek machine that can seek out and destroy unnecessary files, unused internet cache and other sensitive information. Scanning only takes a moment, and killing multiple files are easy, but you lose the listing if you click away. Super Cleaner includes a cookie manager and has Quick Access options from its systray icon. Also includes command-line options for effective inclusion in your autoexec.bat file. Easy to use, can clean out tens of megs of useless information in a breeze.