Features

These days, it's an app that attempts to be all things to all people - play DVDs, organize music, catalog photos, convert video, interact with social networking sites, browse internet multimedia....there's no end to what RealPlayer offers to its users. Even so, it's not an out-and-out success...

Usability

For a start, installation of RealPlayer is annoying - it takes a while, requires lots of "nexts" and tries to install and enable several features that users don't really need. Finally, when it starts, you're offered a chance to upgrade to paid versions of RealPlayer before you have to register yourself with Real Networks. If all this messing around doesn't appeal, check out a slimline app like UMPlayer.

When you're up and running, RealPlayer features a wide interface where you will notice ads and videos recommended by Real Networks. This looks cluttered and messy, and it's hard to know what the app actually offers. In reality, RealPlayer is ideal for playing and sharing video with your friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter and it works easily with BlackBerry, iPod, iPhone and other game systems. The new video converter allows you to copy online video to your iPod, Xbox, PS3 and other devices. Unfortunately, you can't rip DVDs with RealPlayer, although this is available as a feature if you upgrade to RealPlayer Plus.

Most recently, RealPlayer has been updated with far better mobile and social networking integration. You can now copy your favorite videos to an iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and dozens of other popular devices automatically. Downloading internet videos is faster, and for those of you with something to hide, RealPlayer offers a new Private folder. Social media has also been bumped up, with direct access to Facebook videos and usefully, a built-in feature to transfer videos to your mobile devices.

Quality

That said, RealPlayer isn't bad at all. It's comparable to Windows Media Player 12 as they both have some impressive ways of organizing your music. For me, the best feature is the CD burner which is something I've used from the early days of RealPlayer. The sheer quality of some of the media only available in Real formats makes RealPlayer an essential item in the toolkit of any fan of internet video and audio.

Conclusion

There's no shortage of media players theses days, and RealPlayer is by no means a bad option. It offers lots of features, good options and is a high-quality player that will do justice to your media. The only problem is that despite its modern features, it feels like a bit of a dinosaur. It's heavy and slow, looks chunky and takes an age to respond to clicks, and for many people - especially those who have experience of lighter options - it's just not the most comfortable player.

RealPlayer is a media player that, although powerful, has suffered from serious feature-creep over the years.

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Features

Thanks to a straightforward, uncluttered interface BitTorrent appears as a user friendly torrent client that beginners will feel comfortable with. We particularly appreciated the integrated search box to look for files on the BitTorrent website. Once you’ve found the torrent you want, download it to your PC, open it up inside BitTorrent and let the client do the rest. The speed at which you download will depend on the number of seeds, that is people who have the complete file and are sharing it. The more seeds there are the quicker files will download.

You can set multiple torrent downloads and the downloading speed is fairly quick. It’s easy to configure the client and we suggest choosing the right port and setting upload and download rate limits to avoid hogging your bandwidth. It’s also good to set your downloads by priority to monitor more precisely how your torrents are doing.

Using BitTorrent

The file you want to download is cut up into small segments shared by users, creating what is called a swarm, and does not go through a central server, significantly reducing the bulk of file transfers. The BitTorrent client is actually the first P2P application to use this technology and became immensely popular when it was released. Torrents are considered by online users as a great way to download recently anything from movies to operating systems.

Competition

Compared to the exhaustive Azureus, BitTorrent is very simplistic. It doesn’t provide half as many statistics and doesn’t let you customize the interface. Integrating a search box is a great idea, but it limits searches to the BitTorrent website, not considered the most thorough source by torrent aficionados.

Conclusion

If you’re a newbie to the torrent world, BitTorrent is a good bet. It’s safe, stable and sharp. Associated with the huge database of legal torrents that is the BitTorrent website, it makes for a very rich P2P experience. Advanced users will probably frown upon its lack of options but others should give it a try.

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Xfire eliminates the hassles of running multiple programs like IRC, instant messengers, or in-game friends lists to keep track of when and where a gamer's friends are playing. It supports the best and the latest online PC games including server and non server-based first person shooters, real-time strategy, and role playing games.

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Unlike other screen and game recorders, Movavi Game Capture enables to save video game movies in any format: AVI, MP4, FLV, MKV, MPEG-1,2, and many more. Movavi Game Capture records not only game video, but any kind of screen activity including fullscreen online video and desktop screencasts so you can capture simple desktop games and online games as well. Also, you can share your records online with a built-in sharing application.

Movavi Game Capture is meant for gamers who want to create gameplay screencasts on their own and share their gaming hacks and tips via social networks by uploading captured game movies.

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Joyvy is an all-round app, allowing users playing their favorite Flash, social and browser games totally free! With Joyvy users can play, create their personal profiles, chat end exchange comments with friends, and share their in-game progress to Facebook. With the new games catalog, which is updated daily, you can easily browse through the thousands of games and play any of them for free.

Joyvy is intended for gamers who don’t want to meet any limitations while playing. The gamers, who want just to open one application and choose one of the various games we offer and enjoy gaming and sheer fun.

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Scania Truck Driving Simulator is a very complete game, with a super-realistic simulation and fantastic graphics. The depth and variety of the game is another strength of Scania Truck Driving Simulator. The game has several game modes Driving license mode, Competition mode, Freeform Driving mode and Dangerous Drives mode.

Dangerous Drives is perhaps the most fun because in this mode, you have to face extreme challenges that require a lot of skill such as mountain roads, rain, extreme natural phenomena road blocks and much more.

Apart from the all round excellent graphics, the sound effects in Scania Truck Driving Simulator are also incredibly realistic especially engine noises as you go through the gears. To make things a little more interesting, there's also an online leaderboard where you can see how you rank in the various tests against drivers from around the World.

Scania Truck Driving Simulator is a great truck driving simulator and fans of Scania trucks will love it..

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A co-op adventure

Kirk and Spock co-operate in the game, which sees you crawling through air ducts and broken doors to tackle marauding hoards of aliens. The missions are similar to the ones seen in the movie, so you'll find a good variety of both planets and battles.

The Star Trek gameplay is strictly linear, but you'll still need a bit of logical thinking to search for clues and solve puzzles. A tool that you'll find indispensable, the tricoder, can be obtained by finding hidden objects, for example.

You can play Star Trek as either the Vulcan Spock or wise Captain Kirk. You can't change character while you're playing, but you can invite other players to the game online, and they can choose the other character. If either Spock or Kirk falls in battle, the other can revive him and only when you're both dead does the game end.

Acceptable controls

To control characters in Star Trek, you use the mouse and keyboard, and we found it pretty much ok for most of the game. In battle, however, the controls seemed a little clunkier.

Great soundtrack, ok graphics

We liked Star Trek's spaceships, which are detailed and well-reconstructed. We weren't so keen on the rest of the graphics though, as they seemed a little weak and one-dimensional.

The soundtrack was also a plus. It represents the spirit of the films and series perfectly, and totally transports you to the Star Trek of old.

Not just for Star Trek fans

Fans of the series will love this game. It's solid and will totally immerse you in the world of Star Trek. While we have to admit that the game's not the most impressive we've ever seen, the storytelling, soundtrack and general feel of the game means that lots of gamers, whether fans or not, will enjoy it.

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Bigpoint, the leading developer of MMO games, partnered with Pokki to bring popular BigPoint games to the Windows desktop with Pokki. Download the Pokki desktop app to set sail and experience the thrilling pirate adventures.

Pirate Storm is a free action-packed online game that is now available to play right from your desktop, perfect for users who love MMORPG!

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Parents can easily setup and edit parental control rules for each user.

App-Nanny is fast, flexible and user-friendly. It is affordable. Unlike some other parental control tool makers who charge annual fees, you only pay once for AppNanny to use it forever on up to three computers.

AppNanny is for parents with school age children. AppNanny helps kids to concentrate on school work such checking emails from teachers, browsing online references, reading online textbooks and doing online homework by blocking digital distractions.

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Tactical Intervention offers unique gamemodes not seen in most other free to play shooters to date, including the infamous highway chase. Dogs, riot shields and the ability to rappel.

Tactical Intervention is a casual, free- to- play online shooting game for mature audience, published by OGPlanet.

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The Kaspersky PURE interface isn't very slick, but it is easy-to-use and very accessible. It's divided into 7 areas. My Computer Protection (the antivirus), My Backup and My Parental Control make up the main three, with My System Tune-Up, My Encryption, My Virtual Keyboard and My Password Manager bringing up the rear.

There is an awful lot to Kaspersky PURE, but all of it is well-explained and simple to figure out. Almost all of the features have a wizard, and there are two levels of control available, one for people who would prefer minimal interaction and another for those who want more control.

The Kaspersky PURE settings menu is ample and has some great features that make using the program a pleasure. The best of them include a gaming mode, folder encryption and some of the most comprehensive parental control elements I have ever seen.

Unfortunately, there is a price to pay for this excellence. Kaspersky PURE is extremely resource-hungry, and will all but paralyze a less powerful computer. The installation process is long and drawn-out, and the scans take a very long time. Ultimately, prospective users will need to take a long look at Kaspersky PURE before deciding if their computer - and patience - has what it takes to make the most of an excellent security program.

Kaspersky PURE is an impressive program, but recommended only for users with high spec machines.

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Kabam and Pokki partned to bring social web games on to the desktop. The Godfather:Five Families was previously only available on the web is now available for download, get the desktop app game and join the Family!

The Godfather: Five Families is perfect for users who are interested in multiplayer online strategy mafia games.

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Kixeye, the creators of War Commander, partnered with Pokki to make the game available on the desktop. War Commander was previously only available on the web, and is now available for download.

Users who are looking for a free-to-play real-time strategy war game. Download the War Commander desktop app and engage in real time battles!

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Curse Client notifies you when your WOW add-ons are updated, and lets you download and install them in a single click. It also lets you automatically add your Warhammer Online characters to WARDB.com.

Curse Client works by comparing the version numbers of installed extensions with your current versions. If there’s an update, it can be installed in just a click. You can also delete files in a similar manner. In addition, this Curse gaming client provides online databases for WoW and Warhammer, with information about game content, like statistics and Item Quest information.

To enjoy the benefits of all this, however, you need to sign-up for a Curse Client account. The time spent doing this should be far outweighed by the time you would otherwise spend checking whether your add-ons are up to date and deleting ones you no longer use or that don't work, which makes Curse Client a good bet.

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Similar to FrostWire and LimeWire

MP3 Rocket is very similar to FrostWire and the now-defunct LimeWire, so if you are familiar with them, using the app will be a piece of cake. Even if you are not, it’s an easy-to-use application and suitable for anyone who wants to start downloading movies, music and other content – as long as there are no copyright issues, of course!

Managed Via Tabs

MP3 Rocket is based on tabs that allow you to quickly access the search engine, lists of popular files and torrents, your library of shared files and even online TV, radio, games and chat. The downloadable content is all free, but the ones suggested by MP3 Rocket are often links to pay-access web pages.

Poor quality audio and video player

MP3 Rocket can also be used as an audio and video player, but judged on these features it’s not very interesting and offers nothing that really make it stand out.

Conclusion

Ultimately MP3 Rocket is a solid app, although we’ve heard complaints in recent times that it’s no longer as reliable as it once was. Also bear in mind that as MP3 Rocket is Java based, it’s not suitable for older PCs. Overall, MP3 Rocket is a solid, if not awe-inspiring, P2P network client.

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Having started out back in 1999, Counter-Strike Online is far from a cutting edge FPS game. Despite its age, and much like ID's Quake, the game survives due to its essential playability. It may not be sophisticated, but Counter-Strike Online is fast, fun to play, and has a massive community of players. Once you have a free account, it's easy to sign in and get shooting in moments. Its age means Counter-Strike Online runs smoothly on most PCs, as its requirements are really low.

Counter-Strike Online is played over a variety of maps, and is a team based multiplayer FPS. Players either join a team of terrorists or counter terrorists, and battle it out. To the Original mode, Death Match, and Team Death Match modes, there are additionally Zombie Mode 2, Zombie United Mode, Zombie Mode 3, Challenge Mode, Zombie Survival Mode and VIP Mode, some of which require micro-payments to unlock.

Counter-Strike Online is a classic FPS online multiplayer FPS, and deserves its place in history. while it looks its age, this version adds lots of fun add-ons and a dynamic community of players to get involved with.

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