This fully featured online translation software helps you translate web pages, web sites, as well as word, sentence and documents into your native language, if your native is any of the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. Great improvement on multiple server support, IE Observer and Unicode Viewer since last version.

Features include:

• Translate whatever you can imagine, document, web contents, letters, chats, and emails and more
• Translation among 11 languages
• Build-in, full-featured word processor
• Supports Microsoft Word, Notepad, WordPAD, Adobe Acrobat, Outlook Express, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Frontpage and more
• 100% Unicode compatible
• Unicode Viewer enables users to automatically download Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian fonts from Microsoft website, when neccessary
• Open a wide variety of documents, .DOC, .RTF and .TXT
• Save or print the translated text with a print
• Multilingual user interface

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With such an ever growing range of multimedia devices, no wonder format converters are becoming so popular these days!

Any Audio/Video Converter is one of those converters: a simple, easy-to-use application that support pretty much any format you can find nowadays and lets you convert both audio and video files in just a few steps.

The program works with a list where you add the files you want to convert, no matter what format they are. Then you configure the conversion options for each one of them separately and finally click on the "Convert" button to let the program do the rest. I think this method is quite handy and saves you loads of work and time; pity the trial version only accepts one file on this list!

Any Audio/Video Converter includes a built-in player in its interface, but it's only good to watch the video while it's being converted and not preview it before actually starting the process.

With Any Audio/Video Converter you can convert basically any audio and video file you can think of, in a quite easy process that involves very little effort.

Download Any Audio/Video Converter 5.6 in Softonic

Take the power of Google with you anywhere on the web. The Google Toolbar enables you to search the web from any site, block unwanted pop-up ads, fill in forms with just one click, search within the pages of any site and highlight the words you searched for on a page. The Google Toolbar is free and installs in just seconds. Get one click closer to the information you want to find.

Google Search

Keep the power of Google search close at hand. Google Toolbar puts a search box in your browser, making it easier than ever to find anything you want on the web and to kick off your browsing experience.

AutoLink

The online review of a great new restaurant has the place's address but no map. You could type the restaurant's street, city, and ZIP code into the search box, but why bother, when clicking the Toolbar's AutoLink button will automatically create a link to an online map (US addresses only)? AutoLink can also link package tracking numbers to delivery status, VIN numbers (US) to vehicle history, and publication ISBN numbers to Amazon.com listings.

WordTranslator

Ever need to translate words on English web pages into another language? Don't bother looking up words one by one - just hover your mouse cursor over an English word and Toolbar's WordTranslator will tell you what it means in your own language. WordTranslator currently supports translation from English into Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, German and Spanish.

AutoFill

Tired of typing in your address and credit card information every time you shop online? AutoFill makes shopping a breeze by enabling you to fill out web forms with a single click. Just enter your info once in the Toolbar's Options dialog box and you're ready for an online shopping spree. (Note: your credit card info stays password-protected.)

SpellCheck

ARe yu a raelly bad tyipsst? Google Toolbar's new SpellCheck button finds any spelling mistakes whenever you type into a web form, including web-based email, discussion forums, and even intranet web applications. The AutoFix option even corrects all of your text with a single click.

PageRank Display

Wondering whether a new website is worth your time? Use the Toolbar's PageRank display to tell you how Google's algorithms assess the importance of the particular web page you're viewing.

Highlight Search Terms

Once you've used the Google Toolbar to find a web page, there's no need to scroll around looking for your search terms. The Highlight button instantly lights them up on the page, making it easier to find relevant information.

Google Suggest

As you type in the Toolbar search box, Google Suggest guesses what you're typing and offers useful suggestions in real time. For example, if you type "bass," Google Suggest might offer a list of refinements that include "bass fishing" or "bass guitar." You can choose one by scrolling up or down the list with the arrow keys or mouse.

Download Google Toolbar IE 5.0.2000 in Softonic

For all those in agreement with the French government that proprietary formats are damaging to the legitimate spread of digital music, then Tunebite will be right up your street. Proprietary music is essentially locked, so it can only be played using a particular brand of player. This software can be used to make any music playable on whatever portable devices you have or to burn your own music CD. It works by creating a playlist in the file’s native player, (Media Player for WMA, iTunes for M4B, M4P) playing the list and recording each track as an unprotected file. It could be seen as the modern equivalent of recording radio onto cassette, although Tunebite will automatically separate the different tracks.

The installation of this program is a bit tongue-in-cheek with a notice to say that you may see a warning during the process, swiftly followed by a pop-up warning letting you know that a particular driver hasn’t been registered with Microsoft. Following the advice of the previous notice and ignoring the warning dialog lets you finish the process. You are then taken to the configuration wizard where you complete six steps to choose what file format you want to record in.

The interface is so intuitive that when you first open the program you should have no doubt as to how to get recording. The three main elements of the interface are clearly marked as the “songs to record” window, the “recorded songs” window and an unmistakable “GO!” button in the centre. To get started you can either drag and drop your music files or use the “add file” or “add folder” buttons within the program. From there, it’s a simple matter of clicking the “GO!” button and letting Tunebite go to work.

Because the files are protected, they must be played through their own player, for example iTunes, and recorded in real-time. During our test, we happened to have another audio player in use as the recording began and as a result, the unprotected file was an incomprehensible mix of two tracks. This also means that if Tunebite is making a recording, you shouldn’t use your computer for other tasks such as browsing the net since every click sound that plays when you hit a link or even the Start Menu button will be recorded as well. With recording taking place in real-time you should plan for times when you won’t be using the computer, especially if you have a large music collection.

Tunebite is a solution to a problem that many music lovers face as control over their digital content becomes tighter and more restrictive. Protected tracks that have been paid for can easily be copied to any MP3 player or burned to CD for use in regular stereos. Admittedly, the method for recording is not ideal for everybody, but used properly, the results will be of the highest standard possible today.

Download Tunebite 5.1.120 in Softonic

There's plenty of DVD and CD managers out there but there are few that allow you to organise DVDs, CDs, DivX files and even cassettes in one easy to browse and search database.

Since I'd rather have my video and audio collection all under one program, I quite liked Ant Movie Catalog. First of all, it's completely free and the source code is open to modification by its users who are brought together by the program's forum. There are several reasons why this database appeals.

First of all is simplicity - it's not bloated in any way so searching and navigating through your collection either by format, genre, alphabetically or year is extremely easy and fast. Second of all, it takes a lot of the hard work out of cataloguing your collection because it imports information about your media from the internet using scripts. These include scripts for the IMDB, DVDFR (a French DVD website), Allocine /a French film site) and Culturalia (a Spanish multimedia site).

In addition, it can store all information in two formats - either binary or XML - the latter makes it possible to export your collection to Excel and other database applications. If you do add too many album and film covers to Ant Movie Catalog, it can start to slow down a bit but there is the option of linking to external pictures rather than importing them. You can also display in graphical format, stats relating to your multimedia collection - how many of a certain format you have, genre, date etc.

Lightweight, easy to use and covering just about any conceivable media you might own, Ant Movie Catalog is an easy and free way to bring your collection together.

Download Ant Movie Catalog 3.5.1.1 in Softonic

Watching television is no longer a dining-room activity. With the number of available online TV channels constantly increasing, chances are you'll end up watching TV on your computer rather than on a TV set.

Internet TV is the perfect tool to watch television on the PC. This free app gives you access to more than 5,000 TV channels that stream content over the Internet. Among such a wide offer you'll surely find something you like, from news to sports, from music to documentaries, from religion to education.

Using the program is a piece of cake. Simply select the channel you're interested in and click on the "Play" button on the right-side screen. After a few seconds of buffering, the show will start. I have to say most of the channels I tested worked perfectly fine and only a few failed to start, most of them when I tried to filter contents by country. Apparently it's better to just leave the "All countries" option enabled. Also, when a channel didn't work sometimes it showed music instead, so in the end it wasn't that disappointing.

Internet TV lets you add your own Internet TV channels, if you know any that's not currently on the list and provided you have all the necessary data. A Favorites list completes the array of included features.

Internet TV is a basic viewer with which you can access thousands of streaming TV channels worldwide. Perfect to have a sneak peek at how television looks like in other countries and other cultures!

Download InternetTV 7.12 in Softonic

If you like art in general and impressionism in particular you can't miss the Paul Cezanne Painting Screensaver.

Paul Cezanne Painting Screensaver includes more than a hundred paintings created by the famous French painter. The selected works belong to his several different periods, showing his artistic growth and his transition between impressionism and cubism.

Some of the paintings included in Paul Cezanne Painting Screensaver are A Modern Olympia, Pyramid of Skulls, The Large Bathe, Card players, House and Farm at Jas de Bouffan, The Blue Vase and others. It's quite a good selection, though the screensaver doesn't allow you to remove transition effects.

Paul Cezanne Painting Screensaver features more than a hundred paintings by Cezanne which you can enjoy on your PC when idle.

Download Paul Cezanne Painting Screensaver 1.1.0 in Softonic

PrestoNotes is a freeware tool for Windows that lets you write little memos and stick them on your screen. The notes may be accessed through the control panel, or through a simple context menu sitting in the Windows toolbar. So, you can show or hide a note with only 2 mouse clicks!

PrestoNotes is totally multilingual thanks to the addition of language files. English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Polish and Swedish languages are included in the installation package, but you can easily create and add a new language for the program. Illustrated help notes are also included in the program.

Take a look at what PrestoNotes features:

• Customize notes in detail: background, text color, transparency, font, position, size, etc.
• Always on top of other windows, or not
• Possibility to open or save in an external file (.txt)
• Add an automatic reminder to any note
• Trigger one or more actions when a reminder is activated

Download PrestoNotes 4.80 in Softonic

Racing through the streets of a big city like Paris or London is completely illegal. This is probably why street racing games are so popular these days.

French Street Racing is one of those games, which is set – as you can guess by its name – in the most important cities of France. You're given the opportunity to race those streets with your shiny sports car, competing against other drivers to reach the finishing line in the first position.

Exciting as it sounds the game fell quite short of expectations when I tried it. To begin with, menus are dull and difficult to use. Then, graphics are just fine, but they get blurred and confusing while playing the game. Last, but not least, the game's physics is far from being realistic.

French Street Racing features interesting elements, such as the possibility to customize your car and support for online multiplayer games. It’s a pity though that the whole gaming experience is ruined by the graphic quality and gameplay.

French Street Racing seems a very promising driving game that lets you race along the streets of important French cities. Too bad it still needs lots of development in graphics, gameplay and physics.

Download French Street Racing in Softonic

Age of Empires is one of the most amazing and legendary civilisation style games that ever existed.

Now in this third part, you're taken into the New World. Players are able to develop European nations from the Age of Discovery through to the Industrial Age. There are eight playable nations that battle across a wide variety of lands - from the early beginning of the swamps of Florida to the Rocky Mountains. You can recruit Native American tribes along the way and with them, try to seize control of trade routes while being supported by your Empire back in Europe.

There's no doubt that visually, the game looks superb with some of the best graphics ever seen in the Age of Empires series. However, the developers seem to have concentrated on graphics more than the realism aspect. An exception to this is the fact that you are supported by your home European nation in your quest to plunder the New World which is something unseen in previous versions.

However, it is attention to detail and unfaithfulness to the realities of history that really let the game down. American Indians are portrayed as mercenaries rather than spiritual tribes and gold mines suddenly appear hundreds of years before they ever did!

Age of Empires 3 looks great and has the potential to be a great game but the developers probably need to pay more attention to historical facts than the graphics themselves.

Download Age of Empires III in Softonic

As well suggesting to you which programs are good and useful to download, I guess it’s also a time-saving service for us to review programs which, for many reasons, are not worth your attention.

Despite claiming to have received more than a million download, Traductor LIVE fits into the above category. Glossing over the unusable interface and the lack of self-explicable icons, the application simply doesn’t do what it says. Or to be more specific, it does translate what you write in it, but so badly, you might as well invent the text in other languages on your own, even without knowing anything about them.

In case you would like to try it, what conventionally is understood to be the page-refresh icon, in this case allows you to change language. You click on this to see the flags on the top changing, until you get the combination you want. The missile icon, should give the go ahead to translate the text, unless you want to have some more fun and tick the automatic translation function, which translates what you write in real-time.

We all need good translator programs, but look elsewhere as this one is not one of those. Babylon or Lingoes are surely better alternatives.

Download Traductor LIVE in Softonic

For all football fans this free Vista gadget will be a very interesting tool to have as it resumes in a simple way, rankings of all the major European soccer tournaments.

To install it, just download, extract the file and double click on it in your Windows Vista PC. The application will be installed in the sidebar of your system, without needing to restart it. Select among eight tournaments from Champions League, UEFA Cup, Euro 2008, to the Italian, French, Spanish and English leagues. For each section you immediately see the five best teams with relative scores. If you click on the arrows at the up-right corner you can get the full list, while if you click at the bottom, the 'Fixtures & Results' menu appears. It shows the results of every game played, so you can have a quick glance at scores and winners.

With this real-time updated application you will not miss any of the EURO 2008 result. It also shows all the data you need to know to stand out among your friends and know everything about all the European leagues.

Download UEFA Informer Gadget 1.5.0.0 in Softonic

LingvoSoft Talking Dictionary 2008 German-Spanish for Windows is part of a unique suite of language learning applications for your PC. It provides bidirectional word translation and advanced synthesis of German and Spanish speech.

The dictionary is easy to install and use on your desktop computer. It translates in both directions between German and Spanish and pronounces the translation aloud! The ability to pronounce German and Spanish words is the distinguishing feature of this software translator. And it does so using the most advanced BST Text-to-Speech synthesis available anywhere! Now you never need to check transcriptions: simply select a word and with one click have the dictionary pronounce it for you.

As part of a complete suite of language solutions, this dictionary is also capable of full integration with the LingvoSoft FlashCards and LingvoSoft Talking PhraseBook applications for added effectiveness.

LingvoSoft Talking Dictionary 2008 German-Spanish for Windows features:

General features:

• English, French, German, Spanish and Russian interfaces
• Overview of all the dictionary entries in the Main Window
• All translations of the selected word displayed in the Translation Window
• Quick search function: enter a few letters and words starting with these letters (and translations) are displayed
• Search function for any sequence of characters entered in the input line
• Quick back translation for proof of correct understanding
• Customizable interface, toolbar and typefaces
• Full text-editing functions: paste, copy and cut, as well as import/export texts to/from other applications
• Full integration with LingvoSoft FlashCards and PhraseBook applications

Special features:

• Pronunciation of all listed German and Spanish words based on the latest BST Text-to-Speech technology
• User vocabulary: a personal dictionary can be created by adding and editing dictionary entries
• Instant translation
• Quick paste function: merely select a word for import from another application and it automatically displays the most relevant dictionary entry.
• Part of speech filter lets the dictionary process only translations belonging to the designated part of speech you select (i.e. verbs, adjectives, etc.)

Download LingvoSoft Talking Dictionary 2008 German-Spanish 4.1.29 in Softonic

On the trend that sees a constant increase in the brain fitness software market, LearnWords is meant to practice you memory skills by learning a new language such as Spanish, Italian, French or Japanese.

Don't expect anything futuristic though, LearnWords is just a simple matching words game in a non invasive window that you can leave on while you are working, ready to be used for a 5min break when you feel like it. A handy feature is that you can run it also on most mobile phones, so that you can train on the way back home too.

It's funny to play with and despite the very basic interface, it's not boring at all, as the different type of matching games are mixed while you play. In this way you will have the possibility to test your memory in different ways without getting lazy. When a word is displayed, just click on the right translation between the options available. Every now and then the program will ask you to translate a specific word and after you have done it correctly, you can choose not to be trained on that one again so that you can move on to new words. You can also click the speaker button to hear the correct pronunciation of it. It's a pity though that there are no exercises with entire sentences, as one would learn and remember more if words were placed in a context.

LearnWords is a very simple game with which you can improve your memory skills and improve foreign vocabulary at the same time.

Download LearnWords 4.5 in Softonic

This popular web tv player allows you to watch TV programs in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Arabic and many other languages. The live channel guide is divided by thematic categories such as music, news, educational, sport and shopping. In the station-by-region menu, you have a list of all available channels divided by nationality so you can have a quick glance on the offer.

Unfortunately, the choice of programs seems to be based on a quantity, not quality policy. It does offer TV channels from all over the world although you will not have the best national broadcasters.

TV's design is really disappointing: the main page is stuffed with so many advertisements that using the application can be confusing; the list of channels is presented in a very inelegant way; the video is slow to start and the video player is different for every channel.

TV might be an interesting application if you want to watch 'not-so-common' TV programs from all over the world but you will have to put up with poor quality and design.

Download TV 2.1 in Softonic

So the first major update to Windows Vista is here at last, fourteen months after Microsoft's latest operating system was finally released. Many potential Vista customers were advised at launch to "Wait for Service Pack 1" - so was this advice valid?

Service Pack 1 contains a range of improvements to Windows Vista, focused in three main areas, which Microsoft terms: Quality Improvements, Emerging Hardware & Standards and Infrastructure Optimization. Quality Improvements are basically bug fixes and this part of the Service Pack includes all the small updates that have been applied by Windows Update since Vista was released, in one handy bundle. Quality Improvements also include attempts to improve system stability and reliability, mainly when it comes to working with 3rd party applications like those you can download from Softonic.

Emerging Hardware and Standards refers to additional support for newer technologies in Vista. Since the code for Vista was finalised, new technologies have been released which many users would like to deploy to their PCs. Examples of these technologies include 64-bit EFI network boot, exFAT storage, improved support for HD-DVD and Bluray technologies, additional cryptographic algorithms, full support for 802.11n wireless, and much more.

Infrastructure Optimization consists of various improvements designed to help organisations deploy and patch Windows more easily. Systems administrators will welcome improvements to the Network Diagnostics tool, Disk Defragmenter, Group Policy and Network Access Protection.

What has to be said about Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is that it still doesn't contain many of the innovations which were originally promised as components in the OS. While many of these hotfixes, security improvements and technology upgrades are more than welcome, there is little to get really excited about in SP1. So yes, it probably made sense to wait for this upgrade, but don't expect Vista to suddenly become a perfect operating system: that's simply not going to happen.

That said, SP1 does include a lot of fixes which might prove very useful for users, especially when it comes to security, and that's why it's a recommended update for all Windows Vista PCs.

Download Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) in Softonic

On the whole, Lingoes is an interesting application which combines a comprehensive dictionary with a translator service (while looking and feeling mysteriously similar to its competitor, Babylon). There are also some useful tools like the periodic table, an abbreviation chart and an irregular verbs one, plus an international time zone converter, a dialing codes directory, a weights & measures converter and to end a currency converter.

Theoretically the most useful tool is that by pressing CTRL+ right click on whatever word you have on your screen, a pop-up window should appear with the definition of that word, a search tool for a deeper definition and also an audio file with the correct pronunciation. The disappointing aspect of this feature is that it doesn't work with a lot of words (unfortunately, I have to say, the majority), even if they appear in the list of definitions that Lingoes has in its database. I think this is a major bug as it invalidates massively the application's main utility which would be to have an always-available dictionary without having to change window.

The program leans on Google for the translation function which I find to be weak as many words are not translated correctly or not even found.

Because of strange performance issues, Lingoes is not worth using if you're just looking for an on-the-fly dictionary or translator. Some of its other features are really useful, though.

Download Lingoes 2.2.0 Beta in Softonic

Around The World in 80 Days is one of my favourite stories and I was hooked by the story, the Michael Palin documentary and even a sucker for that animal version featuring Willie Fog and his pet rat Rigadon.

This game tries to capture the spirit of the Jules Verne classic by challenging you to an Around The World voyage in the late 19th Century as the great Phileas Fogg. Unfortunately, it generally falls a considerable distance short of achieving this aim. Many reviewers have already compared it unfavourably with The Rise of Atlantis except finding this less challenging which is certainly one accusation which can be levelled at it. There is very little difference in much of the gameplay compared to The Rise of Atlantis although the graphics are certainly better and there are a few bonus levels to keep your interest going.

However, the game comes across as nothing much more than a glorified puzzle game that occasionally educates you with a few facts on the various countries you visit after solving each challenge. The early levels are too easy although the puzzles do become increasingly tricky after the first 10 minutes or so.

Don't pack your bags just yet - this is one round the World voyage that may not be the trip of a lifetime but just about scrapes the ticket fee together.

Download Around the World in 80 Days Demo in Softonic

If you've never heard of DjVu, it's a unique way of viewing high resolution images in your browser whether for a magazine or high tech research purposes.

It allows the scanning, storing and exchanging of complex color documents such as magazine articles, maps, technical manuals and archived financial records. The plug in allows your browser to interpret the resolution of the images and display them correctly in Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer. Despite it's power, it's a very small plugin requiring only 900KB to download and can even be added to applications using ActiveX via VB, .NET and C++. As yet, the plugin is only available in a limited number of languages, mainly English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Korean, Italian, Polish and Chinese. The problem with this plugin is that you very rarely have to view DjVu images in you're an average home user although I can see it would be useful for professionals, designers etc. The other thing is that, a bit like Adobe Reader, it has a tendency to hang when opening images or texts in DjVu format. There's no telling sometimes whether it has crashed or is just slow in opening the file. It would have been more useful if they'd added a status bar when it's opening files for this reason.

If you view DjVu files and images frequently, then this is an essential plug in although don't expect it to reveal what it's supposed to every time.

Download DjVu Viewer Plug-in 6.1.1 in Softonic

Calendar Magic is an easy-to-use pack of calendar utilities that is entertaining, informative, educational, and of equal applicability in the home and in the office.

It supports the following calendars: Full year and individual month Gregorian, Afghan, Armenian, Baha'i, Bangla, Chinese, Coptic, Egyptian, Ethiopic, French Revolutionary, Hebrew, Hindu Lunisolar (3 variants), Hindu Solar, Indian National, Islamic Civil, Julian, Revised Julian, Parsi Fasli, Parsi Kadmi, Parsi Shenshai, Persian (2 variants), Sikh Nanakshahi and Vietnamese calendars. A user option is provided to choose between displaying/printing calendars showing each week starting on a Monday (in line with the ISO 8601 international standard), on a Sunday for North American users, or on a Saturday for Middle East users.

It supports a month-by-month, side-by-side comparison of any two of the 23 calendar systems listed above. The display remains synchronised as you change day, month and year values in either calendar system being viewed. Again, users may choose between displaying each month with weeks starting on a Saturday, Sunday or Monday.

It supports date conversions among the 23 calendar systems listed above, plus conversions to Balinese Pawukon, Thai solar, old Hindu Solar, old Hindu Lunisolar and Mayan date formats. Julian day value, day of week and day of year information is also displayed. For Gregorian dates, many other facts are displayed, such as modified Julian day value, Lilian day value and Rata Die day value, and year related information including Roman numeral form, Dominical Letter(s), Dionysian Period, Julian Period, Golden Number, Solar Number, Roman Indiction and Epact. Various special days are also recognised (e.g. Halloween), as are modern Olympic years, Commonwealth Games years, European Athletics Championship years, and World Athletic Championship years.

It includes lists of Western Christian festivals, Eastern Orthodox festivals, Hebrew festivals and Islamic festivals for any (Gregorian) year. In addition, Hindu festivals may be listed for any year in the range 2000 to 2043, Baha'i festivals from 1845 onwards, Buddhist and Chinese festivals from 1645 to 3000, and Sikh Nanakshahi festivals from 1999 onwards.

It has the ability to create, display, update and delete reminders for events (birthdays, anniversaries, meetings etc.) for "this year", "next year" or "every year". When Calendar Magic is started up, both visual and audible warnings are given for "imminent" events (those occurring within the next seven days) for which reminders have been set. In addition, a calendar for any month, in this year or next year, may be displayed with day numbers highlighted in red for those days in the month for which reminders have been set. Left-clicking on any "red day" will cause the reminder(s) set for that day to be listed.

Download Calendar Magic 16.9 in Softonic