Turbo Navigator 1.47’s a free Windows Explorer replacement, Octpus 3.1 is a simple (and free) multi-threaded download manager, Pando is a worthwhile (legal) file sharing application that delivers content by email and IrfanView 3.98 is just in time to process your Holiday pictures.
Holiday ennui and too much rich plum cake nearly did in this week edition, but Freeloader recovered to bring news of a who’s responsible for RIAA snooping on BitTorrent downloads, Microsoft SNARF (Social Network and Relationship Finder), running IE from within Firefox courtesy the IE Tab extension and another Maxthon web browser update.
uTorrent makes a great BitTorrent client especially when coupled with the free XMPlay (Windows) and BassMOD (Linux, MacOS, PowerPC) music players that support all know music file formats