This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]

Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 18:00

LookInMyPC Is a Must-Have Tool for Computer Troubleshooting (Windows)
LookInMyPC generates a complete report of what's going on in a computer-from hardware to software, and everything in between. After playing around with it, this writer wouldn't start troubleshooting a PC without it. I'm not kidding.
iPhone Explorer Turns Your iPhone or iPod touch into a Disk Drive (Windows/Mac)
Unfortunately the iPhone and iPod touch lack the ability older iPods had to run in Disk Mode. That's where iPhone Explorer steps in, allowing you manually manage files on your device, or just use it as a flash drive, without jailbreaking.
Data Crow is a Cross-Platform Manager of All Your Media (Windows/Mac/Linux)
Data Crow doesn't just catalog your movies with IMDB look-ups, organize your MP3s and CDs with discographies, or handle pictures. It handles all three, plus contacts, software, books, and much more, and runs on any system.
OpenOffice.org 3.2 Improves Startup Times, Office 2007 Compatibility (Windows/Mac/Linux)
The latest version of OpenOffice.org, the free and open-source office suite, improves startup times by over 40 percent (by some tests), improves importing and support for password-protected and 2007 office files, and improves many areas of the Calc spreadsheet.
PwnageTool 3.1.5 Jailbreaks iPhone 3.1.3 (Mac)
Last week Apple pushed out a minor update to the iPhone OS, and, naturally, the update re-jailed any jailbroken devices. Yet again, the iPhone dev-team is back with a new version of PwnageTool that's compatible with the latest update.
Easy Poster Printer Slices and Dices Your Posters for Standard Printers (Windows)
If you want to print a large image off your home printer and be able to reassemble it, it takes some enormous photo editing cut 'n crop patience-or a copy of Easy Poster Printer.
UltraDefrag Is a Portable and Open-Source Disk Defragmenter (Windows)
If you like your software open-source, you'll definitely want to check out UltraDefrag, a snappy open-source Windows disk defragmenter.
Firefox 3.7 Alpha is a Really Rough Look at Firefox 4.0 (Windows/Mac/Linux)
It doesn't look that different, and the version number is certain to change, but Mozilla is offering a "Developer Preview" of the rendering engine inside Firefox 3.7, which will actually become 4.0. If you're down with unstable alphas, it's all yours.
Brewtarget Helps You Create and Manage Your Homebrew Recipes (Windows/Mac/Linux)
Brewtarget is a free, open-source application designed to help homebrew enthusiasts create and organize their beer recipes.
Pinta Brings Paint.NET's Just-Enough Image Editing to Every Computer (Windows/Mac/Linux)
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the coders of Pinta love the heck out of the Windows-only image editor Paint.NET. Luckily, they also want to make it available on every OS, and are faithful to its just-enough interface methodology.