Legacy Family Tree 5.0 – Standard
Price: Free
Platform: Windows (all)
Site: www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyStandard.asp
The Standard edition of Legacy Family Tree is free, with just about everything you need to keep great records as you research your family tree. The program is very powerful and easy to use, because you can have many windows open at the same time as you work. One of the biggest benefits of the program is that it allows you to store all your data in the one place: just scan documents and photos, and add them to the file. You can also add audio files.

Genbox Family History 3.7
Licence: 30-day trial, then $US29.95
Platform: Windows (all)
Site: www.genbox.com
Genbox Family History is a comprehensive genealogy program, with extensive charts' and reports, as well as many useful tools like a date converter and problem spotter. The various chart types include ancestor, descendant, related, convergent, and "everyone". The program is easy to work with because you can have multiple windows open at a time, and it includes professional touches, like source citation footnotes on charts. You can add unlimited images right throughout the program. GEDCOM support is built-in, as is multiple-language support.

RootsMagic 3.0.4
Licence: Demo with some features disabled; full $US29.95
Platform: Windows (all)
Site: www.rootsmagic.com/overview.htm
If you're new to genealogy, RootsMagic is one of the easiest programs to use, because the interface is self-explanatory; but it's nevertheless very powerful. It includes all the features you expect, like unlimited people, facts, sources and images, but where the program shines is in the options that you have for sharing your information. You can format your family tree as a book, or as a shareable CD, and you can publish it to a Web site. You can also print spectacular charts, up to 57 feet wide, and complete timelines. You can scan photos right into the program, and can store videos and sound files.

Simple Family Tree 1.26
Price: Free
Platform: Windows XP
Site: www.jdmcox.com
Completely simple, yet very useful, Simple Family Tree lets you create a chart of your family tree. The program reads files in Gedcom format, and displays the ancestors and descendants of any individual. You can add details like an alternate name, events, marriage information, and notes, as well as a photo. If you're dipping into genealogy in a big way, this program may be too basic for you. However, if you just want a way to get an overview of your family tree, this program is ideal – and it's free

GED-GEN 1.7
Licence: 30-day trial, then $US15
Platform: Windows (all)
Site: www.ged-gen.com 
GED-GEN means "GEDCOM Web Page Generator" – the program reads a GEDCOM (an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication, a specification for exchanging genealogical data) file, which you can create in any family tree program. You may also receive a GEDCOM file from someone else. Then GED-GEN creates Web pages from the GEDCOM file. This makes it very simple to publish your genealogical information online, and/or share your family tree information on a CD with family members who don't have genealogical software.

GenoPro 2007 2.0.0.2
Licence: 14-day trial, then USD $49
Platform: Windows (all)
Site: www.genopro.com
If you need a powerful genealogical tool, GenoPro 2007 is the answer. The program can map the largest family tree, showing relationships graphically – it's even been used to map entire communities. However, although it's powerful, GenoPro 2007 is also easy to use. The Family Tree Wizard walks you through creating a new family, or adding offspring or relationships to a current one. You can add comprehensive information, but there are no required fields: this saves you making mistakes. There are many printing options, including printing selections.

J. River Media Center 12.0.154
Licence: 30-day trial, then $US40
Platform: Windows98/ME/2000/XP
Site: www.jrmediacenter.com 
As the name suggests, J. River Media Center is a complete media centre for your PC. You can connect all your devices: camera, video, iPod, handheld, and home stereo, and can tip, burn and encode your music, image and video files all in one central location, using an intuitive interface. You're shown covers for your audio tracks, and there's a home theatre view, so you can watch your videos from your sofa.

iDump Build 22
Price: Free
Platform: Windows ME/2000/XP/Vista
Site: www.codershole.com/idump.php?id=fc33bunir5mld06aaeqfocijk6
Got songs which are stuck on your iPod? If you want to transfer songs to your PC, iDump lets you do that very easily. Just connect your iPod, run iDump, and you've got access to all your music. You need to choose the songs you want to transfer, give them a name and title directory, and the songs will be transferred.

NeoPaint 4.6c
Licence: 30-day trial, then $US49.95
Platform: Windows (all)
Site: www.neosoftware.com/npw.html 
NeoPaint is a hugely popular drawing program, and rightfully so. Although the program is easy to use, it's powerful, and includes everything you'd expect in a graphics program, including animation. Although NeoPaint doesn't have all the features of high-end graphics programs, it's a great everyday program for working with images and getting them ready for the Web or print. An image browser is included, and the program integrates with scanners and digital cameras. You’ll love the creative paint and drawing tools.

Webaroo for Portable Storage 1.3
Price: Free
Platform: Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista
Site: www.webaroo.com 
Webaroo lets you take the Web with you. You can store, browse and search content offline on a portable device like a notebook computer, PDA or Smartphone. You download your choice of hundreds of Web Packs, which are collections of Web sites, blogs, audios and video files in various topic areas, and view them at your leisure. Topics include news, travel and sport. When you download a Web Pack to your computer, you can sync it with any number of mobile devices.

Internet Download Manager - 5.09 Build 4
Licence: 30-day trial, then $US29.95
Platform: Windows (all)
Site: www.internetdownloadmanager.com
Internet Download Manager ends the frustration of interrupted downloads. There's nothing worse than getting almost to the end of a huge download, when the process hangs. Internet Download Manager to the rescue. This program has been around for years, is easy enough even for complete novices to use, and is updated regularly. It will even help you to manage your downloads, so you can search for your archives and find just the file you want in a few seconds. You can even schedule downloads to run at night, or whenever you're not using your computer.

 Desktop Assistant 1.0.2
Price: Free
Platform: Windows (all)
Site: sphinx-soft.com/DA/index.html
Desktop Assistant gives you access to a host of online reference resources in just a few clicks of your mouse. The resources include links to dictionaries, encyclopaedias, and city map lookup. You can also do mathematical calculations. This program is small and useful, especially for students. The free version is free for personal use. If you need configurable access to online resources, there's a paid version.

doPDF - 5.0.211
Price: Free
Platform: Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista
Site: www.dopdf.com
doPDF is essentially a printer driver which will turn any Windows document file into a PDF (Portable Document File) which can be read on any computer. You can turn MS Word and MS Excel documents to PDFs and can send them via email, or post them to the Web. To create a PDF from a document, just choose the Print command, and choose the doPDF option. One of the benefits of this free program is that is supports localisation, so you can create PDFs in several languages, including French, German and Italian. All PDFs created by this program are searchable. 

EditPad Lite 6.2.1
Price: Free
Platform: Windows (all)
Site: www.jgsoft.com
EditPad Lite is a simple but powerful text editor. You can open unlimited files, and those files can be huge – the only limit to file size is the amount of computer memory that you have available. The program is so small that you'll want to have it open all the time. EditPad Lite fully supports double byte character systems, so you can edit texts in Chinese, Japanese or Korean too. The program has an attractive interface and uses minimal system resources.

Kruptos 2 3
Price: Free
Platform: Windows 2000/2003/XP
Site: www.kruptos2.co.uk
If you're carrying sensitive files around on a USB device, you'll like Kruptos. Kruptos encrypts files with 128 bit file encryption, and you can protect files on any computer as well. One tip: don't lose your password, because there's no back door to this encryption utility at all. Kruptos becomes part of your Windows shell, and you can encrypt and decrypt any file with a mouse right-click to access the context menu. Kruptos also  allows you to create self-extracting EXE files, so you can send files to others.

Second Backup 2007.1
Licence: 30-day trial, then USD $29.90
Platform: Windows (all)
Site: www.autobaup.com 
You can avoid a Windows disaster with Second Backup. The program backs up your data automatically to any storage device; a local disk, USB drive, network or removable device. It will even back up files and folders which are open and in use. Simply decide what you want backed up and where and when, and Second Backup backs up, using minimal system resources. You can back up Outlook Express, My Documents, your Favourites, your Desktop – any combination of files and folders you choose.

ASB Business News 1.2
Price: Free
Platform: Windows Vista
Site: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=5d23396a-acad-4027-8d1a-5ecd08685333&l=1
This gadget displays an RSS feed allowing streaming of video clips from TVNZ's ASB Business programme. The video clips show New Zealand content only.

TVNZ Headlines 1.1
Price: Free
Platform: Windows Vista
Site: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=a8e17281-f9ea-44b4-be9a-af221ba24db2&l=1
TVNZ Headlines Sidebar Gadget is an RSS feed reader for articles and video published on tvnz.co.nz – the Web site of New Zealand’s public broadcaster. This Gadget lets you link through to the latest headlines from dozens of News, Sport, TV ONE and TV2 categories, as well as watch related videos inside the Gadget.

NZ Herald Top Stories
Price: Free
Platform: Windows Vista
Site: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=34efe576-ba9b-4336-98eb-45d08c19d514&l=1
The nzherald.co.nz sidebar gadget is a fun and useful way for you to keep an eye on the news during the day.

Australian Bushfire Danger (NSW, ACT) 1.0.1
Price: Free
Platform: Windows Vista
Site: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=d57d9ba5-2d4f-4f0f-88a5-34519b92f5bf&l=1
Displays the current bushfire danger level and total fire ban notifications for New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.

OptusNet Quota 1.1.2.0
Price: Free
Platform: Windows Vista
Site: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=df6ef227-41ec-4f8f-83a3-690731c31d93&l=1
A simple sidebar gadget that shows your OptusNet Quota both peak and offpeak on your sidebar. Click on the gadget to reveal more information.

Most Viewed Articles (The Age / SMH) 1.0
Price: Free
Platform: Windows Vista
Site: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=6ab5ba1e-374a-4dce-b569-e534e7a7ea04&l=1
Displays a link list for the most viewed (most popular) news articles - sourced from "The Age" - or "Sydney Morning Herald"

Calculator 4.0
Price: Free
Platform: Windows Vista
Site: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=d6152b70-2908-4176-b491-610c4f538bd4&l=1
Do maths on your sidebar.

Multi Meter (Dual Core) 1.23
Price: Free
Platform: Windows Vista
Site: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=f5b13626-b266-4334-b2e5-157bd66ca5af&l=1
Info shown: - Cpu usage % ( 2 cores ) - Ram Usage % - Ram info ( Total, used, left size) - Status bars animated above 90% - 100 Skins + background selection.

Avernum 4 1.0.1
Operating system: Windows 98 or later
Licence: Demo
Minimum system requirements:
Web: www.avernum.com
Download
A Fantasy Role-Playing Adventure; Avernum is a nation underground. Its pale people live in endless miles of tunnels, pits, and gigantic caverns. Some come to Avernum to work the mines. Others come to hunt monsters for their treasure. And some risk life in the underworld because it is the only place where a person can be free from the total rule of the Empire.

Play with Fire
Operating system: Windows 2000/XP
Licence: Demo
Minimum system requirements:
Web: www.manifestogames.com
Download
Play with Fire is a highly unusual platform puzzle game in which you play a giant ball of fire - and burn things down.

The Poker Rush 1.04
Operating system: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements:
Web: www.booj.com
Download
The object is to make as many high ranking Poker hands as possible, in a specific time, from a 6x7 grid of cards.

Avelia Pet Adventures
Operating system: Windows 2000/XP
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements:
Web: www.aggressivegames.com
Download
Avelia Pet Adventures is a unique multiplayer adventure for the PC, which lets you design, breed, and raise your own pets.

National Geographic Picture of the Day Wallpaper
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.4
Licence: Free
Web: www.fadingred.org/senuti
Download
This is a simple automator application that downloads the latest National Geographic picture of the day and sets it as the background.

Ignis Fatui 1.1.0
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.4
Licence: Free
Web: www.whiteknightlogic.net
Download
Ignis Fatui is a screensaver that displays a simple, colourful animated particle system.

YummySoup! 1.0.6
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.4
Licence: Trial Version (15-day trial)
Web: www.hungryseacow.com
Download
YummySoup! is a recipe management and sharing application.

MegaMobbing 2.0
Operating system: Mac OS; Windows
Licence: Free
Minimum system requirements: Java Runtime v1.5
Web: www.gewalt.biz
Download
MegaMobbing is a strategy game for two players. The goal is to steal the paycheck from your co-worker. The only way to steal your opponent’s paycheck is to mob all the co-workers till you reach the paycheck.

Pontoon 2.0
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.2 or later
Licence: Free
Web: www.blocksoft.net
Download
Pontoon is a small version of the classic card game BlackJack for OSX.

Tabula Magica
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.2 or later
Licence: Free
Web: www.omz-software.de/en
Download
Tabula Magica is a completely animated hangman game.