MassTube

MassTube

When using different programs to download videos from youtube and similar websites we usually realize that they lack a feature that allow you to download many files at the same time, and that's the main feature of MassTube. Without any doubt, MassTube is a good application for all those video lovers out there because this application allows them to have their favorite videos downloaded in a snap, and totally free. Choose the videos and the format you want them to be converted: mp4, 3gp, flv, mp3, mpg, mpeg, ogg or swf. Thank to all this and to an intuitive interface, MassTube becomes a very interesting application for video lovers who don't want to spend any money.

YouTUBE downloader

Feneris

Do you usually view videos in Youtube? For sure that you have ever viewed any video from that website, but you have felt a bit upset because you can’t download them. But from now on, that pity will be forgotten, because Youtube Downloader, as its name clearly shows, will let you download those videos you viewed and surprised you. Just install YouTube Downlader, surf the web, and when you find the video you want to download, copy & paste the link in the text box and it will be saved in your HD. Furthermore you can choose the format you want the video to be saved in your HD.

YoutubeDownloader

Tyrrrz

YoutubeDownloader is an app with which you can quickly and easily download videos from YouTube. All you have to do is paste the URL for a video, playlist, or channel, then choose the format and quality you want to download the videos in. In a matter of seconds, you'll have all the downloaded videos in a folder on your PC. Using YoutubeDownloader is very easy, and it doesn't even require installation. Simply unzip the contents of the compressed file into a folder, then double-click on the executable. After that, you'll see a very simple window with a search box. The fastest way to download any video is to copy the link from your browser, then paste it directly into the app's search box. Next, you'll see the thumbnail of the video in question and the option to select the output format, which includes webm, mp4, and 3gpp. It is also possible to choose between several different resolutions. From the configuration menu, you can customize your experience with the program. One of the most interesting options allows you to specify the exact number of simultaneous downloads you want to allow. By default, this number is limited to two, but you can download up to 10 videos simultaneously as long as your Internet connection is fast enough. Other useful options include skipping videos you've already downloaded when going through playlists and automatically updating the program. In addition to its simplicity, one of YoutubeDownloader's biggest strengths is the ability to download entire channels or playlists. This process is the same as downloading a single video: simply paste the URL for the channel or playlist you want to download. Before starting the download, you can also choose which videos to download and which ones to skip. This way, you can download all the videos from your favorite content creators in a matter of minutes. YoutubeDownloader is one of the most reliable tools for downloading YouTube videos that you can find for Windows. This program works perfectly, is easy to use, and doesn't have ads. And, as if all that weren't enough, it only takes up 120 MB of your hard drive.

Freemake YouTube to MP3 Boom

Mixbyte Inc.

Freemake YouTube to MP3 Boom is a recommended app that you can use to look for music and download it directly from YouTube without having to also download the video. You can thus download music that you like to your computer and then move it directly to your portable music player. Thanks to Freemake Youtube to MP3, you can have all the tracks you want in a matter of seconds, whether by entering the song title, artist name, or Youtube URL. In addition, the program lets you download audio in batches, meaning if you want to download the complete works of your favorite artist, you just have to enter the name of the album and select the option to download it. Lastly, you can listen to songs directly before you download them or share them with your contacts on Facebook and Twitter, as well as send them in an email.

Freemake Video Downloader

Freemake.com

Freemake Video Downloader is one of those applications that allows you to download videos from YouTube, Facebook and the rest of similar websites. It works really easy, it's as easy as copy-paste the URL of the video we want to download and choose some download settings. Choose the format: FLV, MP4, WMV, 3GP and quality and wait for a few seconds (depending on the video length and quality). Then, enjoy your favorite videos offline. You can convert videos into mp3 on the fly, so you can download videoclips as mp3 songs, something interesting if you only like the soundtrack of any video and you want to have it downloaded. Freemake Video Downloader is a good choice if you need to download streaming videos, and its intefrface is really pretty.

Youtube Downloader HD

Mega Soft

It been quite a while now since YouTube allowed users the option of uploading and viewing videos in high quality with definitions of up to 1080p, but not all local download programs allow you to download them in the highest quality. YouTube Downloader HD is a free tool that lets you download high quality videos directly from YouTube to your PC. The process is as simple as copying the video's url and inserting it onto the program so that it proceeds to downloading it, you can also get the video in different formats: Native Flash Video FLV, AVI (both low and high quality) and MP4, this one being the one that lets you download it in the highest quality possible. After selecting the output folder and pressing the download button, you’ll instantly be able to see the progress bar with the time remaining for your download to be complete, you’ll then have the YouTube video available as a local file so you can do with it as you please.

aTube Catcher

DsNET Corp. 2007

aTube Catcher is a freeware tool aimed at downloading videos from YouTube and other similar platforms. It can save videos locally for sharing, editing or watching them, even if you don't have an Internet connection. aTube Catcher's main feature is that you can export the videos to different resolutions and formats. You can even download just the audio. What's more, its intuitive interface easily performs the process in just a few steps. The program is like other similar tools but it includes countless additional features: - Download from a number of different websites including YouTube, XTube, Pornotube, Dailymotion, MySpace, Stage6, Google and Yahoo. - Export videos to different formats: MPG, AVI, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, WMV, PSP, MOV, and FLV. You can also set properties such as size, aspect ratio, number of frames per second or video and audio codecs to be used during conversion. The program also gives you the possibility of recording the video you've captured directly to DVD. But that's not all, there are other additional features such as a sound recorder, a video converter or an option to taking screenshots of your desktop activity. Plus, aTube Catcher can download and convert FLV files that are hosted on pages other than those mentioned above.

YouTube Download and Convert

CubedLabs

One of the main drawbacks when downloading YouTube videos is that they are in FLV format, a format that does not normally run in Windows without installing the necessary codecs. To prevent having to download these codecs, or a separate converter, you have programs like YouTube Download and Convert, which let you download any Youtube video to AVI or any other supported format. The application allows you to download videos in AVI, MP4, MOV, WMV, MPEG, FLV, 3GP and MP3. The conversion is performed automatically with the download, so to use it, you just have to enter the video´s URL, choose the destination folder, choose the format, and download. Download and Convert YouTube, therefore, becomes one of the most reliable and efficient choices to download videos from Youtube.

ClipGrab

Philipp Schmieder

ClipGrab is one of the lot of applications whose goal is to download videos from Youtube. This time it also offers the possibility to convert the videos you download. ClipGrap download videos from many video host websites: YouTube, Clipfish, Collegehumor, Dailymotion, MyVideo, MySpass, Sevenload, Tudou and Vimeo. In addition, you only have to copy the URL in the clipboard and ClipGrab will detect it and add it to the download queue. Before downloading we'll have to choose output format and quality of the outut video. ClipGrab ¡is very useful, although it's not the only program that does those functions and it's difficult to stand out from the rest.

WinX YouTube Downloader

Digiarty Software, Inc.

WinX YouTube Downloader is a program that lets you download tons of videos directly from YouTube. You can also use it to download multimedia elements from other web platforms like Facebook, DailyMotion, Vimeo, Yahoo, and other options. The program's interface is perfectly designed so that anyone can use it even if you've never used a similar tool like it before. All you have to do is copy and paste the URL of the video and click the download button to start the video scanning process. Once it's finished, you have a list of results with all the possible formats to download it in. Choose the one you like best and start the download. The entire downloading process in WinX YouTube Downloader is super short, so for example, in a matter of minutes, you can have your favorite artist's entire discography. Thanks to this program, you can download all the videos you want from any platform without the need for any complicated tools.

YTD Video Downloader

MGShareware

Thanks to services like YouTube, we can watch TV like we never have before. We can enjoy our favorite shows and totally new videos at any time and at any place. YTD Video Downloader is a free app for Windows that you can use to download any YouTube video and enjoy all of the app's benefits directly from our PC without being connected to the internet. To download videos, you just have to paste the video's URL and then download the video. Once it is downloaded, you can convert the video to one of the formats that the app offers: MOV, MP4, 3GP, AVI, MP3 or WMV. All this makes YTD Video Downloader an efficient and easy-to-use tool that's worth trying out.

YouTube Center

GitHub

YouTube Centre is the ultimate way to download videos from YouTube outdoing all those complex programs that cause you endless problems when downloading your videos. This tool is capable of downloading the video you are playing at any time and will automatically select the quality according to your viewing preference. Forget about downloading complex programmes that have thousands of features you do not understand or need, and use YouTube Centre for comfortably and securely downloading all the videos you want or need

DSL Speed

DSL-SPEED.ORG

DSL Speed is a good program that changes some settings in order to power up your DSL connection and take most out of it. DSL Speed is very easy to use and the user doesn't need to configure anything. The program will do everything to power up your Internet connection. You only need to activate the optimization, restart the system and enjoy your new fast connection. Furthermore, in case you don't trust the results o you want to check how Internet works when DSL Speed is managing it, the program also offers some links to Internet speed tests. If you are an advanced user you can change settings on your own, for example, it can verify the best MTU value according to your ISP and your network and it can tweak DNS errors caching in Windows 200/XP.

Free IP scanner

Eusing Software

Free IP Scanner is a very fast IP range scanner and ports associated with administrators and users who want to monitor and control their networks. The program can scan hundreds of computers per second thanks to its recursive processes technology that accelerates the speed of analysis. Free IP Scanner offers the possibility to know the IP addresses within a NetBIOS network and display information from each machine. All this information (name, group, MAC address ...) can be exported into a plain text file. With the program you can also define the IP address scan range, maximum simultaneous processes and ports. And all this for free. Try it and you will not regret it.

WirelessMon

PassMark

Do you want to know how strong is the signal of your WIFI network? You might want to log the strength of your WIFI in order to know how accurate and liable it is or how far can you be from the access point. If you want to do some of the previous things, WirelessMon will be really useful for you, because it tells you the status of the WIFI signal in real time and it logs its performance, so you can consult it afterwards. It is very easy to use, you only have to run it and it will show you all wifi signals around you and it will give you detailed info about them, such as, signal strength, SSID, channels used, rates supported, MAC address,... Finally if you connect one of the networks, it will give you even more info: RTS Threshold, frequency, use of channels,... WirelessMon s a good application which can give you detailed information about WIFI signals surrounding you.

Month Limit

Alexander G. Styopkin

Now that 3G connections are popular, lots of people have to keep track of how much data they use so as not to exceed the limits of their contracts. To make this easier, Month Limit may be a useful application. Month Limit is a small, free program to track monthly tasks or projects with set quantitative goals. For example, you can set a goal to consume no more than one gigabyte in one month, or live frugally enough to save 500 euros. To set up a goal, just assign a value and a limit, and Month Limit will do the calculations for you. The application can tell you how much you've saved, your average consumption, that month's forecast, and the average limit of what you can use. This is a very simple application that can come in handy when you need to keep track of a quantifiable project or task. What you want to track, however, is your business.

JAP

JAPZSH

These days the Internet is available all over the world. If you're careful, you know not to trust that your computer is secure when you go online; and so you might want to make use of a tool like the following. JAP is a free application for Windows that gives you the ability to browse the Internet anonymously, using remote servers to make it impossible for anyone else to collect data about you and your PC. This is done using a single, static, shared IP address, so that your individual computer is invisible to the pages that you visit. One thing that really makes this application stand out is its assistant: it contains detailed instructions to help you configure each web browser that it supports, so that any user is capable of making the necessary adjustments. If you're looking for a way to browse the Internet anonymously, you should give JAP a try.

Internet Connection Repair Tool

PCLive

Internet Connection Repair Tool takes the utility included in Windows by default a step further to help you fix the different Internet connection issues that can occasionally arise. The program will create a test in which it searches and locates the specific problem to try to fix it quickly and automatically. This program fixes the more common and frequently-seen errors that occur with an ADSL or cable connection by guiding the user step by step to find the specific problem, without complicating the matter. Also, the program doesn't require installation and is completely free.

BASpeed

José Ignacio Legido (djnacho)

BitMeter II

CodeBox

Though at first it may seem a basic application, BitMeter II includes a lot of tools to control your internet connection at any moment. From the interface we will be able to control and know the upload and download state through full featured statistics which are stored in a database, so we will be able to consult all the information since the program was installed. Thanks to Bitmeter II, after a pair of months we will have a detailed database of our internet connection. It is specially focussed on broadband users. It is fully customizable and we will be able to setup alarms, when the speed falls below a certain speed. In short, it is a very useful tool which consumes few resources and it is totally free.

Moo0 ConnectionWatcher

MooO

Moo0 ConnectionWatcher is a program that monitors traffic generated by TCP/UDP connections from or towards your computer. It's the simple way to check which programs are consuming more of your bandwidth and explore a bit deeper into the details behind each process. Moo0 ConnectionWatcher offers a lot of detailed information that lets you organize your screen in a number of ways. Also, you'll get to act directly through its interface, as well as visit origin folders for each process, see the priority windows in this program, close or kill apps, and cut off your internet connection for any of your active elements.

ADSLNet Navigation Tools

Francisco Burzi

Since the ADSL connection was installed in your country, millions of users have taken part in this new technological advance that guarantees more speed and efficiency in internet activities. But if you don´t know too much about this, more than once you must have missed an application that can answer your questions and that will help you to do some simple tasks is the quickest way. ADSLNet Navigation Tools is the solution. This complete tool kit will answer the commonest questions regarding ADSL and will help you to do things like: - Scan open ports - Know the speed of your connection - Optimize the use of eMule - Know your public IP and DNS ranges - Prepare a measurement ranking - Know who is connected with the same connection - Monitor the IP and send it per e-mail Furthermore, the program includes a tool to fight against spywares and intruders in general.

CrunzhMonitor

Martin Schultz

Anonymity Gateway

Privacy-Gateway.com

Are you concerned about your privacy? Do you want to safely hide your IP address while you browse the web? Anonymity Gateway is an effective tool that will hide your computer's IP address behind a mask so that no one can track you on the Internet. The program is easy for anyone to use, even if you don't have a lot of experience with computers. It has an attractive, accessible interface that will assign you a proxy server through which all of the traffic generated by your computer will be redirected. Anonymity Gateway also gives you the ability to keep your privacy under wraps with some extra options that delete items like cookies, temporary files, browser history, etc., and block malicious codes from accessing your system.

Host Handler

N/A

The Windows hosts file allows us to assign an IP address to an external machine or a local network device in the domain. It gives us a wide range of possibilities, from skipping the DNS server (with the result of improving the load time) to eliminating Web page links that can result in harming our system. Host Handler allows us to edit the hosts file in an easy manner with a graphical interface. Adding hosts, editing them, deleting them and hiding them, these will be operations that we can do with only one click. Host Handler also allows us to import and export our hosts list and protect our hosts file so that it won't be modified by any malicious software.

RAS Graph and Stats

N/A

Spuertos

Acebo Goy

SXBandMaster

SAARIXX LABS

If you want to enjoy the most of what your connection has to offer, check out SXBandMaster: it offers you the ability to optimize your connection and configure various elements to get the most out of your Internet use. SXBandMaster is a combination of tools to take care of optimizing and managing different aspects related to your connection. The program gives you the choice between two interfaces: Professional and Advanced. Although they each display a different mode of use, both are relatively easy to manage. The program includes several options, like a comprehensive dialer manager to configure and program different connections, and a graphic use visualizer. SXBandMaster also incorporates tools to manage file traffic, FTP, synchronization, and monitoring.

BeFaster

ED Company

If you have an ADSL line that isn't performing at full capacity, use BeFaster to optimize its functionality. This is a small program that will configure different options in order to improve your Internet connection. The program has two main modes: standard mode, which automatically optimizes your system, and advanced mode, where you can enter in the different parameters that specifically fit your needs. In advanced mode, you can set up different things like browsing options; Mtu, QoS, and NWLINK parameters; and Com ports.

BySoft StayAlive Pro

BySoft

There are some types of providers that automatically close when there hasn't been any activity over the connection for a prolonged period of time. BySoft Stay Alive Pro is an app designed to keep you from getting disconnected, as it simulates activity on your computer, connecting to different websites during periods of time that can be set at intervals of 15 to 90 seconds. The program generates activity by pinging or connecting to different web sites, including either the websites that StayAlive includes by default or other types of pages that you want to help by giving them more visits. BySoft Stay Alive Pro only connects to those web pages when it doesn't find internet connection activity. In addition, you can modify it any way you want using skins.