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In this post I’m going to discuss about the best free ware’s available on the Internet. Due to piracy the software industry is losing millions of Dollars annually, even though major IT companies have come up with several new complicated protection schemes to protect their software, somehow or the other the hackers and release groups manage to crack and release the software through torrents or warez sites.

Due to the high cost involved in buying a software, many users resort to downloading the cracked ones, for example if a user decides to buy a antivirus software if it’s too costly the user prefers to download the same through torrents or warez sites, but what many users don't know is that some software's need to be updated periodically.

For example antivirus software's needs to be up to date with the latest virus definitions so that the users can prevent themselves from new virus attacks. If a user is using cracked antivirus software they will not be able to update it hence will be prone to various attempts on their computer for their personal data . These kinds of problems can be avoided using free wares.

Free wares are software which are developed and provided to the users without any monetary gains by the respective developer or Software Company. Many Major software companies have adapted a clever way to combat piracy. Well known companies like AVG, AVAST release a freeware version of their proprietary antivirus software which has limited features and then they have this pro version which user can get by paying them.

Most of the time there is somewhat ignorable difference between a free ware and a pro version of a software. the pro version is mainly intended for corporate institutions which needs protection for more than one system. so for normal users instead going through the pain in downloading a cracked software you can get a legit version for free ,there are lots of freeware’s out there which are more than enough to full fill day to day operations performed with a computer.

Even though there are numerous free wares available throughout the net. Only few fill the need without any problems those free wares are discussed in this post.

MEDIA APPLICATIONS:Here are some free wares which gives you complete control over your song library ,with these free wares you can manage you songs and videos quite
efficiently.the free wares discussed below offer some fine options using which ,you can easily edit song name ,artist name,album art and add lyrics to a particular song.there also a wide range of playback options and device support.some even provide on the fly aduio conversion to a format of your desire.

SONG BIRD: This is a brilliant alternative to iTunes and even though it can sometimes be a bit of an resource hog with the right add-ons you can easily edit tags and fetch lyrics ,album art from the net itself .as it is based on the same engine which powered Firefox developing add ons and publishing them is a breeze .there are some really nice add-on’s like media flow which allows you to browse through album art just like cover flow in iTunes. If you already have iTunes song bird automatically detects the iTunes library and imports it .Features which were missed out in iTunes have been implemented in song bird.using songbird you can also transfer songs to your ipod from your library.you can also tune into internet radio via shoutcast.get it here



MEDIA MONKEY : This software provides wider range of options for managing huge song libraries.Media Monkey provides in depth customization of id3 tags of a particular songs and there are options for fetching song information and album art from the net itself.the free ware aslo provides some really help full audio convertion options.it comes in pro version and free version.with the proversion you get on the fly audio conversion and the burining spped is supported uptill 48x whereas in free version only 4x burining speed is supported other than that there is no diffrence between the pro and normal version.media monley offers support to a variety of add ons.get it here



FOOBAR 2000: it is a really powerful media player with loads of customization options.resource consumption is really low when compared to other players like songbird and iTunes.in order to unleash the full potential of the player you have to customize a lot.some of the basic features include full Unicode support,replay gain support,and native support for various audio formats.there are various customization options at users disposal.get it here



iTunes: this free ware is a really powerful media player with lots of options to manage song library.the earlier version of the player supported drm but the lates itunes plus version are drm free.iTunes provides some easy hassle free way of creating playtist and burning cds.eventhough audio conversion is present it is very limited.the major plus point of itunes is its clutter free interface and wide range of audio support.the iTunes store has wide range of songs and user can directly buy songs from it .the latest version even allow users to buy tv show's and movies.the main drawback of iTunes is that it consumes a lot of system resources.get it here



WINAMP: The essential media player where every user would have used it atleast one point in his/her life time.the latest winamp also comes in pro and free versions .winamp has playback support for wide variety of audio and video formats if you get the free version the burning and encoding speeds are very limited with the pro version you get burning speeds upto 48x.get it here



GOM PLAYER: GOM player is a Multimedia player with wide range support for various audio and video codecs.this players main strength lies in video play back as there are no extensive options for managing song library's.GOM Player supports formats like avi,dat,mpeg,divx,xvid,asf,wmv .the user don’t need to install any other codec’s for the player to play the said formats. it is all built in.the player is also very economical in handling system resources.get it here


VLC PLAYER: This player needs no introduction, it is pretty well known .VLC player is famous for playing almost any format let it be HD content to divx or xvid movies.it is not a resource hog,and is one of the best example of free ware .this player is mainly used for video play back.
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There are lots of media applications out there.here i've rounded up a few which i have used.don't forget to visit for my next guide which is going to be based on free ware security applications.hope you find this guide helpful.