Imagelys Picture Styles is a graphics editor using which you can create unlimited number of graphical textures within a short time. You can create Textures, desktop or web page background, original wallpapers, skins for your favorite applications and you don’t need to be an expert to do so. You can couple a huge range of textures with several effects to create some cool graphics images.

AdvancedRemoteInfo is a small utility which allows you to gather detailed information from a remote windows PC in a network. This is quite useful for network administrators and even users who are maintaining a local area network. The information it gather contains information about installed hardware, network configuration, software, printers, files shared, user info etc.

We all have some data or files in our hard disks that we want to keep secure from everybody. Folder Protector is a lightweight and free software that enables you to hide your folders thereby protecting the information inside it.

Rainlendar is small Desktop Calendar utility which integrates nicely with your desktop and comes with some nice features. You can fully customize the calendar according to your taste and can also use mix skins to give it a unique look. It uses the standard iCalendar format to store the tasks and events so that they can also be transferred between applications.

Hot Corners is an easy to use program launcher for Windows. It lets you assign a specific action to the 4 corners of the desktop screen like locking windows, launching a program etc. After you have assigned the action, you can move the mouse to the corners of the screen and the specific action associated with the corner will be performed.

Nero is the name which comes to mind when we think of CD/DVD burning. Mostly Nero comes bundled with out CD/DVD drives but the latest version of Nero is also resource intensive. There are other free alternatives which can perform as well as Nero and also consume less resource and space. Here are the 10 applications which you can use to burn CD/DVD/Blu Ray discs.
1) ImgBurn

ImgBurn is one of the best replacements for Nero available. It is lightweight and can burn a wide range of image formats like Bin, Cue, …

A dual monitor setup can very much help you in increasing your productivity. DisplayFusion is a free software that can be used to manage your dual monitor setup. Its main features include Wallpaper management along with Desktop Windows management along with some more features. You can add a windows like taskbar to every monitor that you work with using it. The wallpaper manager feature is quite cool. You can have a different wallpaper for each monitor or can use a desktop wallpaper that spans all the monitors.

If you are looking for a free and simple image viewer, then Futurix Imager is the perfect for you. It is a simple yet powerful image viewer. It can open around 50 types of files which range from some common ones to some rare ones like JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, MNG/PNG/JNG, PhotoCD, Tiff and many more. It has a simple interface which also includes some nice features.

The more we use the computer, the more our hard disk gets filled with useless stuff like junk files, temp files, old song files etc. WinDirStat is a free program that gives you a visual representation of your hard disk usage. It indexes the hard drive and creates a visual map of each file and also helps you in deleting the file that you don’t need.

A good file manager will always make your work a lot easier. SurF is a free and quite innovative file manager that shows organized tabs in a tree form which allows you to work with multiple folders simultaneously. Along with that, it also offers a lot of features like drag ‘n’ drop support, QuickPath, Dynamic directories size analysis and much more.