CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.

Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD/DVD drive.

FinalBurner is an easy to use CD/DVD burning software. It is capable to support almost any type of media such as CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW and DVD DL.

MediaPortal is a free of charge application that allows you to listen to your favorite music and radio stations.

VirtualDub is an easy to use video processing software focused mainly on AVI files. It can also read MPEG-1 files as well as open BMP images.

Opti Drive Control is a software capable to test the speed and quality of the burn and read functions of optical drives.

WebShot is an easy to use application that can take full sized or thumbnail screenshots of web pages.

FastStone Image Viewer is a powerful application that allows you to open all the popular image formats but also to edit and this includes resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustments or adding watermarks.

InfraRecorder is a great utility that allows users to burn CDs or DVDs. It comes with an easy to use interface which means that it can be used also by those who don’t know very well how to use a computer.

Amaya is a free of charge tool to create and update documents directly on the Web.

CDrtfe is a powerful utility to burn CDs. It comes with a special feature called Mode2CDMake that makes it possible to create CDs that contain 13% more data as usual.

FreeRip is a powerful utility that can copy music from audio CDs and store it on a local drive. It is also used to convert audio tracks to MP3 or Wav.

Video DVD Maker Free is a easy to use application that can guide you in order to burn a DVD even if you don't know the subtleties of recording technology. It can be also used to burn CD R/RW and DVD DL.

Audacity is a great tool for recording live audio from your computer. It is also a good editor and can cut, copy and mix sounds together.

Google Earth is a free of charge application that enables you to take a virtual tour of the Earth and see any place you want. Is a great tool to make an idea of the future places you would like to visit.