10 Best Free Software Downloads for Feb 2013

With 2013, the software market is booming like anything, every day, every hour there is something coming new and due to the immense competition the quality of products has been increased considerably.

We make an extra effort now and then to make a list of best software launched or revamped in previous months, this time we have collected ten best free software for feb 2013. Let us know which of the following free software gives you a piece of mind while using it. With great interfaces and marvellous typography these software have made me say wow.

1. Bitdefender 60 Second Virus Scanner – Anti-Virus Tool : 

Min requirements Windows XP/Vista/7/8 File size : 156KB (installer) 
The problem with a lot of anti-virus programs is that they take ages to scan your system and often hog important resources, making it difficult to use your computer for other tasks. As you can probably guess from the name, Bitdefender’s 60-Second Virus Scanner is different. It’s light, super-fast and, while it certainly won’t replace your existing security software, it’s handy to have as a second line of defence.
The interface is a simple widget that sits on your Desktop and can be repositioned or shrunk down to the System Tray. To run a scan simply click the magnifying glass in the centre of the widget and watch the timer as it counts down the brief scanning time.
While the first scan does indeed take just 60 seconds to complete, subsequent checks are considerably faster. On our test PC, the average time after five scans was just 26.3 seconds. Fifteen scans later, the time had dropped to 17.1 sec. The scan is so fast because it’s carried out in the cloud, which means the data is analysed online and only checks a few critical system areas. According to the report it generates, 60-Second Virus Scanner targets around 30 or so processes and just over 1000 files. The program settings let you change the scan frequency (this can be daily, weekly or monthly); Choose if you want the scanner to start alongside Windows; and turn real-time scanning on or off.

2. Collapse, Collide – Game 

Min requirements: Windows XP/Vista/7/8
Collapse, Collide is a short, experimental platform game that uses some stylish pixel art. You control a character who can cling to walls and jump when falling – two tricks that prove very helpful for getting you through the levels. There are secret areas to discover, and a hard mode that does away with checkpoints to make the game more challenging.

3. SoftPerfect WiFi Guard - Wifi Scanner

Min requirements: Windows XP/Vista/7/8, Mac OS X or Linux
If you suspect someone may be accessing your Wi-Fi without your permission, this free tool can find out. It will scan your network and present you with a list of connected devices, telling you when they were last active, and flashing up a warning if it detects any unrecognised ones. If you know a device is safe, you can tell Wi-Fi Guard and it won’t warn you about it again. The program can scan your network automatically at predetermined intervals.

4. UndeleteMyFiles Pro 3.1 – Data Recovery Tool

Min requlrements: Windows XP/Vista/7/8 Flle size: 1.3MB
SeriousBit usually charges money for the full versions of its Windows programs, but it has released the latest version of UndeleteMyFiles Pro for free. The suite offers a selection of tools, including File Rescue, Files Wiper, Media Recover, Emergency Disk Image, Deleted File Search and Mail Rescue. The rescue and recovery tools are very easy to use and do a good job of finding and restoring any accidentally deleted files.

5. Internet Accelerator - Broadband Tool

Min requirements: Windows XP/Vista/7/8 Flle size: 1.9MB
The best way to speed up the internet is to upgrade your broadband, but if you’re looking for a free alternative, there’s always Internet Accelerator. The program tweaks various network and internet connection settings, optimising them to make sure you get the best performance possible from your set-up.

6. Image Analyzer - Free Photo Editer

for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7/8
Despite its small size, this image editor offers a comprehensive selection of tools, including advanced functions such as Osgbt healing, warping brushes, lens- distortion correction and noise reduction.

7. Aneesoft Free Image Editor

8. Photopos - Free image editor

9. MP3Jam - Download Music Free & Safely

10. OPSWAT Security Score - Security tester

OPSWAT Security Score is a free tool that scans your computer for the status of your installed security applications and provides a score along with recommendations on how to improve both the score and the security of your device. Download it now to find out your security score!

BONUS - More Softwares

11. Wise Game Booster - Gaming Tool

Free Game Speedup Tool – Close startups, free up memory and tuneup network to keep your PC in top Game Performance.

12. Simple Cookie and Cache Remover

With SCACR you can remove cookie and cache for simple. All fast and secure. SCACR support this Browser : Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari.
and some more great and free software for feb 2013

Nugget : Nugget’s revolutionary gameplay includes a tragic love story about intolerance and genetic experimentation as portrayed by squares with eyes
Speccy is an advanced System Information tool for your PC
Ezvid an excellent Screen Recorder & Video Editor
Cloud Panda - free antivirus
BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy.
iobit – a deeper and cleaner uninstaller program for your pc
I hope these software will keep your system updated with latest and top of the line free programs in this month of 2013

HomeSoftware8 Best OCR apps for iOS

Optical Character Recognition is the wonder technology that was supposed to deliver us the paperless office. The promise of OCR was to convert all our paper documents into digital form. Despite our best efforts, paper continues to arrive on desks, and the chore of feeding each sheet into a scanner, then filing the result, has proved just too much effort for most of us to cope with. Even dedicated scanners like the PaperPort, which sit neatly behind your keyboard and process one page at a time, haven’t been enough to free us from the deluge of printed material.

With the enhanced cameras now ability to scan documents on the go – and to store them neatly and conveniently in a compact, readable and highly searchable manner. The principle is straight forward: you photograph a page of text with your iphone, and the app turns the result into readable text.

Most of the apps featured will work with any iOS device, including the iPod touch and iPad, but do check the requirements in the App Store before you buy. So, here are the 8 best OCR apps for your iOS devices.

8. Text Grabber $3 approx.

Text Grabber can recognise a huge range of languages, from Afrikaans to Welsh, and can translate scanned text from one language to another. It not only word-wraps perfectly, but even interprets hyphenated words at the ends of lines and joins them together again, which is a real bonus.

7. Doc Scanner $3 approx.

Doc Scanner is a big on auto detection: it will detect the document edges and document type, and even wait until you’re holding your device steady to take a photo. but its algorithms are off-kilter. while trying to frame the image in the iOS window, a dancing red outline leaps all over the place. It can’t be set manually.

It did word-wrap the document and can recognise text in several languages, but needs a long hold on the OCR button before it will perform its task. Scanned images can be emailed ad PDFs, but plain text must be copied and pasted out.

6. Imageto Text Free

This curious app has the simplest interface of all: you can take a new photo or choose one from your library, and then you just press the button to convert it. you’re given the opportunity to send the resulting text to Evernote, or by email. at no point are you allowed to view the text directly, which means the only way you can copy it into another is first to email it to yourself.

Imageto Text was the most accurate app of the lot in terms of character recognition errors, but fail to word-wrap.

5. Mobile OCR free

This free app recognises English, German, french, Spanish and thai; a paid version ($3 approx.) adds 25 more languages. There’s no way to square up the image after capture, which makes recognition less accurate unless you’re extremely careful.

Mobile OCR couldn’t word-wrap lines, or deal with hyphens at the ends of lines. The resulting text, couldn’t be saved or emailed, only copied and pasted into another app.

4. Quick Reader $.99

QuickReader is heavy on choices, with no less than 13 buttons offered on the opening screen, including those for sharing results with Twitter and Facebook. for an iPhone app, this is pretty cluttered. This is one of the few products that allowed editing of text directly within the app. Files have to be given a name before they can be saved or emailed.

It cannot word wrap line endings and had trouble with drop cap.

3. Skootch $.99

Skootch has a friendly interface –  so friendly it won’t let you begin until you’ve told it your email address. It shows the captured image behind a square selection area, but a page of text is likely to extend above and below this, so skootch helpfully advices you to ‘Move and scale’ it. But although we could enlarge the text, we couldn’t reduce it enough to fit in the square, so the bottom few lines of the text can be missed. There’s no word wrap and had trouble with drop cap.

2. Prizmo $11 approx.

With the highest price tag, Prizmo offered the most features. The image can be rotated, cropped and adjusted for perspective, and separate White Picker and content slider help convert it to pure black and white.

The text can be translated between languages, copied, emailed or sent to Dropbox, Evernote or the cloud. There’s even a function for reading it aloud, using more or less naturalistic voices available for $2 each approx.

1. Perfect OCR $4 approx.

Although it can work with a single shot, Perfect OCR prefers to use its ‘SureScan 3x’ technique to optimise the photographed image. this involves you taking not one but three separate shots of the page you want to convert. after capture, a single image is shown – presumably a composite of your three shots – with a strong ruby overlay. you adjust the corners of the overlay to form a frame around the scan, thus squaring it up to enable better recognition. Next, the image is shown squared-up and in stark black and white, with five button for you to identify the blackest text with the least show-through from the page behind. Only after completing these steps will the app proceed to interpret the text. It word wrapped correctly and outperformed all the other apps by a wide margin and proved that if it’s not quite perfect, it’s the next best thing.