We often need to change the bitrate of mp3 songs in order to reduce their actual file size. These small sized songs (but of original length) saves your disk space and can be played on mobile phones or on your cars stereo system.

MP3 Quality Modifier is a free and small utility to change the bitrate of MP3 music collection easily. The best feature of this tool is that, all the ID3 tags (title, album pictures etc.) are completely retained without any effort!

Key Features:

• Drag & Drop files
• Batch conversion
• Retains all ID3 tags with ease
• Advanced options: detailed bitrate settings, sample frequency etc.
• Multilingual (6 languages)
• Portable, no installation required

The program also tells, How much your file size is reduced (in % too) which is great

Download MP3 Quality Modifier  (319 KB)

Here is now another promotion from one of the leading Security software company. McAfee is providing a Free 12-month subscription of 3-User McAfee VirusScan Plus (sponsored via VMware).

McAfee VirusScan Plus offers proactive PC security to prevent malicious attacks, so you can protect what you value as well as surf, search, and download files online with confidence.

McAfee SiteAdvisor’s web safety ratings help you avoid unsafe websites. This service also provides security against multi-pronged attacks by combining anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall technologies.

To get your free 12-month trial, follow the steps below:

1. Visit this offer page, Click the ‘Download Trial’ button.

2. Now create a Mcafee account or login if you already have an account.

3. Then you’ll be directed to the payment order confirmation page. Just click ‘Download’ button to get the software.

4. Install McAfee and Enjoy Free for 1 year!

MSN Virus Cleaner is a tool that enables you to clean and remove any Instant Messenger threats including worms and viruses from your MSN or Windows Live Messenger. It can even remove AOL instant messenger and Yahoo Messenger related viruses and worms.

This simple and easy to use tool, provides Updates to application database and modules. It has custom scan option and one can enable/unable functions. One can also clean browser related and Temporary files with it.

Make sure to run this tool in Administrator mode, by right clicking the tool and selecting ‘Run as Administrator’ from Start menu.

Supports: Windows XP /Vista /7  [Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2 or higher]

Download Here  (683 KB)

Recently, I got an iPod Touch and I was a bit uncomfortable to use it and there was no user guide provided by Apple in the box. After searching, I’ve managed to find the official instructions guide to iPhone and iPod Touch.

This user guide is very much helpful and describes various functions, features, controls, managing apps, troubleshooting information in detail, and much more…

I advise you to Download this free user guide now if you are a iPhone or iPod Touch user because there can be something important, you missed out!

• iPhone User Guide
• iPod touch User Guide (For iPhone OS 3.1)

Credit: Apple Manuals

Messenger Plus! Live is a freeware plugin for Windows Live Messenger that adds tons of features and extras to make your instant messenger easier, more useful or a lot more entertaining.

The new version is completely different, with a more attractive interface and compatible with the latest Messenger update.

Key features:

• Tabbed chats
• Quick Texts
• Custom Sounds
• Messenger Skinning (Skins)
• Colors, formatting and commands
• Recharge your Messenger
• Personalized Status
• Messenger Lock
• Contacts on Desktop
• HTML Chat Logging
• Emoticons and Winks
• Event viewer and event logging
• Contact List Clean-up
• Polygamy (run multiple Messenger sessions)

MsgPlus site lists that they’ve more than 500 million downloads of this addon.

Download Messenger Plus! Live

Speedtest.net has now introduced a free application which allows users to check or measure the network connection speed on their iPhone or iPod Touch. This app has a very smart and easy to use interface with no advertisements.

This is the best app which measures both Download and Upload speed in one click and gives highly accurate results.

Download Speedtest.net App [Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later]

PortableApps.com, the biggest creator of portable apps has now released portable version of 3 major and most used softwares. Now you can carry these apps around with you on a portable device like USB flash drive.

1) uTorrent Portable – µTorrent is the world’s most popular BitTorrent client. Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet).

2) Skype Portable 4.1 – Skype lets you connect to others via instant message, audio conferencing and video phone. It can also call regular phone lines from anywhere in the world. It’s released as freeware for personal and business use.

3) Google Chrome Portable 3.0.195.27 Revision 2 – Chrome is one of the leading and fastest browser till date that runs web pages and applications with lightning speed. It’s designed to be simple and stylish. This new release fixes some issues with theme portability and bookmark loss.

Note – All the above apps are packaged as a portable app and can be easily integrated with the PortableApps.com Suite.

Hope you find the above listed portable apps useful for work.

Today, Opera Software has unveiled Opera Mobile 10 Beta for Nokia phones and other Symbian/S60 handsets.

Opera Mobile 10 beta is optimized for both touchscreen and keypad-style navigation and is available for free from http://www.opera.com/mobile/next/. It works on Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung smartphones running Symbian/S60, 3rd and 5th editions.

What’s New ?

• Intuitive interface – Fresh design
• Faster browsing – 50% Faster
• Speed Dial & Password manager
• Tabbed Browsing
• Advanced compatibility

Also See: Opera Mini [ World's favorite mobile Web browser ]