New, fabulous freeware round-up

As you readers likely know, Download.com is primarily a secure and reliable source for free and "free to try" software applications. In the early days of online "shareware" distribution, only generally smaller publishers offered free software trials, but now everyone from Adobe and Microsoft to Autodesk and Intuit features downloadable demos of their software.

However, as much as you Download.com users like to test popular commercial software and PC games before you buy, you seem to love our freeware even more. Top freebies like AVG, Ad-Aware, and ICQ perennially lead the Most Popular list. Luckily for you, Seth Rosenblatt shares your passion for getting something fantastic for nothing, and he chronicles his favorite finds in daily Featured Freeware posts on the Download.com blog.

Recent highlights in the Featured Freeware have been the all-in- one social-networking and IM app Digsby, the top-rated open- source encryption software TrueCrypt, the flexible video converter FormatFactory, and the no-frills photo-project software PhotoZig Albums Express.

Read more Featured Freeware articles in the Download.com blog to discover classic and brand-new applications for your own personal freeware arsenal.

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