CopyTrans, one of our dear sponsor and the producer of best iTunes alternative for iOS devices has now introduced a major and much anticipated new feature “Apps support” to their free iTunes alternative ‘CopyTrans Manager’. This brand new amazing feature lets you simply transfer apps from PC to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch without requiring iTunes. Best thing is NO Jailbreak is needed to accomplish such complex task.

CopyTrans Manager is a free, light and efficient alternative to iTunes that offers the ability to quickly transfer data such as music, videos, podcasts and applications to your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and lets you manage them. It doesn’t requires any installation, offers drag & drop support, and instantly Syncs the transferred stuff to iOS device. With the new version, you can add/sync Apps (.ipa files) to any iPhone by simple drag and drop without iTunes and jailbreak.

Features:

• Add songs, apps, videos, etc. from any PC to iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone
• Create and delete playlists or edit existing ones
• Drag & Drop songs directly into playlists
• Edit track information (artist, album, ratings, genre, etc.)
• Add missing album artwork automatically
• Browse by album, artist or any other tag
• Play songs and videos on any PC

Transferring Apps to iPhone – If you don’t prefer using iTunes to install apps on iPhone, then do it easily using CopyTrans Manager. To do so, just download the apps from App Store via iTunes. Then navigate to the directory “C:\Users\User\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Mobile Applications” on your Windows PC to access the downloaded apps. Next, connect your iPhone to PC, run CopyTrans Manager and drag the app’s IPA file to Applications in CopyTrans. Hit the ‘Save changes’ button and you are done.

Compatibility: All iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad models, all iOS versions – Windows only

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PowerArchiver Free is the latest version of the award winning compression utility. PowerArchiver 2010 Free is a free and powerful alternative to paid archive software like WinRAR and WinZip that cost $30. It was previously available in two versions: Standard and Professional which are both paid, but now a Free version is available too.

PowerArchiver Free is freeware version of PowerArchiver (Free for personal use). All of the core functions are still there and you can create and extract every archive as in full PowerArchiver, and quite few other things are there too:

Key Features:

• Our own ZIP/ZIPX engine with full support for ZIPX (LZMA, PPMD, JPEG, WavPack, BZ2). Fully supports ZIPX archives created by WinZip 12/13/14. Unicode support, full AES encryption support (both versions of AES spec), unlimited file/size support.
• Full 7-Zip support is still there together with unique support for updating solid archives via re-compression.
• Full format support: ZIP, RAR, 7-ZIP, CAB, ACE, LHA (LZH), TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, BH, XXE, UUE, yENC, and MIME (Base 64), ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO plus ISO, BIN, IMG and NRG, just as regular PowerArchiver.
• Plugin support (.wcx from Total Commander)
• Wonderful shell extensions are 100% in.
• Windows 7 support – jump lists, taskbar progress and taskbar icon overlays work beautifully.
• 7 different tools: Encrypt, Convert, Batch Zip, Multi Extract, SFX Wizard, Repair ZIP etc – all completely free.
• Explorer View mode which turns PA into File Manager
• PowerArchiver Backup with ability to create backup scripts compress them to zip format, encrypt, filter by: filename, folder, size, date.
• All of features that we take for granted like drag and drop, configurable interface, MRU’s everywhere…

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RarZilla Free Unrar is a free tool for quickly unpacking RAR archives and provides password protected archives. It can easily extract compressed RAR files in Windows and supports normal and split archives.

Decompression can be started by drag ‘n’ drop, double click or from shell integrated context menu. To speed up the process, you can define a default output folder or a default password. It is easy to use and available in over 50 languages.

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• Prevent cut, paste, copy, delete, re-naming of files & folders
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Real Alternative is a simple alternative to Real Player which can play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer or RealOne Player from Real Networks. It is fully customizable, which means that you can install only those components that you want.

Supported formats: RealAudio (.ra .rpm), RealMedia (.rm .ram .rmvb .rpx .smi .smil), RealText (.rt) and ReadPix (.rp). It also supports RealMedia content that is embedded in webpages.

A similar version, Real Alternative Lite is also available which does not include Media Player Classic.

Works on – Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7

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Nowadays, most of the software packages, installers and files comes in compressed formats to reduce their size. The compressed files in RAR and Zip formats can only be opened through software’s like WinRar or WinZip, which are not Free.

So, I’ve compiled a list of 10 Best Free Alternatives to WinRar and WinZip which are highly powerful and functional like them. Continue to check the list below: 

7-Zip

7-Zip is one of the simplest and best file archiver with a high compression ratio. It can compress to the .7z format, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR. It has the ability to decompress or unpack many formats like: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, UDF, MSI, DMG, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, etc..

It integrates with the Windows shell (explorer). It provides Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats. 7-Zip works on All Windows, Linux/Unix. Portable version also available.

PeaZip

PeaZip is available as portable and installable software for 32 and 64 bit Windows and Linux. It can create and extract multiple archives at once, create self-extracting archives. It has secure deletion feature, can verify file checksum and hash, and supports multiple strong encryption standards.

IZArc

IZArc can easily create achieves and allows to Add, Delete, Extract or Convert archives. You can drag and drop files from IZArc to extract them anywhere you want. IZArc can also open CD image files like ISO, BIN, CDI and NRG. It is also possible to convert such files from one type to another (BIN to ISO, NRG to ISO).

It integrates in Windows Explorer context menu. It has many useful features like Virus Scan, Zip encryption,Repair broken archive, Multilanguage support and more..

TUGZip

TUGZip is a powerful freeware archiving utility for Windows that provides support for a wide range of compressed, encoded and disc-image files. Encrypt archives using 6 different algorithms. Blowfish (128-bit), DES (56-bit), Triple DES (168-bit) and Rijndael (128-bit, 192-bit and 256-bit).

It can extract multiple archives at once and Repair corrupted ZIP and SQX archives.

ZipGenius

ZipGenius lets you compress files to almost any kind of archive. It supports more than 20 compressed archive formats, including CD/DVD-ROM image files. The famous formats supported are: ZIP, RAR, 7-zip, CAB. ACE, ARJ, LHA, RPM, TAR.

ZipGenius allows you to preview pictures in a compressed archives as thumbnails. You can change the look of ZipGenius sidebar, icons, etc using the integrated skins.

WobZip

WobZip is a free online service to unzip or uncompress a file on the fly. It can unzip the files from your computer or a URL. It doesn’t requires any installation to use.

ExtractNow

ExtractNow is a simple utility that allows you to extract multiple archives quickly and easily. It is not a complete archival solution. It supports 2 most popular compression formats, ZIP and RAR.

Zipeg

Zipeg is the easiest way to open RAR and ZIP files. Zip thru photo archives, see thumbnails, select and extract what you need. It opens formats like: ZIP, RAR, 7z, ARJ, LHA, TGZ, TAR and many many more. Supports Windows XP and Vista, Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard.

Universal Extractor

Universal Extractor is a program to extract files from any type of archive, whether it’s a simple zip file, an installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package. It’s main function is to extract files from installation packages and it doesn’t replace WinRAR, 7-Zip, etc.

jZip

jZip is a powerful and reliable compression utility based on 7-Zip archiving technology. It can Create, open and extract Zip, TAR, GZip and 7-Zip. Open and extract from RAR and ISO.

Hope you liked the above mentioned alternatives. Please share or bookmark this post to promote it and notify others.

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CopyTrans Manager is the World’s first iTunes alternative for the iPhone & iPod Touch. It’s the best free alternative to iTunes, which can transfer your songs/music to iPod, iPhone and iPod Touch. You can Drag songs from any folder to iPod and iPhone or Synchronize your iPod instantly.

Key Features:

• Add songs to iPod & iPhone without iTunes
• Manage and create playlists on iPhone & iPod Touch
• Play songs directly from iPod on any computer
• Lighter, faster and 100% Free

Compatible with all iPod models: iPhone & iPod Touch (up to firmware 1.1.4), iPod Classic, iPod Nano, iPod Video & iPod Photo

System requirements – Windows XP & Vista

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