This document summarizes several popular software programs:
- Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google that was first released in 2008.
- WinRAR is a trialware file archiver utility for Windows developed by Eugene Roshal that can create and view archives in RAR or ZIP formats.
- VLC media player is a free and open-source, portable and cross-platform media player and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project.
3. Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed
by Google. It was first released in September 2008, for Microsoft
Windows, and was later ported
to Linux, macOS, iOS and Android. Google Chrome is also the
main component of Chrome OS, where it serves as a platform for
running web apps.
Google releases the majority of Chrome's source code as
the Chromium open-source project. One component that is not
open-source is the built-in Adobe Flash Player. Chrome used
the WebKit layout engine until version 27. As of version 28, all
Chrome ports except the iOS port use Blink, a fork of the WebKit
engine.
5. WinRAR is a trialware file archiver utility for Windows,
developed by Eugene Roshal of win.rar GmbH. It can create and
view archives in RAR or ZIP file formats, and unpack numerous
archive file formats. To enable the user to test the integrity of
archives, WinRAR embeds CRC32 or BLAKE2 checksums for
each file in each archive. WinRAR supports creating encrypted,
multi-part and self-extracting archives.
WinRAR is a Windows-only app. The author has also released
an Android app called "RAR for Android", and command-line
utilities called "RAR" and "UNRAR" (widely released since
autumn of 1993), available for macOS, Linux, FreeBSD,
Windows, and MS-DOS.
7. VLC media player (commonly known as VLC) is a free and
open-source, portable and cross-platform media
player and streaming media server developed by
the VideoLAN project. VLC is available for desktop operating
systems and mobile platforms, such
as Android, iOS, Tizen, Windows 10 Mobile and Windows
Phone. VLC is also available on digital distribution
platforms such as Apple's App Store, Google
Play and Windows Store.
VLC supports many audio and video compression methods
and file formats, including DVD-Video, video CD and
streaming protocols. It is able to stream media over computer
networks and to transcode multimedia files.
VLC Media Player
9. CCleaner developed by Piriform, is a utility program used to clean
potentially unwanted files (including temporary internet files, where
malicious programs and code tend to reside) and invalid Windows
Registry entries from a computer. CCleaner can delete temporary or
potentially unwanted files left by certain programs,
including Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google
Chrome, Opera, Safari, Windows Media Player, eMule, Google
Toolbar, Netscape, Microsoft Office, Nero, Adobe
Acrobat, McAfee, Adobe Flash Player, Sun
Java, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and GIMP along with browsing
history, cookies, recycle bin, memory dumps, file fragments, log
files, system caches, application data, autocomplete form history,
and various other data. The program also includes a registry
cleaner to locate and correct problems in the Windows registry,
such as missing references to shared DLLs, unused registration
entries for file extensions, and missing references to application
paths. CCleaner v2.27 and later can wipe the MFT free space of a
11. TeamViewer is a proprietary computer software package
for remote control, desktop sharing, online meetings, web
conferencing and file transfer between computers. TeamViewer is
available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Chrome
OS, iOS, Android, Windows RT, Windows Phone
8 and BlackBerry operating systems. It is also possible to access a
machine running TeamViewer with a web browser. While the main
focus of the application is remote control of computers,
collaboration and presentation features are included.
TeamViewer can be used without charge by non-commercial
users, and Business, Premium and Corporate versions are
available.
TeamViewer GmbH was founded in 2005 in Göppingen, Germany.
UK-based private equity firm Permira acquired TeamViewer GmbH
from Durham, North Carolina-based software developer GFI
Software in 2014. The company also hosts an online backup cloud
service called Airbackup.