This Week's Top Downloads

• Battery Eater Benchmarks Your Battery's Capacity So You Know What to Expect (Windows)
  Manufacturers make a lot of claims about laptop batteries nowadays, but it's hard to tell what your battery's true life is. Battery Eater will test it at load and under normal usage, so you have realistic expectations.
• Firefox Beta Available for Android and Maemo, Adds Sync, Improves Speed and Usability (Android/Maemo)
  We've been following the development of Firefox Mobile (aka Fennec) for awhile now, but today Mozilla released the first beta of the mobile web browser, complete with noticeable performance improvements, Firefox Sync, and other cool usability features like pinch-to-zoom.
• iSyncr Syncs Your Android Device with iTunes Over USB or Wi-Fi (Android and Windows/Mac)
  We've featured many apps that sync your Android phone with iTunes, but iSyncr is the most lightweight, feature-filled, and dead simple method we've come across yet.
• Audiobooks for iOS Lets You Listen to Audiobooks for Free (iOS)
  Audiobooks are great but they're generally pretty expensive. Fortunately there are a ton of free audiobook recordings in the public domain, and now you can easily download them to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
• Google Goggles Visual Search Arriving Today on iPhones (iOS)
  Google Goggles, the formerly Android-only visual search app that's surprisingly good at recognizing books, art, beer labels, and other stuff all around you, is coming to camera-sporting iOS devices through an update to the Google Mobile app.
• Skype Now Available for Android Phones (Android)
  Skype just brought their free internet calling app out of its Verizon-only corner and opened it to the general Market. Anyone running Android 2.1 and above can make Skype chats, calls (Wi-Fi only, it seems), and sync Skype to their contacts.
• Security Essentials Screensaver Scans Your Computer on Screensaver Activation (Windows)
  Security Essentials Screensaver scans your computer using Microsoft Security Essentials (Microsoft's excellent anti-malware tool) whenever your screensaver activates.
• PDF Rider Extracts, Merges, and Decrypts PDF Files (Windows)
  PDF Rider is a simple but effective tool for merging and splitting PDF files, extracting and inserting pages, and performing other PDF manipulations.
• UltraCopier Is a Variable-Speed Batch File Copier (Windows/Mac/Linux)
  UltraCopier is a cross-platform file copier with an emphasis on enhancing native OS file transfer with error checking, transfer pause/resume, and speed control.
• Microsoft Expression Encoder Captures Surprisingly Good HD Screencasts (Windows)
  Among the screen capture and encoding tools, Microsoft's name probably doesn't come up. Too bad, because their Expression Encoder offers a free, high-resolution screen capture tool that works great for how-to recordings, demonstrations, and other desktop video capture needs.

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