Free launchpad software for windows

LaunchPad is a content launching system for launching content, such as news, blogs, and photos, to several destinations at once including your website, desktop, email or RSS Feed!
Attractive, Flash-based Content Management! With LaunchPad youll get the latest blogs, events and more rght on your desktop!
LaunchPad launches Space City Adobe User Group blog postings and event information to your desktop!
The purpose of LaunchPad is to improve community communication by making site content available on the desktop and RSS feeds.
This AIR application allows members to post their own blog postings on the web site and make them available to all members desktops.
Main features:
- Rich, easy-to-use
- Includes events, blogs, photos, and more.
- Launch content to site, desktop and email!
- Offer desktop version of your site to visitors!
- Log into LaunchControl to update your site.
- One Screen!
System requirements:
- Adobe AIR

BitComet 1.05 Final is a tool which functions as a P2P file-sharing freeware fully compatible with BitTorrent. It is designed for the high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files. BitComet is a easy-to-use multi-torrent client for Win32 platforms, along with lots of improvements.
Support download certain files within torrent, disk cache, fast resume, port mapping, speed limits, etc. Small, clean, and fast. No ad-ware or spy-ware.

This program is marked as ad-ware:

1. Offers to download or install software or components (Google Toolbar) that the program does not require to fully function.
2. Attempts to change the homepage for web browsers installed on the system
   

Major Features:

1. BitTorrent Download - fast and powerful:
   • Preview while Downloading: Preview of MP3, rmvb, wmv, and qt is available during downloading process.
   • Intelligent Connection Optimization: Configuration is automatically set to match your connection type.
   • Intelligent Disk Cache: Memory cache is used to reduce the read/write frequency of your hard drive, therefore increasing service life.
   • Quick Resume: The torrents can be seeded or resumed immediately without time consuming scans.
   • NAT Traversal: Users behind NAT can now connect with each other by UDP.
   • Auto Config ICF (Internet Connection Firewall) and ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) in Windows XP
   • Auto Config UPNP port mapping in router (UPnP support is required in router, Windows XP is required).
   • Option of Disabling and Setting Priority of Files in any torrent: Files can be disabled, so they are not downloaded, or set to higher or lower priority, allowing you to select which files finish first.
   • Trackerless support (Mainline DHT): Torrents can be downloaded when tracker is offline using DHT.
   • Support for Multi-tracker, and utf-8 extension, UDP tracker Protocol v2.
2. HTTP/FTP Download - Innovative P2P Technology:
   • Preview while Downloading: Preview of mp3, rmvb, wmv, and qt is available during downloading process.
   • Ability of Multi-Section Download: Files are split into several sections which are downloaded at the same time to increase the download speed up to 500% or more.
   • Ability of Multi-Mirror download: Mirror servers are automatically found for the file being downloaded. Data from these servers are downloaded at the same time to increase download speed 300% or more.
   • Ability of Multi-Peer download: BitTorrent technology is integrated into HTTP/FTP protocol, with which BitComet automatically finds other peers and gets data from them to increase your download speed without additional bandwidth usage of the HTTP server.
   • Support for Unicode: Multi-language web pages and encoded URLs can be correctly handled.
   • Quick Resume: Stopped download tasks can be resumed from where they left off from both HTTP and FTP servers.
3. Download Management - Customization Available:
   • Global and Per-Task Speed Limit, for Both Upload and Download.
   • Bandwidth Scheduler
   • Custom-built Categories Management.
4. Easy to Use and Free:
   • User-friendly and very easy-to-use
   • BitComet does not contain any ad-ware or spy-ware.
     

Enhancements:

• GUI Improved: split save location of BT task into 2 parts: save path and filename for single-file task, save path and subfolder for multi-files task.
• GUI Improved: when add new BT task, start now/start later combo box changes to 2 buttons below in the dialog
• GUI Improved: remove "set as default" button in BT and HTTP/FTP task properties dialog. Save path of new task will be added into candidate directory list in option dialog automatically.
• GUI Improved: new candidate directory list in option dialog. The directories in list can be pick up easily when add new task.
• GUI Improved: rewrite batch HTTP/FTP download dialog and download all dialog. They are merged into a new designed batch download dialog, which is more convenient.
• GUI Improved: new site password manager for HTTP/FTP download. Username & password will be filled automatically when add new task if existed. This can be enabled in option dialog.
• GUI Improved: in torrent maker dialog, network type combo list changes into private torrent check box and add DHT nodes check box.
• GUI Improved: after popular software update checking, updated softwares will be list under tools menu in main window.
• GUI Improved: show an error message box when click [play] on a finished task, while the downloaded file has been deleted.
• GUI Bugfix: under Windows Vista, search box in toolbar displays incorrectly after switch search type
• Core Improved: UI language files change from .xml format to .mo format, which are more universal and can be concurrent translated in https://translations.launchpad.net/bitcomet
• Core Bugfix: under Windows Vista, BitComet will lost task list if running under administrator privilege
• Core Bugfix: if the HTTP task stopped because the file locked by other program, data integrality can not be guaranteed when resume downloading.
• Core Bugfix: in few situations, the BT task finish progress is 100% after hash checking, but the file finish progresses are not displayed as 100%
• Core Bugfix: if a BT task has been specified file download order, program will lose respond when switch a file to be download or not.

Requirements: MSXML3 is required, which is included with Windows XP or IE 6.0.