Advantages: Great sound, plays audio and video, Tuvok likes it!
Disadvantages: Occasional glitches in graphics, interface could be better

...UltraPlayer UltraPlayer is great. It's modern looking, ultra modern looking, in fact it's probably the player of choice onboard the Starship Voyager. “Janeway to Tuvok, Janeway to Tuvok JANEWAY TO TUVOK! Boy if he's listening to MP3s on UltraPlayer again I'll, I'll? Hmmm that does sound good? Sorry I digress. UltraPlayer is one of many media players wanting your attention. It handles a variety of sound formats including MP3, WMA, RealAudio, MP2, MP1, WAV, CDA and more. However it’s more than just an audio player, more of which later. It features an easy to use interface, with the usual Play, Forward, Rewind, Pause functions etc so it won't take more than a minute or so to get up and running. It also has a Playlist, Graphic equaliser and Visual display that swirls and dances before your very eyes. If you see these effects when... Read review

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Advantages: Resume broken downloads, small improvement in download time
Disadvantages: Only a small improvement in download time

...Download Accelerator Plus is a reasonably useful piece of software, but no more than that. It's also got a bit of a flase name - it doesn't really speed up your downloads by all that much. Rather, as with Go!Zilla and other such programs, its primary purpose is to allow you to resume downloads that get broken for some reason (eg you lose your net connection). What this means is that say you have been downloading a bit of freeware for 20 minutes, there's only 1% to go and the site goes down. Instead of losing that 20 minutes you can re-connect when the site comes back up and Download Accelerator will remember what it has downloaded already and only download the last 1%. Which is nice... With the option to download from several FTP sites at once there is a slight increase in the speed of your download, but for most home users... Read review

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