Schmap European Capitals is actually a set of highly interactive maps with dynamically integrated travel guide information. We are sure that once you use this software, you’ll never turn back to old-fashioned paper maps. Schmap maps are intuitive, zoomable, customizable and ready to provide heaps of information about any selected location by a single click. Read the full review.

Accurate Personality Test lets you learn more about your emotional state and determine your psychological problems through colors. The program offers a simple three-stage test, during which you just have to consequently pick colors that appeal to you. Although one may think that it can be down to the so-called ‘cold reading’ (things true of a considerable number of people), we do get the impression that the results reflect the reality. Even if you are not serious about it all, this free software will let you have some fun anyway.

Polyglot 3000 is a curious program that recognizes over 4,000 languages by a word, a phrase, a sentence or a text typed in the program window. To recognize a text, you just have to insert it into the input field and click the corresponding button. You can set the software to search for a correspondence in all languages, only prominent languages or Cyrillic ones. Read the full review.

Those users who have heavy e-mail traffic might find it irritating to constantly login to their accounts to see if there are any new messages. This problem can be easily solved by Email Arrival Notifier, which docks in the tray and gives you visual and audio notifications as soon as you get new e-mails. The types of accounts are restricted to POP3, Gmail, MSN Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL Mail and IMAP. Overall, we find Email Arrival Notifier quite reliable, except for the fact that in out tests it failed, for some reason, to check Yahoo! Mail accounts.

Xidea DVD Editor Plus is a nice pick for everyone who enjoys making original home videos and sound tracks. It lets users split and join video files, make slide-shows and supply them with original audio files. The software also allows applying a wealth of video effects to your project, such as color adjustment, blurring and diffusion effects, drawing frames, zoom, mirror and flip transformations and many more. Though at first sight the software may seem complex, it can be operated easily even by novices due to the abundance of in-program help.