If you like to change the program you are using for downloading files you could try aria2 which gets a file from multiple URLs with a speed much faster than common web browsers have.

The utility supports FTP, HTTP protocols and BitTorrent.
It has also support for Metalink v 3.0, the Open Standard that bundles FTP, HTTP and P2P to get files into one format making downloads easier.

Like the previous version, aria2 v0.11.3 has support for chunk checksums in Metalink meaning it validates chunk checksums while downloading for example a BitTorrent file.

Its developer, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa brought some feature enhancements to the latest version, including support for Cygwin/MinGW and French translation.

Aria2 is available for download in Windows and UNIX versions.

PY Software developed Active WebCam software to work from devices like USB, TV-boards, network IP cameras, analog cameras and camcorders, being able to capture up to 30 fps and to perform simultaneous recording and broadcasting from unlimited number of cameras.

If you need to broadcast live audio and video you can use Stream Video and Audio through Web Server, HTTP Server or FTP Upload.
The first service I’ve listed is used for watching video even from a firewalled surveillance computer, with high frame-rate broadcasting from a high speed broadband connection web server.
The second feature refers to the possibility of having your camera watched by users that can also play back the recorded videos, since the program runs on the HTTP server.
Active WebCam uploads pictures to your website through the FTP Uploading service, and the viewers can point Internet browsers to your site and watch captured videos.

Another feature of the software is the Motion Detection system which can be set to perform different tasks when needed, like an alarm when it detects motion in a specified area, or it could even send an SMS or an email with the captured images.

The video formats supported by the software are MPEG and AVI, and you can add text, image overlays and date/time stamps.
Images captured can be resized, cropped or rotated.

Archive Recording, Live Recording and Archive of Snapshots are the recording features of the software.
Live Recording is used for recording videos and audio allowing for fast-forward, pause or rewind.
Archive Recording streams video and audio into a file on the hard disk and can be performed by you or scheduled.
Archive of Snapshots feature is actually a sequence of still images captured with a predefined time interval.

All recorded files can be password protected.

To run the program you need an Intel Pentium 2 GHz or better, Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista 32bit, 512 MB RAM recommended, and 1 GB hard disk space.

You can get the WebCam 9.6 trial from
here.

If you need to choose a BitTorrent client for Windows which won’t eat too much memory or occupy lot of space in your PC, you may try µTorrent as it’s known as sporting a very small footprint.

It’s an advanced feature rich client, supports 49 languages, and has a very friendly interface which can be understood easily by beginners.

As its main features I am enumerating multiple simultaneous downloads, smart bandwidth usage, file level priorities, configurable bandwidth scheduling, global and per-torrent speed limiting, resuming interrupted transfers, UPnP support (for Windows XP only), popular protocol extensions support and less than 4MB memory usage.
As you can see, it has the most common and base features of a Torrent client.

Version 1.7.4 was just released with a crash bug fixed in Mainline DHT compatibility.

The early 1990s had seen a photo editing software scene dominated by Adobe’s Photoshop and Corel’s Photopaint, but all that started to change when shareware programs emerged to the delight of users who couldn’t afford to pay much for decent quality tools. One of the first shareware photo editing programs, Paint Shop Pro, was developed by Jasc, a small company which aimed at transforming traditional image editing features into much more affordable and user friendly ones. A few years ago, Corel, set on an acquiring mission, realized that Jasc’s program has great potential and bought it in order to fine tune the photo editor to their standards. Adobe immediately understood this strategy and began to offer simplified versions of its well-known Photoshop.

In the latest version of Paint Shop Pro we find the Express Lab, a batch processing tool that can apply certain tasks across multiple images, including cropping, rotating and color adjustments. In addition, Corel thought it would be a good idea to implement some advanced features that professionals find very useful in Photoshop: layer styles, an auto-preserve feature for originals and HDR photo merge. This last feature combines multiple images with different exposures into one image and it is currently considered to be one of the most significant trends in digital photography. As related to the HDR effects, Corel mentions that the X2 version has a "Clarify" feature to automatically “dodge and burn,” bringing out the contrast in HDR images.

Interesting enough, Corel also included some exotic functions such as the "thinify" tool that can make people in pictures look thinner than they really are. Features like this are actually part of a range of "makeover" tools, which also includes a new "Eye Drop" tool for eliminating the red out of bloodshot eyes, as well as an enhanced "Suntan brush" and a "Blemish Fixer”.

The new X2 version of Paint Shop Pro is the third one under the Corel brand. The Canadians have decided once again to keep the $100 price, adding a series of features that will most likely be appealing to casual photographers.

On Tuesday, Corel announced the creation of a new module for WordPerfect Lightning that allows importing the information collected into Microsoft Office.

Navigator, Viewer and Lightning Notes are the modules which come with Lightning.
Navigator is used for assembling and organizing content, Viewer opens documents in Word, WordPerfect and PDF, while Lightning Notes is a word processing and note-taking utility.

Lightning is an expensive alternative to Word but in Corel graphics and productivity head Nick Davies’s opinion, "Adapting WordPerfect Lightning to work with Microsoft Office is an important development for Corel and for the millions of Microsoft Office users worldwide who can now benefit from WordPerfect Lightning within their existing workflows".

The beta version of the WordPerfect Lightning is available here and includes the Notes tool, Viewer, Navigator and a free online account with 200MB storage.