The Web's Best Free Downloads No 35 - Free Download Manager

So much more than just a download accelerator, FDM handles everything from the basics like resuming broken downloads and finding mirrors, right through to multiple connections and setting up scheduled downloads. It can download everything from a website in one go, or just selected file types and extensions, and there's even a social side, as you can request other users' opinions of a file before you download it. Better still, it's soon to be open source.

The Web's Best Free Downloads No 34 - SyncBack

This deceptively powerful little app is a fuss-free backup manager. Simply point the software at the files you wish to back up, set the destination drive and SyncBack does the rest. Handily, the software runs a simulation of the backup first, so you don't spend half-an-hour backing up your C drive only for it to choke on a troublesome file near the end. The scheduler can be set to wake your PC for out-of-hours backups, and there's a bevy of advanced options to perform backups to an FTP server, compress documents into Zip folder or close certain apps before running.