Monday, June 30, 2008

System Utilities

Microsoft RegClean 4.1a

RegClean is a fairly small application that will save a lot of start-up time. It clears the Windows 95 Registry safely and effectively. With the Registry cleaned out, you'll have a shorter wait whenever you boot the system.
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Requirements: Windows 95/98/NT
Limitations: No limitations
Publisher: http://www.microsoft.com/

Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.4.16.308

Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startup and shutdown and sometimes to system failures. Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast optimization of today's modern hard disks. Get the maximum performance out of your expensive hardware investments.

Version 1.4.16.308 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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Requirements: Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
Limitations: No limitations
Publisher: http://www.auslogics.com/

TweakNow RegCleaner Standard 3.0.1

The Registry is the heart and soul of any Windows system. It contains information that controls how your system appears and how it behaves. When you install an application, new Registry entries will be created. These entries automatically will be deleted when you uninstall the application. Unfortunately, this process does not always work. Sometimes, some applications fail to remove their own Registry entries. These entries become obsolete. After a long period, after you install and uninstall a number of applications, your Windows Registry will contain a large number of obsolete entries. This will significantly increase the Registry size and slow down your computer, because Windows will need more time to load, search, and read data from the Registry. To keep your computer at top performance, it is recommended you periodically clean your Windows Registry.

Version 3.0.1 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, and bug fixes.

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Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
Limitations: No limitations
Publisher: http://www.tweaknow.com/

Glary Utilities 2.5.3

Glary Utilities offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC. It allows you to clean common system junk files, as well as invalid registry entries and Internet traces. You can manage and delete browser add-ons, analyze disk space usage and find duplicate files. You can also view and manage installed shell extensions, encrypt your files from unauthorized access and use, split large files into smaller manageable files and then rejoin them. Furthermore, Glary Utilities includes the options to optimize memory, find, fix, or remove broken Windows shortcuts, manage the programs that start at Windows startup and uninstall software. Other features include secure file deletion, an Empty Folder finder.

Version 2.5.3 improves registry cleaner, startup manager, Web update, and fixes some bugs.

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Requirements: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
Limitations: No limitations
Publisher: http://www.glaryutilities.com

Belarc Advisor 7.2.24.5

Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, including Microsoft Hotfixes and software serial numbers, and shows the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any Web server.

Version 7.2.24.5 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
Limitations: No limitations
Publisher: http://www.belarc.com/

SpeedFan 4.34

SpeedFan monitors voltages, fan speeds, and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. It can even access SMART information for hard disks that support this feature, and show hard-disk temperatures if that's supported. SpeedFan fully supports SCSI disks and can even change the FSB on some hardware (but this should be considered a bonus feature). At the lowest level, SpeedFan is a hardware monitor software that can access temperature sensors, but mainly it can control fan speeds (depending on the capabilities of your sensor chip and your hardware) according to the temperatures inside your PC, thus reducing noise and power consumption.

Version 4.34 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
Limitations: No limitations
Publisher: http://www.almico.com

Abexo Free Registry Cleaner 1.1

Abexo Free Registry Cleaner is the freeware edition of Abexo Registry Cleaner. This software aims at making your computer run faster by cleaning Windows system registry. One-click registry backup, cleanup and defrag (shareware version only). Version 1.1 includes bug fixes and improvements.
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Requirements:Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Limitations: No limitations
Publisher: http://www.abexo.com/

Monday, June 23, 2008

Video Editing & Production

Video Dub 1.4.1.3

Free Video Dub is a video editing program that allows to delete unwanted scenes from video files. The program preserves the quality of input video files and processes them without re-encoding. Free Video Dub is lossless video editing software. Supports many MPEG files: MPEG 1, MPEG 2 and even MPEG 4 AVI, MOV, MP4, M4V, MPG and FLV files including DivX and XviD.

Version 1.4.1.3 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Limitations: No limitations
Publisher: http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/

Avidemux 2.4.1 R4114

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. The program was written from scratch by Mean, but code from other people and projects has been used as well. Patches, translations and even bug reports are always welcome.

Version 2.4.1 R4114 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Limitations: No limitations
Publisher: http://fixounet.free.fr/

CodecInstaller 2.10

Ever had a movie where you could hear only the sound but there were no video. Or only video and no sound. CodecInstaller is here to help you understand which codec you need and to let you install it in minutes. CodecInstaller is a Windows program that detects the Audio and Video codecs installed on your system, analyzes files to understand which codecs they require and suggests you to install them. CodecInstaller can also be used to distribute video files on a CD, to be sure that who receives the CD will have all the necessary codecs installed with a single tool he will be able to check if the codecs are already installed and up-to-date.

Version 2.10 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista, Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
Limitations: No limitations
Publisher: http://www.jockersoft.com

AIV DVD Cutter 1.1

AIV DVD cutter can extract clips of any length from a DVD movie. It helps in saving disk space. If the size of a DVD file is going out of space,then the file can be cut and stored in two CDs by using it. It comes with advanced facilities like display of start point, end point, and length of selection. It can play the selected part of the (clip) movie. Includes volume controller, play/pause, stop, new selection, and full screen display facilities.

Version 1.1 is a bug fixing release.

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Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Limitations: No limitations
Publisher: http://www.aivsoft.com

VideoThang 2.0

VideoThang wants to know how fast you can mix it. Just want to make your mix, get it online or emailed to your friends and family? Then download VideoThang and get going. Mix your video, pix, and tunes. Then decide how you want to share: email, upload or keep it for yourself. VideoThang picks the right size when you're done. And it's free.

Version 2.0 now allows to import photos from the Facebook albums directly into your mix.

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Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Limitations: No limitations
Publisher: http://www.videothang.com

Celtx (Windows) 1.0

Celtx is the first comprehensive software package designed for people who work in the Pre-Production of Film, TV, Theatre and New Media. It provides all of the tools you need under one application. Celtx replaces 'paper, pen & binder' pre-production with a digital approach that's more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share. Also, Celtx lets you open and close multiple documents in tabbed windows, develop detailed profiles for characters and scenes, and jot down your new script ideas.

Version 1.0 includes a new Comic Book template, new script conversion feature, new organization tools, Scheduling and Storyboarding upgrades, and bug fixes.

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Requirements: Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista
Limitations: No limitations
Publisher: http://www.celtx.com

Image Editing

SnagIt 9.0

SnagIt: Capture your digital lifestyle. Capture anything you see on the screen. Edit and combine those captures. Share them via your favorite applications. Organize and find them again later. The more you use SnagIt, the more ways you'll find to use it. Want to get a laugh? Add a speech balloon to that photo of your cat and fire it off in an instant message. Need to make an impression at work. Capture that sales chart and point out important details with a sleek-looking arrow. SnagIt can turn a simple screenshot into a powerful information graphic. SnagIt is versatile, yet surprisingly simple.

Version 9.0 add sequential capture, multi-image capabilities, ribbon-based menus, auto-store images, image tray, quick Access toolbar, automatic tagging, custom tagging as one image or batch, flags, visual search pane, and visual bookmarking.

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Requirements: Windows XP/Vista
Limitations: 30-day trial
Publisher: http://www.techsmith.com/

GIMP 2.4.6

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. It is a powerful piece of software with capabilities not found in any other free software product. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert-quality photo-retouching program, an online batch-processing system, a mass production image renderer, or an image-format converter. GIMP is modular, expandable, and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image-manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

Version 2.4.6 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista, GTK+ Runtime Environment
Limitations: No limitations
Publisher: http://gimp.org/

Capture NX 2

CaptureNX 2 improves upon Nikon's original photo editing software, designed for photographers by photographers. Color Control Points let you select and adjust the color by pointing, clicking and adjusting a slider or two. Capture NX offers 25 adjustments for users of JPEG & TIF images and additional RAW functions for those who shot Nikon Electronic File (NEF) RAW images in their cameras. The all-new Selection Control Point allows you to point, click, and choose any specific area you'd like to affect with one of 26 other adjustments. The Auto Retouch Brush is a tool designed for quick and easy repairs and retouching of unwanted dust spots, blemishes and other distracting picture elements. Just choose the size of the brush, paint over the area to be repaired and the image is fixed.

Capture NX 2 continues a near-decade long history of allowing users to send their images to almost any other imaging software that can handle TIFF files with just one step. All changes will be applied to the TIFF then handed off to the other program. The NEF remains intact.

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Requirements: Windows XP/Vista
Limitations: 60-day trial
Publisher: http://www.capturenx.com/

Paint.NET 3.31

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plug-ins.

Version 3.31 fixes some bugs with the Open/Save dialogs that were causing headaches for many users.

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Requirements: Windows XP/2003 Server/Vista, Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
Limitations: No limitations
Publisher: http://www.dotpdn.com

FastStone Image Viewer 3.5

FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touch the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA.

Version 3.5 added 'Side by Side' comparison in 'Enhance Colors'; added 'Line Highlighter' in 'Draw Board'; enhanced 'Text' tool in 'Draw Board'.

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