ACDSee

ACD Systems Ltd

Although the main function of ACDSee is that of viewing images, the latest versions of the program have incorporated new options that have increased its amount of features. It supports more than 100 different image formats, among which include: GIF, BMP, IFF, JPG, PNG, PCX, PSD, RAS, TIFF, RSB, SGI, and TGA. It comes with a powerful photo viewer that generates a small icon view of all the pictures stored in a determined folder. A series of filters allow you to organize its contents in different ways: which category the image is in, personal value, saved info in the metadata (author, camera, date, etc.), size, file format, etc. ACDSee includes basic editing functions that allow you to do things like rotate, crop, and resize, adjust the exposure, brightness, and contrast levels, eliminate red eye, noise, and add text. Additionally, it includes its own tool for burning CD’s, which is why you won’t have to use any other program.

Phelix

Phelix AI

Phelix is an useful application that allows you to find duplicate audio files in your computer. The program recognizes OGG and MP3 files, analize and compare them and, in case of duplicity, it will warn you. Depending on the set parameters, and the sensibility level, the program will show more or less files and will act automatically or not. If you have a large music collection and you don't want to waste your HD space, Phelix is a good choice.

CD Image

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It used to be that when you had a CD image stored, you had to burn it onto a CD to view its contents. CD Image allows you to explore all its content as if it were a separate device and even allows you to extract any file stored in the image. Supports many image formats:<li>CDRWin/Fireburner: CUE, BIN, ISO <li>BINChunker: ISO, TAO, MM2, PCM <li>Nero Burning ROM: NRG (DAO as well as TAO) <li>CloneCD: CCD, IMG <li>VirtualCD: FCD (uncompressed containers only) <li>Farstone Virtual Drive: VCD (uncompressed containers only) <li>BlindRead/BlindWrite: BWT, BWI <li>DiscJuggler: CDI (version 2.x and 3.x) <li>Gear Pro: RDB, MD1, XA <li>NTI CD-Copy: CDP <li>NTI CD-Maker 2000: NCD <li>Prassi CD Rep Plus: GCD <li>Cequadrat Winoncd: C2D <li>Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4.x: CIF, ISO <li>Otros: WAV (only 44.1 kHz 16 bit stereo) It supports multisession images, CD compatibility and extraction of boot record (El Torito), it can compare files with their originals, repair and reconstruct corrupted sectors, and play audio tracks without having to extract them. Ultimately, it does everything you need to manage an image as if it were a CD.

Ubuntu One

Canonical

Dropbox, SpiderOak, SugarSync, Skydrive... are services that sychronize our files. Ubuntu would like to have a place among these applications, and its creators have already come up with Ubuntu One. Its big advantage over others services is that it is integrated with the GNU/Linux distribution, something that attracted a lot of its users who also used windows. The Windows client is very well prepared with a supervision panel that shows us information about our the state of our account, the space on our disk, and the directories to sychronize. Among the options, we can find the limits for uploading and downloading and activations of automatic synchronization and notifications. Ubuntu One has become one option to keep in mind for users of Ubuntu who visit Windows often.

Shrek Forever After Windows 7 Theme

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The fourth Shrek movie, Shrek Forever After, is in theaters now. Enjoy in the cinemas and also at home thanks to this Theme. Shrek, Forever After Windows 7 Theme is a full featured Windows Theme. It includes lots of wallpapers and gives your desktop a green touch. Shrek and friends will be present in your desktop. Puss, Shrek, Fiona, Gingy, Pinocchio,... they are all in the pack. This is probably one of the most complete themes we have ever tested and if you like Shrek movies you'll be delighted with this theme. Surprise your kids. Install Shrek Forever After Windows 7 Theme.

Zotero

Zotero

Zotero is a completely free and open source bibliographic reference manager, which is not only compatible with Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS, but also offers integration with a wide range of browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari. Basically, you can use this program regardless of the operating system and browser you're using. The main objective of Zotero is to help you collect, organize, cite and share all your studies and research. By default, you can build your own database and save it locally on your computer's hard drive. However, you can also synchronize it automatically in the cloud to have all this data perfectly backed up. Thanks to the browser integration, it should usually only take two clicks to collect the information you need. One very important part of information management, whether it's for articles, academic publications, books, theses, etc., is correctly cataloging of all the material. To this end, Zotero has a collection and label system, which allows you to keep everything in its place, always at hand and accessible. In this way you can quickly access all of your research in the future. Something that is sometimes overlooked by students and researchers is the correct use of citations. The protocol for creating a citation isn't particularly complex, but it is strict. And that is precisely why Zotero has an integrated citation tool, which helps you create bibliographic references in just a few seconds, avoiding any mistakes. This is especially useful for the submission of academic papers. If you're looking for a tool to keep your research organized and up to date, then you need to download Zotero. Its simple interface makes it a complete personal assistant for all your research in just a few minutes.

7-Zip

Igor Pavlov

7-Zip is a free and open source file compression app that you can use to achieve very high compression rates with virtually any type of file. Unlike other similar programs, you don't need to register or purchase 7-Zip in order to use it. Once you install it on your computer, you can use it personally and professionally without restrictions of any kind. Once you've installed 7-Zip, you can use it directly from the context menu by right-clicking on any file, whether it's compressed or not. If you right-click on a compressed file in a supported format (7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM, or DEB), you'll see a series of options, such as decompressing directly in the file's directory or decompressing in a separate folder. If you right-click on an uncompressed file, you can easily add it to a compressed file. There are tons of options for adding documents to a compressed file. Of course, the first thing you have to do is choose a name for the compressed file you want to create; after that, you can choose the desired output format, the compression level, the compression type, and more. You can also encrypt the file using a password, or you can split it into fragments of different sizes. One of the most interesting aspects of 7-Zip is the degree of compression it can achieve with certain formats, which far exceeds that of other similar tools. It's important to keep in mind that this is usually a double-edged sword, because, generally speaking, the more a file is compressed, the longer it takes to decompress. The difference, in any case, is minimal, especially if you take into account the amount of disk space you can save. 7-Zip is one of the best compressors out there. This program is completely free, offers a large number of features, and takes up very little space on your hard drive. For all these reasons, it's one of the best file compression tools you can find.

Decompile Flash Free Version

Jindra Petrik

Decompile Flash Free Version is a widget that lets you decompile any SWF document and tranform it into a convenient EXE file. You can easily see the flash file's individually composed elements and images and remove whatever you want. In fact, you could also edit it on the go as well as saving and converting the results for the subsequentconversion. Although being able to do all of this would be useless if there wasn't an easy to use interface. Decompile Flash Free Version has that and lets you decompile SWF files as you please even if you are not so tech-savvy. Decompile Flash Free Version, interestingly enough, removes any flash images or gifs that you find on the internet; something that a lot of us have wanted to do more than once.

MAGIX Video Easy

MAGIX

muveeNow

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Wiagra Batch Converter

N/A

Wiagra Batch Converter is an application that allows you to convert th format of a group of files in a snap. You choose what to convert: video, image or sound. The output format you can choose are AVI, MPEG, WAV, OGG and JPG. Choose the output format as well as other parameters like resolution, frames per second, pixels or audio quality. Although the interface of the program is not eye-catching, the truth is that it's very useful and the results of the conversion are really good. Wiagra Batch Converter is, iin short, a good alternative for those users who need to convert lots of files and don't want to convert them one by one.

Wiagra Video Effector

N/A

Wiagra Video Effector is a video edition tool that allows you to add special effects to your videos and make them more attractive. Insert watermarks, apply transition effects, insert dynamic images, animated gifs and much more. Wiagra Video Effector also works as video format converter because it can load MPG videos ansave them as AVI and viceversa. Although the interface is not as comfortable as we would like, it includes some skins that can make it better and make it suit your needs. Wiagra Video Effector is a good application for those users who want a basic video edition tool, but all those users who want something more advanced should try other application, e.g. Adobe Premiere.

VOBMerge

Evilmaster

VOBMerge is a lite and useful application to merge videos that allows you to merge different VOB files and create a single one. When you'll merge VOB files, you'll be able to watch ful DVD movies from your HD without having to insert the DVD itself. VOBMerge doesn't need to be installes. Just run and enjoy. It isn't difficult to use. You only have to choose the files you want to merge and the output folder. The rest is done automatically by VOBMerge. Most probably, you will not be merging VOB files everyday, but it can be very useful if you need to. The results have been good enough to take it into account.

AVIPreview

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Video Pilot

colorpilot

Video Pilot is a tool has been designed to improve the image quality of your videos without having to master any video editing knowledge, and without the complications posed by professional programs. Video Pilot is very easy to use and lets you apply changes in brightness, contrast, color balance, color replacement... directly on your videos while seeing the changes in real time. It is completely free and supports MPEG, MPG and AVI video formats.

particleIllusion

WonderTouch

ParticleIllusion is an excellent application to create animated particles with which to complement your videos. The program is compatible with applications as famous as After Effects, MediaStudio Pro, Premiere or 3D Studio. What stands out the most is the speed with which the effects load thanks to the OpenGL acceleration in which the program is developed. What also stands out is the appearance of reality it can obtain, so if we use it correctly we can provide our videos both professional as well as domestic with some very credible effects, like mist, fire or steam. Furthermore, the program is also expandable because in the webpage, as well as other theme-related pages, we can find entire libraries with hundreds of animations developed in particles, developed to be used freely. Maybe the biggest inconvenience is that the output image has to have a smaller resolution size to the one established for the screen. Recommended requirements: - Graphic card compatible with OpenGL - Hard Drive: 10MB (although as we progressively import libraries the size can go up to GB) - RAM memory: 32MB - Processor: 450Mhz

AviTricks Classic

Bobyte Software

MainActor

MainConcept

MainActor is a relatively unknown application within the digital editing world, in spit of being one of the best options out there because of its features and its relatively low cost. MainActor lets you carry out the entire process of capture, editing, and export of your videos so that you won’t need anything else. The program interface might remind you of a well-known application in the digital editing world, Adobe Premiere. MainActor includes support for devices connected through firewire and it is completely customizable. The program includes timeline with support for a limited number of audio and video tracks, it includes several transformation and retouching effects, a monitor to see the final results, etc. Plus, the program is multiplatform and consumes very little resources.

Video Workshop

Video2x Software

Video Workshop offers a simple an easy way of entering tha amazing world of video edition and conversion. From this lite application you will be able to perform basic operations with audiovisual files like: - Merge a video in seeral parts or join several parts in only one. - Extract static images from a movie. - Convert video formats (AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, RM, MOV, QT...) - Extract the audio channel or insert a new audio file into a non-audio video file. - Play any supported file. In addition, all this tools are placed in an intuitive and easy-to-use interface which is perfect for novice users and without any doubt, a very good choice to go into this world.

AviSplit

Bobyte Software

AviSplit is an application which allows us to divide any video file (avi formatted) in several parts. You can choose the number which the video will be divided i, but if you don’t know how many parts are needed, the program will recommend you anumber of them. The original file will remain intact, becaseall the parts will be new files created by AviSplit. Not only will you be able to divide the videobut you will be able to choose a part of it and create a file with the favourite part of any video you like. Without any doubt, this is the most important of this application, because it’s not once thatyou have wanted to have only a part of a video and not the full video. It supports AVI 2 and DivX.

CombiMovie

Bobyte Software

CombiMovie is an application whichwll let you to join several videos formatted as mpeg into only one file. Ok, now you think it will be really difficult and tedious, but we have tried it and we have realized that no matter if you haven’t done it before, because you only have to choose the folder where the videos are, and it will create a video file containing all those videos. If you don’t know what file was the video you wanted to join, don’t worry, because you can preview it before joining. Itis reccommended to use with files of about 10 MB, but during our tests, it has supported up to 50 MB files.

Studio Plus Titanium Edition Anniversary Pack

Pinnacle Systems, Inc.

ZS4 Video Editor

t@b

ZS4 Video Editor is, in many ways, a reincarnation of the Zwei-Stein program, with which it shares its structure and tools, although it does incorporate new features. It can, at first, give the impression of being a useless application because of its interface, but after playing around with it for a while you'll see that it includes tons of utilities such as filters, effects, and an endless list of tools for video editing. ZS4 includes excellent operations for color correction, image adjustments, distortion effects, video size modification, speed control etc. The program supports files in AVI, WAV, MPG, BMP and JPG format with no quantity limit so you'll be able to create a composite using all of your videos and images.

iPod PhotoSlideshow Maker

Keronsoft

Do you have a lot of photos in your iPod? Now, thanks to this free application, you will be able to create slideshows with sound for your iPod. iPod PhotoSlideshow maker will allow you to select the pictures and the sound you want to put in the slideshow. Besides, you will be able to select the transition effect for each transition from a range of more than 100 transition effects. Your Slideshows will be better than ever thanks to iPod PhotoSlideshow maker. It is highly recommended and, in addition, it is free!

VidSplitter

Geovid

VidSplitter is a simple utility, designed to easily fragment large video files (AVI, MPG, MPEG), according to the needs of the user. This application is targeted at those who need to split a large file in order to send it by email, upload it to FTP, or burn it to a CD/DVD. To do this, VidSplitter comes with an easy to use, simple interface, in which you only need to select the source file to get started. After selecting the video that you are going to divide, you can choose between different compression codecs (both video and audio), as well as how to split the file. VidSplitter lets you divide videos in two ways: by indicating the size of each part and dividing the original into as many parts as necessary, or by adjusting the fragments into predefined formats (Mini-CD, CD, DVD, or dual-layer DVD).

Flash Slideshow Builder

N/A

If you want to impress your audience with stunning animations of your best photos or images, Wondershare Flash SlideShow Builder is your tool. Wondershare Flash SlideShow Builder supports all popular file formats for images and audio. It creates slide shows and output them as SWF files, which is the most compatible animation and video file format for Internet applications. Flash Slideshow Builder is great for any user who has a digital camera camera and wants to share their photos in a cool and funny way. It doesn't matter if you are an expert or a novice, you can easily share your slideshows over the web. You only have to select the photos you want to include and it will do the flash slide show, but if you want to modify something, you can do it. You can edit your photos with it built-in editor or to change the transitions, choosing one out of more than 100 included ones. And if sharing your photos with everybody in the web doesn't convince you, it allows you to create an exe file, so you can send it by email and by that way, share your photos with the people you want.

FLV Audio Extractor

EArt Media Software

FLV videos have become more and more important thanks to video websites like youtube. Maybe you didn't know it a few months ago but now they are part of your HD. FLV Audio Extractor is a totally-free application for Windows which you will be able to extract the audio from those videos with. No restrictions and a good quality, that what FLV audio Extractor offers you. Choose the video you want to extract the audio from, add it to the list of extractions/conversions and wait a moment. Once the process id finished you'll have the audio extracted and formatted as an mp3 file and ready to use. Finally we have to say that the process is not a long and boring but process but it only takes a few seconds to extract the audio from FLV files.

Virtual Edit

Jorge Barbosa

You've probably wondered more than once how to create your own videos, adding and eliminating scenes, adding cool transition effects between sequences, etc. Now you can do all of this easily. Virtual Edit is a video creation and editing tool for Windows that gives you tons of options to get the best results from your recordings. How it works is simple: you just have to import the multimedia files that you want to use for your video and they will be automatically categorized by type (video, sound, image, etc.). After that, the only thing you'll have to do is add the different folders to the timeline, where you can insert transition effects between different clips. All of this makes Virtual Edit a great editing tool.

AVI Trimmer

Solveig Multimedia

EnhanceMovie

MOVAVI

You probably have digital videos lying around that you would like to improve and retouch. You don't have to be a video-editing expert to use EnhanceMovie to do so. EnhanceMovie is a simple program that allows you to retouch dozens of video properties and apply filters, improving them with a single click. You can adjust brightness, contrast, blurring, color balance and multiple filters to improve the image quality. You will find it particularly useful if you have converted old video tapes in order to put them on your PC and you want to make some final touches to them before you store them.