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SubMagic is a tool to convert, edit, translate, synchonize or create movie subtitles. It supports several subtitle formats, has a lot of features and functions, is easy to operate and best of all... it's free! SubMagic is written in C++ using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and doesn't need a .NET framework or any other external libraries. DirectX 9.0c is needed for video playback.

October 25, 2007

Don't know if this has been posted yet but HFS is a great web/file server.

hfs homepage

description of site:

You can use HFS (HTTP File Server) to send and receive files.
It's different from classic file sharing because it uses web technology to be more compatible with today's Internet.

It also differs from classic web servers because

it's very easy to use and runs "right out-of-the box".

Access your remote files, over the network.

It has been successfully tested with Wine under Linux.

Features include:

# Download and upload

# Virtual file system

# Highly customizable

# HTML template

# Bandwidth control

# Easy/Expert mode

# Log

# Full control over connections

# Accounts

# Dynamic DNS updater

4,972 · October 26, 2007

Photo manipulation and image design:

Active Pixels http://idea-systems.net/index.php?option=c...4&Itemid=27

* Support more than 100 graphic formats with large nomber of options.

* Import/export image with layers in PSD-format (Photoshop), can create multiple frame TIFF (6.0) and animation GIF files.

* Сan be used as a powerful icons editor (can save icons with multiple frames with different color depth and resolution).

* Support of camera RAW-files (now more 160 cameras models support).

* Filters support, now over 80 filters, including clouds, lens flare, polar coordinates.

* Alpha-channel full support (transparency) for all formats.

* Layers support with 33 render modes.

* More than 10 picture resize algorithms.

* Selection by magicwand, lasso with powerful selection modifying function.

* Different color correction functions.

* High quality auto color correction functions.

* Canvas rotate and transform.

* Powerfull optimization for web with live preview and large number of options.

* Brush, pencil, gradient, text and another instruments.

* Different additional functions - tile, crop.

* Very comfortable canvas size changing (you can set canvas position manually).

* Color selector is more comfortable (HSB).

* Undo/redo with action captions and without any limitations.

* Color calculation instruments.

November 14, 2007

great job on creating the list ! helped me alot :)!

November 17, 2007

Recuva pronounced "recover" is a freeware utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Windows Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses! Like all other Piriform products including CCleaner, Recuva is free for both commercial and personal use.

http://www.recuva.com/

Recently updated to version Recuva 1.08.174, that's why I decided to post it here.

Thank You

4,972 · November 19, 2007

Network Tools:

Input Director http://www.inputdirector.com/

Input Director is a Windows application that lets you control multiple Windows systems using the keyboard/mouse attached to one computer. It is designed for folks who have two (or more) computers set up at home and find themselves regularly sliding from one system to the other (and wearing out the carpet in the process!). With Input Director, you can share a single keyboard/mouse across a set of systems. You switch which system receives the input either by hotkey or by moving the cursor so that it transitions from one screen to the other (in a very similar fashion to a multi-monitor setup). The idea being that you can position the monitors from two or more systems in a row and use a shared keyboard/mouse to control all of them.

Input Director also supports a "shared" clipboard, in which you can copy data onto the clipboard on one system, transition across to another and paste.

Input Director requires Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4), Windows XP (Service Pack 2) or Windows Vista. The systems must be networked.

4,972 · November 30, 2007

PDF Utilities:

eXPert PDF Reader http://www.visagesoft.com/products/pdfreader/

eXPert PDF Reader is a free pdf viewer software that lets you view and print pdf documents on windows operating systems.

eXPert PDF reader will also allow modification of existing documents. You may modify document outlines, insert rubber stamps and modify any annotation that has been created from eXPert PDF or any other pdf creation software.

December 1, 2007

Wow! What a thread...THANKS

let me add mine...

WinBubble, Customize and Tweak your Windows Vista Easily

In just two clicks, WinBubbles will help you to customize and tweak your

Windows Vista easily. Its features cover Customization, Security and

Optimization.

Homepage

Softpedia.com / Freewarefiles

Features

11,890 · December 1, 2007

Wow! What a thread...THANKS

If you need to advertise your software, the Neowin mods would be pleased to sell you ad space on the site. Over half your posts have been linking to this software which offers absolutely nothing new over existing customization programs for Vista. You claim not to know what advertising means, but you're awfully insistent on doing it. :/

December 5, 2007

I use this at church :)

ScreenMonkey is an application that arose out of a problem. The

problem was how to provide a seamless multimedia show through the use

of the Second Monitor output that is on many modern PCs. If you have

ever tried to do this then you will know that it is very difficult to

avoid windows appearing somewhere. While dragging a window across and

full-screening it would provide a solution it is not very elegant when

trying to provide a professional looking show. It was this

professional looking show that I was trying to achieve at my local

church. We needed to seamlessly switch between PowerPoint, Video and

DVD and this just proved impossible. So when faced with a problem and

after having no luck searching on the internet Screen Monkey was born.

Screen Monkey is a program that allows you to seamlessly switch

between different types of media and directly full screen them to a

second monitor. It can work over the top of other programs and

provides a control centre for anyone wishing to produce professional

looking multimedia shows.

http://www.screenmonkey.co.uk/DNN/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx

December 6, 2007

www.altools.net

Alsong - small resource media play, freeware. Also prints out lyrics.

Alshow - small resource movie viewer that has many features, freeware.

Alzip - best small freeware zip program. used it many years and worth it.

4,972 · December 6, 2007

3D Graphics:

Kerkythea http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/index.php

Kerkythea is a standalone renderer, using physically accurate materials and lights, aiming for the best quality rendering in the most efficient timeframe. The target of Kerkythea is to simplify the task of quality rendering by providing the necessary tools to automate scene setup, such as staging using the GL real-time viewer, material editor, general/render settings editors, etc., under a common interface.

December 7, 2007

progeCAD 2008 Smart! is here. Read and write AutoCAD 2007/2008 DWG files for free*
progeCAD 2008 Smart! the FREEWARE CAD*

progeCAD 2008 Smart!, powered by the most recent IntelliCAD engine, is derived directly from the professional versions of progeCAD, and maintains all the base functionality of its outstanding parents in a set of installation that is compact and easy to install.

http://www.progecad.com/compra/index.asp?l...rt〈=eng

December 8, 2007

Web Server

Xampp - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

7,966 · December 8, 2007

new FINAL version of 7-zip is out ;)

v4.57 ... http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/7z457.exe

just came out Dec 6th 2007

December 13, 2007

Audio Players:

VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/

;)

4,972 · December 18, 2007

General Utilities And Other Applications:

My Lockbox http://www.fspro.net/folder-lock-box/

The protected folder (lockbox) is hidden from any user and application of your system, including Administrator and System itself. It is impossible to access the lockbox not only from the local computer, but also from the net.

The program is extremely easy to use. You can set the lockbox location and the password during the setup procedure. After the setup is done, lockbox will be hidden and locked until you enter the valid password.

My Lockbox Control Panel allows you easily change basic lockbox parameters: lockbox location, protection status, password.

In addition, skinned user interface lets you choose from different skins to select the most comfortable look and feel of the software.

4,972 · December 19, 2007

Webcam Software:

MJPEG Surveillance http://www.brooksyounce.com/

-Designed to record video from a few, to hundreds of IP cameras simultaneously.

-Chase Playback Supported! You can playback videos while they are still being recorded!

-File Converted Included, to convert your MJPEG videos to Divx, WMV, MPEG4, IV50, and more!

-Extremely Low Processor and Memory Usage! Even when using with multiple cameras simultaneously.

-Motion Detection for motion activated recording.

-Video View dialog allows you to see in real-time what's going on.

-Motion Detection algorithm will highlight motion area on video dialog in real-time.

-Customizable Motion Detection Grid, with the ability to X out areas which motion should be ignored.

-Automatic Video Recycling, which records over the oldest videos first (weekly, monthly, yearly, ect!).

-Video Player has easy editing features so you can extract video clips from larger videos.

-Easily Extract single frames from videos in JPG format.

-Compatible with most types of IP cameras!

-Extracts video from IP cameras which use Server push methods, and static JPG links.

5,137 · December 19, 2007

Web Server
Xampp - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

(Y)(Y) Love it

December 19, 2007

Video Player:

Kmplayer......the best out there....!!!

December 19, 2007

waw nice freeware it's freee :D

3,512 · December 20, 2007

Notepad Alternatives

AkelPad - http://akelpad.sourceforge.net/en/index.php

AkelPad is an open source editor for plain text. It is designed to be a small and fast.

December 20, 2007

and notepad++

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net

4,972 · December 21, 2007

VideoLan, notepad++ and infrarecorder already listed or posted about (and fairly well known titles, by all standards)

Appreciate your good intentions but please search the thread before posting.

4,972 · December 22, 2007

Video players :

VH Player http://www.hmelyoff.com/index.php?section=23

Only 4MB and plays anything, looks like crap but does the job. Played some MOV and FLV files here with no external codecs.

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