IrfanView

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7.
It is designed to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support.
One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.

Some IrfanView features:

• Many supported file formats (click here the list of formats)
• Multi language support
• Thumbnail/preview option
• Paint option - to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
• Toolbar skins option
• Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
• Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
• Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
• Fast directory view (moving through directory)
• Batch conversion (with advanced image processing)
• Multipage TIF editing
• File search
• Email option
• Multimedia player
• Print option
• Support for embedded color profiles in JPG/TIF
• Change color depth
• Scan (batch scan) support
• Cut/crop
• Add overlay text/image (watermark)
• IPTC editing
• Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
• Screen Capturing
• Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
• Lossless JPG rotation
• Unicode support
• Many hotkeys
• Many command line options
• Many PlugIns

Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"
No registry changes without user action/permission!
and much much more

Source: http://www.irfanview.com
Version: 4.32
File size: 1.46MB
Price: Free
FileName: iview432_setup.exe
Supported OS: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008/7/NT

Unlocker

Ever had such an annoying message given by Windows?

• It has many other flavors:
• Cannot delete file: Access is denied
• There has been a sharing violation.
• The source or destination file may be in use.
• The file is in use by another program or user.
• Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.

Unlocker is the solution!

1. Simply right click the folder or file and select Unlocker

2. If the folder or file is locked, a window listing of lockers will appear





3. Simply click Unlock All and you are done!

Download Mirror:
32 Bit
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Download from official Mirror:
32 Bit
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Official Site: http://www.emptyloop.com/unlocker

Format Factory

Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter.

Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter.
Provides functions below:
All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.
All to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV.
All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/GIF/TGA.
Rip DVD to video file , Rip Music CD to audio file.
MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format.
Supports RMVB,Watermark, AV Mux.
Format Factory's Feature:
1 support converting all popular video,audio,picture formats to others.
2 Repair damaged video and audio file.
3 Reducing Multimedia file size.
4 Support iphone,ipod multimedia file formats.
5 Picture converting supports Zoom,Rotate/Flip,tags.
6 DVD Ripper.
7 Supports 60 languages


OS requirements: Any Windows OS

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Bi-Lingual Dictionary

Bi-Lingual Dictionary

Malayalam English Malayalam Dictionary

Size:  21.91 MB
Publisher: C-DAC, Thiruvananthapuram

Zune (Desktop Theme)

This special theme was created specifically for XP with the Zune player in mind. It will turn your task bar in and windows shiny metal dark and the start button to bright orange. The Zune theme also installs a cool Zune wallpaper image for you to enjoy.

File size: 1.64MB
File name: ZuneDesktopTheme.msi
License: Free

Dangerous Dave

Game information Also known as: Dangerous Dave in the Deserted Pirate's Hideout

Developer: John Romero
Publisher: Softdisk Publishing
Platform Year: 1990
Violence: No
DOSBox: Supported

Description
Traditional platform game, collect as many points as possible and manage to get to the last level.
Screen Shots

File Size : 72.13 KB 
Password: pradeesh

Hellcarrier (Game)

Pilot your top class helicopter in a set of varying missions. Take out hostile forces, rescue POWs and make sure you upgrade your helicopter to stand a chance in the final fight against the terrorists. The game includes both desert and arctic missions. Select the co-pilot which most suits your needs and take off!

Hellcarrier was originaly written for SAAB and AerotechTelub. Thank them that the game was released as freeware.

Credits
Design, graphics, music and code by Johan Peitz
Sound FX from PD archives

Rohos Mini

You share your computer with somebody but would rather keep your data private??? It’s not always possible. Using Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Skype??? Well, for an experienced user it’s a piece of cake to find and look through your Skype chat’s logs without being signed into your account. And now you can keep all those gawkers away from your computer data with Rohos encryption programs.

“Hide folder” option in Rohos Mini Drive and Rohos Disk Encryption brings affordable and AES 256 strength encryption solution to your security issues by preventing unauthorized access to your private data in PC folders by local or network users. Your protected items can be quickly and easily rendered inaccessible to other users but are instantly accessible when you turn on your Rohos disk.

What’s new:
Added “Hide folder” option. No extra complicated steps to be taken to hide folder with your private data, just a few clicks.

How it works:
Turn on your Rohos disk -> click on “Hide folder” link in the program’s main window -> there are given predefined folders, e.g. My Documents, Google Chrome data, Skype, etc. You’ll need to choose a folder that will be linked with your Rohos disk.

or
you may specify manually the path to the whatever folder you wish to hide

Click OK.

From now on you folder will be encrypted and hidden, and accessible only after your Rohos disk is turned on. When it comes to Skype, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox – if Rohos disk is not turned on these applications won’t start.

Manage encrypted and hidden folders

You may cancel this encryption feature any time.

• Open Rohos Disk Application and connect encrypted disk R:\
• Click on “Hide Folder”
• Choose an Application profile or select any path that you have encrypted previously.
• Rohos application checks the folder and you may:
  

1. Click “Restore Link” in order to re-link application profile folder with the profile folder you have on your Rohos disk. This will allow using a single Google Chrome profile on a few Windows computers.
2. Click “Delete Link” if you uninstalled Application or you don’t want anyone to know you have this application profile encrypted with Rohos Disk. Next time you will need to use “Repair” in order to use Google Chrome.
3. Click “Unhide Folder” if you want to cancel this encryption feature or you want to delete Rohos disk.

Please note, this encryption feature links Google Chrome profile with your primary encrypted disk created in Rohos Disk (Rohos Mini Drive) application. By deleting encrypting disk you also delete your Google Chrome profile. If you forget your password from Rohos Disk you may loose your Google Chrome profile also. To prevent this use password reset file.
Hide Folder functional requirements:

1. There should be enough free space on Rohos Encrypted Drive to keep hidden folder data.
2. Before starting “Hide Folder” operation make sure the Application you plan on hiding is not working. In other words this application should be closed.
3. Hide Folder function does not support System folders and User Account folders. This will be implemented in next releases.

Security benefits with Hide Folder feature:

1. Allows encrypting any regular folder on the computer. Now you don’t need to drag and drop this folder into Rohos Disk as before.
2. Password protect any Application folder, for example C:\Program Files\QQ
3. Encrypt and hide your Skype chat, received files, contacts, Skype password
4. Encrypt and protect Google Chome history, favorites, form data (credit card number), saved passwords. 2. And the option “Create Rohos disk within media file .AVI, MP3, MPG, WMV, etc” has been moved in lower right corner of the main window (see screen shot of the program’s main window).
   3. Rohos Disk Browser utility is turned into Rohos Mini Drive Portable. Rohos Developers have worked to add features that are one more step towards making completely portable encryption utility. Rohos Mini Drive portable will let you work with your data and applications from virtually encrypted disk on any PC without admin rights, and not only that – you are able to create new encrypted disks and change their password.
   

Thunderbolt

Disposable Flash Drives of the Future

Here's a new concept for spies (or people who like to throw things away) disposable "Flashkus" flash drives.

In the near future (hopefully), you'll be able to toss your data in the dumpster with these 8GB or 16GB cardboard drives designed by Alexei Lyapunov and Lena Ehrlich at Art Lebedev Studio. It looks like these drives will be cheap and produced on a cardboard strip, so you'll need only to tear one off and write a note on it if you want to give your friend a song, say, or carry some quick data with you.

The Art Lebedev website suggests (translated from Russian) that these portable, disposable flash drives will be "even simpler" than floppy disks. I'll assume that means they'll be easier to part with (more disposable, if you will).

Yes, the Flashkus is still just a concept, but it doesn't seem like one that's too far off. My guess is that the first people to use them will be CES vendors, as electronic press kits. 

Free Morphing

Free Morphing creates a sequence of frames which are the transformation of the source image to target image, giving the appearance that the source image "becomes" the target. Images must be true color (24 bit) and have the same size. In the program you can create lines (the same number in Source and Target) which describe the transformation. You should create line objects in the same order on both images. There are various viewing tools for preview morphing.

Features:

- You can specify the number of frames in sequence.
- You can create symmetric sequence.
- You can save resulting movies as animated GIF, AVI and so on.
Freeware.

Download 2.87 MB

ASCII Animator 1.2

ASCII Animator is a unique, funny and free software to convert GIF image to animated ASCII art.
First, ASCII Animator extracts GIF image into frames, then converts each frames to ASCII art, and encodes the ASCII art into a new animated ASCII art GIF image.
ASCII Animator needs Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or later.

Download 461.09 K

Instant Photo Sketch

Instant Photo Sketch is a freeware software tool that converts photo to sketch.
This free photo sketching tool works in a very obvious way – all you need to do is open a photo and press one button. There is also one slider to adjust the level of detail – so you can decide if you want small details to be drawn or not.
The output of the photo is a pencil sketch – the picture that looks like it was drawn by pencil.
The program also has zoom and can save the result as .jpeg or .png.

Download Instant Photo Sketch 1.0 now

Bulk Rename Utility

Bulk Rename Utility is an easy to use file rename program (a.k.a. file renamer). Renaming multiple files has never been easier! It has a small memory footprint so it can be left running all the time without consuming all your memory. It started as a freeware Visual Basic tool, but as its popularity has grown it has been completely rewritten in C++ to be robust and lightweight - and very, very fast! It can easily handle folders/discs containing well over 100,000 entries... and it can batch rename 1,000s of files in seconds.

Main Window

Features

Bulk Rename Utility has evolved through a series of user-requests, one-off requirements, and general enhancements.

Some of the features provided by Bulk Rename Utility include:

• Rename files, folders or both
• Remove, add or change text in the file names
• Perform text substitution
• Change the case of file names
• Remove characters or words
• Remove digits or symbols
• Append or prepend text to file names
• Append dates in many formats
• Append the parent folder's name
• Auto-number files with flexible rules
• Automatically preview the new names
• Sort the file details by any column
• Group configurations into "favorites"
• "Bulk Rename Here" Windows Explorer extension
• Directory recursion - process sub-directories too!
• Regular Expressions support
• Rename files from an input text-file list
• Create an "Undo" batch file
• Log activity to a log file
• Change file and folder date/timestamps (created, modified, accessed)
• Change file/folder attributes (hidden, read-only, archived)
• All settings retained between sessions
• 32-bit or 64-bit
• Rename photos using EXIF metadata (i.e. "Date Picture Taken", "Resolution" and other information embedded in all JPG photo files)
• Rename MP3 files using ID3 tags (a.k.a. MP3 ID3 tag renaming).
• Command line support
• Bulk Rename Utility is totally free!

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Supported Systems: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000/NT, 98, Me. Windows Server 2008, 2003.

Skunk Juice Headphones

Skunk Juice Headphones Use Magnets to Protect Your Player

Ever have your headphones on and then got them caught on something while moving, causing them to rip out of your ears? It looks like Skunk Juice earbuds are a solution to this problem. They use the same basic concept that MacBook chargers use, a magnetic connection that comes free when tugged too hard, but with earbuds. This lets them break free easily without damaging the 3.5mm headphone jack.

Not only will the headphones save your connectors and your ears but your computer as well. If you forget you're plugged in and move from your computer quickly the headphones simply unclip without dragging your laptop to the floor, and to its potential untimely demise.

Skunk Juice headphones also let you link together multiple pairs with no other accessories except the headphones themselves, making sharing music simple and without having to surrender one of your earbuds. This is great as long as your friends all have the same headphones.

Check out the funny video before for a complete demonstration of some realistic situations you might find yourself in:

LS - File List Generator

This tool collects the information about files and sub-folders under the specified folder or drive and generates the list in your preferred format. You can individually specify your desired information types to include in the list. You can even customize the listing order and sorting priorities. The output format of the list can be chosen from txt, html, and csv (Excel's primitive file format).
Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP

LG LSM-100 : The Mouse that Scans

CES has been offering many new technologies to the consumers, there are a few that really grab ones attention. It doesn’t matter if it’s a small gadget or if it’s on a booth somewhere in the corner. LG revealed one such gadget, which although had been tried before but wasn’t so appealing as this one. They call it the ‘LSM-100′ and it’s a mouse that can scan documents while on the move.

The LG LSM-100 scanner mouse is compatible with both Windows and Mac and the software that comes along is pretty simple to use. The mouse has a clear glass/plastic sheet as its contact surface and uses five LEDs to reflect the image using a mirror inside for the camera to see.

Once on your desktop, you can use the software’s simple scan button to start the process and it will show you the scanned area. It has proper mouse buttons as well, a scroll wheel, left and right and back clicks. The software also lets you edit the scanned images and share it on the internet. Engadget got  hands-on with the LG mouse, and according to them the mouse is very easy to use, even the scan feature and is quite practical.
You can watch the video below: