Media: TextAloud

Publisher's description-

TextAloud uses voice synthesis to convert text into spoken audio. Listen on your PC or create MP3 or WMA files for use on portable devices like iPods, PocketPCs, and CD players.

• Directly open Word, PDF, and HTML files. Automatic iTunes/Ipod syncing
• Advanced Pronunciation Tools
• Toolbar plug-ins for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Outlook
• Optional premium voices for a wide variety of accents and languages

Related software: NewsAloud, WeatherAloud

Publisher's url: http://www.nextuptech.com/

Media: RarmaRadio

Publisher's description-

RarmaRadio allows you to listen to and record radio stations from around the world. While listening to your favorite radio station you can record it anytime you want. Browse through the radio stations or just select a random station and enjoy Internet radio!

You have total control over your radio stations allowing you to add or delete a station anytime you want. Need to play a station from another applicaton then just enable global hotkeys and control it anytime.It will also show cover art and station logos where available.

Features-

• Listen to and record multiple stations simultaneously
• Create a schedule for automatic recording
• Show cover art and lyrics for each song
• Save tag information to music files
• Ability to add more stations
• Add or update stations in the online database
• Store your favorites online
• Play random station
• TV support
• Language support

Publisher's url: http://www.raimersoft.com/rarmaradio.aspx

Utility: AutoRun Pro

Publisher's description-

AutoRun Pro is a powerful visual tool to create professional autorun (autoplay) interfaces and presentations for your CD/DVDs. It is the easiest way to create, edit professional autorun (autoplay) interface and generate autorun files for CD/DVDs in a WYSIWYG environment, just click, point, place and test (preview). So all is visual, fast, simple. AutoRun Pro is easy to learn, with demos and wizards you can get started in just minutes!

Display a professional and beautiful interface or presentation for users to open or execute files, print documents, send e-mail, visit Web sites, browse CDs, play sound, music and so on, when your CD is inserted. It supports PNG, bitmap, icon, JPEG, EMF, WMF, GIF image files, bitmap buttons, and labels. Display GIF (still or animated), AVI, HTML, RTF files on autorun form and support transparent form. Combine AutoRun Expert 1.2, new features: support GIF (still or animated), AVI, HTML and RTF files.

AutoRun Pro can automatically run HTML, Movies, PowerPoint, and other documents all with their default viewer or built-in viewer. You can display your entire web site, or include a photo album on your AutoRun form.

With the ability to HTML object (built-in Web browser), you can include menus, buttons, Flash, and Java applets on your AutoRun form by including them within HTML. You can use several internal commands within your web page to perform tasks such as launching files, sending E-mails, playing sound and music files, printing files, browsing CDs and closing the autorun.

Full screen background and logo image. Agreement settings. You can display a license agreement before any files are launched. The user is required to accept the license in order to continue. If the user does not accept the license, then the AutoRun exits. Security settings. You can protect your CD from being started by unlicensed users by requiring users to submit a User Name and Password or an Authentication Code.

Publisher's url: http://www.longtion.com/autorunpro/autorunpro.htm

Media: dbPoweramp Music Converter

Publisher's decsription-


dBpoweramp Music Converter™ is 'the standard' tool for audio conversions.

• Huge range of audio codecs supported: mp3, mp4, m4a (AAC, iTunes & iPod), Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis and FLAC
• Preservation of ID Tags and Album Artwork, correct mapping of ID Tags between tag types (where possible)
• Multi-CPU encoding support
• Easy folder & drive selection with Batch Converter
• DSP effect support (ReplayGain, Volume Normalize, including DirectX and VST effects)
• Pro-orientated codecs: BWF Wave, Dalet, mp2
• Windows Explorer integration: audio info tips & columns

Publisher's url: http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

Media: mp3tag

Publisher's description-


Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of common audio formats where it supports ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags.

It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words in tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more.

Mp3tag supports online database lookups from, e.g., Amazon, discogs, or freedb, allowing you to automatically gather proper tags and cover art for your music library.

p3tag supports the following audio formats:

• Advanced Audio Coding (aac)
• Free Lossless Audio Codec (flac)
• Monkey's Audio (ape)
• Mpeg Layer 3 (mp3)
• MPEG-4 (mp4 / m4a / m4b / iTunes compatible)
• Musepack (mpc)
• Ogg Vorbis (ogg)
• OptimFROG (ofr)
• OptimFROG DualStream (ofs)
• Speex (spx)
• Tom's Audio Kompressor (tak)
• True Audio (tta)
• Windows Media Audio (wma)
• WavPack (wv)

Publisher's url: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

Utility: Notepad++

Publisher's description-


Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

Based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.

Publisher's url: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Utility: HDD Hex Editor

Publisher's description-

Hex Editor Neo product family is a set of hexadecimal development tools for Windows, combining advanced binary files editing capability with new level of performance and usability.

Basic features include, data editing, exchanging data with other applications through the clipboard, inserting new data and deleting existing data and others.

Advanced features include multiple selection, visual operations history with branching, powerful Find All and Replace All commands, support for multiple encodings, Goto and Fill commands, NTFS alternate data sreams support, bookmarks, data inspector, checksum calculation, statistics and file structure analysis capabilities.

Publisher's url: http://www.hhdsoftware.com/Family/hex-editor.html

Utility: UltraMon

Publisher's description-

UltraMon is a utility for multi-monitor systems, designed to increase productivity and unlock the full potential of multiple monitors.

1. efficiently move windows and maximize windows across the desktop
2. manage more applications with the Smart Taskbar
3. control application positioning with UltraMon Shortcuts
4. multi-monitor support for desktop wallpapers and screen savers
5. mirror your main monitor to secondary monitors for a presentation

Publisher's url: http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/

Utility: Total Commander

Total Commander is a Shareware file manager for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista, and Windows 3.1.

Features-
Two file windows side by side

Multiple language support

Enhanced search function

Compare files (now with editor) / synchronize directories

Quick View panel with bitmap display

ZIP, ARJ, LZH, RAR, UC2, TAR, GZ, CAB, ACE archive handling + plugins

Built-in FTP client with FXP (server to server) and HTTP proxy support

Parallel port link, multi-rename tool

Tabbed interface, regular expressions, history+favorites buttons

Thumbnails view, custom columns, enhanced search

New: Updated interface+icons, compare editor, cursor in lister, separate trees, logging, enhanced overwrite dialog etc.

And many more!

Publisher's url: http://www.ghisler.com/

Photography: PTGui

Publisher's description-

PTGui is panoramic stitching software for Windows and Mac OSX. Originally developed as aGraphical User Interface for Panorama Tools (hence the name), PTGui now is a full featured photo stitching application.

PTGui stitches any number of photos into a panoramic image. Some benefits of PTGui, when compared to other stitching software:

• PTGui can stitch multiple rows of images
• Create 360 degree cylindrical panoramas, 'flat' partial panoramas and even spherical 360x180 degree panoramas
• No need to keep the camera level: PTGui can stitch rotated and tilted images
• Virtually unlimited output size: create Gigapixel panoramas from hundreds of images!
• Layered output allows full control over the final stitched result
• PTGui stitches most panoramas fully automatically, but at the same time provides full manual control over every single parameter. This enables stitching of 'difficult' scenes, where other programs fail.
• Full 16 bit workflow for best image quality

Publisher's url: http://www.ptgui.com/

Photography: The Panorama Factory

Publisher's url: http://www.panoramafactory.com/

Photography: Raw Therapee

Publisher's description-

Raw Therapee is a free RAW converter and digital photo processing software.

Publisher's url: http://www.rawtherapee.com/

Photography: Photomatix

Publisher's description-

Photomatix Increase the dynamic range of your photographs. If you have ever photographed a high contrast scene, you know that even the best exposure will typically have blown out highlights and flat shadows. Photomatix offers two ways to solve this problem:

• HDR Tone Mapping: Reveal highlight and shadow details in an HDR image created from multiple exposures.
• Exposure Fusion: Merge differently exposed photographs into one image with increased dynamic range.

Photomatix Pro is a stand-alone program that runs on Mac OS X and Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista. One Tone Mapping method is also available as a plugin of Photoshop CS2/CS3/CS4.

Publisher's url: http://www.hdrsoft.com/

Photography: JAlbum

Publisher's description-

JAlbum is a free gallery software that creates personalized web albums of your digital pictures.

Publisher's url: http://jalbum.net/

Photography: FastStone Image Viewer

Publisher's description-

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 touches 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 (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG).

Publisher's page: http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Photography: FastStone Photo Resizer

Publisher's description-

FastStone Photo Resizer is an image converter / resizer intended to enable users to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images in a quick and easy batch mode. Drag and Drop mouse operation is well supported.

Features:

• Convert and Rename images in batch mode
• Support JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF and JPEG2000
• Resize, crop, change color depth, apply color effects, add text, watermark and border effects
• Rename images with sequential number
• Support folder/non-folder structure
• Load and save settings
• And much more...

Publisher's url: http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm

Photography: Neat Image

Publisher's description-

Neat Image is an image filter to reduce noise and grain in photographic images produced by digital cameras and scanners.Neat Image is indispensable in low-light (indoors, night, no-flash, astro) and high-speed (sport, action, children) photography.

Neat Image provides the most accurate noise reduction currently available. Neat Image efficiently reduces noise of the following types:

• high ISO noise in digital camera images
• film grain in scanned film and prints
• JPEG artifacts and more

Neat Image is currently available as:

• standalone application (32-bit; Windows)
• plug-in for Photoshop (32-bit; Windows)
• plug-in for Photoshop (64-bit; Windows)
• plug-in for Photoshop (Intel and PowerPC; Mac OSX)
• plug-in for Aperture (Intel and PowerPC; Mac OSX)

Publisher's url: http://www.neatimage.com/