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IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 8+ years).

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
• 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 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
• IPTC editing
• Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
• 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

pfQuizzz is a freeware vocabulary trainer for PC, PDA & Mobile. If you need to drill thousands of words to learn a foreign language, this tool is exactly what you are looking for! In just a few minutes a day you will make huge progress. Once you have managed to learn all the words pfQuizzz will help you retain your knowledge.

Features

• Brings incredibly fast, simple and easy-to-use user interface
• Offers exactly the same user experience over PC, PDA & Mobile
• Is based on custom easy-to-edit sharable vocabulary text files
• Can also be used as a general Question-(Hint)-Answer training system
• Provides simple graphical statistics to keep track of your progress
• Supports Unicode characters to easily handle any language
• Besides single words, also supports short phrases and hints
• Is able to combine a few vocabulary files to form a complex training unit
• Repeats the words you have difficulties with until you get them right
• Supports in-order, out-of-order and bidirectional practising
• Is able to easily share vocabulary files between PC, PDA & Mobile
• Enables users to exchange their vocabulary files just by copying them
• Is DPI & orientation aware, optimized for low-resolution mobile devices

What good is a password list manager that secures your secret passwords using a master password and then forces you to enter it each time you want to access your password list? 4UOnly is a password manager for Microsoft WindowsTM 2000/XP and Server 2003 with a unique feature that saves you time while promoting good security: No longer are you required to enter your master decryption password each time you need to access your password list. A built-in password generator is included to further enhance your security. Convenient automatic launching of login web pages is also provided to reduce your login time.

In this era of heightened concern for security, we recommend that you use a unique password for each of your various accounts. It is also important that you frequently change your passwords in order to limit exposure should one be discovered. To track these numerous and ever changing account and passwords, password list management programs are often used.

The main drawback of most of these programs is that they use a master encryption password to protect your list of accounts and passwords from disclosure. It then becomes very tedious to specify this password each time you wish to access your password list so there is often a tendency to choose weak passwords since they are easily remembered. Furthermore, constant and repeated use of the master password increases the risk of discovery.

4Uonly overcomes this problem by capitalizing on the knowledge that your identity was authenticated when you logged in to Windows. It uses your own unique Windows security fingerprint to encrypt and decrypt your password crypt file. Your password list can only be viewed without providing a master password when you are logged in to the Windows account that was in use when the list was last saved.

You are strongly encouraged to provide a master password when you first create the password file, so that you can still access the file should the necessary Windows account become unavailable.

Free Christian Music Player is a free Christian Music software program that fits a RADIO into your Internet Browser's existing menu as an add-in. It lets you have an Online Christian music radio with all of the best Christian Music Rock Groups always within sight....so you never have to go searching for good religious music anymore. Listen to Free Christian Music (Contemporary, rock, pop, worship christian music) while you browse the internet!

Christian Music Radio Toolbar is 100% FREE and installs in just a few seconds. Once its installed, it will display similar to the above image. Simply select a Christian radio station from our list...or just hit "Play" to randomly choose one.

You'll be able to listen to the best Christian music online including: talk shows, music, and commentary.....all 100% free.

Key Features

• Google Search Box
• 100 of the top Christian Music Radio Stations
• Play, stop buttons for radio station control
• One-click skip to next station
• Favorites list to jump straight to your favorite radio station
• Simple install process. Uninstall link also included
• Volume and Mute Controls
• Stations organized by Genre
• Tell A friend - allows you to quickly send an email to a friend telling them to download the toolbar
• Add your own Station
• Auto - Update - we're constantly adding new stations

The standard media player that ships with Windows does a good job. It's free and it supports a range of media formats. However, as with virtually any free software, it has a downside. Its developers have concentrated on how to make some profit by selling media and not how to get you buying the player itself. This is probably the main reason why the default Windows media player is so slow. When you start it, it connects to the Internet, loads advertising and more.

It's time to think about a good replacement! @MAX Tray Player is intended for everyday use. Do you like to listen to background music when working with other Windows applications? Then @MAX Tray Player is for you. It embeds Player bar into Windows taskbar virtually becoming a part of Windows. Thus it doesn't obscure desktop and user application windows while always being at hand.

All basic actions, including: open files, play files, stop or pause file, go to next or previous file are easily accessible through corresponding buttons on the taskbar. You don't have to open the main window to control the player and you can easily access these buttons from any Windows application. Tray Player displays information about file being played including: play time, title and artist in the small floating window. One can adjust the transparency of this window or just hide it.
For key-binding fans all basic actions can be easily bound to hot keys. Using hot key combinations one can control the player regardless of the program being active at the moment.

Getting full control over player is easy - single mouse click brings up Player window. Besides basic actions it offers seeking functions, volume and balance adjustment, playlist editing etc. All Tray Player functions are also accessible through a popup menu which can be invoked either from the Player bar in Windows taskbar or from Player window.

While @MAX Tray Player is lightning fast and has a low impact on system resources, it is still a powerful and feature-reach media player.
To select files or whole folders for playing there are traditional choices such as open file dialog, drag'n'drop, explorer context menu as well as Tray Player special feature - My Media.

My Media browser window introduces an explorer-like interface to your media resources and provides many useful features to manage collections of your music and video files.

Moreover, there is an ingenious way to select media files from the Windows Tray.

A pop-up menu allows you to browse your multimedia collection and select folders or files as you select programs from your Windows Start button menu.

Tray Player provides you with a lot of options for configuring various parameters according to your personal preferences. One can change player position in the taskbar, buttons displayed, etc. Ever popular skin support is there too.

Tray Player can play audio, video and other multimedia files in the most popular formats, including:

• Windows Audio Files (wav, snd, au...)
• MPEG Audio Files (mp3, mp2, mpa...)
• MIDI Files (mid, midi, rmi...)
• MPEG Video Files (mpeg ,mpg, m1v, mpe...)
• Windows Media Files (wm, wma, wmv, asf...)
• OGG Vorbis Files (ogg) (you have to install OGG Vorbis DirectShow filter)
• Windows Video Files (avi)
• Audio CDs (cda)
• Playlist Files (pls, m3u)
• Multimedia formats support depend on specific codecs installed in the user operating system.

FlexiServer is software for automatic employee time attendance logging. It also features additional tools for quality assurance monitoring and reporting, and works perfectly with home or remote working staff.

FlexiServer is the modern replacement for an hours book or time card. For staff who work at computers it does all hours logging automatically. It records log on and shut down times as worked hours. It automatically detects lunch and other long breaks by monitoring computer idle state. Hours can also be entered manually if the employee is not working at a computer.

The way it works is like this. The manager or bookkeeper runs FlexiServer on their Windows or Linux PC. Whenever the manager or bookkeeper want to view reports they can log onto FlexiServer with their web browser and use the control panel.

All staff then run the component FlexiStation on their computers (Windows, Mac OS X or Linux). As a restricted version of FlexiServer and providing only the essential features, FlexiStation will run automatically in the background logging hours worked. Employees can also add hours manually, report a colleague sick or put in an application for annual leave.

Benefits

• Saves employees the chore of needing to fill out hours in their hours books every day.
• No more chasing staff for them to submit their hours. Bookkeeping has 24/7 immediate access to casual staff hours.
• Improves the way your business works by knowing exactly what is taking your staff the most time. Reports can be used for costing reasons to estimate how much time employees are working in different programs.
• Gives management the confidence to let employees work at home without fearing not being able to see what they are working on. The QA Screen Monitor gives managers the chance to see what their team is working on at any time just as if they were in the office.
• Lets you know exactly where your colleagues are at any time. This is perfect in roaming computer environments where it will show you which computer any member of your team is working at.
• Allows management to monitor outsourced or contract staff and whether they are working and the hours they are billing for.
• Gives employees more flexibility. With the FlexiServer accurate hours tracking implemented, management are much more likely to let employees work when they want.

Features

• Logs employee time attendance automatically using computer logon times.
• Hours can automatically be entered on a web form either as an alternative to computer logging or to override computer detect times.
• Automatically detects breaks using a configurable idle time measure.
• Can be linked to payroll software. Files are stored in open database friendly format.
• Shows the team if anyone is in the office (or working at home), what computer they are working at and (optionally) what document they are working on.
• Real time screen monitoring of home employees (optional).
• Can run on any Windows computer (XP or later). It does not need a dedicated server. It is typically run on the managers or bookkeepers computer.
• FlexiStation keeps logging hours even if the server computer is turned off. When it is turned on all cached data is sent.
• Works behind firewalls routers and other difficult networks.
• Can be used over the internet (for remote workers) or on the local network (for in-office staff).
• Very easy to use. No special technical knowledge is needed.
• Can run up to 300 employees from one installation.
• While FlexiServer can be installed on Windows or Linux PCs, employees can be running the FlexiStation module on Windows, Mac OS X or Linux.
• Installs literally in 2 minutes. Just click download then enter your name and the list of employees.

The good thing about today's hard drives is their size. Having up to a terabyte of free disk space silently spinning in your PC case makes you forget about saving space and paying attention to copies of folder and files scattered across the drive. However, the abundance of copies may become quite confusing, especially if you try to keep your archive of program distributives more or less up to date. Finding the unnecessary copies of files in the manual mode is a tedious task that requires lots of time and attention, so it may not be acceptable for most users. If you would like to be able to perform regular clean-ups of your hard drive or drives and remove duplicate file with just a few clicks, Easy Duplicate File Finder will be a choice you will never regret!

Intended for users of all levels, this great application is based on a lightning-fast and amazingly efficient proprietary comparison algorithm that is well-suited for file archives of any level -- from a typical home system to a storage server. The program allows you to search for duplicates on your hard drive and remove them in automatic and semi-automatic modes. The latter gives you much more flexibility in terms of managing the detected copies of files. You can simply delete them (using the Recycle Bin or bypassing it), move them or rename them adding a user-specified prefix or postfix. The software also features protection of system files and a number of semi-automatic selection options.

Bring order to your hard drive, free some disk space and stop spending time looking for the most recent version of the same file -- Easy Duplicate File Finder will do all that much better!

FEATURES

• Search for true duplicates (files with same contents)
  Powerful search engine with fast files check
  Full binary (byte-by-byte) comparison
• Flexible Scan settings
  Search files by masks
  Size conditions & skip zero-length files option
• Find duplicates from selected folders or drives
  Add multiple folders/drives for scanning
• Safety
  Protect system files and folders
  Move files to Recycle Bin or delete duplicate files permanently
  Mark selected duplicates by renaming them with adding prefix to file names - to test which files is safe to delete
• Convenient user interface
• Duplicate file management - remove only unnecessary duplicates
  Select files manually (for deletion) or use flexible selection options
  Rename duplicate files with prefix/postfix
  Move duplicate files to folder
  Open folder containing selected file
  Show file properties
  Open file with associated program
• Full Unicode support
  Support for files with Chinese, Japanese, Arabian etc names
• Export list of duplicates to HTML document or to TXT file

What is the importance of PGC ripping? Why not just use the ripped vob files unprocessed for conversion. Well, an unprocessed vob file can contain more than you think, it may infact contain the same movie twice, just different versions of it, a directors cut and a theatrical version, all in the same vob set, converting this would give unexpected results. Some movies may play fine, others may play all the way through then the movie may start again from the middle and jump about, many other strange things like that. Lets take a closer look at the region 2 UK release of Independence Day (special edition). This has two different versions of the same movie in the same files. pgc.NET will show you two PGC's, [PGC 01] is 2 hours 27 minutes long and [PGC 02] is 2 hours 18 minutes in length. By playing the movie you'll get a choice of which version you want to watch, special edition or original theatrical release. By the length displayed of these versions you'll know the special edition is the longer [PGC 01] and the normal edition is [PGC 02]. So if you wish to rip the special edition you would choose [PGC 01] in pgc.NET.

So when it comes to converting a movie to AVI, you'll need to have already ripped the correct program chain rather than the original dvd vob set files. pgc.NET used to be able to do this directly from the dvd disk, and in many cases still can, but with the advent of extra anti-copy techniques this is becoming more difficult so pgc.NET will also allow you to process a full dvd folder on your hard drive that you have previous ripped using DVDFab Decrypter, RipIt4Me, or DVD Decrypter and extract the required program chain. This may also prove important for episodic dvd disks that contain multiple episodes per vob set.

pgc.NET is an extremely easy program to use. Click 'Scan' and the dvd disk in your dvd-rom will be scanned. If no dvd is in the dvd-rom, then you'll be presented with a dialog allowing you to choose a previously ripped dvd folder. This folder must contain ripped dvd files in the structure the same as that present on the original dvd. The 'Output' button allows you to choose a folder where you would like to place the ripped vob file. When you're happy with your pgc selection pressing the 'Start' button will start.

pgc.NET, see above picture, is split into three main sections, right-clicking anywhere in the 'pgc.NET' groupbox, bottom left - which contains the web and email links, will give you the option to minimise the program. So to re-cap, scan your dvd or folder, choose your output folder, select your required program chain in the 'dvd.INFO' section, and start. pgci.NET is a .NET application thus requires the latest Microsoft .NET Framework (windows update). pgc.NET is a Windows XP/Vista application.