| Making
Screensavers |
Acme
Photo Maker
Build a fully customizable screen saver with your own photos and music
fast. 86 transition effects and 23 dynamic headline effects. Acme
Photo Software | Win.98/ME/2000/XP | 827 Kb | shareware |
Ace
An easy way to create your own slide show screensaver with sound.
Create self-installing executable (.exe) screensavers and send to
your family and friends. Highly rated. ZbSoft | Win.32 | 1.5 Mb |
15 day trial |
Easy
3D Creator
Create great looking 3D screen savers in a few minutes with no programming.
All you need is to set some parameters that determine your screen
saver's appearance and behavior in step-by-step mode seeing the result
immediately. Highly rated. DZSoft | Win.98/ME/2000/XP | 6.96 Mb |
shareware |
Flash
Saver Maker
No programming skills needed. Allows you to make your own screensavers
from your favorite Macromedia Flash movies using a point-and-click
interface. ZbSoft | Win.32 | 1.64 Mb | 15 day trial |
Media
Maestro
A fast and easy way to publish your images or digital photos as a
media presentation or a screensaver. Mp3 sounds can be added as background
music or sound effects attached to each slide. See website for in-depth
description. Yavsoft | Win.9x/ME/NT/2000/XP | 432 Kb | shareware |
Screensaver
DIY
An award winning professional grade tool to make and distribute screen
savers for Windows since 2000. Halve It | Win.9x/ME/NT4/2000/XP |
3 Mb | trial |
Screensaver
Factory
Touted to be the world's number one screensaver development software,
enabling users to create professional screensavers for commercial
distribution within minutes. Create time and feature limited trial
screensavers, nag-screens, registration keys and much more. Blumentals
Software | Win.98/ME/2000/2003/XP/Vista | 3 Mb | trial |
ScreenSwift
Convert any .swf file into a professional looking installable flash
screensaver. End users don't require plugin to install the flash screensaver.
Intuitive and easy to use. Features price combo can't be beat. Pro
versions used by Fortune 500 companies. Tenmiles | Win.9x/ME/NT4/2000/XP
1.7 Mb | free |
Screensaver
Wonder 4
An easy to use software for creating personal screensavers with just
a few clicks. Use your own pictures and video files, add background
music and select from over 100 transition effects. Blumentals Software
| Win.NT/2000/XP/Vista | 2507 Kb | trial |
Ultra
SS Maker
Merge your images, sound files and MPEG or AVI video files into a
compact, single file true screen saver. Comprehensive step by step
instructions for easy and professional results. Updated with new and
improved features. Finalhit Ltd. | Win.9x/Me/NT/2000/XP | 1.24 Mb
| trial |
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Graphic Programs |
AlgoLab
Photo Vector
A versatile color reduction, image cleaning and raster to vector conversion
software. Creates vector color images composed of outlines. See website
for in-depth description.
AlgoLab | Win.32 | 1.4 Mg | 10 day trial
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AlgoLab
Raster to Vector Conversion Toolkit
Import various technical drawings, maps and other types of line
artwork to your CAD or drawing program. Converts scanned line artwork
automatically from raster to vector formats. See website for in-depth
description. AlgoLab | Win.32 | 1.4 Mg | 10
day trial |
Gimp
An open source photo retouching, image composition and image authoring
application for many operating systems. An alternative to the discontinued
Jasc Paint Shop Pro series. The Gimp Team | Windows | 16 Mb | free |
Happy
Icon
Create icons, cursors and animated cursors using photos, animations,
pictures or scanned documents. Download from the author's website.
Logipole | Win.9x/ME/NT/2000/XP | 1.14 Mb | trial |
Looking
Glass
An interactive physics package that helps students visualize and understand
the effects of optical components on light rays. Designed for use
in high school and college physics courses. Living Graphs Inc. | Win.9x/ME/NT4/2000/XP
| 807 Kb | trial |
Notepad++
A source code and text editor for web site development. Popular as
replacement for Adobe Dreamweaver series. NP++ | Windows | 3.5 Mb
| free |
Paint.net
A free image and photo editing software for Windows. An alternative
to the discontinued Jasc Paint Shop Pro series. PC World, #19 on "Top
100 Products of 2007". dotPDN | Win.Vista/XP/Windows 7 | 4.8
Mb | free |
Super
DVD Creator
Create DVDs from Avi, Divx, Mpeg files to watch on TV. Many customizable
video/audio controls and feature-rich navigation controls to create
a personalized DVD experience. See website for in-depth description.
MasterSoft | Win.9x/ME/NT3/NT4/2000/XP/CE | 3.5 Mb | trial |
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Managing Screensavers and Wallpapers |
Active
Multiwallpaper Changer
Use any pictures on your harddrive for a wallpaper. A comprehensive
program for wallpaper control. ABF Software | Win.2000/2003/XP | 2.73
Mb | trial |
Shorty
A utility that allows you to access your screensaver quickly and easily
with a click of your mouse. Once installed, Shorty rests on your Taskbar
as a small icon. Delfyn Software | Win.9x/ME/NT/2000/XP | 279 Kb |
free |
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File Utilities |
Dead-Links.com
Link checking tool. Some false readings but not bad for free. Just
type in the website address and press the button. Dead-Links.com |
free |
Defraggler
A great freeware alternative to Windows defragger. See and pick the
files, folders on your hard drive to defragg or the whole disk and
see what's going on as it defraggs. Very easy to use with a great
interface. Piriform | Windows | Win.2000/2003/XP/Vista | 400 Kb |
free |
MediaMonkey
Touted as the music organizer for the serious collector. Edit and
manage tens of thousands of songs easily and synchronize with almost
any portable player. Highly rated. Ventis Media | Win.98/ME/NT4x/2000/XP/2003,Vista
| 6.6 Mb | free |
Winzip
The easiest to use and perhaps the best utility for zipping and unzipping
software distributed as .zip files and more. Winzip | Win.9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
| 17.25 Mb | shareware |
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Sound Utilities |
Audacity
Free open source application for recording and editing sounds. Easy
to use with a great interface. Audacity | Win.98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
| 2.12 Mb | free |
CD
to MP3 Ripper
Rips audio CD tracks and saves them into audio formats, mp3, wav and
more. High speed ripping with multiple CD-ROM support . mp3-ripper.net
| Win.9x/ME/NT/2000/XP | 4.75 Mb | trial |
LAME
Free open source MP3 encoder. Great functionality combined with speed.
Works with front end applications like Audacity and RazorLame to convert
audio/video files to MP3. LAME Project | 1.3 Mb | Linux/MacOS/Windows
| free |
RazorLame
Open source front end application for the LAME encoder. Easy to use
graphical interface and small in size. Holger Dors | Win.9x/NT4/2000/XP
| 324 Kb | free |
| Security |
Ad-Aware
SE Personal
Scan your RAM, Registry, hard drives, and external storage devices
for dangerous threats to your security and privacy. Highly rated,
popular and easy to use. Download from Lavasoft | Win.98/ME/NT/2000/XP
| 2.7 Mb | trial |
Avast
Antivirus software for home use. Non intrusive and easy on
your system. Certified to be effective. Download from Avast | Win.9x/ME/NT4/2000/XP
| 11.5 Mb | free |
Comodo
Firewall + AntiVirus
The highly rated free personal version comes with both firewall and
anti virus which can be installed separately. Comodo | Win.Vista/XP/Windows
7 | 39 Mb | free |
NOD32
Antivirus software for home use. Very popular and certified to be
effective. Robust but easy on your system. We use it on our computers,
works great. Download from Eset | Windows | 10 Mb | trial |
Online
Armor
Efficient and effective free personal firewall that provides great
security for those on a tight budget. One of the best free firewalls.
Tall Emu | Win.XP/Vista | 10 Mb | free |
Outpost
Firewall Free 2009
A highly rated free personal firewall with advanced bidirectional
protection with minimal system resource impact. Agnitum | Win.2000/XP/Vista
| 16.7 Mb | free |
PC
Tools Firewall Plus
Offers protection from unauthorized users gaining access to your computer
through the Internet or a network. Highly rated and popular. PC Tools
| Win.XP/Vista/Win.7 | 10.3 Mb | free |
Pest
Patrol
A powerful security and personal privacy tool that detects and eliminates
destructive pests like trojans, spyware, adware and hacker tools.
A must have for frequent surfers. Download this award winning tool
from their site. Pest Patrol | Win.9x/ME/NT/2000/XP | 11 Mg |
trial |
Spybot
Search&Destroy
Detect and remove spyware from your computer. Rated one of the best
every year by PC Magazine. Download from author's website. Spybot
Search&Destroy | Win.9x/ME/NT/2000/XP | 4.15 Mb | free |
ZoneAlarm
Award-winning personal firewall automatically blocks dangerous Internet
threats and provides the basic protection individuals need to secure
their PC and keep their information private. The most effective personal
firewall protection available. Download from their site.
Zone Labs | Win.9x/ME/NT/2000/XP | 3.4 Mg | free |
| System Utilities |
EasyBCD
Easy solution for setting up and configuring Windows boot entries
to quickly boot into Linux, Mac OS X, or BSD straight from the Windows
Vista bootloader, on the fly, We used it to create a triple OS boot
of XP, Vista 32bit and Windows 7 64bit. Worked like a charm. NeoSmart
| Windows |1 Mb | free |
Belarc
Advisor
A very handy program that audits and displays your computer profile
on your web browser. Shows installed software, hardware, drivers,
missing Microsoft hot fixes, anti-virus status and more. Belarc |
Win.9x/ME/NT4/2000/2003/XP/Vista | 1.7 Mb | free |
CCleaner
System optimizer to clean and speedup your computer. Very intuitive
and easy to use with an excellent interface. One of the most popular,
over 140 million downloads worldwide and always on best freeware utility
lists. Piriform | Windows | 2.8 Mb | free |
CPU-Z
A freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of
your system. Detailed info on the voltage and temperatures of the
CPU, mainboard and memory in real time. Perhaps the most referenced
utility by component reviewers and enthusiasts. CPUID | Win.9x/ME/2000/NT/XP/Vista/Win.7
| 2.4 Mb | free |
PC
Wizard
A free utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system.
It can analyze and benchmark hardware, such as CPU performance, Cache
performance, RAM performance, Hard Disk performance, CD/DVD-ROM performance,
Removable/FLASH Media performance, Video performance, MP3 compression
performance. CUPID | Win.9x/ME/2000/NT/XP/Vista/Win.7 | 4.8 Mb | free |
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