| 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 |
My
Video
Play video files as a screensaver. An elegant freeware program with
an amazingly small file size. TCSOFT Development | Win.9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
| 64 Kb | free |
Power
Builder
Create professional image slide show, shockwave flash or movie screen
savers quickly and easily. efiresoft | Win.9xME/NT/2000/XP | 2237
Kb | trial |
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 |
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 |
Paint
Shop Pro
The easiest to use and the most affordable paint program for professional
results. See website for in-depth description. Jasc
| Win.9x/ME/NT/2000/XP | 30.17 Mb | sharware |
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 |
Wallpaper
Sequencer
Program the wallpaper to change automatically on system start or shutdown,
on-hot-key press, or after a specified time period. More features
included. Draxysoft | Win.9x/ME/NT4/2000/XP | 1.9 Mb | trial
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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 |
FileAnt
File Manager
A versatile file manager (like Explorer) on tabs (like Excel), also
a Ftp Client and has nice features such as folder pie charts, and
a viewer for commonly used file formats. Download from the author's
website. OneHundredAngryAnts | Win.9x/ME/NT/2000/XP | 2.58 Mb | trial |
System
LifeGuard
Clean up old material and technical clutter that slow down the operation
of your hardware and software. Maintain peak operating efficiency,
and protect your vital data from loss.
Accelerated Software | Win.98/ME/2000/XP | purchase |
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 |
Abander
MP3 Image Extractor
A free and easy-to-use MP3 Tag Viewer and MP3 Image extractor. Support:
ID3v1, ID3v2 tags (artist, album, title, track, year, genre, comment
and image [APIC ID3v2 frames]) and MPEG information (bitrate, sample
rate). SoftArtStudio | Win.9x/ME/NT4/2000/XP | 519 Kb | 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 |
MagicScore
An amazing and powerful music editor. A convenient interface for a
set of musical score, data input by means of a virtual keyboard, external
MIDI devices and a big set of musical symbols. Reproduction and printing
of the musical score and much more. Highly rated.
DGSoftware | Win.3x/9x/ME/NT/2000/XP | 1.61 Mb | shareware
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| 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 |
NOD32
Antivirus software for home use. Very popular and certified to be
effective. Robust but easy on your system. Download from Eset | Windows
| 10 Mb | trial |
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 |
Please contact the author/website directly for all program
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