Audio Digital Software

Arezmedia
www.arezsoft.co.uk

Audia Media Player
www.frontiernet.net/~wcress/audia_info.html

Foobar
www.foobar2000.org

Internet Player
www.listen-music.org

Media Center
www.musicex.com/mediacenter

Quintessential Player
www.quinnware.com

Xion
http://xion.r2.com.au

Winamp 5 Lite
www.winamp.com

Free CD Ripper

CD to MP3 Freeware v1.8



Free CD to MP3 Converter is an easy-to-use free CD ripper software that allows you to extract audio files from a CD and convert them to MP3, Wav or Ogg format. It can automatically retrieve title information from the CDDB database, normalize the output files and supports additional LAME options. You can also use the software to record to MP3 with your microphone, or to convert WAV files to MP3 or Ogg format.
Size : 1084KB, OS : Windows All Versions
www.eusing.com

Focus Free CD Ripper
Free CD Ripper 3.1 is a powerful, professional software which can extract Digital Audio tracks from an Audio CD into sound files on your hard disk. With its powerful sound engine, Free CD Ripper 3.1 extracts with high speed and quality. Free CD Ripper 3.1 supports Freedb and ID3 tagging so you can automatically download CD track information and it them in the encoded file.
Size : 16523KB, OS : Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
www.focussoft.net

CDData Extract v2.1
A freeware utility that is, in essence, a simple mini-install program useful for moving files off a data (not audio or video) CD or DVD onto a user's hard disk. In the process it removes the read-only attribute of any files copied, although this and other behaviour can be modified through providing an ini file.
Size : 1568KB, OS : Windows All Versions
www.rdas.co.uk

Audio Crusher v1.4
AudioCrusher is a freeware CD Ripper with complete ID3 tagging support and lots of other features like freedb support, CD audio playback, automatic playlist generation and more.
Size : 276KB, OS : Windows All Versions
www.sysdesk.de

Audio Grabber v1.83
Audiograbber is a beautiful piece of software that grabs digital audio from cd's. It copies the audio digitally-not through the soundcard-which enables you to make perfect copies of the originals. It can even perform a test to see that the copies really are perfect.
Size : 1626KB, OS : Windows All Versions
www.audiograbber.com-us.net

Exact Audio Copy v0.95
EAC is a new audio grabber for CD-ROM drives. The main differences between most other audio grabbers :
- The cost of registration is low (just a postcard and a stamp)
- It works with a new technology, reading audio CDs almost perfectly. If there are any errors that can't be corrected, it will tell you on which time position the (possible) distortion occurred, so you could easily control it with e.g. the media player
Size : 1747KB, OS : Windows All Versions
www.exactaudiocopy.de

CDAID v3.20
CD Audio Information Downloader lets you obtain CD information (i.e. artist, song title, etc.) from freedb over the Internet. No more guessing what the title of song 4 is or trying to remember the name of the CD in your tray.
Size : 448KB, OS : Windows All Versions
www.marvintec.com

Nero CD DAE v0.4b
Seeing is believing! Get your FREE version of Nero PhotoShow Express 4 and start experiencing the simple and exciting way to manage your photos and share them with your loved ones.
Size : 275KB, OS : Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
www.nero.com

Alternative Software

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.
IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, which whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView is stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, since 5+ years).
http://irfanview.com

Pixvue
PixVue makes it really easy to add text to images. Simply select the images that you want to describe and choose an item from a context menu. This is all done right within Windows Explorer.
http://www.pixvue.com

Ibrowser
iBrowser is an efficient image viewer and browser. It is optimized for fast thumbnail preview of folders with a large number of images. All popular graphic formats are supported.
http://ibrowser.fcodersoft.com

ImageXYZ



ImageXYZ is a utility to watermark your copyrighted images using single or multi-line text with virtually any font installed on your system. You can specify the font properties (type, size, bold, italic, etc.) and choose the fore color and shadow color of the watermark. The brightness level of the watermark and shadow colors are adjustable as well. The watermark can be located anywhere on the image by using X and Y scrollbars. The final image can be saved as a bitmap (.bmp), jpeg, (.jpg), tiff (.tiff) or png (.png) image or you can simply copy the image to the clipboard to be pasted into Microsoft Word or any other application capable of accepting pasted images. Image effects can be applied to the original image before and after watermarking.
www.designworkz.com

Unidream Powerbatch
Power Batch freeware does batch convert, resize, rename, crop, rotate, enhance, and print out your watermarked photos. Conversion is performed among JPEG, TIFF, GIF, BITMAP, PNG and JPEG2000. Resizing can use one of the 11 resampling filters. Renaming template uses a combination of EXIF date/time, auto number and any custom string. You create your watermarks the same way as in Photo Watermark Professional and print your watermarked photos in batch mode. A built-in FTP client lets you upload and download your photos directly to and from your server.
www.unidreamtech.com

Everest Home Edition
Lavalys is dedicated to providing effective and economical solutions to small, medium and large-scale companies. Our products help network administrators and systems integrators with their job of providing well-integrated and cost-effective network management and security solutions. Lavalys is committed to meeting those needs through its worldwide partnerships with value added resellers and business partners. Our tools and solutions for Windows are setting the standard in this market segment.
www.lavalys.com

Exifer
Exifer is a nearly free software (you only should send me a postcard if you're using Exifer frequently) with which you can manage the metadata (EXIF/IPTC) of pictures taken by digital cameras.
www.friedemann-schmidt.com/software/exifer

Powerbullet Presenter
Powerbullet Presenter is a small, simple and free program for creating presentations in the Flash™ format. You don't need any experience to create slick animated presentations by simply typing, clicking and dragging.
www.powerbullet.com

Synchpst For Outlook

SynchPst for Outlook - the easy way to synchronize data between personal folders. Choose either single or multiple folders, with or without subfolders, and synchronize them quickly and efficiently.
www.synchpst.com

Linux and Open Source

Slashdot
www.slashdot.org

Groklaw
www.groklaw.net

LWN.net
www.lwn.net

LinuxInsider
www.linuxinsider.com

Linux Today
www.linuxtoday.com

Newsforge
www.newsforge.com

Linux.com
www.linux.com

Free Graphic Software

ImageXYZ
ImageXYZ v1.0.2 is a utility to watermark your copyrighted images using single or multi-line text with virtually any font installed on your system. You can specify the font properties (type, size, bold, italic, etc.) and choose the fore color and shadow color of the watermark. The brightness level of the watermark and shadow colors are adjustable as well.
www.designworkz.com

Get Canon!
GetCanon! is a image downloader for Canon digital cameras. It's small, quick and simple. It can download images, rotate them automatically and delete them from camera. If you hate the "designer" interface of Canon utilities and hate Windows messing with image filenames, this is the right tool for you
www.vidmar.net/getcanon

Image Enhance



Image Enhance 3.2.4 with Drag & Drop is a free image editor for Windows 95 and later. It features support for bitmap and JPEG images, webcams, digital cameras and scanners. You can digitally enhance your images by applying different filters and effects, like sharpness, contrast, grayscale, invert, logaritmize, find edges, old photo and more. You can also design your own filters.
http://home.bip.net/baxtrom

CBN Selector
Use CBN Selector's "Color grabber" to select color in any digital photo, and have that color reproduced in the material of your choice. Creating your custom colors that hold meaning for you has never been easier. CBN's unique CBN Code ensures you get your color from the CBN affiliate in your region.
www.cbnsystem.com

JPG Cleaner
http://rainbow.ht.st

UniDream Power Batch
Power Batch freeware does batch convert, resize, rename, crop, rotate, adjust, and print out your watermarked photos. Conversion is performed among JPEG, TIFF, GIF, BITMAP, PNG and JPEG2000. Resizing can use one of the 11 resampling filters. Renaming template uses a combination of EXIF date/time, auto number and any custom string.
www.unidreamtech.com

HoverSnap
www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

Automobile Magazine

Automobile Magazine
www.automobilemag.com

Auto Week
www.autoweek.com

Motor Trend
www.motortrend.com

Auto Speed
www.autospeed.com

Car and Driver Magazine
www.caranddriver.com

Car Audio & Electronics Magazine
www.caraudiomag.com

Sport Compact Car Magazine
www.sportcompactcarweb.com

What Car?
www.whatcar.co.uk

Top Gear
www.topgear.com

Road and Truck Magazine
www.rodandtruck.com

Diagnostic Tools and PC Information

HWiNfo


HWiNFO are professional hardware information and diagnostic tools supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards. Both tools are targeted to recognize and extract the most possible amount of information about computer's hardware which makes them suitable for users searching for driver updates, computer manufactures, system integrators and technical exteperts too. Retrieved informations are presented in a logical and easily understandable form and can be exported into various types of reports.
www.hwinfo.com

Dr. Hardware



Since 1994 Dr. Hardware is among the most advanced system information programs on the market. This program is made for beginners and professional users, for your desktop and notebook PC.Dr. Hardware covers the whole machine and includes not only the common stuff (like processor detection etc.) but also some more sophisticated tests like hardware sensor, ATA/S-ATA/Atapi and network analysis. Also it comes with 7 benchmark tests and provides full support for all 32Bit Windows desktop versions Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, 2003 and XP.
www.dr-hardware.com

PC Surgeon 3.01

PC Surgeon provides advanced diagnostics, monitoring and troubleshooting for Windows NT, 2K and XP. Includes powerful tools to examine and fix your problems. All in a single EXE with NO dependancies or additional files to install. v4.50 3/29/06
www.winutils.com

PC Wizard 2004



Is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It's able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. This tool is periodically updated (usually once per month) in order to provide most accurate results.
www.cpuid.com

3DMark03

by combining full DirectX?9.0b support with completely new tests and graphics, 3DMark03 continues the legacy of being industry standard benchmark.
www.futuremark.com

PC Mark 2002

PCMark2002 Pro is the first unified benchmark from Futuremark. It is easy to use, and it measures and compares performance for all PCs, laptops, and workstations, across multiple Windows? operating systems.
www.futuremark.com

Meta Bench



MetaBench is a benchmarking program being developed by 7Byte. It is consisted of more than 55 different tests designed to benchmark high-end systems. Benchmarks are carefully designed in consideration with new CPUs and system architectures. It consists of two types of benchmarks: Synthetic and practical. Its synthetic test measures different component's performance purely. Practical tests are consisted of different algorithms being used in different software. They are designed to measure performance of the whole system as unit, they include Raytrace Rendering, Ogg Vorbis audio encoding/decoding(very similar to MP3), Blowfish encryption/decryption, Fast Fourier Transforms(FFT) tests and PPMD compression method.
www.7byte.com

Sandra 2007

SiSoftware Sandra 2007: London, UK, May 7th 2006 - SiSoftware has announced the availability of SiSoftware Sandra 2007, the latest version of its award-winning utility which includes remote analysis, benchmarking and diagnostic features.
With each release we add new support and compatibility for the latest hardware, architectures and operating systems and this is no exception. We have also taken the opportunity to add 4 new benchmarks, 2 new modules, and updated many more. more...
www.sisoftware.co.uk

Win Taska 5 Profesionnal



The ultimate power utility software that arms users with a comprehensive set of tools to put them in full control of their computer.
WinTasks 5.0 Professional provides you with a wealth of information and a powerful set of tools that will help you enhance the protection against system security threats while dramatically increasing computer performance. The award-winning WinTasks 5.0 Professional is the most reliable and intuitive software that enables you to fully take charge of your computer.
www.liutilities.com