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Brava! Reader is a free application that opens, views, and prints TIFF and PDF files and CSF (content sealed format) files created by the Net-It publishing products.

CSF is a compressed format that encompasses our Visual Rights™ persistent security, that includes password protection, onscreen banners, print and other feature restrictions, and more.

Brava Reader is simple to use and runs as a desktop program or as an ActiveX component in a web page.

Key features:

Supports TIFF, PDF and CSF

Documents to oversized CAD drawings

Find Search/Find (CSF)

Thumbnails

Hyperlinks (CSF)

CAD layering, attributes, measure, print to scale (CSF)

System Requirements:

Win2K, XP, 2003

Screen shot From Softpedia:

January 26, 2006

Audiograbber

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. Audiograbber can also automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and send them to a variety or external MP3 encoders, such as Fraunhofers L3enc, or even use some MP3/WMA encoders internally for automatic creation of MP3's. Audiograbber can download and upload disc info from freedb, an Internet compact disc database. You can even record your vinyl LP's or cassette tapes with Audiograbber and make wav's or MP3's of them. There are a lot more functions in Audiograbber, but to put it simply: Audiograbber has the most features one can wish from such a program!

Another great thing with this software is that it does not put a single file in your windows directories! No DLL's, OCX's, device drivers, spyware, adware or whatever else that messes up the computer. Not a single entry in the registry or win.ini. If you delete the Audiograbber directory it's all gone, that's it!

Guide for New users

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4,972 · January 26, 2006

CD/DVD stuff

dd for windows http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htm

Tiny program ported from Linux, run from command line, all documented on homepage.

Can create an .iso from an already written disc, had to do this today, and make an .img fom a floppy.

2,202 · January 26, 2006

FreeProxy

Very easy to use free Proxy Server, good for internet connection sharing. Got some good features too like tunnels and forwarding.

http://www.handcraftedsoftware.org/

4,972 · January 27, 2006

Network Tools FreeNAS

http://www.freenas.org/

FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS protocols, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 16MB once installed on Compact Flash, hard drive or USB key.

3,645 · January 27, 2006

http://tangoftp.com

Tango Dropbox v2.0 - creates a shortcut on your desktop which allows you to drag'n'drop files directly to your FTP server. You can have as many shortcuts as you like with each one pointing to a different directory.

It looks sweet on customized desktops and is an ideal replacement for Avedesk if FTP Drop is the only widget you ever used.

January 27, 2006

Simplyzip v1.1b62 is a FREEWARE multi archiver.

It does not write any entries to the registry or anywhere else. Version 1.1 has been rewritten from scratch.

Main Features:

Open: ZIP, CZIP, ACE, CAB, RAR, TAR, GZIP, LZH, BZ2, SQX, RS, UUE, XXE, BASE64, UCL, ARJ, ZLIB, ALIB, RPM, DEB, 7-ZIP

Create: 7z, ZIP, CZIP, Cab, LHA, TAR, TAR GZ TAR BZ2, ACE (optionale DLL), Deepfreezer, SQX, UCL, RS, ZIP-SFX/LHA-SFX, RAR-SFX, UUE/XXE, ZLIB and Base64.

Multi-ZIP

Backup to disk (e.g. CD)

ZIP-Rpair

Crypt files with:Rijndael AES/Twofish (both 256bit keysize) and Blowfish (448bit keysize) incl SFX creator and an ArcConverter

Create RAR/ACE (new version) and LHA SFX (with optional files from my site)

Localisation: English, German, Italian, Spanish, portugues-br and Swedish

ZIPSFX now in English, German, French and Spanish (in the setup)

Standalone: After installation you can copy all files from Simplyzip folder (excepted the uninst.exe) and use it whereever you want

4,972 · January 29, 2006

Partitioning

Dubaron DiskImage http://www.dubaron.com/diskimage/

Photo Manipulation

PhotoMerge http://www.kiwiczech.net/index.php?menu=354⊂=5

PhotoMerge is easy to use tool for text inserting into your digital photos.

Inserted text can be any user defined string, any EXIF tag from photo and more. Any combinations of text are allowed. Batch processing. Easy configurable by predefined profiles. Creating and editing your personal comments for individual photos. Resizing photos ratio before processing in a minilab/photolab (4:3, 3:2, ...). Export all EXIF tags to a file (CSV, HTM, XLS)

January 29, 2006

can someone recommend a freeware tweaking program for Windows XP? Thanks! ;)

January 29, 2006

Color Schemer

http://www.colorschemer.com/

Rubber Duck

http://www.d-lusion.com/DownloadRubberduck.html

EvrSoft First Page 2006 HTML Editor

http://www.evrsoft.com/1stpage3.shtml

... and more @ my site - see sig.

January 31, 2006

can someone recommend a freeware tweaking program for Windows XP? Thanks! ;)

X-SETUP PRO 6.6 (Last freeware version)

X-SETUP PRO 6.6

Click on klicken Sie bitte hier >>>

This program is for the serious tweaker.

It features over 1500 tweaks and is the last version before it went shareware, get it quick.

Note: Use with caution

4,972 · February 1, 2006

Why Reboot? http://www.exodus-dev.com/products/WhyReboot/

Shows pending system changes made by an installer when in asks "Would you like to restart your computer now?"

February 1, 2006

Hey ! You Forgot File Sharing Programs

:D (Just Kidding)

Good List

February 1, 2006

My favorite free file manager.

Xyplorer

Features

4,972 · February 3, 2006

Partition Managers

Partition Logic http://visopsys.org/partlogic/download.html

Partition Logic is a free hard disk partitioning and data management tool. It can create, delete, format, defragment, resize, and move partitions and modify their attributes. It can copy entire hard disks from one to another.

4,972 · February 3, 2006

Free iPod Video Converter http://www.ipod-video-converter.org/

Free iPod Video Converter provides an easy and completed way to convert all popular video formats to iPod video. You can enjoy DVD/VCD and AVI, MPEG, WMV, RM, RMVB, DivX, ASF, VOB video files in your iPod with few clicks.

4,972 · February 4, 2006

Sync Software

Sync-Tool 2.0 http://www.onlinesync.de/download/ (German and English)

Allway Sync http://www.allwaysync.com/

Sync Ops http://www.e-eeasy.com/SyncOps.aspx

Syncro http://members.optusnet.com.au/quantrixnet...ucts/syncro.htm

4,972 · February 4, 2006

Video DVD Maker Free http://www.videodvdmaker.com/products.php

- Capture video from any video device (DV camera, web camera, TV tuner, etc.)

- Import from any video file (AVI, DIVX, XVID, MP4, MPG, WMV, ASF, MOV, etc.)

- Burn to any type of media (CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD DL, etc.)

- Intuitive user interface;

February 4, 2006

fSekrit is a small application for keeping encrypted notes.

The real advantage of fSekrit is that notes are truly self-contained; the editor program and your note are merged together into a tiny self-contained program file, removing the need to install a special application to view your data.

This makes fSekrit ideal for keeping encrypted notes on, for example, USB flash drives.

Another advantage of using fSekrit is that your un-encrypted data is never stored on your harddisk. With a traditional encryption utility you would have to decrypt your file to disk, view or edit it, and then re-encrypt it, and unless you use secure file wiping tools, it would be a trivial matter for someone to to retrieve your un-encrypted data, even though you have deleted it. This can't be done with fSekrit, though, since it never stores your un-encrypted data on disk.

fSekrit uses very strong encryption (256-bit AES/Rijndael in CBC mode) to ensure that your data is never at risk.

Self contained fSekrit notefiles are tiny! Only 40k plus the size of your text.

DOWNLOAD

4,972 · February 4, 2006

GoodSync http://www.goodsync.com/index.html

GoodSync uses an innovative synchronization algorithm to synchronize your data between desktop PCs, laptops, USB drives and more. GoodSync combines bulletproof reliability with an extremely easy to use interface.

GoodSync was developed by Siber Systems, the creators of RoboForm.

4,972 · February 4, 2006

Antivirus

Trend Micro Sysclean Package http://www.trendmicro.com/download/dcs.asp

Download the latest Trend Micro definitions and unzip to the same folder as the above program and run it.

February 5, 2006

ToolbarCop is a browser extensions manager

which can disable or eliminate the following browser add-ons selectively from Internet Explorer:

Browser Helper Objects (BHO)

Toolbars

Standard Toolbar buttons

Context menu Extensions

Download managers

Protocol Handlers

Horizontal / Vertical Explorer Bars (side-search bars)

Startup applications originating from RUN registry keys.

Tutorial

Screenshot

February 6, 2006

Three desktop publishing programs:

Ragtime Solo - http://www.ragtime-online.com/

Serif PagePlus SE - http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/...lus/default.asp

Scribus - http://windows.scribus.net

February 7, 2006

Audio - Skale Tracker --> www.skale.org

CD/DVD Creation - HT Fireman --> www.ht-fireman.com

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