IE New Window Maximizer 2.4.0.1

IE New Window Maximizer is a free program that allows you to zoom in on any new window open in Internet Explorer.
The program includes a function to hide or close all Internet Explorer windows with the touch of a keystroke.

And can also provide an Internet Explorer window that is hidden or closed when you press the key combination set.
A special function allows you to handle, as desired by the user, the pop-up windows (pop-up) that appear while surfing the Net
IE New Window Maximizer also allows to open all the windows in a "full screen".

Keep in mind that if you are using a copy of Internet Explorer "custom"(with the title bar that contains no "Internet Explorer" but another condition) is necessary to specify manually within the program, the last 8 characters appear in the title bar.

IE New Window Maximizer 2.4.0.1

CladDVD XP 3.0

CladDVD is a program that allows you to "rip" or extract from a DVD movie audio/video store automatically on your hard drive.
The main features include the ability to rip an entire movie, or specific parts of it.

The program is also able to perform a variety of advanced operations on DVD movies, among which include the ability to merge into a single file, the various VOB files inside the DVD-ROM.
CladDVD XP allows you to "rip" a single file, all the movies inside the main movie or the DVD.

The program includes an option for recognition of multi-angle mode, errors masterizzazone, Macrovision protection, and more.
This version is completely free, has been developed specifically for Windows XP and Windows 2000 (you need to install. NET Framework from Microsoft: see. This page to download).

The old CladDVD XP 1.32, compatible with Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP is instead downloaded for free here. (1.1 MB).

The program requires the Visual Basic 6.0 runtime libraries.

CladDVD XP 3.0

Vallen Jpegger 5.62

Vallen JPegger is a simple and easy to use, allowing you to view large image quantatitivi contained in folders and subfolders.
The image formats supported are more than 40. The context menu, which follows the Windows shell, contains all the standard functions for managing image files (copy, move, delete).

The program automatically creates thumbnails of images stored on disk.
It also includes support for printing images, while maintaining the original aspect ratio.
Vallen JPegger offers the display of images as slide-show (presentation). A sound player you can listen to MP3, WAV and Midi when viewing images.

Vallen Jpegger 5.62

VCDEasy 3.1.0

VCDEasy is a program that allows you to convert MPEG to Video CD.
Although this is an extremely easy to use software, are offered several advanced features.

The program includes information on supported burners as well as those relating to the codec used.

Additional features include control during playback (Playback Control), the automatic generation of the name of the CD, the ability to create customized covers.

Once completed the conversion, the CD is viewable on your TV using a standard DVD player that supports the VideoCD format.

VCDEasy 3.1.0

Terragen 0.9.43

Terragen is an excellent software that lets you create 3D landscapes. Extremely intuitive and easy to use Terragen offers an extensive archive of resources and textures to create, in seconds, any kind of landscape. And can create dream landscapes "populated" by rolling hills, rocky mountains, water, vegetation.
The program offers several levels of detail, simply adjustable to suit your needs and speed performance of its personal computer.
The editing tools allow you to add the land of snow, ice and other atmospheric effects.
Terragen allows you to "draw" the water ripples and giving wave effects, to add clouds to the sky, adjust the brightness and positioning of light sources.
Using the various "scenes" created by the program can achieve some real video.
To underline the complete free program for personal and noncommercial use.

Note: The software house producing Terragen announced that users of GeForce 4 Ti4200 graphics card or GeForce 4 TI4600, may experience problems when starting the program (ie crash). If this happens, the board of the developers of Terragen is to download and install the appropriate 'GeForce patch' (to start after the installation of Terragen).

Terragen 0.9.43

sPix 1.0

Spix is a program that includes three different sub-modules: the sPixViewer, an image viewer; sPixImage, a graphical window; sPixThumbs a window that displays a full set of images as thumbnails.

The first tool can be used to view, convert, save, copy, print or delete the images. sPixImage, allows you to make basic changes to an image, while sPixThumbs show all images as thumbnails in order to get an overview of its archive.

sPix 1.0

The GIMP 2.6.4

GIMP is a very popular on Linux. This is an excellent software that allows you to make photo editing operations to perform any type of image manipulation.
The possibilities offered by the GIMP can be compared to those of commercial software such as Photoshop or CorelDraw.
Since it is a software originally developed for the Linux platform, it is possible that Windows is still having some problems. however, the program deserves to be thoroughly tested for completely free.
If you have installed on your system an earlier version of GIMP, make sure you completely uninstall it before installing the new switch.

The GIMP 2.6.4

IrfanView 4.27

InfanView is probably the most famous and popular image viewer free for Windows.
The program is in fact in circulation on the Net for many years, and each release brings a number of innovations compared to the previous year. Some features of InfanView include the ability to preview the images and display a collection of images quickly, supports drag & drop, the ability to make the slideshow, convert a series of images from one format to another by a batch, print different images using different customization options, to change the color depth and much more.

Supported formats are a lot of JPG/JPEG, GIF, BMP, DIB, RLE, PCX, PNG, TIFF, TGA, RAS/SUN, ICO, AVI, WAV, MID, RMI, WMF, EMF, PBM, PGM, PPM, IFF/LBM, PSD, CPT, MPG/MPEG, MOV, Photo-CD, and Flash/Shockwave.

IrfanView 4.27

RIOT (Radical Image Optimization Tool)

It's a program that allows us to reduce the space occupied by an image, for example if we post on the Web, this is not to use strange formats (actually, you can upload images of many formats), or specific algorithms compression, but tries to let us use the best tools we already have.

For example, we have an image in JPEG 4MB of which we can minimize the space to put it on the Web via the GUI RIOT we will see how we're going to compress the image further, trying to Jpeg compression up (but also trying to exclude extraneous data as EXIF profile, comments, etc.).. The initial and final size of the image are written very clearly, so very easy to make a comparison.

RIOT tries to do his best not only lossy graphic formats, just like JPEG, but also non-lossy formats such as GIF and PNG.

Compress the image if there is sufficient, you can also resize it with good algorithms (Catmull Rom, Lanczos and some others): here, the advantage is that we can see the initial and final images side by side and easily decide if the quality of chosen algorithm satisfies us.

RIOT is also in portable version (no installation required).

RIOT

GimpShop

It a version of the open source GIMP image editor that has changed the GUI to make it as close as possible to that of Adobe PhotoShop. Photoshop plugins are not supported, but those are the GIMP (which fortunately there are many) also tutorials for the GIMP are almost the same, only to be adapted to different graphical interface.

For the rest, the same things said by Gimp: that is an image editor filters and rich in potential, which can also be used for commercial purposes.

GimpShop

SmillaEnlarger

It an open source portable (no installation required) that allows you to enlarge images.

In theory, the magnification of images is a feature supported by all graphic programs (such as GIMP, Paint.net, etc.). SmillaEnlarger but uses a proprietary algorithm, which should ensure better results.

Apparently it is easy to use, since you can enlarge photos or images automatically without touching any parameters. However, the results are not exceptional in this mode (they are practically the same as in any graphics program) if we want something more we need to go to set the parameters manually. In this case the results of Smilla Enlarger are slightly better, although at the cost of effort (and number of attempts) much greater.

Overall I think SmillaEnlarger is an interesting, but still has considerable room for improvement.

SmillaEnlarger

FotoSketcher

It's a program that lets you turn photos into cartoons and drawings, both black and white or color.

There are many different styles of design, from charcoal to watercolors. To make something nice with FotoSketcher, should do a little practice. By trying different types of photographs, I found that works best with small details (such as boats, architectural elements, etc..) Than with faces or human figures.

Many of the color results are nothing special (in fact some have already tried similar functionality in professional programs such as Adobe PhotoShop, and have seen how difficult it is to sound design really a drawing and not a doctored photo), but the transformation in black-and-in many cases very beautiful, and most importantly it is easier to get good results with respect to color processing.

When I say easier, does not mean that FotoSketcher is a program difficult to use (it is really easy), as that required fewer attempts (compared to default parameters) to obtain a successful result.

FotoSketcher

Comical

Comical is a good open source program (there is not only Windows but also Linux and Mac) can display on your computer CBR and CBZ comic book format.

And 'maybe some' slower than in showing CDisplay comics consist of many pages (not so instantaneous loading), it allows you to read the next page simply by double clicking the mouse (or should use the keyboard or click with the mouse on the symbol or not), but the same error.

The quality of the adaptation of page to screen is excellent, so you can choose between several algorithms to reduce, by View-> Image Filter (some are faster, as Bilinear, but display the page more blurred, while others, such as Catmull- Roma are slower, but view the page in a more incisive and brilliant).

Comical

CDisplayEx

Open source is a kind of CDisplay rewritten from scratch (and made just open source). Search it to resemble as closely as possible CDisplay, even in the GUI.
And course, possible, like all programs in this category, view two facing pages, so as close as possible to reading a comic paper (you can switch from one page to another with a double click, right as CDisplay).

CDisplayEx

Pictomio

It an image viewer who depends on the graphics, but it does so beautifully. In fact not even remotely supports all image formats in IrfanView and FastStone Image Viewer, and even has features to edit images in bulk (batch) of these two programs (and even of XnView, actually), and of Furthermore it has also considerable hardware needs ... However ... image display is absolutely spectacular, thanks to the 3D mode really well done (in some ways reminiscent of the best things of Visions). You should look at the pictures on your computer only to see it work ...

It also possible to rate the individual images and affix annotations (in order to catalog them better), and create slideshows quite spectacular.

Really nice (I still remember that the hardware requirements are significant, we need a recent PC otherwise it is useless).

Pictomio

PDF X-Change Viewer (Create and convert PDF files)

Over the years, PDF X-Change Viewer has become my favorite program to view PDF documents.

Maybe not as fast and lightweight Foxit Reader, but they have other outstanding qualities, including a beautiful graphical interface (the best of the class, in my opinion), the usual ability to zoom or rotate pages, and possibility of making notes colored and clearly visible (or comments, or similar) across the text, or underline or highlight the same, just as if we had a marker (provided that the text of the PDF has been recognized with an OCR, or come from Word documents, etc.)..

It can also convert the pages of a PDF document into individual images (GIF, PNG, JPG, etc..), Which very rarely a free PDF viewing permits.

PDF X-Change Viewer You can use it free for personal and commercial.

PDF X-Change Viewer

FastStone Image Viewer (View pictures and photographs)

Another great program to view images. Unfortunately, there are categories where the good free programs are virtually absent and others, like this display of images, where we even have three free programs at the highest level.

It can also add any text or watermarks to images, and apply other small effects. The image processing block (batch) is good, perhaps not even in XnView, but still more than valid. The stability is excellent, very rarely is a program that crashes, even when under pressure.

Watching carefully, I notice that you are inspired directly to the functions and features of Irfanview trying to improve them. The only thing that remains Irfanview is probably higher as many formats supported (directly or through plugins).

FastStone Image Viewer

Virtual Dub

It's the most popular open source program can split and combine video clips, and more. By Virtual Dub were learned many other programs, including VDM (which in years past I used to almost all video guides hitfreeware.com).

The characteristics are similar to those of VDM, the major difference that Virtual Dub is still constantly updated.

Virtual Dub

K-Lite codec Pack (encoding and decoding)

And codec pack, probably the most popular by far (it is known for many years now). It should be careful when you install it, and pay attention to unnecessary codecs, because they are rare cases of conflicts between codecs. Remember that the version of the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack includes Real Alternative and QuickTime Alternative.

If you can, I suggest you use Vista Codec Package or Divx Total Pack, which created fewer conflicts; I suggest K-Lite Codec Pack if you need codecs rare and rare.

K-Lite codec Pack

Vista Codec Package

And codec pack ready for Windows Vista and XP. Codecs are installed directly, but are not touched any preferences or pre-existing associations, so as to have the least possible impact on the system.

One of the major advantages of this package is that the codecs are already configured to work immediately without any user intervention.
It can also install/uninstalling codecs without touching each other. To avoid conflicts, are automatically removed before installing any other similar codec packs.

Vista Codec Package