Here are some of the freeware programs that I use...

Click on the icons to download a program or to go to a site.

Go to IrfanView... don't forget to get the plugins. IrfanView is a fast image viewer/converter.

Supported file formats: AIF, ANI/CUR, ASF, AU/SND, AVI, BMP/DIB, CAM (Casio), CLP, Dicom/ACR, DJVU, EMF/WMF, EPS, FlashPix (FPX), G3, GIF, ICO/ICL/EXE/DLL, IFF/LBM, IMG (GEM), JPG/JPEG, KDC, LDF, LWF, MED, MID/RMI, MOV, MP3, MPG/MPEG, PBM/PGM/PPM, PCX/DCX, PhotoCD, PNG, PSD, PSP, RAS/SUN, RealAudio (RA), RLE, SFF, SFW, SGI/RGB, SWF (Flash/Shockwave), TGA, TIF/TIFF, WAV, WBMP, XBM, XPM.

Support for Apple QuickTime: allows IrfanView to read following formats: MOV, QTIF, Mac PICT, FLI/FLC.

Microsoft Media Player PlugIn: allows IrfanView to read following formats: ASF, AU/SND/AIF, AVI, DAT (VideoCD), MID/RMI, MOV, MP3, MPG/MPEG, WAV, WMA, WMF, etc.
Some features of IrfanView: Multi language support, Thumbnail option, preview option, slideshow, drag & drop support, fast directory view (fast moving through directory), batch conversion, email option, audio CD player, print option, change color depth, scan support, cut/crop, effects (sharpen, blur, Photoshop filter factory), capturing, extract icons from EXE/DLLs, lossless JPG rotation, many hotkeys, many command line options ...

IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer (worldwide) with Animated-GIF support!


Download If you need graph paper then GRAPH PAPER PRINTER is the program to get.

Just about every kind of graph paper that you'll ever need is within this program.


Included is a program called: CraftGrid, a simple square grid program.
NOTE: There is no setup for CraftGrid.
Just unzip, put craftgrid.exe wherever you wish and make a Shortcut.


Download Refresh your icons with FreshIcons.

The bad news is:
Every once in a while Windows goes nutz and it changes your icons for you
and this is not kewl!

The good news is:
This program will put your icons back to what they were is the first place.

NOTE: There is no setup for this program.
Just unzip, put FreshIcons.exe wherever you wish and make a Shortcut.


Go to ZipGenius. ZipGenius is a powerful zip tool suite that offers a variety of features.

It offers support for more than 20 different compression formats, including 7zip, ZIP64 and many others. It supports drag and drop, 5 compression levels, full customization and integration in Windows Explorer. The program also comes with a built in FTP client that allows to download and upload files from within the software. The signature features allows you to add your signature and contact information to any zip file you create. ZipGenius also supports the creation of self-extracting exe files, complete with custom setup launch and icon. This very complete and unique tool package also comes with additional features like encryption, scanner support (acquire pictures and zip them into files), backup, statistics, download time calculator, disk spanning, file export, support for OpenOffice and more. ZipGenius can also interact with your Pocket PC device.


Download ZipScan is a program that performs a fast file search which includes
inside archive files, such as Zip files. This is useful if you have lots of documents archived in Zip files and need to be able to search for specific documents. It is also useful when looking for a particular DLL from a set of CAB installation files, and for Java programmers who need to search through their JAR archives. This utility was written because programs such as WinZip do not have a search facility.

NOTE: There is no setup for ZipScan.
Just unzip, put all the files wherever you wish and make a Shortcut.


Go to Pixia... don't forget the help files. Pixia is a great graphics program to "kick-start" you into the graphics world.

Click thumbnail for full size pixia. ←A picture is worth a thousand words.
  Click on the thumbnail for 800 x 600 Pix.(83KB)

 

 


Go get The Font Thing... I think that this is 'THE' program to have if you have more than one font. :-)

With The Font Thing you can:
Browse installed and uninstalled fonts.
Browse fonts in subfolders as a single combined list.
View sample text and inDIVidual characters in your choice of colors.
Change sample text "on the fly" or easily switch between your own standard text samples.
View detailed font information.
Print font samples.
Associate notes with fonts.
Install or uninstall any number of fonts at once.
Load (and unload) any number of fonts for temporary use.
Copy or delete any number of font files at once.
Rename font files to avoid file name conflicts.
Filter fonts shown according to their type.
Group fonts into collections for easier management,
Use multiple font windows simultaneously for easy font comparison and management.

The Font Thing supports drag and drop internally and from Windows Explorer, and can also transfer files in either direction using the Windows clipboard.


Go get 'em all. Seven programs and they are all very useful.


Here they are:
B/Works: Crate interesting B/W images from your digital cameras. Uses many different procedures to enhance skies. Create Sepia look or Doutones.

ColorCast FX: Many Digital cameras don't reproduce the nature colors. The grass is dark, almost black instead of green, the houses have some blue cast... ColorCastFX changes the colors to match original and create perfectly balanced image.

CleanSkinFX is the most powerful automatic retouch for portraits. It smoothes the skin of the object while preserving all the details and crispness of hair, eyes or background. This procedure was exclusively developed by mediachance.com and it can't be found anywhere else.

DCEnhance: Digital Camera Enhancer does the hard job of noise reducing, skin smoothing and automatic balance control for you. The program works best if you have bad light condition (indoor, shadows etc..) and your image is somehow off. So if some of your images are already fine, you won't see much difference. One thing makes DCEnhancer different from other tools - reducing the noise and skin smoothing algorithm. It makes DCE ideal for making cool portraits and close-ups.

FilterSIM: Simulate the ussage of Kodak Wratten filters on your digital images. Warm or cool your scene. Learn when to use Color Correction filter, how to raise or lower a color temperature of the lightand much more...

Hot pixels is a known problem of all CCD cameras during long exposures (1s and up). A hot pixel is created by an element with a higher rate of charge leakage than its neighbors. On long exposure the leakage may cross the exposed value treshold thus producing a white dot on the image. HotPixels, the program removes such noise with preserving details.

RGBLights: Create an image with amazing colors with just digital camera this software and the equipment you have already at home! No needs for special color lights. Professional photographers knows that using an interesting light is the 80% of success. (Well even photography gets the name from light.) Now you can produce amazing close-up photography without using the expensive light equipment.

Please note: You do not need a digital camera to use these programs.


Go to Grisoft... This is a Free Anti-Virus Protection Program!

AVG Resident Protection
AVG Email Scanner
AVG On-Demand Scanner
Scheduled Tests
Free Virus Database Updates
Automatic Update feature
Easy-To-Use Interface
Automatic Healing of infected files
AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files


Download "Clean up" your emails.

Love them or hate them, we all get them. They're those "cute" emails that arrive in our inboxes every so often. They come from friends and coworkers and usually contain jokes or sometimes heartwarming anecdotes. Often, they provide a much needed break in the middle of a seemingly endless work day.

Unfortunately, because these emails have been passed around more times than most of us would care to count, they're littered with plenty of the extraneous characters (like greater than signs and colons) that are added to emails every time they are forwarded. These can be handy in identifying who has contributed what to an email but when an email contains too many of them, line spacing is disrupted and margins can be shifted. In short, readability suffers.

eCleaner is a FREE utility that will "clean up" you emails by automatically removing all those pesky indent characters for you. You could delete them manually or better still use the Find/Replace function found in most word processors and text editors to get rid of them but neither of these methods can match the ease or speed of eCleaner. Cleaning your emails is quick and painless. Just copy the text from your email, paste it into eCleaner and click on a toolbar button. eCleaner can strip indent characters, headers and even HTML from your email and leave you with crisp, clean readable text that's suitable for saving or even forwarding to others! What could be easier?

Best of all, eCleaner is a FREE download that weighs in at under 500 KB. There's just no reason not to have it. Download your copy today!