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ATITool 0.25 Beta 11

Freeware

You've bought a new ATI card but you're pretty sure it can do more, go further. Most CPUs can be pushed to their limits and your graphics card is no exception. Use this ATI graphic card tweaking tool to take your card to the limits (all safely).

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

Portable Firefox 1.5

Freeware

Fully functional package of Firefox optimised for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimisations to make it perform faster as well as a launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

VLC 0.8.4

Freeware

Highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

IrfanView 3.98

Freeware

Fast image viewer and editor that supports all major graphic formats. Features drag-and-drop support, TWAIN support, slide shows, batch conversion, and modifications, such as color depth, crop, blur, and sharpen.

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

Portable OpenOffice 2.01

Freeware

Complete OpenOffice.org office suite -- including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database -- packaged as a portable app, so you can take all your documents and everything you need to work with them wherever you go.

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

Xine 1.1.1

Freeware

Multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available - and some of the most uncommon formats, too.

Requires: Front-end for your Linux distribution (see website)