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| ACDSee 5 | |
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W98/2000/NT4SP6/XP |
| Trial version | |
Location on CD: software/windows/multimed/acdsee/ | |
Installation: version 2.0 of the Windows Installer Service may be required to install ACDSee. If the install link above does not work, use the links here to download the appropriate installer file for your system: for W95/98/ME; for NT/2000. MS Internet Explorer 4.02 or later is also required.
ACDSee digital camera software makes it easy to acquire, view, organise, print, enhance and share your digital photos. Browse through and view digital photos and graphics quickly, thousands at a time. You can view and search thumbnails of your images from your whole CD collection without having to load discs. Create photo albums and carry out basic image manipulation and enhancement.
URL: www.acdsystems.com
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| Advanced JPEG Compressor 4.1 | |
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W9x/ME/2000/NT/XP |
| Evaluation version | |
Location on CD: software/windows/multimed/ajpeg_compressor/ | |
Use Advanced JPEG Compressor to make smaller files from your images, ideal for use on Web pages and in email. While still retaining the original image size, and with minimal loss of quality, smaller file sizes means your Web pages will load faster and your visitors will be happier. Very handy is the ability to setup compression profiles, which can then be batch applied to different types of image.
Until you purchase a licence, this evaluation version is save-disabled.
URL: www.winsoftmagic.com
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| EasyImage Lite 1.2 | |
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W9x/Me/2000/NT/XP |
| 10-day trial | |
Location on CD: software/windows/multimed/easyimage/ | |
EasyImage Lite offers just a handful of basic options for adjusting your images. Resize your images by simply choosing Small, Medium, Large or Huge. You can change the file byte size by using Low, Medium or High quality options.
URL: www.chameleon-systems.com
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| Express Thumbnail Creator 1.51 | |
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W9x/ME/NT/2000/XP |
| Evaluation version | |
Location on CD: software/windows/multimed/express_thumbnail/ | |
Express Thumbnail Creator lets you create HTML image galleries that you can publish on your Web site. The program features a wizard-style interface and requires no coding. Creating a gallery is a snap, you just select the image files you want to add, then the folder where the generated files will be placed. You can customise the size and appearance of the thumbnail tables as well as colours, links and captions. Express Thumbnail Creator recognizes all popular image formats and uses advanced algorithms for resizing images and creating thumbnails.
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| FlipAlbum Standard 5 | |
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W9x/Me/2000/NT4/XP |
| 30-day trial version | |
Location on CD: software/windows/multimed/flipalbum/ | |
FlipAlbum lets you create digital photo albums with cool 3D page flipping. Simply open a folder of photos to automatically create a page-flipping photo album complete with thumbnails, table of contents and index. You can add music and text descriptions and use the included themes to present your photos. Have fun with
multi-page rapid flipping for album browsing and the ability to hold and compare content of different album pages.
URL: www.ebooksys.com
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| Gallery 2.0.2 | |
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W9x/Me/2000/NT4/XP |
| Free | |
Location on CD: software/windows/multimed/thumbnail_gallery/ | |
An easy to use thumbnail and gallery creator. It handles onlyáJPEG images (due to GIF LZW licence restrictions), though it can convert from many formats into JPEG.
Gallery will create a Web page with a table containing the thumbnail images, each linked to its full-size image. You have quite extensive control over the formatting of the pages and there are also numerous effects and filters you can apply to images.
URL: www.minostudio.com
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| Macromedia Flash Player for IE 6.0.79 | |
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| Free - latest version | |
Location on CD: software/windows/multimed/flash_player/ | |
This is the latest version of the player you will need to enjoy an ever-growing proportion of Web sites. Flash Player will let you view Web site interfaces created with Macromedia's Flash (now Flash MX) program or compatible applications.
The IE version is for use on MS Internet Explorer browsers while the Netscape version will work with Netscape and compatible browsers.
URL: www.macromedia.com
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| Macromedia Flash Player for Netscape 6.0.79 | |
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| Free - latest version | |
Location on CD: software/windows/multimed/flash_player/ | |
This is the latest version of the player you will need to enjoy an ever-growing proportion of Web sites. Flash Player will let you view Web site interfaces created with Macromedia's Flash (now Flash MX) program or compatible applications.
The IE version is for use on MS Internet Explorer browsers while the Netscape version will work with Netscape and compatible browsers.
URL: www.macromedia.com
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| Monkey's Audio 3.97 | |
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W9x/2000/NT/XP |
| Free | |
Location on CD: software/windows/multimed/monkeys_audio/ | |
Monkey's Audio is a lossless digital music compressor and acts as a front-end for many popular audio players and encoders such as Winamp, Media Jukebox and more. The three-paned interface is easy to use and comprises a file and folder browser and compression report window.
The program makes perfect, bit-for-bit copies of your music unlike other formats such as MP3 and OGG which, although clever, discard quality to squeeze file size down. It's a bit like Winzip for your music, even though the sound is perfect, you still save space. You can always decompress you files back to their original state too.
URL: www.monkeysaudio.com
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| MusicMatch Jukebox 7.5 | |
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W98/ME/2000/NT/XP |
| Free - latest version | |
Location on CD: software/windows/multimed/musicmatch/ | |
The popular MusicMatch Jukebox is a great multiformat media player, an MP3 encoder, and a CD ripper and burner. Play MP3s, CDs and Windows Media files, and transfer music to your MP3 player for sounds on the move.
This is the free version û if you want a whole lot more, you can upgrade to MusicMatch Jukebox Plus.
URL: www.musicmatch.com
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| Paint Shop Pro 7.04 Anniversary Edition | |
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W9x/Me/2000/NT4/XP |
| 30-day evaluation | |
Location on CD: software/windows/multimed/paint_shop_pro/ | |
From its early days as a popular shareware program, Paint Shop Pro has developed into a serious graphics application that should satisfy most of your needs. It certainly gives Photoshop a run for its money in most departments.
URL: www.jasc.com
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| PhotoImpact 8 | |
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W98/ME/2000/NT4/XP |
| 30-day trial | |
Location on CD: software/windows/multimed/ulead_photoimpact/ | |
With PhotoImpact you can easily manage and enhance digital photos, create stunning graphics and produce interactive Web pages. PhotoImpact 8 was designed to meet the specific needs of digital camera users and photographers for managing, enhancing and sharing photos. But the program also provides a complete set of tools for Web enthusiasts.
PhotoImpact is perfect for Web designers either to finish graphic components for the Web or design graphic rich Web pages. Slice and define Image Maps in a WYSIWYG environment and get a head start with loads of ready-to-use Web components - add graphics, animations, Javascript effects and multimedia link objects to Web pages. Then publish complete Web pages with a click of a button, no coding required.
Note: requires at least 64Mb of RAM.
URL: www.ulead.co.uk
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| ProJPEG 5.2 | |
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W9x/ME/NT4/2000 |
| Trial version | |
Location on CD: software/windows/multimed/projpeg/ | |
ProJPEG is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. It is an effective way to compress images for speed of access and download online without compromising the quality to any great degree. You can set up preset adjustments to use repeatedly on similar images and see 'live' changes in compressed quality alongside file byte size.
To install, copy the file projpeg5.8bi from the folder as above to the plug-ins folder of your graphics application.
URL: www.boxtopsoft.com
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| Quick ePics 3.1.6 | |
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W9x/ME/2000/NT/XP |
| 30-day trial û updated | |
Location on CD: software/windows/multimed/quickepics/ | |
Quick ePics makes it easy to prepare and optimise images for the Web. It can be used to process single images or multiple images in a batch. It provides full control over every image in the batch and you can see all changes in real-time without changing the original file. The image, as well as the displayed file size, size savings, and download time are immediately and dynamically updated as the compression level is changed.
This update includes several minor enhancements.
URL: www.missionpeaksoftware.com
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| RealOne Player Gold 2 | |
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W98/ME/2000/NT4SP4/XP |
| Free | |
Location on CD: software/windows/multimed/realone/ | |
If you want a great-looking multimedia app that lets you watch video, rip digital audio and manage your multimedia library, give RealOne a spin. Requires MS Internet Explorer 5 or later.
URL: www.realnetworks.com
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| Simagis 1.4 | |
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W9x/Me/2000/NT/XP |
| 30-day trial | |
Location on CD: software/windows/multimed/simagis/ | |
Simagis (or Smart Imaging Spreadsheet) combines a graphics program, spreadsheet and photo album into one package and provides table cells which can contain images, text, numbers, histograms, graphs and HTML documents that can then be processed and adjusted using various effects and editing features.
You get 98 ready-to-use templates for photo editing and design as well as 94 functions for effects, transforming, measuring and more. Simagis is great when automating repetitive imaging operations. Just change the content of one cell (image, text or other data), and results will be recalculated.
URL: www.simagis.com
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| SmartDraw Photo 2 | |
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W9x/Me/2000/NT/XP |
| 30-day trial | |
Location on CD: software/windows/multimed/smartdraw_photo/ | |
SmartDraw Photo lets you organise, edit, print, email and share your digital photos and scanned images in minutes. You get loads of templates to help set up attractive photo albums, calendars, brochures and more.
Catalogue your images by using titles and descriptions, searchable by keyword. Thumbnail previews let you browse through your collection easily. As well as the ability to create images from scratch, SmartDraw Photo incorporates Wizard tools to fix red eye, rotate, crop and resize your photos, or to apply special effects like sepia, softening, etc.
URL: www.smartdraw.com
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| WinAmp 3 | |
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98/Me/NT4/2000/XP |
| Free - latest version | |
Location on CD: software/windows/multimed/winamp/ | |
This popular audio player has been at the top of the pops for some time for good reason. Now has freeform skins and advanced components support, as well as Windows media audio support and the ability to play videos.
URL: www.winamp.com
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| Xara Webstyle 3.1 | |
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| 15-day trial - new version | |
Location on CD: software/windows/multimed/xara_webstyle/ | |
Webstyle is packed with features that make it an essential tool for anyone creating Web graphics. The package includes an extensive collection of templates of Web graphic devices, such as dividers, bullets, buttons, backgrounds and animated banner ads.
You can also process and enhance your photos, create rollover navigation bars and dynamic (DHTML) menus.
This new version is easier to use and includes many updates, such as image auto-enhance; faster scale, resize and rotate, plus improved interactive real-time sliders; and additional menu options, giving Webstyle all the functionality of Xara Menu Maker.
URL: www.xara.com
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| Xara X 1.0c | |
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W9x/Me/2000/NT4/XP |
| 30-day trial | |
Location on CD: software/windows/multimed/xara_x/ | |
Xara X is an excellent graphics apoplication for creating both vector and bitmap images. Using Xara X is easy and it is designed to produce results for print as well as the Web. The program can slice images and automatically create rollover buttons and navigation bars – writing all the necessary HTML and JavaScript for you.
Xara X integrates seamlessly with Macromedia Dreamweaver and also exports to Flash format.
URL: www.xara.com
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| A Smaller GIF 1.21 | |
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PPC |
| Save-disabled trial | |
Location on CD: software/mac/multimed/a_smaller_gif/ | |
A Smaller GIF can compress your GIF images without losing quality. The program shows you the size at which it will save GIF images.
URL: www.peda.com
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| ACDSee 1.6.5 | |
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OS 8.6+ and CarbonLib 1.3.1/OS X |
| Trial version | |
Location on CD: software/mac/multimed/acdsee/ | |
ACDSee digital camera software makes it easy to acquire, view, organise, print, enhance and share your digital photos. Browse through and view digital photos and graphics quickly, thousands at a time. You can view and search thumbnails of your images from your whole CD collection without having to load discs. Create photo albums and carry out basic image manipulation and enhancement. Requires Apple QuickTime 4 or later.
URL: www.acdsystems.com
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| EasyPhoto 1.2.1 | |
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OS 9.x/OS X |
| 90-day trial | |
Location on CD: software/mac/multimed/easyphoto/ | |
EasyPhoto lets you intuitively create small JPEG images suitable for the Web or email by dragging and dropping images (or folders containing images) onto the application. The program lets you open more than 30 types of image format, with the ability to rotate and resize them.
URL: http://homepage.mac.com/biggreen
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| GraphicConverter 4.5.4 | |
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PPC/OS 8+ |
| Shareware - new version | |
Location on CD: software/mac/multimed/graphicconverter/ | |
GraphicConverter is an essential Web tool and indispensable in any other situation where you might be handling lots of graphics files. It will open and convert most file types. The program now imports about 170 and exports about 50 graphic file formats.
GraphicConverter offers batch conversion with additional actions; slide shows; easy creation of optimised images for the Internet; image manipulation; compatibility with Photoshop plug-ins; and more. This update includes numerous enhancements and bug fixes.
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| GraphicConverter 4.5.4 OS X | |
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Carbon OS 9.2.1+/OS X |
| Shareware - new version | |
Location on CD: software/mac/multimed/graphicconverter/ | |
GraphicConverter is an essential Web tool and indispensable in any other situation where you might be handling lots of graphics files. It will open and convert most file types. The program now imports about 170 and exports about 50 graphic file formats.
GraphicConverter offers batch conversion with additional actions; slide shows; easy creation of optimised images for the Internet; image manipulation; compatibility with Photoshop plug-ins; and more. Since the last version on your IM cover CD, there have been numerous bug fixes, improvements and minor additions.
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| JAlbum 3.2 | |
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OS X |
| Free | |
Location on CD: software/mac/multimed/jalbum/ | |
Drop folders containing image and movie files onto JAlbum and it will create thumbnails of your images and display them in index pages in HTML. You can also produce slide shows of your images.
URL: www.datadosen.se
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| Mac FlipAlbum 3 | |
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OS X 10.1.3+ |
| 30-day evaluation | |
Location on CD: software/mac/multimed/mac_flipalbum/ | |
Mac FlipAlbum lets you create digital photo albums with cool 3D page flipping. Simply open a folder of photos to automatically create a page-flipping photo album complete with thumbnails, table of contents and index. You can add music and text descriptions.
Minimum requirements are a G3 computer and 256Mb of RAM. In this evaluation version FlipBooks are limited to 50 images per book.
URL: www.ebooksys.com
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| Macromedia Flash Player 6.0.79 OS X | |
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OS X |
| Free - latest version | |
Location on CD: software/mac/multimed/flash_player/ | |
URL: www.macromedia.com
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| Macromedia Flash Player 6.0.79 PPC | |
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PPC |
| Free - latest version | |
Location on CD: software/mac/multimed/flash_player/ | |
URL: www.macromedia.com
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| Paintfx 1.2 | |
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OS 8.1+ with CarbLib 1.2 or later/OS X |
| 30-day trial - new version | |
Location on CD: software/mac/multimed/paintfx/ | |
Paintfx is a budget but feature-packed, powerful image creation and editing tool. You get custom brushes and loads of effects and filters. This new version includes more filters, improved speed and many bug fixes and minor enhancements.
This trial version allows images to be saved only in the lowest quality and File Export is disabled. Quicktime 4 or later is required.
URL: www.miennetwork.com/software/paintfx.html
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| PhotoFix 3.4.2 | |
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OS X |
| Demo | |
Location on CD: software/mac/multimed/photofix/ | |
Edit and manipulate graphics in a variety of formats. PhotoFix opens GIF, JPEG and Kodak PhotoCD images. In this demo version, the save and export functions are disabled. Printouts have 'demo text' across them.
URL: www.microspot.co.uk
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| ProJPEG 5.2.1 | |
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PPC |
| Trial version | |
Location on CD: software/mac/multimed/projpeg/ | |
ProJPEG is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. It is an effective way to compress images for speed of access and download online without compromising the quality to any great degree. You can set up preset adjustments to use repeatedly on similar images and see 'live' changes in compressed quality alongside file byte size.
To install, expand the .hqx file from the link above and copy the file projpeg5.8bi to the plug-ins folder of your graphics application.
URL: www.boxtopsoft.com
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| RealOne Player Gold 2 | |
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OS X |
| Free | |
Location on CD: software/mac/multimed/realone/ | |
Listen to and watch streaming and downloaded multimedia content with the popular and much improved RealOne Player. Clips now start faster and play more smoothly.
URL: www.realnetworks.com
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| SoundApp 2.7.3 | |
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PPC |
| Free | |
Location on CD: software/mac/multimed/soundapp/ | |
SoundApp is a utility that can play and convert a wide range of sound files, including MP3, AIFF, WAV, MOD, MIDI, and many more. You can set up a playlist and perform various conversion operations, including sample rate, stereo-to-mono and bit depth. This version brings numerous improvements to the interface and bug fixes.
URL: www.spies.com/~franke/SoundApp