Eudora

Eudora is a robust e-mail client whose features include multiple addressbook formatting options and the ability to filter, redirect, and forward mail. Eudora includes many convenient features such as the powerful search functions, multiple e-mail accounts, integrated word processor with automatic spell checking, and much more.

Versions 5+ can operate in any of three, user-selectable modes. Sponsored mode allows you to use the full-featured Eudora e-mail client at no charge, but displays a series of static onscreen advertisements. Paid mode allows you to use the full-featured Eudora e-mail client without the advertisements once a payment has been made. Light mode is an upgrade to the current Eudora Light, yet does not have as many features as the full client available in Sponsored and Paid modes. The Light mode will include a sponsor image or logo, but no rotating advertising. You can switch between the Light mode and the Sponsored mode at any time.

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.

FastStone Image Viewer

FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touch the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image frames, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF and DNG.

IrfanView

IrfanView is a fast, simple image-viewer and -editor that supports all major graphic formats. In addition, it features drag-and-drop support, directory viewing, TWAIN support, slide shows, batch conversion, and modifications such as color depth, crop, blur, and sharpen.

Microsoft Paint

Microsoft Paint is not the Photoshop for the poor, nor is it a powerful image editor. I've always used it as a simple screen shot capturing tool where I can quickly screen capture, save as GIF (Windows 98 versions of MS Paint could only save as BMP) and upload it to show someone a bug I'm experiencing on a web platform. Are there truly any other uses for this program? Well, yes -- I do recall seeing some really fantastic MS Paint drawings. Search for "MS Paint drawings" and you'll see what I mean -- the Venice one is truly fantastic, although the guy cheated and used Photoshop for some filters afterward so I don't know if we can truly count that ;).

MS Paint has been bundled with Windows since 1.0, although it has evolved greatly to its current iteration (I haven't yet played around with Windows 8 Paint) and Windows XP versions of Paint can apparently be used to scan documents (although I've never used it for that purpose). Windows 7 Paint doesn't feel like Paint. It feels as if I'm using the new version of Microsoft Office, but the problem with that is, MS Paint is not an Office product, hence the Graphics category you see above.

So to start off our MS Paint section, below you will find the version of MS Paint that came with Windows XP. It will work on Windows 7. In fact, you can even replace your Windows 7 Version with MS Paint, by replacing mspaint.exe (probably in c:\\windows\\system32) with the file you download below. Of course, you need to rename it to mspaint.exe as well. Windows 7 Paint is 6.2MB compared to Windows XP Paint being a mere 427KB. Oops!

PicPick

It is an all-in-one program that provides full-featured screen capture tool, intuitive image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair and even whiteboard.

SeaMonkey

SeaMonkey is a free web browser and internet application suite. It is the continuation of the Mozilla Application Suite. The software contains a web browser, an email client, and an HTML editor.

GoldWave

GoldWave is a feature-rich commercial digital audio editing software developed by GoldWave Inc.

GoldWave is the most advanced and complete audio editor available. It includes all of the common audio editing commands and effects, plus powerful built-in tools such as a batch processor/converter, a CD reader, and audio restoration filters. Comprehensive, easy to use, and efficiently engineered, GoldWave offers the best value in audio editing software. With over 10 years of development and widespread usage, it has an excellent and unmatched track record.

GoldWave's Features

• Fast, high-quality, non-destructive editing, supporting up to high quality DVD format.
  
• Real-time rich-graphics visuals; such as bar, waveform, spectrogram, spectrum, VU meter, etc.
  
• A plethora of basic and advanced effects and filters such as noise reduction, compressor/expander, volume shaping, volume matcher, pitch, reverb, resampling, parametric EQ, etc provide functionality generally only found in very expensive audio editors.
  
• Effect previewing lets you try an effect before committing to the change.
  
• Effect presets let you save favorite settings combinations for later reuse.
  
• DirectX Audio plug-in support provides a way to add new functions and additional file formats.
  
• A huge list of supported audio file formats, including but not limited to WAV, MP3, Windows Media Audio, Ogg, FLAC, AIFF, AU, Monkey's Audio, VOX, mat, snd, voc, etc.
  
• Batch processing and conversion support lets you convert a set of files to a different format and applying effects.

mp3DirectCut

mp3DirectCut is a fast and extensive audio editor and recorder for compressed mp3. You can directly cut, copy, paste or change the volume with no need to decompress your files for audio editing. This saves encoding time and preserves the original quality, because nothing will be re-encoded. The built in recorder creates mp3 on the fly from your audio input. Using Cue sheets, pause detection or Auto cue you can easily divide long files.

Features:

Non-destructive cut, copy, paste
Volume change, fade, normalize, pause detection
mp3 recording with ACM or Lame encoder
Fast mp3 visualisation and easy navigation
Supports Layer 2 (dvd/dvb audio)
ID3v1.1 tag editor · ID3v2 tag keeping
Cue Sheet support
Auto cue (track dividing by time values)
Track splitting with filename and tag creation
Trim · Crop · Fast play · Loop play
VU meter, bitrate visualisation
High speed recorder · Command line usage
Unicode support

VideoPad

VideoPad Video Editor
Video Editing Software Made Easy

Designed to be intuitive to use, VideoPad is fully featured video editing program for creating professional looking videos in minutes. Making movies has never been easier.

- Drag and drop video clips for easy video editing
- Apply effects and transitions, adjust video speed and more
- One of the fastest video stream processors on the market

Edit video from any camcorder
Capture video from a DV camcorder, VHS, webcam, or import most any video file format including avi, wmv, 3gp, wmv and divx.

Full of transitions and visual effects
Over 50 visual and transition effects to add a professional touch to your movies.

Create videos for DVD, HD, YouTube and more
Burn your movie project to DVD for playback on TV, or as a standalone video file for enjoying on web and portable devices.

WavePad

This audio editing software is a full featured professional audio and music editor for Windows and Mac. It lets you record and edit music, voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio files you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings then add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad works as a wav or mp3 editor but it also supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, wma, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and more.

PageBreeze

PageBreeze Free HTML Editor is an award-winning HTML Editor which has both visual (WYSIWYG) and HTML tag/source modes. PageBreeze Free HTML Editor's design emphasizes simplicity and ease-of-use. You'll find that you'll be creating great looking websites almost instantly--with virtually no learning curve!

Notepad2

The original Notepad shipped with Windows is probably the handiest program of all times, small, fast, without frills! Notepad2 tries to follow this principle, it's a small, fast and free text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages.

FlashGet

FlashGet (Formerly known as JetCar) is a freeware download manager for Microsoft Windows. It was originally available in either paid or advert-supported versions, the latter of which included an Internet Explorer BHO and led to some labelling it as spyware.

Features Include:

• Integration with web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Opera (Internet suite), Netscape, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey, Avant Browser
  
• Can download a sequence of files
  
• Download a file from multiple locations
  
• Split files to download into sections, and download each section simultaneously
  
• Integrated web crawler
  
• Language support
  
• Support HTTP, FTP, MMS, and RTSP downloads.
  
• Manages downloaded files easily.

Wondershare Video Editor

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