Freeware for Windows

Publisher's description From Microsoft :

Windows Media Player allows you to play audio and video files locally stored and streamed from the Internet. It includes a visualizer, a jukebox, a media guide, an Internet radio tuner, a CD burner, and support for countless media formats and various external devices. In keeping with modern trends, Microsoft has added features such as Smart Jukebox technology that features audio CD burning with volume leveling. Windows Media Player can automatically organize your media files, even if you move them around. You can rate each song you play or let the program assign ratings based on the number of times each song is played, then create playlists of your favorite music. Another feature, Auto Info, can automatically fix or add album details (tags) to your MP3 and WMA files such as artist or album name, year, composer, or track number. Additionally, you can toggle between a full-screen interface and a miniplayer mode that docks the player to your taskbar.

The de facto standard for Windows media playback is Windows Media Player. This version--9--is getting up in age and is best used for older systems. The interface is familiar with a simple menu of commands, a central playback window, and an information bar. Standard audio playback functions are easy to access. The graphic equalizer features 22 preset options, and the usual slider bar will be familiar to 1970s rock fans. The large varieties of visualizations are easy to implement and are sure to amuse those who remember the 1960s. Video playback in any of the included skins is adequate. Controls, for the most part, are easy to access, though some skins stretch the concept of user-friendly. Copying to and copying from CDs works, but don't expect most options available from current players. The Internet radio player searches station listings by genre or location. Despite the lack of newer features, users with older systems or those who favor familiar controls will find that the free Windows Media Player 9 fits like an old, sequined glove.

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Publisher's description From Microsoft :

Windows Movie Maker 2 is an XP-only download that gives you the tools to create, edit, and share home movies. Compile and edit a movie from video clips with drag-and-drop functionality. Add special effects, music, and narration with ease. Share your movie over the Web or master it to DVD media. You can also save your movie back to the DV tape in your camera.

Windows Movie Maker 2 is so easy a child could use it--an incredibly patient child born to filmmaker parents who didn't mind restarting this application every few minutes. From the get-go, you get the feeling that this isn't going to be an easy program to like; Microsoft's installer doesn't play nice. It gives the user no input on program location or other options. The plain interface promises simplicity with drag-and-drop storyboard options, though during testing, it was more like drag and freeze. The program typically froze while importing MPG video files. If importing worked, Movie Maker 2 would quit responding when clips were placed on the storyboard. On the rare occasion that our testers made it to the storyboard, the program would freeze when adding one of the numerous effects. There were so many hurdles to creating a short video that no editing seemed preferable to using this software. What's more, uninstalling the program was even more tedious than installing it. It should be no surprise, then, that we can't recommend this freeware for any user.

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Publisher's description From YourWare Solutions :

FreeRAM XP Pro includes automatic memory monitoring and optimization; advanced tray support; fast, threaded freeing with a stop option; multiple system-metric monitors; a simple and attractive GUI; memory reporting and diagnostic logging; and real-time memory information. FreeRAM XP Pro's AutoFree feature intelligently scales how much RAM is freed with your current system status, thus optimizing RAM without slowing down your computer. Additionally, FreeRAM XP Pro's unique Global Memory Compression technology frees memory instantly in a way that is completely unlike other memory managers. FreeRAM XP Pro has been designed to be easy to use yet highly customizable by computer novices and experts alike.

Version 1.52 enables Global Memory Compression by default for all memory freeing operations (this can be disabled through the Settings); adjusts AutoFree to be slightly more conservative when freeing RAM; and fixes a minor installation bug.

• Price: Free
• Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP

Publisher's description From Radium Technologies :

Living Cookbook 2008 is the seventh major release of the best-selling recipe management software from Radium Technologies. Use Living Cookbook to manage your recipe collection, plan meals, calculate nutrition, create menus, create grocery lists, publish cookbooks, and more. Other features include an ingredient database with USDA SR-20 nutrition data, kitchen inventory, Web integration, a reference library, a powerful search engine, an integrated spell-checker, import and export, copy and paste, drag and drop, customizable recipe views, backup and restore, and a help file with more than 450 help topics.

• Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $34.95 to buy
• Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista

Publisher's description From Digi-Watcher.com :

Watcher is simple webcam software that turns your Webcam and PC into a complete surveillance and broadcasting system. Standalone, Watcher does motion detection, e-mail/phone alert, video/audio logging, broadcasting and more. Used together with RemoteView (free from publisher's Web site), you can do real time remote surveillance.

Key features of Watcher are: stability; advanced motion detection algorithm; various alert functions including email

alert; stealth mode; audio support; highly compressed video clips; easy management of video clips including preview images; remote real-time video streaming ability; Version 2.34 fixes some minor incompatibility problem with Vista platform.

• Price: Free to try (Watermark on image); $39.00 to buy
• Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT

Publisher's description From Tethys Solutions :

Delegate repetitive tasks to Workspace Macro Recorder, a highly accurate keyboard and mouse macro recorder. Create macros in any application using a simple, intuitive process; just record and replay. The program features unique Smart Macro Technology that automatically adjusts between Record and Play conditions, password protection, macro management, repeat options, accurate high-speed replay, IE plug-ins, a customizable UI, hotkey support and task scheduler. Use the program to login to Web sites, to automatically fill and submit forms, to automate and schedule routine business processes, such as checking inventory, importing data into Excel, and generating reports. You also can use it to perform system-maintenance functions, to test applications and Web pages, and to automate data entry at high-speeds--all with a single click. Use Workspace Macro add-on Launch-n-Go to launch macros using hot keys or keywords.

• Price: Free to try (30-use trial); $24.95 to buy
• Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/NT

Registry Mechanic checks your Registry for errors that can slow down and crash your computer, and provides you with a full toolbox for finding and repairing your Registry. The utility can find a wide range of defects, including references to uninstalled programs, missing help files and virtual devices, broken shortcuts, and removed fonts and configuration files. It also can automatically repair invalid entries at Windows start-up.

Under Optimize, the Quick Scan has been abandoned in this version in favor of an exceedingly fast and comprehensive Deep Scan. The program also makes backups, so it's easy to restore a fix gone wrong. There's a Registry defragger, and a Tuneup Services option that optimizes Windows boot services. Click on either Recommended or Minimal to see which services will be toggled, and to customize them. The Monitor tab tracks your system's Registry, services, and performance behaviors, while the Windows Tools section contains a series of links to Windows' default tools. This could be better explained, but choose an option and you'll find out soon enough that these tools are the default ones that come with Windows, but collected in one place. The interface isn't bad, but it feels a bit jumbled, and presents a lot of open white space without clear directions for what the user should do.

The stringent restrictions on the trial version make it difficult to analyze the effectiveness of the program. The trialware allows for only five sections of the registry to be repaired, and the compacter, defrag, and system optimization buttons were also hamstrung. During the trial, we recommend deselecting all of the errors discovered, and then carefully choosing which errors you think you can verify as being repaired to see if you want to purchase it. Registry Mechanic is a good program, but you won't get something for nothing here.


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