Portable Xara 3D v6 | 4,6 Mb

Xara3D is so simple to use, literally anyone can produce high quality 3D graphics in minutes. Xara3D is used both by professional web graphic designers and home computer users to make animated gifs, buttons, banner graphics and titles for presentations and web pages. Traditional 3D programs are notoriously difficult to use and understand. Not so Xara3D. Unlike much modern 'bloatware' that offers more features than are ever likely to be used, and take an age to learn and understand, Xara3D has been created to perform one job, and performs that job with style, speed, and slick simplicity.

Xara3D is solely designed to create the highest quality 3D text and graphics, such as logos, titles, headings and buttons. It's the perfect way to add impact to your web pages, mailshots and presentations (all images are fully anti-aliased for that smooth, professional quality). Xara3D can also create awesome 3D animations in seconds - GIFs, AVIs and simple Flash movie sequences - and you can even enhance your desktop by saving any animation as a screensaver!

Creating and Importing:

* Text headings can use any TrueType font. Nine fonts are included in the trial download and there are 60 on the CD. Simply select the font from the drop down menu and type away, you'll create your first heading in seconds!
* Full text control, including alignment, sub- & superscript, line spacing, tracking and kerning values for individual characters or over whole selections
* Instant access to full character sets from within the text dialog.
* Create non-text headings by importing 2D graphics as Windows metafiles (WMF and EMF) or CorelXARA/Webster files (XAR and WEB) and extruding the outlines.
* An automatic design-making tool instantly converts any text heading into a button, board or board with holes.
* Full anti-aliasing for the best possible on-screen display quality.

Editing and Applying Special Effects:

* Interactive control over the 3D extrude depth - simply click and drag on the image
* Unlimited undo makes experimentation easy
* Real-time 3D positioning around three axes by simply dragging the image on screen
* Areas of text can be selected, and different attributes such as bevel, color, fonts, textures, animation and text settings applied
* The Style Picker allows you to easily grab any or all of the settings of one image and apply them to another
* A total of 27 different bevel types with adjustable bevel size
* Interactive, easy-to-use lighting controls (three adjustable light arrows which can be dragged on-screen)
* Flexible interactive controls over the color and/or texture of every part of the image, and the background
* A total of 37 textures are included in the download, and there are 400+ on the CD-ROM you receive when you purchase. You can also import your own GIF or PNG files
* Textures can be scaled, rotated and colored
* Images can be displayed with front and back faces, or can be made hollow
* Images can be matt or shiny
* Images can have a soft-edged shadow and an intuitive interface allows you to easily alter the shadow blur, transparency and color
* Real-time solid shading with optional error-diffusion dithering for top quality results.

Animation:

* Images can be animated in many different ways (see examples), such as Rotate, Fade, Pulsate, Step, Fade and Swing, using a simple interface
* The Animation Picker lets you easily copy the animation settings of one image to another
* Apply different animations to individual characters or sections of text
* Step-through multi-page animations of different images
* The number of frames in a sequence, the rotation direction, the speed, pause and number of loops can all be selected through simple controls
* An animation time line allows you to step through each frame, pause and export a single frame
* Lights and text can be rotated separately
* Great for creating animated buttons.

Exporting your results:

* Outputs JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG (including full PNG alpha channel), ICO (icon), CUR (cursor), animated GIF, AVI and SWF (vector and bitmap)
* Any 3D animation can also be exported as a screensaver
* Optional background transparency
* Color reduction and palette-optimization for maximum quality with the smallest file size, ideal for web pages and presentations
* Complete control over the image size, including a handy Fit To Width feature (with pixel size shown on screen).

Info: http://www.xara.com/

Portable Light Alloy v.4.1 with Codecpack (Multilingual) | 28.8 Mb

Light Alloy - Fast, powerful and easy multimedia player. With included CodecPack play almost all multimedia file types with ease. Creates screenshots, zoom, adjust brightness, switch fullscreen, view subtitles, use infrared remote, multimedia keyboard, portable version.

Fast, powerful and easy multimedia player.Player features: Very quick and easy-to-use Drag-n-drop from Explorer DivX, DVD and MP3 support Screenshot creation ability Codec detection Windowed and full screen Multilingual interface Multimedia keyboard support Playback speed control Opens broken AVI files Zoom, aspect ratio control Brightness, contrast Reads MP3 tags Detailed file information Customize keys and mouse Subtitles and OSD Internal and external playlist

Features:

* Highly optimised visual interface for speed and usability
* Support almost all multimedia formats: AVI, DivX, MP3 and more...
* DVD Support (only with MPEG-2 decoder installed)
* Ability to take screenshots of movie
* Ultimate video control: Zoom, aspect ratio, brightness, contrast, sharpness...
* Playback speed control
* Windowed and fullscreen playback with custom resolutions
* Ability to play broken AVI files (or partially downloaded)
*Automatic detection of the codec needed
* Customizable keyboard and mouse actions
* AVISynth filters support
* Playlist with bookmarks
* Multilingual interface: English, French, German and other languages included.
* Subtitles support: *.SUB,*.SRT,*.SSA
* Ultimate subtitles control: Position, font, color, transparency, background...
* Useful OSD (On-Screen-Display) information
* Skinnable: many skins to download from site.
* Multi-audio media support
* External audio tracks
* WinAMP general plugins support
* Seamless joins splitted video
* Multimedia and system-wide keys support
* Infrared Remotes support: (WinLIRC)
* Drag-and-drop support
* Commandline parameters support
* Context menu quick media information
* Optional sound stream resampling

Info: http://www.softella.com/

Portable MediaCoder v.0.6.0 build 3342 | 22,6 Mb

MediaCoder is an open source universal audio/video batch transcoder (converter), which puts together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats. With many extra features and a expandable architecture, MediaCoder is more than a GUI of a bunch of command line tools.

Feature Highlights:

* Convert to and from many audio and video compression formats and re-multiplex into various container formats, on the fly, in batch
* Give you the control over the transcoding process and all the parameters of the transcoded files, so you can learn about, compare among and play with various codecs
* Specific user interfaces for specific devices with device plug-ins and extensions
* Fully standalone, no dependent on any media player, filter or codec, no registration of any components into system
* Multilingual user interface

Typical Applications:

* Improving compression/reducing file size
* Converting for audio/video portable devices (digital audio player, MP4 player, mobile phone, PDA, PSP, VCD/DVD player etc.)
* Extracting audio tracks from video files
* Ripping audio/video discs

Supported Audio/Video/Container Fomats:

* MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, AAC+, AAC+V2, MusePack, WMA, RealAudio
* FLAC, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, OptimFrog, AAC Lossless, WMA Lossless, WAV/PCM
* H.264, Xvid, DivX, MPEG 1/2/4, H.263, Flash Video, 3ivx*, RealVideo*, Windows Media
* AVI, MPEG/VOB, Matroska, MP4, RealMedia*, ASF/WMV, Quicktime*, OGM*
* CD*, VCD*, DVD*, CUE Sheet*

* supported as input only

Info: http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

Portable RAR Recovery Toolbox v.1.1.4.7 | 0.475 Mb

The RAR Recovery Toolbox tool recovers data from damaged RAR archives. The RAR repair program scans the archive, defines the data structure and tries to recover as much information as it can from the damaged file. Using several different recovery algorithms, the RAR file repair tool minimizes data loss and tries to recover the maximum possible amount of information. The RAR file repair tool also checks the data for consistency to enhance the quality of data recovery. After the RAR recover program finishes the recovery session, it shows a full recovery report.

An intuitive and convenient user interface makes the work with the RAR repair program easy and comfortable even for a beginner. The process of RAR recovery consists of several steps performed in separate windows, so the rar recovery process becomes even more convenient.

During data rar recovery the RAR repair program doesn't modify the damaged RAR archive; it just recovers files from the archive and saves it to the hard disk. The folder structure remains the same a damaged RAR archive, file and folder names aren't changed too. Software don't fix RAR file over old archive file.

Recovery Toolbox for RAR has quite a wide range of features. It supports all currently existing variants of the RAR compression format, files created with archiving software versions 1.x, 2.x, 3.x with different compression rates. Besides, Recovery Toolbox for RAR has the following features:

* Recovering information from corrupted password-protected archives of the RAR format
* Recovering information from corrupted files of the RAR format larger than 4 GB
* Recovering information from archives of the RAR format stored on corrupted media (floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, Zip drives, etc.)
* Recovering information from corrupted archives of the RAR format via the local area network

One of the main things Recovery Toolbox for RAR differs from other software in is that it is extremely easy to use. The interface of the tool is implemented as a step-by-step wizard. You have to perform only one operation in each step of this wizard. To recover information from a corrupted RAR archive, it is enough to make literally several mouse clicks altogether. Thus, any computer users can use Recovery Toolbox for RAR, including those who have just started working with a PC.

Currently, RAR is one of the most popular formats used to compress any data: documents, audio, video, etc. Archives are usually used in two cases: to store information that is not needed so far and to transfer information via open communications channels. In both cases there is a risk of corrupting the compressed file. After that it will be impossible to open it and, therefore, extract information from it. There may be various reasons why an archive becomes corrupted. If the compressed file is stored on the hard drive, the problem may be caused by failures in the operating system or software, hardware failures, power failures, etc. However, an archive is most likely to be corrupted when you carry it on removable media (CDs and DVDs, floppy disks, ZIP drives, etc.), download it from the Internet or transfer it via e-mail. In these cases, the risk of getting an incorrect compressed file is relatively large.

Recovery ToolBox for RAR is compatible with Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows XP SP2, Windows 2003, Windows Vista.

Info: http://www.recoverytoolbox.com/rar.html

Portable Snag It v.8.2.3 | 14,9 Mb

SnagIt delivers customized screen captures with the press of a hotkey. SnagIt is the only screen capture software that captures images, text, and video from your Windows desktop. Effortlessly produce perfect graphics and video with this complete capture solution. Now, with SnagIt add-ins, you can put SnagIt right in your toolbar! SnagIt's new add-in toolbars provide quick access to the most common capture features right from within Word, PowerPoint and Explorer.

Screen capture is the process of copying what you see on your screen. SnagIt captures various types of data in dozens of different ways, enabling you to capture, edit and share anything on your screen. To help you start using SnagIt, here are five popular ways SnagIt is used to capture what is on your screen.

Here are some key features of "SnagIt":

Capture Anything:

Capture an article, image, or Web page directly from your screen. Or, capture windows, menus, icons, and regions from any application that runs on your PC.

Edit and Transform:

SnagIt Editor makes it easy to add creative and professional touches to your captures. Transform your images with a full-featured paint tools palette, a variety of edge effects, and practical options for color and size adjustment.

Share Easily:

E-mail, copy and paste, print, and IM your captures, or upload them to your Web site. SnagIt helps you communicate any way you prefer.

Info: http://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.asp