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HandBrake | BEST DECRYPTED DVD FILE CONVERTER EVER!!
Licence - Open Source
Publisher's Description - HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. Supported sources:Any DVD-like source, Most any multimedia file. Outputs:File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
Company - Handbrake
Last known significant version update - To version 0.9.3
Approximate file size - +-6mb
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DVD Fab HD Decrypter | ULTIMATE DVD DECRYPTER FOR COPYING DVD FILES!!
Licence - Free
Publisher's Description - DVDFab HD Decrypter is a simple version of DVDFab Platinum. It copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections (CSS, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) while copying. It also comes with full HD-DVD and Blu-ray support (Removes AACS).
Company - DVD Fab
Last known significant version update - To version 5.2.3.0
Approximate file size - +-7.5mb
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DVD Flick | THE BEST VIDEO TO DVD CONVERTER YOU'LL FIND!!
Licence - Open Source
Publisher's Description - DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks, subtitles as well as a menu for easier navigation.
Company - DVD Flick
Last known significant version update - To version 1.3.0.4
Approximate file size - +-12mb
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Virtual CloneDrive | REPLACE YOUR VIRTUAL IMAGE DRIVE WITH THIS!!
Licence - Free
Publisher's Description - Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD/DVD drive.
Company - SlySoft
Last known significant version update - To version 5.4.1.1
Approximate file size - +-1.5mb
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CDBurnerXP Pro | REPLACE YOUR CD/DVD WRITER SOFTWARE WITH THIS!!
Licence - Free
Publisher's Description - CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.
Company - cdburnerxp.se
Last known significant version update - To version 4.2.3
Approximate file size - +-3.04mb
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ShrinkTo5 | REPLACE YOUR CURRENT DVD BACKUP SOFTWARE WITH THIS!!
Licence - Free
Publisher's Description - ShrinkTo5 is the new, powerful and fast DVD copying engine. ShrinkTo5 has been developed as a cross-platform engine available for free for anyone. To ensure a fast spreading to other platforms ShrinkTo5 is distributed as open-source. ShrinkTo5 can copy movies with an undeniably superior picture quality. No matter if you wish to copy just the main movie or the whole movie DVD, ShrinkTo5 always produces a superb picture quality, since the ShrinkTo5 engine always concentrates on the main movie. No tedious configuration is needed like with other copying tools, ShrinkTo5 will always find the perfect balance automatically.
Company - ShrinkTo5e
Last known significant version update - To version 2.04
Approximate file size - +-1.0mb
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ratDVD| REPLACE YOUR CURRENT DVD SHRINKING SOFTWARE WITH THIS!!
Licence - Free
Publisher's Description - ratDVD takes a full featured DVD movie and puts it into a highly compressed .ratDVD container format file of about 1.x GB in size - while preserving all the features of the original DVD, such as the navigation menus, audio and video streams, subtitles, extra content, and much more! You can directly play back the .ratDVD file in Windows Media Player or any other compatible player - with all the options the original DVD movie would give you. Just by double clicking without the hassle of having to handle different files or the need to use special programs.
Company - RatDVD.CA
Last known significant version update - To version 0.78
Approximate file size - +-4.5mb
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Audiograbber | REPLACE YOUR CURRENT AUDIO RIPPER WITH THIS!!
Licence - Free
Publisher's Description - Audiograbber is that grabs digital audio from cd's. It copies the audio digitally-not through the soundcard-which enables you to make perfect copies of the originals. It can even perform a test to see that the copies really are perfect. Audiograbber can also automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and send them to a variety or external MP3 encoders, such as Fraunhofers L3enc, or even use some MP3/WMA encoders internally for automatic creation of MP3's. Audiograbber can download and upload disc info from freedb, an Internet compact disc database. You can even record your vinyl LP's or cassette tapes with Audiograbber and make wav's or MP3's of them.
Company - Audiograbber
Last known significant version update - To version 1.83
Approximate file size - +-1.6mb
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FreeRIP | OR THIS!!
Licence - Free
Publisher's Description - FreeRIP is a Windows application that lets you extract audio CD tracks and save them to Wav, MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis or FLAC audio files (this process is known as ripping). FreeRIP is also a audio file and MP3 converter and it can convert audio files from one of the named formats to another. E.G. FreeRIP can convert a WAV file to MP3 or a FLAC file to MP3, or an MP3 file to WAV and so on.
Company - MGS Shareware
Last known significant version update - To version 3.08
Approximate file size - +-1.7mb
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SLIDESHOW MAKER+MUSIC+VIDEO OUTPUT! | Photostage Slideshow
Licence - Free
Publisher's Description - Creating a slideshow from your digital photos has never been easier. Photostage brings your pictures, images and video to life and lets you share your favorite memories with family and friends in an interesting and portable way. The brief was simple - make a slideshow creation program that is so easy to use your Grandma could do it. The result - Photostage. Features include Stunning Transition Effects, Complete Photo Optimization, Add music tracks to your slideshow, Share With Your Family and Friends, Burn to DVD and watch in your living room on your TV.
Company - Photostage Slideshow
Last known significant version update - To version 1.12
Approximate file size - +-0.5mb
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3D VIEW OF THE PHOTOS ON YOUR PC!! | Visions
Licence - Free
Publisher's Description - Visions is an innovative 3D image management system (3DIMS) which allows you to navigate through your photos in a 3D (three dimensional) world. This way you can view your folders as a collection of boards spread on your screen, allowing you to easily perform cross folder actions such as moving photos from one folder to another, comparing two folders or simply viewing photos from several folders at the same time.
Company - Twins Solutions
Last known significant version update - To version 1
Approximate file size - +-15.3mb
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AWESOME APP 4 YOUR PICTURE/PHOTO REQUIREMENS!! | photology
Licence - Free
Publisher's Description - photology helps you navigate the flood of digital photos on your computer by finding photos using simple and intuitive filters like faces, sky, color, location, and time of day. Photology's intuitive user interface is simple and straightforward. It only shows you what you need, when you need it, and all functionality is accessed via large, clearly identified buttons.
Company - enoetic
Last known significant version update - To version ?
Approximate file size - +-11mb
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TAKES CARE OF SCREEN HOTS & RECORDINGS!! | Jing
Licence - Free
Publisher's Description - It sits nicely on your desktop, ready to capture and share your stuff at a moment's notice. Simply select an area of your screen, capture it as an image or record it as a video, and then click Share or simply save to your desktop. Jing conveniently places a URL to your content which you can paste into any of your conversations.
Company - TechSmith
Last known significant version update - To version 1.6
Approximate file size - +-5mb
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A QUICK PICTURE VIEWER!! | FastStone MaxView
Licence - Free
Publisher's Description - MaxView is a tiny, fast and innovative image viewer that supports all major graphic formats. Its intuitive layout and commands allow everyone, from beginners to professionals, to view and manipulate images quickly and efficiently.
Company - FastStone
Last known significant version update - To version 2.3
Approximate file size - +-1.49mb
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TAKES CARE OF ALL OF YOUR BATCH PICTURE REQUIREMENS!! | BIMP
Licence - Free
Publisher's Description - BIMP Lite is a small and simple batch processor for image files, that allows you to perform various functions on multiple images. It can be used to create thumbnail images from your pictures, add a prefix/postfix (with meta variables), rename using a sequential number, change the case of filenames, replace/remove spaces & underscores, flip or rotate images and also apply anti-aliasing, inverse, greyscale and bevel effects.
Company - Cerebral Synergy
Last known significant version update - To version 1.62
Approximate file size - +-2.19mb
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TAKES CARE OF ALL OF YOUR PICTURE/PHOTO REQUIREMENS!! | Picasa
Licence - Free
Publisher's Description - Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you: Locate and organise all the photos on your computer. Edit and add effects to your photos with a few simple clicks. Share your photos with others through email, prints and on the web: it’s fast, easy and free.
Company - Google
Last known significant version update - To version 3.1
Approximate file size - +-5.8mb
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REPLACE YOUR IMAGE EDITOR WITH THIS!! | Paint.NET
Licence - Free
Publisher's Description - Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run XP, Server 2003 or Vista. It started development at Washington State University as an undergraduate senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. It is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems.
Company - Rick Brewster
Last known significant version update - To version 3.36
Approximate file size - +-1.6mb
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REPLACE YOUR CURRENT PICTURE VIEWER WITH THIS!! | ALSee
Licence - Free
Publisher's Description - View pictures or edit photos from your digital camera. ALSee makes viewing images easy for everyone, and editing photos simple enough for children but powerful enough for quick pro jobs.
Company - ALTools
Last known significant version update - To version 4.12
Approximate file size - +-5.4mb
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