Saturday, January 12, 2008

Data/Photo Recovery

Recuva File Recovery


Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!

Recuva File Recovery - Website

Undelete Plus


Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to retrieve accidentally deleted files, files removed from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down.

Undelete Plus - Website

ArtPlus Digital Photo Recovery


Free Art Plus Digital Photo Recovery tool can help you recover lost images from corrupted or accidentally formatted digital camera memory cards.

Works with ALL types of memory cards, It's able to recover images from formatted cards, Reads corrupted cards (even if they're not recognized by Windows), and Recovers JPG, TIF and most of RAW files.

Program should be able to read all memory cards currently available on the market and recover lost JPG, TIF and most of popular RAW file formats. While it's not optimized for that task, this program can actually also read damaged floppys, CDs and DVDs.

ArtPlus Digital Photo Recovery - Website

PC INSPECTOR File Recovery


PC INSPECTOR File Recovery is a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems.

Finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged, Recovers files with the original time and date stamp, Supports the saving of recovered files on network drives, and Recovers files, even when a header entry is no longer available.

PC INSPECTOR Smart Recovery


PC INSPECTOR Smart Recovery is the new data recovery program from CONVAR for Flash Card™, Smart Media™, SONY Memory Stick™, IBM™ Micro Drive, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital Card or any other data carrier for digital cameras.

PC INSPECTOR - Website

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Media Player. [MPlayer and VLC]

1. MPlayer


MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation).

It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu
Portable Version - MPlayer

2. VLC Media Player


VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player that supports various audio and video formats (MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc
Portable Version - VLC Media Player

Office Suite [OpenOffice.org]

1. Writer


2. Impress


3. Math


4. Draw


5. Calc


6. Base


OpenOffice.org the product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites.

Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office, and the vendor-neutral OpenDocument standard from OASIS.

http://www.openoffice.org

HTML Editor

Chami HTML-kit


HTML Kit is a full-featured free editor for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and other text files. Over 400 plugins are available for it, including HTML Tidy for creating standards -compliant web pages.

http://www.chami.com/html-kit

PageBreeze Free HTML Editor


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!

http://www.pagebreeze.com

Image/Photo Editor

GIMP


The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as image composition, photo retouching and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

http://www.gimp.org

GIMPshop


GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP.

http://www.gimpshop.com
Alternate download - softpedia

Paint.net


Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins. Because it was develop with C#, and a small amount of C++ for installation and shell-integration, it require .net framework for installation.

http://www.getpaint.net

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.

http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm