Education

Roots of English, an etymological 'dictionary'. Emphasis throughout is on etymology, both true and false, as well as complementary information about the words examined. Main sources of information are listed in detail within it. Anyone familiar with Windows applications should be able to proceed directly to Word Searches, but detailed instructions on use are available from within it. Unique and useful, but with a primitive interface.

Open Directory: Computers Software Educational

Sound

SqrSoft Advanced CrossFading can crossfade two songs, the one Winamp is playing and the next in the playlist. The crossfade is made by analyzing sound level of the last seconds of the song to determine the best mix point, applying the level envelope curves to the beginning and end of the tracks.

Winamp (versions 2 and 3) plugin "gen_tbar" displays data on the caption of the active window - artist, time, playback status, etc. Effective and customisable. Let Winamp play and you will have this information right in the titlebar of whatever window you may work on.

FX Resound is a movie audio replacement tool. You can add sound to silent movies or even replace the sound in one movie with the sound from another movie. Supports MP-3, WAVE, MPG, MPEG, MOV, WMV and ASF audio file types. Supports AVI, MPG, MPE, MOV, WMV and ASF video file types.

LeechGet is a powerful download manager using a Microsoft Outlook-like user interface. Features: clipboard monitor, "catching" URLs from Internet Explorer, broken downloads resume, menu extensions for Internet Explorer, download process is indicated by tray icons next to the system clock, automatic hang-up and shutdown supported, FTP, and more... It is not like GetRight. It works better and it is free.

System tools

Winsize is a taskbar tray application for maintaining window positions. Especially if you work with several (or just two) applications at once and you want their windows in a certain place on the screen, you need winsize.

Startup Control Panel by Mike Lin is a nifty control panel applet that allows you to control what programs run at system startup. Very easy to use. Download also StartupMonitor, to warn you when any program registers itself to run at system startup.

Drive Recue is a program to explore your hard disk and find any lost and deleted data, even if the partition table is lost! Lost Data, that is the result of a system crash can also be recovered. Discover important file system tables of your hard disk, including partition table, boot record, FAT and file/directory records. Drive Rescue can not find any data on a physically damaged hard disk! Detailed help in English and German.

PowerMenu adds some new useful extensions to the titlebar menu of application windows: Priority Changes the priority of the window's parent process, Transparency Changes the transparency level of the window (Windows 2K/XP only), Always On Top Makes the window sit on top of other windows even if it doesn't have focus, Minimize To Tray Removes the window from the tasklist and places it on system tray.

Ninotech Path Copy is a shell extension that enables you to copy the path of a file or directory to the Clipboard from inside Windows Explorer. All you have to do is to open Windows Explorer, right-click the item(s) of interest and choose "Copy Path" in the context menu. Features: Copy Short or Long path, Copy internet path, and more. Easily customisable.

Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack also displays the text found. Users can then quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file! Features: Regular expressions that allow complex rule based searches, Immediate contents results view. It can be used as a replacement or a companion to the standard Windows Find.

ResizeEnable sits in your system tray and attempts to make windows that can't usually be resized, resizeable. Poorly designed applications in some screen resolutions may have buttons and/or text hidden beyond the borders of a window that can not be resized. This is the main problem where ResizeEnable may help.

CMenuExtender is a shellextension consisting of one executable, one dll and a few documents. The extension lets the user add items and submenus to the standard Explorer rightclick-menu (context-menu). Menus can contain items to start programs, open files, move and copy files and folders, shortcuts and more. Menus can be edited using a registryeditor or using the supplied editor called CMExtEd.

RegScrubXP is designed to delete unnecessary information from the System Registry of Windows XP & 2000 operating systems. This "junk" is often left behind when programs are uninstalled, and the information is not needed anymore. Programmers mistakenly load the Registry with junk as well. The result of cleaning out the junk is a smaller, faster Registry. Your operating system accesses the Registry a lot, so keeping it clean is a good idea! RegScrubXP also helps you tweak your Registry to provide a more pleasant computer experience. It supports Undo of changes. Useful, fast and safe.

Color & Graphics

IconShop is a librarian offering the tools to manage ICL icon libraries. Features: Read, write, browse ICL icon libraries, Drag and drop from Windows Explorer, Extract icons from cursors, resources, executables and libraries..., Convert Windows BMP, GIF, TIFF and XPM files to icons, and more.

Meazure is a tool for easily measuring and capturing portions of the screen. Tasks such as measuring the size of a window, capturing an image, determining the color of a pixel, and determining the screen size and resolution can all be easily accomplished.

File management

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