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This is a collection of freewares available for our daily use.
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AK-Player – Freeware media player
Posted on May 6th, 2009 2 commentsZoom video, open many movies at the same time with high performance. Control 20 levels to fast up and slow down video or audio. Six levels to fast up and slow down MP3 with clear voice. Auto-continue and auto-play with multimedia search engine. Open hidden and system files through quick search engine. Support playing video, MP3, and pictures. Eject and inject all your CD or DVD in the same time.Features:- Video Zoom
- Fast and slow Video or MP3s
- Run many movies at the same time
- Auto-play search engine
- Open video, MP3, Pictures
- And more…
Requires: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.
Get AK-Player here.
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Opera Browser – Faster & safer Internet
Posted on May 5th, 2009 1 commentOpera is an Internet browser with a pop-up blocker, multiple-windows navigation, mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, e-mail client with Spam filter, and integrated search all for user security and speed. The cross-platform browser includes a multitude of other functions such as integrated built-in e-mail client, IRC-compatible chat, support for RSS newsfeeds, password manager, one-click customization and privacy protection settings.
Mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts allow for accelerated Web navigation while the Fast Forward and Rewind buttons ease browsing. Users are able to run multiple windows as well as personalize the user interface with one-click skins. The browser also contains special elements for users with disabilities, drag-and-drop support, a notes function, user profiles, and a host of other features. Opera supports the latest in security and provides password and cookie managers. If you have already installed Java, you can download the smaller non-Java version.
Opera´s new looks are complemented with exciting features such as the Personal Bar and Pagebar, hotclick, improved window handling, bookmarks search, redesigned preferences, new shortcuts, extensive drag and drop, and support for Unicode and LiveConnect.
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Free OCR – Free Optical Character Recognition program
Posted on May 4th, 2009 1 commentFree OCR is a complete scan and OCR program including the Tesseract free OCR engine v2.03. It includes a Windows installer, it is very simple to use and supports multi-page tiff´s, fax documents as well as most image types including compressed Tiff´s which the Tesseract engine on its own cannot read. It has Twain scanning included and support for multipage Tiff documents. Best of all it is totally free!
Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.
What’s New in version 2.6:
- Minor bug fixes to PDF rendering code (from v2.5)
- PDF button – can now open and OCR scanned PDF files
- Images from a scanned document can be selected and placed on the clipboard
- Scans can be cropped before OCR
- Added button to remove line breaks from the OCR’ed text
- Fixed some bugs causing FreeOCR to crash when opening PNG’s
- Improved user interface