Freeware If you have friends on all of the instant messaging services, Miranda will make your life much simpler. With support for all popular instant messengers. Miranda is also very small and can even fit onto a floppy disk. Extra services can be added to the software as they become available.
Requires: Windows
NT, 2000, XP or Vista
PhotoFiltre 6.3.2
Freeware Superb free image and photo editor that will enable you to touchup your digital photos, add effects to images, quickly edit and grab sections of photos and it will handle your scanning and other image importing duties.
Requires: Windows
2000, XP or Vista
Read It Later 0.9924
Freeware A useful Firefox add-on that will enable you to browse the web (using Firefox) and simply add links, external pages and more, then build up a database of links that you can refer to, at a later date.
Requires: Windows
98SE, NT, 2000, XP or Vista
HandBrake 0.9.3
Freeware Tool thatÆs designed for one purpose û to backup your DVDs so that you can play them back from your computer. A Mac OS X version has been around for a while and will enable you to backup a DVD to the MPEG4 format, which is playable through QuickTime. This includes your iPod, Apple TV and more.
Requires: Windows
2000, XP or Vista
Photology 2.0.116
Freeware Enables you to import, manage, group, enhance and share your photos. It ships with itÆs own user-interface which is very different from anything youÆve probably used on a Windows-based system.
Requires: Windows
XP or Vista
ReNamer 5.40
Freeware Offers all the standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes, as well as remove contents of brackets, add number sequences, change file extensions, etc.