Essentials


	Ulead PhotoExplorer Organise & edit photos and share them on the web
You can display photos full size and step through photo collections; print thumbnail indexes or full-sized prints. You can also share photos on the Web in one step via iMira.com; just drag them onto the Drop Spot. View photos in a slide show, send them in E-mail or export them to Web pages. Create color reprints in a wide range of sizes on your color printer. Colorful toolbars and thumbnail images make using program functions easy. Visually browse through many file types. This banner-ad version of Photo Explorer 6.0 is fully functioning, free software. It never expires. Users also get a free account on iMira.com, Ulead's photo sharing and services Web site. For support and FAQs, visit: www.ulead.com

	Ulead ArtTexture PhotoShop-compatible plugin
This plugin creates custom textures based on a gradient by combining various textures. Once you have created custom textures, you can build up your own collection in the Library. You can even create GIF animations using multiple textures: Simply drag and drop textures from the samples to the Storyboard. Click Animation to save the thumbnails as a GIF. Open the file in your GIF Animation application to add the finishing touches. Based on award-winning Ulead PhotoImpact WebExtensions web imaging technology, ArtTexture.Plugin works with Adobe Photoshop 3.x/4.x, JASC Paint Shop Pro 4.1+, Microsoft Image Composer 1.5, Corel Photo Paint 6.0+, and other imaging editors compatible with 32-bit Photoshop Filter and Acquire plugin technology.

	NEW: Winamp 2.72 The original Windows MP3 player
Nullsoft Winamp is the ultimate high-fidelity music player for Windows 95/98/NT. Winamp supports MP3, CD and other audio formats, more than 5,000 skins and 150 audio visualization and effect plug-ins. Winamp is freeware. Visit www.winamp.com to find out about the great plug-ins and skins available for Winamp, including some incredible visualisations.

	Evolution Audio Lite v1.43 (full version) MIDI sequencer with audio
Evolution Audio Lite's user friendly graphical interface ensures a fast learning curve, leaving you to concentrate on the most important thing of all; making great music! The On-screen keyboard makes it easy for beginners, especially with its single fingered chord mode. You can even select the PC (QWERTY) keyboard to play and record your music.

Sound Studio Pro v1.02 (trial) All the features you'd expect from a professional digital recording studio Sound Studio Pro lets you record and edit up to 25 Stereo Audio tracks along with 1000 MIDI tracks!! It has a 'Virtual Keyboard' with programmable style buttons featuring over 100 professionally arranged styles. It has a Style Editor for creating your own styles. It has audio effects and midi processing effects and supports multiple soundcards. It has support for Video for Windows .AVI files which allows you to compose a soundtrack to your favourite Video clip. Check out Evolution's web site for more info www.evolution.co.uk

	Blender (Windows & BeOS) Powerful cross-platform 3D modelling and animation
Featuring a versatile animation system, contemporary modeling principles, advanced rendering tools, deformation tools, inverse kinematics and an editor for postproduction, Blender can be used to create commercials and other broadcast quality content, as well as multimedia and 3D game content for PCs and game consoles. We have included both the Windows and BeOS version of Blender. The BeOS version can be found in the \software\essentials\blender\ folder on this disc, and is supplied as a compressed TAR file. You should uncompress this (you can use WinZIP, for example) and copy the files to a folder on your hard disk, then install from within BeOS. The Windows version can be copied and unzipped by clicking the link to the right. Blender web site

Decks This freeware .mp3 player and mixer for Windows 98 is unusual in that it will allow you to play and mix two .mp3 tracks in real time. Features include pitch controls, speed of playback and volume level controls. You can also overlay .wav samples and "beatmatch" one song to the other at the touch of a button. Visit the Decks website

Cdex version 1.3 Cdex is a is utility that can extract digital audio tracks from an audio CD and save them as files on your hard disk. The extracted audio tracks can be stored as WAV or MP3 files. CDex uses Adaptec's ASPI library manager to communicate with the CD-ROM drive, so you should make sure that you have installed the proper ASPI drivers. Visit the Cdex website for more information