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StudioLine Photo Basic 3.16.8

Freeware

Superb image and photo management application. Add descriptions to your images, send photos per email in just the right size, print high- quality copies, display slide-shows, publish web-galleries, safe-keep your images on CD or DVD. Also, online printing and photo gifts are available.

Requires: Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP

The Godfather 0.71 beta2

Freeware

Digital photo manager and image enhancement tool. Instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, locates all your pictures and sorts them into visual albums organised by date with folder names you will recognise.

Requires: Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP

AVS Disc Creator 2.1.5.1

Free commercial software!

When a commercial disc burning package is updated, it seems to bundle too many new 'features'. This burning package is so simple to use and supports a myriad of burning media, including the new Blu-ray format. Simply select the files you want to burn, select the burn speed and name your disc.

The GIMP 2.2.12

Freeware

GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. Requires GTK+ 2 runtime available from here.

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP & GTK+ 2 runtime

UniDream PowerBatch 6.0

Freeware

Batch-converts, resizes, renames, rotates, adjusts, prints out your watermarked photos, and makes AVI out of your images. Supported image formats are JPEG, TIFF, GIF, BITMAP, PNG and JPEG2000. Resizing can use one of 11 example filters.

Requires: Windows 2000 or XP

AVS DVD Player 2.2.8.110

Free commercial software!

Here's a software DVD player that is so simple to use with a basic interface. However, it does the job and supports a wide range of standards from playing a standard DVD video through to compressed movies created with MPEG-4, DivX and many other formats. No spyware or adware or anything.