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VueScan, the world’s most popular scanner software, is used extensively by photographers, home users, scanning services and corporations. It works with most high-quality flatbed and film scanners to produce scans that have excellent color fidelity and color balance. VueScan is very easy to use, and also has advanced features for restoring faded colors, batch scanning and other features used by professionals. VueScan can output scanned documents, photos, and film in PDF, JPEG, TIFF formats. It can also recognize text using OCR and create multi-page pdfs using both flatbed scanners and scanners with automatic document feeders. VueScan is a replacement for the software that came with your scanner. Whether you are looking for more advanced features that
VSO ConvertXtoHD software is a Blu-ray and AVCHD Creator that lets you convert your videos in HD in just a click, whatever their original format. The program will give you the exceptional HD quality results. Give your videos Blu-ray treatment with exceptional image quality! VSO ConvertXtoHD will allow you to create AVCHD and Blu-ray folders, disks and ISO images. Create Blu-ray from any video with guaranteed compatibility with all home Blu-ray players. VSO ConvertXtoHD supports all input files: .avi, .mkv, Blu-rays, DVDs, .mts, .mpg, FLV, etc. The output size can be DVD-5, DVD-9, BD-25, BD-50, or custom value. You can see your changes in real time with the live preview. Conversions are made with professional looking menus making your disks extra easy to watch!
MediaMonkey is a music manager and media jukebox for serious music collectors and iPod users. It catalogs your CDs, OGG, WMA, MPC, FLAC, APE, WAV and MP3 audio files. It looks up missing Album Art and track information via Freedb and the web, and includes an intelligent tag editor and an automated file and directory renamer to organize your music library. Its player automatically adjusts volume levels so that you don’t have continually fiddle with the volume control and supports hundreds of Winamp plug-ins and visualizations; or if you prefer, it can use Winamp as the default player. MediaMonkey includes a CD ripper, CD/DVD Burner, and audio converter for saving music, and manual or automated playlist editors for creating music mixes.
Royal RSS Feed Reader is a free, standalone application, that allows to read posts on RSS feeds. This program checks on startup, and if you like periodically, for new posts on RSS 0.91/0.92/1.0/2.0/Atom feeds. Simply drag-drop the RSS/XML icon from any site to this application, the post will be automatically added. Alternatively you can enter a URL or local file into the edit box and press ‘add url’. Use Google Takeout to export Reader settings, extract subscriptions.xml file and drag-drop it into Royal RSS Feed Reader. If you minimize the application, the RSS Feed Reader creates a small icon near the clock. If a new post is found, a small window appears and shows you the title of the new post. The user interface of Royal RSS Feed Reader is available in English, German and Dutch.
avast! Internet Security 2015 provides complete antivirus, anti-spyware, antispam, and firewall protection, complemented now by new avast! SafeZone technology. It creates an isolated virtual desktop, invisible to any possible attacker, where you can do your online shopping and banking securely. avast! SafeZone opens a new (clean) desktop so that other programs don’t see what’s happening – and it leaves no history once it’s closed. The avast! award-winning and certified antivirus engine and shields stop even previously unknown threats – for peace of mind when you chat or spend time on Facebook, Twitter, or other websites. The avast! silent firewall stops hackers and other unauthorized entry attempts to your PC, to keep your data where it belongs – safe and sound. 
ADVANCED Codecs for Windows 7, 8 and 10 (formerly Win7codecs) is an audio and video codec package. The installer will automatically remove most other popular codec releases from your computer before installing this concise yet comprehensive package. You won’t need to make any adjustments or tweaks to enjoy your media content immediately. Windows Media Player and Media Center will instantly recognize all your files as playable. MKV playback is fully supported. It does not contain a media player and it does not associate filetypes. With this package installed you will be able to use any media player, limited only by the players’ capabilities, to play all movies and video clips. Streaming video is supported in several formats in all popular web browsers.
VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. VLC Player is Simple, Powerful and Fast. Plays everything, Files, Discs, Devices and Streams. VLC also is Media Converter and Streamer, plays most codecs with no codec packs needed. VLC is a highly portable multi-platform multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, Ogg, OGM, MOV, wma, wmv…) The VLC media player project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol. BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting and bandwidth resources. Instead, when data is distributed using the BitTorrent protocol, recipients each supply data to newer recipients, reducing the cost and burden on any given individual source, providing redundancy against system problems, and reducing dependence upon the original distributor. Usage of the protocol accounts for significant traffic on the Internet, but the precise amount has proven difficult to measure. There are numerous compatible BitTorrent clients, written in a variety of programming languages, and running on a variety of computing platforms. The protocol was designed in April 2001,
AIMP is a powerful audio player that allows you to listen to your favorite music with an outstanding sound quality. Its appearance resembles that of another classical audio player (Winamp), so you’ll get used to it very quickly. It can also be customized with skins. The program includes a 18-band equalizer, a visualization window to display rhythmic visual effects and a playlist editor to organize your audio files. A nice fading effect makes your list of songs look like an endless music loop and a handy volume normalizing feature avoids drastic volume changes between tracks. Also, the player’s main functions can be conveniently controlled by global hotkeys. Besides playing music, AIMP features three extra utilities which also enable you to record any sound on your computer,
µTorrent – a (very) tiny BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. µTorrent is an efficient, feature rich and built for speed. That means ultra-efficient downloads of mega-sized files. µTorrent was designed to use as little CPU, space and memory as possible while offering all the functionalites expected from advanced clients. With µTorrent, you can download files faster and contribute by sharing files and bandwidth. Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT. Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification and peer exchange. µTorrent was written with efficiency in mind. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources.
Opera 29 is a fast and free alternative web browser, that includes tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, integrated searches. Opera 29 web browser is based on Chromium and Blink (the rendering engine used by Chromium). It has come up with bigger guns to enter the race for the most popular web browser, as the current leading role is played between Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. The web browser has one intuitive, powerful location for searching and navigating the web. Search using multiple providers and view site suggestions as you type. The Discover feature gives you top-quality news and entertainment from around the globe. Opera also has the advanced functions such as Opera Mail program, the lightweight, customizable mail client that refines your email experience.
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your videos, photos and docs anywhere and share them easily. This means that any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, phones and even the Dropbox website. The program also makes it super easy to share with others, whether you’re a student or professional, parent or grandparent. Even if you accidentally spill a latte on your laptop, have no fear! You can relax knowing that Dropbox always has you covered, and none of your stuff will ever be lost. The application works just like any other folder on your computer, but with a few differences. Any files or folders inside Dropbox will get synchronized to Dropbox’s servers and any other computer linked to your account.
DAEMON Tools Pro Advanced is the best product for optical media emulation. It lets you create disc images or edit existing ones with easy tool – Image Editor. Run it directly from DAEMON Tools or Windows Explorer. Create images of MP3, APE, FLAC audio discs, data discs and others. Edit files that image contains, manage and burn images with only one powerful application – DAEMON Tools Pro! Use full DAEMON Tools Pro functionality: create images using preset profiles, make necessary changes to image data if needed, compress data, split image files, protect your image information, burn to CD/DVD, emulate not only CD/DVD but also HD DVD and Blu-ray drives. Plus get even more virtual CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray drives. 
WebSite-Watcher 2015 is a powerful yet simple website-monitoring tool that automatically checks web pages for updates and changes. Automate your daily routine, boost your productivity! Save Time, Stay Informed! WebSite-Watcher perfectly suited to the beginner and advanced user alike. If you can work with an email client, you can even work with WebSite-Watcher! The software places you in complete control over what gets checked, when it gets checked, and even how you are notified. WebSite-Watcher 2015 allows you to monitor your favorite websites for updates and changes with a minimum of time and effort. This prevents you from visiting each page manually looking for changes. When changes in a page are detected, WebSite-Watcher saves the last two versions to your hard disk and highlights all changes in the text. 
Wise Care 365 is an all-in-one PC tune-up utility, the bundle of important registry, disk, and other system tuneup utilities for your PC. The software includes the Wise Registry Cleaner and Wise Disk Cleaner with Disk Defrag. Wise Care 365 is designed to make it as easy as possible to keep your PC running at its optimum speed. It will keep your Windows secure, clean and fast. PC Checkup uses 10 as the full mark to rate your PC and show you its health status. You will be clear about your PC’s issues at one glance and fix them with one click. System Cleaner cleans invalid registry entries, useless files, download history, browsing history, form history, invalid shortcuts, traces, cache, cookies, passwords, Windows components, files with specific extensions and slims down your system.
ConvertXtoDVD is a software to convert your videos to DVD and watch on any DVD player. It allows to convert Avi to DVD, DivX to DVD, WMV to DVD, RM to DVD, YouTube to DVD etc…and burn automatically to DVD after video conversion. With ConvertXtoDVD and in a few clicks you can backup your movies to DVD playable on any home DVD player. ConvertXtoDVD, the AVI to DVD converter software, has included a conversion advisor tool that will automatically apply the best quality settings based on the videos you have added to your project. Create DVDs from various video formats to watch them on TV with any DVD player. Add 1 or more video files, insert a blank DVD and your videos will be converted and burnt automatically on to DVD with chapters and an elegant DVD menu.