Finally a complete suite of Windows XP Desktop enhancement, XP Visual Tools is loaded with all you need to tweak your Windows XP Desktop. Now you can do anything you want, from changing transparency level of XP Start Menu and XP Taskbar to easy swapping between different Windows XP LogonUI or Windows XP Wallpapers and applying Windows XP Skins (XP Themes) to old programs.

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This tiny utility allows you adjusting transparency of currently active window and seeing other windows open at your desktop (so called alpha blending). Use Ctrl+F11 and Ctrl+F12 keys to setup alpha blending and make your work with multiple files more convenient.

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PCSummarizer places critical system information right on your screen where you can clearly see it all the time. Information that is shown is user configurable and you can even hide the display with the click of your mouse. Or you can simply click and drag the display to a different location on your screen. The display can be given various degrees of transparency making it even more unobtrusive.

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Aversoft Sticker is featured reminder / scheduler for Windows. Sticker allows you to create as many notes as you want, set note's alarm, schedule tasks, print notes and lock them from being accidentally deleted. The notes are saved automatically and it's easy to use just like the paper post-it notes. Sticker has skinnable interface and many skins. A transparency feature makes notes half visible to make it easier for you to use your desktop.

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Visualizer Photo Resize is a batch resizer, converter and optimizer, that is designed to handle all your photos and graphic documents (JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TGA, TIFF, PSD, PSP). The software will even allow you to embed a text watermark in the batch process. You can modify the alignment of your watermark and manually enter the edge position. You can change the font, font size and font color, and you can change the transparency of the font.

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Hide windows from praying eyes or for the comfort of a clean desktop. Has a boss key feature that hides the active window and mutes the sound, a hide in system tray, "Hide", "Topmost" and "Priority" menu item in the applications system menu (Where it asks you to Close through the taskbar). Unique transparency effect to highlight the active window.

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4D Keeper allows automatic synchronization with exact-time servers. With just two buttons, you can detect if your PC clock shows exact time. The program has 2 automatic modes, which allow periodical adjustment of clock, and running the program when Windows starts. The interface allows creating and editing color schemes. The features of the program include clock synchronization, automatic switch from one server to another, and transparency support

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HS SMTP is a software library in C (supplied with full source code) which implements the client side of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) over TCP socket layer according to RFC 821. Supports transfer of text and file attachments. HS SMTP Library incorporates the necessary state machine, transparency procedures, and server response processing required to comply to a simple and robust SMTP client implementation. Supports secure SMTP over TLS.

This breakthrough technology presents unique features: ? It is a stand-alone application designed with the most advanced programming language available to date. As a result it barely uses your CPU and RAM ? It resides on your desktop in the form of a headline ticker. ? It allows the user to control its speed, font style/size/color, background color, transparency and pop-up alert bubble duration. Many more functions available.

A collection of 100 puzzles. Objective: fill entirely the grid. Pentaminoes designed with great care. Transparency and shadow effects. You can rotate or turn them with right clicks. Puzzles for beginners or experts. Many options, informations on the game, fully customizable background (5 photos, 5 3D pictures, 10 textures, gradient or simple color) and fun animation when the puzzle is solved. Game interface and help file in English or French.

Mark IT Now! is an easy to use visible watermarking software. With only a few clicks you can protect all of your digital images by putting copyright text or graphic watermarks on them. You can customize image and text watermarks by changing their transparency, rotation, tiling, fonts, automaticly font sizing to fit image size and many other. You may also use metadata such as filename, photograph creation date, etc as text watermarks.

Explores Flash files, extracts and updates text, graphics, sound and actions. Graphics can be exported in JPEG, PNG and BMP format. Sounds are saved in MP3 or WAV. You can change scene size/frame rate, remove tags or frames, remove or modify actions, change object placement, update URL's, associated with a button object or defined in ActionScript, apply your own URL to the whole movie or to any scene part, remove/apply soundtrack and more.

VintaSoftAnnotation.NET is a developer tool that allows to annotate images: create, process, delete, save to XML or TIFF file, merge the annotations with image. Supported annotation types: rectangle, ellipse, image, text, rubber stamp. Individual annotation features: moving, resizing, rotate and mirroring of annotation, change the background color of annotation, set transparency, add or remove border to annotation etc.

Creating is great for displaying your Christmas, family, travel, baby, pet, wedding, etc... photos as a screen saver on your work and home computer and you can create a single screen saver file or application to email and share the screen saver with your friends at any time.

It is an image searcher and viewer. You can select a set of folders that will be searched for images with many-option filters. You can limit search to image width, height, animation .etc. You can select images with certain properties (number of colors, transparency, animation, interlace .etc) Animated images can be played normally, slowly or step by step. You can find and delete duplicate images. It can be used to organize image files.

Need to know how long you take to reply to EMails, be reminded to when change the CO2 filter or run a program every 3 hours? Secs is an easy to use timer, capable of counting up as well as down, and settable by second divisions from 1 second up to almost 50 days. It can have a beep or almost any standard audio file (including MP3s) for the "time-up" sound, either of which can be set to repeat, plus it can also run files.

Photo Album Creator is a photo album software that easily collects and organizes your pictures, decorate them with frames, layer and texts, export slideshow, EXE, html and screensaver.

Greeting Card Zoom is a software to design and print or email lovely greeting cards for any occasions with your own photos, smiles, love-signs and more. Create folded cards for birthday, anniversary, wedding, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, New Year, Valentines Day etc. Add your text, photos with cool effects to create great personalized cards. This card creator comes with a lot of greeting card templates and graphics.

Siberix PDF Library is a pure C# component for .NET designed to create industry standard PDF files. It provides a variety of methods to format text, create complex layouts, draw geometric figures and paths, insert images and other objects.

The EZ-Files Library contains 26 technical indicators pre-built in Excel Spreadsheet Format. These Excel files are tremendously useful for constructing securities trading, technical analysis, or statistical models in Excel. EZ-Files save you countless hours of research and calculation time, and each indicator is guaranteed to have 100% correct formulas. Each file has "open source" formulas left unlocked to enable easy adjustment and modification.

Create custom desktop with built in active calendar just over wallpaper, with the useful to-do list in the day cells. You can set up pleasant working atmosphere by changing desktop view (background image, calendar arrangement, fonts, colors etc.) and adding a full-functional PIM alike a calendar which can be small or large, transparent or, even, hidden on your desktop. Printable your calendar or notes.

CodeThatMenu is advanced cross-browser state-of-art JavaScript menu control that can be easily integrated in any web page, requires no JavaScript knowledge from the prospective user and comes with the features everybody expects from the modern navigation menu

Pixie is an image slideshow viewer for displaying your image collections in a small and convenient resizable desktop window. Select an existing folder ('My Pictures' is the default) and Pixie will start a slideshow of the images in that folder and subfolders. Pixie features the ability to Auto-Advance the slideshow every X number of seconds, display images in sorted/reverse/random order, Keyboard shortcuts, Stay On Top, Transparency, and more...

It is an image browser, searcher and viewer. Images can be marked for different purposes (Delete, Copy, Move, Rename, Bookmark .etc) Images can be arranged in pages (up to 999 images per page). You can select images with certain properties (number of colors, animation .etc) You can view image comments, like copyright info, designer name. You can find and delete duplicate images. It can be used to organize image files.

With SD WinHider you may show, hide and manage any window or system tray icon apperance, control windows transperency, set or change windows icons, titles and so on. Software allows to free your desktop space for more windows, change windows attributes to fit specific use, hide not required or rarely used tray icons.

With PhotoBling, you can apply various special and artistic effects to medium sized JPEG images (under 1 megapixel). It is easy to use. Just open an image and apply one or more one-click presets! PhotoBling's capabilities are mainly softening, adding glitter, blooming, converting to sketch, adding frame, various color effects, and combinations of these.

Flash Fluid Effect is a tool to easily and quickly create cool Macromedia flash animation effect such as melt, vaporize, warp, blur, chaos, etc. There is no need to know any scripting language. Simply select an effect from a library and customize it by adjusting the parameters. Support transparency, export to flash movie (.SWF), produce fast and very smooth animation with a very small published file size.

Features:* Display "Caps Lock", "Num Lock" and "Scroll Lock" indicators in the windows system tray (next to the Clock)* Allow the user to specify which indicators should be shown/hidden, set the indicators order and give ability to load custom icons for each indicator* Play a sound when "Caps Lock", "Num Lock", "Scroll Lock" status changed or "Ins" key pressed and allow user to select custom sounds.

Advanced flash website builder offering 7500 design possibilities. Upto 100 pages. Contact form. Add own logo, images, music and text. Inbuilt image gallery, music gallery and theme gallery. The utility supports creation of flash websites of upto 100 pages with the ability to add own logo, jpg images, mp3 music, editable image size, image position and transparency, editable text size and positioning.

Aoork DVDRipper Home is a straightforward DVD ripping tool, which offers an quick and simple method to rip dvd to rm/rmvb/wmv/AVI/MP4/3GP/MOV/ASF/FLV/MPG/MP3/WMA/RA/AAC/AC2/OGG/MP2/AMR/WAV files. It supports Image or Text watermark, Subtitle offset, Clip DVD, Subtitle selection or Audio Rrack selection and ID3 tags. For ripping entire DVD (video or audio) , You only need to click two or three buttons.

Belltech Greeting Card Designer helps you design and print or email lovely greeting cards for any occasions with your own photos, smiles, love-signs and more. Create folded cards for birthday, anniversary, wedding, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, New Year, Valentine's Day etc. Add your text, photos with cool effects to create great personalized cards. This card creator comes with a lot of greeting card templates and graphics.

Easy to use creator of animated files (GIF and AVI). For making of frames is used both the files (BMP, GIF, JPG, ICO, PNG) and the images creating with the help of embedded graphic editor. Support of drag and drop technique for adding and inserting of new frames. Generating of frames with alpha blending, gradient fill, creeping line... There are built-in tools: frame editor, creating of AVI or GIF via capture and AVI viewer

Astatix Launcher is a program designed for a quick start of applications and documents in a single click. Also, Astatix Launcher allows the user to perform some special functions, and also to adjust performing of the special operations by pressing hotkeys. One of additional possibilities is the Winamp control. You can use any hotkeys and control of Winamp anytime even you are playing full-screen games like Quake or Counter Strike.

Create Flash based highly interactive presentations, simulations, demos, tutorials. Presentation delivery features: each screen downloading control, screens ahead reading, real backward playback, navigation restrictions, audio volume and playback speed control on the client-side, skins supporting. You can record user activities from computer desktop and prepare simulation automatically by AtPresent Recorder.

Bytescout.Watermarking SDK is a native .NET library to mark image files (JPG, PNG, GIF, TIF and other) with text, stamps, annotations, logotypes, EXIF text macros within your .NET desktop or web-application. Provides support for template based text watermarks (EXIF macros and photo information macros). Built-in presets include: Text, Logo, Logo with text, DateTime and FileName stamping, Annotations, Text Fits Page, Stamps, Tiled Text and other!

WebtoWall is an Internet based Active Desktop Wallpaper changer. Add your own Web Cams / Radars and etc, plays animated images such as radar loops, can display the image in a separate window, will rotate images, quick snap feature, archives images, proxie support and multi-user friendly.

Smart GIF Creator is powerful yet simple. You can easily create high quality GIF files fast using a set of images from JPEG, BMP, ICO, PCX, and Windows Metafiles. And easily edit them using your favorite editor. You can add color for quality web pages, while maintaining optimal file-sizes for quick downloads. So your site traffic gets to your site -- and stays there - in a flash. The software works on all Windows systems.

A collection of over 100 different filter effects wrapped in a single plug-in. Combining all those effects into a single plug-in allows you to use them in ways not possible separately. With UnPlugged-X, the whole is larger than the sum of the parts. UnPlugged-X is a complete solution to most of your daily filter needs. With over one hundred unique effects, you will be sure to improve both your quality and productivity.

AMC GIF Construction Set Pro is the world's most widely-used GIF animator to assemble, edit, and optimize animations and create transparent GIF files. Features: Animation Wizard, Supercompressor, Banner generator and Transitions for sophisticated animated effects. You can rotate, crop, colour-adjust and resize all or part of an animation sequence. Extensive documentation and tutorials so you can get right down to things that flash and move.

Draw flowcharts, business and organizational charts, network diagrams and graphs. InSight Diagrammer provides several collections of shapes and images for creating professional drawings. It also lets you define your own node shapes and images and organize them into thematic shape libraries. InSight drawings can be printed or exported to image files for use in other applications.

Take quick notes, tasks or appointments on attractive sticky notes on your Windows Desktop. These sticky notes look like 3M Post-It(r) Notes. Stick them to websites, documents, programs or any other window. If the desktop gets too messy, you can neatly arrange them into virtual memoboards (folders). Finding a note back is extremely fast. Send these stickies to your coworker over network or as email (if coworker offline). Sync with Outlook or PDA.