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Draw/Paint/Graphics/Icon Utilities: .

ThumbsPlus! (32-bit) - (2.2 MB) a great graphics program that displays thumbnails of all your files (BMP/GIF/JPG/etc.) and does cropping, scaling, conversions, and more. Highly recommended. Their homepage is here for the latest information.

JASC Paint Shop Pro - (1.9 MB) A great paint/editing program for Windows. Includes many high-end features like palette control and special effect filters. Great! Homepage.

LView Pro - (this runs under Win95 and Win3.X w/ Win32 extensions) another nice utility for quickly viewing graphic files, like JPEGs and GIFs that you download. Their homepage is here.

PhotoStudio - (1.3 MB) A top-of-the-line image editor similar to PhotoShop. Edit your existing images (all file types supported) with incredible special effects, like oil paint and fish-eye lenses. This is an excellent program. Homepage here.

Fractal Expression - (6.8MB) Commercial demo (Save disabled) of an incredible, vector-based, natural media drawing/painting program. You can use various strokes to resemble paints, charcoal, etc. You'll find it to be more like painting than using a computer program, and you'll be amazed by the beautiful work you can create.

Picture Man Art Gallery - (1.4 MB) Demo (Save disabled) of another nice photo/image editing program. Includes many special effect filters, contrast and color controls, etc. Homepage here.

Web Graphics Optimizer - (5.2 MB) Reduces the size of images on your web site so that your page will load faster. Can even handle animated GIF's. Homepage here.

Quant v2.0 (32-bit) - (347 KB) Quant is a graphics program for reducing any number of image files to a common 256-color (or less) palette. Use it to avoid palette flashes when you need to display multiple color images on systems with only 256-color displays. Homepage here.

U-Lead GIF Animator (32-bit) - (1.5 MB) By far the best program for creating animated GIFs (the moving pictures you see on the WWW these days). Cut and paste elements from any graphics program as you build your GIF with drag and drop ease. Highly recommended. Homepage here.

ULead SmartSaver (32-bit) - (3.1 MB) Great program for minimizing your web graphics so that web pages will load faster. View side by side comparisons of images so that you can reduce the image size without losing the quality you want. Homepage here.

Image Organizer (32-bit)(9 MB) worlds first Voice Controlled Peer-to-Peer Media Manager! It allows you to instantly publish your images and videos to any one on the Web. In addition iO features a number of state of the art organizational features that make the tedious job of maintaining media quick and easy. Homepage here

Audio/Midi/Video Utilities:

Video Launch Pad - (230KB) The ultimate AVI/MOV video player utility. Real-time FFWD/REW slider control, full-screen playback option, freeze frame and frame advance, save frames as BMP files, and much more. Get it!
VMPEG Lite - (540KB) The best MPEG viewer available, for .MPG video files you download.
Video Capturix 2000 (32-bit) - (4 MB) Video Capturix is a powerful non linear video capture application. It lets you capture movies (in AVI format) from any Video for Windows video source. You can also freeze video images and save the image in BMP and JPEG format or copy the image to the Clipboard. You can drop by their home page for latest news and updates.
GoldWave (32-bit) - (475K) The ultimate WAV audio editor and special effects utility. You can drop by their home page for latest news and updates.
Cool-Edit (32-bit) - (1.8 MB) Another good WAV audio editor: reverb, echo, delay, noise reduction, etc. Their home page is here.
EasyCD (32-bit) - (520K) The best audio CD player for Win95. Sits in your system tray and automatically loads when you pop-in a CD. Click icon to pause, double-click to move to next track, triple-click to move to previous track. Special feature: allows you to connect to an Internet database to automatically fill in your CD title and track names -- no need to type in the information! Pop-up menu has all standard options: jump to any track, repeat, etc. Homepage here.
Notify CD (32-bit) - (12K) Runner-up to EasyCD above, this is a tremendous (yet small) Audio-CD player for Windows 95. Sits in your system tray, right click to jump to any track, pause, random play, enter song database info, etc. Get it!
Dart CD (32-bit) - (6 MB) Complete tool for audio recording. Make custom CDs easily and fast - MP3on-the-fly burning. Capture music on your computer hard drive. Sweeten yoursongs with powerful DART audio tools. Organize your music into customplaylists easily. Homepage here
MP3 Boss (32-bit)(12 MB) MP3 Database & Manager. Homepage here
Napster (32-bit)(620 KB) Napster is a completely new way of thinking about music online. Imagine...an application that takes the hassle out of searching for MP3s. No more broken links, no more slow downloads, and no more busy, disorganized FTP sites. . Homepage here
MP3 Studio 2000 (32-bit)(8 MB) AudioCD MP3 Studio 2000 is a tool for creating and managing your private music archives. The ultimate tool for creating and managing your private music . . Homepage here
MOD Plug Tracker (32-bit)(2.7 MB) The MODPlug Tracker is a personal music studio for your Windows PC, no expensive musical gear needed. The included tutorial will have you writing your first song in minutes, and the included samples allow you to start writing your own original music. Homepage here
Text Aloud MP3 (32-bit)(4.1 MB) Converts any text into spoken words. TextAloud MP3 reads Text, Email, Web Pages, and documents using your choice of voices. Better still, leave your computer behind. TextAloud's unique Text to MP3 conversion can save your daily reading to MP3 audio files to download to your portable MP3 player. Homepage here
MP3 Liquid Burn (32-bit)(7.8 MB) Burn MP3s to CD up to 90% faster, and bring back original CD quality, with MP3 Liquid Burn! Orion Studios has developed one of the most advanced burning software programs for your home or business CD writer. Homepage here
Mediadome (32-bit)(7 MB) A 3D interactive house of grooves that organizes your mp3 music and web browsing experience in a single application. Homepage here

Screen Capture Utilities: .

Screen Capture (32-bit) - (487 KB) This is a great screen capture utility. Ever wish you could take a picture of what is on your screen? This program lets you select a region to capture, or lets you capture entire windows, or your desktop -- all with the click of the mouse or the use of a user-selected hot-key. Capture error messages, bugs, images for manuals, etc. Highly recommended! Home page.

HyperSnap (32-bit) - (405K) One of the best screen-capture programs available. Capture entire desktop, windows (even auto-scroll windows to capture images of huge web pages -- incredible!), and user defined areas, using your own hot-keys. Get it. Home page.

PrintScreen - (890K) Allows you to capture or print screens and windows, even from DOS. Homepage here for updates.

PrintKey (32-bit) - (130K) Capture a portion or all of the screen and save to printer, fax, or a BMP image. Homepage here for updates.

SnagIt (32-bit and 16-bit included) - (724K) Another top-of-the-line screen-capture program. Save captured areas to printer, clipboard, or disk. Full control over capture options. Video and text capture have been added to the lastest version. You can drop by their home page for latest updates.

Hypercam (32-bit) (278 KB) - Capture screen motion and turn it into an AVI file. Homepage here.