Forget your start menu and the icons on your desktop - launch programs and documents from your keyboard, with just a few keystrokes, by typing abbreviations. Just type a few letters of what you are looking for and Key Launch finds it - enter e.g. ´calc´ to open the ´calculator´.

You can add aliases, e.g. you can define that “w” means “Microsoft Word”, and from now on, you can simply hit Ctrl+Q, then ´w´ and enter to open MS Word, it´s much faster than browsing through your start menu.

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DigitalVideo Converter is a freeware all-in-one video processing application. It can convert popular video formats to AVI (DivX, XviD, MPEG-4, H264), MPEG (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VCD, SVCD, DVD), WMV, QuickTime (MOV ), FLV, iPod, PSP, 3GP, WAV, MP3.

Digital Video Converter enables you to encode all of your favourite videos between various video formats, quickly split and join video files.

Features:

* Import any video file (AVI, DIVX, XVID, MP4, MPG, WMV, ASF, MOV, etc.)
* Output file format:AVI (DivX, XviD, MPEG-4, H264), MPEG (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VCD, SVCD, DVD), WMV, QuickTime ( MOV ),FLV,iPod,PSP,3GP,WAV,MP3.
* Intuitive user interface

WM Converter provides converting capabilities for most popular media formats. Note that the quality of a converted video/audio file cannot be better than the original if higher conversion bit rates (kbps) or frames rates (fps) are used.

WMV/Zune is utilized by Windows Media Player. The converted files have the extension wmv. Use this format to create smaller files that can be sent over the Internet. For example you can convert your camera MPEG-2 files to smaller WMV files that can be emailed or played in your Microsoft Zune.

MP4/iPod is utilized by QuickTime. The converted files have the extension mp4. Use this format to create high quality video/audio files or smaller files that can be sent over the Internet. For example you can convert your camera MPEG-2 files to smaller MP4 that can be emailed or played in your Apple iPod. Or, you can convert high quality MPEG-2 files to high quality MP4 files.

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A codec pack that will give you the ability to play 99% of all the movies that you download from the internet
K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video.

The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of all the movies found on your computer.

The K-Lite Codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs:

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A program that allows you to take screenshots and thumbnails of web pages or whole websites.
WebShot is a program that allows you to take screenshots and thumbnails of web pages or whole websites.

WebShot comes with a command line interface for advanced users. The following image formats are supported GIF, JPG, PNG, BMP.

Here are some key features of “WebShot”:

· Automatic determination of page width and height that captures the whole page accurately. Frame dimensions are determined and calculated on pages that have them.
· Browser
size specification allows you to capture the whole page or part of it
· Image thumbnailing reduces the final capture image easily
· Timeouts allow you to wait for activex controls to load before capturing
· Image encoding to JPG, GIF, PNG, and BMP with image quality control to save on disk space
· CSV output allows you to easily parse the results of a screenshot capture operation
· CSV output of page title, meta keywords, and description helps you parse the most important information from a page
· Use within your own applications using the dll and example C source code
· Blocks all kinds of popups (javascript popups, script dialogs, injected via wmp popups, etc)
· Multiple threads allow you to quickly capture more screenshots without running multiple processes
· Custom user agents allow you to view a web page that would might be served to other browsers
· Easily delete all of Internet Explorer’s cache, so your hard drive doesn’t get full

This software was designed to assist you in your work with web proxies.
Web Proxy Checker is a multithreaded fast proxy checking software.

This software is able to support SOCKS4/SOCKS5/HTTP/HTTPS proxies.

Here are some key features of “Web Proxy Checker “:

· Check SOCKS4/SOCKS5/HTTP/HTTPS proxies.
· Multithreaded.
· Handle redirects.
· Can download proxy list from the given URL.
· Customizable User Agent.

Firefox extension that will allow you to receive email messages, write and read them in your browser
Simple Mail is an extension that will notify, let you read and write email messages in your Firefox browser.

Usage:
Configure one or more accounts in Preferences, set account refresh time and get notified of new mail. When new mail arrives, Simple Mail shows new messages count in status bar. You can click Simple Mail icon to open received messages in a separate browser tab.

Gmail is supported. To use Simple Mail with a Gmail account you should first enable POP in your Gmail preferences (using Gmail web interface), and then configure Simple Mail account with these settings: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287.

Note: you can’t delete Gmail messages from server using Simple Mail, you can only specify to an option to delete messages using web Gmail interface.

You can use the
following keys to manage messages:
· Insert - select messages
· *, Ctrl-A - select all messages
· Del - delete selected messages

Address Book: When you send a message, Simple Mail saves email addresses of the recepients, so that next time you don’t have to type them again. As you begin typing recepient addresses for the nex time, a drop-down list of available addresses is shown. For example if you previously sent an email to John Smith , you can type “j” to see all addresses beginning with “j” or “j s” for all addresses with first names beginning with “j” and last names beginning with “s”.

Not supported:
· Sending of attachments isn’t currently supported.
· multipart/related content type isn’t shown correctly: images are shown at the end of a letter, not in the middle of message text

A free (open source) audio/video converter, putting together many excellent audio/video softwares into one friendly GUI
On video side, MEncoder can be used as back-end, which will provide support for nearly all known video compression and container formats as well as rich and useful video filtering features (e.g. 3D de-noise, post-processing).

On audio side, MPlayer and Winamp input plugins used as decoders, various encoders integrated, MediaCoder can simply batch transcode among any known audio formats, with tags transferred, file names generated, and even performing audio filtering (e.g. resample, normalize) on the fly.

Here are some key features of “MediaCoder”:

Typical applications:
·
Improving compression / reducing file size (audio+video -> audio+video)
· e.g. MPG/VOB/AVI/RMVB/MOV/MP4 -> AVI/MKV/MP4 (Xvid/DivX/H.264 + MP3/OGG/AAC)
· Extracting audio track (audio+video -> audio)
· e.g. MPG/VOB/AVI/RMVB/MOV/MP4 -> MP3/OGG/AAC/MPC
· Converting to normal VCD/DVD player ready video files (audio+video -> MPEG)
· e.g. RMVB/MOV -> MPEG 1/2
· Converting from lossless or high-bitrate audio to low-bitrate audio to play with portable DAP (audio -> audio)
· e.g. APE/FLAC/WavPack (+ CUE sheets) -> MP3/AAC/WMA
· Ripping CDs and compressing it on the fly
· e.g. CD tracks-> APE/FLAC/WavPack/MP3/OGG/AAC/WMA/MPC

Supported source formats:
· Audio: MP3, OGG/Vorbis, AAC, MusePack, WMA, RealAudio, FLAC, WavPack, APE/APL, WAV
· Video: AVI (Xvid/DivX/H.264), MPEG1/2/4, QuickTime (mov), WMV/ASF, RealMedia (rmvb), MP4, Matroska (mkv)
· CUE Sheets, CD, VCD, DVD

Supported target audio formats:
· Lossy: MP3, OGG/Vorbis, AAC, AAC+/Parametric Stereo, MusePack, WMA
· Lossless: FLAC, WavPack, Monkey’s Audio (APE), WMA Lossless, WAV

Supported target video formats:
· H.264, Xvid, DivX 4/5, MPEG1/2/4, H.263

Supported target container formats:
· AVI, MPEG 1/2, Matroska, MP4

Vocabula is a FREE utility software, designed to improve your vocabulary skills. User can gradually build a sophisticated user oriented dictionary in any language (as long as you have the right font) and you can share it among your friends too, Vocabula will periodically come out of the Sleeping mode, asking words and meaning so that you may never forget them, Or you can study new words periodically, check your memory with quick checks, or even can check the web for word meanings and usage patterns.

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Trojan Killer is a malicious computer software (malware) removal application. Samples of malware include various types of adware (displays unwanted advertising); spyware (may keep and send logs of your keyboard and mouse activity, such as credit card or personal identity information); hidden dialers (may initiate unsolicited phone call which then shows on your bill), and more.

If you are an active internet user, you should take steps to protect your sensitive personal information from possible cyber exposure. Trojan Killer will help you to timely identify and safely remove dangerous applications before it is too late.