doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create PDF files by selecting the “Print” command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files.

Main benefits for using this free PDF converter:

* It’s free - PDF converter free for both commercial and personal use.
* 32-bit and 64-bit support - can be installed on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems.
* No GhostScript or .NET - doesn’t require 3rd party programs to do PDF files such as GhostScript or runtime environments like the .NET Framework. This makes the setup file to be incredibly small compared to other free PDF converters.
* Customizable resolution - you can choose any resolution from 72 to 2400 dpi.
* Predefined/custom page sizes - choose a default page size (Letter, Legal, A4, A5, A6, …) or enter your own custom page size.
* Searchable PDFs - you can search for text within the created PDF file (and search engines will also index the text from the PDF).
* Multi-language - choose a language for the user interface from the 20 languages currently supported (credits).
* Do your part in saving the planet - instead of consuming paper to print your document, why not create a PDF file out of it and spare a couple of planet-saving trees?
* Barely uses any computer resources - compared to other free PDF converters, doPDF barely uses any memory or CPU resources when doing the actual conversion to PDF.

doPDF is a free PDF converter, it is not a PDF viewer. To view PDF files you will need the free Adobe Reader.

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DIKO ia a program to convert video to DVD and SVCD that allows to reach up to 6 hours in 1 DVD-R or 2 hours in 1 SVCD.

DIKO does the all the calculations, decides what is best qualitywise and gives the right orders to all tools, aiming to get excellent video quality. DIKO is 100% freeware, and everything it needs is also freeware and bundled in the install package.

features:

· Encoding via One Pass VBR Size prediction fully integrated, using CinemaCraft Encoder, AQE or TMPGEnc, ou using 1 or 2 Pass VBR throught FreeEnc (bundled in DIKO installation package).
· Does automatically all bitrate calculation needed.
· Convert audio to 48000 automatically if needed.
· Do automatically framerate conversions from 23.976 to 25 fps and 25 fps to 23.976, including audio and subtitles. This feature also works with 5.1 audio.
· Automatic authoring with user-created menu via linux ported DVDAuthor or leave video audio and subs ready to be imported to other authoring packages.
· Automatic DVD image creating via MKISOFS and burning viaIMGBurn if dvdauthor authoring is selected.
· Creates switchable subtitles from commom srt and sub files.
· Join subtitles for originally 2-CD DivX movies on the fly.
· Stops if Q Factor is too low, avoiding bad quality encodes.
· Automatically checks and fixes AC3 errors via AC3FIX
· Enables pulldown flag via Pulldown.exe automatically.
· It can fully work in background.
· Do AC3 encoding via SoftEncode or MP2 encoding via BeSweet
· Full avisynth script support, comes with latest Dialhot Script V4 for DivX.
· Takes care of the annoying Softencode dying bug.

StarCodec is a free codec pack that will help you play movie and music files.

StarCodec set up a convenient and stable media environment with stable and excellent codecs.

Requirements:

· DirectX 7 or higher recommanded
· Windows Media Player 7 or higher recommanded

FireTune is a small program that will help firefox users optimize the browser, includes all the performance optimizations. The only thing you must do is: make your selection. FireTune does the work for you.

How to use it? first you need to clear cache of Firefox from the Firefox settings dialog, after this step finish close Firefox, and optimize it with FireTune
Start Firefox again, and repeat the speed test on http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Compare the displayed result with the result from the test before the optimization

offers what you need to customize and optimize Windows Vista:

Unlike other tweaking utilities, TweakVI bundles lots of different utilities in one. It was developed to combine both tuning and optimizing features to increase the speed of your Windows Vista system. It’s the worlds first software for Windows Vista to combine both customization, tweaking and optimization features.

Heaps of free plugins are included with the freeware ‘Basic Edition’ of TweakVI. Additional plugins are available to subscribers and new plugins will be released from time to time once they become available. Subscribe today and immediately download up to 13 additional plugins for TweakVI.

SoftPerfect Network Scanner is a free multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS and SNMP scanner with a modern interface and several advanced features. It is intended for both system administrators and general users who are interested in computer security. The program pings computers, scans for listening TCP ports and displays which types of resources are shared on the network (including system and hidden).

In addition, it allows you to mount shared folders as network drives, browse them using Windows Explorer, filter the results list and more. SoftPerfect Network Scanner can also check for a user-defined port and report back if one is open. It can also resolve host names and auto-detect your local and external IP range. It supports remote shutdown and Wake-On-LAN.

Key features

* Pings computers.
* Does not require administrative privileges.
* Detects hardware (MAC) addresses even across routers.
* Detects hidden shared folders (normally invisible on the network) and write accessible shares.
* Detects your internal and external IP addresses.
* Scans for listening TCP ports and SNMP services.
* Retrieves currently logged-on users.
* You can mount and explore network resources.
* Can launch external third party applications.
* Exports results to HTML, XML, CSV and TXT
* Supports Wake-On-LAN and remote shutdown.
* It is absolutely free, requires no installation, and does not contain any adware/spyware/malware.

36-image converter you can very easy to convert an image (.bmp,.gif and .bmp ) into 36-other types o.a. icons, .tiff, .pdf, .pii and much more.

This program also can resize, move the images edit using filters for eg. grayscale, roman effect, lighten, darken.etc. The extension bug is also fixed.

Many more advanced options are added to oa. Merge images and recolor them, see screenshots. and now you can associate 36IC to a filetype eg. bmp. And major bug fix on extensions and CMD parameters. Also bug fix on Mozaic tool.

FotoSketcher is a free program that will help you create an image look as if they have been hand drawn by an artist. And this is portable version from this freeware.

Asterisk Key is a program that will help you reveals passwords that are hidden under asterisks.Asterisk Key is easy to use, just press a button, while the dialog or web page is open and it will detect and reveal all masked passwords.

features of “Asterisk Key”:

· Uncovers hidden passwords on password dialog boxes and web pages
· State of the art password recovery engine - all passwords are recovered instantly
· Multilingual passwords are supported
· Full install/uninstall support

This tool can be used to fix most problems in which your normal background is not displayed. Usually in the backgrounds place there is another image or website which has hijacked the desktop. This form of hijacking involves reconfiguring your desktop to display something other than your default configuration. This can be caused by a virus / malware or can be that your active desktop may have just encountered an error.

You can use Desktop Hijack Fix to restore Microsoft Windows default settings for Active Desktop and remove any changes that had been made. It can also be used to backup your current Active Desktop configuration to be restored later if you choose to not restore Microsoft default settings. During running operation this tool has been designed to alert you if you active desktop settings have been hijacked based off your previous configuration.