Vocabulary Highlighter 0.2.0.9 (Freeware)

Category: Internet Internet Applications Addons Mozilla Extensions

Vocabulary Highlighter 0.2.0.9 (Freeware). Highlights and rememebers words from your browser
Vocabulary Highlighter is a useful Firefox add-on designed to enable you to study languages and stay informed.
Requirements:

· Firefox 3.5 - 4.0b5

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· The add-on sometimes does not highlight new content added into a web page.
· Incorrect removal of highlighted text.
· Trimming spaces in selected text.
· Wrong parsing spaces.

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MPCSTAR 4.8 (Ad-supported)

Category: Multimedia Video Video Players

MPCSTAR 4.8 (Ad-supported). This application will help you play and view your favourite movies
MPCSTAR provides a package of video player and many codecs.

It contains a user-friendly player and carefully seletected codecs to support various video formats. With MPCSTAR, you would be able to play all your movies downloaded from the internet.
Here are some key features of "MPCSTAR":

· It's very user-friendly and easy-to-use, especially suitable for novice users.
· It always blocks pop-ups and ads in the movie files.
· It's a complete package and has been very well tested.
· It's always up-to-date with the newest or best versions of the components.
· It's completely free and does not contain any spyware or adware.
· Uninstal will removes all files and registry entries created by the package.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· [PLAYER] media key can be set as global hot key
· [PLAYER] media key works when main window minimized
· [PLAYER] add GUI translation
· [CODEC] MEncoder not install properly in v4.7
· [CODEC] RealMedia codec cannot be loaded in certain situation in v4.7

Reasons why this program is marked as ad-supported:

· Attempts to change the homepage for web browsers installed on the system.

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Portable RIOT 0.4.2 (Freeware)

Category: PORTABLE SOFTWARE Multimedia Graphics

Portable RIOT 0.4.2 (Freeware). Optimize you images with this tool.
Portable RIOT is a version of RIOT developed  to be able to run from a USB flash drive or any other portable device without leaving any trace in your registry.

Radical Image Optimization Tool is a program designed to help you process images for web/email/other media with the best compression ratio and quality.
Here are some key features of "Portable RIOT":

· Open multiple graphic file formats by looking first at the magic number (it does not need file extension to recognize format)including support for uncommon images types (up to 128 BPP, integer and floating point. EX: hdr images, 16 bit grayscale, etc). Adaptive logarithmic tone mapping algorithm (Drago) used for HDR images
· Save and optimize JPEG, GIF and PNG with a simple, clean user interface
· Works in dual view: (original - optimized image) or single view (optimized image). Automatic preview of resulting image
· In-place compare function (alternativelly display the original image over the optimized image to notice small pixel changes)
· Compress files to desired filesize threshold
· Fast processing (all is done in memory); see instant results including resulting filesize
· Decide if you want to keep metadata (comments, IPTC, Adobe XMP, EXIF profiles, ICC profiles). Unsupported metadata is removed
· Transfer metadata between image formats (destination format must support them)
· Common tools: pan and zoom, rotate, flip
· Resize image by using well known resample filters (ex: Lanczos3, Catmull Rom, Bicubic, and others)
· The compression and the results are comparable to those of commercial products.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· refactored resize function
· allowed specifying just width or height in batch resize
· improved PNG loading: added support for binary transparency in all bit depths, refactored the entire Load function
· fixed ICO transparency handling
· fixed a bug with applying properly the settings using the keyboard
· updated libraries to LibPNG 1.4.3, OpenEXR 1.7.0, OpenJPEG 1.4.0 (SVN patch 2010-04-16), LibRaw 0.10-Beta3, LibTIFF 3.9.4 (CVS patch 2010-07-13)
· RAW plugin: actual RAW bit depth is now displayed
· Fixed loading of Pentax KX RAW images
· Minor improvements for the EXR and RAW plugins
· the plugins from RAW + HDR package now run without SSE2 CPU extensions
· greyscale conversions now use the Rec. 709 formula
· new standard conversion from RGBF(A) high dynamic range formats allows to import such images with no tone mapping (gamma correction applied)
· fixed bug with Report file size in Batch when using an external optimizer
· improved TIFF and PSD loading
· small performance improvement in saving ...


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FIBExTrees Library 5.5 (Shareware)

Category: Programming Components & Libraries

FIBExTrees Library 5.5 (Shareware). Components which will hell you work with InterBase/FireBird/Yaffil database
FIBExTrees Library is a package of  components which will help you work with InterBase/FireBird/Yaffil databases.

Library contains following visible components:

TFIBExTreeView - DBTreeView component.
Nodes of Tree load from database after expand parents.

Supports:
Simple/CheckBox/RadioGroup mode
Internal Locate/sort dialogs and internal Popup menu for general edit operations
Filtering nodes
Custom sorting nodes in any order
Easy replacing imageindex and stateindex
Full Drag&Drop operation on tree/treelist and between trees/treelists
Using additional custom fields
Designtime metadata creator
In CheckBox/RadioGroup mode, check states of nodes stores in special checklist in memory.

TFIBExTreeColumnList – DBTreeView component with columns.
TFIBExTreeList – DBListView component.
TFIBExTreeComboBox – DBTreeComboBox component.TimageComboBox – may be uses for edit ImageIndex/stateindex of nodes.
Requirements:

· D5,D6,D7,D2006,D2007,CB6

Limitations:

· Nag screen
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added new components for release dinamic trees base on
· custom sql queryes from several relation tables / views.
· TFIBExDynTreeView
· TFIBExDynTreeColumnList
· TFIBExDynTreeList
· TFIBExDynTreeComboBox
· Structure of classes was changed.
· Stored procedure "TreeCheckProc" not use in library now!
· Searching nodes was optimized for speed.

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Vernier Caliper Model (GPL)

Category: Science / CAD

Vernier Caliper Model (GPL). Analyze the Vernier Caliper with this tool.
Vernier Caliper Model is a handy, easy to use application specially designed to show the principle of operation and the physical parts of a Vernier Caliper.

The Vernier calipers model offers:

· an object (Blue) for the internal jaws to measure width of an object with slider to control width of the object and simple drag action to control position of object.
· an object (Green) for external jaws to measure internal diameter of a cylinder for example with slider to control dimensions of the cylinder.
· checkbox for answer to show the meaning of reading on the main scale and the vernier scale with zero error calculations if any.
· drop down menu of the various common vernier scales for sense making and additional testing out by learners their ideas of how vernier works.
· fine control buttons for learners to manipulate the model with single incremental precision
· slider control for fast changes in the vernier measurement
· reset button to bring simulaton back to original (default) setting.

Requirements:

· Java

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