MY FAVORITE FREEWARE

GBSCG April 12, 2006 by Charlie Moir and Eve Welts
VLC Video
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audioand video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
-It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
It may be obtained at: www.videolan.org/vlc/

CDBurnerXP Pro
Writes all kind of mediums apart from double-layer DVD (follows in next version). Burning video-DVDs is limited.
-Burn audio-CDs with and without gaps between tracks
-Rip Audio-CDs to harddrive, obtain track-information (ID3-tags) from Internet
-Burn and create ISO-files
-Operating systems: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003 Server.
It may be obtained at: www.cdburnerxp.se/download.php

DVDShrink Object is to backup original DVD dual-layered (DVD-9) to a single-layered DVDR (DVD-5) disc.
-Show how to copy 'Pirates of the Carribean' and try to achieve a decent compression ratio for maximum video quality. Original DVD = 7,673MB reduce to 4,464MB. This can be achieved by stripping out menus, extras, DTS sound, foreign audio and elminitating credits.
It may be obtained at: www.mrbass.org/dvdshrink

Virtual Magnifing Glass
for type or details too small to be discerned easily.
-not be confused with the Microsoft magnifier which works across the page and can be adjusted for full page.
-can sit on your taskbar until clicked by pointer.
Go to: http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/ for download

Firefox Web Browser
-has features not found on Internet Explorer
-can be obtained at: http://www.downloadfirefox.net/

Open Office.
Free download that provides most of the functions of Microsoft Office
-Word processor will read Microsoft Word files, has a presentation program, draw, database, math. And many other features.
-Can be obtained at: http://www.openoffice.org/