FC Portables: May 2011

Portable AVS Audio Editor&Converter 2011.6

AVS Audio Editor 7.0.1.417

AVS Audio Converter 7.0.1.477

FFCoder is a .NET based audio/video converter, which is capable of transcoding audio and video files to various formats. It is a unified frontend for many freeware utilities such as FFmpeg, MPlayer and MEncoder.

Features:

Supports 16 encoders - ffmpeg, mencoder, ffmpeg2theora, x264, xvid_encraw, avs2avi, lame, faac, NeroAAC, OggEnc, FLAC, OptimFROG, Speex, MusePack and WavPack.
Batch processing.
Parallel processing (multiple files can be transcoded at same time).
Advanced configuration options for all codecs.
Supports 2-pass encoding with automated first pass.
Encode video using vfw codecs such as VP6, VP7 and FFDShow (by using avs2avi).
MeGUI presets can be imported for x264 and xvid encoding.
Support for video filters provided by the encoder (such as mencoder's filters)
Input files can be avisynth scripts or any format supported by ffmpeg.
For encoders such as x264_cli which support very few input formats, the video is decoded with ffmpeg and then piped to the encoder.
Tools: Dump audio/video stream to file, create images in JPEG/BMP/PNG/TIFF format, rebuild/cut/join video files, quant matrix editor, etc.

MakeMKV is your one-click solution to convert video that you own into free and patents-unencumbered format that can be played everywhere. MakeMKV is a format converter otherwise called 'transcoder'. It converts the video clips from proprietary (and usually encrypted) disc into a set of MKV files, preserving most information but not changing it in any way. The MKV format can store multiple video/audio tracks with all meta-information and preserve chapters There are many players that can play MKV files nearly on all platforms, and there are tools to convert MKV files to many formats, including DVD and Blu-ray discs.

Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker enables forensic access to password-protected backups for smartphones and portable devices based on RIM BlackBerry and Apple iOS platforms. The password recovery tool supports all Blackberry smartphones as well as Apple devices running iOS including iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices of all generations released to date, including the latest iPhone 4 and iOS 4.x.

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager (Win86/64, Linux, Mac). RAR files can usually compress content by 8 percent to 15 percent more than ZIP files can. WinRAR is a powerful compression tool with many integrated additional functions to help you organize your compressed archives. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.
WinRAR puts you ahead of the crowd when it comes to compression. By consistently creating smaller archives, WinRAR is often faster than the competition. This will save you disc space, transmission costs AND valuable working time as well. WinRAR is ideal for multimedia files. WinRAR automatically recognizes and selects the best compression method. The special compression algorithm compresses multimedia files, executables and object libraries

Product Key Explorer - Find over 500 popular software product keys instantly! product Key Explorer displays product Key for Windows, MS Office, SQL Server and more than 500 popular software products installed on your local or remote network computers. In order to install or reinstall Microsoft Office, Windows, or other commercial software, you must have access to a product serial Key (CD Key) for that product. product Key Explorer retrieves serial keys from network computers and allows to protect your company from having pirated software on your network. With this software you will be able to track the number of software licenses installed in your business, find and recover a lost or forgotten product keys, save and keep an up-to-date backup of all your software license keys in a central location. Excellent tool for network administrators, or businesses undergoing a software license compliancy. You can save product keys as Tab Delimited Txt File (.txt), Excel Workbook (.xls), CSV Comma Delimited (.csv), Access Database (.mdb), Web Page (.html) or XML Data (.xml) file, Print or Copy to Clipboard.

VidCoder is a DVD/Blu-ray ripping and video transcoding application for Windows. It uses HandBrake as its encoding engine.
Calling directly into the HandBrake library gives it a more rich UI than the official HandBrake Windows GUI.
As far as the encoding goes, it's full-featured: It's got all audio, video and container formats, filters, advanced x264 options, subtitles and chapters.

NO DESCRIPTION NEEDED

TuneUp Utilities can make your Windows operating system faster, more comfortable and more secure with just a few mouse clicks. And all operations performed on the operating system are completely safe, because all changes are monitored by TuneUp Rescue Center and can be undone at any time. All TuneUp Utilities modules can be accessed through a common interface that is divided into six categories.

TwistedBrush - digital paint software with complete natural art tools - oils, acrylics, pastel, charcoal etc. Software for artists without the complexity of other art programs. TwistedBrush Pro Studio - creating art the way it should be, simple and fun! Simplicity without sacrifice, powerful enough for the professional artist yet simple enough for the novice. TwistedBrush Pro Studio has one of the most versatile and powerful brush engines in existence, yet it was designed from day one to be easy to use. TwistedBrush Pro Studio has more than 3,000 brushes, along with all the features that artists love to use: layers, realistic media, photo cloning, tracing, masks, particles, filters, script recording, scripts to AVI, drawing tablet support, brush shapes, patterns, textures, integrated scanner support, image brushes, drawing guides, reference image views, dirty brushes, scratch layer, dynamic palettes and a whole lot more. TwistedBrush Pro Studio runs on all versions of the Windows operating system and is designed for all realms of digital art including natural media fine art, photo retouching, photo composition, photo cloning to turn your photos into the look of hand painted artwork, mandala art, patterns, manga, even 3D like painting with the incredible blob modeling tools.

Special program for converting of your computer into a television set and radio receiver. CHRISTV Online! allows to look over the enormous amount of TV-channels, wireless stations and other audio-video material, translated through a network the Internet. For everything it is utillized only connection with the Internet, and it is needed no additional equipment. In the base of the program CHRISTV Online! there are more than 800 televisional channels and more than 600 wireless stations from 100 countries of the world, the list of which brushes up daily. The choice of channels can be made after a figure, to the type, category, language, name of the station. Favourite tele- and wireless stations it is possible to add to the list favourite channels which will be shown separately in a general list.

Manage your Windows drivers with ease with Driver Check software. Driver Check can deep scan your hardware devices, detect and update the outdated drivers if available, completely backup them and restore them if necessarily. You can also uninstall the drivers completely on demand. Driver Check does all of these through the easy-to-use interface and makes your system running more secure, stable and always up-to-date.

Wondershare Video Converter Platinum is the easy-to-use video converter software that you can easily to convert video between popular video/audio formats (including HD video and flash video) with lossless video quality. (Check all supported video/audio formats in "Specifications" tab).

WinTools.net Ultimate - a suite of tools for increasing operating system performance. WinTools.net cleanly removes unwanted software from disk drives and dead references from the Windows registry. WinTools.net puts you in control of the Windows start up process, memory monitoring and gives you the power to customize desktop and system options to fit your needs.

Do you like music? Do you use a computer? Then you need Ashampoo Music Studio 3. This program always been a favorite of digital music fans and the latest version now includes everything you need to create, edit and manage your digital music collection. And using it is nearly as simple as operating a CD player.

A common problem we often face with, when uninstalling unnecessary software, is various traces left in the system: unneeded files or folders on a disk, registry entries and so on. This can happen even if an application was removed correctly with its own uninstaller - a special program provided by a vendor to uninstall the application. Full Uninstall is a professional application designed to uninstall unnecessary applications from your system.

The main function of the tool is the complete removing of programs from your computer. Full Uninstall monitors all changes made to the system during the setup process of a certain application. You can easily learn what file or registry entries were modified during the installation. Using these data, Full Uninstall completely removes an application when you order it to.

DVD-Ranger is the complete solution for DVD copying and converting. The program includes all standard copying and converting tools, as well as a variety of aditional functions and modules that can be used to enhance your copy experience.
DVD-Ranger easily overcomes the flaws of our competitor's classic burning applications, and represents a revolutionary solution supported by our own design innovations: The HotFix Manager utility and the Physxtech Enhancement, both based on our super-speed, high performance copying algorithm.

"I spent 11 months arranging and programming electronic textures and rhythmic elements for the score to 'Avatar'. Whether this was the delicacy of the woodsprites falling on Jake in the forest, or the impact needed for the flying and battle cues, KONTAKT 4 provided me with the ability to create and customize sounds in a way that no other sampler can approach. Kontakt was the core of my work on Avatar."

Simon Franglen, electronic music arranger for Avatar

It starts with knowledge...

The first thing you need is correct information. If you want to make significant progress then you simply must know all the important facts about guitar speed.

That's why the very first thing you will do with the Guitar Speed Trainer will be learning the fundamentals:

How speed picking really works.
The four picking strategies.
The three types of motion.
How to measure your speed.
Advantages and disadvantages of different approaches.
The "PP" secret for developing jaw-dropping speed.
The five worst training mistakes, and how to avoid them.
How to do the right exercise at the right time.
The "LRB" secret of super-coordination at high speed.

Style Enhancer 4.0 is the sequencer based on Performance Modeling technology with powerful and intelligent MIDI-data generation and transformation. SE4.0 has an advanced system of online MIDI FX, including the unequalled Modeler as well as AutoPhraser, Chord Generator, Controller Adjuster, Drum Adjuster, Drum Generator, Event Filter, Line Generator, Quantizer, Shaper, Time Morpher and Time-Pitch Adjuster. Tuned and combined in a chain MIDI FX are powerful processing tools serving to automate data conversion, be it either the humanizing of guitar or flute solo played on the keyboard, or generating Club Synth Pulsation track according to the chord progression. MIDI FX chains can be saved for future use.

Ashampoo Gadge It enables you to create individual desktop applications (gadgets) and browser menus even for Windows® XP. With a gadget you gain easier and quicker access to, for example, the folder with your favorite videos and a frequently visited website, or you can send e-mails directly from the desktop. The buttons in your gadgets can be linked to several functions. Ashampoo Gadge It you can design gadgets individually. Among other things, you can choose between different buttons, add your own pictures or optionally add background music. There are no limits to your creativity. Ashampoo Gadge It provides different design themes for quick results.

Start now with the creation of your personal gadgets and browser menus and bring more functionality to your desktop!

XYplorer is a multi-tabbed file manager for Windows 98/NT/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7, featuring a very powerful file search, versatile preview facilities, a highly customizable interface, and a large array of unique ways to efficiently automate frequently recurring tasks. It's extremely fast and light, it's innovative, and it's fun! XYplorer (formerly known as TrackerV3) is a hybrid file manager that combines features found in navigational and orthodox file managers. Instead of dual folder panes, it features a file tree and a tabbed interface for folders that supports drag-and-drop between tabs.

This program offers you various methods to resize digital photos including new STOIK Smart Resize algorithm which allows to enlarge digital images up to 1000% without loss of visual sharpness. You will find STOIK Smart Resizer very useful for multiple tasks from quality zooming to increasing resolution of digital pictures to creation of good-looking image thumbnails. To increase resolution of digital photo one needs to add pixels to those registered by camera or scanner CCD.

Google Translate is one of the most popular computer-aided translation services, however, using an online-translator for text translation is inconvenient: you have to launch the browser, open the website, copy and paste the text, select the language... Too time-consuming!
Now you can translate web-pages, electronic mail and other documents without opening online-translation sites and buying expensive bulky programs. This free translator is always at hand – you simply need to select the text with your mouse!

The translator features:

• Immediate translation of the selected text
• More than 50 languages, automatic language detection
• Shortcut keys to open the translator
• "Suggest a better translation" function
• Automatic checking for updates and news

Product Key Explorer - Find over 500 popular software product keys instantly! Product Key Explorer displays product key for Windows, MS Office, SQL Server and more than 500 popular software products installed on your local or remote network computers. In order to install or reinstall Microsoft Office, Windows, or other commercial software, you must have access to a product serial key (CD Key) for that product. Product Key Explorer retrieves serial keys from network computers and allows to protect your company from having pirated software on your network. With this software you will be able to track the number of software licenses installed in your business, find and recover a lost or forgotten product keys, save and keep an up-to-date backup of all your software license keys in a central location. Excellent tool for network administrators, or businesses undergoing a software license compliancy. You can save product keys as Tab Delimited Txt File (.txt), Excel Workbook (.xls), CSV Comma Delimited (.csv), Access Database (.mdb), Web Page (.html) or XML Data (.xml) file, Print or Copy to Clipboard.

With WinTuning 7 you can easily customize, optimize, tweak and enhance your Windows 7. It bundles a lot of tweaks to get your system faster and more stable, secure and personal! WinTuning 7 is the most powerful tweaking and customizing All-In-One Utility designed for Windows 7 exclusively. Get access to the hundreds of hidden options to improve system’s performance and security, erase junk files, optimize network to speed connection, run any Windows 7 utility by one click, and many other miscellaneous utilities. WinTuning 7 includes a unique module which does not have of analogs all over the world: WT7 3C for remote optimization of Windows 7 from a Control Center called WinTuning 7 Clients Control Center.

There’s a new king in tone, and its name is AmpliTube 3. A massive upgrade of the leading guitar and bass tone gear modeling software, AmpliTube 3 raises the industry standard of sound variety, realism and creative power. If your recording or playing “rig” is lacking in that rich, lush expressive analog warmth, then you need to check it out. With over 160 precisely modeled pieces of vintage and modern gear available in one package, AmpliTube 3 is the ultimate tone gear collection for the player/producer/engineer suffering from tone angst.
AmpliTube 3 gives you more.

ConvertXtoDVD, video conversion software, you can convert and burn all your videos and convert Avi to DVD! Backup and transfer your movies to DVD and enjoy watching them on any home DVD player. All in one conversion and burning software. This award-winning divx to dvd video converter software supports most video and audio formats for video conversion (avi, mpg, mov, wmv, mkv, ogm and more) and even handles DVD to DVD copy! Backup and transfer your movies to DVD and enjoy watching them on any home DVD player.

Trillian™ is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. It provides capabilities not possible with original network clients, while supporting standard features such as audio chat, file transfers, group chats, chat rooms, buddy icons, multiple simultaneous connections to the same network, server-side contact importing, typing notification, direct connection (AIM), proxy support, encrypted messaging (AIM/ICQ), SMS support, and privacy settings. Trillian provides unique functionality such as contact message history, a powerful skinning language, tabbed messaging, global status changes (set all networks away at once), Instant Lookup (automatic Wikipedia integration), contact alerts, an advanced automation system to trigger events based on anything happening in the client, docking, hundreds of emoticons, emotisounds, shell extensions for file transfers, and systray notifications.

PhoXo is a free and powerful image editing software. It's tiny, fast, easy to use, can be treated as a mini PhotoShop. Its features include layers, undo, over 50 special effects, batch processing, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools for selecting, crop, painting, retouching, measuring and navigation. Especially, you can easily add text effects to image, such as shadow text, ripple text, gradient color text etc. PhoXo web site provides a large number of resources, including step by step tutorials, thousands of free clip-art, frames, patterns, textures and shapes.

HardDisk Manager Server bundles corporate editions of our bestselling DriveBackup and Partition Manager and is aimed at easy and efficient storagemanagement within stand-alone physical Windows servers all through their life cycle:

video.NET allows various input file formats (MKV, AVI, MOV, MP4, M2TS, MPEG1/2, TS) and full disk rips (BLU|DVD|ISO), allowing you to select your desired title, no need to wonder which sets of files contain the movie, or extras, this is all taken care of. Outputs are MKV and MP4.

Ashampoo Burning Studio users are unusually loyal, with good reason – this program’s speed, simplicity and efficiency are simply unbeatable. Over the years the Ashampoo programmers have turned the program into a full suite that can handle all your data, audio and video burning and authoring tasks, without sacrificing its famous ease of use. In version 10 they have once again added a wealth of new features and modules, but the program is still amazingly intuitive to use – everything is explained as you do it. The main focus of this premium version is even better authoring capabilities for building video and audio discs using the latest formats. HD and Full HD video (720p and 1080p) are now fully supported for Blu-ray discs, and all the encoding is handled by Ashampoo Burning Studio 10. All the authoring tools have been overhauled and the video encoding quality is even better than before.

AIDA64 (former EVEREST) - the utility is a powerful tool for identification and testing of virtually all components of personal computers running operating systems Windows. Gives you detailed information about all the hardware and software, in addition, with built-in modules for testing and calibration can be further tested the individual subsystems PC. Displays detailed information about all the hardware and software installed on your system.

Active@ Boot Disk (DOS&Win Edition) is a bootable CD/DVD/USB disk that allows you to boot up your computer and fix most startup and PC configuration problems.

Active@ Boot Disk based on lightweight NEW! Windows 7 (WinPE 3.0) operating environment and contains disk image, data recovery, partition management, password resetting, data erasure, network access tools and system utilities.

R-Studio is a family of powerful and cost-effective undelete and data recovery software. Empowered by the new unique data recovery technologies, it is the most comprehensive data recovery solution for recovery files from FAT12/16/32, NTFS, NTFS5 (created or updated by Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista), HFS/HFS+ (Macintosh), Little and Big Endian variants of UFS1/UFS2 (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/Solaris) and Ext2FS/Ext3FS (Linux) partitions.

Episode Downloader is designed to help you download free episodes, TV shows and Anime as you want. By entering keywords of the episodes you want to download, you can get a list of related episodes. Then you can choose the best one to download. Highlight of the program is the built-in Episode converter; you can convert Videos, Episodes, and TV Show to any video or audio formats like MP4, AVI, MP3 etc, so transferring your favorite episodes to iPod, PSP, Zune, and iPhone etc becomes easy.

Search and download videos for free from Youtube, Dailymotion, Google Video, Yahoo Videos, MetaCafe, Veoh, megavideo... You can preview the videos and download them in AVI, iPod, PSO, iPhone, 3GP or FLV (flash) formats.

A video search engine integrated into the software allows you to find your videos even more quickly. Find and download videos without opening your browser. You can even watch the videos using the built-in video player. FLV Converter allows you to easily grab and save desired video. This software can convert the videos to Avi, iPod, iPhone, 3GP or Psp format. This software can also convert all your videos (divx, xvid, mpeg, dvd, avi...) to FLV video (Flash video) with an automatic HTML page creation. You will only have to place the files on your website to share your videos with the entire world. Compatible with more than 500 video websites.

Burning with Nero Burning ROM™

Ensure your discs are readable regardless of scratches, age, or deterioration with SecurDisc technology
Drag and drop files to burn and copy to CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs or save disc images
Split oversized files to burn onto multiple discs
Add extra security protection to your data by adding personal passwords and encryption
Experience superior playback quality from your burned content
Make flawless copies of your discs with reliable, uninterrupted burns

Womble MPEG Video Wizard DVD is designed for editing MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, WMV, VOB ... With this program you can glue together the fragments with different bit rate. It does not recode the unchanged portions of the file, ie If the file is subject only cutting / gluing, compression is not happening. You can add various effects to your video 2D/3D, sharpness, contrast, color, etc. The program is implemented multi-track control of time, Title Editor, DVD creation and much, much more.

Google Earth - a fresh assembly of the popular client software to work with three-dimensional model of the Earth, created on the basis of high resolution satellite images. Ability to use the original zoom (sometimes down to individual houses), and much more, including the identification of the origin of property. Map can be rotated to any angle, most of the maps - these are ordinary 2D-pictures, but some objects (settlements) are presented in the form of three-dimensional models. Google Earth gives you a wealth of photographic, geographic and astronomical information. With it, you can visit many different parts of the world and the cosmos, whether the island of Maui, Paris and the Milky Way, and view content from Wikipedia, National Geographic, images obtained with Hubble Space Telescope, and much more.