G-Force is a real-time audio visualization plugin for audio players and can also operate as a stand-alone screensaver that accepts "line-in" audio. G-Force features fast anti-aliased effects, thousands of possible effect combinations, savable and scriptable effects, QuickTime services, and unparalleled expandability.

Fraps is a tool that lets you monitor current framerates in a corner of the screen for programs using DirectX or OpenGL technology. It also allows you to easily take screenshots of games, make movies of gameplay, and manually determine the average framerate between two points.

DivX Player Lite is a free and easy to use video player that contains the software you need to watch and create videos in today's most popular video formats. It includes many advanced features, such as enhanced video quality, more effective compression capabilities, full-screen mode, hotkeys controls, and an intuitive interface, yet it is the most compact media player available and is capable of running on very old computers.

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ICQ Lite is pure messaging: It includes only the most popular features of ICQ, such as instant messaging, file transfer, SMS and meeting people, for super-quick communication. Because it's so small and has everything good about the full-featured ICQ made easy, it's the perfect version to send to your friends and get them on ICQ. It is a new experimental version of the ICQ software.

FFDSHOW is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 movies. It uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project for video decompression, postprocessing code from mplayer to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies, and is based on original DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPL'ed educational implementation of MPEG4 encoder.

The HardwareOC Far Cry Benchmark is an easy-to-use tool, that makes video card benchmarking fast and easy. You can select different resolutions, rendering engines, detail levels and much much more by one click. After that, you can sit back and relax, while the computer does its job, there is no need for any intervention. When all the tests are completed, you get the results prepared and ordered in HTML format in a second! In this version the Pixel Shader 3 support is enabled.

PRCNM 1.4 has been released! The utility is designed to quickly change the Name String of AMD Athlon XP processors and AMD Duron processors with CPUID 680h. This version supports VIA KT880 chipset.

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Flexbeta FireTweaker XP has reached RC1 and is ready for download. Flexbeta FireTweaker XP is a tweaking and optimizing software for Mozilla Firefox. Flexbeta FireTweaker XP bundles more than 20 different tweaks to optimize or customize Mozilla Firefox. FireTweaker XP does not contain any spyware or adware, it is 100% clean for your tweaking pleasures. FireTweaker XP currently supports Windows 98/Me, 2000, XP and 2003. Download and more information @ Flexbeta.

YMPEG offers you the most simplest way to encode or convert your favorite videos. YMPEG is a first Freeware MPEG Codec which can integrate itself with Windows and offers seamless encoding from your favorite application (VFW). This unique feature of YMPEG makes it possible to encode your video from virtually any video applications which uses Windows Compression Manager (like VirtualDub, Adobe Premiere, AE, Vegas, DVDx, K!TV etc.)

Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include ReplayGain support, low memory footprint and native support for several popular audio formats.

The HardwareOC Far Cry Benchmark is an easy-to-use tool, that makes video card benchmarking fast and easy. You can select different resolutions, rendering engines, detail levels and much much more by one click. After that, you can sit back and relax, while the computer does its job, there is no need for any intervention. When all the tests are completed, you get the results prepared and ordered in HTML format in a second!

What's New? Pixel Shader 2/3 support, 4 official Ubisoft demos, DirectX 9.0c checking, bugfixes.

SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors fan speeds and temperatures in computers with a known monitoring chip. Its main feature is that it can control the speed of the fans according to the temperatures inside your pc, thus reducing noise and power consumption.

X VideoConverter is designed to meet all your needs of converting, joining and splitting video files to AVI, MPEG-1,MPEG-2, VCD, SVCD, DVD, WMV, ASF formats. Extract original movie sound track from video files and convert video frames to pictures.

MultiRes 1.47 is a small, free, 32-bit alternative to QuickRes, with refresh rate and multi-monitor support for up to nine display devices under Windows 9x/Me and Windows NT/2000/XP. This release includes a few refinements to batch processing and improvements to the optional driver-independent lock on refresh rates.

FD Tach is a benchmark targeted towards flash devices. It is based on the new Tach benchmark library written for the recently released HD Tach. FD Tach has a few tests, including: read and write speed tests, access speed test, etc.

SpeedswitchXP is a small applet that sits in the system tray and allows dynamic switching of the frequencies of mobile Intel and mobile AMD CPUs under Windows XP. During the development of Windows XP, Microsoft decided to integrate dynamic frequency switching into the operating system itself. On a default Windows XP installation, the power schemes in the power settings of the system panel control the frequencies of the processor. On Windows 2000 and previous operating systems, it was possible to manually control the CPU frequencies with a SpeedStep applet provided by Intel, but this is not possible anymore under Windows XP.

RightMark 3DSound is a sound test, which has the following features: DirectSound-diagnostics: the conclusion is hardware supported functions for the selected DirectSound-device; check of presence of EAX1, EAX2, EAX3 support; subjective test of DirectSound3D positioning, with vertical plane support; EAX2, EAX3 reverb, occlusions and obstructions;

RadLight is not just another average DivX? and Avi player. People who make it aren't just regular "give_me_my_money" employees. They work hard and they love their job. If you want to get better multimedia experience, get RadLight.