Caesium - Image Compressor

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Caesium reduces the size of pictures up to 90%, preserving the original visual quality. Caesium allows you to save a lot of space on your hard drive and quickly upload your pictures on the web (on sites like Facebook, Google+ etc) saving a lot of time. Also webmasters and bloggers need to make sure the images they post on their websites are optimized, to avoid prolonged loading times for their visitors.

Features :

• Compress up to 90% : Caesium can reduce the size of your pictures up to 90% without changing the file format and without requiring additional softwares for opening them. This process preserves the original visual quality and so your pictures will look like the originals.
• Batch processing : You can open hundreds of pictures with Caesium and compress all of them at the same time, saving a lot of time. Caesium also supports subfolders allowing to work on complex directory structures without changing them.
• Instant preview : You can set different compression level to all your pictures and see your results instantly with an simple side-by-side preview with the original and compressed images, supporting zoom and custom visualization options.
• Resize : If you are looking for an aggressive compression, you can also change the pictures resolution, allowing to significantly drop down the file sizes. Caesium supports percentage and absolute resize, always working on batch.
• Extra features : Caesium supports all the common file formats, has a multilanguage interface, supports Metatag (EXIF) and timestamps. Also supports Drag&Drop, tray minimization, automatic updates and much, much more.
• Completely Free : Caesium is an OpenSource project and it's completely free to use. You don't need to pay anything to enjoy all the features. You can also support this project in many ways. See the About section for additional details.

BlueStacks App Player

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BlueStacks App Player lets you run your favorite mobile apps fast and fullscreen in your browser and on PC or Mac. Over 12 million people around the world use top apps like Candy Crush Saga, Kik Messenger, Temple Run 2 and more on their laptops with BlueStacks. Join people in more than 100 countries who are using BlueStacks to run apps like Angry Birds, Star Wars, Flipboard, Zynga Poker and Instagram fullscreen. Overall, the integration with Windows via a simple desktop gadget proved to be clean and seamless. Finally! Now You Can Get Thousands of the Best Android Apps on PC. BlueStacks App Player is available for Windows XP/Vista/7/8 and Mac OSX.

Alternativa3D

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Alternativa3D is intended for displaying 3D graphics in the Flash Player environment. The possibilities with Alternativa3D are comprehensive and diverse. The technology is widely used in different spheres ranging from 3D websites to multiplayer browser games and applications for social networks in full 3D. It operates with all popular OS and platforms, including PC, notebooks, netbooks and mobile platforms (i.e. Android).
Main features:

• High performance : GPU rendering. Allows the display of about 3 millions of polygons.
• Lighting system : Point, directional and spot light sources. Efficient hierarchical culling of unlit objects. Each object can be lighted by six light sources simultaneously.
• Advanced materials : Allows the use of fully dynamic lighting with normal map, specular map, glossy map, or more lightweight materials - with baked light.
• Character drawing : The powerful hierarchic animation blending system. Character models of any complexity without bone quantity limit.
• Transparent objects : Sorting and proper display of transparent objects.
• 3D Sprites : Point objects are always facing the camera.
• Interactivity : Uses mouse events similar to those used in Flash. The system takes into account hierarchy and options of containers. Optimized to work with high-poly models.
• Optimized textures for the GPU : The support of compressed texture format ATF (Adobe Texture Format) reduces the amount of video memory in use. It is especially important for mobile devices.
• High capacity data format : Special binary format reduces the amount of data required for sending over the network, and speeds up scene loading in the engine. You can export models to this format right form 3DS Max, using special plug-in.

InstantStorm

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InstantStorm is a powerful freeware Flash screensaver creator that turns your Adobe Flash files (SWF) into professional screensavers in no time. Unlike other similar tools, InstantStorm is actually free of charge even for commercial use and does not add any nag screens or other annoying things to your output files. Apart from that you can customize virtually anything: the settings dialog, the installer (including all texts and images), the screensaver behavior, and more. Need to build a complex corporate screensaver, make your very own Flash screensaver for your friends and family, or just convert your favorite Flash movie to a screensaver for your own computer? InstantStorm is the right program for you!

Features:

• Extremely easy to use, the Wizard mode turns Flash SWF files into screensavers in seconds
• Output screensaver files work with all Windows versions
• Customizable screensaver installer and settings dialog
• Support for live previewing and debugging
• Separate Flash files for widescreen, 4:3, and 5:4 screen resolutions
• Every single line of text in the screensaver installer, uninstaller, and settings dialog can be translated or edited
• Customizable icon, readme file, and license agreement text in installer
• Advanced developers' features
• Flash 10 (e.g. files using Flash CS4 features) support
• Support for additional external files (SWF, AS, TXT, XML, ...)
• Creates both screensaver installers and standalone SCR files
• Free even for commercial use, unlimited screensaver redistribution

Construct Classic

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Construct Classic is a free, DirectX 9 game creator for Windows, designed for 2D games. It is the predecessor to the more modern Construct 2. Construct Classic uses an event based system for defining how the game behaves, in a visual, human-readable way - you don't need to program or script anything at all. It's intuitive for beginners, but powerful enough for advanced users to work without hindrance.Construct has many additional features that can add a whole new angle to your game development.

A few of these are outlined here:

• Advanced rendering effects like skew, motion blur, and bumpmapping
• Physics behavior to add realistic physics simulations to objects
• Bone animation system for ultra smooth animations (beta)
• Debugger to view the game internal state while playing
• Embedded Python scripts for faster advanced processing
• 3D features such as the 3D box object, and 3D mesh distortion on sprites to elevate or move a grid of points across its image

FlashDevelop

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FlashDevelop is a free and open source code editor for every developer. FlashDevelop offers first class support for ActionScript (2 & 3) and Haxe development. Great completion & code generation, projects compilation & debugging, plenty of project templates, SWF/SWC exploration etc. FlashDevelop is also a great web developer IDE with source-control support (svn, git, mercurial), tasks/todo, snippets, XML/HTML completion and zen-coding for HTML.

Features:

1. FAST & LIGHTWEIGHT : FlashDevelop was created to be a fast and light editor and to be fast even on slower computers.
2. COMPLETION & GENERATION : Enjoy an amazing code completion which helps you also generate and document your valuable code.
3. SNIPPETS & TEMPLATES : Use highly flexible, easy to use snippets and file templates with your own project templates.
4. HIGHLY CUSTOMIZABLE : FlashDevelop has a lot of settings, third party plugins, syntax color themes and much more.

Platinum Arts Sandbox

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Platinum Arts Sandbox Free 3D Game Maker is an open source easy to use standalone 3D Game Maker and 3D Game Design program currently based on the cube 2 engine being used in many schools throughout the world that allows kids and adults to create their own video games, worlds, levels, adventures and quests, even cooperatively! The goal is to make it accessible to kids but also powerful enough for full game projects. With a simple click and roll of a mouse wheel users can modify the world however they want. In the words of Margaret, a nine year old Sandbox whiz I babysit for, “Press Edit and go fulfill your dreams!”. Now features new game modes such as Water Gun Wars Game and FPS Creator, sidescroller, kartmode, RPG Maker, and more. The mission of Sandbox is to make it as easy as possible for kids and adults to make their own games and worlds. The idea is that if we make it easy enough for kids to use, hopefully it will be easy enough for adults as well.

UNetbootin-Live Linux USB Creator

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UNetbootin is a Live USB creation tool that can be used to create a Live Linux USB flash drive from an ISO. Many Linux distributions are supported out of the box with custom install options available for Linux distributions that are not. It is important to mention that Live Linux USB flash drives created with this tool, do not currently utilize a persistence feature. The resulting USB Linux install will function just as it does from a CD. By default you will not be able to save and restore your changes.UNetbootin was created by Geza Kovacs, released under GNU GPL v2.

How to use UNetbootin to create a Live Linux USB flash drive:

The following assumes your working from within Windows and have a current copy of the ISO you wish to convert.

1. Download UNetBootin for Windows
2. Download your favorite Linux ISO
3. Double click the Unetbootin Executable to start the program
   (1) Click the Diskimage radio box
   (2) browse to select your ISO
   (3) Set your target USB drive
   (4) click OK to start the creation
4. Once the UNetbootin installer has completed, click Reboot Now
5. Set your system BIOS or boot menu to boot from the USB device and enjoy your favorite Live Linux on USB

YUMI-Multiboot USB Creator

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YUMI (Your Universal Multiboot Installer), is the successor to our MultibootISOs. It can be used to create a Multiboot USB Flash Drive containing multiple operating systems, antivirus utilities, disc cloning, diagnostic tools, and more. Contrary to MultiBootISOs which used grub to boot ISO files directly from USB, YUMI uses syslinux to boot extracted distributions stored on the USB device, and reverts to using grub to Boot Multiple ISO files from USB, if necessary.Aside from a few distributions, all files are stored within the Multiboot or yumi folder (depending on version), making for a nicely organized Multiboot USB Drive that can still be used for other storage purposes. YUMI works much like Universal USB Installer, except it can be used to install more than one distribution to run from your USB. Distributions can also be uninstalled using the same tool!

Wine

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Wine enables Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris users to run Windows applications without a copy of Microsoft Windows. Wine is a free and open source software application that aims to allow applications designed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Wine is free software under constant development. Other platforms may benefit as well. Wine for Windows would supply useful backward compatibility for users. The name Wine initially was an acronym for WINdows Emulator. Its meaning later shifted to the recursive backronym, Wine Is Not an Emulator in order to differentiate the software from other emulators. Wine is a compatibility layer. It duplicates functions of Windows by providing alternative implementations of the DLLs that Windows programs call, and a process to substitute for the Windows NT kernel. This method of duplication differs from other methods that might also be considered emulation, where Windows programs run in a virtual machine. Wine is predominantly written using black-box testing reverse-engineering.