Four No-Name Multimedia Applications That Work Better Than

By: John Deprice

If you think that Adobe, Ulead or Corel make be best multimedia
products, think again. There are dozens of innovative indies who
develop excellent software for images and video and don't charge
you for the brand name.

A4 DVD Shrinker (DanDans Digital Media)

A4 DVD Shrinker is a tiny but fast DVD backup and shrinking
tool. Why do you need one? How about taking your DVD collection
and backing up several movies onto a single DVD, without
compromising the quality in a short time? A4 DVD Shrinker
shrinks all types of DVDs and fully backs them up to your hard
drive or burns them to DVDR discs and you get to keep all DVD
extra features, like interviews.

A4 DVD Shrinker is based on a proprietary DVD Engine and can
shrink all DVD contents like Menus, Movie, Audio, Subtitles and
Languages. It can also peel off CSS protection from commercial
DVDs automatically so that you can make your own DVD copies no
matter what copy protection is used on the original. The
built-in high speed DVD burner supports all type of DVDR discs (
R, RW, -R, -RW). You do not need third party drivers or burning
software installed either.

Paint Buster (SoftBusters)

Paint Buster is a compact and innovative image processing
program. It is quite simple for beginners yet powerful for
professionals. With Paint Buster you can resize, crop, rotate,
cut and paste and enhance your family photographs as well as
create images for the home web-page. The best thing, you don't
have to be a designer to do that.

Paint Buster gives you complete control of your images, on
pixel, color, palette and print level. With a click of a button,
you have a huge number of paint tools at your disposal. All with
anti-aliasing, transparency and texture capabilities. It
supports JPEG, GIF, TIF, PNG, BMP, ICO, PCX, and TGA formats.

This standard-issue image-editing application offers a solid set
of tools for tweaking your digital photos. Paint Buster's
interface echoes that of other applications in this class, with
various icons for brushes, pens, and drawing tools surrounding
the large image-preview window.

VirtualDJStudio 3.0 (Next Generation Software)

VirtualDJStudion 3.0 (VDJ3) is a virtual mixing console for DJs,
professional and aspiring. You can play multiple MP3 and Wav
files, with tempo/pitch control for beat-matching. Plus, easily
set a configurable number of 'lines', each of which has its own
MP3/WAV file player, volume control, pitch/tempo control, and
other options. The program includes a 10-band EQ, plugin
support, integrated File Navigator, and Playlist Editor.

VirtualDJStudio is not like all of the other DJ programs out
there. While other programs limit you to two players with a
Cross-Fader, Virtual DJ Studio provides you with an entire
studio. Also, it's more demanding and takes time to learn.

Super Bot (SparkleWare)

Super Bot can download files, folders, or entire websites with
as little as one click. The program uses HTML rewriting
technology, so copied sites look and feel like the online
versions.

Super Bot let's users browse at faster speeds, by loading files
directly from your hard drive not the server (offline browsing).
You can view websites without an Internet connection and archive
pictures, videos, sounds and other Net content on your computer.
Super Bot makes it easy to create functional and editable
mirrors of online sites as well as browse a website's internal
structure and organization. One good application for
Sparkleware's Super Bot is to sanitize children's browsing by
creating a "sandbox" of age-appropriate material. You can create
autorun CDs and DVDs of your favorite sites too.

Download Links:

A4DVDShrinker: http://www.deprice.com/a4dvdshrinker.htm

Paint Buster: http://www.deprice.com/paintbuster.htm

VirtualDJStudio: http://www.deprice.com/virtualdjstudio.htm

Super Bot: http://www.deprice.com/superbot.htm

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John Deprice owns and operates http://www.deprice.com