Bytescout SWF SlideShow Scout is an ActiveX (with .NET support) library for royalty-free SWF Flash slideshow movies generation from images (BMP, JPG, PNG, TIFF, GIF) and EMF metafiles (.EMF, WMF) in your desktop application or web-based applications made with Visual Basic, VisualBasic.NET, C#, ASP, ASP.NET and Visual C++.

Key features:

- Over 40 "ready-to-use" slide transition effects (shutters, mosaic, different moves, stretches, zooming etc);
- Supports JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF images;
- Supports background music soundtrack for generated slideshow movies;
- Single self-playing SWF file is generated;
- Includes navigation bar with trackbar (can work in auto-hide mode)
- Supports high-quality vector based EMF/WMF metafiles rendering (additional EMF license is required);
- Preloaders are generated automatically for produced flash slideshow movies;

ffdshow is an open source decoder and encoder mainly used for the fast and high-quality decoding of video in the MPEG-4 ASP (e.g. encoded with DivX, Xvid or FFmpeg MPEG-4) and AVC (H.264) formats, but supporting numerous other video and audio formats as well. It runs on Windows and is implemented as a DirectShow decoding filter.

ffdshow can be configured to display subtitles, to enable or disable various built-in codecs, to grab screenshots, to enable keyboard control, and to enhance movies with increased resolution, sharpness, and many other post-processing filters. It has the ability to manipulate audio with effects like an equalizer, a Dolby decoder, Reverb, Winamp DSP plugins, and more. Some of the postprocessing is borrowed from the MPlayer project and AviSynth filters.

ffdshow uses the libavcodec library and several other free, open source software packages to decode video in most common formats, such as MPEG-4 (including video encoded with Xvid, 3ivx, and all versions of DivX), H.263 and VP6 (used by sites such as YouTube), H.264/AVC, WMV, as well as numerous others. ffdshow also decodes audio in the MP3, AAC, Dolby AC3, WMA, and Vorbis formats, among others.

The post-processing video filters of ffdshow can be used in video editors such as VirtualDub or AviSynth, by configuring the VFW settings. In these editors, ffdshow can also be used to encode MPEG-4 video compatible with Xvid, DivX, or x264 codecs, as well as lossless video and a few other formats supported by libavcodec.

TracePlus/Win32 shows you the interaction between your Win32
application and multiple Win32 APIs. Supported
APIs that are displayed in realtime include ODBC, OLE, COM, TAPI,
WININET, registry, DB-Library, and more. Integrated SQL capture window
displays SQL statements generated by the supported database APIs.
Status window displays DLL version information, OutputDebugString()
calls, and more.

Magic ASCII Studio is a powerful ASCII Art generation platform. You can make ASCII Art Words, ASCII Art Photos and even ASCII Art Animations easily by using Magic ASCII Studio. Magic ASCII Studio can take an image and process it to an HTML, RTF, BMP or TEXT file of color-coded text characters, that when combined, resemble an image. It is an ASCII Art Photo. And the files are very worthy of being published to the Web or in the document. Also, you can make your individual ASCII Art Signatures in Magic ASCII Studio. Use them in your e-mails, documents or even in the forums on the web will be a good idea. In Magic ASCII Studio, drawing your own ASCII Art Photos is like drawing a picture in the Paint application of Windows. All these are very easy, no experience need.

Magic ASCII Studio can support add-in(s) which can enhance the functions of Magic ASCII Studio easily. And we will develop different kinds of add-in(s) for Magic ASCII Studio in the future.

A lot of ASCII Art resources have been embedded in the software. You can use, modify and manage them in Magic ASCII Studio. It's convenient to use.

Very Easy and Very Wonderful!

Key features of Magic ASCII Studio:
- Make ASCII Art Word(s), Photos and Animations
- Visual ASCII Art making process
- .BMP, .JPG, .GIF, and .ICO files support
- Convert image to HTML, RTF, BMP and TEXT files
- A lot of output modes for ASCII Art Photos/Animations
- Many effects for the image you want to process
- Built-In Image Editor for processing the image quickly
- Add-in(s) support
- ASCII Art resource management support
- Windows XP appearance (in Win XP)
...

Create your own beautiful and wonderful ASCII Art Photos by Magic ASCII Studio!

I decided to explore both the musical and programming aspects of C# all at once. As a first project I built the Note Detector. It opens the sound card and if you have a mic it will tell you the musical note that it hears. It displays the note name C,D,E#,etc and it shows you the note's position on the staff.

Note Detector can be used as a guitar tuner or a singing voice pitch trainer. I use it as an educational device. I have a bamboo flute laying aroung the house and I always wondered what notes came out when I blew on it. I'm not musically inclined enough to determine that kind of stuff with my ear. With Note Detector I was able to map out where all the notes on the flute were and how hard to blow in order to get an A instead of an A#. Now I can play simple tunes.

Microsoft .NET development provides an automatic publishing solution. When you complete a project you can click publish and share it with the internet. If you are so inclined you can download Note Detector to use for yourself.

The project itself is a mixture of Native and Managed C++ code, some C# code and windows forms. The sound card is opened code and the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is done in native C++. Then encapsulated by some Managed C++ which is accessed from the windows forms interface using C#.

Working with native and managed code together is difficult sometimes because the debugger will not work with both at the same time. The call stack gets a bit wonky. But I found the coding of the user interface way easier in C# than things I have made in the past using MFC.

Video to Flash Converter

Top Video to Flash Converter is a powerful tool to convert Video to FLV (Flash streaming Video). Additionally, it can also convert Video to AVI, MPEG, MOV or WMV formats. All popular Video formats can be converted, including DivX, XviD, AVI, WMV, MPG, MPEG, MP4, FLV, 3GP, ASF, RM, RMVB, MOV, ASX, SVCD, VCD, VOB and many others.

By using the latest Video Conversion technology, you can be assured that the Converted Video files will have excellent Video and Sound quality. Batch job processing allows you to Convert multiple files at the same instance.

Top Video to Flash Converter is easy to use and is an ideal solution for preparing your Video movies for web publishing and web casting.

Specifications:
- All popular Video formats can be converted
- Convert Video to FLV (FLASH, Flash streaming Video)
- Convert Video to WMV (Windows Media)
- Convert Video to AVI (DivX, XViD and others)
- Convert Video to MP4 (iPod, PSP)
- Convert Video to VCD / SVCD / MPG / MPEG (MPEG1, MPEG2)
- Convert Video to RM / RMVB (Real Media)
- Convert Video to 3GP / ASF / ASX / MOV / VOB ...
- Batch Job Conversion is fully supported.
- Facility to change Frame Rate and Video resolutions
- Stunningly fast conversion with built-in efficient encoder
- Clear visual progress indicator

Photo-Lux is an easy-to-use but powerful and fast image viewer and more.
The following graphics formats are supported: BMP, CEL/PIC, CUR,
CUT, DIB, EMF, FAX, G3N/G3F, GIF, ICB, ICO, J2C/J2K/JP2/JPC(JPEG2000),
JPC, JPG/JPEG (RGB, GrayScale, YCbCr, CMYK, YCbCrK), JFIF/JIF, PBM,
PCD, PCX/DCX, PSD/PDD, PSP, PGM, PNG, PPM, PXM, RGB/RGBA, RLA/RPF, RLE,
SGI/BW, TGA, TIF/TIFF, VDA/VST, WMF, WBMP and XIF. Plus, it supports a lot of Camera RAWs formats: BAY (Casio), CRW, CR2 (Canon), DCR (Kodak), MRW (Minolta), NEF (Nikon), ORF (Olympus), PEF (Samsung), RAF (Fuji), RAW (Panasonic), SRF (Sony), X3F (Sigma-Foveon). To smooth the edges and to reduce
the noise artifacts, Photo-Lux can display your images on the
screen with a different High Quality Zoom Filters applied. Photo-Lux has a lot of high performance imaging operations such as RGB- , Brightness/Contrast/Gamma- correction, Auto White Balance, Red-eye Reduction and more. Plus, many filters, including Bump-Map,
Blur etc. A good-looking 3D-Text can be written on the image using a 3D-Text drawing tool. To insert a graphic logo into the image a powerful Merge command can be used. The extended Open dialog window of Photo-Lux has a thumbnail mode and lets you quickly browse through
numerous image files, open any of them with a double click. Incredible full screen mode of Photo-Lux can displays images with more than 110 image transition effects including wipes, diagonals, pushes, pulls, blinds, and many more. HTML album maker is also included.

"Aesop" is a powerful tool that allows you to create animated GIF images (banners, buttons, labels, lines and headings) for web-sites and even logos for mobile phones quickly and easily. Nice looking effects such as moving the antialiased 3D-text across the image, can be used to create a multi-frame GIF in a few minutes. Effective palette optimization and data compression allow you to obtain small size GIFs. The simple and convenient interface, make this program useful for experienced programmers as well as for beginners in graphic design.

Access your computer desktop from anywhere using a web browser.

Imagine that your hard disk crashed. How much work you will lose? This convenient backup files program helps you to keep all you need. It makes a mirror of your important information and keeps it actual according scheduler. It works as a background process. The program supports persisting to secondary hard disks, flash memory and network shared folders.
This program checks your working folders and mirror folders and backup only changed files. It works very fast.
Many programs make temporary files and folders. Alive Backup allows to use a powerful filter. It never stores files that you do not need.
Mirror folders are a plain copy of your working folders. You can easy restore your information using Windows Explore or any file processor.
For user convenient the program has presetting for My Documents folder, Outlook Express Mail boxes, MS Outlook data folder and some others.