jv16 PowerTools 2008 1.8.0.455

Macecraft Software Company has released an updated version of its jv16 PowerTools software.
jv16 PowerTools is one of the most known and certainly one of the best Windows optimization programs. This software is the suite containing 21 different tools which allow you to keep your computer running smoothly and error-free.
With jv16 PowerTools you can:

• Automatically fix many types of registry errors
  
• Automatically clean your Windows registry from unneeded and obsolete data
  
• Easily remove all traces of software you have thought you have already uninstalled ages ago
  
• Detect and remove unneeded history data and MRU (most recently used) lists that can contain your privacy information
  
• Find and remove unnecessary files, including temp files and duplicate files
  
• And much, much more!

The updated version contains the following changes.

• Fixed a bug from the Registry Finder which caused it not to properly find a certain type of registry errors.
  
• Added a safety feature to the Registry Cleaner and Registry Finder which prompts user for additional confirmation if user attempts to delete an important registry key.
  
• Added a safety feature to the File Cleaner and File Finder which makes it more difficult to delete important system files with it, if user attempts to do so the program shows an additional confirmation message.

If you want to improve the performance of your Windows system and release your hard drive from unneeded files jv16 PowerTools 2008 will be the right choice for you.
See more about jv16 PowerTools.
You can download jv16 PowerTools 2008 here. (Size: 3.7 MB; Usage limitations: 30 Day trial)

FreeRIP 3.07: compression without loss

The new version of popular ripper and converter has been released a few days ago.
FreeRip 3.07 is an easy to use program that can extract audio tracks from audio CD to files on your hard drive and convert existing audio files from one format to another.
However, not all audio formats are supported. FreeRip supports only the most popular WAV, MP3, OGG Vorbis and Flac audio formats. So you can save audio tracks as CD-quality WAV files or encode them to one of the supported audio formats. You are also able to create playlist of ripped tracks.
FreeRip lets you convert any WAV, MP3 and OGG audio file to WAV/MP3/ OGG/Flac formats and allows you to change their properties.
During ripping or converting it is possible to manually adjust track volume, or you can allow FreeRip do this work automatically using its volume control algorithm.
FreeRip supports Internet CD database freedb and can automatically search freedb database for your CD info. During the installation you can choose to install integrated browser music search bar that allows you to search the Internet for audio files.



The user interface of the program is multi language. FreeRip is translated into more than 25 languages, including English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Russian and many others.
The program is distributed in two versions, FreeRIP Basic which is totally free and commercial version called FreeRIP Pro which offers more options and features. FreeRIP Pro is able to ripping and convert files faster than free version. It also allows you to run multiple instances of FreeRIP at the same time.
The latest version of the program included integrated audio player and support for CUE sheets creation.
You can download the latest version of FreeRIP from this page.

See also: Easy CD-DA Extractor 11.1 - Universal Audio Ripper and Converter

BurnAware Free 1.2.9 – Free Burning Software

Not too long ago, the program that was most used for burning was Nero. This program long time ago turn into powerful, multifunctional software suite with numerous components. Media suites like Nero are everything we’ll ever need for producing and burning our disc media.
However, how many times you just use such media suites to simply back up files or create your audio CD? Face it, you use most often the only one burning part of any media suite. So why to pay for features you don’t need? If all you need is simple and good burning software, BurnAware Free Edition will be a right choice.
BurnAware Free Edition is designed to easily perform the most common disc burning operations, such as creating data discs, creating and burning disc images, writing multi-session discs, and writing Audio CD and DVD-video discs. The program supports all types of optical media from CD through to a Blu-ray writable disc.
The user interface of BurnAware is well designed and it is easy to use. When the program is started, it displays a window with the list of menu items.



Here you can select the relevant menu item to go to the desired screen where you can compile and work on your project.
Create data disc menu item allows you to compile and burn all types of files and folders as well as to create a disc image from the files on your hard drive.



The developers did not use the classical structure with two panels, one of which is a navigator on the local file system. Adding data is quite simple. Just click the Add files button to open the Add files and folders window where you can select files and folders you want to add.
However, I think it’s much easier to open any file manager and drag the desired objects on the window of BurnAware Free Edition.
After adding the files you can start the burning process by pressing the red button in the top right part of the screen.
Burn ISO image menu item lets you to burn a disc image. However, using BurnAware Free Edition you can burn only ISO image files.
Creating of Audio CD or DVD-video is also quite simple. But BurnAware Free Edition can create Audio CD only from WAV, MP3, or WMA files.
Like any disc burning software, BurnAware supports both options for disc erasing: quick and full. However, unlike in the case of the actual burning process, when you select for disc erasing you are given no information on the amount of time required for the completion of the task.



BurnAware Free Edition is absolutely free and has all basic functions of burning software. It’ll get the job done without investing much effort in working with it.
BurnAware is also available in Home edition that unlike the basic free edition includes some additional features like creating bootable discs, creating ISO images from discs, supporting ISO/UDF/Bridge file systems and CD-TEXT for Audio CD’s

Download BurnAware Free Edition (OS: Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista; Freeware; Size: 4.4 MB)

Download BurnAware Home Edition (OS: Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista; Shareware; Size: 5.6 MB)

DVDFab Platinum 4.1.0.2 - Great DVD Copy Software

The new version of DVDFab Platinum has been released recently. This program combines the functionality of DVD copying, video converting and DVD burning software.
DVDFab Platinum offers you 7 DVD to DVD copy modes: Full Disc, Main Movie, Split, Customize, Clone, Merge and Write Data.
Full Disc mode allows you to copy all movies, menus and trailers to DVD with just one click. Moreover this copy mode can automatically compress DVD-9 movie to fit on a DVD-5 single layer disc. But if you want to preserve original quality of DVD-9 movie, you should use DVDFab’s Split copy mode, which copy a DVD-9 onto two DVD-5 discs with 100% quality, and preserve original menus.
Main Movie mode lets you copy the main movie only, excluding all the additional features like unwanted audio and subtitle, etc.
If you want to make a DVD with only your favorite titles, and without those annoying commercials, just use the DVDFab’s Customize copy mode.
DVDFab Platinum also allows you to make a perfect 1:1 copy of DVDs, merge several movies of several sources into one DVD and burn disc from an existing DVD folder or image on your hard disc drive.



The program has strong set of mobile device conversion options. DVDFab Platinum can convert DVDs to formats supported by mobile devices like iPod, PSP, Xbox 360, PS3, NDS, Cell Phone, ZUNE, PVP and PDA. So you can copy your DVDs to your favorite portable device.



DVDFab Platinum is also able to change the region codes, remove all DVD copy protections such as CSS, RC, CPPM, RipGuard, APS and many others.
DVDFab Platinum has very simple and clear user interface. The program also supports many languages. It is very easy to use and navigate.
The new version of program has added "Crop" feature to remove the black bar on many widescreen movies. Added feature that allow user to resize output from letterbox to pan&scan. There are also several others new features, improvements and bug fixes.
DVDFab Platinum is a powerful and very easy to use DVD copying software that takes everything you love about DVD coping and puts it in one clearly organized location.

Download DVDFab Platinum (Size: 6.0 MB; License: shareware; OS: Windows All, Linux with Wine)

IrfanView 4.10 - Full-featured Graphics Viewer

IrfanView is one of the most popular and feature packed free image viewer, editor and converter for Windows. This fast and compact program is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.
IrfanView supports all important graphic formats, as well as multiple media formats.
In addition it includes many additional features including image editing, image adjustment, slideshow, batch conversion and editing, multipage editing, drag and drop support, TWAIN support, fast directory browsing, IPTC edit, capturing, numerous effects, multiple language support, and much more. Moreover, the functionality of IrfanView can be further extended via plug-ins that are widely available.
Lets take a closer look at this program.
The user interface of IrfanView is not streamlined, but it is simple and quite easy to use.
As I mentioned above IrfanView allows you to open image files, as well as sound and video files of multiple formats.



Thumbnails shortcut on the toolbar lets you view thumbnails of images in the specified directory.



IrfanView allows you to create slide shows. There are several options for slideshow. For example, you can set time interval for changing slides or use MP3 files (with installed plug-ins) as background music. You can also save the current slideshow as self running EXE or SCR file (standalone executable/screen saver).



IrfanView is not only the viewer, but also a converter of graphic files. In the program there is a batch processing option with the possibility of converting incoming files of different formats into a single output format. You also can apply many special operations to the images during conversion. Furthermore, IrfanView has batch rename feature that lets you rename original/input files or copy/move original files to output directory and rename the files in the output directory. For renaming, you can generate a name pattern for new names and the starting index for numbers.



Another IrfanView’s useful feature is called Copy Shop. It allows you to print an image directly from a scanner or any other TWAIN compatible device (digital camera, TV card, etc.).
Though IrfanView is not a professional graphic editor, it still allows you to do some useful image editing tasks. You can cut and crop images, paint or draw objects into an image, insert text. IrfanView also lets you to rotate, flip, resize images, create panoramas and apply different effects like sharpen, blur, emboss and others.



The program has many others useful features.
IrfanView is my favorite image viewer, because it offers really good options and features for free and because it is the fastest picture viewer I can find.

You can download IrfanView from this page or from the official web site irfanview.com.

See also: XnView 1.92 – The Universal Graphic Viewer and Converter