Giveaway of the Day

Check out the Giveaway of the Day - it's a very good one today and if you ever want to do this kind of work, you'll be happy you have it instead of the free version: Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily. EASEUS Partition Master 6.5.1 Professional - EASEUS Partition Master Professional Edition is an ALL-IN-ONE partition solution and disk management utility..

Perfect! I just needed one of those! I wanted t slipstream Vista SP2, and needed two new partitions. Used some piece of freeware, and it completely scrooged the system, see previous posts!

I haven't had very good luck, in general, with downloads from Giveaway of the Day --- but there's an occasional good one. If you guys want to read other posters' feedback on any given product offered by Giveaway of the Day, just click on the link that takes you to the product's download and scroll down to the bottom. There's usually 10 - 20 or so opinions on the products.

You'll notice I don't post these very often - but for people who need to rip DVDs, this one is an excellent addition to whatever else you are currently using: Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily. Aiseesoft DVD Ripper - Aiseesoft DVD Ripper could easily rip all commercial DVD, Backup of DVD disk or IFO files to MP4, AVI, WMV, MPEG, FLV, 3GP, HD video, MP3, ACC, OGG audio and more other video/.

Here's the basic information about it, but you can get more at the above link (including the way to download it but only if you do it today or soon (within the next 15 hours or so from my posting).

Aiseesoft DVD Ripper could easily rip all commercial DVD (including DVD with the restriction of CSS, Region, RCE, Sony ARccOS), Backup of DVD disk or IFO files to MP4, AVI, WMV, MPEG, FLV, 3GP, HD video, MP3, ACC, OGG audio and more other video/audio formats for all the players.
The main features include:

• Rip DVDs to High/Standard-Definition (HD/SD) Video Formats for all the portable players
• Extract audio from DVD and convert to any audio formats
• Adjust the video brightness, saturation and contrast
• Trim any segment of a video and join several pieces together as a single one
• Crop the video frame to remove the unwanted playing areas and the black edges
• Watermark your video in the form of a text or image

The new features included:

• With NVIDIA CUDA technology and supporting multi-core CPUs, the converting speed can reach 6X faster
• Supports HD video decoding/encoding and 5.1 Dolby Surround

Here's another better than average one for people who are into Color Photo Editing and such: Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily. CodedColor PhotoStudio Pro 6.1 - With CodedColor PhotoStudio Pro 6.1 you will experience the diversity of viewing, organising, editing, enhancing and sharing your images and digital Photos - easy to.

The reviews are fairly good - much better than normal. Here's a synopsis of things it can do:

View Photos Edit Images Organize Manage Media </B> PDF & Flash Albums Burn CDs Transitions Capture Videos </B> Share Print Layouts Cliparts Batch Conversion </B> Clone Deskew Encrypt Images Brighten </B> Sharpen Remove Color Stains Improve Contrast Compare Images </B> Barrel Distortion Annotate Watermarks Geo Tagging </B> Scan & Screen Capture Add Text Rotate Lossless Antialias </B> Send by Mail & Skype Custom Sorting Resize Exposure Correction </B> Search Similar Images Remove Scratches Compress Remove Red Eyes </B> Publish EXIF & IPTC Transparency View & Create Panoramas </B> Layers Convert Filetype Change Colors Equalize Histograms </B> Color Balance Straighten Horizon Perspective Batch Rename </B> Effects & Smudge Brush Keywords Frames All RAW formats </B> Timeline View White Balance Image Shadows Photo Layouts & Collages

It normally costs $49 (and there is a freeware version that does some but not all of this). If I were into photo editing and didn't already have Adobe Photoshop, I think this would be a great deal "and well worth the price" - at least today. I don't think I'd pay the price for the extras given that the freeware version does a majority of it (and if I really was into this, I'd spend the money and go for Adobe Photoshop - I have an older version and the newest is much better - even though it is considerably more expensive). After all, they are your photos and you want them the best they can be.

I suspect many won't see this as the Christmas and Today threads will overwhelm it and I suspect not many subscribed just in case, but if interested in such things and you don't have the expensive programs, this may well do as a better alternative than the freeware.

Here's one that looks like it might be great for AV people and that looks like it might be a real bargain (it normally costs $100):

Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily. 1AVCenter - 1AVCenter is a complete audio video center.

Here's some additional information about it from their website (which is included in the above post):

Record content directly from YouTube, Google Video, MSN, or directly from inside media players, including DRM protected content.

Capture and record your entire PC desktop or a window or a region diretly to AVI or WMV

Broadcast live audio and live video from your PC screen, webcams, DVs, TV tuners, and even audio alone.

Remotely monitor your webcam, PC screen, or microphone with access to live video and all detected activity, and keep an eye on your home, office, kids, spouse, and PC, when you are away.

Any audio you can hear can be recorded to WAV, WMA, and MP3, including Internet radios, CD, voice, phone and external devices such as a cassette or LP player.
Record video from TV tuner, Camcorder, VCR, or Microcameras, via S-Video, Composite-Video, USB, or FireWire.

Apply a time-stamp over video.

Enter stealth mode and remain completely invisible to other PC users.

Securely share photos, videos, music and documents over the Internet. Logged users can view, download, search files and even upload files.

Automatically capture and upload images from your webcam or PC screen to your website via FTP.

Capture compressed JPG images from your webcam, camcorder, TV tuner, external devices, or the PC screen.

Here's another good one for graphic artitsts, especially those into animation, presentations, and web design: Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily. Vectorian Giotto 2.3.1 - With Giotto, users can simply relax and focus their imagination on creative concepts, integrating stunning graphics and music into design masterpieces..

User interface very similar to Adobe® Flash®

Switching from one software to another can be hard. We hate learning to use completely new software as much as you do. That’s why we created Giotto’s user interface very similar to Adobe® Flash® and simplified it further in order to enable designers to achieve results easier and faster.
Everything is where you think it should be – tools, context menus, object properties… so you will have the sense of familiarity and ease of use from the very first moment you open it.
We have added some new elements like natural color palette editor, effects generator, and other tools that create stunning effects without ever touching the ActionScript.

We created Giotto for designers, not coders

Giotto is made for you to design, not to code. With Giotto you can relax and focus your imagination on creative concepts, integrating stunning graphics and music into masterpieces of design.
The latest versions of Adobe® Flash® are moving away from designers. They are becoming more and more oriented towards coders. With the introduction of ActionScript 3, creating a simple action such as button click now requires ten times more coding than before.
Giotto has full support for ActionScript 2, but we made built-in effect generators that will help you create outstanding effects without any scripting at all. This software is made for you, designers.


Vector drawing, animations, sounds, filters…

Create complex vector illustrations in Giotto, anything from simple shapes to custom ones like polygon, star, or rounded rectangle. Transform vector objects in any imaginable way. Use bitmap filters like blur, drop shadow, glow, and all blend modes.
Organize all objects in the Library, create symbols like MovieClips and Buttons for multiple use. Add text fields, with font kerning and paragraph alignment.
Animate objects with motion tweens and shape tweens. Add sound to movies and create advanced interactivity.

Powerful animated effects without any scripting at all

Giotto comes packed with more than 50 great effects that can be applied to both shapes and text. All effects are fully and easily customizable through the effect editor, and the results are immediately visible on the screen for you to play and explore.
There are more than 100 effect presets, to show the new user the different ways the effects can be adjusted.
These effects are based on ActionScript, but you don’t need to know the code behind them. Creating a perfect banner has never been easier!

Color palette editor that you can actually use

One of the main advantages of Giotto is its built-in editor for color palettes. Most color palette editors out there are quite useless, but we made Giotto’s very applicable in real life.
The Color palette editor uses special algorithms based on human perception of colors, rather then traditional mathematic models which produce poor results.
Once you select the base color of your project, you would have countless options to create palettes using many various matching algorithms. This makes the start of your new project quite easy!

Here's one for people who want to touch-up images (but limited to jpg, gif, bmp, and png) - say to remove someone from a group picture or remove wires between the camera and the subject of the photo. Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily. InPaint 3.0 - Inpaint reconstructs the selected image area from the pixel near the area boundary..

Do you have a photo that would look just right if you could only remove one or more objects or persons from your composition? For example, look at the following two pictures. The original on the left features a large building in the foreground that dominates the scene while also blocking an uninterrupted view of the horizon. If we could somehow remove this, it would open up the entire view. You can see what we mean in the picture on the right. With the building gone, we can really appreciate the full beauty of this landscape. Well, now you can remove just about any unwanted object or person using Inpaint.
Top Reasons to use Inpaint

• Repair old photos
• Remove watermarks
• Remove unwanted objects
• Digital Facial retouching
• Remove date stamps
• Easy to get started

How to use
Inpaint is so easy to use. Simply paint and fill the object you want to remove from your picture, then press the Smart Remove Selection arrow button. Inpaint will magically fill the selected area with intelligently-generated textures pulled from the surrounding image data. Go to our Video Guide page and see for yourself how easy it is for anyone to do with just a few simple steps. Download our Try-Before-You-Buy demo and use it on your own photos!
And if you don't get the results you wanted the first time, you'll be glad to know there are a number of alternate solutions Inpaint offers. Try one or more of the following techniques and experiment until you get just the right look you want:

• Change the boundary area Inpainting creates. Reduce or enlarge the rectangular area Inpaint generates using any of the eight resizing handles which appear around your selection.
• Rather than trying to remove all objects at once, try selecting and applying the Smart Remove Selection button to each one separately, one after another.
• Move backwards through your changes one step at a time using the Undo Last Action feature in the task pane, then try making a more accurate selection of the object you wish to remove.
• If your feel your selection is accurate, simply Inpaint it over again. Each Inpaint procedure is unique so you'll get a slightly different result each time you apply the Smart Remove Selection button.

Inpaint reconstructs the selected image area from the pixels near the area boundary. Remove undesirable objects from still images, such as logos, watermarks, power lines, people, text or any other undesired artifacts. There's no need to manually go through messing around with your old clone tool any more! Now you can use Inpaint to easily remove all those unexpected objects that end up spoiling an otherwise really great photograph.

Finally, they offered one I considered worth posting - it's been a while. Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily. DVDFab DVD Copy - DVDFab DVD Copy is popular worldwide and known for its power and flexibility..

It has a limited purpose, but if you need that functionality, this product seems to be the answer. And you're saving $50 if you get it through this one-day (less now) offer. Note the first comment as it concerns downloading and activating and may save some time if you know that before you begin. Here's some additional information about it:

DVDFab DVD Copyaka DVD to DVD

DVDFab DVD Copy is popular worldwide and known for its power and flexibility. You can copy a DVD with just a click or two, or use DVD Copy's many settings to customize the ouput. Burn it to a blank DVD or write the output to a folder or image file on your hard drive ormedia server, compress content to fit on smaller discs, the choice is yours! In addition, the DVD copy speed is very fast, and the quality is excellent. DVDFab DVD Copy is definitely the right all-in-one solution for making backup copies of your expensive DVD collection.

• Clone/Burn/Decrypt/Copy any DVD
• Copy DVD-9 to DVD-9, Copy DVD-5 to DVD-5, Copy DVD-9 to DVD-5, Copy DVD-5 to DVD-9
• 8 copy modes are available: Full Disc, Main Movie, Split, Merge, Customize, Customize Split, Clone and Write Data

Overview of DVD Copy

DVDFab DVD Copy, formerly known as DVD to DVD or Platinum, is an up-to-date DVD Copy/Cloner/Burner/Decrypter that can read, rearrange, and manipulate the content of a DVD to suit your needs.

DVDFab DVD Copy can remove all known DVD copy protections, like CSS, CPRM, CPPM, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs, ARccOS, RipGuard, FluxDVD, CORE X2, etc., thus to copy any DVD to hard drive, or to any blank DVD disc, including DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R DL, and DVD-R DL, with very fast speed about 10-20 minutes. Plus DVDFab DVD Copy will be constantly updated to remove latest DVD copy protections to support all DVD movies.

DVDFab DVD Copy makes perfect 1:1 ratio clone, and can also compress DVD-9 to a single DVD-5 with amazing output effect.

DVDFab DVD Copy also has the ability to copy discs that are badly scratched or damaged. Even if the IFO files can't be read, it will allow you to make a copy of the movie content using Main Movie or Customize copy modes. It can recover from most VOB read errors and supports NTSC and PAL content (but does not convert from NTSC to PAL or vice versa). In addition, multi-core CUPs are supported by DVDFab DVD Copy, so the copy speed is super fast. DVD Copy has a worldwide user base and great support in its own forum and from the DVDFab staff via email.

See? DVDFab DVD Copy is the answer to all your concerns about DVD copy, burning, clone and decryption.

Today they are offering EASEUS Partition Master Pro: Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily. EASEUS Partition Master 7.0.1 Pro - EASEUS Partition Master Professional Edition is an ALL-IN-ONE partition solution and disk management utility.. Need I really say more. Get it while it's available - it's much better than the free version that many here often recommend.

Finally, there's another good offering: Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily. Aiseesoft Total Media Converter - Convert popular video and rip DVD to video/audio with Aiseesoft Total Media Converter.

But remember, today only (and it must be installed today before the time limit expires).

You also need to register it (I believe). The screen that told you it was activated provided the details to register it - the name and the code. If you no longer have that screen, you'll need to uninstall the product and re-install it and make sure the activatiion screen stays open when you open the program. The first thing it will do is ask you to buy or register the product - choose to register it. Use information from the activation screen to regisiter it. THEN you are done.

cannot find any good ones