Google Earth 3

Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others. Google Earth's features include: See global changes with decades of historic imagery If you've ever wondered how your neighborhood has changed throughout time, Google Earth now gives you access to the past. With a simple click, check out suburban sprawl, melting ice caps, coastal erosion, and more. Dive beneath the surface of the ocean In the new ocean layer, you can plunge all the way to the floor of the sea, view exclusive content from partners like BBC and National Geographic, and explore 3D shipwrecks like the Titanic. Track and share your paths with others Take placemarks a step further and record a free-form tour in Google Earth. Simply turn on the touring feature, press record, and see the world. You can even add a soundtrack or narration to personalize the journey.

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Google Picasa 2

Transfer, find, organize, edit, print, and share images, all with this easy-to-use product. Watch Picasa automatically organize all your pictures into elegant albums by date. Having all your photos in one place means no more time wasted searching for folders or files. The program works with JPEG, GIF, BMP, PSD, and movie files and is compatible with most digital cameras; it detects your USB driver and imports pictures into albums. Editing tools include cropping (standard or custom), removal of red-eye, and enhancing--even switching from color to black and white. Create slide shows set to your MP3s. Integration with Picasa's free Hello instant picture-sharing software lets you share hundreds of photos in seconds and chat in real time. E-mail photos with Picasa's built-in client to take the guesswork out of compressing images, and order photo-lab quality prints or print at home with no mistakes. Picasa is owned by Google. New features in version 2.0 include the ability to make instant backups to CD (or to other hard drives) of your photo collections, to organize your photos using labels and stars (just like with Gmail), to write captions for all pictures, and to organize videos as well as pictures.

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Bootskin

A program that can change your boot screen Stardock BootSkin is an application that allows users to change their Windows 2000 and Windows XP boot screens. Unlike other programs that can change the Windows XP boot screens, BootSkin does so in a safe manner. It doesn't patch the Windows XP kernel. Nor does it require the user to download replacement Windows XP kernels to do so. Boot screens that use BootSkin are typically under 20K compared to other boot screen programs whose files are over 2 MEGABYTES. And best of all, BootSkin is free for non-commercial use. You can download boot screens from HERE

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Animation Effect Box 1.4

Animation EffectBox 1.4 helps you to produce animations in GIF and AVI-formats on the base of different effects (such as moving objects, small particles, running text, wave, shake, appearance, explosion, changing brightness). You can find the detailed information about work with the program in Tutorial. Program features : loads background picture for created animation from BMP, JPEG, PSD, PCX, PNG, GIF- files; manages the list of animation effects and calls edit dialogs to set parameters of each effect; defines animation parameters: count of frames and delay; builds animation on the base of list of animation effects; exports created animations to GIF and AVI- files; optimizes size of created GIF- files; saves animation scripts in AME- files; creates GIF and AVI- files from command line in batch mode; supports internationalization. What's new? using PNG- files for background pictures and for effect "moving object"; track bar added to the main window to see each frame of animation; improvement: storing of background pictures and images of moving objects inside scripts (in AME- files); improvement: online updating of language files with screen texts, helps and tutorials; improvement: associating of script file extension AME with this program; revised help. System requirements: the program works under Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP operating systems; no special requirements. Restrictions in the unregistred version: unable to save your animation as GIF and AVI- file; batch mode does not work. Reasons to buy Animation EffectBox: easy-to-use intuitive and international interface; versatility (Animation EffectBox can be used both by amateur designers and professionals. No special training or knowledge is required!); deep optimization; batch mode; low cost; friendly and responsive tech support.

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Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0

The new version of this indispensable product doesn't introduce revolutionary changes, but it doesn't have to. As the low-end PDF reader, it simply keeps up with Acrobat Professional and Standard. This release adds the ability to play back embedded multimedia files in MP3, QuickTime, Macromedia Flash, Real, and Windows Media formats, as well as to submit Adobe PDF forms. It also replaces some of the icons in the default interface with optional, dockable toolbars. You might as well install this now before a Web site you visit prompts you to download it, because you'll need it.

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Design CAD 3d Max Plus

Unleash Your Imagination with DesignCAD 3D MAX DesignCAD 3D MAX is an easy-to-use, versatile CAD tool that’s perfect for novice designers, but powerful enough to create high-quality 2D/3D designs, models and animations. The intuitive interface and extensive online help make it easy to design anything, from simple hobby projects to professional precision drawings. It’s everything you need! Precision 2D Drafting Tools 3D Solid Modeling Tools Mechanical Design Tools Architectural Design Tools Realistic Rendering Intuitive User Interface Online Help Easy to Learn & Use 2D/3D Design Design 2D drawings fast and easy, then create complex 3D shapes simply by extruding (pulling) them from your 2D shapes. Powerful Drawing Compare Technology Drawing Compare is an invaluable aid when working collaboratively on a project, or when picking up an older project and looking to see the status of updates. Use it to compare a design and an ‘As Built’ drawing to see where changes have been implemented. Beautiful Rendering Apply a variety of materials, textures, colors, hatch patterns, and light effects to create stunning images. Customize material textures to further enhance the realism. Animations & Walkthroughs Create animations and walkthroughs of your finished drawings. Valuable Content DesignCAD 3D MAX includes 600 colorful, texture-mapped 3D models for easier architectural design. In addition, over 10,000 2D/3D symbols are delivered with your DesignCAD software to quickly drag and drop into your design. Plus retrieve millions more mechanical and architectural symbols with a free, 3-Month subscription to CADsymbols.com®! AutoCAD® DWG/DXF Compatible & More Share files with built in file filters for dozens of popular CAD and graphic formats, including AutoCAD®. Import DWG, DXF, WMF, and HPGL files and many more formats for editing in DesignCAD. Just as easily export to DWG, DXF, RIB, VRML, WMF, WPG, PDF and more to share your work. Plus, access new print options and print to PDF. Perfect For: Architects Engineers Illustrators Builders Contractors Hobbyists Educators Students

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Adobe Photoshop CS2 9

Multiprocessor Support for Adobe Photoshop CS2 for Windows The Multiprocessor Support update fixes a problem discovered after Adobe Photoshop CS2 (9.0) was released. Machines with more than four processors in total (counting HyperThreading) will now use all of those processors. System requirements • Adobe Photoshop CS2 (all language versions) • Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 or Windows XP with Service Pack 1 or 2 Installation Instructions After downloading a ".zip" file, use the operating system or a utility such as WinZip or PKZIP to access the file's contents. Need help with downloading? See our Downloading Help documents. To install the Photoshop CS2 Multiprocessor Support update: 1. Exit Photoshop CS2. 2. In Windows Explorer, open the Adobe Photoshop CS2 folder. 3. Open the Extensions folder inside the Plug-Ins folder. 4. Delete or backup and rename Multiprocessor Support.8BX. 5. Copy the new Multiprocessor Support.8BX into your Extensions folder. Additional notes This update will work only with the retail version of Adobe Photoshop CS2 (9.0.x) software and not any pre-release (Beta) versions. To confirm that the update is successfully installed, launch Photoshop, go to the Help menu, select System Info, find Multiprocessor Support in the list of installed plug-ins, and verify that the Version is 9.0.2. The version number can also be found by right-clicking on the plug-in itself, selecting Properties, and then selecting the Version tab.

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