The team at Leawo are inviting users to give their Blu-ray Player software a test run and in return you can get the software for free. Leawo Blu-ray Player is all-inclusive media player software to play back Blu-ray/DVD disc, common videos and up to 1080P HD videos smoothly on Windows 8. The software also supports Microsoft® Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. The software has an easy to use program interface that provides many playback options as well as adjusting subtitles and audio tracks. It also provides full navigation for Blu-ray, DVD and video playback with the full menu…

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So, you have a huge collection of photos and other images. You can either view them in Microsoft Picture Viewer or you get better full fledged image viewers. Or you can get hold of IrfanView. I have no qualms in admitting that IrfanView is my favorite image viewer. In fact, this is among the first software I install on any system that I work on.   IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista. The power of IrfanView is simply because of its support for several different file formats, both…

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Is your wall cabinet overflowing with CDs and DVDs of your favorite movies or music? Are you looking to lend these to friends and would like a detailed list of them. One simple option is to create an Excel file with the name of the movie. An even better option to get hold of a software that allows you to catalog and manage your collection. Presenting to you 10 powerful movie and music managers that help you manage movies and music very easily! Ant Movie Catalog Ant Movie Catalog is a free (really free, i.e. the source code is available)…

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Got that brand new music player that supports DivX files and you have the videos but in a language that, well, you need to read the subtitles. On the PC is it extremely simple as several media players have support for subtitle files. You can use AVIAddXSubs for adding the subtitles to your avi file. AVIAddXSubs is a simple to use, free program to incorporate subtitles (XSUB) from .srt (ANSI text, up to 8 srt) or idx/sub (containing up to 8 subtitles) quickly and easily to your avi files containing DivX/XVid video streams. Either use the interface above or just…

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When you’re talking media players, one name that always comes to mind is Winamp. I’ve been using Winamp right from its 2.x versions which is to say from quite a few years and have always used it as my primary player when playing long playlists of music spread over a several day period. Winamp has progressed from its early days, moving from a simple audio player with limited support to a full fledged media player with support for several different audio and video formats, a full fledged media library to organize your music as well as support for portable devices….

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I’m very picky about how I play my music and videos and have several different media players installed that fulfil different purposes. One such player is jetAudio Basic which is my primary player for playing folders or playlists. jetAudio comes in a free Basic version and a paid Plus version. Plus adds the mp3/mp3PRO conversion support, recording support and several audio utilities. However, even the Basic version is feature packed. Besides playing a huge variety of file formats, you can also rip audio CDs, lookup information from the Internet CD Database, convert both audio and video between several file formats,…

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The Adobe flash player very limited features. If you’re looking for something more feature rich to play those SWF files then Flash Movie Player is just the tool for the job. Flash Movie Player is a free stand-alone player for ShockWave Flash (SWF) animations, based on the Macromedia Flash Player plugin. In addition to all Macromedia Flash Player abilities, it has some extended features, such as animation rewinding, advanced full screen mode, playlists, browser cache integration and exe projectors support. Features: Allows to open and rewind swf and exe projector files movies, animations and Flash games to any position in…

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SimpleCenter is a Windows software package that works with a variety of devices, including the Sony PSP, the Nokia N80 and N93 smart phones, and most USB mass storage and Plays For Sure devices. Currently it supports the iPOD, PSP, Nokia N80 and N93 with support for N95 in the near future. SimpleCenter is available in two versions, a free and a premium version costing $29.99. In addition to being able to sync your media to those devices, the premium version of SimpleCenter can also transcode files into the format that the device requires. You can also share your photographs…

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This one is dedicated for all the MIDI fans out there. MidiPiano is a very simple and useful application, you can open MIDI file and simulate play it in a virtual keyboard and record MIDI file by the virtual keyboard or MIDI IN device. Features include: Support MIDI IN/MIDI OUT devices. Simple to Play and Record MIDI file. Different color for tracks simulate hands. Support 128 GM Patches selection. Support customize keyboard layout. Support plugins with user message. Support multi-language. – MidiPiano 1.83 [~1.2MB]

Playlists are simply the best thing that happened to music playback. You can queue and choose exactly which order you want to play your songs and save this list for future use. Playlists IMO are almost a must when playing music on your iPod or music player when you have your music all neatly organized like me. However, if you have your music all laid out in folders and don’t need a playlist any normal media player will do. But what if you want one that weighs in around 100KB?