Advanced Slide Show and Fd Animated Desktop Slideshow Software for Windows

Slideshow Generator
$25 - Vangen Software

Slideshow Generator is a utility which lets you create slideshows for java enabled mobile phones. Slideshows are created by telling the program which images should be included. When this selection is done, one click is all that is needed in order to transform this set of images into a slideshow. This slideshow is ready for uploading to the phone or even distribution right out of the box.

More advanced users can define more properties for the final application. Through the application interface it is possible to define application icon, application name, application system name and so on.

It is also possible to do larger batch operations automatically. By allowing the application to do all image post processing, the process of creating a slideshow will be greatly simplified. The program can resize and convert most image formats, and creates images targeted specifically for the mobile phone you are aiming for. By selecting a mobile phone from the provided list, the application will even give you suggestions for image properties for this particular phone model.

* Supports all mobile phones supporting Java MIDP 1.0 or Java MIDP 2.0.
* Automatically detects if the mobile phone supports extensions, and will enable features like fullscreen and automatic backlight for phones supporting these features.
* Creates thumbnails automatically without the need of including thumbnails at creation time.

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Slideshow Generator for Windows
$25 - Vangen Software

Slideshow Generator is a utility which lets you create slideshows for java enabled mobile phones. Slideshows are created by telling the program which images should be included. When this selection is done, one click is all that is needed in order to transform this set of images into a slideshow. This slideshow is ready for uploading to the phone or even distribution right out of the box.

More advanced users can define more properties for the final application. Through the application interface it is possible to define application icon, application name, application system name and so on.

It is also possible to do larger batch operations automatically. By allowing the application to do all image post processing, the process of creating a slideshow will be greatly simplified. The program can resize and convert most image formats, and creates images targeted specifically for the mobile phone you are aiming for. By selecting a mobile phone from the provided list, the application will even give you suggestions for image properties for this particular phone model.

* Supports all mobile phones supporting Java MIDP 1.0 or Java MIDP 2.0.
* Automatically detects if the mobile phone supports extensions, and will enable features like fullscreen and automatic backlight for phones supporting these features.
* Creates thumbnails automatically without the need of including thumbnails at creation time.

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Crawler Slideshow Screensaver
$0 - CRAWLER, LLC

Download free Slideshow Screensaver and enjoy the slideshow of your favorite images right at your desktop. Choose from our web gallery of screensaver sets and more than 3,000 images or create your personal screensaver using your own photos! Enjoy cool slideshow effects and set the effect delay. Set slideshow images as your desktop wallpaper!
Our slideshow screensaver will get you to places you love or just give you the feeling of freedom in the busy hours.

You can use also a free customizable Crawler Toolbar that has games, ecards, fun ball, download manager, WSG, and more! Enjoy screensavers like 3D aqua marine, 3D aqua tropical, 3D fire, 3D earth, and 2D slideshow. Enliven your browser with colorful IE browser skins, choose from over 2,000. Replace your plain cursor with an animated cursor from our huge gallery! Beautify your desktop with incredible wallpapers from our huge gallery covering popular subjects for everyone. Customize buttons to access frequently used programs, like Word, Excel, or Crawler features, like popup blocker, skins and games.

Crawler Toolbar Search scores at the top of the class for most relevant search results. Select one search engine, such as Yahoo, MSN or Ask Jeeves, or choose metasearch and get the combined results from all available search engines.

Rich with advanced plugins like MP3 player, you will enjoy Internet radio and at the same time make recordings of your favorite songs and radio shows. Display RSS and ATOM feeds directly in Internet Explorer or icon tray from favorite news sources such as CNN or NPR.

Access your Crawler email account fast and efficiently with email plugin. Get 1-click webmail access, monitor multiple accounts, get notified and preview incoming emails. Compose new messages thru shortcut, upload attachments with simple right-click.

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ShowMaker
$25 - Dmagix Software

ShowMaker is designed to help you quickly develop great slide shows and photo albums to distribute stand-alone on a disk/cd or on the Internet as html. You can also add advanced features like a thumbnail page, music, texts and more.
ShowMaker comes with a small high-quality royalty free stand-alone replayer for disk or cd-rom distribution - requiring no installation on the client machines. You can even have a slide show on cd start automatically when the cd is inserted!
ShowMaker is also a speed optimised picture browser, with features like 'zoom quality enhancement' and 'include files from subfolders'.

Create slide shows, photo albums and image galleries for web or CD-ROM, from the same one project setup.
Output final results as either HTML or as a stand-alone slide show with high quality replayer.
Powerful standalone replayer that runs on almost any Windows computer. It preloads graphics, and thereby almost eliminates any delay. It also has superior image quality!
Add a Menu/Index/Thumbnail page with customizable layout very easily.
Add complex slides with embedded images and texts or thumbnail pages with just a click.
Show a title on each image very easily.
Add sound and music.
Use an image browser with advanced zoom facilities, zoom quality enhancement and thumbnail cashing for improved browsing speed. Also, listen to midi files.
Include contents from subfolders on-the-fly while browsing multimedia files.
Find a 'super-palette' (best fit for multiple pictures) and convert all pictures in a setup to this palette in one click.
Resize many pictures in one process (Min. max. %, fill empty space, etc.).
Convert many different formats image files to the same format in one single step.
Run a slide show directly from within the browser. Also, see a folder as a slide show.
Very simple, friendly and powerful user-interface makes it very easy to make an impressive result. Drag & drop. 100% keyboard support.

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ImageMatics Flash Publisher
$49.95 - Imagematics

Creates Flash multimedia slideshows from still images, self playing movies, web pages, auto play CD ROM, SWF (Flash). Provides transitions, pan & zoom, automatic Flash frame labels, advanced sound features, titles, annotation. Individual sound tracks may be applied to each slide, sound blending P makes sharing and showing off your photos a snap. Load your pictures in a folder and simply tell StillMotion Creator PE to create a slide show. Select Publish and you're done.

Personal and professional applications. Creates Flash Frame labels.

Just one click to Publish to do all this:

" Create a slide show to view on your PC
" Create a slide show you can e-mail as a self-extracting file. The recipient clicks on it and up it comes in its own player.
" Create a screen saver for your PC
" Generate a web page with your slide show in place.
" Output a Flash compatible SWF file for with Frame Labels included for each slide for navigation and virtual tours.
" Add music, titles, professional annotation, matting, matting, effects and much more
" Advance sound features include individual soundtrack per slide, automatic show time to sound time option, easy insert editing, sound mixing controls per slide.

EASY

PE can quickly import your images into a slide sorter display. You can then change the order of the slides by simply dragging them around the sorter screen. Insert other entire folders, groups of images or select individual images to add from any source you choose. Image scaling and centering are all done automatically for you!

You can drag and drop from folders so making your slide shows is easier than ever!

POWERFUL

Animated menus let you pick from dozens of transitions and effects. Add pan and zoom effects. You control the timing. Plus, a built in image editor lets you crop your photos, rotate them and correct brightness and contrast... all without leaving PE.

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PhotoStage
$0 - NCH Software

Create a slideshow from your digital photos and videos on Windows and apply effects such as fade, crossfade, zoom and much more. Burn your slideshow to DVD for playback on TV, or as a standalone video file for enjoying on web and portable devices. Add a soundtrack, narrative or text captions to further enhance your memories. Touch up or enhance your photos and videos with ease.

Transition Effects:
~Panning and zooming effects let you bring your photos to life.
~Fade transition effect gives your slideshow that professional touch.
~Preview the effects in real time.
~Customize the duration of the effect.

Photo Optimization:
~Fine tune brightness, saturation and color for photos and video.
~Add your favorite photos with a click of a button.
~Crop, rotate and flip photos easily and preview the changes in real time.
~Add text captions to individual slides.
~Add video clips for a complete slideshow presentation.

Audio Tools:
~Add music tracks to your slideshow.
~Record narrations with the click of a button.
~Import pre-recorded narrations

Share:
~Burn to DVD and watch in your living room on your TV.
~Show off your latest pics and clips on PSP, iPod, iPhone, 3GP mobile phone or Pocket PC.
~Explore the most advanced way to burn HD DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs.
~Output video files and share your creation with more friends on computer or through Internet.

Supported Formats:
Input:
~Image: bmp, gif, jpg, jif, jiff, jpeg, exif, png, tif, tiff, psd, tga, pcx, jp2, wmf, ico
~Audio: wav, mp3, mp2, mpga, m4a, ogg, avi, mid, flac, aac, wma, dct, au, aiff, ogg, raw, msv, dvf, vox, cda, atrac, gsm, dss, sri, shn, dss, msv, wmv and many more.
~Video: avi, mpeg, wmv, divX, Xvid, mpeg1, mpeg2, mpeg4, mp4, mov, asf, vob, ogm, .3gp, H.264, RM and many more.

Output:
~Disc export: DVD, CD, Blu-ray Discs, HD-DVD
~Video export: avi, wmv, asf, mpg, 3gp, mp4, mov, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Mobile Phone, Pocket PC

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