.ani and Screensavers Software for Windows

Animated Chart
$49 - FeatherySoft

Animated Chart generates charts as movies in Adobe (Macromedia) Flash format for publishing them to web sites.
All items and structures of the charts are customizable by clicking on the chart preview directly. Select a type for your chart: Area, Bar, Bubble, Column, Doughnut, Line, Pie, (XY) Scatter, Radar (Spiderweb), Stock. Your chart can be either static (image format) or animated (Flash 8 format) with attractive animation effects for every element: Appear, Grow, Fall, NeonAppear, Slide, Gather, Swing, Rotate.

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Alive! Icons
$11.95 - Yavsoft

Customize the area of you desktop that has always remained untouched. Use this small handy tool to replace boring default icons in window headers and toolbar with silly animations that will make your desktop play and sparkle like a Christmas tree! You can use a number of built-in animations or Windows' .ani cursors.

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AlphaBrowser
$20 - GEO Ltd

AlphaBrowser is a text editor with syntax highlighting and a viewer of today's most popular file formats:

* MS Office (*.doc, *.rtf, *.xls).
* Html (*.html,*.htm,*.shtml,*.asp,*.css).
* Audio (*.mp3, *.mid, *.wav,*.rmi,*.midi).
* Video (*.avi, *.mov, *.mpg, *.mpeg, *.dat).
* Graphics (*.bmp, *.jpg, *.ico, *.emf, *.wmf, *.gif, *.ani).
* Resources *.exe and *.dll of files (not encoded certainly).

The highlight syntax of the text is available for files:

* Assembler (*.asm).
* MS DOS Batch file (*.bat).
* Visual Basic (*.bas,*.vbs,*.vbp).
* C++ (*.c,*.cpp,*.h,*.hpp,*.bpg,*.bpr,*.bpk).
* Form files (*.dfm).
* Java script (*.java,*.js,*.jsc,*.jpr). * Ini (*.ini).
* Html (*.html,*.htm,*.shtml,*.asp,*.css).
* Pascal (*.pas,*.dpr,*.dpk,*.inc).

The possibility of creating projects allows fast access to the most often used files, it is necessary only to indicate the file names or directories.For html files it is possible of view, edit, and preview the file (before saving the changes). The program was initially written with the purpose of embedding it in any program shell (for example in FAR or Windows Commander) as an external text editor (called usually by pressing F4).

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CustomIcons
$19.95 - Aha-soft

CustomIcons is an ultimate tool for customizing the icons on your desktop, in Windows Start menu, for your folders and many other locations. Using CustomIcons you can easily replace default Windows icons with the ones to your choice and customize a wide variety of desktop attributes. Are you bored with your standard run-of-the-mill desktop, which looks exactly like thousands of other desktops all over the world? Aha-soft CustomIcons provides an easy and elegant solution for this problem! Using this small handy tool you can easily replace standard Windows icons with the ones you like and customize desktop attributes. You can change even those icons that cannot be changed using standard Windows tools.

CustomIcons lets you find and extract icons and manage icon libraries. With this program you can extract icons from .ico, .cur, .ani files, Windows executables, libraries (including .icl, .dll, .scr, .il, .nil, .ocx, .vbx, .dpl, .bpl and several other file types). You can import .bmp, .jpg, .png, .gif, .wmf images into icon collections. With CustomIcons, you can split compound icons into simple images and break down entire icon libraries into individual icons. You can also create your own icon libraries for better and more efficient icon storage. The special .icc icon collection format allows save source information for icons. CustomIcons scans files, folders and all local drives for icons, deletes duplicate icons from libraries, sorts icons within libraries, supports drag and drop operations (for specifying the source files/folders from Windows Explorer or other file managers) and sorts icons inside collections. You can find out any icon properties, view icons using different display modes, copied and pasted icon images from/to other applications.

If you like to tweak your system, CustomIcons will definitely be a great addition to your utilities collection.

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IconXP
$19.95 - Aha-soft

Aha-soft IconXP allows you to edit icons and customize the Windows desktop appearance. It supports the new icon format introduced in Windows XP (employs smooth transparency and other visual effects). Using this program you can create and edit icons in either standard or custom sizes, with color depths up to 32-bit True Color with 8-bit alpha channel. Paint tools include: color replacer, color selector, spray can, pencil, brush, flood fill, text tool, line tool, rectangle, curve, ellipse, 3d frame. Modifiers can also be used to apply color gradients and chess fills. For Windows XP icons, you get to add cool drop shadow and smooth effects.

IconXP supports .ico, .ani, .cur, .wmf, .emf, .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .png, .xpm, .xbm, .wbmp and Adobe Photoshop .psd file formats. You can import images from screen captures. IconXP allows you to import, export and change color palettes for icon images.

IconXP allows you to change standard Windows icons, folder icons and customize desktop attributes. You can easily replace, colorize and save the icons Windows uses to display various objects - My Computer, Recycle Bin, Internet, Start menu items, drives, system folders and your own folders. You can also hide or change shortcut overlays. There are also commands that change the desktop icons size and color resolution, and rebuild the icon cache.

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UniView
$29 - Binary Soft, Inc.

UniView is a powerful image viewer,converter and manipulation tool for Winodws 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP. It support 50+ popular image formats and it intergates many functions to let you manipulate the image files easily and quickly.
Main features:
1.Support to view and convert between 50+ most popular image formats, including raster, vector and animated images: *.AFI;*.ANI;*.AVI;*.BMP;*.BW;*.CEL;*.CIF;*.CUR;*.CUT;*.DCX;*.DIB;*.DXF;*.EMF;*.EPS;*.GIF(Including animated GIF);*.HG;*.HGL;*.HPG;*.ICO;*.IMG;*.JFIF;*.JPE;*.JPEG;*.JPG;*.MAC;*.PBM;*.PCC;*.PCD;*.PCX;*.PDD;*.PGM;*.PIC;*.PLO;*.PLT;*.PNG;*.PPM;*.PSD;*.PSP;*.PTF;*.RGB;*.RGBA;*.RLA;*.RLE;*.RPF;*.SCR;*.SGI;*.SLD;*.TGA;*.TIF;*.TIFF(Including Multipaged TIFF);*.UFO;*.VST;*.WBMP;*.WMF.
2.Support full play control of the animated images(including animated GIF, AVI files and ANI images) just like the Windows Media Player, Moreover, you can grab frames in the animated images and save them as other formats.
3.Provide encryption functions which allow you to encrypt your private image collections and view them only when the correct passwords are entered.
4.Support to convert and rename image files from one format to another in batch. You can specify different convert and rename rules as you like, and UniView will do everything automatically for you in one minute.
5.Provide 140+ different special effects and three different sequencing features in slide show so that you can view a sequence of images automatically and please both the eye and the mind.
6.Scroll, manual and auto zoom, rotate, thumbnail and full-screen mode features allow you to view your images the way you want.
7.Support to set the image for the desktop wallpaper as centered, tiled and stretched. You can also restore the old wallpaper.
8.Support to associate and deassociate file with a special kinds of types, undo feature is also supported.
9. Integrate HTML Album Generator to create attractive Photo Albums that can be easily published on the Internet.

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