.icl and Iconforge Icon Editing Tool Kit Software for Windows

Icon Bank (Web Edition)
$19.95 - Spriteworks Developments

When it comes to icons, Icon Bank v4.0 is the complete solution. Unlike most collections that use .DLL or .ICL files to store the icons, Icon Bank v4.0 stores them in local .htm files. This is because most of the programs used to compile icon libraries can only save them in 16 colors and so the icons themselves come out looking a little "bleached". The icons in Icon Bank v4.0 are all a brilliant, 256 colors and are ready to use. Icon Bank v4.0 comes with gobs of great features and over 5,000 beautiful Windows icons neatly organized into 54 different categories.

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Icon Catcher
$14.95 - Helexis Software Development

Finding necessary icon images for your shortcuts/documents is not easy task. Before downloading one of those gigantic icon collections, consider that one probably already exists on your hard drive! Average computer contains hundreds, even thousands of different icons "hidden" in a variety of files on your drives and you can get them all with Icon Catcher!

Icon Catcher 4.0 is a high-speed batch icon extractor and processor capable of scanning over 3000 icons in one minute. The program supports 32-bit XP-style icons with alpha channel. Icon Catcher can process icons with custom sizes, from monochrome to true color formats. Extended filtering options let the users select the color palette or size or combination of those parameters to make search for necessary icons easy and fast. The program extracts icons from any source files, including .ico, .exe, .icl, .dll, .scr, .ocx, .vbx, .dpl, .bpl and others, and allows users to later save the icons in libraries or separate .ico files.

The new version of software has a brand new improved user interface that is intuitive and very easy to navigate through large icon collections. The program does not require any special skills or knowledge and can be used by virtually anybody. Best of all, the BETA version is distributed free of charge and can be downloaded from our website. Download your copy now!

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GConvert
$23 - G.D.G. Software SARL

GConvert is a full-featured icon toolkit that lets you extract, create, edit, manage, compile and convert icons. It reads any icon resource file (EXE, DLL, ICL, OCX, NIL, CPL, SCR, RSRC, ICNS...) and then allows you to save extracted icons in other image formats (ICO, BMP, PNG, GIF, Photoshop PSD, JPG and more thanks to plug-ins), copy them to the clipboard or use the enhanced drag/drop support for inserting icon images directly in your documents, Web pages or applications.

GConvert offers you more flexibility and functionality than other standard icon extractors:
- extract any icon with all of its images (any size and color depth, including 32-bit XP, Vista PNG- compressed or MacOS X icons; and in 256x256 and 512x512 formats).
- create, modify and manage icon libraries in .ICL files (icon library), Zip archives and compiled DLL files.
- includes a powerful icon editor to manage the images of your icons. Only import one picture and all other icon images can be created in some clicks.
- enhanced support for 32-bit alpha-blended icons (from Windows XP, Vista and Macintosh Mac OS X). GConvert draws these icons correctly even if not running XP, saves them as they would appear under XP and can also keep the alpha channel when converting icons to PNG or PSD.
- convert image files (BMP, PNG, PSD, GIF, JPG, ICNS...) into icons that can be used with desktop shortcuts. Customize your desktop or create unique themes!
- search for hidden icons on your computer.
- recognizes Macintosh icons stored in ICNS and RSRC files.
- supports batch operations to convert/create several icons.
- save your icon and icon folder favorites.
- export icons as 32-bit DLL files recognized by Windows.
- create Windows cursors (CUR) from icons, modify icons in EXE and DLL files...
- integrates Windows Explorer (context menu) to open icon files.

Finally it offers an intuitive and easy-to-use skinned interface, a context-sensitive help file, a FAQ, a sample icon library...

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IconForge Icon Editing Tool Kit
$37.95 - CursorArts Company

A complete graphics suite for creating, extracting, and modifying icons, cursors, animated icons or cursors and other images. Use for creating bookmark and favorites icons for your web pages, filmstrip animation sequences, stitching together panels of icons, and editing other images.

A PARTIAL LISTING OF FEATURES INCLUDES:
* A full set of painting tools;
* Transparent and Inverse paint;
* Extract icons and cursors from EXE, DLL, ICO, ANI, ICL, or CUR format files (including OS2, XP Alpha-channel icons and cursors, XBM, XPM, WBMP and Palm Datebook icon files);
* Read/write most common image files (such as BMP, JPEG, GIF, PCX, TIFF, etc.);
* Capture icons from the screen;
* Clip and/or scale on import;
* Save in icon/cursor formats, store in Library files;
* Insert icons into program files (including EXE, DLL, VBX, OCX, CPL and DRV);
* Special Effects filters (including User Defined and PS-style plugins);
* Automatic creation of common animation effects, such as Dissolves and Fades;
* Import/export animated GIF, FLC, FLI and AVI files;
* Export animations as .BMP filmstrip panels;
* Icon Wrapper utility allows you to wrap programs and scripts which do not contain icon resources into an executable with your own icon;
* Change system icons/cursors (including animation of desktop icons);
* Allows you to create and distribute icon and cursor library EXE programs, complete with installation program, image preview applet, and other options;
* Can also edit photos and larger images;
* Support for TWAIN scanners and cameras;
* Support for pressure-sensitive Stylus and Tablet devices;
* and much more...

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Ideal MP3 Music Sorter
$39.95 - Ideal Sorting Systems, Inc.

Ideal MP3 Music Sorter - will sort, organize and rename all your Music files, fast and easy. Support variety of music formats: MP3,OGG,WMA,AC3,WAV and HUNDREDS other media formats. It sort, organize, rename music, even if it is packed in ZIP and RAR archives.

No more files with names like "mp3s.rar" or "audio27.mp3" - Powerful MP3 Music Sorter will rename all such files according to their content and move to appropriate folder.

That's how Ideal MP3 Music Sorter rename:
undefined music file "audio14.mp3" will be renamed and moved to "AudioInstrumentalVanessa MaeThe Classical CollectionFolk Tune.mp3" - it is the second birth of music on your computer.

And even more - all options may be changed by your choise.

Ideal MP3 Music Sorter will sort, organize, rename all types of your music files:

Mpeg - based Music (mp2, mp3 of all types),
Ogg (ogg/ogm),
Riff (avi/wav),
AC3 (ac3),
DTS (dts),
AAC (aac),
Matroska (mkv/mka/mks),
Monkey's Audio (ape/mac),
Flac (flac),
CDXA, like Video-CD (dat),
Apple/SGI (aiff/aifc) ,
Sun/NeXT (au),
Amiga IFF/SVX8/SV16 (iff),
Ensoniq PARIS (paf),
Sound Designer 2 (sd2),
Berkeley/IRCAM/CARL (irca),
SoundFoundry WAVE 64 (w64),Matlab (mat),
Portable Voice format (pvf),
FastTracker2 Extanded (xi),
Midi Sample dump Format (sds),
Audio Visual Research (avr)
and HUNDREDS other media formats, even packed in archives.

And even that is not all - in addition to music, It support hundreds of video, image and text document formats.

You will be able to view processed audio, video, text and image files and on-the-fly operate with them - Ideal MP3 Music Sorter will sort, organize, rename all this files for you.

Ideal MP3 Music Sorter is perfectly fit as:

Music collections (MP3,AC3,OGG,etc.) organizer, sorter, renamer.

That's why Ideal MP3 Music Sorter is needed for everyone, who have music files of any type.

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Ideal File Sorter
$39.95 - Ideal Sorting Systems, Inc.

Ideal File Sorter - is a powerful file sorter, file organizer, file renamer, that will sort, organize, rename all your files, fast and easy. Support MP3,AVI,DIVX,OGG,MPEG,JPG,ZIP,RAR and HUNDREDS of other formats.

No more files with names like "doc17.pdf" or "audio27.mp3" - Ideal File Sorter will rename all such files according to their content and move to folder, also according to their content.

That's how Ideal File Sorter rename:

Audio- "new folderaudio14.mp3" file to "AudioInstrumentalVanessa MaeThe Classical CollectionFolk Tune.mp3";
Programs- "progsprogram25.exe" file to "ProgramsAdobe Systems IncAdobe Acrobat Professionalv4.12004.12.1 9-23Setup.exe";
Texts- "textsdoc146.pdf" file to "Bill Morris2007FebruaryMonthly report.doc";
Images- "photos5486.jpg" file to "ImagesBlack and whiteDrawing800x600Artificial intelligence.jpg"

And even more - all options may be changed by your choise.

IdealSorter will sort, organize, rename your:

Audio records (MP3,WAV,OGG,etc.)
Video records (MPG,AVI,XVID,etc.)
Images (JPG,BMP,PNG,etc.)
Text documents (PDF,DOC,RTF,etc.)
Programs installation packs (EXE,MSI,etc.)
Archives (ZIP,RAR,etc.)
Files of custom types,

even packed in archives.

It support hundreds of audio, video, image and text document formats.

You will be able to preview audio, video, text and image files in the separate window and on-the-fly operate with them.

Ideal Sorter is perfectly fit for:

Audio collections (MP3,WAV,OGG,etc.) organizer, sorter, renamer;
Movie collections (MPG,AVI,XVID,etc.) organizer, sorter, renamer;
Image galleries (JPG,BMP,PNG,etc.) organizer, sorter, renamer;
Text libraries (PDF,DOC,RTF,etc.) organizer, sorter, renamer;
Software banks (EXE,MSI,etc.) organizer, sorter, renamer;
Archives organizer;

That's why Ideal File Sorter is needed for everyone, who have files.

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