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Audacity 1.3.6

Freeware

Record and play sounds and import and export WAV, AIFF, MP3, and OGG files. Edit your sounds using cut, copy, and paste features, mix tracks, or apply effects to your recordings. Built-in amplitude-envelope editor and a window for audio-analysis.

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me, XP or Vista

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 4.3.1

Freeware

Collection of codecs needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. This Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. You should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats.

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me, XP or Vista

Paint.NET 3.36

Freeware

Image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows XP. Paint.NET is jointly developed at Washington State University with additional help from Microsoft, and is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software.

Requires: Windows XP or Vista

The GIMP 2.6.3

Freeware

Powerful image editor/illustration package which can compete with professional applications such as Photoshop Elements. the software has all the features you would expect, along with some rather unusual brushes.

Requires: Windows 2000 or XP or Vista

MediaCoder 0.6.2.4205

Freeware

Universal audio/video batch transcoder, putting together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats with many extra features.

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me, XP or Vista

Screenshot Captor 2.44.01

Freeware

Screen capture tool. Capture active windows, selected regions, fixed regions, or the entire desktop. The capture can then be enhanced with several blur and shadow effects to emphasise parts of the capture, as well as adding drop shadows.

Requires: Windows 98SE, NT, 2000, XP or Vista