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With Adobe Photoshop CS, graphic designers, Web masters and photographers can create original artwork, correct colour, retouch and composite scanned images, and prepare professional-quality separations and electronic output. CS is the new version denominator for Adobe's professional design and layout tools. For example, Photoshop CS is the new, full-upgrade version of Photoshop (instead of Photoshop 8). Photoshop CS features include an improved file browser for sorting and browsing images, an enhanced Match Color command, a Histogram palette, and Shadow/Highlight correction tools.

Licence: Demo
Online: http://www.adobe.com/
Operating system: Windows 2000 SP3, Windows XP
Requires: Intel Pentium III or 4 processor, 192MB of RAM (256MB recommended), 280MB HDD space

Install instructions: N/A

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This index-based local keyword search engine indexes text and HTML files stored in specific directories and runs directly from your PC or a CD-ROM. AFSearch enables users to perform fast, powerful, Boolean-supported keyword searches anytime to easily locate required documents, with keywords highlighted. It comes with a built-in browser and support for multiple languages, and can index file types including RTF, DOC, and PDF. You may set Exclude conditions to easily exclude files and folders from indexing. The program supports multiple index files so you can easily toggle among different sets of indexed files. Version 8.51 improves indexing of text and HTML files with European characters.

Licence: Free to try; $55 to buy; 5-result limit on searches
Online: http://www.afsearch.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Requires: N/A

Install instructions: N/A

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Learn more than 200 interesting facts about your computer. Details about your CPU, memory, operating system, and even your computer's power source all are displayed. You can also copy the information to the Windows clipboard and paste it into a document for permanent storage.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.karenware.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Requires: N/A

Install instructions: N/A

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The FileMonkey file operations utility automates common file management tasks which would otherwise be tedious and time-consuming. This is a full version shareware product. Main features of FileMonkey include: search and replace on file contents, file names or folder names; rename files or folders to match a sequence; split, join, or merge target files; change attributes of files or folders; change case (capitalisation) of file or folder names; search for keywords within files; create batch files and append strings to file names; encrypt and decrypt files; extract text from inside files; filter, sort, and list by size, date, and pattern; permanently wipe free space and erase files. Fully integrated online and offline help and support included.

Licence: Free to try; $29 to buy; 30-day trial
Online: http://www.monkeyjob.com/FileMonk.html
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Requires: N/A

Install instructions: N/A

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Pengs is a feature-rich toolbar that smoothly integrates with Internet Explorer. Easily installed, the Pengs Toolbar does not interfere with your existing IE toolbars. You can quickly hide or show the toolbar depending on your regular browsing needs. Currently supported browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 4 or later). If you have browsing enhancements installed, you can also use the Pengs Toolbar from your Microsoft Windows Task Bar. This is not a regular Search Box toolbar. All its capabilities expand your searching experience to the max. Updates automatically so you never have to be concerned with not having the most current version of the Pengs toolbar.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.pengs.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Requires: N/A

Install instructions: N/A

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Resource Hacker is a freeware utility for viewing, modifying, renaming, adding, deleting, and extracting resources in 32-bit Windows executables and resource files (RES). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://delphi.icm.edu.pl
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Requires: N/A

Install instructions: N/A

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SlickRun is a floating command line utility for Windows. SlickRun gives you almost instant access to any program or Web site. SlickRun allows you to create command aliases (known as MagicWords), so C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe becomes MAIL. Enter a Web URL into SlickRun and it will launch your browser and navigate to the specified address. Run multiple programs in a few keystrokes, jot a note, look up a definition... SlickRun is the most natural way to interact with your computer.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Requires: N/A

Install instructions: N/A

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