Daily Freeware Reviews

Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer. All RealMedia formats (.ra .rm .rmvb .ram .rpm .rv .rp .rt .rnx .smi .smil etc.) are supported, including streaming content and RealMedia content that is embedded in webpages.

Some advantages compared to RealPlayer:

• Quick and easy install
• It’s easy to make an unattended installation
• Proper uninstallation
• No background processes
• Use a player of your own choice
• Low on resources
• No advertising, no registration forms, nothing annoying

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VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called ‘workspaces’). Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you get accustomed to using them, they become an essential part of a productive workflow.

VirtuaWin is designed to be simple and elegant to use yet still be highly configurable and extensible.

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The tool for DivX / XviD backup utility. With support of DVDs, MPEG2 (such as DVB captures and transport streams), MPEG1 sources along with AVI/DV sources encoding into your favourite MPEG4 format was never as easy as now!

Program features support of:

• DVD/VOBs(unencrypted from hdd), MPEG2, MPEG1 transport streams (including multi-program ones) and AVI/DV input sources
• XviD or DivX(5/6) output formats
• AC3, DTS, PCM, MPA input audio tracks
• AC3, DTS, MPA, CBR/VBR MP3 output audio tracks
• two audio tracks in AVI – external (vobsub) or internal (burnt-in) subtitles (with support of forced subs)
• HDTV input/output resolutions(upto 1920x***) and frame rates (50/60fps)
• automatic crop and resize based on compressibility of the source to achieve best results
• automatic detection of input source: PAL, NTSC, FILM, HYBRID
• automatic deinterlacer and IVTC
• automatic split into CD-sized chunks for main video and external subs

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Arasan is a chess program for Windows and Linux. It is copyrighted, but allows free distribution, with some restrictions.

The latest version is Arasan 9.5, released in October, 2006. The Windows version runs on Windows 95 or more recent versions. The Linux version comes in source only, and requires GCC to build (version 4.0 or greater recommended).

Arasan has both a native Windows user interface and a console-based chess engine for use with Winboard or xboard.

Arasan also works with Arena,another free chess interface, and with UCI-compatible programs like Shredder.

Arasan includes an opening book with over 75,000 moves.

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Xfire is a free gaming tool that automatically keeps track of when and where gamers are playing PC games online and lets their friends join them easily. It doesn’t matter which online game your friends are playing, which server browser they are using, or which gaming service they’re playing on; Xfire is intelligent enough to recognize where your friends are at any time.

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FileAlyzer is a tool to analyze files – the name itself was initially just a typo of FileAnalyzer, but after a few days I decided to keep it. FileAlyzer allows a basic analysis of files (showing file properties and file contents in hex dump form) and is able to interpret common file contents like resources structures (like text, graphics, HTML, media and PE).

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