Clip Finder

Clip Finder searches, streams, and downloads videos. It can search up to 14 video Web sites at once. Clip Finder’s video window includes quick links for downloading and adding to a favorites list .
The interface appears as a long film strips. Each strip represents a video Web site.
You can choose the options of which 14 video portals should appear. However, new portals cannot be added.
The ones available include all the major video sites: Google, You Tube, Yahoo, Ifilm, Veoh, DailyMotion and others.
When you start the utility, the strips will be empty. After you start the search videos, they will appear as frames in the strip. ‘copy URL’ copies the URL to your clipboard with one click, while ‘Add’ adds the video to your ‘My Videos’ panel.
To get access to the full range of ClipFinder’s features, you need to register. The 2.63 MB Ashampoo ClipFinder v.1.34 for Windows 2000/XP/Vista can be downloaded at http://www.download.com/Ashampoo-ClipFinder/3000-13632_4-10654066.html?tag=mncol&cdlPid=10982337

Sweet Home 3D

Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you placing your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. It is provided with a help system that describes all its features.
You can watch a video tutorial at http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/documentation.html#videoTutorial to discover this features in action. An FAQ can be browsed at http://sweerhome3d.sourceforge.net/faq.html.
Sweet Home 3D is an open source project distributed under GNU General Public License. It can be run on Windows, Mac OS X 10.4/10.5, Linux and Solaris. Sweet Home 3D requires Java version 5 or 6.
The 11 MB Sweet Home 3D, v.1.2.1 can be downloaded at http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/SweetHome3D.jnlp. If you are not sure of the Java configuration of your system, you can download the 25 MB all-in-one Sweet Home 3D installer bundled with Java at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sweethome3d/SweetHome3D-1.2.1-windows.exe

MiniPad 2

Minipad2 integrates all the useful functions like text editor, calculator, reminder, dictionary, text template and clip board-enhancement. The content is saved in a single text file and automatically restored to the last state when re-opened.
It can be set to start Windows. The memory take-up is minimal. Minipad2 is a single-exe green software. It can be directly used when unzipped to a random directory without installation. It adds no key to the system registry. The 758 KB Minipad2.Zip (includes a tiny dictionary to support English-chinese two way translation) can be downloaded at http://www.nebulasoft.cn/minipad2/downloads/minpad2.zip

Free Video Converter

Free Star Free Video Converter can convert video file between all popular video formats such as AV1 to MPEG, WMV to AV1, WMV to MPEG, etc. It supports many video formats including DVD, VCD, SVCD, AV1, MPEG, MP4, WMV, 3GP, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.264/PSP AVC video, MOV, RMVB, WMV, FLV, etc. Free Video Converter supports popular multimedia devices such as PSP, iPod, MP4 player, mobile phone, zune, iPhone, BlackBerry etc. In addition, the Video Converter provides an easy way to convert video file to popular audio file formats. All encoders/decoders are built-in. Provides batch conversion and multithreading-converts multiple files at the same time. Free Video Converter for Windows 98/Me/2000/2003/XP/Vista at http://www.free-star.org/download.php?product=free-video-converter-setup.exe

Defraggler

Defraggler, a defragmentation tool can help defrag select individual files and folders. There is no need to go through the process of defragging the entire drive. After the analysis Defraggler lists all the fragmented files on the drive. Selecting one or many will highlight their location on the disk. Defraggler supports all OSs released since Windows 2000. Defraggler supports both NTFS and Fat32 file systems. The 481 KB Defraggler v1.01.073 (beta) can be downloaded at http://www.defraggler.com/download. The developers say as this is a beta version it could contain bugs.

Surf Canyon

Surf Canyon can improve your search on Google, Yahoo!, MSN and Craigslist. It quickly locates relevant information that’s buried deep within the search results. Results can be customized and the recommended search results reflect instantaneous relevancies, based on your actions. Erick Schonfeld, co-editor at TechCrunch has to say about Surf Canyon, ‘What I like best about Surf Canyon is the interface. It doesn’t take you to another Web page.’

The recommended results just appear underneath the appropriate link. It feels more like an application than a cumbersome website where you have to click through multiple pages to find what you want. Google could take a lesson in interface design from Surf Canyon here with all of its Ajax goodness. the tiny 21 KB Surf Canyon v.1.1.1, for Internet Explorer and Firefox, can be downloaded at http://www.surfcanyon.com/search/surfcanyon.xpi

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