Bytessence InstallMaker

Bytessence InstallMaker is a freeware sofware installer targeted at individual developers or small companies who need to package their software products for distribution.

Main features:

Generates both 32-bit and 64-bit native installers
Scriptless design
Programs can be grouped in installable components
Small installer overhead
Powerful compression (ZIP and BLP/LZMA)
No temporary files are used by the installer unlike other similar products
Able to check for .NET framework, IE versions, CPU speed and RAM size
The installers can check for needed software
The installers can check for running programs, existing installations
Advanced task management (create shortcuts, registry access, component registration, modify configuration files, etc.)
Fully automated uninstaller, no configuration needed (it can also execute user-defined actions for additional uninstallation control)
Customizable user interface for the installer (images, colours, background window, executable icon)
Support for external executable packers (32/64 bit)
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HeliosPaint – Free Image Editor and Paint software

HeliosPaint is a easy-to-use paint program for editing photos, drawings and icons. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Linux and Unix.

Main features:

Pencil for editing pixels.
Curved, straight and freehand lines with choice of width, dash pattern, line joint and arrow heads.
Paint Brush with adjustable size and edge feathering.
Copy Brush for copying one area of an image to another for retouching, healing and blending.
Shape tool for creating freehand, regular polygon, star, moon and heart shapes.
Text entry with choice of font, style, underline and rotation.
Image filters.
Image colour and transparency adjustment by flat, round, rectangular and ‘fit to shape’ gradient patterns.
Image flip, scale up, scale down, rotate, shear, perspective view.
Full colour pallet with adjustable transparency and colour grabber.
Fully opaque, part transparent or fully transparent background colours.
Full texture paint support with adjustable transparency.
Texture paint images can be created, loaded and
Reads and writes image file formats: bmp, gif, jpg/jpeg, pct/pict, pcx, pgm, png, ppm, psd, ras, tga, tif/tiff, wbmp, xpm.
Supports images up to 12 megapixels in size
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SpeakIt converts website text into speech

Speakit is a google chrome extension to converts text into speech so you no longer need to read.SpeakIt reads selected text using Google Network TTS (Text-to-Speech) with language auto-detection. It supports all languages supported by Google and have ability to add new TTS engines.

How to use speakit
1.Select the text you want it to read.
2.Then click the icon to start listening.
3.When it is ready to read, the number of sentences is shown on the icon.
4.To stop listening at any time click pause
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MegaGlest – open source 3D real-time strategy

MegaGlest is a free and open source 3D real-time strategy (RTS) game, where you control the armies of one of seven different factions: Tech, Magic, Egyptians, Indians, Norsemen, Persian or Romans. The game is setup in one of 16 naturally looking settings, which -like the unit models- are crafted with great appreciation for detail.

It is available for Linux,Windows,Mac OS X and FreeBSD. Up to eight players fight in multi-player (over Internet or LAN)
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Autodesk 123D – free 3D CAD software

123D is free 3D CAD software to help you quickly give shape to your idea, explore it, and most importantly, make it. Design precise and makeable objects using smart tools that let you start with simple shapes and then edit and then tweak them into more complex designs.

System requirements:

Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit), Windows Vista® (32-bit or 64-bit), Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition (SP3), or Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (SP2), Windows Server 2008.
Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 or later with 2 GHz or faster processor; or compatible
1+ GB RAM (512 MB minimum)
1.5+ GB free disk space (for installation)
Direct3D® 9 or 10 graphics support with 64+ MB
Internet connection
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MultiBootUSB

MultiBootUSB is a software which allows user to install multiple Live Linux Distros in to a single USB drive / Pendrive / Flash drive and able to boot from it. It is available for both Linux and Windows.

Main Features:

Need not have to select from dropdown list.
Simple user interface.
Installed distro can be deleted whenever required.
Try to keep the USB drive clean.
Test USB with out reboot (using QEMU)
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VSO Downloader – Free Video Downloader

VSO Downloader is a free video downloader for Download audio and video streaming from more than thousand sites.

Main features:

Automatically detects and downloads media (audio + video) files with any browser.
detects ads and does not download them.
smart automated file renamer is integrated.
Download accelerator engine.
Download the files in mulitple parts creating 1 complete quality file.
Support HTTP, HTTPS protocols
Microsoft Smooth Streaming, FLV, WMV, ASF, MP3, MP4, SWF.
Resume downloads.
It works with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and more.
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