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Data Crow is a music (audio CD´s and mp3, ogg, flac, ape, .. files), book, software and movie cataloguer. It is platform independent and easy to install. Data Crow uses internet services like amazon.com, imdb.com and freedb.org to retrieve information. It´s platform-independent and is easy to use..

Data Crow is an open source project developed by Robert Jan van der Waals. The project began in 2002 under the name “CD Library”. After further development, CD Library was deemed to be an obsolete name because it no longer reflected the program´s functionality and the project was renamed Data Crow.

For those who like to collect software, books, movies and or music, Data Crow can help! The program needs only a little input from you to register your collection. For example, registering a piece ofsoftware is as easy as inputting the software´s name or publisher and Data Crow retrieves the rest of the information from Amazon. For audio files, it´s even simpler! Just browse to the directory that contains the audio files and Data Crow reads and imports the embedded tag information (artist, album name, track name, and so on).

Features:

* A User Manual
* Internal help system (activated by the F1 key)
* Nice-looking and easy-to-use interface
* Platform-independent (including the database)
* Software registration
* Audio CD registration
* Music files registration
* Movie registration
* Book registration
* Reporting (new)
* amazon.com support (http://www.amazon.com)
* imdb support (http://www.imdb.com)
* freedb support (http://www.freedb.org)
* Imports information from CD or your hard disk
* Extracts information from music files (including the tag content of OGG, FLAC, APE and MP3 files)
* Supports parsing for DivX, Xvid, ASF, MKV, OGM, RIFF, MOV, IFO, VOB and Mpeg video
* Hide fields, Update All values, etc
* SQL query tool, for expert users
* Highly customizable!
* No frills HSQL database, no need for ODBC-JDBC bridge drivers

Homepage: http://www.datacrow.net/
Download: datacrow_3_8_10_windows_installer.zip
File Size: 38.70MB

TwistedBrush Open Studio is a free digital paint and photo editing Windows software package built from the powerful and easy to use TwistedBrush Pro Studio platform. TwistedBrush Open Studio is released as free software that will not expire and is not crippled.

Based off of TwistedBrush Pro Studio, most all the features of the Pro Studio version are included in Open Studio with the exception of features that allow for modification of brushes.

Some of the features included are layers, masks, tablet support, scanner support, over 100 filters, Lua scripting support, a full range im image formats are supported, drawing guides, image warping tools, text support, gradients, tracing paper, reference images, recording to video files and many other standard image editing features.

What’s New in version 16.15:

* Added – Support for Adobe Photoshop ™ compatible filters (8bf) has been added!
* Added – A group of 11 Chromatic Aberration reduction solutions are added to the Image Enhancement category.
* Added – Two new filters added. Glow Inner and Glow Outer. Found in the Filter > Stylize menu.
* Added – Added option in Mask menu to Create Mask from Image Visual Luminance.
* Added – Four Drawn Style Solutions added to the Artist category.
* Added – A Special Effects Solution category added with three Neon Style Solutions.
* Added – Five Hyper Image solutions added to the Special Effects category.
* Added – Added a Sketch Style 01 solution to the Artists category.
* Added – Added Glow Style 01 solution to the Special Effects category.
* Fixed – Gaussian Blur was not working in some cases.
* Fixed – The Duotone filter was not making full use of the color range.
* Fixed – When moving the layers either up and down from the background the resulting image on layer 2 would not properly allow for the alpha channel to be changed when a mask was active.

Homepage: http://www.pixarra.com/
Download: tbrusha_open_studio.exe
File Size: 13.16MB