Artist often complain about virtual design software apps and their inability to resemble real-life tools and provide them with the same sensations.

Well, that’s probably because they don’t know about Artweaver. This impressive image editor and drawing tool includes a wide array of painting tools that really look like the real thing: acrylics paint like real acrylics, airbrushes work as if they were real airbrushes, and so on with pencils, crayons, oils and a lot more.

Like I said Artweaver is both a photo editor and a drawing application. As an editor, it supports layers, includes a varied menu of filters and effects, and enables you to undo and redo actions at any time, like in Photoshop. In fact, those of you who are already familiar with the Adobe editor will be happy to know that Artweaver uses many of Photoshop’s keyboard shortcuts.

As a drawing tool, Artweaver offers a very varied set of tools, perfect for different creations. Plus you can configure and tweak each one of them to suit your needs, and save those tweaked brushes as “variants” for later use. You’ll be amazed at how natural and realistic these tools feel, though the effect is obviously even better if you have a graphics tablet.

Artweaver works with the most popular graphic formats, including PNG, PDF and PSD. And if you feel lost at any point, don’t worry: the program is thoroughly documented.

With Artweaver you can not only edit your favourite photos with filters and effects, but also create amazing drawings with real life-like tools.

Download Portable Artweaver 0.5.5 in Softonic

You probably have lots of different videos and films on your computer you would like to play on your home DVD player. Unfortunately, many DVD players can only read the standard DVD format and it’s therefore a waste of resources to burn DVDs with avi, mpeg or wmv files.

DVD Flick comes in handy because it converts PC video files to a proper DVD format, readable by all standard devices. The final file size is much bigger than the original, for example: a 600mb requires a whole DVD. The conversion process is also very slow, but you can leave the program working while you use other applications, as you can select the priority your system gives to the conversion software. The final result will be an audio_ts and a video_ts folder, which is the standard for all DVDs and you can also chose to create an iso file which can be burned again at a later date. It would have been good to have the possibility to add subtitles but unfortunately this feature is missing.

If you are patient enough, DVD Flick is the perfect solution for burning your holiday movie to DVD, meaning that whatever DVD player your friends or family have, they’ll have no escape from your not-quite-Oscar-winning production.

This is a reliable program that does what it’s meant to but at the end of the day, DVD Flick is really only going to be useful to people without a multi-format DVD player.

Download DVD Flick 1.3.0.4 in Softonic

It’s great to have a portable multimedia device such as a PSP, an iPod or a Zune to watch movies on the go. The problem comes when you need to convert those videos from the PC to a suitable format so that you can watch those videos while commuting or traveling.

Koyote Free Video Converter can help you handle this issue in a very simple way. Far from complicated, bloated converting tools, this easy app lets you convert videos in a snap. You can choose between a wide range of formats, including those which are used in all popular portable devices. Available formats are presented as profiles with set preferences, but you can easily tweak them to suit your preferences.

Koyote Free Video Converter includes a small video window, but sadly it’s only intended to watch video frames as the conversion process is working. It would have been nice to be able to use it also as video player to preview the contents of the movie before converting it.

With Koyote Free Video Converter you can easily convert videos to a variety of formats, including those suitable for portable devices.

Download Koyote Free Video Converter 1.3 in Softonic

AIMP Classic is a powerful audio player that allows you to listen to your favorite music with an outstanding sound quality. Its appearance resembles that of another classical audio player (Winamp), so you’ll get used to it very quickly. It can also be customized with skins.

The program includes a 18-band equalizer, a visualization window to display rhythmic visual effects and a playlist editor to organize your audio files. A nice fading effect makes your list of songs look like an endless music loop and a handy volume normalizing feature avoids drastic volume changes between tracks. Also, the player’s main functions can be conveniently controlled by global hotkeys.

Besides playing music, AIMP Classic features three extra utilities which also enable you to record any sound on your computer, convert audio files from one format to another and view or edit tags.

AIMP Classic is based on the well-known audio engine BASS, so it’s easy to connect new plug-ins (from the plug-in library included in the program) and expand the player’s functionalities.

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Organize, manage and download your RSS and PodCast. Noopod is an ITunes alternative to manage your podcasts. It has many interesting features that you will like:

Manage all your news and podcasts and find it quickly

• PodCast playing in streaming with VLC Media Player, play all podcasts file without QuickTime or another codec
• Noopod use RSS-one Directory to have a lot of RSS and podcast.
• Show your podcast and RSS from your desktop with the Noodock
• Real time notif when you new news is available
• Podcast download manager

Download Noopod 3.0.3 in Softonic

Just like Firefox introduced its latest version about a month ago, Flock now presents Flock 2, the newest version of the social browser.

Flock 2 is based on the new Firefox 3, which means it takes advantage of all the new features included in it: improved security features, an enhanced overall performance and more reliable managing tools for both downloads and bookmarks.

While making use of all these new and improved features, Flock 2 still keeps its social side to its highest. The browser includes special tools to keep track of your friends from different social networking sites, write directly on your blog, upload images to your photo sharing site, read your favorite feeds and access your favorite social sites (Digg, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) straight away.

The main drawback to this social side though is that it all opens on sidebars, which means you can’t have all of them active at the same time.

Flock 2 is the next step for the Web’s social browser, taking the best from the new features in Firefox 3 and mixing them up with the ultimate social networking tools.

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