Transparency Software

Windows Alpha Blender

This tiny utility allows you adjusting transparency of currently active window and seeing other windows open at your desktop (so called alpha blending). Use Ctrl+F11 and Ctrl+F12 keys to setup alpha blending and make your work with multiple files more convenient. Miscellaneous freeware Windows Alpha Blender is listed in desktop themes, wallpaper tools.

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TaskSwitchXP Pro

TaskSwitchXP is an advanced replacement for the standard Windows Alt-Tab dialog with previews and powerful task management capabilities. It provides the same functionality, and adds visual styles to the dialog and also enhances it by displaying small screenshots of the application in addition to the associated icon. The dialog can also be customized on a per-user basis with optional font settings, transparency and more.

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Actual Window Decorations

Make windows easy to use and beautiful! Add handy new buttons to any window title bar: "Minimize to Tray," "Stay on Top" and "Make Transparent." Minimize windows to the Tray or roll them up into a title bar instead of an icon. Keep important windows on top! Add a transparency effect from 0% (solid) to 100% (fully transparent)! Actual Windows Decorations works on taskbars, windows, menus, other components. Configure any window to suit your tastes!

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TweakWindow

This software is a handy window enhancement utility with a wealth of options. You can set your own transparency options, hide, minimize, roll up, place window on top of all others, make it "ghost" or even change window icon/title. All of this can be done via hotkeys, though window's system menu or by adding appropriate buttons to the window itself. Now no one will be able to see what windows you have open. Try it FREE to see how cool it is! This shareware is archived under os enhancement, shell enhancement, system utilities misc. utilities category.

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WaveL Pic2Pic Pro

This is utility for image batch conversion. The following actions are available: resize, crop, rotate, mirror images; change color resolution, image's brightness, contrast, and gamma; operate in RGB, CMY, YCbCr, HLS, and HSV color spaces; modify images using the sharpen, detail, smooth, blur, and contour effects; add transparency watermarks and borders; replace one color with another; convert images to BMP, JPG, GIF, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, TGA, TIF

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Xara X1

Xara X is an advanced graphic illustration package for Windows, that offers unrivaled redraw speed and a user interface which other developers have tried to imitate, but never matched. Producing vector illustrations is quick and easy using the comprehensive drawing tools, but many of the advanced features which Xara pioneered - such as transparency and real-time anti-aliasing - can be applied to both vector and bitmap images.

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Aversoft Sticker

This office software is featured reminder / scheduler for Windows. Sticker allows you to create as many notes as you want, set note's alarm, schedule tasks, print notes and lock them from being accidentally deleted. The notes are saved automatically and it's easy to use just like the paper post-it notes. Sticker has skinnable interface and many skins. A transparency feature makes notes half visible to make it easier for you to use your desktop. Aversoft Sticker is a shareware software filed under desktop, notes, skins, skinz, notes managers, reminders, schedulers utilities.

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ShapedForm

Create irregular shaped forms easily based on the forms picture property. Add the control to the form and set the picture property then select which colour to become transparent. This control does the rest. You can even specify that the window can be dragged around the screen when the user clicks on any part of it. Also contains methods to refresh the transparency and pop up a system menu. ActiveX control for VB6. ShapedForm is a shareware software filed under developer and author tools, visual basic, activex utilities.

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AlphaXP Lite

This software is a powerful system enhancement that adds advanced transparency effects to any Windows 2000/XP computer. It is part of the award-winning AlphaXP, the most advanced Windows transparency software available. AlphaXP Lite is completely free and does not contain any adware, spyware, or other "bundled extras". AlphaXP Lite is fully functional and does not "nag" or push the full version. Please visit www.zeroherosoftware.com for details.

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HS POP3 Lite

This software is a software library in C (supplied with full source code) which implements the client side of Post Office Protocol Version 3 (POP3) over TCP socket layer according to RFC 1939. Among other features, the library supports user authentication, reception of basic internet headers and text, message deletion and statistics. HS POP3 Library incorporates the necessary state machine, transparency procedures, server response processing etc.

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Tigra Menu

This software is free JavaScript menu navigation component for web sites. This is the script thousands webmasters around the world have chosen for its great feature set, flexibility, performance and tons of support materials offered free of charge. No matter if you are web mastering guru or newbie - this is what you've been looking for. Development Tools freeware Tigra Menu is listed in web development java, javascript tools.

Skinny Clock

Skinny clock is a freeware utility allowing you to display current time on your desktop. You can customize taskbar clock as well.

Powerbullet Presenter

Easily create slick Flash presentations for business, sales or educational uses. Simple drag and drop interface means no technical expertise required. Publish to the ubiquitous Flash format. Drop in sounds (MP3 or WAV files), images (PNG, GIF, JPEG) or Flash files (SWF). Create animations on any element in the page. Create page transitions with the click of a button. Now with fullscreen playback, auto-advance, sound sync and executable creation. Internet freeware Powerbullet Presenter is listed in presentation, flash, animation, slide-show, multimedia tools.

Serif DrawPlus

Create or modify drawings and animations. Easy to use. Award winning software. Read, write many formats (photo and animation as well as vector: JPG, BMP, EMF, WMF, PNG, and more). Includes clipart, fonts, wizards. Easy line/curve drawing; full transparency, blend, and fill features, all anti-aliased; animation (onion skinning, backgrounds, overlays, frame management); etc. FREE. Registration required.

Blacksmith3D - Suite

This graphics utility 2.2 provides you with a host of tools for reshaping and painting your 3D characters and objects. Never before has it been so easy to do. Features that are normally found in expensive, and hard to learn software packages have been brought together in this easy and affordable 3D detailing solution. This demo is archived under graphic apps other category.

Secs

This tool is an easy to use timer, capable of counting up as well as down, and is settable by second divisions from 1 second up to almost 50 days. Time can be set manually, or from three setable common and twelve pre-set times. It even can display down to milliseconds! Secs can have a beep or almost any standard audio file (including MP3s) for the time-up sound, either of which can be set to repeat, plus it can also run files or shutdown the computer.

3D Crystal Sculptures

Crystal Sculpture is an unique screensaver that gives an incredible demonstration of your video card possibilities. There is aninfinity of creative choice. Crystal Sculpture is not static like others, but everything moves in real time, lightning, waves, and the great editor is powered with a lot of easy and fun options to change every parameter of each scene, save them, play and sort them as you want.

SohoCalendar

This software has been implemented in order to provide ASP.NET developers with an easy yet visual way to select date and/or time in web forms and applications. Both inline and popup approaches supported. Transparency, built-in localization and other features in this control.

InSight Diagrammer

Draw flowcharts, business and organizational charts, network diagrams and graphs. InSight Diagrammer provides several collections of shapes and images for creating professional drawings. It also lets you define your own node shapes and images and organize them into thematic shape libraries. InSight drawings can be printed or exported to image files for use in other applications. InSight Diagrammer is licensed as commercial and filed in graphic apps editors section.

RahmanImager Basic

RahmanImager Basic is an advanced full featured digital Image processing and Manipulation platform with support for layers, vast arrays of filters, Special Effects, Artistic Colorizing, Tools, optimizers etc. It is one of the best alternative to Adobe Photoshop, Corel etc. It supports more than 55 popular Image Formats for Reading and support 20 Popular Image Formats for Writing with different dithers settings.

AnyChart Flash Gantt Component

Anychart Flash Gantt is a superb, customizable component for displaying Gantt charts. Create groups, connectors and milestones with a simple XML configuration! Driven by an XML interface, it has no installation and is easily implemented. There is no need for Active-X on the server - graphics are rendered on the client. All scripting languages (ASP, PHP, ColdFusion, Perl...) are supported.

Professional Icon Set

Your products will look more modern and attractive with Professional Icon Set. Color formats include Windows XP and 8-bit formats. Available sizes are 16x16, 24x24, 32x32, 48x48 and 256x256. This icon set includes direction icons: scientist, astronaut, soldier, officer, cleaner, engineer, bureaucrat, writer, student, prisoner, key keeper, band-master, singer, musician, drummer, hacker, computer doctor, graphic designer, tourist and others.

Klick-N-View Business Cards

This business software makes designing and printing your business cards a snap! Using this tool you can design and print professional quality business cards in a matter of minutes! Includes templates for rapid document design. Purchase include lifetime free upgrades, more templates, clip art and fonts.

Aspose.Chart for .NET

Aspose.Chart is a .NET charting component that can create more than 20 chart types like: area, bar, doughnut, line, pie, point, step, bubble, candlestick, cube, curve, CurveArea, gantt, scatter, contour, HighLowClose, OpenHighLowClose and pareto chart with stylish effects including 3D, transparency, gradient, anti-aliasing and background image with resolution settings as well.

Hide Window Hotkey

This software is a utility which allows you to hide the windows,and programs which are running on your screen.It will instantly hide or close all (or some) programs through Mouse Hotkey or Keyboard Hotkey. Resize your programs automatically every time they start,such as maximize,minimize,normal,minimize to tray.Set application windows transparency.Reorder the windows on taskbar based on your choice.Show window property of application. This utilities shareware Hide Window Hotkey is categorized under system utilities shell tools.

PaintBuster

This graphics utility is a very fast and innovative Photo manipulation and Image creation tool. PaintBuster has received many awards for it's ease of use. PaintBuster's intuitive GUI turns difficult tasks into simple procedures that most anyone can master within minutes rather than days or weeks. Just download and do it! Use PaintBuster to create your own business card, birthday card, broshure etc. It's much easier than you think.

WorldCalc

This office software is a calculator and currency converter with daily exchange rate updates provided by Cloanto, a leader in currency software and services. Features include support for past and future euro currencies, a spreadsheet interface and translucent skins. The unregistered version displays an advertising banner. The registered version can use more than 100 different skins.

Periscope professional version

It is an image browser, searcher and viewer. Images can be marked for different purposes (Delete, Copy, Move, Rename, Bookmark .etc) Images can be arranged in pages (up to 999 images per page). You can select images with certain properties (number of colors, animation .etc) You can view image comments, like copyright info, designer name. You can find and delete duplicate images. It can be used to organize image files.

WebMixer

Without programming, produce with WebMixer interactives multimedia presentations or animations for the web. You just have to assemble pictures, videos, sounds, texts, animations by filling in a grid. Various actions (open, close, go to, print, launch...) could be associated to each element. When diffusing, WebMixer compress and upload the multimedia elements to your web site. With WebMixer, give life to your web site.

WindowFX

This software is a revolutionary new program that allows you to add an unprecedented number of special effects to windows. Add drop shadows, morphing and more. This shareware is archived under desktop other category.

Euro Calculator

This business software is a calculator and currency converter with daily exchange rate updates provided by Cloanto, a leader in currency software and services. Features include support for past and future euro currencies, a spreadsheet interface annd translucent skins. Calculator and euro conversion functionality never expire (freeware). Custom licenses and support for agencies, web sites, redistribution and corporate deployment are available. This shareware is archived under calculators, productivity, skins category.

PPT to Flash SDK for .NET ASP.NET COM

PPT to Flash SDK for .NET, ASP.NET, COM developer of professional PowerPoint-to-Flash solution, such as Online Collaboration, Online sharing of PowerPoint presentations, Application for presentation of PowerPoint slide shows (converted to Flash), Web Seminar, Desktop applications-say authoring tools, Presentation server platforms, Web-based Authoring Tools, Web Conferencing applications, PowerPoint-to-Flash converting solutions and much more. PPT to Flash SDK for .NET ASP.NET COM is a commercial software filed under development components, libraries utilities.

Imagicon

This graphics tool is a graphics utility designed to convert multiple image files from BMP, JPG or PNG image formats into any of the following image formats (24-bit): Windows or OS/2 Bitmap (BMP), Independent JPEG Group (JPG), Portable Network Graphics (PNG) and Windows Icon (ICO). Full instructions are included with the software, explaining each of the possible settings and the function that they perform.

Chameleon Launcher

This utility gives you the quickest and easiest way for launching applications, opening folders or documents. Flexible interface for every launch menu (panel) You create. The simplest way of adding/deleting of items. Skins assigning,,Hot Keys, transparency. Utilities shareware Chameleon Launcher is listed in launchers tools.

Prime Option

This business software is used to measure what is important and to select the best option. It can be used to choose products, software, development options, shares, funds, staff, features and design points. It can also be used to measure judgments, importance, risk, compliance, governance and requirements fit. Prime Option is a Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) tool which can be used to improve the decision making process.

Beat Ball 2

This game is the sequel to Beat Ball, a Break-out / Arkanoid style game with improved graphics and sounds, advanced features and it comes with an advanced level editor. Download and/or create your own levels. Create MediaPacks, VoicePacks for added block materials and visual effects. Enjoy multiplayer functionality and all-time and monthly Internet Highscores! Also includes save/resume functionality, custom music play lists for in-game music.