Hekko Virtual CD enables you to create a virtual CD-ROM drive on your PC, which allows you to play CDs without having to insert the actual disk. This not only eliminates the need to switch disks frequently, but also increases the performance of games, since the hard drive can usually be accessed much faster than the CD. Hekko Virtual CD works with most games, music or software programs. You can image as many CDs as you need and the load the virtual image into the drive by using the tray icon. The program uses HekkoScan(tm); nearly any CD can be imaged and played.

HTagEditor is an MP3 ID3v2 tag editor with may features, including duplicate checking, filtering, playlist creation, file renaming, search/replace, and more. The program can also remove ID3 tags and create customizable lists of your files that can be used for printing or database input. It also includes a feature that can guess the correct ID tags from the filename. The interface is a little unusual and needs getting used to. There is no documentation available.

Image Analyzer is an image editing, enhancement, and analysis tool that supports JPEG 2000, BMP, ICO, CUR, WMF, EMF, JPEG, PNG and PCX for read/write and RAS, PNM, PGM, PPM, HIPS for reading. Image Analyzer allows you to resize and crop your images, apply filters, and perform advanced conversions and transformations (Color model conversion, Distance, Fourier...). The program also offers automatic color correction, red-eye removal, and an option to create user-specified filters in spatial and frequency domain.

IMCAT is a thumbnailing utility that is capable of batch processing directories and converting all found images into thumbnails. It can identify and delete orphan thumbnails, guess image titles from file names, and more. Advanced mode offers many professional-level features, like file name modification, unlimited banner code insertion, extensive Meta tag support, advanced navigational menu control, as well as creation of a separate page for each image feature, driven by templates that can be edited. The program offers both an Express and an Advanced mode; the advanced mode offers most of the features mentioned, while the Express mode performs simple batch conversions of image directories. Both modes are available in this free version; however, a Pro version is also available, which adds directory batch in Advanced mode

{Music} In case you missed it, Apple recently released iTunes software for Windows, which means non-Mac users can now rejoice over the really excellent interface to their iPods: "Welcome, Windows users, to the world’s best digital music jukebox, with a great music store inside — and it keeps getting better. Welcome to a music store with hundreds of thousands of songs which you can conveniently browse, search, preview, buy and download. And welcome to the best friend an iPod ever had: iTunes. With it, you can create your own personal digital music library to manage and listen to your music collection, all with drag-and-drop simplicity. iTunes encodes high-quality MP3s as well as pristine AAC, all in a free application. If you don’t like getting charged a subscription fee or paying for additional features like fast CD burning, your digital music experience is about to get a whole lot better."

jetAudio 5 Basic is a full-featured media player with integrated CD burning and ripping capabilities. It supports all the popular media formats, including MP3, OGG, MPG, AVI, WMA and many others. jetAudio can also play DVDs and VCDs and act as your default player for all selected formats. Additional features include CDDB support, integrated lyrics viewer, Monkeys Audio support, skins, visualizations and just about everything else you'd expect from a multimedia player. An optional Pro version offers support for broadcasting and mp3PRO formats.