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Fast Track
to
Essential
Windows Tools
By Team Digit
Credits
People Behind This Book
EDITORIAL
Editor:
Deepak Ajwani
Coordinating Editor:
Aditya Kuber
Copy Editors and Writers:
Robert Sovereign-Smith,
Ram Mohan Rao, Renuka Rane
Writers:
Deepak Dhingra, Sanket Naik, Bhaskar Banik,
Mithun Kidambi, Preethi Chamikutty, Ishan Prakash
DESIGN AND LAYOUT
Layout Designer:
Vijay Padaya
Cover Design:
Sivalal S
Illustrator:
Harsho Mohan Chattoraj
© Jasubhai Digital Media
Published by Maulik Jasubhai on behalf of Jasubhai Digital Media
.
No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval sys-
tem or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior
written permission of the publisher.
November 2005
Free with Digit. Not to be sold separately. If you have paid
separately for this book, please e-mail the editor at
editor@thinkdigit.com
along with details of location of
purchase, for appropriate action.
Introduction
Those Absolute Essentials
I
magine buying a spanking new computer with all the frills – a
high-end processor, gigabytes of RAM, a hard drive with a
humongous capacity, DVD writer, the best graphics card money
can buy, 7.1 surround speakers, 19-inch LCD etc. Finally you install
Windows XP, the OS of choice for most users, on it. Now what?
Though an operating system will get your machine up and running,
it will not provide you with all the tools such as Antivirus,
Photoediting, Text Editors, Spread Sheets, etc. that you might
require. What if you want to protect your PC with antivirus soft-
ware? The bundled utilities in Windows are not in most cases, the
best in what they do, nor do they allow you to perform all the tasks
that you want to.
Even the most high end hardware is useless without the right
software. This book is the answer to your needs. Well almost. Here
we cover various tools and utilities that you require to get the most
out of your Windows machine, without being too heavy on the
pocket, or for that matter, your PC!
For easy reference the book is categorised as per the tools and
their functions and tries to cover the usage pattern of an average
home user. Be it different aspects of PC-based entertainment, getting
the most out of the Internet, playing with images, securing your com-
puter from malicious code and hackers, reading and editing text, and
system utilities to manage and maintain your Windows machine. The
book aims to be a comprehensive guide to the most popular, and
some not so popular (but still great) tools. Quite a few of the software
tools covered in the book are either freeware or shareware. For added
convenience, almost all the software reviewed here is provided in the
Digit DVD that comes free with this magazine.
Each software tool is covered in detail. You will learn why it is
good, what are its functions, the features that make it great and a
lot more info about optimising the performance of the software and
your hardware.
So lets Fast Track to those Essential Windows Tools!
DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT
Contents
Chapter 1
Photo Editing
Paint Box 2.2.6
Photobie 1.9
IrfanView 3.97
XnView 1.8
FastStone 4in1 Browser 1.3
Image Managers
Webshots 2.2
Chapter 2
Audio Tools
Audio Players (e.g. Winamp)
Rippers
Audio Production Tools
Chapter 3
Video
Video Players
Video Codecs And Containers
Converters And Utilities
Editing And Modifying Software
Chapter 4
Internet
Introduction
Browsers
Download Managers
E-Mail Clients
Proxies And Internet Sharing
Instant Messengers
P2P File Sharing
Tips & Tricks
Chapter 5
Text Editors
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