This Korean freeware media player grabbed my attention because of its simplicity of installation and use, packing at the same time more than enough features. It works like a charm for all the novice users, but also offers a lot of advanced features for advanced users (almost everything that Media Player Classic has and even a few additional options).

The best part is that GOM Player supports most of the codecs (AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX and lots more) by its own embedded codec system, so you don’t have to look for appropriate codecs every time when you can’t play a certain video format or install any codec before or after the player is installed. Of course if you need to play some very exotic file format you’ll have to install the appropriate codec for it.

Another cool part in this player is the ability to play broken or incomplete AVI video files. Or in other words you can preview the downloaded part of a file and not have to wait for it to be completed in order to see it, or if the download stops for some reason you can preview the completed part before deciding to restart the download.

If you are into High Definition videos, the GOM Player can help you a lot, because it has one of the best playback of HD video… better than the one Media Player Classic has and most of the other video players!

And there is a lot more in the GOM Player, but you better try it and see for yourself…

- To download GOM Media Player (about 4 MB)…

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This small Windows program allows you to set transparent windows of any program running in Windows 2000 or XP, unfortunately it does not currently work for Windows 98 and below. The ability to make transparent the window of any of the running applications allows you to be more productive with numerous windows open at once, even on a smaller display. It also makes your desktop looks way cooler than usual…

Chaos Crystal allows you to change the level of transparency of each window form 0 to 255 (fully transparent to fully non-transparent). It can be run from any location including removable devices such USB flash memory and doesn’t require installation. You can run it from anywhere on your computer as well.

- To download the free Chaos Crystal application…

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Chaos Wallpaper is a free RSS/Atom news aggregator and desktop wallpaper shuffler, that is capable of displaying RSS 0.9x, 1.0, 2.0, and Atom 0.x feeds along with your favorite wallpapers right on the Windows desktop.

Chaos Wallpaper does not require installation, simply copy it to the hard drive to run. All options are available from the program icon when running in the taskbar. The RSS/Atom feeds to be displayed and the display area of the feeds is fully customizable using CSS, you can also change the images you want to be rotated and the time period to change the wallpaper and the RSS/Atom feed.

- To download the free Chaos Wallpaper application…

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Do you want to make personalized ringtones from your favorite songs for free, without the need to perform any hard to do AUDIO editing? Coolringer intelligently figures out the best part of your favorite song and makes a personalized ringtone for you in just a few seconds.

Using a special algorithm Coolringer actively listens and finds the musical highlight of any song and then cut outs your ringtone snippet, and it does that pretty well having in mind that it is completely automated. So, all you have to do is upload in your favorite song, and out pops your personalized ringtone to use or share with friends!

The best part is that with Coolringer you can even make a ringtone for you mobile phone or even for Skype by just right clicking on MP3 file and choosing to make a ringtone out of it.

- To download the free Coolringer application…

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