#3926

[v6.6.0] Primo Ramdisk – Most powerful ramdisk (virtual memory disk) emulator

First of all, AppNee wants everyone to know three facts about RAM:

The capacity of single memory bank is getting bigger and bigger (8 GB of RAM is already ubiquitous)
The read/write speed of almost any RAM can reach more than 4 GB/s, but even the top-level, fastest SSD can only stay in the unit calculated in MB (may be 500 MB/s or less)
A large proportion of the memory capacity is in the idle state (wasted in vain)

Therefore, we can use some Ramdisk (AKA: RAM drive) software to drain the idle memory capacity, in order to improve the system performance crazily - play to their extreme.

#3918

[v9.21] AMCap – Camera video & still capture based on DirectShow

Hardware-Related

At first, I wasn't sure, and disinclined to find out what kind of relationship is between Noël Danjou's AMCap and the early discontinued, even gone Microsoft's AMCAP (AKA: USB 2.0 Camera). After all, they look exactly the same (includes name, interface, and most features). But gradually I began to realize that, AMCap is just a upgraded/enhanced and commercial edition of the freeware AMCAP.

#3902

ImDisk – Virtual disk driver and RAM disk creator

Hardware-Related

By modifying the environment variables of system or software to save a variety of commonly used temporary folders (Temp, IE Cache, Download folder, for example) to the virtual hard disk (RAM drive), we can effectively improve the file reading/writing speed and software running speed. And in fact, it can also reduce the reading/writing times of physical disk so as to prolong its service life to some extent.

#3893

VeraCrypt – TrueCrypt's only best successor or alternative

Safety-Related

VeraCrypt is a free and open-source disk on-the-fly encryption (OTFE) software with strong security for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms. It was developed by IDRIX from France, born as a branch of the highly-acclaimed but discontinued TrueCrypt project in 2013, but more outstanding than TrueCrypt.

#3879

CoolFormat – Universal source code formatter for all popular programming languages

Program & Develop

CoolFormat is a free and open-source source code formatting tool from China. It is universal for many popular programming languages, such as C\C++\C#\CSS\HTML\Java\JavaScript\JSON\Objective-C\PHP\SQL\XML.

#3851

[v12.0.8] HDClone – Universal cloning tool for hard disk copy/backup/rescue

Backup & Recovery

HDClone is a professional hard disk copying/backuping/rescuing tool from Germany. It can thoroughly copy/clone any data (that is, each byte) on a hard disk to another from the physical or logical layer. This means that, in addition to the backup task of data or hard disk, it can also help you finish the migration work of data or system, as well as the data rescue mission.

#3825

WinUpdatesList – List all Windows Updates you have installed

System-Related

The updates/patches released by Microsoft have two types: Hotfix and Service Pack. Hotfix is a special solution that Microsoft releases for a specific system vulnerability or security issue, which comes with strict naming, frequent release and large quantity; Service Pack is a large collection of Hotfixes, which contains all Hotfixes released before its release date. If you want to know what patches installed in your Windows, there are two ways:

#3774

jPSXdec – Preview, extract, replace or convert game resources of PSX CD ROM

Game Tool

Many of the original soundtracks and animations of PlayStation 1 are so well made that some independent game developers may want to extract them for personal use. I'm afraid, this time, PSX Multi Converter can not help you at all. Because it can scan almost nothing for no matter what type of game ROM files (except the CD ROM disc in your CD drive, I guess). And, we are able to use Cube Media Player to extract the audios and videos out, but it does not provide support to images. Even worse, for some PSone games, it can only extract the XA audio part of the dialogues of characters and the opening animations, you can't get the BGM in each stage.

#3773

[v7.0, v4.4] TexturePacker – Create sprite sheets for your games or websites

Program & Develop [ Mac Software ]

Making multiple small images spliced into a large one (sprites sheet), for game development, this can save the storage space and loaded memory that texture images require in game; for web design, this (CSS sprites) can greatly reduce the images loading frequency and time, so as to make web pages load faster. If you want to use Photoshop to do this, that's too stupid and inefficient. Or if you gave Zwoptex up, then it's time to turn to this TexturePacker from Germany.

#3741

[v2025.4] DecSoft HTML Compiler – Convert any HTML app into a standalone executable file

Program & Develop

DecSoft HTML Compiler is a popular HTML-to-EXE converter with compact file size and powerful features, developed by David Esperalta from Spain. It allows you to package a complete HTML application (along with all included files like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, image, etc.) into an independent and executable Windows application. This executable HTML app can be e-Book, presentation, even a game, and more.