FotoVac   
http://www.acdsystems.com

FotoVac is a simple-to-use newsgroup scanner that finds and stores the images you want from Internet newsgroups. Just select the newsgroups that interest you and FotoVac's mass downloader will do the rest. This automatic image downloader lets you customize your newsgroup search, refine your search to suit your preferences by selecting the newsgroups that interest you, and scan or filter by keywords or author and message length. Get the pictures you want from newsgroups without having to spend your own time searching for them. Your downloaded pictures can be browsed quickly as size-adjustable thumbnails and viewed the way you want as full-screen, over-sized, or reduced images. Set FotoVac to scan newsgroups at certain intervals, to check for duplicates automatically, run invisibly in the background, ignore non-image files, and much more. FotoVac supports 9 popular image formats including, BMP, EMF, JIF, JPEG, PLX, PNG, TGA, TIFF, and WMF. When installed with ACDSee 3.1 or ACDSee 3.1 PowerPack, FotoVac supports over 35 image formats. FotoVac - Get the Pictures You Want Without Even Looking!

123NewZ   
http://www.123NewZ.net

123NewZ A brand new exiting Newsreader in development! If you are looking for MP3s, Movies, pictures, games, chats and much, much more... Then we have very good news for you!! With 123NewZ you can search through all newsgroups in a matter of seconds!! You can customize the way it looks by adding the views you use. It will use sfv to check if all downloaded files are ok. It can use multiple servers to fill missing parts and uses multiple threads to get the files fast! 123NewZ will enable you to get the files you want from newsgroups with more ease and pleasure. And faster than ever before! You can preview and view images as if they were on your HD, rotate, flip or enlarge them. And a handy rename tool is included. When you have to rename 100 files in sequence then this is the program for you! And it will give you unparalleled security, as it can encrypt the files on your HD keyed to your own passwords and only you will have access to them in the future. Encrypted text, image, music and other files are still handled by 123NewZ as normal files provided you type in the right password. And it is fast too! For small files like .jpg s you wont even notice that it is actually first being decrypted before you get to view it! Think of the possibilities: You can encrypt adult pictures to protect your children from seeing them. You can protect important documents before sending them by email. You can burn CDs with programs and only use of your password will allow access to them. 123NewZ has the ability to preview all you download, browse through the newsgroups as if they were folders on your HD, view images with the integrated picture viewer, set them as your windows background at the click of your mouse and much, much more! You can post files using the small Yenc encoder! In short we have support for XPAT, plonk, multiparts, yenc, uuenc, mime, base64, SFV, NZB, GIF, JPG, PNG, BMP, MP3, WMV and more.

PixSmart Digital Imager   
http://www.TikinaSoftware.com

Work like an expert with your digital photos in an easy to use intuitive program! PixSmart makes working with your digital images easy and fun. All popular formats and many other graphic formats supported, including JPEG, TIF, GIF (including animated), BMP, PNG, PSD, WMF, EMF, TGA, PCX, MAC, WPG, and more. Many ways to edit, enhance and manipulate your images. Full-featured screen capture gives you tremendous capturing flexibility. Magnifying glass, pan window and other viewing options. Portable slide shows. Email images. IPTC compliant. Convert between formats. Powerful image browser allows for resizing and rotate batches of images simultaneously. Crop, Resize, Rotate, Shear, Trim, Despeckle, Duplicate, Adjust brightness and contrast, Sharpen, Equalize, Gamma correct, Adjust saturation and hue, Remove red-eye, Set color resolution, Balance colors, Invert colors, Swap colors, Perform color separations and merges, Convert images to grayscale, Create halftones, Posterize, Solarize, Create mosaic effects, Emboss, Add and remove blurs of different types, Add and remove noise, Apply underlay patterns, Blend and combine images, Create oil painting effects, Add text and Draw effects. Create slide shows using thousands of transition effects. Save slide shows for future use. Package shows in single file stand-alone applications that can be emailed easily from PixSmart. Add titles/captions to each slide. Precision control of show while it is playing. Drag and drop images from PixSmart and to PixSmart from other Windows applications.

ABC-View Manager   
http://www.abc-view.com

ABC-View Manager is a very fast and efficient image viewer and file manager that will assist you with a lot of tasks. ABC-View Manager can scan across your folder tree and display all the files in one list. Processing is focused on performance and very fast, much faster and more capable than Windows Explorer. It shows up to 1 million items effortlessly. Drag and drop to and from Explorer is supported. A dual file list allows for very good overview and detailed listing of your collection. And you can sort and filter your image collection with any property. And search through it with flexible search phrases and combinations. Plus, add descriptions to images, and do batch renames. Output your image list as CSV or XML to compare with others. The viewer will use a quick resizer for slower computers and replace it by a high-quality resized image when the algorithm finishes. You can do fullscreen slideshows in any order (also random). ABC-View Manager supports lossless rotation and flipping of JPG files, even preserving the marker information in them. The latest EXIF-safe technology is used. With a few clicks you can build html webpages for your images - very helpful as CD contents, or email your selection of images in downscaled format. ABC-View Manager can show and store the thumbnails of all major image formats so that you can create offline references of your CD-Roms. You can check for duplicate files even against offline volumes. You can even check for closely identical images! Try ABC-View Manager now for free. You may try it on 20 individual days, spanning months if you like, which should be more than enough for you to get the feel for it! Once you decide you like it you can buy it at considerably lower cost than most other viewers.

SmartPic   
http://www.abelssoft.net

Refresh your emails with SmartPic! With SmartPic you can include cute little Smilies, animated Cartoons and other images into your emails! Choose between a hundreds of the cutest images and make sending an email an adventure. SmartPic lets you express your personality like never before and works with your existing email-software like Outlook, Netscape-Mail or IncrediMail...