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HotKeyMan enables you to setup keyboard hotkeys for commonly used tasks like minimizing windows, opening documents and running applications. You can also send keystrokes to the active window and capture a snapshot of the desktop or active window and save it to JPG or BMP format.

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CRP (Control Running Programs) is a small utility that continuously scans running processes on your computer. It enables you to prevent the launch of multiple instances of the same executable and can also automatically re-launch a program that has been closed. CRP can be configured to start automatically with Windows and you can also start or stop the control engine at any time from the tray icon.

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Idle Background is a new software program that will change your desktop background to specific images listed on the main window. The images are picked out of the list every minute (or whatever time your specify) and are changed and set to either Tile, Centre or Stretch. The program will keep looping through the list until you stop the program. Previews of the wallpapers you wish to use are available and extra tools to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Idle background will sit in the system tray while its running, ensuring that it does not clutter your desktop. You can save your images used as lists, which means that you can have several lists of wallpapers to use, allowing you to switch whenever you get bored of your current wallpapers.

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Question: What are Codecs and why do I need them?

Answer: A codec is a device or program capable of performing encoding and decoding on a digital data stream or signal. In plain English I'd put it this way: a codec is a particular way of compressing audio and video files to save space.

The best known example of a codec is MP3. It compresses bulky audio files such as WAV to much smaller MP3 files.

All codecs involve a trade off between the amount of compression and the resultant quality. If you compress too much the quality loss may become intolerable. Information scientists are always coming up with smarter ways to get more compression with less quality loss. That's one of the reasons why there are so many codecs and it's also why newer ones will keep popping up.

So why is this important to you as a computer user? Because to play an audio or video file that has been compressed by a particular codec you need the corresponding codec on your PC in order to decompress the file and play it.

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