Side Effects Software, an industry leader in 3D animation and visual effects software, announce the release of Houdini 13 which introduces a finite element solver for bending and tearing FX, a new multi-threaded particle architecture integrated into Houdini’s existing dynamics context and a new lighting workflow to efficiently handle massive datasets.

xRecode II - a program to convert audio files and extract audio tracks for the following types of files (total 54): mp3, wma, ogg, FLAC, APE, WV (WavPack), cue, flv, swf, aiff, 3gp, aac, wmv, dts , amr, mp2, ac3, mpc, mid, cue, tta, tak, wav, m4a, m4b, mp4, ra, rm, avi, mpg, vob, mkv, mov, ofr,DIVx, m4v, spx, 3g2, m2v , m4v, ts, m2ts, adts, shn, tak, xm, mod, s3m, it, mtm, umx. The resulting file may be selected from the following list: mp3, wav, ogg, wma, APE, FLAC, WavPack (WV), ac3, mp4 (using NeroAAC), ofr, raw, mpc, mp2, m4a, alac, Speex, aiff and Shorten. The program supports command line with the specified parameters.

Protected Folder is a folder / file locker which protects user's privacy and important data from theft, loss or leaks. To lock folder and file, just drag and drop them into Protected Folder's safety box and you can hide and protect them from being viewed or modified. Protected Folder is an ideal folder locker if you are concerned with the security of you private or important data.

SAP2000 is general-purpose civil-engineering software ideal for the analysis and design of any type of structural system. Basic and advanced systems, ranging from 2D to 3D, of simple geometry to complex, may be modeled, analyzed, designed, and optimized using a practical and intuitive object-based modeling environment that simplifies and streamlines the engineering process.

FWsim is an efficient and useful tool that helps you to easily create and personalize your own fireworks. You can combine any components (e.g. bursting charges, burning stars, tails, crackling and ascent effects) to build almost any pyrotechnic article. You can create HD videos from your fireworks (e.g. for YouTube).

X-Files Components package contains a full set of advanced visual components designed for Delphi 5, 6, 7, 8, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, XE, XE2, XE3, XE4 and C++Builder 5, 6, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, XE, XE2, XE3, XE4, XE5.

New Portrait software from ArcSoft makes it easy for photo professionals to enhance dozens of photos with a single click, increasing potential consumer sales and reducing staff reliance on complicated retouching applications. Portrait+TM from ArcSoft, a world leader in imaging technologies and applications, uses batch processing so photo labs and studios can make every single person in photos looks great, both quickly and easily.

Zortam Mp3 Media Studio is all-in-one Mp3 application that contains Mp3 ID3 Tag Organizer for searching and cataloguing Mp3 files into Mp3 library, editing ID3v1 and ID3v2.4 tags (ID3 Tag Editor-Mp3 Tag Editor), CD Ripper with album cover art/lyric support that uses CDDB (Internet Compact Disc Database) and automatically writes ID3v1 and ID3v2.4 tags. CD Ripper downloads album cover arts and lyrics from the interenet as you rip your CD (CD Ripper with lyric/cover art support), Mp3 Normalizer with custom volume level allows normalization of your Mp3's (Batch Mp3 Normalizer), search for song lyric from the internet (Batch Lyric Finder), search for album cover (album) arts (pictures) from the internet (Batch Cover Finder), batch lyrics and cover art finder from the internet (Batch Lyric-Cover Finder). Create lyric book in html format (cover pictures are included) from ID3v2 tags (Lyric Book), convert Wav to Mp3 files and Mp3 to Wav files (Wav/Mp3 Converter), manage M3u playlists (Playlist Manager), rename files using ID3 tags (Mp3 Renamer), search for duplicate Mp3 files, (Search Duplicate Mp3's). Play Mp3's using your favorite Mp3 player, add karaoke (Kar) and midi (Mid) files directly to ID3 tag (Karaoke Manager), and keep them together in Mp3 file and play either Mp3 or Kar file from the single Mp3 file.

FINE/Marine is an integrated CFD software environment for the simulation of mono-fluid and multi-fluid flows around any kind of ships, boats or yachts, including various types appendages. The powerful and customized graphical user interface drives the user into the whole simulation process and integrates marine-dedicated features with:

HEXPRESS/Hybrid is the latest of NUMECA's meshing tools designed for meshing complex geometries starting from unclean CAD data. The tool produces unstructured hex-dominant conformal meshes in parallel, including high quality viscous layers. The integrated automatic wrapping technology and the HoleSearcher allow the user to avoid the time spent on CAD cleaning and repairing, thus significantly reducing the engineering time spent on the generation of a mesh. This enables the user to obtain a mesh in a matter of hours instead of days/weeks.