AMI GIF Construction Set Pro is the world's most widely-used Windows GIF animator. Assemble, edit, optimize animations and create transparent GIF files. It features Animation Wizard, Transitions, Supercompressor, documentation, tutorials, LED Signs, Spin, Banners, Buttons and more. Software from Alchemy Mindworks lets you use the features you require without the rest getting in your way. Download a fully-functional evaluation copy and try it out.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2004-01-01
• Size: 5 Mb
• Cost: 25.00 $

Convert SWF flash movies into 32-bit RGBA AVI video with transparency (alpha channel). Also capable of converting flash into MPEG, VideoCD, DVD, NTSC, PAL, audio and Video compression codecs are supported (DivX, xDiv, mp3 and other) Includes full featured flash extractor (extract from Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, YouTube, Google Video etc) with streaming video extraction support.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2007-08-25
• Size: 10 Mb
• Cost: 45.00 $

TrayList is a popular plug-in for WinAmp that gives you the power of hotkeys, hothits, media organizer, on screen display (OSD) and statistics features. The program also enables users to set any transparency level for WinAmp with old skins. Another great feature is a logarithmic scale to set the desired level of the sound colume and autoplay feature that starts the song right from the place where you exited WinAmp last time.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, French, Russian
• Release: 2006-04-01
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 19.95 $

Scan files,folders and hard drives and extract hidden icons and bitmaps contained in program files (EXE, DLL, OCX and other PE-executable), icon libraries and other types of files. Create multiformat icons from image files, convert icons into images (GIF, PNG, JPEG and BMP formats). Batch creation and convertion icons and images. Supports Windows XP® icons with Alpha channel, Drag&drop, recursive folder searching

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-12-06
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 19.95 $

Excellent database program for cataloguing your slide collection. Include slide thumbnails and full-sized images in the database - see all your slides on your PC. Prepare slideshows, talks and lectures using the light table. Search for slides using simple or complex criteria. Add your own database fields. View a slideshow on your PC. Print slide labels, list reports and contact sheets.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2001-03-05
• Size: 5 Mb
• Cost: 47.00 $

PhotoBlender is a very powerful and easy to use photo (.jpg image) transparency processing software. You can blend four layers - background color, background photo, top photo, and cover color - together and change the transparency of every layer to get different effects. You also can move the top photo to any position within the background photo. The transparency and movement can also be done automatically and at the same time.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2001-11-26
• Size: 0 B
• Cost: 15.00 $

WindowFX is a revolutionary new program that allows you to add an unprecedented number of special effects to windows. Add drop shadows, morphing and more.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2002-09-30
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 19.95 $

Excellent database program for cataloguing your slide collection. Include slide thumbnails and full-sized images in the database - see all your slides on your PC. Prepare slideshows, talks and lectures using the light table. Search for slides using simple or complex criteria. Add your own database fields. View a slideshow on your PC. Print slide labels, list reports and contact sheets. For lending libraries - multi-user, event logging, barcoding.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2001-03-05
• Size: 6 Mb
• Cost: 303.00 $

aeroFox is a transparent web browser for Windows . Yes! you can adjust the transparency of aeroFox windows to see the windows behind. It supports multilayer transparency also . .It has a cool glass like look and feel.It runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003/MCE/Vista and most NT based operating systems . aeroFox - created developed by Vivek Narayanan.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2007-12-20
• Size: 679 Kb
• Cost: Free

SD WinHider: Instantly hide and restore your windows using keyboard or by fast mouse click (with left and right key together); Hide and restore system tray (shell notification area) icons of any application (like ICQ, MSN etc.); Disguise any window by changing it's title or even by changing window icon; Change the transparency of any window; Hide own window as well as optionally own system tray icon.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-08-12
• Size: 407 Kb
• Cost: 16.95 $

WinSnap is a small enhancement utility for taking and editing screenshots. Standard features include easy capture of non-rectangular windows with customized and transparent backgrounds, simple and automatic canvas transformations, coloring effects, and the addition of eye-candy drop shadows. WinSnap supports a variety of image formats and has advanced auto-save features.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Chinese, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
• Release: 2008-03-18
• Size: 487 Kb
• Cost: 24.90 $

Wallpaper Sequencer is a state-of-the-art wallpaper manager for Windows. Use this tool to create collections of your favorite wallpapers and automatically change them on each Windows startup or at specified time intervals. Other Wallpaper Sequencer features include support for Windows XP visual themes, ability to control wallpapers with hotkeys etc.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Arabic, ChineseSimplified, Czech, Danish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Yiddish, Lithuanian
• Release: 2006-07-21
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 14.95 $

SkinCalc, which is completely free, features standard and advanced calculator functionality, a spreadsheet interface, and skins. Skins make it possible to change the layout and functionality of the software, with effects that include non-rectangular shapes, user-configurable transparency and alpha channel translucency. More than 100 skins are available from the sites listed at skincalc.com, which also has instructions to create your own skins.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, German, Italian
• Release: 2005-01-04
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: Free

Wallpaper Sequencer is a state-of-the-art wallpaper manager for Windows. Semi-transparent wallpaper calendar with various skins. Use this tool to create collections of your favorite wallpapers and eutomatically change them on each Windows startup or at specified time intervals. Other Wallpaper Sequencer features include support for Windows XP visual themes, ability to control wallpapers with hotkeys etc.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Arabic, ChineseSimplified, Czech, Danish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Yiddish, Bulgarian, Hebrew, Norsk, Svenska, Dutch, Catalan, Lithuanian
• Release: 2006-07-20
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 19.95 $

Create or modify drawings and animations. Easy to use. Award winning software. Read, write many formats (photo and animation as well as vector: JPG, BMP, EMF, WMF, PNG, and more). Includes clipart, fonts, wizards. Easy line/curve drawing; full transparency, blend, and fill features, all anti-aliased; animation (onion skinning, backgrounds, overlays, frame management); etc. FREE. Registration required.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2003-01-10
• Size: 7 Mb
• Cost: Free

AlphaXP is a powerful system enhancement that adds advanced transparency effects to any Windows 2000/XP computer. AlphaXP sports tons of powerful features (two smooth Fade Effects that creates strikingly beautiful eye-candy, the power to control all transparency, and much more), completely customizable, user-friendly interface, great help and more! Get more info and see pictures of this five-star award-winning software at www.zeroherosoftware.com

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-08-27
• Size: 1020 Kb
• Cost: 14.95 $

Glass Window 2 is a Freeware Software that allows you to apply a transparency effect to any window/program such as Taskbar, instant messengers, DOS Window, Calculator, etc. in Windows XP / 2000 / 2003 / VISTA, control the level of transparency up to 30 levels and eliminate it at any time with just a single "click, dragging & drop". Integration with msn/Live Messenger (Now you can automate transparency of the chat windows conversation)

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish
• Release: 2007-06-12
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: Free

Beautiful popular analog clock for your Windows desktop. It supports many features like antialiasing, transparency and mouse-over transparency, skins with alphablending, click through, customizable priority, autoload, alarms, multiple languages, calendar and more. Standard version contains 31 skins, full version available at ClocX homepage contains almost 300 skins.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Tur
• Release: 2007-07-26
• Size: 941 Kb
• Cost: Free

Program to read/set position & text; change transparency,hiding&active state, view all coordinates, class name selected & parent window via Handle. New version: Allows to change "stay on top" status by handle.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2003-10-10
• Size: 606 Kb
• Cost: Free

Translucator is a Photoshop-compatible plug-in for Windows. It extracts translucent objects (glass, smoke, fog, fur etc.) from images having complex background content with the minimum efforts. Result may be used for collage, scrabboking and greeting card creation. You do not need accurately draw out an object. Mark translucent area and press Apply. The background removing is adjusted by moving a slider. There are addition tools for result tuning

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-10-23
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: 29.95 $