Astro
Astro is a text effects creator for Macromedia Flash. Your text effect can be further spiced up by adding Flash background and foreground effects. There's a choice from more than 450 (!! ) text effects and over 80 other Flash effects. With the available additional effects plugins, Astro offers... There is no other Flash text effects program which will offer you such a large number of effects, or can even come close to it! ... Moreover, Astro can add background pictures and sound effects to your Flash file.
http://www.flaxfx.com/ASTRO/astrinst.exe - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot

FlaX
FlaX creates text effects for Macromedia Flash, and does that real-time! With its intuitive approach, it has raised the standards for Flash text effects. FlaX comes equipped with 122 predefined effects, subdivided into 51 highly adjustable effects, which the user can tweak using sliders and... Effects which were virtually impossible to create by hand in Flash have now become reality! ... FlaX makes use of user-friendly floating tool windows, which makes the creation of a special effect into a fun job.
http://www.flaxfx.com/DOWNLOAD/flaxinst.exe - 678Kb - Download - Screenshot

Mix-FX Flash Animations and Buttons
Mix and match your own effects with Mix-FX! Want to create amazing Flash TEXT EFFECTS, or FLASH BUTTONS, but don't have Macromedia Flash or don't know how to use it for complex animations? Don't worry, Mix- FX comes to your rescue. This simple-to-use program lets you create absolutely stunning... Customize effects by changing the settings and see the results immediately! ... It's a text and background effect animator. ... Take a look at some of the samples and see the incredible small files sizes yourself!
http://www.mix-fx.com/download/mixfx.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

J-Perk
J-Perk adds animations, dynamic buttons, slideshows, Javascript effects and DHTML scripts to your Web pages quickly and easily. It includes more than 55 special effects that are easily customizable to make your Web pages come alive! J-Perk's Special Effects wizards step you through the creation... J-Perk special effects include animations, slideshows, rotating banners, Dynamic Buttons, Status Bar Text Ticker, Typewriter Text, Swirly Text, Image Fader, Rotating Image Cube, Fading Messages, Dropdown menus, Personalized Web pages, Background Color Fade in/Fade out and many more!
http://highspeed1.movedigital.com:...movedigital/temp/524199/jperk.exe - 8Mb - Download - Screenshot

Desktop Icon Toy
Desktop Icon Toy is a desktop icon enhancement tool that allows you to manage your windows desktop icons. Currently, there are most of similar tools, such as make desktop icon backgrounds transparent, arrange desktop icons. But none of them can animate desktop icons, add hover effects to desktop... Hover Effects You can add visual effects when mouse hover desktop icons, like dance icon, shake icon text and blink icon text. ... Remove Icon Texts You can remove the classic ugly text of desktop icons, optional, instead of a cool pop-up tooltip.
http://www.idesksoft.com/DesktopIconToy.exe - 395Kb - Download - Screenshot

Astro Components, Flash Text Effects
Astro Components, text effect plugins used directly in . fla files (Macromedia Flash MX / Flash MX Professional 2004 / Flash 8). Astro Components contain over over 400 predefined text effect variations. Astro Components can be used by users of any skill-level, offering use from basic drag&drop... For experienced users custom modifications can quickly be done, like adding a simple bevel, creating sequential triggering of effects, use of attachMovie to dynamically place effects at runtime and loading text by PHP from database for site-wide use in thousands of pages tree-deep independent.
http://www.patrickjansen.net/components/trial/ASTRO_TRIAL.zip - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot

Power Pack, Flash MX Text Effects
PJ and Supreme 4 components Version 2, text effect plugins used directly in . fla files (Macromedia Flash MX / Flash MX Professional 2004 / Flash 8). Version 2 contain over over 800 predefined text effect variations. PJ and S4 can be used by users of any skill-level, offering use from basic... For experienced users custom modifications can quickly be done, like adding a simple bevel, creating sequential triggering of effects, use of attachMovie to dynamically place effects at runtime and loading text by PHP from database for site-wide use in thousands of pages tree-deep independent.
http://www.patrickjansen.net/components/trial/PJ_S4_TRIAL.zip - 6Mb - Download - Screenshot

SWFText
SWFText is an author tool of Flash text animation. It embraces 160+ text effects and 30+ background effects, and users may also customize all the properties of a Flash, including font, text color, and layout, etc. With SWFText, a user without any experience of Flash development can easily create... Better animation effect is achieved by flexible grouping of 160+ text effects and 30+ background effects. ... Even a user without any experience of Flash development can easily create various complicated Flash text animation effects.
http://www.antssoft.com/download/swftext.zip - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

EWMedia play ActiveX
It can help you to develop a cool video/audio playback system. The EWMedia movie player ActiveX include aspect ratio control,Scrolling banner text on video. It can SnapShot From Movie File and save it to BMP file. It have full sound control and include good audio Equalizer(EQ 10 segment) to easy... Other,It have 12 image effects and 9 audio effects. ... User can select video effect or audio effect when playing. ... It also show sound signal when playing.
http://www.ewcad.com/mplay.exe - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot

Font-Effects
Text creation tool that produces graphics for use in presentations and on the Web. You can deform the text and use textures. Use shadow and edge effects to make the text look fantastic! You can also add a border and a background texture. The result can be printed or saved.
http://www.cadkas.de/font!.exe - 775Kb - Download - Screenshot