Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 81 Comments

There is an impressive range of excellent freeware Windows enhancements and tweaks. This posting will present forty three excellent additions to Windows that you will like.

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MakeItOne MP3 Album Maker: merge MP3s into a single file while maintaining the ability to revert back to the original files
January 21, 2010 – 12:50 am | 3 Comments

MakeItOne MP3 Album Maker ScreenshotMakeItOne MP3 Album Maker is a free app that can merge multiple MP3s while maintaining full reversibility (the ability to unpack/split the file into its original constituents at any later point). Merged files can be played on any player and MakeItOne and can preserve and edit the audio file tags and add album art as well. It can also unpack audio files packed by the Albumwrap shareware app which are commonly found on the net.

Possible uses are up to your imagination, and include merging disparate chapters or parts of an audiobook into a single file, archiving and organizing albums, and creating a single file for easier publishing or sharing on the net.

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IpodMe: Ipod video converter that is reliable, portable, and lightweight
February 17, 2009 – 8:31 am | 22 Comments

iPodMe ScreenshotIPodMe is a free, open source program that can convert video into MP4 format suitable for iPod or iPhone playback. It is a portable, single executable which contains all the filters and codecs needed for it to do its job.

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Taksi: screen-recording app that captures 3D-rendered graphics
January 8, 2009 – 1:11 am | 6 Comments

Taksi screenshotTaksi is a free video/screen recording tool that can capture 3D graphics applications such as games. It will record any Windows application that uses DirectX 8, DirectX 9, OpenGL or GDI and create an AVI file using any type of codecs that are installed on your system (or capture frames to PNG/BMP). Audio capture is not yet implemented.

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Automen: a small yet brilliant video converter
October 30, 2008 – 5:11 am | 24 Comments

Automen Screenshot1Automen is a free GUI for Mencoder that can perform video conversions across multiple formats and encoders. It supports XviD (for AVI encoding), FLV, X264 (MP4 for Ipod/PSP/PS3), WMV, MPEG4, MPEG2, and Huffyuv and is designed to be simple and straightforward for quick video conversion.

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DVDnextCOPY iTurns Manager: create DRMS free copies of your iTunes songs
October 28, 2008 – 4:59 am | 12 Comments

DVDneXTCOPY iTurns Manager ScreenshotDVDnextCOPY iTurns Manager is a free program that can convert iTunes DRMS protected tracks to normal unprotected MP3s. It installs a virtual CD-writer driver and takes advantage of the option to burn tracks to CD in iTunes in order to capture and re-encode protected audio files to normal MP3s.

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Mp3splt-gtk: powerful MP3 and OGG file splitting utility
October 15, 2008 – 4:29 am | 10 Comments

mp3splt-gtk screenshotMp3splt-gtk is a free multi-platform tool that can split large MP3 or OGG files without re-encoding. It offers a number of different ways to do this, including autodetecting silences, using a a local CDDB or CUE file, and downloading album and track length info from freedb.org . Other options include splitting by fixed time segments and unwrapping Albumwrap or MP3wrap files.

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Debut Video Capture: video-record screen activity and/or capture video from external devices
August 5, 2008 – 9:05 pm | 14 Comments

Debut ScreenshotDebut Video Capture is a free video recording software that can capture video and audio from any USB device, and can also record anything that is displayed on-screen such as a video that is playing or a user’s visible on-screen activity. Supports a wide variety of output formats and encoders.

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Four Mini Reviews: SimplyZip, DP MediaInfo, IndexMaker, and UPXG
July 29, 2008 – 7:10 pm | 6 Comments

SimplyZip Screenshotthis posting will provide a number of mini-reviews for freeware programs written by the amazing Dirk Paehl: SimplyZip, DP MediaInfo, IndexMaker, and UPXG.

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BitRipper: convert DVDs to AVI or Mpeg with a single click
April 25, 2008 – 8:26 pm | 34 Comments

BitRipper ScreenshotBitRipper is an integrated DVD ripping and conversion program that provides AVI or Mpeg creation from DVDs in a single step.

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Convert videos to flash FLV and SWF with “Flash This!”
March 19, 2008 – 4:33 pm | 13 Comments

flashthis screenshotFlash this! is a small, free tool that can convert video files to flash (both FLV and SWF).

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