Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 57 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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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 | 11 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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TubeMaster Plus: download any media file from (almost) any site
October 14, 2008 – 6:09 am | 40 Comments

TubeMaster Plus ScreenshotTubeMaster Plus is a free tool that can download streaming video and audio files from almost any media sharing site, including sites with anti-leeching protection. TubeMaster Plus also can convert downloaded videos to several formats, offers a video search function across multiple video sources, and offers a downloadble audio mp3 search function.

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TED: find and download your favorite TV shows
October 10, 2008 – 7:44 am | 14 Comments

TED screenshot - main interfaceTED (Torrent Episode Downloader) is a free tool that can find episodes of almost any TV show for downloading using a torrent client. It’s database of torrent sources is updated periodically to include new shows, and the program allows users to search for and add any shows that are not listed.

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Satsuki Decoder Pack: open any media file from any app with this nifty decoder pack
September 23, 2008 – 8:11 pm | 19 Comments

Satsuki Decoder Pack Screenshot - control panelSatsuki Decoder Pack auto-installs a collection of media decoders and filters on your system. It will allow you to view or open almost any media file or DVD using the enclosed Windows Media Player Classic or from within any other application. In order to avoid conflicts and clutter this pack does not include codecs, only decoders and filters.

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RichFLV: free tool to merge, cut, and manipulate FLV video
September 9, 2008 – 5:34 am | 14 Comments

RichFLV ScreenshotRichFLV is a free Adobe Air tool that performs a number of operations on FLV video files, including merging files, extracting sections from larger FLVs, exporting audio as FLV or MP3, converting to SWF, extracting individual frames to image files, and defining cue-points and metadata. Operations can be performed on the whole video or user-defined sub-sections.

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Totally free burner: simple yet powerful CD/DVD burning
August 11, 2008 – 10:14 pm | 29 Comments

Totally Free Burner Screenshot1Totally Free Burner is a CD/DVD burner with a nice, minimalistic interface and an excellent range of features.

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Debut Video Capture: video-record screen activity and/or capture video from external devices
August 5, 2008 – 9:05 pm | 12 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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