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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BB Flashback Express: powerful, free screen-recording program
May 5, 2009 – 9:01 am | 12 Comments

BB FlashBack screenshot - 3D graphicsBB Flashback Express is a free screen recording program that can capture your PC’s screen, sound, and webcam video and supports capturing graphics/animations, including 3D graphics. It offers a high degree of control over your video (output resolution, quality, file size, recording modes, mouse autoscroll, and cursor highlighting effects). Saves resulting files as either FLV’s, AVI’s or SWF’s, and offers the ability to easily upload videos to YouTube or embed them inside a webpage.

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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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UHAnimation: three animated shorts from the University of Hertfordshire’s digital animation program
January 16, 2009 – 12:22 pm | 3 Comments

world war croppedIf you are interested in some very cool short animated films check out the Film Page on the University of Hertforshire’s digital animation program (also check out their page on Vimeo). These films are made by students as graduation projects and are really very impressive.

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Radiohead in Japan: an interactive video experience
January 13, 2009 – 1:53 am | 2 Comments

Radiohead Interactive this page, set up by Japanese TV station Wowow offers an interactive experience of a live Radiohead performance of their track “15 Step” during the group’s 2008 Japanese tour. It allows you to remix the video in real time using pixellized flash video streams captured from 12 different points-of-view, and to generate your own custom mix of the live performance.

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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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TubeMaster Plus: download any media file from (almost) any site
October 14, 2008 – 6:09 am | 41 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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