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Fences by Stardock
Fences™ is a program that helps you organize your desktop and can hide your icons when they’re not in use. A “Fence”, a term coined by this program, is an icon group on your desktop. Fences is an add-on to your desktop, not a replacement.
Basic Features
Rope off your desktop
Fences allows you to create shaded areas on your desktop that you can place icons in. You can label them however you wish, and move/resize them anywhere on the desktop. Pre-included layouts help speed the process for new users.
See your wallpaper again! Quickly hide & show all your icons with an easy double-click
Double click blank space on your desktop, and all your icons will fade out. Double click again, and they’ll return. We think this feature is so useful, we’re applying for a patent on it. And with the upcoming Fences FeaturePack / included in the community preview, you can even pick icons and individual Fences to exclude. Download
FreeFileSync
FreeFileSync is an Open-Source folder comparison and synchronization tool. It is used for fast and easy configurable sync operations between two folders without restricted or overloaded UI interfaces. Download
Some Key Features
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1. Compare files (bytewise or by date) and synchronize them.
2. No limitations: An arbitrary number of files can be synchronized.
3. Unicode support.
4. Network support.
5. Lean & easy accessible UI: Highly optimized for speed and huge sets of data.
6. Algorithms coded in C++ completely.
7. Progress indicators are updated only every 100ms for optimal performance!
8. Subfolders are also synchronized, including empty folders.
9. Support for multiple folder pairs
10. Delete before copy: Avoid disc space shortages with large sync-operations.
PDFedit
Free editor for PDF documents. Complete editing of PDF documents is possible with PDFedit. You can change raw pdf objects (for advanced users) or use many gui functions. Functionality can be easily extended using a scripting language (ECMAScript). Download
UBCD 4 Windows
Ultimate boot CD 4 Windows. The best CD to have with you at all times.
Make your XP look like Win7
Source: NiwradSoft introduces “Seven Remix XP”
Version 1.0 Feb, 11 2009
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This installer is designed to work on the following operating systems and languages:
– Windows XP (Home, Pro, RTM, SP1, SP2, SP3, Corporate)- Windows 2003 (Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, RTM, SP1)- Windows Media Center Edition (2003, 2004, 2005)- Windows XP Tablet PC Edition- All Language Versions- Does NOT work with 64 bit versions of Windows!
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Este instalador esta diseñado para trabajar en los siguientes sistemas operativos e idiomas:
– Windows XP (Home, Pro, RTM, SP1, SP2, SP3, Corporate)- Windows 2003 (Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, RTM, SP1)- Windows Media Center Edition (2003, 2004, 2005)- Windows XP Tablet PC Edition- All Language Versions- Does NOT work with 64 bit versions of Windows!
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What is WinSplit Revolution?
What is it for? WinSplit Revolution is a small utility which allows you to easily organize your open windows by tiling, resizing and positioning them to make the best use of your desktop real estate.
What can it do? WinSplit is especially useful for high-end LCD screens with high resolutions because it helps you to efficiently manage many active windows. For example WinSplit is useful for owners of the Dell 2407FPW monitor. As you can see in the screenshots below, the advantages of using WinSplit is that it saves you from having to drag and drop windows by allowing you to snap windows into specific tiled configurations using simple keyboard hotkeys.
WinSplit Revolution is freeware. Some Rights Reserved.
This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Use
Modern day monitors continually provide higher resolutions and for this reason I developed a simple program that permits you to “divide” your screen into several parts: halves, thirds, fourths, etc…
For instance, a window can be resized and moved to the left half, the right half, the top, a corner… of the screen.
Once the program is launched, an icon appears in the system tray:
To affect a window in a zone of your desktop, by default just use the pop-up frame (virtual numpad) or hotkeys on your keyboard, which are by default: Ctrl+Alt+numpad.
The window’s positioning respects the numeric keypad scheme. Typically: “Ctrl + Alt + 1” corresponds to “bottom-left”.
See the help page for other compliant functions that have been achieved.
Windows Movie Maker 2.6 available for Vista, Windows 7
Windows Movie Maker 2.6 available for Vista, Windows 7
Filed under: Fun, Video, Windows, Microsoft, Freeware, Windows x64
If you've been waiting for an updated version to appear, you're in luck.
Microsoft has made version 2.6 of Movie Maker available for download, and it runs on both Windows Vista and Windows 7. While advanced users are likely using a more sophisticated video editing program, there's no denying that Movie Maker is an excellent, full-featured option for the average home user.
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Blank Canvas Manages Multiple Gmail Signatures [Firefox]
Blank Canvas Manages Multiple Gmail Signatures [Firefox]
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Blank Canvas is a handy little signature manager that automatically inserts HTML signatures into your Gmail messages based on which email address you're sending from.
The extension supports up to four unique signatures for each address you've designated. Signatures are automatically inserted in both new messages and in replies and forwards. If you'd prefer to use a Greasemonkey script to manage your signatures instead of an extension, make sure to check out Gmail Multiple Signatures and GMail Signature Float. If you have another technique for managing signatures—Gmail or otherwise—we'd love to hear about it in the comments.
Extract Audio from Videos, and convert them to other Audio Formats
Extract Audio from Videos, and convert them to other Audio Formats
An application to convert the audio file formats to other, or an application to extract the Audio file from a video, or trimming the audio and video files to get your favorite part of music as an ring tone or for any other purpose is something we all need at some point of time, here is a nice application built especially for serving such needs.
This application named as Any Audio Converter allows you to make such conversions easily. Once downloaded and installed, conversion of audios files to other formats and extracting audio files can be done easily. Using this Application you can convert and extract audio files to formats like MP3, Windows Media Audio (wma), AAC Audio (aac), OOG Vorbis Audio (oog) etc.
Every conversion and Extraction is a 3 step process with Any Audio Converter.
Step 1 : Select audio files
Choose and queue-up the files Audio files (to convert them to other audio formats or to trim) and Video Files (to extract the full file in Audio or to get trimmed Audio file).
Step 2 : Encoding
This step is to start the encoding; the best part of this step is it has options which can be used to achieve desired quality in the output file. Here you can choose the Bitrate (what is Bitrate?), Samplerate (What is Samplerate?), and Number of Audio Channel.
Trimming and Enhancing options
Here we also have the preview window to set the proper trims.
Step 3 : Output Folder
Finally decide the Output Folder and start the conversion by clicking the recently activated button ‘Start Encoding’, you can also schedule a shutdown if you have queued up many files for conversions.
Encoded Recording Output Folder
Now, another very simple solution for conversion is Jet Audio, which allows you to make such conversions even while using its basic version, but the encoding options in this software are more than those available in Jet Audio.
Jet audio Convert Video to MP3
Here you can see, while trying to extract Audio File from a Video (MKV format), the only available encoding Option is Bitrate.
Any Audio Converter definitely is a nice choice for conversions, works fine, is fast and simple enough. Give it a try and tell us if you know about any other options for such conversion. Download Any Video Converter (first download link on the page)
Free Audio Editor Does Powerful Music Editing With Ease [Downloads]
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Free Audio Editor Does Powerful Music Editing With Ease [Downloads]
Windows only: Advanced audio editing tool Free Audio Editor handles your music and sound editing with an attractive, streamlined, and easy-to-use interface.
The application handles common audio formats (from MP3 and WMA to WAV and OGG) and boasts a rich set of features: Batch processing, recording, CD ripping/burning, and text-to-speech make this application worth a look for anybody that needs to do some quick audio editing without paying for a commercial application.
Of course, no audio editing post would be complete without mentioning the also-free, cross-platform, and open-source Audacity, useful for anything from removing vocals to creating ringtones from any MP3.
Free Audio Editor is a free download for Windows only.
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