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[UPDATE] M3U Dropper V0.592
M3U Dropper creates, imports, and organizes playlist files that take selections from an audio/video collection and put them in an order of your choice. This is useful for example in creating a mix of songs or videos with a specific mood or purpose. As the name suggests, the program creates M3U files which are used in most software players (Winamp, Foobar, etc.) and some hardware players.
Although other programs can generate these files, M3U Dropper can use a more portable method of relative pathways.
A 64-bit version is also available for download from the website.
Note: according to the author, Windows Media Player and VLC support playlists with "mixed media," or both audio and video.
Posted on 7 September 2010 | 10:46 pm
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[UPDATE] Balabolka V1.34.0.473
Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program that supports Microsoft SAPI4/5. It is able to read text from the clipboard or from DOC, RTF, PDF, ODT, FB2 and HTML files. Other features include skinning, global hotkeys etc. Balabolka lets you fine tune various voice parameters, including rate and pitch. A substitution list can also be applied to improve the quality of the voice's articulation. Balabolka can also save the synchronized text in external LRC files or in MP3 tags inside the audio files. When the audio file is played with players on a computer or on modern digital audio players, the text are displayed synchronously (in the same way as lyrics for songs).
Posted on 7 September 2010 | 4:13 pm
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[UPDATE] SniffPass V1.12
SniffPass is a small password monitoring software that listens to your network, capturing the passwords that pass through your network adapter and display them instantly. SniffPass captures passwords using the 'Raw Socket' method. It is able to determine the following Protocols: POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, FTP, and HTTP (basic authentication passwords).
Posted on 7 September 2010 | 11:58 am
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[UPDATE] NK2Edit V1.40
NK2Edit is a Microsoft Outlook tool to edit "auto-complete" entries. Auto-complete is a useful feature to automatically suggest items based on the first few letters of the recipient, but over time can gather invalid or unwanted contacts. The name comes from the .N2K file extension Outlook saves this email list to.
Posted on 7 September 2010 | 11:56 am
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[UPDATE] XnView V1.97.7
XnView is a customizable image viewer and converter that supports more than 400 graphics formats. Includes the ability to cache thumbnails to a temp folder (some image viewers that insist on writing the cache file to every image folder that you access).
In addition, XnView supports batch processing or applying filters (eg. soften, then resize, then add frame etc.) XnView is also able to use Photoshop's 8bf plugins.
Alternately, Portable XnView is also available.
Posted on 7 September 2010 | 7:57 am
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[UPDATE] Directory Compare V3.35.1
Directory Compare is a utility to help you keep copies of your important directories (documents, programs under development and so on) in a backup harddisk or any other storage system (like 100Mb diskettes). The backup may be made automatically (in unattended mode) or by using a friendly user interface.
Posted on 7 September 2010 | 2:53 am
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[NEW] TTSReader V1.30
TTSReader is a software program that allows the user to read any on-screen text aloud, using a variety of voices. Other features include outputting to WAV or MP3 audio files, pronunciation corrections, monitoring the clipboard, etc. TTSReader supports all SAPI4 and SAPI5 voices. Non-English language voices will work with TTSReader, however these are not officially supported.
Posted on 7 September 2010 | 12:50 am
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[UPDATE] Back4Sure V3.0.1
Back4Sure is a feature-rich backup solution for typical backup use. The program can make a backup to hard-disk, USB drive or network and can also be compressed using high or low compression settings to a ZIP or 7-zip file of various compression levels, as well as encrypted for security.
Other features include filters to backup or exclude specific file types, a cleanup mode to remove old archives, and creation of one or multiple zip files (separated by directory structure). Backups are saved by directory structure either inside the archive or inside the directory for easy restoring. Users can also use multiple settings profiles, or "job" files.
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 4:29 pm
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[UPDATE] VirtuaWin V4.3
VirtuaWin is a highly customizable virtual desktop manager that lets you organize applications over a two or more "desktops" with their own separate windows and applications (also called "workspaces"). The program can reduce distractions or help organize a cluttered desk space with too many windows open.
Note that a beta is available on the SourceForge download site that attempts to fix issues in Windows 7.
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 12:28 pm
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[UPDATE] MediaInfo V0.7.35
MediaInfo provides a great deal of technical and tag information from audio/video files. It features many different layouts to display the information, as well as the ability to create custom layouts as well. Can be used to find missing codecs or just to get all the information you'd need from a multimedia file.
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 12:19 pm
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[UPDATE] WirelessNetView V1.30
WirelessNetView is a small utility that runs in the background, and monitor the activity of wireless networks around you. For each detected network, it displays the following information: SSID, Last Signal Quality, Average Signal Quality, Detection Counter, Authentication Algorithm, Cipher Algorithm, MAC Address, RSSI, Channel Frequency, Channel Number, and more.
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 6:07 am
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[UPDATE] TrueCrypt V7.0a
TrueCrypt creates virtual encrypted disks within a file and mounts the file as a real disk. It can also encrypt an entire hard disk partition or device, such as USB memory stick, floppy disk, etc. It supports a range of high-security 256-bit encryption algorithms, including AES, Serpent, and Twofish. For even higher security, these can be combined (e.g. Serpent + Twofish) in the event that one of the algorithms are eventually cracked.
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 6:05 am
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[UPDATE] PAST V2.03
PAST (PAlaeontological STatistics) is a data analysis package aimed at paleontology. Inspired by PALSTAT, it includes common statistical, plotting and modeling functions. It features a spreadsheet-like data entry form, and supports both interactive user interface and scripting.
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 6:00 am
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[UPDATE] DreamMail V4.6.8.0
DreamMail is a skinnable email client. It supports email templates, anti-spam filter, Webmail support (Yahoo Mail and Hotmail) and advanced mail search. It is also able to function as a RSS feed reader.
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 5:56 am
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[UPDATE] Portable Application Launcher V2.5.2
Portable Application Launcher is organizes shortcuts into groups and categories and can be accessed via the system tray. It is capable of automatically installing and adding PortableApp's PAF-format files, as well as many entries that do not require Universal Extractor here on PortableFreeware. It also includes several extras not included in other launcher programs including a "most-used apps" menu, RSS reader, timer, drive usage meter, and more.
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 5:07 am
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[UPDATE] PhonerLite V1.79
PhonerLite is an SIP softphone for making and receiving VoIP calls. It supports multiple SIP profiles, integrated phone book and call logging.
Note: PhonerLite is a stripped-down version of Phoner, with a different but more user-friendly GUI. They use the same DLL and configuration data (sipper.ini) and can co-exist in the same folder.
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 2:42 pm
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[UPDATE] Phoner V2.52
Phoner is a softphone capable of placing/receiving VoIP calls through SIP. It also supports sending emails with built-in SMTP client, sending of SMS to mobile phones, recording of calls, answering mashine with remote enquiry etc.
Note: Phoner is a more powerful version of PhonerLite, with more features thrown in. They use the same DLL and configuration data (sipper.ini) and can co-exist in the same folder.
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 2:40 pm
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[UPDATE] JPdfBookmarks 2.4.1
JPdfBookmarks is an easy way to add/change/remove Bookmarks in PDF files using an intuitive interface. The program lets you page forward or backward or jump to pages and then either right-click or choose a button to assign bookmarks. Before you save the pdf file you can choose the pdf view, such as whether to have the bookmarks visible by default or not. You can also change how you want one or all bookmarks to look (bold or italic, colour).
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 2:38 pm
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[UPDATE] 3D Traceroute V2.4.40.7
3D Traceroute is a handy tool that is loaded with essential network utilities. Its most notable feature is plotting traceroute as a rotatable, zoomable 3-D graph. It also has a built-in network scanner, pinger, telnet client, connection viewer, atomic clock synchroniser, name server lookup and more.
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 2:32 pm
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[UPDATE] CrystalDiskInfo V3.8.0
CrystalDiskInfo monitors HDD/SSD health status and temperature, and does all the usual monitoring/graphing of S.M.A.R.T. information. It also tells you how many times the hard disk has been turned on and how many hours.
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 2:25 pm
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[UPDATE] CrystalDiskMark V3.0.0g
CrystalDiskMark is a disk benchmark software that measures performance for sequential reads/writes and random 4KB/512KB reads/writes for any storage device. It does not require the target device to be formatted.
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 2:20 pm
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[UPDATE] XMedia Recode V2.2.6.8
XMedia Recode is an audio/video converter. It converts most audio/video formats such as 3GP, DVD, AVI, MP4, WMV, ASF, etc. so that they can be played on popular mobiles devices/PDAs such as iPod, iPhone, Samsung, SonyEricsson, Zune, PSP, Blackberry, LG, etc.
Note that the website is in German, but the application supports English. Additionally, this program may or may not be in compliance with one or more licenses.
Posted on 3 September 2010 | 2:52 pm
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[UPDATE] Zback V2.20.0.b
Zback is a backup and synchronize tool with a small footprint. Copy modes include update files, refresh existing files, or mirror source to target and can be run manually, from batch/script, or from the command line. Users can filter files based on extension, size, date, subdirectories and preview their backup/sync before running.
Posted on 3 September 2010 | 1:24 pm
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[UPDATE] System Explorer V2.3.4
System Explorer is tool for accessing Windows OS internals. It can also be used as a Task Manager replacement with detailed information about processes, startup entries, explorer/IE addons, uninstallers, services, drivers, connections, opened files etc. It has a registry/file snapshot feature so that changes to the system can be computed and displayed in tree view or text list format.
Posted on 3 September 2010 | 1:22 pm
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VirtualDub 1.9.10
Tim Smith, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 7 September 2010 at 00:00:00 Popular & simple video editor Digital Video is becoming more and more popular and this small app is a great way to edit video quickly....  
Posted on 7 September 2010 | 7:00 pm
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Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.3
Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 7 September 2010 at 00:00:00 Minor refresh for the email client Thunderbird is a neat email client that has a small footprint and features some smart ways to stop junk mail....  
Posted on 7 September 2010 | 7:00 pm
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SUMo 2.10.0.95
Lee Collins, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 7 September 2010 at 10:31:00 Keep your installed software up-to-date Install software on your machine and you'll expect it has been through rigorous internal testing so there are few problems after installation....  
Posted on 7 September 2010 | 5:31 am
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Password Depot 5.2.1
Lee Collins, V3.co.uk, Monday 6 September 2010 at 00:00:00 Store & secure your Internet passwords This is the software publisher's description. Password Depot protects your important and confidential passwords from external access while offering maximum user-friendliness....  
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 7:00 pm
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EssentialPIM Free 3.72
Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Monday 6 September 2010 at 00:00:00 Personal information & task manager EssentialPIM is a free and multilingual personal information manager which includes three components: a calendar, note taker and contact manager....  
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 7:00 pm
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Auslogics Disk Defrag 3.1.8.155
Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Monday 6 September 2010 at 00:00:00 Defragment your hard drives This is the software publisher’s description. Hard disks are by far the slowest component in your computer, particularly if you’re a laptop user with a 2.5” drive....  
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 7:00 pm
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Synchredible Standard 3.005
Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Monday 6 September 2010 at 00:00:00 Synchronise files & folders across computers There are times when multiple people have access to a folder (or an area) on your network. However, whilst these users might be reading and writing files to this folder,...  
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 7:00 pm
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SmartWhois 5.0.251
Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Monday 6 September 2010 at 00:00:00 Lookup an IP address or domain Set up your own server and you’ll find that people are forever trying to hack in to the system. Whatever you do, they’ll attempt to find a backdoor....  
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 7:00 pm
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Uniblue SpeedUpMyPC 2010 (v4.2.7.4)
Paul Rowlingson, V3.co.uk, Monday 6 September 2010 at 00:00:00 Boost, optimise & tweak your PC SpeedUpMyPC is designed to optimise a PC's performance by reallocating and freeing resources where possible. Initially you are presented with an overview, informing you of such details as the OS,...  
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 7:00 pm
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ServersCheck 8.5.1
Lee Collins, V3.co.uk, Monday 6 September 2010 at 00:00:00 Check the status of a remote server This is the software publisher's description. Server-checking tool for monitoring, reporting and alerting on network, servers and other IT systems availability....  
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 7:00 pm
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Uniblue RegistryBooster 2010 v4.7.6.9
Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Monday 6 September 2010 at 00:00:00 Optimise & cleanse your system Registry This is the software publisher's description. Residual files, unused and undeleted drivers, and corrupt or bad entries in registry settings will quickly litter even the newest of computers....  
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 7:00 pm
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WinMount 3.4.0831
Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Monday 6 September 2010 at 00:00:00 Mount & manage your archives This is the software publisher's description. Powerful windows utility which is dedicated to managing compressed archives and image files impressively and conveniently....  
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 7:00 pm
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GoodSync 8.3.3.3
Tim Smith, V3.co.uk, Monday 6 September 2010 at 00:00:00 Sync files across computers and USB keys USB keys are very useful for transporting information but it can quickly become difficult to remember which files are the most up to date....  
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 7:00 pm
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WebShot 1.78
Lee Collins, V3.co.uk, Monday 6 September 2010 at 15:41:00 Quickly take a grab of a website This is the software publisher's description. WebShot enables you to take screenshots of web pages and save them as full sized images or thumbnails....  
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 10:41 am
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Uranium Backup Free 8.4.0
Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Monday 6 September 2010 at 11:36:00 Backup & restore your important files This is the software publisher's description. Uranium is lightweight and non intrusive software, constituted by only one executable file that includes all program's features.... 
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 6:36 am
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TeamViewer for Windows 5.0.9104
Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Monday 6 September 2010 at 11:09:00 Control a remote computer from your PC They say there’s nothing better than someone showing you how to perform a particular task. Back in the late 80s, this was how information about how to understand computers spread... 
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 6:09 am
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PureSync 2.6.10
Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Monday 6 September 2010 at 10:42:00 Sync remote files to & from your computer External web storage is available for next to nothing these days. One of my old basic email accounts originally shipped with 250MB of storage....  
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 5:42 am
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Task Coach 1.1.2
Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Monday 6 September 2010 at 10:31:00 Schedule a project & track tasks How many of us start a new project but do not bother to write down the tasks required to reach completion? If you’re a project leader, managing a development team,...  
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 5:31 am
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Google Earth 5.2.1
Rena Thirumalai, V3.co.uk, Friday 3 September 2010 at 00:00:00 Quickly view satellite maps of the Earth Google has brought technology and geography together in an application where you can zoom in on anywhere in the world at the click of a mouse....  
Posted on 3 September 2010 | 7:00 pm
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ImgBurn 2.5.2.0
Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Friday 3 September 2010 at 00:00:00 Create or burn ISO images Many Linux distributions and bootable recovery CDs ship as an industry-standard ISO image. An ISO image is a complete copy of an original CD (or a collection of files as... 
Posted on 3 September 2010 | 7:00 pm
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Songbird 1.8
Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Friday 3 September 2010 at 00:00:00 Play & manage web-based audio Songbird is developed by a band of experienced, dedicated software developers and designers called the ‘Pioneers of the Inevitable’. Previous software includes Winamp and the Yahoo! Music Engine....  
Posted on 3 September 2010 | 7:00 pm
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PC Tools Spyware Doctor 2011 (v8)
Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Thursday 2 September 2010 at 00:00:00 Major upgrade for the popular anti-spyware tool Spyware Doctor provides three-way spyware protection for your PC through real-time threat blocking, advanced system scanning and immunization against known browser infections....  
Posted on 2 September 2010 | 7:00 pm
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PC Tools Internet Security 2011 (v8)
Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Thursday 2 September 2010 at 00:00:00 Major update to the complete Internet security suite This is the software publisher's description. PC Tools Internet Security Suite is a complete Internet security suite that offers powerful Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, Firewall and Spam protection in one application....  
Posted on 2 September 2010 | 7:00 pm
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PC Tools Registry Mechanic 2011 (v10)
Chris Wiles, V3.co.uk, Thursday 2 September 2010 at 00:00:00 Major update to the popular Registry optimisation tool When you purchase a new PC, it is extremely fast, boots quicker than your previous machine and general computer use seems a lot more snappy....  
Posted on 2 September 2010 | 7:00 pm
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Orbit Downloader 4.0.0.3
Lee Collins, V3.co.uk, Thursday 2 September 2010 at 00:00:00 Download files, more quickly This is the software publisher's description. Orbit Downloader is a great speed, super light, easy-to-use free download manager. It is based on p2p and multi-source downloading technology and supports HTTP,...  
Posted on 2 September 2010 | 7:00 pm
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Ncesoft Flip Book Maker is an easy to use yet powerful 3d flipping book software that allows convert pdf to flipping book, create your own professional and gorgeous digital photo book etc.
 Ncesoft Flip Book Maker is an easy to use yet powerful 3d flipping book software that allows convert pdf to flipping book, create your own professional and gorgeous digital photo book, 3d flipping book, christmas flip book, kid flip book, wedding flip book, birthday flip book, flip album, video magazine.
With Flip Book Maker, you won’t need any flash programming skills, only import your photos, flv, swf, pdf, and then choose the theme templates from a variety of preset Flip Book Maker (such as birthday templates, wedding templates, holiday templates), the final publish.
Key features:
- Make real flash page flip effect digital photo album
- Support importing images, swf, video (flv), pdf format
- Support exporting swf, html, exe, screen saver, e-mail
- Add background music
- Add dynamic background
- Add scene effect
- Add title for book
- Change the size of flip book etc.
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Painfreepc's Freeware Picks
 K-Lite (Mega) Codec Pack is a collection of audio and video components for Microsoft Windows that enable the operating system and its software to play back various audio and video formats generally not supported by the operating system itself.
K-Lite Codec Pack also includes several related tools, including Media Player Classic, GSpot Codec Information Appliance and Codec Tweak Tool.
There are six different editions of K-Lite Codec Pack, all available free of charge:
1. Basic: The Basic edition is the smallest edition and enables a Microsoft Windows computer to play Matroska(MKV), MP4, Ogg and Adobe Flash video (FLV) files in addition to various types of AVI files. It only consists of ffdshow (for audio and video decoding), DirectVobSub (for subtitle decoding), Codec Tweak Tool and four other minor components. This edition does not come with Media Player Classic.
2. Standard: The Standard edition includes all features of the Basic edition plus a DVD Video decoder, Media Info Lite and Media Player Classic Homecinema. This editions enables DVD playback in Microsoft Windows. The author recommends this package for normal users.
3. Full: The Full edition includes 31 additional components and four additional tools in addition to those included in Standard edition and adds video encoding capabilities to Microsoft Windows PCs. However, no encoding or conversion tool is included in the package.
4. Corporate: The Corporate edition does not include 5 of the components included in Full edition and has a different DVD Video decoder component than the one that is present in Full edition. The author recommends this package for corporate environments.
5. Mega: The K-Lite Mega Codec Pack is a combination of K-Lite Codec Pack Full, Real Alternative and 14 other additional components not present in any other edition. Amongst these components, there is the original Media Player Classic (along with Media Player Classic Homecinema), GSpot Codec Information Appliance and FourCC Changer.
6. 64-bit: The 64-bit K-Lite Codec Pack is an independent package of 64-bit codecs that can be used with 64-bit players on a 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows and can co-exist side by side with one of the other editions.
Windows OS's - Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 to play AVIs, DVDs and more!
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 VLC media player, the core and main program, is a complete video solution that is a player, a live transcoder and a streamer.
The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework, player and server VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. See the full features list.
It can also be used as a media converter or a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.
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 ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!,
ImgBurn supports all the Windows OS's - Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7 (including all the 64-bit versions). If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes.
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 DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Converting and Authoring tool.
It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks, subtitles as well as a menu for easier navigation, Burn almost any video file to a playable DVD, Windows OS's - Windows 2000 Professional, or any edition of Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7
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 Quick Media Converter converts virtually any audio or video file from one format to another.
QMC is really just a graphical front end for the powerful command line tool, FFmpeg. But where FFmpeg takes some command line chops to use, Quick Media Converter couldn't be more simple. Just drag and drop a file you want to convert into the app, pick an output format, and let QMC and FFmpeg take care of the rest. It supports everything from DivX and Xvid to Xbox and iPhone output. Windows OS's - Windows All
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 eMule is a free peer-to-peer file sharing application. Started in May 2002 as an alternative to eDonkey2000.
eMule now connects to both the eDonkey network and the Kad network. The distinguishing features of eMule are the direct exchange of sources between client nodes, fast recovery of corrupted downloads, and the use of a credit system to reward frequent uploaders. Furthermore, eMule transmits data in zlib-compressed form to save bandwidth., Windows OS's - Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64
Laws concerning the use of this piece of software vary from country to country. We do not encourage or condone the use of this program if it is in violation of those laws.
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 A free offspring from LimeWire to create a Gnutella client that does not filter any content.
FrostWire is a fork of the LimeWire source code, and as such, it functions exactly the same. When you search for a file using FrostWire, you get results from LimeWire, and vice versa. However, the user experience differs in two ways. One is that the code is actually based on LimeWire Pro, the paid version of the popular P2P client, so users don't have to worry about simultaneous download restrictions, and they won't get bombarded by ads, Windows OS's - Windows Vista, XP, 2000, NT
Laws concerning the use of this piece of software vary from country to country. We do not encourage or condone the use of this program if it is in violation of those laws.
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 BitTornado is a powerful and easy-to-use BitTorrent client
BitTornado (TheSHAD0W's EXPERIMENTAL BITTORRENT CLIENT) was developed as a simple to use yet strong BitTorrent client which provides not only full BitTorrent protocol implementation but also many personalization functions. Windows OS's - All
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 FastStone Capture is easily in the top 5 of the all time great screen capture programs. The free version even offers text annotation, cropping and dozens of other features
FastStone Capture is a powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages. It has innovative features such as a floating Capture Panel, hotkeys, resizing, cropping, text annotation, printing, e-mailing and many more. Windows OS's - 98SE, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista
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Free Netbook Operating Systems to Replace Windows
Most netbooks ship with Windows, either XP or 7. It's a very powerful operating system. But for the light tasks that people do on netbooks it's not necessary. It's more bloated than it needs to be, and full of features that you don't need.
One solution is to replace Windows with a free OS that's designed specifically for use on netbooks. Your netbook will run faster yet you'll still be able to do all the standard netbook tasks such as surfing, collecting email and playing media files. Here are two free netbook operating systems you should consider.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/three-netbook-operating-systems-replace-windows.htm 
Posted on 6 September 2010 | 10:18 pm
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Tip: How to Insert an Image into a Gmail Message
Did you ever want to insert a picture into a Gmail message? The facility to upload a picture from your PC and place it into the body of a message is available in Gmail but it is well hidden. Here is the procedure.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-insert-image-gmail-message.htm
For more useful tips check out our new tips section:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/view/tips 
Posted on 4 September 2010 | 4:49 am
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Tip: How to Make USB Memory Sticks and Flash Cards Easy to Recognize
Here's a short useful tip from our new tips section.
These days it is not uncommon for a PC to have two, three or more external USB storage devices plugged in at the same time. Since Windows assigns drive letters in the order in which you attach a device, the same memory stick can be drive H: one time and drive F: another time. If you have several memory sticks or cards attached, you can’t tell from the drive letter which drive is which. Here's a simple trick that will help makes things much clearer:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-make-usb-memory-sticks-and-flash-cards-easy-recognize.htm
For more useful tips check out our new tips section:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/view/tips 
Posted on 2 September 2010 | 11:28 pm
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Check the Temperature of Your CPU
If your PC keeps crashing for no apparent reason, and if those crashes tend to occur when the machine is busy doing lots of things, there's a pretty good chance that the problem is down to an overheating CPU. Maybe one of the fans in your system has stopped working, or an air vent is blocked with dust.
To help diagnose such problems, here's a wonderful little Windows utility that tells you the current internal temperature of your CPU. If the chip has multiple cores, it'll even give you a separate reading for each. And if there are multiple CPUs, that's catered for too.
It runs on Windows XP and above, and supports a wide variety of CPU types from Intel and AMD. And it's only a 0.5 MB download. Plus, it's available in 32- and 64-bit versions, including a portable version that can be run directly without needing to be installed.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/check-temperature-your-cpu.htm 
Posted on 2 September 2010 | 11:26 pm
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New: Best Free Photo Slide-show Software
We recently featured the commercial Wondershare slideshow program that was free for three days. That offer has expired but there's plenty of free software that does much the same thing. Check out our editor's suggestions in this brand new section on our site.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/best-free-photo-slideshow-software.htm 
Posted on 31 August 2010 | 11:01 pm
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Get This Excellent $50 Animated Album Creator for Free
Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory turns a set of images into a beautiful animated album complete with page-turn effects and background music. Normally $49.95 you can get it for free for the next three days so grab it while you can.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/flash-gallery-giveaway-now-online-3-days-get-49-app-free.htm 
Posted on 27 August 2010 | 6:58 am
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New: Best Free GIF Animator
It finally finished! Gizmo's Freeware has had a partially complete page on free GIFanimation software for over a year but editor Jojo Yee couldn't stand it any longer and completed it himself. Jojo's done a great job but this new section needs an editor to maintain it so if you are interested email me using the site contact form.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-gif-animator.htm 
Posted on 26 August 2010 | 4:42 pm
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Turn Your PC Into A Kindle
Amazon's latest $139 Kindle eBook reader has been such a huge hit that it's back ordered. But why wait to get into eBooks when you can turn your PC into an eBook reader by installing Amazon's free Kindle program. 
Posted on 25 August 2010 | 8:55 pm
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New Tech Tips Section at Gizmo's Freeware
Some exciting news: we've just added a brand new tips section to the Gizmo's Freeware site. This will feature regular new tips as well as bringing together into one location all the tips currently scattered throughout the site.
The new section will be edited by Vic Laurie. Although he is one of our most recent volunteers Vic is no newcomer to this. He operates the well known "PC Informant" blog and operates his own PC education website. Vic will be writing tips for all technical levels so everyone should find something of interest. Here are his first contributions:
- An Unusual Way to Reduce Windows Boot Time
- Quick Ways to Shut Down Windows
- How to Manage Flash Cookies
- Shortcuts for Hibernating Windows
- How to View and Clear the Cache in the Google Chrome Browser
If you know some great tech tips please let Vic know using the form on the Tech Tips page . All contributions are fully acknowledged.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/view/tips 
Posted on 24 August 2010 | 6:27 pm
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DNS Server Blocks Malware Sites Automatically
Using an alternative DNS server is a very effective way of avoiding hostile websites and other web nasties. It's free, and you don't need to install anything. You simply need to change a setting on your PC or in your router. As a bonus you may also find your surfing is faster.
The free Open DNS server is the best known of an alternative DNS service but our Hot Finds editor has located another that's operated by the security company Sunbelt and it's well worth checking out. 
Posted on 24 August 2010 | 6:08 pm
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This To-Do List Manager is Top-Notch and Free
If you're the sort of person who buys self-help books aimed at busy people, you've almost certainly heard of David Allen. He's the inventor of a concept called GTD, or Getting Things Done. It's not so much a way of managing your to-do list, but more a way of life.
Wieldy is a free to-do list manager, which its author claims is modeled on the GTD concept. It runs under Windows XP and above, and provides a friendly, intuitive way to manage and prioritize all your tasks and thoughts, and keep track of contacts. It uses a Ribbon-like interface, and I actually think it looks a lot like Microsoft Outlook. 
Posted on 22 August 2010 | 7:09 pm
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A New Website that Will Help You Amuse Young Children
Lately I’ve been spending a fair amount of time lately looking after my daughters’ pre-school children so you can understand why a press release about a new website filled with children’s amusements caught my attention.
I must admit my expectations were low as many of these sites are very amateurish. However I was presently surprised; this site is very professionally implemented. The coloring application in particular is very well done and emulates closely the pencil and paper experience. But there's a lot more than online coloring: there are lots of kids printables, a huge game section and craft videos as well. I was impressed. If you have young kids you should really check this out. 
Posted on 17 August 2010 | 12:15 am
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Hot News: Gizmo's Freeware Makes PC Mag's Top 100 Websites of 2010
OK I know it's not a Hot Find but we've just found out that we've been listed in PC Magazine's Top !00 Websites of 2010 and we just have to tell everyone.
I thinks it's a wonderful recognition for the 90 volunteers who run this website. We don't have a single paid employee at Gizmo's me included. It's also a great testimonial of the power of community. I'm so proud of the team and I hope you are as well.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/hot-news-gizmos-freeware-makes-pc-mags-top-100-websites-2010.htm 
Posted on 17 August 2010 | 12:12 am
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$25 BitDefender Antivirus 2010 Free for 24 hours
The popular UK website v3.co.uk is running a special promotion that starts midday CEST Friday 13 August where you can download the full commercial $25 version of BitDefender Anti-Virus 2010 for free for a 24 hour period. For more details click the title of this item or use the link below.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/25-bitdefender-antivirus-2010-free-24-hours.htm 
Posted on 12 August 2010 | 9:39 pm
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Updated: Best Free Word Processor
It may surprise you that our top choice for best free lightweight word processor is neither AbiWord nor Open Office Writer. These are excellent but orthodox programs. By contrast our Top Pick comes from left field. It's task oriented approach takes a little time to get your head around but in the end you will be richly rewarded. 
Posted on 10 August 2010 | 2:25 am
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