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PDF Password Remover – remove your PDF’s restrictions
Jan 19th
Tip from a reader: PDF Password Remover Free Giveaway
I don’t use PDF’s that much these days and when i do, they are not locked, but i did have in the past some locked ones which ended up my my trash because i couldn’t print them.
But, if you are looking for an application to unlock your files, try this one.
This giveaway offer expires on February 24th.
Platform: Windows XP/Vista/7 32bit
Thanks for the tip, Owen!
Hott Notes – sticky notes
Jan 16th
From Freewarefiles.com:
Hott Notes is the free sticky notes reminder program for your desktop. It´s simple, yet attractive interface makes it intuitive and easy to use. Not only can you post sticky note reminders, you can make checklists, set alarms, draw on your notes, and archive.
Other features include a Notebook to organize your notes, a backup system to keep your notes safe, and much more.
This download is available for Windows 2000/XP/Vista
via Hott Notes 4.1 Download – Freeware Files.com – Business/Organize Category.
Free Screen To Video Freeware – screen capture tool
Jan 10th
From Koyotesoft.com:
Free Screen to video is a freeware designed to record your computer screen activity in video (screen capture tool). You can record the whole screen or only some areas of the screen in FLV, AVI, SWF (Flash) or WMV formats. Free Screen to Video is very easy to use and also records the movements of the mouse as well as the sound coming from your microphone. You can thus very easily create videos for help desk, online help, training, education and distance learning.
The web application alternative: Screen Toaster – a free online screen recorder. With this app you can capture your whole desktop or selected areas right from your browser, you can imediatelly upload your files on Screentoaster.com or Youtube.com and embed them on blogs, web pages or your e-mails. [Compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, Linux]
If you use Mac Os, here’s a freeware video screen capture app: Jing. ( Available for Windows as well.)
Free Flash Mp3 Player from Flabell.com
Oct 15th
From the website:
Fully customizable MP3 Player, built with support for multiple Artists and Albums. Everything is XML customizable, including player and images size, player colors, speed and transition effects.
This Flash Mp3 Player contains a handful of features and settings. It is easy to use the player in your Flash projects or as an independent Flash Mp3 Player on your website or Myspace page. It is as easy as moving some actionscript files around, and dragging the movieclip containing the Flash Mp3 Player in your Flash file……
Visit the web site to get more information or to download it.
Quick Media Video Converter – a free all in one convertor
Sep 12th
A few days back i wanted to convert a huge .mkv file to .mpeg so i can play it on my dvd player or my Xbox 360. I ended up installing 5 software.
None of them were useful. They either raised my CPU so high that my PC froze, or they just left a watermark that is really disturbing.
Then i found the “Quick Media Converter” and that is all i need.
It converts files to VCD, DVD, AVI, DIVX, FLASH, FLV, Quick Time ,Windows Media, WMV, Xvid, TS, MPEG, WAV, MP3, WMA…and so much more, it has support for Xbox 360, PS3, PSP, iPhone, Wii and you can convert your video files to HD.
As I type, my Firefox is open with 6 tabs and it uses 8 times more of my CPU than Quick media converter…which is also running and converting that same huge .mkv file to a full HD file for my Xbox, so as you can see it is also a winner when it comes down to memory usage.
The cocoonsoftware.com website is quite messy, but i am sure you’ll find your way to see the screenshots and read the rest of the information.