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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.
Free Drive Backup Express – Free Backup Software
Sep 12th
Keep your system and files safe now with Drive Backup 9.0 Free Edition. This easy to use application simply backs up your entire system when and where you tell it to, and then allows you to recover your system and all of your files whenever disaster happens.
Digsby – new improved version released
Jun 26th
Digsby just released a new improved version. The release includes some major changes/improvements such as:
* Performance: We’ve optimized performance from the ground up, reducing overall CPU usage by about 50%
* Buddy List Search: Press Ctrl+F to easily search your buddy list or the web
* Emoticons: Added four new emoticon packs to choose from
* File Transfers: Improved the reliability of AIM, ICQ, and MSN file transfers
* Conversations: Added an option for new IM windows to start hidden and blink the tray icon instead of popping up a window
* New Infobox: The infobox now uses the same user interface control as the IM window (WebKit), making it much faster and more versatile
* Twitter: Added Retweet support
* MySpace: Added support for setting status on MySpace
* Google Talk: Added support for the Invisible status on Gtalk
* And More: Over 100 other bug fixes and enhancements!
I usually don’t blog about software that don’t work or have issues, but i wanted to try Digsby again…and again i had issues. This time was the installation.
It failed twice and i don’t know if is because i declined installing the two suspicious software “Registry power cleaner” and “PC confidential” or for some other reason. The third time it worked.
Go green. Print green.
Jun 23rd
GreenPrint Software is a software that can help you reduce the cost on paper and ink you use on printing.
If you can’t go digital with all your documents and if you really have to print those files but you want to go green, then give a try to GreenPrint software.
It’s easy to install and easy to use. It also displays a report on how much you just saved.
For instance, if you need to print a web page, for the text, not for the images, you can send the file first to the Green Printer and from there you can eliminate the images or pages that aren’t necessary to print – pages with 5 lines of text or less.
The software is available for free for private use – Green Print World- on 32-bit XP/Vista/7.
Companies who want to save paper and ink can use GreenPrint Home Premium and Enterprise.