Windows Movie Maker

Microsoft has outdone itself with its latest video editing software Windows Movie Maker. Normally available to users of its operating system, Windows Movie Maker can also be downloaded free of cost as a standalone application. The interface is extremely easy to use and so one can be assured of the simplicity that is involved in creating or editing movies, while at the same time, testing the finished product. Windows Movie Maker is perfect for the creation of small videos as it helps in allowing the integration of sound and allows one to add numerous effects and other transitions. 

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Greenshot, image capturing tool

Greenshot is a free tool for taking screenshots in Windows. With Greenshot you could capture the entire screen, a window or a specific region. Captured image can be edited by adding annotations, highlights, text, etc. Basically, if you are familiar with Snagit, you will find yourself at home with Greenshot which is a freeware alternative to Snagit screen capturing tool.

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MP4Cam2AVI Easy Converter

MP4Cam2AVI converts MPEG4 files from camcorders, digital photo cameras, cell phones which shoot video in MP4 format) to AVI. Once converted, files could be easily used in various video editors like  Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere, VirtualDub or Sony Vegas (for free video editors follow this link). A very important feature of  MP4Cam2AVI Easy Converter is the loseless conversion which means that original files are not recompressed so no quality is being lost.

Supported input formats: *.MP4, *.MOV, and *.AVI.

MP4Cam2AVI doesn't require video codecs to operate, so you don't need to install other things on your computer. If you really need free audio/video converters, have a look here.

download free MP4Cam2AVI Easy Converter

PrimoPDF

PrimoPDF is a freeware which converts almost any files to a PDF. The user just clicks on "print" command in the source program which was used to open the source file and selects "PrimoPdf" virtual printer. The output will be a PDF file. The software supports also the alternative to "drag and drop" source files onto a desktop icon for direct conversion.
Another useful feature of PrimoPDF is "Append or Overwrite" an already existing PDF. Document properties (security and so on) can be edited and the quality of the output PDF file can also be selected.
PrimoPDF is a fast and free PDF maker, if you are looking for a similar free PDF maker doPDF would be a good alternative.

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PDFrizator

PDFrizator is a freeware tool to create PDF presentations with the ability to set transition effect between pages, viewing time and background music. This can be done to existing PDF files, or different type of supported file formats that can be converted, visual and combined in the same project.

Because it has the ability to convert more file formats, PDFrizator is also a handy tool to quickly and visually create PDF files.
key Features
* Create presentations PDF
* Convert more type of file formats (eg. Gif,. Jpg,. Png,. Tif,. Cbr. Cbz, ...) into PDF.
* Support adding file types to the project using the command line, drag and drop Shell, Internet search, or paste from Windows clipboard.
* Powerful Resource Explorer, the ability to browse local files and online services using the Internet, such as Bing pictures, images Google, Picasa, Flickr and Twitpic.
* Advanced Sound Explorer with built-in player to easily select local music files, or found on the Internet, searching sites such as SoundCloud.
* View and convert with ease. Cbr and. Cbz Comic Books (comic books) in PDF.
* Acquire (capture) TWAIN sources
* View paste, delete, rotate, rearrange and setting PDF page size results.
* Advanced GUI.
* Ability to install portable mode

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t@b ZS4 Video Editing Software

If you are searching for the best video editing software that can be used as a means of automation, then t@b ZS4 Video Editing Software is meant for you. A complete video editing system with a wide array of video effects that help to enhance that customization of the video makes this software standout from the rest. Also having the ability of composition, the t@b ZS4 Video Editing Software can be used as a means of tailoring the video to one’s preferred size, including height and width. With the ability of changing speed, integrating tracks and sub-composites and chrome keying, t@b ZS4 is meant for you.

download free t@b ZS4 Video Editing Software

FreeVimager

FreeVimager is a viewer and picture editor for Windows. It can also play AVI video files and certain types of audio files. There are many tools integrated in this program to accomplish tasks. But what is wonderful with FreeVimager is that no installation is required, FreeVimager works as a standalone exe file. Some features:

Support for all Windows versions: Windows 95 up to Windows 8
freeware and available in several languages: English, German, Italian and Russian
Touch screen gestures for functions like zoom and next/previous
View image location in Google Map.
viewer and editor for: jpeg, bmp, gif, tiff (multi-page), png, pcx and emf
basic editing tools like rotate, crop, resize, brightness, contrast, sharpen, Redeye removal
convert to PDF
Jpeg lossless rotate and crop
Full-screen multi-monitor support
The executable only version stores the settings to a INI file in the same directory
Unicode support: Open, Edit, Batch Process or Batch Rename your files named in Russian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese...
Size optimized Email sending of images and avi files
Twain Scan multiple pages to tiff and pdf (possibility to Email directly)
Avi video player with snapshot functionality and draggable borders in full-screen mode (integrated mpeg4 (divx), mjpeg, theora, vorbis and ADPCM codecs)

download FreeVimager

Video Edit Master

One very good video editing software that is freely available is Video Edit Master. The easy to use interface provides a variety of features such as joining together two different videos that have the same encodings, frame rate and resolution. At the same time, there is no need to have to re-encode the video. Video Edit Master is extremely useful in cutting out commercials that are present in any MPEG or AVI files and can also be used in the capturing of individual frames from different videos. At the same time, there is also a very useful and friendly GUI interface that can be used to preview movies.

download free Video Edit Master (from CNet)

Food Additives

Food Additives is a free small application which displays information about food additives. The additives can be searched by their name or number. Food Additives will show you a general description for the additive, its origin, its group, who should avoid the product (children, asthmatics, vegetarians, etc.), in which country the product is banned. This application is like a small dictionary for additives used in food industry.

download free Food Additives from finitysoft.com

ClamWin Free Antivirus

ClamWin is a free Antivirus for Windows. Includes virus scanner, scheduler, virus database updates, context menu integration to MS Windows Explorer and Addin to MS Outlook. Also features easy setup program. Uses a well respected ClamAV scanning engine.

ClamWin works with any version of Microsoft Windows.

ClamWin Free Antivirus is used by more than 600,000 users worldwide on a daily basis. It comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge. It features:

High detection rates for viruses and spyware;

Scanning Scheduler;

Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database.

Standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft Windows Explorer;

Addin to Microsoft Outlook to remove virus-infected attachments automatically.

The latest version of Clamwin Free Antivirus is 0.97.4

Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.

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GPM Antivirus

GPM is a powerful freeware OpenSource Antivirus for your PC with context menu, system cleaner, Tray Menu Mode, Integrated GUI. GPM has Real-Time option available, very important for infection prevention. GPM can remove viruses from Autorun.inf and Registry, you remember the annoying malwares found on USB sticks in autorun.inf files.

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DNS Changer Detector, remove DNS Changer Trojan

DNS Changer Trojan directs infected computers towards fake websites which were specially created by cyber criminals for the purpose of fraud. Last year in November hackers were arrested by the FBI. Authorities have taken over control over the infested servers with this virus, but experts have realized that if they will suspend these servers it could mean that thousands of computers served will be left without internet. So in order to solve this problem, FBI has substituted these servers with valid ones, but only for a limited time. On July 9th, the FBI will shut down these temporary domain name servers (DNS). Without DNS servers, your computer can't  find the webpage you want to access on the internet. Fortunately, Bitdefender offers a free tool to solve this problem. If you need other free antivirus, antimalwares tools, look here.

install for free DNS Changer Detector from Bitdefender

Tunatic

If you are desperate to know what's the name of the lovely song you are listening too, you are saved with Tunatic.Tunatic is a freeware tool to identify the artist's name and the song's title. Tunatic is among the very first song search engines. All you have to do is to plug your microphone and record a few seconds from the song you wish to identify. Internet connection is also required because Tunatic logs on to its server where the actually search occurs. The best thing is Tunatic is free.

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Picasa 3

The best thing on the internet is Google and everything it provides is completely free of cost. As such, it is only right that Picasa Web Albums, Google's ways of showing people that they should start sharing pictures on the internet is also free. With the latest version of Picasa, you get up to 1GB of hosting where you can store some of your best memories online. This desktop application can help you share some of your precious memories with others that you might know in different parts of the world. If you require additional storage space, you can pay $500 and you would get nearly 400 times the amount of space of free hosting.

Picasa official web page

Softe Free Video Player (Toolsoft Video Player)

A very powerful video player is the Softe Free Video Player, also known as Toolsoft Video Player. Having the ability to play ASF, WMV MPEG-4 video, QuickTime MOV, VOB, M4V, 3GP, MOV, FLV, MP4, iPhone/PSP video, DAT, AVI, DivX, XviD,  and MPEG-1/2 files makes this software a must have. It can even play DAT files. Softe Free Video Player 1.13 can also be used to play 3GP videos or Windows Media files such as WMV and ASF. A very easy to use interface makes this Softe Video Player suitable even for novice users. It can be used for deleting, copying, renaming files, cutting, and even creating folders or sorting by type, file name, length and quality.

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X-VCD Player

The newest version of X-VCD Player viz. 1.4 gives one the opportunity of playing back various VCD discs on the computer. A variety of features are supported as playback options including support for zooming into the video that is currently being played as well as a full display screen size for the X-VCD Player 1.4. There is also multiple video tracks support and the ability to play VCD, SVCD, XVCD, XSVCD and MPEG format disks. Although one might need certain media codecs such as the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 codec on the computer. In short, X-VCD Player 1.4 is a good video player that offers features that other players might not support.

download free X-VCD Player

doPDF, free pdf maker

doPDF is a small freeware application that creates PDF files from DOC, XLS, PPT, PUB, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, PUBX, HTML, TXT. doPDF will install a virtual printer on your computer, choosing to print your document using this printer will create a PDF file. Alternatively, the PDF file can be created using doPDF user interface.

doPDF is free, has multilingual support and is available for 32-bit as well as 64-bit machines using Microsoft Windows OS.

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PDF Booklet Creator

PDF Booklet Creator is a free software which makes a booklet pdf from a normal pdf file. For example you can easily make a booklet with thesis summary for people present at your dissertation. Just write your summary as usually, convert it to normal pdf and import that normal pdf file in PDF Booklet Creator, it will convert it automatically to booklet. You don't need to worry about the confusing page numbering, the program will take care about it. PDF Booklet Creator can create book or calendar booklets.

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Free Video Converter

The Free Video Converter is a wonderful software that can be used for the conversion of different file formats such as OGG, PSP, MP4, SWF, WMA,VCD, RM20, 3GP, AVI, M2V, AAC, iPod, WMVMP3, WAV, , M1V, MP2, MP4, FLV, AC3, RM10, MKV, MOV, SVCD, DVD to DVD, MP3, SWF, FLV. With Free Video Converter 5.0, it is even possible to go ahead and convert your favorite movies so that they can then be played on your Zune, Sandisk Sansa Archos, iRiver PMP, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Walkman, Creative Zen, iPod touch, Blackberry Apple TV and other portable video device players like the PS3, 3GP phone, wii, Xbox360 and MP4/MP3 player.

download free Free Video Converter

Tinkercad, a free 3D design tool for your 3D printer

Tinkercad is a free software developed for 3D printers like Makerbot. Extremely expensive at the beginning and available only for architects in the industry, 3D printing is slowly moving now towards the accessible zone for personal use. Imagine you could design your own objects and print them afterwards. Using a web interface, Thinkercad allows you to create objects on your computer and export them as STL files for your Makerbot 3D printer.

Tinkercad link to official webpage

Video DVD Maker Free

Video DVD Maker is simply one of the best tools that can be used to make DVD movies from one’s very own home made videos. At the same time, one also has the option of burning the video projects on disks such as DVD R DL, CD R/RW and DVD R/RW. Other features of the program also allow one to capture video from a DV camcorder, a web camera, a TV tuner or even from a cell phone. One then has the ability of saving the files either by using the inbuilt compression features or as an uncompressed AVI file. 

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Disable yahoo messenger advertising, make your messenger faster

Did you notice how annoying Yahoo Messenger started to be with newer versions ?

You have enjoyed messenger until one day when everything started to move very slowly on your computer. The main reason for this behavior is the fact that yahoo messenger bombards you with adds. That's right, Yahoo wants more money and advertising is a good bet so it uses your computer resources to frenetically display all kind of adds in the lower part of the messenger's window.

Fortunately for you, there is a solution:

DISABLE Yahoo advertising server !

Instructions are very simple, you need to edit a file with a word processor, Notepad is enough:

1. Open a file editor (notepad) as an administrator

2. Locate and load this file:
C:/Windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts

3. Add the following line at the end of the text file:

127.0.0.1   insider.msg.yahoo.com

And you are done, what you get is a slim and ready to use, faster ymessenger.

Alternatively you might be interested in downloading an older version of yahoo messenger, version 7, that one was clean and fast, no adds on it. download from here.

Chick Video Joiner

Chick Video Joiner 2.0.3 is a free audio as well as video joiner that has the ability of joining together many different smaller files into a much larger one. This tool that is extremely easy and efficient to use, is also quite powerful and can work quite fast, supporting different file formats while at the same time keeping up the quality of video.  Having support for many different video formats such as WMV, AVI, MOV, ASF, 3GP, RM, MP4, MPEG, Animated GIF, RMVB, MPEG2, DIVX, QuickTime , MPEG1, SVCD-PAL, VCD-PAL ,VCD-NTSC, SVCD-NTSC, DVD-NTSC, DVD-PAL and other formats makes this video tool a must have software.

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