Snarfer

Snarfer is simply the best way to read, search and manage RSS feeds. And it’s FREE!

Snarfer provides a new approach to RSS feed aggregation focusing on speed, efficiency and ease of use. Using Snarfer people can become functional RSS users within seconds of installing it. Snarfer has a strong community of loyal users providing feedback, features requests and enhancements which allows the Snarfware team to bring out an enhanced version about every 45 days. (There’s lots of cool stuff coming every cycle!)

Snarfer now includes a Search Wizard that enables users to construct complex searches for items or information contained on eBay or Craigslist. The search results are returned to Snarfer utilizing the specific functions supported by these communities. These searches are intelligent and tent automatically returning new results to Snarfer every time the feed is updated.

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March 29, 2008. Tags: , , , . RSS. No Comments.

iPod shuffle Database Builder

This little program enables iPod shuffle users to finally get rid of all that iTunes or other complicated playlist management stuff. Due to the simple structure of the shuffle (compared to the »big« iPods), it is possible to use the player almost like any other USB flash MP3 player: You simply copy MP3 files onto it. You only need to run the Database Builder program after you added or removed files from the iPod. This approach hasnumerous benefits:

  • You don’t need iTunes, ml_ipod or GNUpod anymore. Simply copy some MP3 files into the iPod volume and start this teensy 8k program.
  • You aren’t restricted to store your music in the /iPod_Control/Music subdirectory. Build your own directory and filename structure. Your iPod, your rules!
  • You may use the iPod on as many computers as you want.
  • The actual iTunes database is left untouched, your iPod should still work with iTunes, if you like. (Note that this wasn’t true for me; my iTunes installation now refuses any co-operation with my iPod. But I’m pretty sure that this is due to my experimentation with the iTunes database, and not a side-effect of using the Database Builder.)
  • If you do not use the iPod_Control folder for your music, iTunes will not delete your files again without asking.
  • The Database Builder uses a quite sophisticated shuffle algorithm (»smart shuffle«) that arranges your tracks in a more uniform way.

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March 29, 2008. Tags: , , . IPod Tools. No Comments.

ZipGenius

ZipGenius is the absolutely free software for Windows® that lets you compress files to almost any kind of archive. ZipGenius supports more than 20 compressed archive formats, including CD/DVD-ROM image files in ISO9660 standard. This is the file compression suite you were searching for: it is free and easy to use, plus it supports more than 20 formats of compressed archives, including RAR, ARJ, ACE, CAB, SQX, OpenOffice.org documents and the excellent 7-zip. ZipGenius now can precompress executable files going to be added to a ZIP archive through the UPX compressor.

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March 29, 2008. Tags: , , . Compression Utilities. No Comments.

7-Zip

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. 7-Zip is open source software. You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don’t need to register or pay for 7-Zip.

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March 29, 2008. Tags: , , , . Compression Utilities. No Comments.

MediaCoder

MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices. MediaCoder intends to be the swiss army knife for media transcoding in all time and at this moment, it already has millions of users from 170+ countries all over the planet.

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March 29, 2008. Tags: , , . Video Encoder/Decoder. 1 Comment.

TrendMicro™ HijackThis™

HijackThis™ is a free utility which quickly scans your Windows computer to find settings that may have been changed by spyware, malware or other unwanted programs. HijackThis creates a report, or log file, with the results of the scan.

IMPORTANT: HijackThis does not determine what is good or bad. Do not make any changes to your computer settings unless you are an expert computer user.

Advanced users can use HijackThis to remove unwanted settings or files.

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March 29, 2008. Anti-Virus/Malware. No Comments.

eRightSoft SUPER ©

SUPER © “The Player” surpasses any known player by supporting just any Multimedia file format. SUPER © plays files that cannot be played with WMP or even MPC and VLC the advanced Libavcodec based players.

SUPER © also plays and saves Internet Media Streams of different protocols ( mms:// rtsp:// http://)

SUPER © “The Encoder” is the fastest and simplest tool to encode full length movies to any other format without any time or function limitation.

NO trial or evaluation version of SUPER © but one unique. Free to download and Free to use fully working version.

SUPER © does NOT require any additional external codec to be installed, absolutely nothing. Necessary codecs are built in!

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March 29, 2008. Tags: , , , . IPod Tools, PSP Tools, Video Encoder/Decoder. 1 Comment.

Firefox 2

Mozilla Firefox project (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla’s browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. It includes a popup blocker, tabbed browsing, a smarter search, hassle free downloading, and improved privacy and security.Mozilla Firefox has the following other editions available: Mozilla Firefox for Linux, Mozilla Firefox for Mac OS X, Mozilla Firefox for Windows (Gran Paradiso), Mozilla Firefox for Mac OS X (Gran Paradiso) and Mozilla Firefox for Linux (Gran Paradiso).

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March 29, 2008. Tags: , , , . Internet & Browsers. No Comments.

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