If you want to be able to convert all of your music tracks, ringtones, recordings made with friends, interviews, and all sorts of other audio between different formats, we have the perfect tool for you. With FFree Mp3 Wma Converter one of the most popular audio converters on the market, you’ll be able to convert all your audio files from one format to another and take advantage of the different benefits of each one.

As its name indicates, Free Mp3 Wma Converter is a free application. It is also easy to use and lets you quickly and efficiently convert all your recorded audio into any of the four “big” formats that are so popular today: MP3, WMA, Ogg and WAV. You can move from one format to another or, if you prefer, keep the same format but change the quality (converting from MP3 to MP3, for example).

In the latest release of Free Mp3 Wma Converter, you’ll find that it’s now possible to convert your files to the AAC, .ape, FLAC, AC3, and MP4 formats, meaning that you can convert your entire iTunes music library (stored in the MP4 format) to any other format.

What´s more, during the installation process, Free Mp3 Wma Converter offers you the possibility of downloading two additional programs: Free CD Ripper, which can extract the tracks from an audio CD straight to MP3 or another format, and Easy Audio Cutter, and audio editor. Right after the installation finished, a window automatically appears allowing you to select the language you wish to set.

Free Mp3 Wma Converter features an easy to use interface to simplify all conversion operations. On the upper side of the window we must add the audio files we wish to convert and under this box we have the output configuration settings to set the format and folder where files will be saved.

The process for using the program is simple and effective: simply choose the audio file that you want to convert and select the output folder and format. You’ll find advanced settings available for each type of audio file. In the case of MP3 files, for example, you can change aspects such as the frequency and the audio channels, apply filters, and much more.

In short, we can state that Free Mp3 Wma Converter is more than a fine alternative for converting audio files. Thanks to its practical and comfortable interface, we can convert the most popular audio formats in a matter of seconds.

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The huge quantity of information that circulates on the web nowadays, and the constantly growing file sizes, mean that you need a good file compressor vital to be able to transfer your files more easily. Whether they’re work documents, photos or games, or anything else you have on your computer, you can compress them and decompress them using 7-zip.

This app, designed for more specialist users, features a compression rate which is double that of the normal rate of the Zip format (the most widely used format when it comes to file compression). 7-zip is a piece of software that can work both via the command line or via a graphical user interface.

By default, 7-zip is configured to create file archives with the 7z extension. This format has a modular architecture, unicode filenames, large-file support (up to 4GB), archive header compression, and more. These characteristics mean that archives can contain multiple files and folders and can also be password protected.

Installing and using 7-zip is very similar to WinZip and WinRAR, two other compressors that are already well-established on the market. As for its user interface, despite being fairly basic and not very attention-grabbing, it has all the essential features for compressing files, along with more complex tools for the average user, such as options for using LZMA compression, changing the size of the dictionary and blocks, both of which appear in the file creation window.

One of the downsides of using 7-zip is that, if you have problems opening an archive, 99% of the time it will be because the archive contains incorrect headers. Other compressors would be able to open some of these archives, even with incorrect headers, but only because they simply ignore the errors. Another weakness of the program is that, although it has a powerful compression engine, this does require the computer to have quite a lot of RAM.

Taking everything into account you can see that this program is a pretty good alternative to others of its type. It’s up to each user to give it a try and see if it suits them or not.

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ooVoo is a program that has many possible uses, and this is its biggest attraction. You can use it to: play pre-recorded webcam videos; view video messages, and review sent, received, incoming and outgoing calls; send up to 20 files simultaneously; share your address book with other users and send the same file to more than one person at once, among many other things.

Once you’ve installed the program, you can create a user account, customize it and then start to make the most of everything that ooVoo has to offer. Everything else is easy since it works just like any other instant messaging service: add contacts, change your status, manage and sort your addresses and contacts, view your message history, and explore the various options for publishing your own profile.

From now on, communicating is easy: find your friends, select a country from the list, enter the telephone number and that’s it, you’re making a video call! But if what you want is to record video messages, the only thing you need to do is select someone from your list of contacts and click on the relevant button.

With high-quality audio and video and fun video effects, get closer to your friends, family or work colleagues, no matter how far away they are. Using ooVoo being part of the next step of the internet’s communication evolution will be easy.

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PhotoFiltre Studio adds the “Auto select layer” and “Display layer number” options to the Preferences menu. Together with the rest of the tools and features included in the program, such additions help make this application comparable to the very biggest names in the world of digital imaging. PhotoFiltre Studio features Red Eye correction which can be enabled with the Retouch Tool by selecting the part of the picture to soften. Red Eye removal is very easy to use.

Of course, it has all the traditional basic editing tools, such as: rotation and cropping, lighting changes, text or frames - and everything is clearly displayed in the tool bar at the top of the interface. With PhotoMasque you can create advanced effects of contour and transparency on your images
by using preset masks. These masks are greyscale images, where white is the transparency colour, while opacity increases as the shades of gray become darker. Black means complete opacity. PhotoMasque comes with several basic masks to inspire you to create your own masks.

It also features a tool bar on the right-hand side of the screen, where you can choose the range of colours, clone a portion of the photo, work with different geometric shapes, and use various different tools like the spray can, magic wand, etc. PhotoFiltre Studio uses two types of vectorial selections. The first type uses automatic shapes (rectangle, ellipse, triangle, rhombus, rounded rectangle). The second type corresponds to the lasso and polygon. They both allow a customized form by drawing a shape by hand or using a series of lines. Every selection can be saved into a separate file, to be used later on.

PhotoFiltre Studio features the more than 100 filters to discover and experience, arranged in various categories, are: artistic, visual, deformation, mosaic, puzzle, texture and blur-effect filters. PhotoFiltre Studio also offers the possibility to handle all of Photoshop’s 8BF-type filters.

Other highlights of the program include: the ability to process several images simultaneously, import images from a TWAIN device, and work with the majority of photographic image formats (BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, Targa, PNG, RLE).

Though PhotoFiltre Studio is only in English, we can find many downloadable translations from the program´s website.

PhotoFiltre Studio  is available in English and also has translations in several other languages, available from the developer’s web site. This versatile, well-laid out program is free of charge for private or educational use, so there’s no excuse not to give it a try right away. If you´re inexperienced in the field of image editing and photo retouch, PhotoFiltre Studio is the perfect alternative to start practice.

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If your computer is kept in an environment where many other people have access to it, you could be looking at one continual headache, especially if some of these users are not particularly computer-savvy. To prevent possible disasters, you could implement Deep Freeze, a tool which “freezes” the operating system, preventing any changes being made to the operating system. Everytime you shutdown your PC, only the files kept on non-freezed drives will be saved.

When Deep Freeze is installed it generates a complete copy of the hard disk you choose, which is then loaded every time the system starts up. The only problem is that any files that you don’t save to a “fixed” partition or a network drive will be lost if the PC is accidentally switched off or restarted.

The installation process consists of choosing the drives we wish to freeze. This is the one and only stage of the installation, therefore it´s recommended that you shut down all applications before proceeding to ensure it installs without issues. You can thaw the drives at any time, so don’t worry if you froze the wrong ones.

The installation has certain requirements that must be strictly adhered to, such as the deactivation of any antivirus application, for example. Once the process has finished, Deep Freeze presents you with a compact, simple interface from which you can control both the freezing of the system and the “Clone” feature, designed to prepare master images for deployment on
multiple machines. This is extremely handy when cloning several PCs with the same hardware components.

Another interesting feature is setting restriction for specific users so they can´t access certain folders, system tools, configuration panels. By doing so, we can protect our most valuable data from being modified.

According to our tests, the program remains stable whilst the computer is frozen. The only problems may come if the protection is removed after a long period of time and many system files need to be updated.

Deep Freeze is an interesting tool for public-access computers which would otherwise need constant maintenance, taking up valuable time and effort. However, it can be a bit uncomfortable to successfully implement Deep Freezee on home PCs if we are constantly installing new programs or modifying files.

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With all of the files that get downloaded from the Internet every day, plus the daily use of the computer, it’s no surprise that trails and scraps of data build up over time and slow down your machine. When this happens, the best thing is to get rid of superfluous elements to improve system performance and free up valuable space on the hard disk.

Now, the team at Piriform brings us the latest version of their CCleaner . This cleaner is one of the most useful programs for eliminating unnecessary system registry entries, temporary files, web browser histories and cache, cookies and the virtual scraps left behind by old, previously removed programs.

CCleaner features a user friendly interface allowing multiple operations quick and easily. Upon opening the program you will see a navigation panel located on the left-hand side, with an icon for each of the 4 main sections of the program: Cleaner (for files), Registry (for cleaning out the Windows registry), Tools (for removing programs and cleaning Windows Startup) and Options (for changing the settings). This navigation panel also includes a link to the online help, in English. CCleaner is very easy to use since all its features are presented in the main window and any registry or cleaning tools can be run just by clicking on them.

Using the application is pretty simple but, unless you’re an advanced user, we advise you to use the default CCleaner options when searching for elements to clean, and to make backups of whatever the program suggests before proceeding.

According to its developers, the improvements made in CCleaner range from the addition of a selection box for Startup elements, better index.dat detection, and more secure deleting, to support for cleaning Windows Vista thumbnails and ImgBurn files.

The program won’t be able to perform miracles if the operating system is at death’s door and its effectiveness will also depend on the how the computer being analysed has been used, but apart from these understandable limitations this is an effective program that lives up to its promises.

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Have you ever try to save a video you saw on the net, but didn’t make it? Well, now this is possible thanks to programs like Save2pc, a peculiar application that stores your favourite online videos on your hard disk or on your favourite video player.

Save2pc lets you copy, download and collect – free of charge, easily and comfortably – videos in the FLV, MPEG, AVI and WMV formats so that you can watch them using any video player on your PC, and even convert them to the MOP, MP4, MP3, WAP or 3GP formats so that you can have them on your mobile, iPod, iPhone or MP3 player.

Once you’ve installed the program on your PC, Save2pc lets you choose which video site you want to download videos from: YouTube, GodTube, Google Video, MySpace Video, Break.com, DailyMotion.com or TeacherTube.com.

When you’ve picked the download page, just copy the URL of the video into the program’s “Link” field and click “Start”. Now, choose the destination folder on your PC where your videos will be saved, and you’re ready to go.

This is one of the reasons why Save2pc is preferable to other similar programs available previously. It’s extremely easy to use, and doesn’t require any technical knowledge to get the most out of it. You can’t go wrong - with this free version of Save2pc you can get your hands on a permanent copy of all those videos that you like so much.

On the other hand, this very simplicity of use represents its own limitations, since it doesn’t present many options for parameter settings and the configuration of the downloaded videos, which could be an interesting feature for advanced users. In this sense, we must take into account that the limitations we could find may be attributed to the version licence that we use.

Some more reasons why you’ll prefer this version of Save2pc over other alternatives are: it can download several videos at once, and can download videos with adult content from various servers (RedTube, PornoTube, YouPorn, Megarotic, yuvutu), possibility which makes it outstand among other programs of the kind which ban this type of content.

As well as taking up little space and consuming few system resources, this new version of Save2pc allows you to download any type of video, TV programme or movie trailer that is stored on any of the many different video sharing services directly to your PC, without any loss of quality.

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Adobe Reader is THE program for opening and working with all sorts of PDF-format documents, letting users read, browse, share and print files, both offline or within a web browser, meaning that you can work securely alongside other internet users on the same document, and in real time.

Among the new features of the program stands out the ability to simultaneously view multiple parts of a document on screen. You will also be able to intervene in a text via three different parts of the interface: the menu bar, the toolbar, and the navigation panel. Within these areas you’ll find all the available tools and features laid out and organized into hierarchies to allow for better handling of the program.

Among the alternatives on offer in the toolbar of this new version, as well as the usual essential tools for manipulating a PDF file (print, move backwards and forwards through the pages, enlarge or reduce the magnification of the page, text search), you will able to start up an online conversation with other users or share PDF documents by simply clicking on the Start Meeting option, part of the Acrobat ConnectNow service. As we can see, Adobe Reader has features full web browser integration with any browser on the market.

In the navigation panel, you can access the traditional navigation options, either browsing the pages of the document or using the tree diagram mode. You’ll also be able to view the different layers of a document, view and make comments, find files added to the PDF document you’re working on and, of course, there’s always the trusty help option for when you have a doubt regarding the administration and use of the program.

One of the most outstanding improvements in this version is the ability to play Flash, Macromedia, WM and Quicktime files, endowing your PDF documents with audio and video, making them even more comfortable and easy to read. If you’re more interested in 2D graphics representation, on the other hand, this new version stands out for its accessibility and increased speed, which allow you to really make the most of the enhanced speeds of the graphics processing unit (GPU) of numerous different graphics cards.

Simple and practical to use, Adobe Reader is the most popular program when it comes to working with documents and presentations created in PDF; and taking a look at its long list of features, we can understand why.

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GIMP is an excellent application – used by graphic designers, photographers, and generally anyone who works with images – lets you carry out all sorts of tasks with graphics: manipulate them, retouch them, and even create multimedia presentations with them.

Although it has less plug-ins and features compared to the market leading graphics editor, Photoshop, this new version of The GIMP can be enhanced with more than 100 plug-ins. It also has support for working on an “unlimited” number of images simultaneously, it has a built-in database for calling internal GIMP functions from other, external applications, and it comes with advanced scripting capabilities. GIMP also features Script-Fu, the first GIMP scripting extension. Extensions are separate processes that communicate with the GIMP in the same way that plug-ins do. The distinction is that extensions don’t require an active image to operate on, instead extending GIMP ’s functionality

Its interface is divided into modules, which are arranged into blocks of features (channels and paths; tool options menu; etc.). If you can get used to this system handling the program can be an extremely dynamic and practical experience. But if you can’t, you may have problems.  Among the tools on offer are ones to rotate images, change their size (and resample), crop, and make mirror effects, as well as convert the images between different formats (BMP, GIF, JPG, PCX, PNG, PS, TIF, TGA and XPM).

Each task requires a different environment and GIMP allows you to customize the view and behavior the way you like it. Starting from the widget theme, allowing you to change colors, widget spacing and icon sizes to custom tool sets in the toolbox. The interface is modulated into so called docks, allowing you to stack them into tabs or keep them open in their own window.

Among GIMP features, you have the possibility of making your jpegs smaller without changing the pixel width of the images; you can actually change the weight of the image a lot. Let’s say you turned your brand new digital camera to get a vertical shot, now some of your images are on their sides, but fortunately you can rotate them quickly and easily. You can also use layers and masks, as in most professional design programs.

The file format support ranges from the common likes of JPEG (JFIF), GIF, PNG, TIFF to special use formats such as the multi-resolution and multi-color-depth Windows icon files. The architecture allows extending GIMP’s format capabilities with a plug-in.

In their own words, GIMP is the answer to the current lack of free (or at least reasonably priced) image manipulation software for GNU/Linux and UNIX in general.

The GIMP is open-source and free software, and is without a doubt a great choice when it comes to editing images for the web or for personal use, thanks to its ease-of-use and handy features. You’ll soon find yourself getting to grips with it.  Give it a try, you won’t be disappointed.

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There are numerous different types of downloads that you can make over the Internet but here we take a closer look at those that work using .torrent files.

Basically, in order to share a file, a .torrent file containing information about it is stored on a centralized server. When the file is downloaded by different users, this .torrent file collects data about the number of transfers and the number of peers who possess all or part of the file.

So, this is where the need for an application that can work with this particular system comes in. Such an application is uTorrent.
The program reads the .torrent file chosen by the user, which contains information about where to download each part of the file from according to the best available connection, thereby guaranteeing a good overall download speed.

uTorrent has all the tools needed for beginners and a large number of additional configuration options for more expert users. It features a clear push-button panel from which to control the client and a list of all the downloads, indicating whether they are in progress, completed, active or inactive.

On the right-hand side it has a .torrent search engine, a useful feature considering that, unlike other P2P networks such as eDonkey2000, this system does not include its own index of files within the client and users must find their downloads via external web sites.

To get the most out of the .torrent files you must always keep in mind the number of Seeds and Peers a file has. The more of them a file has, the faster it will download. Once you’ve found the torrent file you want, click on it, choose to open it with uTorrent and the client will take over.

It’s worth emphasizing that the client’s window always allows you to see exactly what files you’re downloading. This is especially helpful with compressed files and means you needn’t waste time downloading something that was labelled incorrectly on the web site.

The lower part of the screen displays a variety of data and statistics about the currently selected download. Here you can see all sorts of General information, such as the time elapsed, the amount downloaded, the speed at which it is currently downloading, and more. You can also get data about the Peers with whom you are sharing files, the Pieces that make up the download, and the different Files that are contained in the complete download as well as view information about the Speed of the download and consult the Logger.
Without a doubt, uTorrent is one of the best programs out there for downloading .torrent files. All that’s left then is for you to install it and see for yourself why it´s the best and most reliable torrent client.

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