Free audio converter with powerful and creative features - Xrecode
Post by Voex | Date: 2009-06-19
Xrecode is a free audio converter that can convert between a wide range of audio formats. Xrecode is optimized for converting multiple files in parallel in systems with muli-core CPUs. It can also perform CUE splitting of audio files as well as an experimental feature that detects automatically silences to split a large audio file. Here are details of key features:
- User interface: simple interface with drag and drop feature, you can drag and drop files or entire folders for conversion. Settings and other dialogs are very nicely intergrated into the interface such that they are only seen when they are needed.
- Supported filetypes:including MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, APE, RealAudio, M4A, M4B, FLAC, AAC, WavPack.
- Parallel converting: you can set the number of files to convert simultaneously in general or you can do it in its advanced mode where you set it for each file type.
- Split by silence: this feature allows you to set the volume threshold and the length of the gap in seconds that the program will look for to pinpoint gaps between songs.
- CUE Splitting: just drag the CUE file into the interface.
- Other features: Unicode support. conversions retain tag information. command line supported.
RIOT: reduce the file size of images without noticeable quality loss
Post by Voex | Date: 2009-05-27
RIOT is a free program that can save images for web/email/other media with high compression ratio and quality. It is a nice tool for image size reduction. It also offers a number of handy image editing and conversion tools.
If you've ever get some beautiful photos with large file-size and you want to post them on your web site, you will need to reduce the size of your image file before you upload it. RIOT allows you reduce the size of your images quickly and easily, at the same time maintain an acceptable level of quality.
Tags: image editing reduce size
Merge, edit, and manipulate FLV video with RichFLV
Post by Voex | Date: 2009-04-29
RichFLV is a free tool that runs on Adobe AIR and can easily edit your FLV files. with RichFLV you can merge FLV files, extract sections from FLVs, define cue-points and metadata. This application also allows you to convert the file to formats that include SWF, MP3, and several image formats. Operations can be performed on the whole video or user defined sub-sections.
RichFLV is a ideal tool to merge, cut, demux and edit FLV video, you'll find it deliver fast performance when saving and exporting. In addition to the editing features of this application, you can also view FLV files without having to seperately install any codecs. (note: this application requires Adobe Air)
Tags: FLV manipulate video editing
Ideal tool for managing notes, emails, images, URLs - TreeDBNotes
Post by Voex | Date: 2009-04-22
TreeDBNotes Free Edition is a notes outliner program lets you stores and represents your information in a comfortable and clear tree-structured form. If you are looking for a full-featured and well-designed freeware hierarchical notes outliner program, TreeDBNotes Free Edition is what you need. Here is some useful features of this program:
- Organization: Convenient tree-structured form of notes representation. Trees/folders can be easily managed from the right click menu (copied/pasted, moved around the tree or into another tree, sorted alphabetically, etc).
- Rich text editing: It provides full text and paragraph formatting functions like in WordPad. (e.g. text and background colors, text styles, paragraph formatting, bullets, sub-bullets, justification, numbering, etc).
- Support tables : HTML and Word tables are easily created and manipulated through the right click menu. You can also copy tables from a web page and paste straight into TreeDBNotes.
- Support image: images can be inserted into any page, or pasted from the clipboard.
- Favorites and bookmarks: You can create a favorite out of any note in order to jump to it from anywhere. Bookmarks, however, are anchors that can be used to jump to a specific location within the text, and are visible only within the tree/tab you are working with.
- Links creation: this is one of the coolest features which is surprisingly absent in many freeware notes programs; the ability to link to a URL, link to another note or bookmark within TreeDBNotes, or link to a local file.
- Importing & exporting: Import from *.txt, *.wri, *.rtf, Excell, Word, *.html and more, Export to *.txt, *.html, *.wri, *.doc and more.
- Searching: you can search within an individual note or across all tabs/trees.
- Layouts management: toolbars, shortcuts, and commands can be added or removed from the layout, you can also create, save, and use multiple layouts.
- Other options: allows you to create frequently used word and phrases and quickly insert them into your text , print and print preview, minimize to tray, etc.
Tags: notes information store manage
