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Monthly Archives : December, 2009

Camstudio

This application is a screen capture application. You can save a selected area of your desktop and save it as a picture.

You can also save your actions as a movie. Perfect if you want to show someone how to do something on the computer.

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Rating 3.00 out of 5

Desk drive

Here’s a cool little program that solves a really annoying problem. You pop a USB thumb drive or DVD into your computer and then you have to open Window’s Explorer and find the mapped drive or folder. Desk Drive adds a desktop icon pointing to the drive automatically. Remove the media and the shortcut goes away. Brilliantly simple and effective.

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Rating 3.00 out of 5

Mixxx

This program allows you to become a DJ. Mix songs, slow down the pitch of the song etc…

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Rating 3.00 out of 5

Mp3 gain

I don’t know about you but I own a very large collection of Mp3 and the level of recording is very inconsistent. Some songs are recorded very loud and some of them you have to crank the volume. Mp3 gain will allow you to select an album or a folder and adjust the recording level  of the Mp3.

MP3Gain does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do. Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear.
Also, the changes MP3Gain makes are completely loss less. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly.

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Rating 3.00 out of 5

Inssider

This is a wi-fi scanner that will display the strenght of the signal and display it in a graphic.

As you are approaching closer to the access point ( router ) the signal  will be stronger and you know that this is the router you are looking for.

  • Inspect your WLAN and surrounding networks to troubleshoot competing access points.
  • Track the strength of received signal in dBm over time.
  • Filter access points in an easy to use format.
  • Highlight access points for areas with high Wi-Fi concentration
  • Export Wi-Fi and GPS data to a KML file to view in Google Eart

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Rating 3.00 out of 5