‘TalkText’ is a minimalist text to speech utility that makes use of the built in TTS voices that come with Windows 7 & 8. They may not ‘sound’ that great when compared with some premium text to speech engines out there, but for simple needs, they are still pretty decent. Anyhow, with ‘TalkText’, you...
Read more →‘WaveShop’ is a free & open-source audio editor for the Windows operating system. It’s also a ‘bit-perfect’ audio editor & thus, the audio that is loaded into ‘WaveShop’ will be the same that’s rendered to the sound output device, without adding any filters, unless chosen otherwise. You can ‘Copy/Cut/Paste/Delete’, ‘Undo/Redo’, ‘Select/Deselect’, ‘Zoom in/out’ etc...
Read more →For years, ‘KMPlayer’ has been my favorite media player under MS Windows. It can play almost any audio/video codec, has a beautiful UI, comes with a huge number of options, completely free, one couldn’t ask for more . I’ve also used ‘Media Player Classic’ (comes with ‘KLite-Codec pack’), though I have a tremendous respect...
Read more →‘PDF Merge’ is a very simple tool that lets you merge PDF documents with ease. Since it requires ‘.NET Framework 4′ to run, it should work natively in Windows 8 (as it comes with ‘.Net 4′ installed by default) and according to the developer, it also works on Windows 7 too. It is an...
Read more →‘Nomacs’ is an image viewer (with basic image editing support) that runs on GNU/Linux, Windows & Mac OS X. It has a beautiful interface, supports image slideshows, runs in multiple instances, has a built in image color manipulator, reads RAW images, lets you save images into other formats etc. Few days ago, after one...
Read more →‘Sleep#’ (‘sleepsharp’) is a simple but a handy utility for those of you who listen to audio or video songs before going to sleep, and looking for a way to put the PC to sleep once the playback (or playlist) is finished (as Windows disables ‘Sleep mode’ when playing multimedia files). Not only that,...
Read more →‘QWinFF’ is a simple & intuitive multimedia converter (based on ‘ffmpeg’) that runs on GNU/Linux and Windows. I first wrote about almost an year ago, and since then, it has undergone a few changes. ‘QWinFF’ now supports ‘cutting’ (changes can be previewed) which gives you more control over the file’s content that’s going to...
Read more →‘Aard’ is a simple and easy to use offline dictionary that runs on Ubuntu, Windows and Mac OS X. And unlike many other offline dictionaries, no matter what operating system that you use, ‘Aard’ is extremely easy to setup too. The reason that I brought that up was because, there are some dictionaries that...
Read more →The ‘audio to video synchronization‘ value is a very important technical aspect of a multimedia file, because when playing, multimedia players use it for properly synchronizing the audio and the video track. If the synchronization value is incorrect, then that will make the audio come before or after the video scenes and thus, jeopardizing...
Read more →‘BitKiller’ is an application that lets you easily delete files & folders securely (beyond the ability to recovery them later). It is open-source (GPL licensed), free to use and doesn’t need to be installed either, so you can use it as a portable application as well. It can only be used with files or...
Read more →‘Tuniac’ is a simple and a memory friendly music manager for Windows. It supports a lot of audio formats (not only audio files, you can even add video files into its window and will still play the audio track!) has an ‘iTunes’ inspired user interface and loads pretty much in an ‘instant’. It also...
Read more →Using USB flash drives for installing operating systems is very popular these days, especially among the GNU/Linux fans. There are hundreds of different GNU/Linux distributions out there, most release a new version, once every six months, and major distributions (such as Ubuntu, Fedora etc) no longer release 700MB sized ISO disc images that fit...
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