Category: Windows 7

Windows is a great operating system, but it is not so much popular among the geeks as the Linux operating system is. If you want to have a little taste of the secure Linux operating system without having to install it first, then you can either download the live Linux CD/DVD images or you can create the live USB disks through the free LiLi (Linux Live) USB Creator program.

Windows file copying used to be very fast in the Windows XP days. The later versions of Windows seem to have slower file copy mechanisms. This may be due to carrying out file copy verifications for each of the files that is being copied. But now you can get faster file copy speeds by using the free WinMend File Copy software. It boasts of increasing the file copying speeds to 300% faster than the standard Windows file copy function.

In order to stay protected against latest vulnerabilities found in the Microsoft Windows and other software like Java, Adobe Flash etc., you have to keep them up-to-date by installing latest versions of software and available patches. But sometimes these software updaters are very annoying and start downloading the updates when you are in the middle of something important. If you want to toggle on or off the software updates for them, then you can make use of the free UpdateFreezer program.

Music is the main reason why Apple iPod is so successful today. When listening to the music on your desktop or laptop computer, you have to use your mouse or keyboard to pause, play or skip to next track in your playlist. But now you can control the music by just making gestures with your palms using the free Flutter software. It lets you play, pause or jump to the previous or the next track by making palm gestures in a special way.

When it comes to mentioning the open source tools for video or audio format conversion and trans-coding, the first name that comes to our mind is FFMPEG. But FFMPEG is a command line tool with too many command line parameters to remember. The difficulty involved in using this command line program is solved by an open source GUI for FFMPEG called WinFF. It is a free GUI for FFMPEG for Windows operating system and lets you easily convert any video file into formats supported by FFMPEG.

Sometimes we download a PDF file and want to modify it a little but that requires expensive applications like Adobe PDF Editor or Foxit PDF Editor. But now you can get Debenu PDF Tools for free and use them to not only modify your PDF files but also for converting, merging, splitting, modifying the properties, changing or removing passwords and much more.

If you have come home after vacations, then you must be having a great many number of photos of the memorable moments. If you want to share them with friends, then you can make a slideshow video from your photos and upload it to Youtube. If you upload the video to Youtube, then you do not have to upload all pictures one by one, you can just upload one video and be done with it. You can use free Bolide Slideshow Creator to turn your photos into amazing MP4, MKV, AVI, WMV or FLV videos.

Sometimes when we get movies either entirely or partially foreign languages that you cannot understand. One easy solution to understand the foreign language portions of such movies is to download subtitles from the internet for those movies. Some of these subtitles are hastily written and contain grammatical or spelling mistakes. You can always correct and edit subtitles using the free Subtitle Edit program.

When you are copying images from your PC to your mobile devices, you have to be careful about the image formats as some of the image formats are not natively supported on the mobile operating systems. For example, you cannot view TIFF image format in Android without the help of a third party app. Using the freeware SendTo-Convert application, you can easily change the image formats into more popular and widely supported image types by just right-clicking on images.

Sure we can use Google Translate to automatically detect the language and translate it into English at the same time, but sometimes Google cannot identify close resembling languages like Bulgarian and Russian. Besides Google Translate supports only very popular languages. This is where free Polyglot 3000 comes in – it can easily identify the correct language of a phrase, sentence or word instantly using its offline database of more than 470 languages.