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There are loads of people out there who are gathering text based information only from the internet. These people can be students who are checking out information related to their assignments or writers, employers, writers, bloggers etc. They confront problems like going through all those codes and images that also get copied with the text. There’s a simple solution now in form of a free software called PureText.
It’s a easy to use application that lets you paste text without any formatting. It takes off all the images and codes and make your job easier. It’s a small piece of software which adds a new windows hot-key which allows you to paste text only to any application without any formatting. The default key is Windows Key +V which can be configured and changed.
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First of all, I’m glad to say that I’m back. Been suffering from Typhoid for a month and could not do much. But now I’m fine :) – And to that, I’ve made a list of Best P2P File Sharing Applications. The list is not in a particular order but rest assured these are the best apps that make the job much easier =)
1- LimeWire
LimeWire has been there for a while and is the number one choice for a lot of P2P users. It offers the fastest P2P downloads with a built-in media player that let’s you view the downloaded files in the software. It doesn’t contain any spyware, adware, or bundled software. Lets you download your files from multiple hosts and works great with Mac, Linux and windows.
Download LimeWire
2- Shareaza
Shareaza is another great P2P Application which is availablie in 27 different languages. It supports the Gnutella, Gnutella2, EDonkey Network, BitTorrent, FTP and HTTP network protocols plus handle magnet links, ed2k links, Piolet links and Gnutella links. Ther interface is clean, fast and easy to use.
There are no pop-ups, nothing, gives you the ability to download from multiple sources. You can preview comments before downloading anything. They also provide you with customization tools, giving you the ability to choose from dozens of different looks or even make your own skin and share it to the world.
Download Shareaza
3- iMesh
iMesh is the ultimate P2P file sharing application which is 100% legal. It overs over 15 Million free songs, videos and much more. Features include:
- Instant connections
- World’s fastest downloads
- Search by artist, title and album to get instant search results
- All new music and video player
- A vibrant music community with many ways to connect and share music with others
- Staff-designed playlists
- Unique compilations and great mood music
- New releases
- iMesh recommendations as well as lists of top-played songs
- Definitely NO adware or spyware
Download iMesh
4- Acquisition
Acquisition is a great P2P file sharing application for MAC users. It lets you search and download files from millions of Mac and Windows users. It’s optimized for the fastest transfers – Gnutella & BitTorrent. One of the great features of this software is that it lets you automatically send downloaded files to iTunes and your iPod or iPhone.
Download Acquisition
5- Apollon
Apollon is a P2P File sharing application for Linux users. It uses a plugin system which allows you to choose which network or multiple networks you wish to use. Finally, plugins for the OpenNap and SoulSeek networks are under development. Features Include:
- Searching and downloading from several networks at the same time
- Tabbed searching
- Preview of mp3 and videos (you need kde-multimedia installed)
- Configure giFT and your plugins with Apollon’s settings dialog
- FirstRun wizard to get started easily
- systemtray docking
- Download in the background
- Apollon can connect to a remote giFT daemon
- Chat for Apollon users
- Comes in several languages
Download Apollon
6- BearFlix
BearFlix is a P2P application for windows users which focuses on Videos only. It’s optimized for fast downloading for video files and you can
- Connect to more sources and download video faster
- Find more free video files with a ‘deep search’ mechanism
- Reliable free downloads – automatic resume mechanism
- Improved user interface, designed for Video downloads
- Video specific media player
- Automatic Virus protection
- Configurable Parental controls
- Easy to use, just install, and GO!
- Download videos online for free!
Download BearFlix
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There are a lot of great music players out there for Windows and Mac operating systems but so does Linux. Some of these players support almost anything, some don’t. Some are heavy on the system, some aren’t. I’ve compiled a list of most used Linux based music/media/audio players. The list is not in a particular order, whatever you think is your favorite, mention it in the comments :)..
1- Rhythmbox
Rythmbox is a great music management application for Linux which gives you access to a lot of nice features. Including
- Easy to use music browser
- Searching and sorting
- Comprehensive audio format support through GStreamer
- Internet Radio support including last.fm streams
- Playlists
- Display audio visualizations
- Transfer music to and from iPod, MTP, and USB Mass Storage music players
- Display album art and song lyrics downloaded from the internet
- Play, rip, and burn audio CDs
- Automatically download audio podcasts
- Browse, preview, and download albums from Magnatune and Jamendo
Download RythmBox
2- SongBird
Songbird is one of the best music application for Linux. It supports MP3, FLAC, and Vorbis on all platforms; WMA and WMA DRM on Windows; and AAC and Fairplay on Windows and Mac.
Download SongBird
3- Listen Project
Listen project is a another nice music player for Linux which is written in Python (language). You can easily organize your music collections with ogg, flac, mpc, mp3, mp4, m4a supported. Feature of browsing different web service like:
- Shoucast Webradio
- Podcast
- Lyrics (througth many plugins like lyriki, leolyrics,… )
- Wikipedia informations about artists or albums
and with 4 different interface modes, it’s a must have.
Download Listen-Project
4- Gnome Music Player
Gnome Music Player Client also known as GMPC is fast and easy to use. The best thing about this software is that it’s optimized to run on low end machines and over slow networks while supporting and giving you access to a lot of great features like:
- File Browser
- Browser based on ID3 information
- Search
- Current playlist viewer with search
- ID3 Information
- Metadata support, it can show artist image, album art, lyrics, etc
- Profile support
- Support for loading/saving playlists
- Lots of Plugin support
Download Gnome Music Player
5- Bmpx
BMPx is a simple to use media player for linux. You can watch the latest CNN news or listen to the BBC NewsPod. Last.fm works great with it, and almost all the files that a media player supports are supported. BMPx uses GStreamer (which is a multimedia framework used to drive BMP’s audio backend) as the playback back end and thus can play whatever GStreamer can play on your system.
Download Bmpx
6- Sonata
Sonata is another great GTK+ Music player for MPD (Music player daemon). It’s a free software with a elegant and intuitive interface for your music collection. It has a s tabbed interface which includes your current playlist, your library (browse by filesystem, artists, or albums), your saved playlists, and any streams (pls/m3u is supported). You can perform most of your actions through right-click popup menus. Features Include:
- Expanded and collapsed views
- Automatic remote and local album art
- User-configurable columns
- Automatic fetching of lyrics
- Playlist and stream support
- Support for editing song tags
- Popup notification
- Library and playlist searching
- Audioscrobbler (last.fm) support
- Multiple MPD profiles
- Keyboard friendly
- Support for multimedia keys
- Commandline control
- Available in 20 languages
Download Sonata
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If you are a web developer and work with CSS codes on those expensive softwares, it’s time to try this Free CSS Editor called “Free CSS ToolBox“. It comes with a very simple and easy to use interface which consists of code editor with syntax highlighting and several valuable CSS tools.
It offers various number of helpful tools that can help you enhance your development of style sheet code, such as an advanced CSS Formatter and CSS Validator. Features Include:
- Quickly create and adjust CSS code
- Auto-complete and syntax highlighting makes CSS editing easy
- Easily re-format any CSS code
- Quickly adjust somebody’s else CSS to fit your style
- Make your code pretty and easy to read
- Find and eliminate errors in your code
- Check your CSS against various specifications
- See if your CSS is compatible with older web browsers
- Reduce the size of your CSS code by up to 70%
- Make your web pages load faster
- Integration with W3C CSS Validator
- Quickly validate your CSS code with the web-based W3C CSS Validator
- Make sure your CSS is up to the CSS Level 2 standard
Download Free CSS ToolBar
There are a lot of good screen capturing applications out there for Mac, most of them are paid, some are shareware and there are free ones too. Here is a list of some great freeware softwares for capturing screenshots of your MAC.
1- GrabberRaster
GrabberRaster is a great application that gives you access to take repeated screenshots and can capture from almost anything on your MAC. You can resize and save anything you like in a single click.
Download GrabberRaster
2- Copernicus
Copernicus is a smashing application for Mac that not only takes screenshots of as many pictures you want to but also gives you access to create shorter movies out of those pictures by increasing the movie framerates significantly.
Download Copernicus
3- InstantShot!
InstantShot! gives you a classical screenshot functionality for capturing the whole screen, a portion of it or a window. Some cool features include, taking timed screenshots where you can set a timer, take multiple screenshots at once and lots more.
Download InstantShot!
4- SnapNDrag
SnapNDrag is a simple, free application for your Mac that makes the screen capturing job easier. With a single click of a button, you can capture and then drag the result off to another application or to the Finder.
Download SnapNDrag
5- ScreenCaptureX
ScreenCaptureX is another free software for capturing a section of your screen or a full window. It saves those images as JPEG (By default) which you can change to either PNG or PICT. It also gives you the ability to add a caption to it.
Download ScreenCaptureX
I hope you like these and if there’s any missing that you think should be added, please leave it your comments, I’ll surely update them.
PDF is a short form of Portable Document Format. It was created by Adobe and now is one of the most used resource. I have compiled a list of great websites/softwares where you can create / convert PDF’s from word documents or almost any printable document. Best thing about these sites is that they provide their software for free and with some, you can convert those PDF’s online, without downloading any software.
1- PDF Creater
PDFCreator is a nice software that easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application.
Download PDF Converter
2- Primo PDF
Primo PDF claims to be world’s #1 free PDF Creater. It allows you to easily convert to PDF from any file you can print, including Microsoft Word, Excel and powerpoint.
Features Include:
- Completely free PDF creator – Create PDF files from 300+ file types.
- Make 100% industry-standard PDF from any files that print.
- Create PDF files optimized for print, screen, ebook, or prepress.
Download Primo PDF
3- DoPDF
doPDF is a another great free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. You can easily create PDF files in by selecting the “Print” command from virtually any application. Even if you’re looking to convery your emails or your favorite website to PDF, DoPDF does the job fine.
Download doPDF
4- CC PDF Converter
Another free application for creating professional quality PDF files from almost any printable document is CC PDF Converter. It also allows you to easily embed a creative commons license in your PDF file.
Download CC PDF Converter
Even with the availability of hundreds of GB’s of hard disks around, we still need to keep our data safe. That’s when CD’s/DVD’s come in place. You can find a lot of great CD/DVD burners out there but most of them are not free and definitely expensive. I’ve compiled a list of 5 Free great CD/DVD burners which are totally free of cost.
1. CDBurnerXP
CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs. A great thing about CDBurnerXP is that it can also burn Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. CDBurnerXP has a multi-language interface which also lets you burn and create ISOs.
Features Include:
- Burn all kinds of discs
- Audio-CDs with or without gaps between tracks
- Burn and create ISO files
- Data verification after burning process
- Create bootable discs
- Multi-language interface
- Bin/nrg → ISO converter, simple cover printing and much more!
- Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
Requires: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
Download CDBurnerXP
2- ImgBurn
ImgBurn is another great free CD/DVD burner. It’s a light weight software which burns CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray etc. It also supports a wide range of image file formats – including BIN, CUE, DI, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI.
With the ability to burn Audio CD’s from any file type supported via DirectShow / ACM – including AAC, APE, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA and WV, it’s a must have.
Download ImgBurn
3- InfraRecorder
In the line of free CD/DVD burners, InfraRecorder also proves it’s mark. It’s free CD/DVD burning solution for Windows which offers great features and simple integration. You can create custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them to physical discs as well as disc images.
Features Include:
- Supports recording to dual-layer DVDs.
- Blank (erase) rewritable discs using four different methods.
- Record disc images (ISO and BIN/CUE).
- Fixate discs (write lead-out information to prevent further data from being added to the disc).
- Scan the SCSI/IDE bus for devices and collect information about their capabilities.
- Create disc copies, on the fly and using a temporary disc image.
- Import session data from multi-session discs and add more sessions to them.
- Display disc information.
- Save audio and data tracks to files (.wav, .wma, .ogg, .mp3 and .iso).
Download InfraRecorder
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