Avidemux

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license.

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/download.html

SlimCleaner

SlimCleaner uses social networking for PC repair and optimization. It combines the industry’s fastest PC cleaning engine with a community of users who provide real-time feedback to improve computer performance.  SlimCleaner uses social networking and community-sourced feedback to tell people what’s on their computer, and what they can do about it: it’s like having an army of tech-savvy geeks helping consumers maintain their machines.

SlimCleaner has just jumped to version 3.0, and with new tools on board, it aims to keep all of your drives -- internal, external, flash, and other -- decluttered and secure. Among other updates, the new version comes with a Disk Summary, Disk Analyzer, Disk Wiper, and Shredder, all of which are easily accessible from the program's home screen. If you're in the market for a free Windows utility to optimize your disk performance, you can check out SlimCleaner 3.0, at

http://www.slimcleaner.com/downloads/SlimCleaner-setup.exe

Thousands may lose internet in July?

AP | Apr 21, 2012, 11.47AM IST

WASHINGTON: For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing internet connections this summer.

Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers around the world. In a highly unusual response, the FBI set up a safety net months ago using government computers to prevent internet disruptions for those infected users. But that system is to be shut down.

The FBI is encouraging users to visit a website run by its security partner, http://www.dcwg.org , that will inform them whether they're infected and explain how to fix the problem. After July 9, infected users won't be able to connect to the internet.

Read more at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com//articleshow/12788142.cms?intenttarget=no

Panther

Panther is free and open media converter that you can use to convert your music and videos from one format to the other. No more format incompatibilities! Just convert your song your video to the format you want!

Featuring a simple and easy to use interface, it can get you started on your conversion task within a moment. A fast conversion engine and also features a simple UI for newbies and an advanced one for the pros! Special features include reducing the size of audio without affect the quality much! Also supported presets for converting videos!

You can check out Panther, for Windows and Linux, at

http://sankha93.github.com/Panther/get.html

Google Drive with 5GB free storage

Google Drive is finally launching next week as expected earlier according to The Next Web. Google Drive rumors appeared several times before this, a report on March suggested that it will launch in the month of April. It is launching with 5GB of free storage to users, earlier reports suggested that it will launch with 1GB of free storage.

5Gb of free storage will make sense and allow it compete with other free storage services. For example Dropbox offers 2GB of free space, Box and iCloud offer 5GB of free space, while Microsoft's Skydrive offers 25GB of free space. Dropbox and Box offer more storage through various offers.

Users can buy additional storage if the free 5Gb storage is not enough.

Source: Technology Bites

Hypegram

If you’re a music lover, you must have heard about hype machine, a web service that keeps track of the bloggers across the world wide web that write about the best music available. This not only saves you time to find that awesome tune you might have wanted to listen to, but also keeps you stumbling upon the latest and greatest music trends around internet. If you want to experience the love of hype machine on your desktop, then meet Hypegram, a beautiful and elegant application that will let you stream music right on your desktop. This tool will also help you keep up with all the latest and popular songs that people have been sharing on the various blogs.

http://hypegram.com/


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Miitla

Miitla lets you save interesting things and return to them later with just one click! It is a bookmarking aplication. Drag and drop Miitla button on your browser toolbar (bookmarklet). Then click it whenever you want to save current site. Use different bookmarks depending on your needs. We have pop-up windows, overlay windows with and without user login.

Miitla, now in beta stage, is free of charge and it will stay that way, aver its developers.

http://miitla.com/

Web Video Fetcher

WebVideoFetcher.com is a free internet videos download application. It claims to convert nearly any audio or video URL from YouTube, MySpace, Google, Facebook and other sites to common formats.

After the URL is entered the application tries to detect the media file, grabs and converts it in real time to the chosen format.

http://webvideofetcher.com/

XBMC

XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player andentertainment hub for digital media. Currently XBMC can be used to play almostall popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available. Use your
media as-is: XBMC can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file,almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive, and even files inside ZIP and RAR archives. It will even scan all of your media and automatically create a personalized library complete with box covers, descriptions, and fanart. There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature
and many audio visualizations. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox.

XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, and Windows, and can be downloaded at http://xbmc.org/download/