WavePad Sound Editor is a full featured professional audio editor. It lets you make and edit music, voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio files you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad works as a wav editor or mp3 editor but it also supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and more.

WavePad is designed to be a very easy and intuitive to use for audio editing. Within minutes you will be able to open or record an audio file and edit it. But if you take time to explore the other features you will find many powerful tools for editing audio designed with the professional sound engineer in mind.




Features

    * Sound editing functions include cut, copy, paste, delete, insert, silence, autotrim and more.
    * Audio effects include, amplify, normalize, equaliser, envelope, reverb, echo, reverse, sample rate conversion and more.
    * Full featured Mp3 editing software support.
    * Supports a number of other file formats including wav (multiple codecs) vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and many more.
    * Batch processing supports up to 32000 files allowing you to apply effects and/or convert your files as a single function.
    * Tools include spectral analysis (FFT) and speech synthesis (text-to-speech).
    * Recorder supports autotrim and voice activated recording and more.
    * Audio restoration features including noise reduction and click pop removal.
    * Supports sample rates from 6000 to 96000Hz, stereo or mono, 8, 16, 24 or 32 bits.
    * Includes its own CD ripper with 'ultrafast 'rip mode and cddb music database lookup.
    * Works directly with MixPad multi-track audio mixing software.
    * Links directly to the Express Burn CD Recorder to burn your sound files to CD.
    * Edit tracks for the Zulu DJ software.
    * Easy to use interface will get you started editing in just minutes.
    * Freeware

http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/index.html

Last edited by Molly (2008-12-30 8:39:25 am)

and another battery indicator ...

Power Meter Plus provides a detailed battery meter which is always present on your desktop. The meter is partially transparent, so you can see through it.

    * It gradually appears as the power levels drop. The lower the power, the more prominent the meter will be
    * When you’re charging the laptop it’ll turn green and slowly disappear/fade as the charge increases
    * The meter appears either on the bottom left or bottom right of the screen; it moves to the opposite corner if you move your mouse over it



http://mattcollinge.wordpress.com/softw … eter-plus/

Microsoft Calculator Plus is a window-based scientific calculator PLUS a lot more... all of the standard functions such as Tangient, sine, cosine, arcsine, arccosine, arctangent, etc... Calculator plus is also a conversion utility. Convert lengths and distances, temperature, speed, volume, weight, time, area, power, density, force... even convert decimal values into fractions. Calculator plus also has a handy precision setting so you can automatically round your equation values to the nearest specified decimal places, or round your fraction values to the nearest fractional value specified.





http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS- … Plus.shtml

tip: once installed, you can use the executable as a stand-alone program, you may rename it to calc.exe and copy to %systemroot%\system32, replacing the old windows calculator.

Last edited by Molly (2008-12-30 6:30:48 pm)

The Extended Task Manager provides additional Windows process management features and information about disk activity and network port usage.

The new "Disk I/O" chart allows you to monitor which applications utilize most of your disk at the moment:



Features:

    * Displays disk input/output activity with information about related applications
    * Displays network port activity with IP addresses of external computers
    * Displays information about applications that utilized most of the CPU or memory at any time presented on the charts
    * Displays all files locked by a select process.
    * Finds all processes locking a specified file.
    * Includes "Summary" tab for quickly assessing the overall state of the Windows system
    * Allows freezing individual Windows processes
    * Offer various visual and functional improvements over the standard Windows Task Manager

http://www.extensoft.com/?p=free_task_manager

RoboForm

RoboForm is the top-rated Password Manager and Web Form Filler that completely automates password entering and form filling.
RoboForm was named PC Magazine Editor's Choice, and CNET Download.com's Software of the Year.

Screen Shots : http://www.roboform.com/screen.html

http://www.roboform.com/

Last edited by burzin (2009-01-01 2:25:45 am)

Double Driver is a very simple and useful tool which not only allows you to view all the drivers installed on your system but also allows you to backup, restore, save and print all chosen drivers simply and reliably.



http://boozet.org/dd.htm

SiteShoter v1.30



SiteShoter is a small utility that allows you to save a screenshot of any Web page into a file. It automatically creates hidden window of Internet Explorer, loads the desired Web page, and than save the entire content of the Web page into an image file (.png, .jpg, .tiff, .bmp or .gif).
You can use SiteShoter in user interface mode, or alternatively, you can run SiteShoter in command-line mode without displaying any user interface.

URL : http://www.eeefiles.com/index.php?act=view&id=382

ProcessKO is a small, stand-alone tool to quickly kill a running or hanging process / program.

ProcessKO creates a list with your favorite 'kills' for quick access

programs can also be restarted via ProcessKO



download:

http://www.softwareok.com/Download/Proc … nicode.zip

Last edited by Molly (2009-01-03 1:57:18 pm)

twiist wrote:

WinWorkBar, if you need a free, straightforward, easy-access calendar and task managing app without having to install things like Yahoo Widgets, Google Gadgets, or Rainlendar.

Twiist;

After using Rainlendar I've sort of fallen in love with it. What would be the advantages of using this app over Rain? They look pretty similar on the surface, but I assume that you've actually used both so have some expertise that I don't.

~D.

CoachWade wrote:

After using Rainlendar I've sort of fallen in love with it. What would be the advantages of using this app over Rain? They look pretty similar on the surface, but I assume that you've actually used both so have some expertise that I don't.
~D.

CoachWade, what burzin said sums it up pretty well:

burzin wrote:

I have used both.  WinWorkBar is simpler, prettier but with less options and is light on the system resources.  While Rainlander has many more options, is jazzier looking but is heavy on the system resources.

And to back that up, here's a screenshot:



As you can see, WinWorkBar practically uses only half the memory Rainlendar does. It's still a matter of personal preference, though. Since I don't mind sacrificing customization for lower memory usage, I like WinWorkBar.  Depends on you if you want shiny graphics or speed.

twiist wrote:

And to back that up, here's a screenshot:

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i83/s … orkbar.png

As you can see, WinWorkBar practically uses only half the memory Rainlendar does. It's still a matter of personal preference, though. Since I don't mind sacrificing customization for lower memory usage, I like WinWorkBar.  Depends on you if you want shiny graphics or speed.

Thanks Twiist and Burzin. That was exactly the sort of comparison I was hoping to get! Very much appreciated!

I think I'll stick with Rainlendar for the time being. (I sure like me some shiny graphics!) Thanks to the other useful apps talked about here my Asus is running more gooder now than when it came out of the box, so I have a few system resources to spare and Rainy is just so darn useful.

Thanks for the observations!

~D.

In addition to being a state-of-the-art music player as well as a complete music library managing application, Pacemaker Editor is all about creating mixes.



• Beat detection and pitch/BPM trimming
• Crossfade – cross fade transition and beat match
• Loop – duration and number of repetitions
• Audio effects and filters – Hi-cut/Lo-cut, Roll, Echo, Reverb
• EQ – 3-band; Hi, Mid, Lo: - infinity to + 9 dB
• Reverse play
• Gain and master volume
• Freeware

http://www.pacemaker.net/editor/

Last edited by Molly (2009-01-08 9:33:39 am)

Keytweak is a free keyboard remapper for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/Win 7. It makes use of Microsoft's Scancode Map registry key to remap your keyboard.



download:

http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/Ke … nstall.exe