Freewares / Free softwares 17 Dec 09

Mobile Media Converter

Mobile Media Converter (MMC), an audio/video converter, facilitates conversion between various formats. Among its features are: Supports a variety of formats like MP3, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis Audio (ogg), Wave Audio (wav), MPEG video, AVI, Windows Media Video (wmv), Flash Video (flv), QuickTime Video (mov) and commonly used mobile devices / phones formats like AMR audio (amr) and 3GP video. iPod/iPhone and PSP compatible MP4 video are also supported; Drag and Drop support; Cross-platform; FFMPEG - using ffmpeg ensures maximum compability with PC and mobile formats as well as fast conversion times; Advance settings to change the output bitrate, codec, channel, size etc; supports batch conversion of videos/audios; Integrated YouTube downloader to download and convert, straightaway; Trimming of clips for ringtone creation, and cropping videos to edit; and simple UI, common to Windows, Linux or Mac.

Mobile Media Converter, v.1.5.0, from Cyprus based MIKSOFT, can be downloaded at http://www.miksoft.net/mobileMediaConverterDown.htm

A FAQ can be browsed at FAQ at http://www.miksoft.net/mobileMediaConverter.htm#faq

BleachBit

BleachBit frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and guards your privacy. You can erase cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, remove unused localizations, shred logs, and delete temporary files. Designed for both Linux and Windows systems, BleachBit wipes clean 70 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Adobe Reader, APT, and more. Among its features are: Simple operation: just browse the descriptions, check the boxes you want, click preview, and click delete; Separate cleaners for each
application such as Firefox or IE, each cleaner with options to clean cache, cookies, and log files; Advanced cleaners can help clear the memory and swap on Linux and delete broken shortcuts on Linux. BleachBit can also vacuum Firefox, Google, Liferea, and Yum databases, and shrink files without removing data to save space and improve; BleachBit can shred files to hide contents and prevent data recovery; Overwrite free disk space to hide previously deleted files; run it without installation; frequent software updates; and free of adware, spyware, and malware assure the developers.

BleachBit can be downloaded at http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/download

ZipGenius

ZipGenius is free and easy to use, supports more than 20 formats of compressed archives, including RAR, ARJ, ACE, CAB, SQX, OpenOffice.org documents. However, not every format can be used to create new archives, they can only be used to extract files from archives. To know more on how ZipGenius treats a given format check out the table at http://www.zipgenius.com/index.php?id=16 ZipGenius can also precompress executable files added to a ZIP archive through the UPX compressor.

The 7.04 MB ZipGenius v6.2.0.2010 (10th Dec 2009), developed by M.Dev Software, for Win XP/2003/Vista/ Windows7 can be downloaded at ZipGenius http://www.zipgenius.com/index.php?id=33

Winner of several awards ZipGeinus has received raving reviews too, PC World has this to say about it - "This free app competes well against its commercial competition."

An FAQ can be browsed at http://www.zipgenius.com/index.php?id=32

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Please suggest an application which can
download videos from Youtube and convert
them to other formats.

xVideoServiceThief, for Windows/Mac/Linux,
can download from Youtube and others, and
also convert to other formats. It can be
downloaded at
http://xviservicethief.sourceforge.net/index.php?action=downloads

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