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Have you ever watched a movie on your computer and wished that you could extract the soundtrack from the video? Maybe you wanted to convert an audio file to a different format and couldn’t find an easy way to do it.
Any Audio Converter is a free audio converter and extractor that will let you extract […]

Faster internet connections means more downloads. More downloads means your hard drive gets full really fast. In a perfect world, you could just download whatever you want without ever having to make sure you have enough space on your hard drive.
PCSpaceCheck is a free utility that lets you see what’s eating up your precious hard […]

Google has recently added StarOffice 8 to its Google Pack download package. The pack version of StarOffice contains the Google Search toolbar in all its applications. Most of you will remember that the source code for StarOffice was the foundation for OpenOffice.org.
StarOffice comes with a word processor, presentation and spreadsheet tools, and math and drawing […]

If you’ve ever wanted to create your own online course or training program, look no further. myUdutu is a free web-based course authoring tool that lets you create and edit interactive courses online. Maybe you’d like to create an interactive course for your kids or students, this authoring tool is what you’re looking for. […]

Have you ever watched a video and wished that you could take some parts out permanently? Free Fast MPEG Cut is a free application that will let you trim your videos without having to re-encode it. This means that you don’t lose any video quality.

This app will be useful for taking out parts of […]

If you’ve ever wanted to convert your PowerPoint presentations to Flash, you’re in luck. Sized at just under 4MB, authorPOINT Lite is a free utility that converts PPT to swf and gives you the ability to retain its sounds, narrations and animations. The application even lets you convert multiple .ppt or .pps to .swf […]

Beta testing for the next update of Parallels Desktop for Mac has started. Announced on the official Parallels blog, the beta is free to all Desktop 3.0 users with a permanent or trial key.
The newly added features are:

Coherence windows now work with Expose
The Image Tool is back and fully compatible with snapshotted drives.
Explorer now works […]

Converting your audio and media files to different formats so you can play them on different players can be a tedious task. For people with large media collections, file conversion is rarely considered without using a batch converter.
MediaCoder is a free audio/video batch transcoder that will make the process of converting your media files to […]