Audacity - free alternative to Adobe Soundbooth, Audition and WaveLab

Sound editing is a very important part of any multimedia project. Now-a-days sound editing has become very easy and frustration free, thanks to the sophisticated sound editing softwares, which makes the work of the sound editor lot easier and productive. But most of the commercial sound editing software are costly. They may be a better option for professional sound editors but for normal multimedia geeks who just need to do some tweaking of sound, it is not worth the money. But don't be upset there are lots of free sound editors for normal users who just need to do some tweaking and sound enhancing. Here is one such software.

Firefox addon to protect against homepage and search hijacking

Today Internet is flooded with new softwares and apps. Thousands are uploaded everyday and most of them are free. Due to this the user can't overcome the temptation to download and try the new softwares. But one should always be careful while using new software, because they can posses many security threats. One of such threats is browser homepage and search hijacking, where the software changes the configuration setting of the browser and resets your homepage and search options. There are special software to prevent this from happening but instead of using this software you can just use a Firefox addon.

 BrowserProtect


 BrowserProtect is a small Firefox addon that protects the browser against homepage and search hijacking. It monitors the browser's configuration against malwares which hijack your homepage and search configuration.
If it detects any suspicious change in the configuration it blocks it and reports it to the user.

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Free Open-Source screenshot tool

Screenshots are very important in articles and tutorials to show practical uses. The most common method for taking screenshot is by pressing the print screen button and then pasting it in Ms-paint. This is ok if you need the screenshot of the full screen, but many times you may just want to take screenshot of  a region or part of the screen. To accomplice this you may have to have a image editing software. Now this can be very tiresome if there are too  many screenshots, lot of productive time is wasted. This problem can be easily solved using a professional screenshot tool. Here is one such open source tool.

Greenshot
Greenshot is a free and opensource utility software to quickly take screenshots of the screen or part of the screen. It is optimised for maximum productivity. You can later add text or crop the image.Greenhost can be also used to easily annotate, highlight or obfuscate parts of the screenshot. Its a boon to the technology writers and bloggers.

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Searching and playing subtitles of any movie.

Today in the age of globalization, the Internet has played a major role in connecting different parts of the world to each other. Due to this movies from different parts of the world are getting acknowledged on a international platform. But the fans have a hard time following movies, which are in language they are not fluent in.  Now here subtitles play a major role in helping this movie fans. But many of the fans think that subtitles have to be integrated in the movies before hand, but this is not true. This tutorial will explain to you how you can download subtitle files and play them with the movies. So lets get started.

Create Wi-Fi Hotspot on Windows 7 using Connectify

Today mostly everybody owns a PC or laptop and majority of them own more than one PC or laptop. Now one of the main problems with multiple computing devices is sharing the Internet connection. One of the excellent solution to this problem is to create a Wi-Fi Hotspot, which can enable the multiple computing devices to share Internet without mess of wires and routers. So here is a small and very useful software which can be used to create a Wi-Fi hotspot on Windows 7 in no time.

Facebook Video Spam

This is a warning to all Facebook users. A video spam is getting very popular and spreading like a wild fire. Basically you will receive a post from your  friends on your wall with a video player saying that you are there in the video or you are tagged in the video. But when you click on it will tell you to select the the address bar and press ctrl+v and and then enter. when you do that it will post the same post on your friends wall. So please beware of this spam and keep your shelf safe from falling for such a idiotic spam.

Bypass Compulsory Web Registration

Are you fed up of sites which force you to register to access their information or to get extra privileges?. The web is supposed to be a symbol of freedom., were every information is available to the users without any restriction. But today websites are promoting a closed system where only people registered with them are granted information and privileges. Many netizens won't mind registering but the thing like spams, unwanted newsletters etc which show themselves in the users inbox after registering is simply a headache. But every lock has its key. So here are some sites and addon which may solve your problem.

Video Chat On Multiple Clients Simultaneously using ManyCam Virtual Webcam

If you are a Hardcore Internet addict and waste most of your time video chatting here is a software that might interest you. One of the problem faced by video chat users is that they can't video chat on multiple clients simultaneously. But this problem can be easily solved using  Virtual Webcams. Here is a free Virtual Webcam software.

Beat Clicking Games by Automating Mouse-clicks

Now-a-days game making has become very easy and thousands of small flash and other games are uploaded every day on the Internet. Most of this games are mouse controlled and use mouse clicks for actions like shooting, jumping etc. after sometime the mouse clicking gets very boring or the fingers start aching. But this problem can be easily solved by automating the mouse clicks. So here is a software which automates mouse clicks.

Generate TinyUrl Links with a right-click (Firefox Addons)

Most of you must be familiar with TinyUrl URL shortening service. If you don't  "TinyUrl is a website which allows the user to shorten a long URL into a simple short URL in the form 'www.TinyUrl.com /some number & alphabet' when you use this link it just redirects you to the original link. This comes in real handy if you want to open the link on a mobile phone where it is impossible to type such lenghty URLs. It is also very useful when creating long lists of URLs. But sometimes it becomes boring and time wasting to go to the TinyUrl site every time you want to create a short URL. But don't worry there is a popular Firefox addon which can make this task as easy as right clicking the URL. Here is the addon,

Overwrite data to make it unrecoverable

After reading the title many reader will think why take so much trouble to overwrite data to delete it permanently and will suggest that just empty the recycle bin after deleting the file. But permanently deleting the file does not actually delete the file permanently, the data is till there on the hard-drive and will remain there till other files are not overwritten on them, so if somebody gets access to your hard-drive he can easily recover the data using data recovery softwares. This problem can be easily solved by using data overwriting softwares, this softwares overwrite the data and then delete it which makes the file useless even if it is recovered. Here is one such free software.

Protect Your Files From Getting Deleted

We see lots of computer users who delete their important files and then cry over it and if the file was job related or some project or assignment then god save them. This problem mostly occurs where there are more then one users on a single computer like in colleges or work places, one of the user may not know the particular file is very important to the other user and he may casually delete it. Many will futilely try to get it back by using data-recovery software but chances of getting back the file are very slim. This all unnecessary trouble can be easily avoided by anti-delete protecting your important files. Here is one such software to protect the files