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  • StaxRip Video Encoding

    StaxRip is an Open Source video encoding software that can turn videos into mpeg-4 format using codecs like x264, XviD and DivX.

  • Key Launch Application Launcher

    Key Launch is an application launcher for Windows that can launch applications but also commands with just a few keystrokes.

  • teamviewer portable

    TeamViewer Portable

    We have covered the remote desktop access software TeamViewer multiple times here on Ghacks in past years.

  • Windows xKill

    The only way to terminate an application in Windows when it freezes is to open the Windows Task Manager and terminate it this way.

  • Acer GridVista

    Frank, one of gHacks’ readers let me know about a great little tool called Acer Vista Grid that he discovered recently.

  • 5Min Life Videopedia

    Youtube sits tightly on its spot as the number one video portal in the world.

  • Convert Between Alphabets On The Fly

    If you ever had to use a computer for writing text in two different languages that do not share the same alphabet you might have experienced that you wanted to

  • Virtual DVD Drive CloneDrive

    Using virtual dvd drives can be a very effective way of storing multiple DVDs on computer hard drives.

  • Watch TV online legally

    The Internet is often a place where unlicensed television shows are easy to watch, albeit through websites offering streaming, torrents or USENET.

  • Joost Now Flash Based

    Joost was previously only accessible by using a video player that had to be downloaded.

  • Installing Winamp Plugins In AIMP

    If you look around and ask your friends which media player they prefer you will most likely come up with many different answers.

  • Learn Microsoft Excel: Smart Paste

    If you want to copy contents from a plain text file, for instance one you have created with Notepad or Notepad++, you may have noticed that contents do not get

  • Winners of Extensions for Windows

    A couple of days ago I gave some of you the chance to win one year’s license for Extensions for Windows by simply stating the one feature the

  • Convert PDF To Text

    Practically any PDF viewer has the option to copy and paste text from PDF documents, but barely any provides the means to convert a PDF document to text.

  • Norton User Account Control

    A few weeks ago I started thinking of who a company like Norton could overcome the image of producing heavyweight system slowing software products and one of th

  • USB Syncer

    USB Syncer is a small synchronization software program for Windows 2000 and Windows XP that can synchronize the contents of a folder on the hard drive with a fo

  • Walmart Decides To Keep DRM Servers

    Who would have projected this? Walmart decided to keep the DRM servers running for now after announcing that they would be shutting down the DRM servers of thei

  • O3Find Star Office Full Text Search

    O3Find is a standalone Open Source application for Windows that can be installed or used as a portable application that can perform full text searches on Open O

  • Tray Everything

    Software applications that have an option to put them in the Windows system tray instead of the Windows Taskbar are providing users with options needed to manag

  • Split Monitor

    One of the disadvantages of using a computer monitor with a high resolution is that many applications and websites are not optimized for that resolution which i

  • Win Extensions for Windows

    Extensions for Windows isn’t freeware and so this review may seem out of place here on gHacks, however I managed to score some free licenses

  • Au Revoir, Bonjour!

    If you have installed Apple software on your computer system running Windows lately, or software from Adobe or a few other software developers, chances are that

  • Web Wallpaper

    Windows Wallpapers from MSN was a Microsoft application that provided you with a wallpaper manager that allowed you to download new wallpapers from MSN sporadic

  • PDF Meta Edit

    Like Microsoft Office documents Adobe PDF documents contain meta information that can sometimes reveal information that the author does not want to be accessibl

  • Windows Extractor

    Another interesting Windows software application came up in the Donation Coder forum the other day.