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Anvil Studio, Tool for recording and editing MIDI music
Anvil Studio is great tool for recording MIDI from you music keyboard. For recording your music from MIDI capable instrument like piano or keyboard, you need a MIDI-to-USB cable. For example Yamaha UX16 works fine (photo). Some instruments do provide … Continue reading
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Audacity, Tool for recording and editing mp3 files
Audacity is a good tool for recording voice and saving it in mp3 format. I recommend to download and use at least Audacity 1.3 (beta) because it provides auto recovery support in case your recording crashes for any reason. (Happened … Continue reading
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KeePass, Tool for securing and storing your passwords
KeePass is great tool to store your password in encrypted format in a single file. Encrypted file provides protection against accidental loss of your USB drive when travelling. KeePass has a portable version available. Screenshots are available. Classic Edition is … Continue reading
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IrfanView, Tool for viewing and converting pictures and graphics
One of the good graphics viewers for Windows is IrfanView. It supports a huge number of graphic formats. Great features are especially: thumbnail preview batch convertion (like resize) with rename option transparent color option for png I would recommend … Continue reading
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ScreenGrab, Tool for taking screenshots in an easy way
There exist many good screen capture utilities. I’m using an older, but great, software called ScreenGrab. The best features are: hotkey for capturing automatic file name generation accurate, no loosing pixels with PNG Simple and efficient, does the job well. … Continue reading
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Explorer++, Tool for File Management
Explorer++ makes it easier to manage your file and folders. Windows Explorer simply is not enough. Best features of Explorer++ are: tabbed windows folder bookmarks
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A simple way to protect email attachments
7-zip can be used to create encrypted archives (see blog). If exe files are allowed in the email, then 7-zip can create self-extracting achive.