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K-Lite Codec Pack Basic 8.2

MD5: 81CF65764D8247F54B9DB90A14A42E1E
Information: website
Size: 7.14 MB
MediaFie: Download
License: Freeware

K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codecs are required to encode and/or decode (play) audio and video. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files.

K-Lite Codec Pack Basic 8.2

MD5: 81CF65764D8247F54B9DB90A14A42E1E
Information: website
Size: 7.14 MB
MediaFie: Download
License: Freeware

K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codecs are required to encode and/or decode (play) audio and video. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files.

Miranda 0.9.42

MD5: B58528A32D4C6EFD9F3464DD6B0DD590
Information: website
Size: 3.14 MB
MediaFire: Download
License: Open-Source

Miranda IM is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows. Very light on system resources and extremely fast, Miranda IM requires no installation and can be made to fit on a single floppy disk or USB drive. Featuring a powerful plugin-based framework and boasting over 350 plugins, Miranda IM is one of the most flexible and customisable messaging clients on the planet.

Miranda 0.9.42

MD5: B58528A32D4C6EFD9F3464DD6B0DD590
Information: website
Size: 3.14 MB
MediaFire: Download
License: Open-Source

Miranda IM is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows. Very light on system resources and extremely fast, Miranda IM requires no installation and can be made to fit on a single floppy disk or USB drive. Featuring a powerful plugin-based framework and boasting over 350 plugins, Miranda IM is one of the most flexible and customisable messaging clients on the planet.

Miranda 0.9.42

MD5: B58528A32D4C6EFD9F3464DD6B0DD590
Information: website
Size: 3.14 MB
MediaFire: Download
License: Open-Source

Miranda IM is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows. Very light on system resources and extremely fast, Miranda IM requires no installation and can be made to fit on a single floppy disk or USB drive. Featuring a powerful plugin-based framework and boasting over 350 plugins, Miranda IM is one of the most flexible and customisable messaging clients on the planet.

Miranda 0.9.42

MD5: B58528A32D4C6EFD9F3464DD6B0DD590
Information: website
Size: 3.14 MB
MediaFire: Download
License: Open-Source

Miranda IM is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows. Very light on system resources and extremely fast, Miranda IM requires no installation and can be made to fit on a single floppy disk or USB drive. Featuring a powerful plugin-based framework and boasting over 350 plugins, Miranda IM is one of the most flexible and customisable messaging clients on the planet.

Miranda 0.9.42

MD5: B58528A32D4C6EFD9F3464DD6B0DD590
Information: website
Size: 3.14 MB
MediaFire: Download
License: Open-Source

Miranda IM is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows. Very light on system resources and extremely fast, Miranda IM requires no installation and can be made to fit on a single floppy disk or USB drive. Featuring a powerful plugin-based framework and boasting over 350 plugins, Miranda IM is one of the most flexible and customisable messaging clients on the planet.

One Platform to Organize Online Content: Social Folders

Social Folders is a free client-server application with the stated purpose of helping you organize online content. Social Folders lets you create a local backup of your online data and can upload files to your social networking accounts. You are also able to transfer files amongst your social networking accounts. All you have to do is connect your social accounts with this service.

Organize Online Content in One Place

The premise behind Social Folders is that as long as you have it running (by default, it loads at startup), it will silently connect to a range of your social content online. Sites such as Flickr, Photobucket, Google Docs, and YouTube, are a few of the sites that the makers of the software say it works with.

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When you upload new images or documents to the sites that you add to your Social Folders account, the program makes note of the upload and, once the upload completes, notifies you that you have just uploaded content to one of your monitored services. I don’t know about you, but if I just went through the steps to upload images to my Photobucket or Flickr account, or took the time to upload a video clip to my YouTube feed, I don’t need a program to tell me that I’ve just done that.

New Online Content Stored in Social Folder Locally

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Here’s another program feature that I don’t understand. I’ve just uploaded a number of images from my hard drive to Flickr or Photobucket. This means I have them stored on my hard drive already. So, why do I need to have them downloaded to another folder, on my hard drive? That just takes up extra space. If you take a large number of pictures and upload them to your sites, you’re going to run out of hard drive space pretty quickly.

Problems Experienced with the Software

When I initially downloaded and installed the software, I uploaded images to my Photobucket account and copied other images to my Social Folders Photobucket folder on my hard drive. I then told the program to refresh my services. Nothing happened. No photos were downloaded from my Photobucket account to my Social Folders Photobucket folder locally. The images I manually copied to the local folder weren’t uploaded, either. After completely uninstalling and reinstalling the software twice, it will now download images from my Flickr and Photobucket accounts to the local folder, but it still isn’t uploading images to either account when I copy images to the local folder. But I also have three folders each for Flickr and Photobucket on my hard drive.

I sent the developers a message regarding the issues I’ve been having, thinking that maybe it was an issue the software has with my 64-bit version of Windows Ultimate. They told me the software has no known issues with any operating systems and that they will look into it. They also verified the path to my Photobucket and Flickr folders.

These are the only services I use that the software works with. I have literally thousands of photos on them, plus on my Facebook account, which I didn’t connect to Social Folders. Currently, I have over 3 gigabytes of images on Photobucket alone. All of them are also stored locally on my drive in a special images folder.

If Social Folders were to have worked the way it reads, I would now have each and every one of those images stored in four different folders on my computer. That doesn’t count the ten to fifteen gigabytes of video clips I have on YouTube (again, not connected). I can keep track of what images I have uploaded to my accounts quite well, without needing to have multiple copies of them on my system. I just don’t see the need for a program like this, unless it were to only store shortcuts to the images, which would save huge amounts of hard drive space on my system.

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One Platform to Organize Online Content: Social Folders was originally published at I Love Free Software

Get Real Time Feeds from Websites with FeedMyInbox

FeedMyInbox provides you a free service where you can subscribe to feeds from your favorite websites. Though the limit on the free account subscriptions is 5 websites. FeedMyIndex gives you real time feeds from various websites you have subscribed to. It is not at all necessary that the website you are subscribing through FeedMyInbox has a RSS feed option. FeedMyInbox has software that can convert a URL into RSS feeds where whatever is updated on the website will come to you as a feed in your mailbox.

How to subscribe to real time feeds:

  • Firstly, go to website where you will find a box to put your website URL and also your email address.

real time feeds

  • After you give your email address you will be asked for the specific feed you want to receive on your email because there can be more than one type of feed available from any website. The types you want to select can be done by selecting them from the list provided.

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  • Once you click the submit button the application will send you a confirmation email to your email address where you have to confirm that you are the one who selected the FeedMyInbox application.

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  • The best thing about FeedMyInbox is that it allows the users to subscribe to more than one feed from any particular website and along with it also allows adding more websites from which you want to receive further feeds.
  • On the other hand the downside is that it allows only 1 feed per day from a single type of feed from any website unless you log in as a user in the website of FeedMyInbox. When you sign up for the FeedMyInbox you are still allowed only 5 feeds per subject and hence your work is limited to certain extent.
  • You can remove this limitation by paying a premium price and can get unlimited access to huge number of feeds.
  • Once the feed arrives in your mailbox you can get to view all the details of updates on any website just by reading through or if possible by clicking the link that gives access to the whole description of the feed.
  • For ease of use you can add the bookmarklet provided by FeedMyInbox to your bookmarks bar.

Overall, FeedMyInbox is a good app to get real time feeds. Try this app out before opting for any other just for their great method of providing you with latest updates of your favorite websites.

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Get Real Time Feeds from Websites with FeedMyInbox was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Partition Tools and Data Recovery: Eassos PartitionGuru

Eassos PartitionGuru is a free software to manage partitions on your system and help with data recovery. Partitions are ways to divide a hard drive or other type of storage media. Thinking of your hard drive as a house, the partitions on it would correspond to the various rooms in the house. A partition manager is a type of software that allows you to work with these partitions. Some partition managers only allow you to create and delete partitions. However, Eassos PartitionGuru is a much more powerful manager.

Lost Data Recovery:

Sometimes something catastrophic happens and you end up losing data. Files and partitions get deleted, either accidentally or because of some sort of catastrophic failure. Usually, when a partition or file is lost, the data is still there, but the file system pointers have been corrupted or removed. PartitionGuru can help you recover from most problems like these. It can help you recover a lost or deleted partition, as well as deleted files. If you have been careful to use the software to create backups and restore points with the software, and you’re not able to recover the lost partition or files. Then you can use PartitionGuru to restore your system to the state it was in when you created the last backup or restore point.

Works with Multiple Drive Types:

Many pieces of software of this type only work on physical hard drives. PartitionGuru works on hard drives, USB flash drives, and media cards. The software works on both MBR-type partitions and GUID Partition Table (GPT)-type partitions, supporting up to 9.4 zettabytes. Whether your drive or media is formatted in File Allocation Table (FAT) 16 or 32, New Technology File System (NTFS), PartitionGuru will work with it.

Many people who are considered ‘power users’ like to try out new software in a virtual environment. This allows them to use the software and not worry about viruses, corruptions, or other errors making it so they can’t use their computer. Many partition managers won’t work with software such as VMWare, VirtualBox and Virtual PC, but PartitionGuru does.

Advanced Features of PartitionGuru :

PartitionGuru has a number of advanced tools that provide you with a variety of useful information. There’s a data allocation table that allows you to see the level of fragmentation on your drive without running a different utility. Some of the other information that’s available from the software includes the overall capacity of the drive, the amount of space that is used and available, the total number and size of the cluster on the drive, used and free clusters, and a large amount of other information.

The Negatives :

Eassos PartitionGuru is a pretty cool little piece of software, but even if you decide to purchase the paid professional version, it doesn’t allow you to resize partitions on the fly. This means that if you move or change the size of a partition on your hard drive, you’re likely to lose much of the data on the drive.

The only warning concerning data loss that I saw while playing with the software was as I was installing it I was told that if I had data to recover, I needed to make sure to not install the software on the partition where the missing data is at.

Related posts:

  1. Partition Assistant Home Edition: Free Partition Software
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Free Partition Tools and Data Recovery: Eassos PartitionGuru was originally published at I Love Free Software