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Myna, a free online audio tool from the makers of reader favorite image editor Phoenix, lets pretty much anyone jump into recording, arranging, and mixing audio tracks for quickie soundtracks, or just for the fun of it.

Myna's horizontal track-over-track layout should be familiar to users of audio tools like CoolEdit or FruityLoops, but it's pretty easy to pick up on, too. Hit the Snap to Grid button, set your beats per minute, and arranging audio clips from your own files, from a microphone, or Myna's sample libraries is just a matter of putting the pieces in place. Poke around some more, and you'll find tools for volume adjustment, gain control, reverb and flanger effects, and a few other neat effects. It's not quite a multi-track Audacity, but for something you open free in your browser, you'll probably be seriously impressed at how much Myna has to offer.

Here's a video walkthrough and track construction sample from the Myna team:

And here's what I was able to whip up after about 30 minutes of messing around with Myna. The nasal-voiced rant about Chrome's tab closing is from my headset, while the background tunes are from Myna's sample track and loop libraries:

Lifehacker test mix.egg on Aviary.

Myna is a free service, requires a user account to save a "mixdown" of a track, which you can then download and embed freely. Share your own Myna creations, and recommend other free audio tools, in the comments.

Myna [Aviary.com]

from a posting at Lifehacker http://lifehacker.com/5360912/myna-is-an-awesome-multi+track-audio-editor-for-anyone

Winamp FREE music and video player & cd burner

Winamp is a skinnable, multi-format media player.

Winamp supports a wide variety of contemporary and specialized music file formats, including MIDI, MOD, MPEG-1 audio layers 1 and 2, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WAV, OGG Vorbis, and Windows Media Audio. It supports gapless playback for MP3 and AAC, and Replay Gain for volume leveling across tracks. In addition, Winamp can play and import music from audio CDs, optionally with CD-Text, and can also burn music to CDs. Winamp supports playback of Windows Media Video and Nullsoft Streaming Video, as well as most of the video formats supported by Windows Media Player. 5.1 Surround sound is supported where formats and decoders allow.

Winamp supports many types of streaming media: Internet radio, Internet telelvision, XM Satellite Radio, AOL video, Singingfish content, podcasts, and RSS media feeds. It also has extendable support for portable media players, and users can access their media libraries anywhere via internet connections.

You can extend Winamp's functionality through the use of plug-ins, which are available on the Winamp site.

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Yahoo! Messenger is an advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic "Yahoo! ID" which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail, where users can be automatically notified when they receive new email. Yahoo! also offers PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service, file transfers, webcam hosting, text messaging service, and chat rooms in various categories.


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Whenever you log in to Yahoo Messenger, whether at home or from a cafe, it will display your contact list, so you always stay in touch with friends and colleagues. Unfortunately, Yahoo Messenger accounts won't work within other IM clients, but you can use software such as Trillian to mix messengers. You can format Yahoo Messenger text messages with a wide range of font styles and emoticons, as well as audible cues to personalize your specific message; a selection of themed backgrounds, called IMVironments, lets you further customize your messages.

When you receive a message, Yahoo Messenger displays a system tray notification with the name of the sender, so a quick look will help you decide whether to respond immediately (by clicking the tray notification) or wait till later. Free conference chat lets you converse with multiple users within the same message window. Yahoo Messenger also lets you select a photo or an avatar to represent you in messages. Plus, if text isn't your thing, Yahoo Messenger supports voice chat (through the PC's microphone and speaker) and one-on-one Web video (if your PC has a Webcam). Yahoo also offers chat rooms for public and private conversations.

Summary: Its a no-brainer choice choice really,if you want to use an easy to use tool for text comunication,since the other major alternatives like MSN Messenger posseses some potentially hazardous security risks,and ICQ is a bit more laborious to install,and Aol Messenger can be extremely frustrating to use.However,I have faced problems with logging on to Yahoo Messenger,esp.if you if you have lost or deleted the original cookie which you used while registering,and you are trying log on during peak hours when the Yahoo server is busy.Also,I have had to change the setings in the connection preferences from the default setting of "No proxies" to trying out all the other choices of "use proxy","no network detection" or "Firewall with no Proxies",with a different selection working on different occasions,and as mentioned in the CNET editor's review,the support is non-existent practically.
The feature of including a bell to alert the person you are trying to contact is nice,and exclusive to Yahoo Messenger,vs. the other choices available,as far as I am aware.
All in all,a pretty good choice for a text messenger.

All you need to start using Yahoo! Messenger is a free Yahoo! account. Once you register and download the client, you can start interacting with other Yahoo! members at no cost. But though it offers the best possible price and a variety of impressive features, Yahoo! Messenger is best suited to personal use because of its firewall limitations and poor video quality when operating in standard mode.

The main interface is the buddy list, from which you can contact your friends and colleagues or check your stocks, calendar, and address book, plus news and weather, all via the tabs at the bottom. Although the service is free, no banner ads appear in the buddy list; other tabs display small banner ads.

To add a name to your buddy list, you can enter a Yahoo! ID or Yahoo! e-mail address. Alternatively, you can perform searches, using keywords, name, and so on. But finding the correct user this way can be difficult, since Yahoo! has so many users, and the personal info listed for individual users is spotty at best.

You can initiate a voice or videoconference connection directly from your buddy list or while you are already in a standard chat session (two-person text messaging) or conference (multiperson text messaging). Unfortunately, Yahoo! Messenger doesn't offer a convenient button for launching a video and audio connection; you must start the two streams separately. When initiating a video connection, you can invite the other party to view your Webcam stream, or the one you're calling can request to see it.

Yahoo! Messenger supports two methods for voice conversation: via the Talk button (as on a walkie-talkie) or using the Hands Free mode, which allows continuous two-way conversation.

Video is handled in one of two ways, depending on your Internet connection. Super Webcam mode creates a peer-to-peer connection between two computers. This method offers good video quality, though it is not on a par with premium services like SightSpeed.

Because Super Webcam requires multiple ports to be open—some of which are typically blocked by corporate firewalls—most business users will be forced to use the standard Webcam mode, which sends data through Yahoo!'s servers. This method is very choppy, and we don't recommend it for videoconferencing unless there is no other option.

Another point to keep in mind is that Yahoo! Messenger is meant to be a social tool for the Yahoo! community. You have to be careful when setting preferences; otherwise you may accidentally create a videoconference that is open to the public, so any stranger can find and view your meeting.

Free download here http://messenger.yahoo.com/download/win/

Flash Player free

Adobe Flash Player is the high performance, lightweight, highly expressive client runtime that delivers powerful and consistent user experiences across major operating systems, browsers, mobile phones and devices.

Adobe Flash Player is the standard for delivering high-impact, rich Web content. Designs, animation, and application user interfaces are deployed immediately across all browsers and platforms, attracting and engaging users with a rich Web experience.

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Installed on over 750 million Internet-connected desktops and mobile devices, Flash Player enables organizations and individuals to build and deliver great digital experiences to their end users.

• Immersive experiences with Flash video, content and applications with full-screen mode.
• Low-bandwidth, high-quality video with advanced compression technology.
• High-fidelity text using the advanced text rendering engine.
• Real-time dynamic effects with filters for Blur, DropShadow, Glow, Bevel, Gradient Glow, Gradient Bevel, Displacement Map, Convolution, and Color Matrix.
• Innovative media compositions with 8-bit video alpha channels.
• Blend modes, radial gradient, and stroke enhancements.
• Additional image formats: GIF, Progressive JPEG, and PNG.

This download is the standalone ActiveX installer for Internet Explorer.

Old versions of the Flash player can be downloaded from Adobe at http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_14266

Sumatra PDF FREE PDF READER small size

Sumatra PDF, also known simply as Sumatra, is a free, open source, light-weight PDF reader for Microsoft Windows, Everyone needs a PDF reader if you do any surfing on the net as many books and articles and manuals are i pdf format. AND ITS FREE

Sumatra has a minimalistic design, with its simplicity attained at the expense of extensive features. It uses the MuPDF PDF rendering library.

Sumatra was designed for portable use, as it consists of one single file with no external dependencies, making it usable from an external USB driveThis classifies it as a portable application As is characteristic of many portable applications, Sumatra takes up little disk space

It has a 1.4 MB setup file, compared to Adobe Reader's 25.5 MB, for Windows XP and Vista.[3] Installed size is also 1.4MB, whereas Adobe Reader 9.1.3's installed size is approximately 199 MB.

Sumatra does not lock the PDF file. Without closing the PDF file, a user can recompile the text document and generate a new PDF file and then press the R key to refresh the PDF document.

Printing is achieved in Sumatra by transforming each pdf page into a bitmap image. This results in very large spool files and potentially slow printing on printers with little memory. Sumatra 0.5 and earlier versions can print PDFs that have disallowed printing. This feature has been removed from the newer versions.

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Skype is software that enables the world’s conversations. Millions of individuals and businesses use Skype to make free video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files with other Skype users. Everyday, people everywhere also use Skype to make low-cost calls to landlines and mobiles.

Free calls all around the world on skype to skype or to landlines at low cost. You can use skype on your computer, or get a low cost usb regular phone or even a LAN adapter to use it even when the computer is off.

Download skype free today and ask your friends to get it too and start calling free computer to computer (or wifi phone)

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Need a free word processor? Open office will serve you needs FREE

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It works with Microsoft word and its free

OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers.

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OpenOffice.org 3 is the result of over twenty years' software engineering. Designed from the start as a single piece of software, it has a consistency other products cannot match. A completely open development process means that anyone can report bugs, request new features, or enhance the software.

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OpenOffice.org 3 is easy to learn, and if you're already using another office software package, you'll take to OpenOffice.org 3 straight away. Our world-wide native-language community means that OpenOffice.org 3 is probably available and supported in your own language.

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Compatible with other major office suites, OpenOffice.org is free to download, use, and distribute. Download it now, and get:

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