Many of you who for their day to day need to convert their documents to PDF and they don’t require too much functionality ..just only converting documents to PDF and nothing else but cannot afford expensive Adobe Acrobat Pro or any other paid software can have a solution in PrimoPDF a free PDF converter / creator.I have been trying to find out a good software which can be used for just simply converting my documents to PDF without any price tag as i don’t need to do any kind of editing or so many other things that Adobe offers in its big software package.This software comes from NITROPDF.This simple PDF converter got some nice features like you can secure your document by inserting a password while converting it.Simple to use and free of annoying ads, making it easy to convert your files to PDF.You can even combine PDF files together.Its main Feature are: Create PDF files from 300+ file types.
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MPlayer – Play anything , almost all formats of Audio and video
Supported Input Formats (S)VCD (Super Video CD) CDRwin’s .bin image file DVD, including encrypted DVD MPEG-1/2 (ES/PS/PES/VOB) RIFF AVI file format ASF/WMV/WMA format QT/MOV/MP4 format RealAudio/RealVideo format Ogg/OGM files Matroska NUT NSV (Nullsoft Streaming Video) VIVO format FLI format NuppelVideo format yuv4mpeg format FILM (.cpk) format RoQ format PVA format streaming via HTTP/FTP, RTP/RTSP, MMS/MMST, MPST, SDP TV grabbing Supported Video and Audio Codecs most important video codecs: MPEG-1 (VCD) and MPEG-2 (SVCD/DVD/DVB) video MPEG-4 ASP in all variants including DivX ;-), OpenDivX (DivX4), DivX 5 (Pro), Xvid MPEG-4 AVC aka H.264 Windows Media Video 7/8 (WMV1/2) Windows Media Video 9 (WMV3) (using x86 DLL) RealVideo 1.0, 2.0 (G2) RealVideo 3.0 (RP8), 4.0 (RP9) (using Real libraries) Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3), Cinepak, RPZA and other QuickTime codecs DV video 3ivx Intel Indeo3 (3.1, 3.2) Intel Indeo 4.1 and 5.0 (using x86 DLL or XAnim codecs) VIVO 1.0, 2.0, I263 and other H.263(+) variants (using x86 DLL) MJPEG, AVID, VCR2, ASV2 and other hardware formats FLI/FLC HuffYUV various old simple RLE-like formats most important audio codecs: MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 (MP3) audio AC3/A52 (Dolby Digital) audio (software or SP/DIF) AAC (MPEG-4 audio) WMA (DivX Audio) v1, v2 WMA 9 (WMAv3), Voxware audio, ACELP.net etc (using x86 DLLs) RealAudio: COOK, SIPRO, ATRAC3 (using Real libraries) RealAudio: DNET and older codecs QuickTime: Qclp, Q-Design QDMC/QDM2, MACE 3/6 (using QT libraries), ALAC Ogg Vorbis audio VIVO audio (g723, Vivo Siren) (using x86 DLL) alaw/ulaw, (ms)gsm, pcm, *adpcm and other simple old audio formats Earlier Mplayer was just a command line player but now its with full GUI (Graphical user interface) and hence much easier for many of you.As i said earlier, its open source and hence you need not worry much about licenses.You can download the GUI version for windows here which is SMPLAYER
ZoneAlarm Pro – 1 license giveaway – Reminder
I had made a post about Zone Alarm Pro license give away to one of subscriber.This post is just a reminder for that.you just need to subscribe to my site and then comment on this post or original post to be eligible for the draw.The result will be declared on 20th of Dec 2008.Original post can be found here.http://www.avinashtech.com/2008/11/zonealarm-pro-license-giveaway-to-one.html
Gmail Integrates Task List, Keeps You Organized
The new feature can associate emails with tasks and create multiple to-do lists.To activate Gmail Tasks, you will have to go to Settings/Labs in your Gmail account and right at the top you will find the Tasks module.
Site Now moved to new domain www.avinashtech.com
This post is different from all other post.Today i just got a new domain for the site and its now been moved to http://avinashtech.com and hence its got a unique and better identity on the web.From now on you can access the site my typing http://avinashtech.com in address bar of your web browser.New domain name will provide a better identity to the site.Hence i request all of you to update your bookmarks even though old address will still work.Thank you everyone who keep coming here.
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta Direct Download Links
Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta is officially out now for public downloading, the latest release features major Hotfixes and security Updates for the operating system, Vista SP2 adds support for new hardware devices, improves certain administration tasks and addresses reliability and performance issues.The following download will work on only English, French, German, Japanese or Spanish language Windows Vista installations, the download is valid for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.Windows Vista SP2 BETA Direct Download Links : Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 32-Bit (X86) – 434 MB Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 64-Bit (x64) – 726 MB DVD ISO For Windows Vista &
TuneUp Utilities 2007 Download with Free License
Configuring Windows can be problem for many of you when the options / configuration isnt so obvious.For many of you its quite complicated even though windows is much more user friendly than Linux.Still some may require some special software to do this so that they neednot go deep into configurations/ registry settings and all.Finding the setting you need can be frustrating.
Floola – Excellent Itunes Replacement
Ever got frustrated by restrictions and less flexibility on your Itunes for managing ur Media library and doing so many other things.I m one of those guys who got fed up with Itunes and was searching for some good replacement of it.And then i found something called Floola.
MozBackup – Backup Firefox and thunderbird mail, favorites and contacts
Ever wondered how to save your bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, cache etc so that you can restore it next time when something happens to your system or u reinstall your operating system or upgrade.Many of you wold be already knowing about MozBackup which is used for backing all this up in a efficient manner.Its one of the programs i normally use as i keep on installing and uninstalling my operating system often.MozBackup is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Sunbird, Flock, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite, Spicebird and Netscape profiles.It allows you to backup mail, favorites, all your personal settings and contacts.
Free Activation code for Kaspersky Internet security 2009 for 90 Days
I have talked about Kaspersky Antivirus license (6 months for free) in my previous post.Today i will talk about how to get a free kaspersky internet security license for 3 months for free.Some of its features are:Essential Protection * Protects from all types of malware and spyware * Scans files, email messages and Internet traffic * Protects instant messengers (ICQ, MSN) * Updates automaticallyExtended Protection * Two-way personal firewall * Safe Wi-Fi and VPN connections.