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Audio File tools

Convert the sample rate of your WAV files reliably, with Voxengo r8brain

Voxengo r8brain is a free and simple but demanding program that helps you to apply to a WAV recording the sample rate you need staying close to the initial quality. Note that the program is also able to change bandwidth and bit depth, just in case you need that too. If you are recording in […]

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File tools Graphics

Convert your images to PDF or XPS formats easily, with Image to PDF or XPS

Image to PDF or XPS is a free and portable Office utility that lets you convert some of the most common image formats such as JPG, PNG, TIF and BMP, to PDF or XPS documents, even in batch mode. Note that before you convert your images you need to create a folder for the output […]

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Video

Retouch your movies, even mixing resolutions and frame rates, with Shotcut video editor

Shotcut is a free and convenient editor you can use to retouch a movie adjusting and enhancing it any way you like. Using Shotcut you can apply filters such as glow, blur, sharpen, etc. and of course to adjust the colors using color wheels and grading. Audio filters are also available, such as pan or […]

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File tools Internet Office

Convert EML emails to or from MSG, even import them in MS Outlook, with these free addons

If you work with Microsoft Outlook and you need to convert your messages in the Outlook MSG format from EML, or the opposite, or even import EML and / or MSG emails into Outlook, this collection of free (for personal use) addons will help a lot! There are four addons, the one converts from EML […]

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Video

Store twice as much and fast your videos on local disks or the cloud, with x265 HEVC

x265 HEVC Encoder is a free and efficient program for advanced users who are able to work without using a graphical interface, taking advantage of command line arguments. The program lets you convert even Y4M and YUV videos to the HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) format, that achieves high quality (up to 8192 x 4320) […]

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Audio Video

Convert video and audio, even adding subtitles and retoutching, with Hybrid

Multimedia converters are never enough: the more you have, the better you can handle your conversion needs! Hybrid is a package of utilities related with video conversion, a package you can safely ignore if you don’t consider yourself an “advanced” user, since its use is not that easy or obvious. Hybrid is able to convert […]

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Accessories Education

Plan your routes, even converting waypoints, routes and tracks, with RouteConverter GPS for PC

RouteConverter is a free and portable (no need to install) GPS utility that will download or use on line available (a lot of) maps, to let you monitor, customize and convert routes, waypoints and tracks. You can use this application if you like to plan your routes and consolidate tracks. The program supports more than […]

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Audio

Comparing nine free top audio converters to find the best one

I convert a lot of audio files, mainly from lossless formats to MP3, since if you know the best bit rate for MP3 files, audio quality between MP3 and lossless formats remains unnoticed — or hardly noticed, only in case of extremely fine or “reference” recordings. You can imagine that with so many free audio […]

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Audio File tools

Free MP3 WMA Converter vs Efficient vs VSDC Free Audio Converter vs File Converter

I’d like to speak first about what I see first, which of course is the interface. The problem comparing these four free audio converters is that three of them are very similar, and the fourth one is invisible! File Converter (the ‘invisible’) is a shell extension, adding an option in the context menu to let […]

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Audio File tools

Fre:ac vs Freemake vs Xrecode vs MediaHuman vs Free Audio Converter

There exist a lot of free audio converters, and I’d like to help a little by comparing five very well known, including Xrecode, which is not free anymore, yet the last free version of it still works fine. All audio converters I review and compare here support the most common formats such as MP3, WMA, […]

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