Digital Media Converter is software that allows an easy way to convert audio or video files from one format to another. You can organize and even batch convert all your video and audio files between: VCD, DVD, AVI (DivX, MS MPEG4, uncompressed, etc), MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (PAL, NTSC), MP3, MOV, WMA, WMV, and WAV formats.

This comes in useful if you, for example, want to bring your video files with you on a portable device such as a video iPod or Sony PSP. It is pretty easy to use, with a nice and easy to understand interface, it also pre-selects the best settings for you, so you don’t need to go and get too confused about what settings to select.

The latest version also features enhanced Windows Vista compatibility. Click here for more info and to download the trial.

Video Edit Magic is a simple way to edit videos. It offers you a good alternative to more expensive software for your home video editing needs. You can select video, audio and images to use for your work, and the various effects and transitions that you can choose from give you a good starting point.

You don’t have to be familiar with video editing in order to be able to give your videos a quality touch, and if you should bump into any problems, use the help menu with confidence, since it has plenty of information and explanations. The program also has a drag and drop interface which makes it easy to use.

This is a cool video editing program for anyone on a budget who wants to edit home movies, etc. You can download a trial and find out more info about the (pretty impressive) features at the homepage here.

If you’ve been looking for an easy to use software to extract email addresses from web sites, today is your day. Here is something that should do the trick. It’s called Advanced Email Extractor Pro. Advanced Email Extractor (AEE) is designed to extract e-mail addresses from web-pages on the Internet (using HTTP and HTTPS protocols) and from HTML and text files on local disks.

You will appreciate the fact that it supports operation through a proxy-server and works very fast.Yeah it is! It is actually able to load several pages simultaneously, and requires very few resources. It is possible to launch it in fully automatic mode through the command prompt.

One of the features that I really like is the fact that it makes it easy for you to extract only the addresses you actually need from web-pages, instead of extracting all the addresses present there.

The only thing you might have an issue with is the price but then there are 3 different editions [Standard, Pro, Premium] with different prices, maybe you can find one you can afford.

CLICK HERE for more info.

Here is a really powerful POP3 email checking program for you.

CheckMail is a powerful POP3 email checking program; it notifies you when you have received new email. With CheckMail you can check all your email accounts for new messages and preview or delete them before downloading to your computer.

One thing I like about CheckMail is that it saves precious time and disk space by allowing you to delete unwanted or large emails directly from the server without downloading them. With CheckMail you are safe as it secure and protected against viruses and other harmful email content.

The latest updated version,CheckMail 3.1.4 has these latest changes:

• New: transparency selection
• Fix: Vista compatible icons

Want to check it out? CLICK HERE!

If you’ve got a lot of sites to keep tabs on and you want to do it the easy way, this software is for you.

WebSite-Watcher checks an unlimited number of web-sites for updates and changes within a minimum amount of time. Website-Watcher allows you to monitor websites for updates and changes. With this cool software you don’t have to waste your time checking pages manually in your browser, it really offers an easy way out.

When changes are detected WebSite-Watcher highlights all the changes in a page, so you see what you’re looking for in seconds.

The latest version, WebSite-Watcher 4.30 Beta 10, which has just been released has these changes:

• “IE Macro” technology improved – Thread
• AutoWatch could be deactivated unexpectedly under tricky circumstances – Thread
• Some compatibility problems fixed (WSW couldn’t be started on certain systems)

CLICK HERE for more info and free trial download.

The latest in the Mystery Case Files series, Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst. This popular graphic adventure puzzle game series adds a new adventure, and like the others it’s a free download for the 75Mb demo files, but you have to pay for the rest of the game. Very shrewd strategy, because once you play the demo through you really start to want the rest.

You see there are rumors surrounding the history of stately Ravenhearst Manor. The diary of Emma Ravenhearst holds the key to the story behind the manor, but conveniently some pages are missing… Gasp. But you are the Master Detective and it is up to you to unlock secrets of Ravenhearst, searching over 30 rooms for graphical clues.

Elementary!

If you have ever been worried about the possibility of hard drive failure, I have two pieces of advice for you. First of all you should always backup any important or irreplaceable stuff. Secondly, you could use a hard drive “health” monitoring program such as HDDlife.

It’s a real-time hard drive monitoring utility with alerts, malfunction protection and data loss prevention functions. HDDLife uses S.M.A.R.T. technology,(most modern drives support this) and works both for single PCs and large computer networks. S.M.A.R.T. technology was developed by hard drive manufacturers to accurately predict hard drive life span and prevent hard drive malfunctions.

HDDLife displays S.M.A.R.T. attributes in real-time and alerts you if particular hard-drive attributes exceed threshold values and are at risk. You can then backup data and/or replace endangered hard drives.It also tells you the temperature of your hard drive and you can even control the noise/performance aspects of it. It loads at Windows startup, compares new attribute values with the previous values and doesn’t use much memory. The program is extremely straightforward – so no technical knowledge of PC or hard drive technology is needed at all in order to use it. It comes in paid versions and a freeware version.

All in all, its a pretty impressive little program for anyone who wants that little bit of extra peace of mind about their stored data.

You can download it and read more info at the website here!

You are going to love this software. It’s called Game Editor.

Game Editor is a game design software. It lets you create the games of your dreams. I love the fact that it is so easy to use you can create nice games with little or no programming or technical knowledge.

With Game Editor you can design and develop 2D games for personal computers and mobile devices.

What about compatibility issues?

I don’t think you need to worry about system issues or compatibility, though I’ll advise that you use at least windows 98 for better output.

Game Editor is designed to be portable across all popular platforms, including Windows (95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, 2003, XP), Linux, Pocket PC, Handheld PC, GP2X and Windows Mobile-based Smartphones. 

Go check out the trial version HERE!

When you’ve just bought a new computer, it usually comes preloaded with numerous “Helpful” programs, most of which you’ll never use. They’ll usually only serve to slow your new computer down to a crawl. Think of “PC Decrapifier” as an automatic garbage cleaner for them! Even if your computer isn’t brand new, but still has some pre-installed garbage on it, you can use it to get rid of some of those difficult to remove, factory-installed applications.

It was originally called the Dell Decrapifier but the author decided to rename it to the more politically correct PC Decrapifier. After all, Dell is not the only manufacturer that does this. This is a most welcome and much needed program to simplify the removal of some of those difficult to remove, factory-installed, unwanted applications.

Visit the website here to download it and also to view a list of the programs it can uninstall.

At times we get so carried away by the work we have to do, sitting at the computer for so long that we forget to take healthy breaks. Break is a useful software created to help you work effectively without killing yourself.

Break is designed to help you not work too long at one time on the computer. It lets you set a timer from 1- 120 minutes to remind you to get up and go for a walk, have a coffee, go home, go to bed etc. Auto reset and auto boot are also supported.

Break works in two basic ways, as a work logger and as a rest reminder. As a work logger it records your work times. Work can be divided into five different categories, with maximum work capping for each category. It maintains a running total to show you how long you are on your computer, and what you do most while on it. As a rest reminder it simply reminds you to take a break.

Go Check it Out HERE!