Need a free tool for your mp3 conversions? This one, Free WMA to MP3 Converter, should come in handy.

Free WMA to MP3 Converter converts Windows Media files to MP3 files which can be played in MP3 Players easily. So you can have your favorite songs on your MP3 player or your mobile phones after the conversion and enjoy your favorite tracks anywhere you are.

The fact that MP3 files are usually smaller than the normal media format files will give you the opportunity to have more songs using the same space on your system or phone. All Windows Media formats (*.wma, *.wmv, *.asf) are supported.

Check it out http://www.wma-mp3.org/ at it’s free!!!!

Yahoo Inc. is shutting down Yahoo Photos, its first-generation photo storage site, and asking users to move instead to Yahoo’s Web 2.0 photo sharing site, Flickr, a Yahoo official said on Thursday.

In June, tens of millions of registered users of Yahoo Photos will be notified of various options including upgrading to Yahoo’s Flickr service or various outside-photo storage sites, according to Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield.

Yahoo also will offer consumers the option of loading their photos on competing sites when users are notified next month.

These include PhotoBucket — the most popular online photo sharing service among users of social network sites like News Corp.’s MySpace — or more conventional photo printing and storage site such as Kodak Gallery, Shutterfly Inc. or Snapfish, he said. Read the rest of this entry »

Here is useful tool to get the best of web search. It really redefines Search Engine Optimization.

FirstStop WebSearch Business Edition is a cool tool that increases Web searchers’ productivity by allowing them to do the things they cannot do with standard search engines. With this really useful tool you can search multiple engines all at once,, save and export search results to office and web applications. You will also appreciate the fact that you can get all available search results in a single list instead of only 10 or 20 per page.

The fact that this software helps you to automatically conduct batch searches makes it really very useful. Additional search engines and features can be added on request.

The latest version, FirstStop WebSearch Business Edition 5.0, which was just recently released, has these cool changes:

• More supported search engine types;
• Increased level of detail in search results;
• Improved support for non-English language searches;
• Batch searching;
• RSS support;
• New Discovery Tree enhancements;
• Desktop search bar.

The only downside to this software is its price, it costs a whooping $125, but the question you’ll have to ask yourself is, is this software helping you achieve your desired goals and if so is it worth your financial investment?

You are the only one that can answer those questions but that is after you check out the trial version first.

Want to check it out? Go to http://www.firststopwebsearch.com/

Intelore, one of the key developers of password recovery solutions, launched OpenOffice Password Recovery 1.0.4 – a powerfull software tool designed to help absent-minded or careless PC users recover forgotten passwords for a suite of OpenOffice.org programs (Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math etc.).OpenOffice Password Recovery 1.0.4 offers a suite of mechanisms and schemes to quickly and smoothly recover all types of passwords and discard formatting and editing restrictions (for example, locked cells protection and permissions).

OpenOffice Password Recovery features a variety of built-in attack profiles allowing you to efficiently recover passwords with a single key click. The sophisticated solution offers Unicode support and allows for recovery of multilanguage passwords(e.g. containing both Latin characters and hieroglyphs) regardless of their length or complexity.
By default, the recovery process is done in the background which enables the user to continue working with other programs. At the same time, OpenOffice Password Recovery allows the user to manually change the processing priority and make password recovery the foreground task.

OpenOffice Password Recovery can take into account the so-called “human factor” and recover a password containing typing errors! Read the rest of this entry »

To keep tabs on your system, you need a good system health and stability tester. For that purpose Hot CPU Tester is worth checking out.

Hot CPU Tester is a system health and stability tester. It works by testing CPU, chipset and virtually all parts of motherboard for errors/bugs. It is a burn-in test with uniquely designed state of the art DefectTech engine. DefectTech is a technology developed to diagnose systems regarding its stability and in general, computer’s health.

Why should you consider using this software? Well its features should speak for it:

• Revolutionary DefectTrack 2 engine, accurately tests the whole system and its subsets;
• Written purely to test CPU, chipset, motherboard, Memory;
• Fully supports x64 computing platform(AMD64 Technology,Intel® EM64T);
• Fuly supports dual-core and multi-processor systems;
• Utilizes SSE,SSE2, SSE3, MMX & 3DNow! instructions sets;
• Tests System Bus & Memory Bus;
• Tests Hard Disk Drives;
• Monitors CPU performance under pressure;
• Built in Anti-Crash & Exception Handler;
• SMBIOS & CPUID featured

Etc.

The latest version which was released yesterday has these changes:

• Improved support for Windows Vista;
• Improved support for the newer Intel® processors;
• Improved support for the newer AMD® processors;
• Improved Hard Disk module test to detect SATA controller problems faster now;
• Fixed a bug that caused memory burn-in to crash;
• Due to 32bit limitations amount of memory to be tested is set below 4GB only;
• Small cosmetic changes.

Want to check it out?

Go to http://www.7byte.com/index.php?page=hotcpu

How about giving your system a new look and making it easier to use? UIFriend will help you do just that.

UIFriend provides easy and powerful quick resolution changing and intelligent protection of your desktop icon layout that works behind the scenes keeping your icon positions safe. But that’s not all with this useful software you also get improved desktop aesthetics with double buffering and transparent icon text backgrounds.

You will love the display setting management that comes with UIFriend, this is for users who though are sharing a computer, prefer different resolutions.

Other cool features include increased screen saver power with on demand activation, mute and auto-resume.

The latest version, UIFriend 2.1.1 which has just been released has these major changes:

• Support for Windows Vista
• High quality icons and includes performance optimizations
• User interface improvements and Bug fixes

Want to check it out? Go to http://www.intrepix.com/products/uifriend/

If you are a great music fan like I am you are going to love this freeware. Desktop Album Display allows you to place the covers of your favorite music albums on your desktop, but that’s not all with this software you can use the album covers on your desktop to launch your favorite media player providing you cool and easy access to your favorite tunes.

Just yesterday, a new version of this software was released. The new version is Desktop Album Display 1.50. The major changes in this new version include:

• Added support for additional media players
• Large improvement on the rendering of the album covers

This has two effects, improve the quality of the covers to ‘Photoshop’ rendering standards and the decrease in memory usage by 75%

How about that,  having your favorite music albums plastered on your desktop to reflect your taste and to give you easy access to your music.

Want to check it out, go to http://www.jgaudencio.com

If you’ve been trying different antispyware to give your PC a solid defense but nothing worthwhile has been forthcoming, then you need to check out this freeware, Arovax AntiSpyware.

Arovax AntiSpyware is an innovative, powerful, speedy and extremely easy to use Anti-Spyware scanner and remover. Designed to become a solid defense for PC systems by giving a fight back to the most dangerous online threats of the new century, this software really does its job. It’s powerful but very easy to use as it as a cool interface.

One thing is worthy of note though as with all free applications, you need to have a realistic expectation, it can’t detect and remove everything but believe me, it really does a great job.

Don’t take my word for it, Check It Out For Yourself at http://www.arovaxantispyware.com

If you need a program for video and audio monitoring, you should consider GSA A/V Guard.

GSA A/V Guard is a program designed to monitor a place by video or audio. The good thing about this software is that it can be used to monitor your small child over audio to have a universal long distance baby phone. But that’s not all, it can be used for office purposes also, you can monitor your office room by video. It really easy to use, the alert messages will be transmitted over a mobile, handy or computer modem and is therefore not limited to any distance.

Cool Features you will enjoy with GSA A/V Guard include:

• Video monitoring
• Audio monitoring
• Special functions like alert delay free selectable
• Automatic program start
• Timer and scheduler
• Alert transmission by modem (alerting by phone, modem or mobile) etc.

In the latest version, GSA A/V Guard 2.3.2 the major change wrought include fixing of some minor bugs in mobile-alert

Check out http://www.gsa-online.de/eng/avguard.html for more info and download.

Here is a really useful tool that should come in handy for your conversion needs, HandBrake.

Handbrake is a utility that can convert standard DVDs into a compressed format of your choice; mp4 with AAC audio or AVC with h264 video and AAC audio. HandBrake also gives you the freedom to crop the image to get rid of the black bars to bring down the size even more and lets you choose options as to how you want it encoded. HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

The latest version, HandBrake0.8.5 Beta 1 has this major change:

• Encompasses everything that was in MediaFork 0.8.0b1 and much more

One of the things you will enjoy about this software is that it’s easier to use than others in its category and very intuitive.

Want to give it a try? Go to http://handbrake.m0k.org/?page_id=2

As I said it’s open source so it won’t cost you anything.