Firefox Add-on for Tumblr Post 1.14 Free Download

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Tumblr Post is an add-on for Firefox that allows you to quickly post to your Tumblr account.

Sitting in the status bar, Tumblr Post's icon won't bother you unless you want to use it. Right clicking it will open a context menu where you can open your Tumblr dashboard, tumblelog or post directly. In settings you can add multiple Tumblr accounts if you want, and configure how Tumblr Post will work with different types of posts (image, audio and video etc).

This functionality would be enough to make Tumblr Post a great little add-on, but there's more. You can drag images, selected text, links, audio files and more directly over the Tumblr Post icon, and they will be automatically added to your tumblelog. It's almost too easy! This makes using the rich media(images, audio and video) capabilities of Tumblr incredibly fast and feels really natural.

If you use Tumblr, Tumblr Post is an essential add-on for Firefox, as it is such a capable, well designed application. After a little playing around, you'll never look back.

Languages:

English

OS requirements for Tumblr Post:

  • OS: WinXP/Vista/7


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CrazyTalk 5.0 Free Download

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The world of dubbing and lip syncing has come a long way since the days when high-pitched voice actors would jabber away in not-so-perfect harmony to Japanese Kung Fu fighters in the martial arts movies of the 1970s. In fact, digital animation technology has improved so much that it’s now possible to animate your own talking heads from your home PC.

CrazyTalk Media Studio promises to give you all the tools you need to import images and photographs before quickly applying mouth, head and eye movement to create realistic looking avatars and fun animations. At first we were a little dubious about the value of such a product, but were soon pleasantly surprised by the power of the utility.

Granted, our initial efforts were limited to taking pictures of friends and giggling inanely as they repeated audio clips from famous movies or songs. These first experiments were a little clunky to say the least and looked far from realistic when we relied on the automatic lip-syncing functionality. However, once you delve deeper into the settings, you start to realize that you can actually produce some impressive animations.

With enough tinkering you can customize everything from the teeth in the character’s mouth to their facial movements and their range of movement. Best of all is the built-in timeline, which gives you complete control of the animation and sound, much as you would do in Flash, or a video-editing suite. Complete with alpha channel support, the program is ideal for producing talking presenters to welcome visitors to your web site or presentations. The simple-to-use export facilities allow you to save to a range of formats whether as a media file, email attachment or a personalized greeting.

There are a few flaws with the program that are a little frustrating, but they fail to prevent CrazyTalk Media Studio from being a great program. Minor niggles are the lack of MP3 audio import support, and the relatively low number of preset templates and characters. The app does have a fairly steep learning curve but it’s good fun to use and is surprisingly powerful.

Echofon (Twitterfox) Firefox add-on 1.9.4.1 Free Download

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Popular Firefox extension Twitterfox has a new name: Echofon. It's not just a name change, but a redesign with extended features too.

The visual changes might not please everyone - Echofon doesn't look as friendly as before, it's now colder with a slick silver grey interface. Twitterfox users will feel at home, as it basically functions as before, but has improved functionality.

Click on the circular logo in the Firefox statusbar, and the Echfon interface pops up. You can read new tweets, and post your own. It does most of what can do from the Twitter homepage, except viewing your or other people's profile pages. Retweeting, replying and copying tweets is a cinch.

In Preferences you can set how often Echofon will update (it's not real time), and toggle pop up alerts and sounds. You can even keep multiple Twitter accounts on it, and change between them with ease. If you use Echofon Pro on your iPhone, it will sync with Firefox, so you won't see read tweets as new.

For Firefox users, Echofon is a fantastic Twitter tool that comes highly recommended.

Languages:

English

OS requirements for Echofon (Twitterfox):

  • OS: Win2000/XP/Vista/7

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Sticky Password 4 Software Free Download

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One, two, ten, twenty? How many passwords do you have? If it's more than a few, and you use good password practice, you're at a risk of forgetting the less frequently-used ones and locking yourself out of important accounts. Don't allow this to happen - use a password manager.

Sticky Password stands out from the crowd because as well as managing your passwords, it also offers a host of other security functions that will make your password-protected accounts the safest around. The program can be controlled more or less from the taskbar. You go to the icon and choose 'Add Account', and fill in the log in details related to the password in question. Then, when you want to use it, you click on Accounts and chose the account you need. The password is then copied to the clipboard for you to paste in when required.

Sticky Password is packed full of features that really make it a great option. The program is very simple to use and has a great selection of configuration options. It also integrates into your browser, so you can add new accounts as you surf. Advanced encryption options will keep your passwords extra safe, while Sticky Password's multi-level password generator will ensure that new passwords are very secure.

With a great range of 'intelligent' options, Sticky Password is a pleasure to use. It integrates smoothly into the context menu, auto erases data after a specified time and offers an auto lock-out function, so you don't have to worry if you leave your computer accidentally unattended. Team this with Sticky Password's back-up function and ability to create a portable version straight from within the program, and we're onto a winner.

Sticky Password is my first program of 2010 and frankly I'm impressed!

Languages:

English, German, French

Recent changes in Sticky Password:

  • Improved password filling engine
  • Form filling has been added
  • Improved data organization through customizable groups
  • Reporting capability for unsupported websites
  • Improved Virtual Keyboard functionality
  • Expanded help file
  • Now available in English, German and French

Limitations:

  • 30 day Trial Period

OS requirements for Sticky Password:

  • OS: WinXP/Vista/7


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Duplicate Finder 3.5.3 Free Download

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The name is pretty self-explanatory - as you might expect, Duplicate Finder finds duplicate files on your computer and then lets you erase, move or re-name them. As dupe tools go, it's a good one. The interface isn't particularly impressive, but the program has some nice filtering and exclusion features that make it very easy to search for exactly the type of file you want to dupe check.

Duplicate Finder has four different search modes that will give you varying levels of power. Same Name Files and Zero Size File will give you a superficial search that's good for getting rid of major clutter, while Byte to Byte and CRC32 are more complex methods that root out files identical in content but not in name. Once found, Duplicate Finder displays the dupes in an easy-to-read table that shows you exactly where the duplicates are located.

When it comes to dealing with the duplicates, Duplicate Finder has a few options on offer. You can erase, move elsewhere or rename, and the program will warn you if you are about to take a step you can't undo. Unfortunately, it's in this last area that Duplicate Finder is severely compromised: the trial version only allows you to delete files that are under 2MB in size. In case you weren't aware, there's very little on your computer that's under 2MB, which means that as far as the trial version goes, your cluttered computer is likely to stay that way.

Duplicate Finder - a standard dupe finder with harsh trial limitations.

Languages:

English

Limitations:

  • Maximum no. files to delete/move/copy: 50
  • Maximum size of files to delete/move/copy: 2 MB

OS requirements for Duplicate Finder:

  • OS: Win2000/XP/Vista/7


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VSO ConvertXtoDVD 4.0.3 Free Download

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Picture the situation: you have dozens of videos stored on your computer, but rather than watching them on a tiny monitor, you'd prefer enjoying them on your TV. With VSO ConvertXtoDVD now you can!

VSO ConvertXtoDVD is a super easy video converter and burner that lets you record your favorite videos to DVD so that you can watch them on any home DVD player. The program can handle just about any format you throw at it, including AVI, WMV, MKV, YouTube, OGM, MPEG and Quicktime, so you can watch them from the comfort of your couch.

VSO ConvertXtoDVD goes beyond burning and conversion and offers also dozens of readymade templates for DVD menus, lets you tweak playback options and includes a highly customizable subtitle editor with support for all major formats (SRT, SUB/ID and SSA). My only complaint here is the way all these options have been implemented in the program's interface: they're all inside the tree view, instead of being presented in a separate window which would make them easier to use. On the upside, the embedded video preview window lets you have a look at your video before actually burning it.

The encoder in VSO ConvertXtoDVD makes a decent job of converting videos in terms of the output quality, although the conversion can take a while depending on the size of your video.

VSO ConvertXtoDVD is a powerful and easy way to get your favorite movies and video clips onto custom DVDs.