Technology Editon

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license. http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/download.html

Panther is free and open media converter that you can use to convert your music and videos from one format to the other. No more format incompatibilities! Just convert your song your video to the format you want! Featuring a simple and easy to use interface, it can get you started on your conversion task within a moment. A fast conversion engine and also features a simple UI for newbies and an advanced one for the pros! Special features include reducing the size of audio without affect the quality much! Also supported presets for converting videos! You can check out Panther, for Windows and Linux, at http://sankha93.github.com/Panther/get.html

SlimCleaner uses social networking for PC repair and optimization. It combines the industry's fastest PC cleaning engine with a community of users who provide real-time feedback to improve computer performance. SlimCleaner uses social networking and community-sourced feedback to tell people what's on their computer, and what they can do about it: it's like having an army of tech-savvy geeks helping consumers maintain their machines. SlimCleaner has just jumped to version 3.0, and with new tools on board, it aims to keep all of your drives -- internal, external, flash, and other -- decluttered and secure. Among other updates, the new version comes with a Disk Summary, Disk Analyzer, Disk Wiper, and Shredder, all of which are easily accessible from the program's home screen. If you're in the market for a free Windows utility to optimize your disk performance, you can check out SlimCleaner 3.0, at http://www.slimcleaner.com/dow...

Miitla lets you save interesting things and return to them later with just one click! It is a bookmarking aplication. Drag and drop Miitla button on your browser toolbar (bookmarklet). Then click it whenever you want to save current site. Use different bookmarks depending on your needs. We have pop-up windows, overlay windows with and without user login. Miitla, now in beta stage, is free of charge and it will stay that way, aver its developers. http://miitla.com/

If you're a music lover, you must have heard about hype machine, a web service that keeps track of the bloggers across the world wide web that write about the best music available. This not only saves you time to find that awesome tune you might have wanted to listen to, but also keeps you stumbling upon the latest and greatest music trends around internet. If you want to experience the love of hype machine on your desktop, then meet Hypegram, a beautiful and elegant application that will let you stream music right on your desktop. This tool will also help you keep up with all the latest and popular songs that people have been sharing on the various blogs. http://hypegram.com/

XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. Currently XBMC can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available. Use your media as-is: XBMC can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive, and even files inside ZIP and RAR archives. It will even scan all of your media and automatically create a personalized library complete with box covers, descriptions, and fanart. There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, and Windows, and can be downloaded at http://xbmc.or...