Browse by Tags

• Announcement
• Archiving
• Article
• Gadgets
• Imaging
• IPod
• Linux
• Music
• Personal Media Players
• Record Desktop
• Record Desktop or Screen Capture
• Screen Capture
• Tips
• Tips and Tweaks
• Update
• Video
• Web
• Zune

• The great free screen capture shootout for Windows!

  Finding a decent screen capture utility is one of the holy grails of freeware junkies, and there are quite a few available - - but, many have their limitations, whether it be a lack of functionality, licensing, or just shoddy programming. Here, I've... Posted Apr 18 2008, 12:07 AM by Confessions of a freeware junkie Filed under: Article, Multimedia, Record Desktop or Screen Capture

• Edit videos in style: Pinnacle VideoSpin 1.1

  Pinnacle VideoSpin 1.1 http://www.videospin.com/ VideoSpin is a new offering from Pinnacle that allows you to create and edit videos and output them to a variety of formats. Pinnacle is known for putting together high quality video editing software (typically... Posted Mar 07 2008, 09:37 AM by Confessions of a freeware junkie Filed under: Multimedia

• Fix your grainy phonecam & pda vids [web]: Fixmymovie.com

  FixMyMovie http://www.fixmymovie.com Most likely, you've made a video of something via cell phone or pda, and if you have, then certainly you've at one time made a video of poor or questionable quality. Upload size is limited to 15Mb, and max... Posted Mar 04 2008, 08:00 AM by Confessions of a freeware junkie Filed under: Multimedia, Web

• Enhance online TV-Watching: Zorro 1.4

  Zorro 1.4 http://www.gabrieleponti.com/software/index.html#zorro This one is brought you to by Gabriel Ponti, the creator of the very useful SendTo Toys . Online TV watching can be fun, but one of the things that can be very distracting to your viewing... Posted Feb 27 2008, 11:25 PM by Confessions of a freeware junkie Filed under: Multimedia, Tips and Tweaks

• [Cool Download] Copy music/videos/etc. to and from your iPod without iTunes: SharePod 3.6.3

  SharePod http://www.sturm.net.nz/website.php?Section=IPod+Programs&Page=SharePod Supported on: Windows only Now, I'm calling this one a "quick blurb" because I don't have an iPod, so this one isn't Rob tested, but I've heard... Posted Feb 05 2008, 10:55 PM by Confessions of a freeware junkie Filed under: Multimedia, Personal Media Players

• Writers strike work-around: Miro, Azureus Vuze and AnyTV

  Now that the writer's strike has been going on for - well, forever... (well, it feels like it), you might be feeling the burn of not being able to watch your shows. Fortunately for me, the Colbert Report and the Daily Show have resumed (but without... Posted Jan 29 2008, 02:51 AM by Confessions of a freeware junkie Filed under: Multimedia, Web

• Announcement: DivX Pro free for the Holidays!

  Another nice find from fellow blogger Amit over at Digital Inspiration ... For a limited time, you can download and install DivX Pro during the holiday season. Happy Holidays! You can check out Amit's post here ... What's so great about DivX is... Posted Dec 11 2007, 01:30 PM by Confessions of a freeware junkie Filed under: Multimedia, Personal Media Players

• Announcement: Snagit 7.2.5

  Amit over at Digital Inspiration posted an article about how Techsmith is offering their retail Snagit 7.2.5 version for free... The latest current version of Snagit is actually 8.2, but certainly 7.2.5 is fully-featured enough to work for most of us... Posted Nov 26 2007, 10:23 PM by Confessions of a freeware junkie Filed under: Multimedia, Screen Capture

• Update: Gimp 2.4 released

  The Gimp 2.4 http://www.gimp.org/ Runs on: Linux (i386, PPC), Microsoft Windows 2000, XP/2K3, Vista/2K8, Sun OpenSolaris, FreeBSD The Gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program) has been updated to version 2.4. In addition to the inclusion of the standardized... Posted Oct 25 2007, 11:18 AM by Confessions of a freeware junkie Filed under: Update, Multimedia, Imaging, Linux

• Update: CDBurnerXP 4.0

  CDBurnerXP Pro the completely free CD/DVD burning solution for Windows (and is now named 'CDBurnerXP'), has been updated to version 4.0.013. This is the first major release of the software in 3 years. Here's a summary of new features: Support... Posted Sep 26 2007, 09:43 AM by Confessions of a freeware junkie Filed under: Announcement, Update, Archiving, Multimedia

• Migrate your photos to & from a variety of online photo services: Migratr

  Migratr http://www.callingshotgun.net/migratr Since there is no official image for Migratr... Sorry for the time between posts, I got a new job and have been VERY busy (finally). I hope to get on a more consistent schedule as I shift my postings to a... Posted Aug 19 2007, 01:40 PM by Confessions of a freeware junkie Filed under: Multimedia, Imaging

• Mini review: Archos 404 Media Player

  Ok, here is my first gadget-related review here on CFJ, so I apologize in advance if you were expecting more software today! You may have read in my previous posts that I had a Microsoft Zune as my MP3 player of choice. Well, for my wife's birthday... Posted Aug 10 2007, 12:52 PM by Confessions of a freeware junkie Filed under: Video, Multimedia, Gadgets, Zune, Music, IPod

• Record your desktop, screen capture: Jing Project 1.2.5

  Jing Project 1.2.5 http://www.jingproject.com/ Brought to you by TechSmith , makers of Camtasia , Snagit , and online service Screencast.com , comes a new screen recording utility called 'Jing'. Jing is a utility that is similar in function to... Posted Aug 08 2007, 11:23 PM by Confessions of a freeware junkie Filed under: Video, Multimedia, Imaging, Record Desktop

• Tip: View DVD ISOs in VLC

  How many acronyms can I put in one title? :) If you archive any of your DVDs into ISO images (think of it like a ZIP file of a movie disc), you can access them directly, without extracting them first, as DVD movies by using VLC ! This article, via Hackszine... Posted Jul 30 2007, 12:00 PM by Confessions of a freeware junkie Filed under: Video, Multimedia, Tips

• Firefox Extension - immersive photo viewing: PicLens 1.5 beta

  PicLense Extension for Firefox 1.5 beta http://www.piclens.com/firefox/ Viewing pictures on the various web-album sites can be a somewhat daunting task for those of us that aren't so tech-savvy (think of those that hop on the Internet just to download... Posted Jul 27 2007, 10:02 AM by Confessions of a freeware junkie Filed under: Multimedia, Imaging