WavePad is a FREE audio editing software with features of several expensive sound editing software. It lets you make and edit voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio files you can cut, copy and paste and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction among others. Features Supports a number of file formats including wav (multiple codecs), mp3, vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg etc. Sound editing functions include cut, copy, caste, delete, insert, silence, autotrim and more. Audio effects include, amplify, normalize, equaliser, envelope, reverb, echo, reverse, sample rate conversion and more. Tools include…

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I just received my new Dell Laptop today and it came preloaded with Windows Vista. The first thing I noticed (and ofcourse which I knew about) was the User Account Control. User Account Control is a brand new feature in Windows Vista that lets all users to run in normal user mode without administrator privileges; something that Linux has had for quite a while now. The good thing about this is to prevent users from messing up the PC. But, if you are the only PC user, it can get quite a bit of a pain in the neck! Here’s…

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Firefox 2.0.0.3 is now available for download. The Mozilla site lists the reason for upload to be a single security issue. The issue isn’t considered very critical by itself, but it does have the potential to find vulnerable machines on a network. There are still quite a few bugs that need to be fixed including a problem with Vista not loading certain sites, so expect a new release soon. Download Firefox 2.0.0.3 for Windows or for other platforms and languages.

I always wondered how Mark had those small yellow posts over at Weblog Tools Collection. It was only after a while that I realized that they are what are called Asides. Asides as the name goes is something aside your normal content. I use the asides to link to to posts on which I don’t want to comment much about. However, I feel it valuable to point my visitors towards that link. The Codex article on Asides is the first place to start and proved to me to be a great help when I wanted to implement asides on both…

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My past years of experience in maintaining computers, both of mine and my friends has taught me that people are not very aware of SpyWare. Agreed that this is a lot better than a few years back when spyware was just beginning to raise its ugly head. We have several spyware tools (which I shall look at in the coming weeks) that will work wonders after the spyware has infected your PC. However, what is really needed is a tool that prevents the infection in the first place. One such tool is WinPatrol.

Netvibes has announced the launch of Universal Widget API. The Universal Widget API will replace the Mini-Module API that was used on Netvibes and will make it easy to assemble a widget for any given web service. Are you creating any widgets?

One Tip A Day brings to you a big list of free image tools both online and offline. Tony has covered the following: Zamzar for free file conversion. Our coverage of Zamzar. Paint.NET for image creating and editing. Our Coverage. Comeeko to create free comic strips from your already existing photographs. FastStone Image Viewer to view and manage your images Picnic for online editing of images. MyScreen4U for screen capture Corel Snapfire for image management Mypictr to help you create avatars Quick Thumbnail to create thumbnail images

The WordPress Blog announced the release of the official Plugin Directory. Currently the primary place I use to look for plugins is WP-Plugins.net. It is updated several times a day as plugin authors use it as the first place to announce their plugins. They also have a feed which you can subscribe to. The new plugins directory is actually an interface to WP-Plugins.org which for years has served as a hosting place for several plugins. I too have few of my plugins hosted out there, but stopped maintaining them because I couldn’t track their downloads and it also meant another…

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Feeds have changed the way we read information on the web today. I am subscribed to approximately 200 feeds, most of which I “read” every single day. To read feeds, you usually need a feed reader. But what if you want to share the feeds you read with the world. What if you want to display it on your blog or website? You would need some kind of script that would fetch the feed and display it. What if there are several feeds? I like to keep the “dirty” work off my hands as much as possible and let somebody…

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Chatting is something most of us indulge in. It serves as a great way to keep in touch, discuss things and communicate with our relatives and friends. One of my favorite chat clients is Yahoo! Messenger. It comes equipped with a fantastic set of emoticons and audibles and usually I wouldn’t bother about getting anything else. However, recently I came across Yahoo! Friend.