No matter the file type, these free audio editors have you covered

1. Audacity

2. Ocenaudio

3. Ashampoo Music Studio

4. Audiotool

5. Acoustica

Music management software is especially useful when you need to open different formats of audio files. An efficient music organization software should support a wide variety of files and feature a set of editing tools.

Unfortunately, the 0.74 stable PuTTY release does not safely guard plain-text passwords provided to it via the -pw command line option for the psftp, pscp, and plink utilities as the documentation clearly warns. There is evidence within the source code that the authors are aware of the problem, but the exposure is confirmed on Microsoft Windows, Oracle Linux, and the package prepared by the OpenBSD project.

After discussions with the original author of PuTTY, Simon Tatham developed a new -pwfile option, which will read an SSH password from a file, removing it from the command line. This feature can be backported into the current 0.76 stable release. Full instructions for applying the backport and a .netrc wrapper for psftp are presented, also implemented in Windows under Busybox.

While the -pw option is attractive for SSH users who are required to use passwords (and forbidden from using keys) for scripting activities, the exposure risk should be understood for any use of the feature. Users with security concerns should obtain the -pwfile functionality, either by applying a patch to the 0.76 stable release, or using a snapshot release found on the PuTTY website.

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is a free and open-source video and audio player for Windows. MPC-HC is based on the original Guliverkli project and contains many additional features and bug fixes.

The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding audio and video formats. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your audio and movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular audio and video formats and even several less common formats.

Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online. Disk2vhd uses Windows' Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in Windows XP, to create consistent point-in-time snapshots of the volumes you want to include in a conversion. You can even have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local volumes, even ones being converted (though performance is better when the VHD is on a disk different than ones being converted).

It will create one VHD for each disk on which selected volumes reside. It preserves the partitioning information of the disk, but only copies the data contents for volumes on the disk that are selected. This enables you to capture just system volumes and exclude data volumes, for example.

Virtual PC supports a maximum virtual disk size of 127GB. If you create a VHD from a larger disk it will not be accessible from a Virtual PC VM. ///

Hyper-V does not have the 127GB limitation (?)

Disk2VHD is a practical free tool by Sysinternals, since 2006 a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation. Sysinternals is well known of their wide range of free tools to manage, troubleshoot and diagnose Windows systems and applications. As the name already tells Disk2VHD is a tool to create a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) file of an existing Windows system. This VHDfile can then be used to create a virtual machine in Windows Virtual PC (Windows 7) and Hyper-V (Windows 8 and later).

In this tutorial we will download and install Disk2VHD on an existing Windows 10 computer, use it to create a VHD of the current Windows 10 installation on that computer and use the resulting VHD to create a virtual machine on Windows 10 Hyper-V. The virtual machine will be an exact copy of the original Windows installation apart of some hardware and drivers, Hyper-V replacing some hardware with its own virtual devices.

The virtual machine will be fully functional and contain all software, user profiles and settings which were installed and present on the real physical computer and Windows when the VHD creation process was started.

Bupstash is a tool for encrypted backups - if you need secure backups, Bupstash is the tool for you.

Bupstash was designed to have:

• Efficient deduplication - Bupstash can store thousands of encrypted directory snapshots using a fraction of the space encrypted tarballs would require.
• Strong privacy - Data is encrypted client side and the repository never needs has access to the decryption keys.
• Offline decryption keys - Backups do not require the decryption key be anywhere near an at-risk server or computer.
• Key/value tagging with search - all while keeping the tags fully encrypted.
• Great performance on slow networks - Bupstash really strives to work well on high latency networks like cellular and connections to far-off lands.
• Secure remote access controls - Ransomware, angry spouses, and disgruntled business partners will be powerless to delete your remote backups.
• Efficient incremental backups - Bupstash knows what it backed up last time and skips that work.
• Fantastic performance with low ram usage - Bupstash won't bog down your production servers.
• Safety against malicious attacks - Bupstash is written in a memory safe language to dramatically reduce the attack surface over the network.

Stability and Backwards Compatibility

Bupstash is alpha software, while all efforts are made to keep bupstash bug free, we currently recommend using bupstash for making REDUNDANT backups where failure can be tolerated.

The purpose of this page is to answer commonly asked questions about Pine and give advanced information related to these answers. The main point of this page is that much of the help that exists today about Pine is not completely satisfactory in my opinion, in the sense that it lacks a more general view. In order to explain this, much of the help is written on the form of "how do I do this?", or as an explanation of a feature that already exists in Pine.

This page takes a different approach to helping you improve your experience with Pine. Instead of answering questions or explaining features, this page gives an in-depth description behind each screen and configuration option. I describe each screen, what configuration options relate to it, what are the advantages and disadvantages of setting them. I do also answer questions like "How do I?", but my main intention is to give you a full picture of what you can (and can't) do.

The purpose of this page is to distribute releases of Alpine, as well as to provide users with documentation on Alpine. All documentation needed to configure Alpine can be found in the binary, and this page may provide extra documentation. In any case, you are not required, nor encouraged to access this site to run Alpine. You can run Alpine in your computer without the need to ever visit this site. All documentation needed to configure Alpine can be found in the binary, and can be read by either pressing the "?" command or by pressing "^G" in Alpine.

Within modern software development practices, you are expected to build software from a two- or three-sentence business feature. The name of the game is to not go too deep and to constantly iterate. This is far different from the traditional waterfall method, where you would spend six months figuring out the requirements analysis before you wrote a single line of code. With a waterfall approach, this is fine because you will know the end state in order to create your database objects. However, you simply can’t do this if you’re following agile methods because there is no way to build a data model from a three-sentence business requirement, and you’re constantly having to rework your database. //

RDBMS Growth at Travelers
YEAR Tables in production
2013 40
2015 70
2017 100
//

We taught every team how to data model in JSON, as opposed to the rigid tables and rows of a relational database. This was an eye-opening experience for many people, who now understood how this affected the speed at which our teams could deliver software into production. //

At the end of the day, if you’re doing it right in relational, you have a lot of tables, and if you’re modeling your data properly, you will have a lot of objects even for the simplest use cases. Once we determined that our database was slowing us down, we knew it was time for a change.

7+ Taskbar Tweaker allows you to configure various aspects of the Windows taskbar.

Most of the configuration options it provides can’t be tweaked using the taskbar properties or the registry.

The tweaker is designed for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10.

Download
7tt_setup.exe (1.75 MB, changelog)
Latest version: v5.11.3
Note: The installer can be used to extract a portable version. Refer to the FAQ below for details.

Free video editing software that works like a champ

DaVinci Resolve 16 for Mac, Windows and Linux operating systems uses innovative smart technology that allows you to make quick edits to your video clips or packages. The downloadable software works great for teams as projects can be accessed by anyone on a team from anywhere.

ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!

It has several 'Modes', each one for performing a different task:

• Read - Read a disc to an image file
• Build - Create an image file from files on your computer or network - or you can write the files directly to a disc
• Write - Write an image file to a disc
• Verify - Check a disc is 100% readable. Optionally, you can also have ImgBurn compare it against a given image file to ensure the actual data is correct
• Discovery - Put your drive / media to the test! Used in combination with DVDInfoPro, you can check the quality of the burns your drive is producing

ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats - including BIN, CCD, CDI, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI.

It can burn Audio CD's from any file type supported via DirectShow / ACM - including AAC, APE, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA and WV.

You can use it to build DVD Video discs (from a VIDEO_TS folder), HD DVD Video discs (from a HVDVD_TS folder) and Blu-ray Video discs (from a BDAV / BDMV folder) with ease.

It supports Unicode folder/file names, so you shouldn't run in to any problems if you're using an international character set.

ImgBurn supports all the Microsoft Windows OS's - Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT4, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 (including all the 64-bit versions). If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes.

It's a very flexible application with several advanced features that are often lacking in other tools, especially when it comes to burning DVD Video discs. It supports all the latest drives without the need for updates (including booktype / bitsetting / advanced settings on many of the major ones - i.e. BenQ, LiteOn, LG, NEC, Optiarc, Pioneer, Plextor, Samsung, Sony).

There is an image queue system for when you're burning several images (which you can automatically share between multiple drives if you have more than one) and an easy-to-use layer break selection screen for double layer DVD Video jobs. The Automatic Write Speed feature allows you store your favourite burn speed settings on a per 'Media ID' basis, right down to a drive by drive level. Data captured during the burn (write speed, buffer levels etc) can be displayed / analysed using DVDInfoPro.

Whilst ImgBurn is designed to work perfectly straight out of the box, advanced users will appreciate just how configurable it is.

Oh and let's not forget the best thing about it.... it's 100% FREE ;-)

Hardware failure and a careless user feeling adventurous with powerful utilities such as dd and fdisk can lead to data loss in Linux. Not only that, sometimes spring cleaning a partition or directory can also lead to accidentally deleting some useful files. Should that happen, there’s no reason to despair. With the PhotoRec utility, you can easily recover a variety of files, be it documents, images, music, archives and so on.

Developed by CGSecurity and released under the GPL, PhotoRec is distributed as a companion utility of Testdisk, which can be used to recover and restore partitions. You can use either of these tools to recover files, but each has a job that it’s best suited for. Testdisk is best suited for recovering lost partitions. //

Although initially designed to only recover image files (hence the name), PhotoRec can be used to recover just about any manner of file.

Even better, PhotoRec works by ignoring the underlying filesystem on the specified partition, disk or USB drive. Instead, it focuses on the unique signatures left by the different file types to identify them. This is why PhotoRec can work with FAT, NTFS, ext3, ext4 and other partition types. //

The greatest drawback of PhotoRec – if any tool that can seemingly pull deleted files out of the digital ether can have a drawback – is that it doesn’t retain the original filenames. This means that recovered files all sport a gibberish alpha-numeric name. If this is a deal-breaker for you, consider using Testdisk first to recover your lost files.

To Install Testdisk open a terminal window and first update the software repositories before installing testdisk.

Memory test software, often called RAM test software, are programs that perform detailed tests of your computer's memory system.

The memory installed in your computer is very sensitive. It's always a good idea to perform a memory test on newly purchased RAM to test for errors. Of course, a memory test is always in order if you suspect that you may have a problem with your existing RAM. //

Memtest86 is a completely free, stand-alone, and extremely easy to use memory test software program. If you only have time to try one memory test tool on this page, try MemTest86.

Simply download the program from MemTest86's site and put it on a flash drive. After that, just boot from the USB drive and you're off.

https://www.memtest86.com/download.htm //

Windows Memory Diagnostic is a free memory tester provided by Microsoft. Very similar to other RAM test programs, Windows Memory Diagnostic performs a series of extensive tests to determine what, if anything, is wrong with your computer memory.

Just download the installer program and then follow the instructions to create a bootable floppy disk or ISO image for burning to a disc or flash drive.

After booting from whatever it is you made, Windows Memory Diagnostic will automatically begin testing the memory and will repeat the tests until you stop them.

https://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Memory-Tweak/Microsoft-Windows-Memory-Diagnostic.shtml //

Memtest86+ is a modified, and presumably more up-to-date, version of the original Memtest86 memory test program, profiled in the #1 position above. Memtest86+ is also completely free.

We'd recommend performing a memory test with Memtest86+ if you have any problems running the Memtest86 RAM test or if Memtest86 reports errors with your memory and you'd like a really good second opinion.

Memtest86+ is available in ISO format for burning to disc or USB.

http://www.memtest.org/

As MemTest86 V9 supports only the newer UEFI platform, older PCs without UEFI support would be unable to boot MemTest86. In order to run MemTest86, PCs with legacy BIOS platform must use the older V4 release of MemTest86. The download links for the V4 downloads are still provided for those that prefer to work with the V4 bootable images.

PowerDNS, founded in the late 1990s, is a premier supplier of open source DNS software, services and support. Deployed throughout the world with some of the most demanding users of DNS, we pride ourselves on providing quality software and the very best support available. Since 2015 we are part of Open-Xchange.

Our Authoritative Server, Recursor and dnsdist products are 100% open source. For the service provider market, OX also sells OX Protect which builds on our Open Source products to deliver an integrated DNS solution with 24/7 support and includes features as parental control, malware filtering, automated attack mitigation, and long-term query logging & searching.

ArchiveBox is a powerful, self-hosted internet archiving solution to collect, save, and view sites you want to preserve offline.

You can set it up as a command-line tool, web app, and desktop app (alpha), on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

You can feed it URLs one at a time, or schedule regular imports from browser bookmarks or history, feeds like RSS, bookmark services like Pocket/Pinboard, and more. See input formats for a full list.

It saves snapshots of the URLs you feed it in several formats: HTML, PDF, PNG screenshots, WARC, and more out-of-the-box, with a wide variety of content extracted and preserved automatically (article text, audio/video, git repos, etc.). See output formats for a full list.

The goal is to sleep soundly knowing the part of the internet you care about will be automatically preserved in durable, easily accessible formats for decades after it goes down.

OpenSCAD is software for creating solid 3D CAD objects.
It is free software and available for Linux/UNIX, MS Windows and Mac OS X.