BleachBit 4.6.2
Junk remover and file shredder.
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Cool Tools
Wise Disk Cleaner 11.1.2
“Clean useless and outdated junk files, browser traces, cookies, and history.”
v11.1.2 brings expanded cleaning rules and improved shortcut cleaning.
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Featured in Tweaking Windows 10.
O&O ShutUp10 Updated
O&O ShutUp10 1.9.1437 released.
“Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11”
7 new options and some fixes.
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Featured in Tweaking Windows 10.
A Review Of Two Tweaking Apps
Recently I’ve become aware of a new “tweaking app” from Microsoft. In the process of researching it I came across a better alternative…
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Wednesday News
Wise Disk Cleaner 11.0.8.822
“Clean useless and outdated junk files, browser traces, cookies, and history.”
New and/or improved cleaning rules and a few bugfixes.
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Autoruns 14.11
“fixes a bug parsing parameters in startup folder items.”
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dBpoweramp Updated
dBpoweramp R2024-02-01
“dBpoweramp contains a multitude of audio tools in one: CD Ripper, Music Converter, Batch Converter, ID Tag Editor and Windows audio shell enhancements. Preloaded with essential codecs (mp3, wave, FLAC, m4a, Apple LosslessAIFF), additional codecs can be installed from [Codec Central], as well as Utility Codecs which perform actions on audio files.”
Changes:
-Option in dBpoweramp Control Centre – can specify Win11 shell, with or without classical shell item (non Windows 11)
-Added tag editing capability for: .tak, .tta, .dts, .mka, .weba
-bug fix: CD Ripper Folder.jpg would not be written to each folder if using multi-encoder
-bug fix: vorbis tagging fixes
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dBpoweramp Updated
dBpoweramp Music Converter R2023-12-22
“dBpoweramp contains a multitude of audio tools in one: CD Ripper, Music Converter, Batch Converter, ID Tag Editor and Windows audio shell enhancements. Preloaded with essential codecs (mp3, wave, FLAC, m4a, Apple Lossless, AIFF), additional codecs can be installed from [Codec Central], as well as Utility Codecs which perform actions on audio files.”
New features, codec updates, bugfixes.
Homepage | Download (update from within program) | Release Info
Audio Tricks – dBpoweramp CD Ripper, Rip As One
dBpoweramp is my favorite audio conversion and CD ripping software. This article will show you the very useful “rip as one” function.
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Audio Tricks – Using Audacity To Trim Music
I’ve been using Audacity for many years. From creating audio, to mixing, to editing it has been an essential tool for me.
I’d like to show you how this tool can be of use to the average user. I’m going to give a very quick example of using Audacity to trim music.
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Clonezilla
I’ve been asked several times about an alternative to Macrium Reflect Free since it is no longer free. I’ll be using it until it no longer works on my hardware.
The alternative I’ve always kept it my toolkit is Clonezilla, in fact I made a short video of Clonezilla in action over 6 years ago: Clonezilla Ain’t Hard.
Clonezilla runs off a “Live” cd or usb drive. There are 2 versions of that, alternative (dased on Debian) or alternative stable (based on Ubuntu). I recommend the alternative stable version, it probably has better hardware support.
There is also a GUI and enhanced version of Clonezilla called Rescuezilla.
Clonezilla was just updated (version 3.1.1-27/20231102).
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Clonezilla Live on USB flash drive or USB hard drive
How to Install Clonezilla on USB with YUMI