Wednesday, May 12, 2010

A Word On Free Software...

Well there are a lot of free stuff available on the internet that allow you to work wonderfully well. So why go for more sophisticated stuff which come with a price? And the best thing is that they are available on the website of the company so that you do not need to go to some other download sites (which are blocked at many places and institutes...alas!) For example there is this wonderful software company that I have found: NCH. Well make a Google search and you will find it. The company specializes in making software related to audio and telephony but they have a host of other software as well. I found a few of their software especially useful. One is Switch. It allows you to convert audio files from one format to another and what's more is that it can convert video to audio as well....comes quite handful. Easy to start and no messy clicks. One simple click on the convert button and it will do the job for you. Another one is Wavepad. Its, as the name suggests, a wave editing tool and for those of you who are wondering what it is...it basically makes the wave pattern of the audio file you want and then allows you to edit it...I found it to be especially useful in case when you want to mix files (say for example you got to make a mix of tracks for a dance performance). It has a wonderful tool for noise suppression. I used it to make a movie. It was simply superb. Give the software a small noise sample and it will edit the entire audio clip and suppress noise...a job made easier for you! Apart from this it also has some other useful tools. Their other software like VideoPad and Prism are also worth trying they being for video editing and video conversion respectively.

So long so good. But the best thing about NCH is that their software are really really compact. I mean the setup files are hardly a few hundred kilobytes (max to max would be close to 400KB I guess). Easy to download even in the worst speed. I mean one can easily download them even using a Dial Up Connection (I bet most of you would have even forgotten what it is by now).

NCH allows you to download these setup with just a click and no questions asked. Well a drawback that a user might face is that the software are trial versions that work only for 15 days. No worries! The best thing is that they are fully functional trial versions. So you can enjoy full functionality in the 15 days that you use it. And once the trial is over you can uninstall it and then reinstall it. No problems. Use it again for another 15 days! And you can keep doing it for years...I have been....for over 2 years now...hehe....

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