Slate
A full fledged and friendly local language word processor with local language fonts. The interface can be interchanged between English, Hindi and Kannada, and local language fonts, incorporates all formatting features - bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript and subscript; font family, size and colour change, and centre, left, right and justified paragraph alignment. Slate lets insertion and manipulation of tables and images into documents. Its advanced features include - multiple clipboard support and text auto formatting. According to the author Nikhil Sud, a student of Mallya Aditi International School, Slate is unique as it saves documents in the HTML file format and so can be viewed on just about any platform with a simple web browser. No knowledge of HTML is required to use Slate which can be downloaded at
www.thequalityfocus.net
DiskView
DiskView shows you a graphical map of your disk, allowing you to determine where a file is located or, by clicking on a cluster, seeing which file occupies it. Double-click to get more information about a file to which a cluster is allocated. Visually see how your disk space is organised - from Windows Explorer! DiskView analyses your disk space, understands it's structure, assimilates information, and presents it visually so that you can understand and manage your files and folders. Diskview works on Windows NT 4, 2000, XP and Server 2003. The 61 KB Diskview can be downloaded at
http://www.sysinternals.com/Files/DiskView.zip
TrayIt
TrayIt! can save precious Taskbar space for minimised windows. For each application which applies it creates a small icon in the System Tray.
When application's window is minimised this icon represents the application on the Taskbar instead of the regular "minimised rectangle". TrayIt combines both simplicity and effectiveness - requires no installation; just double click the program file and it's up and running, can minimise open windows to the tray either temporarily or permanently with just one click, and handle "difficult" windows such as skins, with ease, works with all versions of Windows, last but not least it's just 45KB! You can download TrayIt at
http://www.teamcti.com/trayit/trayit.zip. (Source: Support Alert)
MidiMeow
MidiMeow an audio freeware that converts midi files into wav, ogg or mp3. It allows to change the rate of the output (3 rates available), the number of channels (1 or 2), and if you want the volume of the output instead of the preset. Totally free MidiMeow rips midi files "on the fly." The 732 KB MidiMeow for Windows Xp can be downloaded at
http://meow-prod.com/MidiMeow.zip
Vlog
A vlog or video blog is a blog (short for weblog) which uses video as the primary content; the video is linked to within a videoblog post and usually accompanied by supporting text, image, and additional meta data to provide context. Blogs often take advantage of RSS for syndication to other web sites and aggregator software (rss readers). With the inclusion of RSS Enclosures, which provides the ability to attach media files to a feed item/blog post, it is possible to bypass the mainstream intermediaries and openly distribute media to the masses via the Internet. Vlogs are beginning to take advantage of this technological development, just as audioblogs have in recent years via the podcast boom. You can set up your very own videoblog by following the instructions given in the step-by-step guide hosted at
http://freevlog.org/
Compiled by N S Soundar Rajan
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
