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By Cat Ellis CamStudio is a deceptively simple open source screen recorder. Capturing what’s happening on your monitor is as simple as clicking a button, but if you delve into the settings you’ll find that this little program is capable of so much more. You can capture video or still images, and record audio from…

By Cat Ellis Snipping Tool Plus is enormously popular, but is only available in German. That said, the interface is well designed, with icons that make it easy to use even if you don’t speak the language. Windows Vista and Windows 7 brought the Snipping Tool to our PCs, letting us take screenshots of selected…

By James Abbott Capture One began life as a tethering solution for digital medium format cameras, and has evolved into a fully-featured software program for cataloguing images, processing raw files and of course, tethered shooting. It’s compatible with over 450 camera models, although tethered capture only supports Canon, Nikon, Sony and Phase One cameras. If…

Acer has gone all out to take over the gaming laptop scene with the new Predator Triton 700 and Predator Helios 300. Here are the specs, price, and release date of the two upcoming beasts. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

By Cat Ellis Any Video Converter Free is an amazing downloading and conversion toolkit so comprehensive, it’s hard to believe it’s free. You can rip files from discs, download them from YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Dailymotion and more, apply filters and effects, then save or burn them to DVD in virtually any format. Videos can be…

By Cat Ellis VideoPad Video Editor is a beginner-friendly video editing package that makes an ideal replacement for the defunct Windows Movie Maker. In just a few minutes you’ll have mastered its well designed toolkit and be ready to start creating your own masterpiece ready to upload straight to YouTube or Facebook, or in a…

By Cat Ellis qBittorrent is a fast. easy to use torrent client that uses as few of your PC’s resources as possible for improved speeds. Unlike most free clients, qBittorrent is completely open source, meaning there are no ads and you don’t have to pay extra for extensions and add-ons. Anyone can develop their own…

By Desire Athow For most businesses, especially smaller ones, projectors are an expensive luxury despite their proven usefulness for meetings. While large-format displays have seen prices tumble, the fact that they take up a lot of space and cannot be moved around have limited their appeal somewhat. And this is the sort of audience that…

By Kevin Lee Since introducing its Predator-line, Acer’s modus operandi for gaming machines has been go bigger and more powerful. However, the Taiwanese electronic firm’s latest Predator Triton 700 bucks that trend by going thinner than any other gaming notebook out there. Measuring only 18.9mm thin, it throws its hat into a ring of other…

By Cat Ellis GIMP (the GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a superb free alternative to Adobe Photoshop, and comes with a huge array of professional-quality functions for fine-tuning images and photos, and creating your own artwork from scratch. It includes layers, highly customizable brushes, filters and automatic image-enhancement tools, and support for a huge number…

By Mark Wilson System Ninja provides a quick and easy way to optimize your PC. If you’re running low on disk space, it helps you to recover valuable megabytes (or even gigabytes) while improving your privacy and security in to the bargain. On top of this, you’ll find an uninstaller for quickly removing programs you…

By Cat Ellis Lightworks is a professional-quality video editor that’s free for home use, putting an incredibly powerful toolkit within the reach of amateur and hobbyist videographers. It’s fast, flexible, and packed with effects and tools to help you make the most of your clips. Whatever kind of project you have in mind, Lightworks can…

By Mark Wilson SMPlayer is primarily a video player, but it can also be used to listen to music and other audio tracks. It supports a huge range of file formats out of the box, and includes a handy feature that means it remembers where you are in a video even when you close it…

By Mark Wilson Foxit Reader is a PDF reader – and much more. As well as providing a way to view PDF files, the program can also be used to create this type of file, sign PDFs, and add annotations. There are also Foxit Reader plugins for Microsoft Office programs (including Word, Excel and PowerPoint)…

AMD has released its twin-GPU card, the Radeon Pro Duo. The next-gen graphics card is aimed at creative professionals who need powerful graphics performance. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers