Put all your questions, advice, and useful stuff in here. Enough noobs and experts on this board for some decent discussion.

A list of useful sites and software that people usually ask about. All software here is freeware.

Music Editing:
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MP3 Direct Cut
http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html
- cuts an mp3 without loosing quality
- can also adjust volume without re-encoding

Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
- awesome free music editor.
- very powerful, who needs to buy software?
- edits almost any type of music file

Eags On!
http://eagson.tk/
- edit mp3 ID3 tags
- very powerful, rock soild

CDex
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
- rip CDs to mp3 or wav
- back up your store bought collection


Video editing
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Virtual Dub
http://www.virtualdub.org/
- Best AVI file editing software
- free, and incredibly powerful

DVD Shrink
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/v.../dvd_shrink.cfm
- back up your own dvd's
- shrink them down from 9GB to 4.5GB
- covered under our fair use laws

DVD Decrypter
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/v...d_decrypter.cfm
- back up your DVDs
- burn ISO's, and other disc image files
- covered under our fair use laws


Media Playback
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VLC
www.videolan.org/vlc/
- Plays most files
- great sound quality
- plays audio/video

Media Player Classic
http://www.free-codecs.com/download...yer_Classic.htm
- old but trusted by many
- plays audio/video
- simple, low resource

Winamp
http://www.winamp.com
- long time favourite of the web
- media library support
- plays audio/video
- ipod/player support
- burning support
- big, and resource intesive


Image Editing
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IrfanView
http://www.irfanview.com/
- great image viewer
- lots of editing options
- batch renaming and conversion

The GIMP
http://www.gimp.org/
- amazing set of features, rivals PhotoShop
- familiar interface for PhotoShop users


Video sharing
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Google Video
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- best site due to better encoding than other sites

Youtube
http://youtube.com
- most popular, biggest culture

MetaCafe
http://www.metacafe.com/
- get paid for what you share


File Sharing
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FileZilla
http://filezilla-project.org/
- free FTP program
- lots of feature of expensive ftp programs

Soulseek
http://www.slsknet.org/
- huge community sharing lots of legal music
- record label for amatuer artists
- can be used to share file amoung friends if FTP is too hard

Megaupload
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- 500MB file size limit, but the link lasts as long as it is used.
- annoying flash, but the site works great.

Rapid Share
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- 100MB file size limit.
- huge community online, with lots of links.


File Handling
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HJ SPlit
http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/
- freeware
- splits files into as many chunks as needed, based on size

WinRar
http://www.rarlab.com/
- shareware
- don't actually have to buy, just have a pesky little pop up.
- handles RAR files, and most other compressed file formats


Web Hosting
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Canaca
http://www.canaca.com/
- great prices
- huge storage capacities
- SUPER FAST
- Canadian

Vista Pages
http://www.vistapages.com/
- Good price
- every web technology you could ask for
- good storage
- Canadian


Office Suites
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Open Office
http://www.openoffice.org/
- powerful word editor
- powerful presentation maker
- powerful spreadsheet
- free
- open source poster child


IBM Lotus Symphony
http://symphony.lotus.com/
- powerful word editor
- powerful presentation maker
- powerful spreadsheet
- free
- IBM quality?

Wheeeee

nice thread! how about cue sheet for CDs like splitting up the tracks in a set?

Excellent thread idea!

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FIRST

How do you post a youtube video?

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Originally posted by Ania_xox FIRST How do you post a youtube video?

By checking their help section:

"How do I post a video"

How do i boost my internet signal. lately the wireless connection at my library is slow as hell. Dunno if cause theres a lot of people using it or they change something. But how do i improve it on my laptop. How do those wifi cards work on laptops?

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Originally posted by ArchVan How do i boost my internet signal. lately the wireless connection at my library is slow as hell. Dunno if cause theres a lot of people using it or they change something. But how do i improve it on my laptop. How do those wifi cards work on laptops?

It's entirely dependant on their equipment and connection. If it was fine for you before but sucks now, you can't do much about it.

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Originally posted by ArchVan How do i boost my internet signal. lately the wireless connection at my library is slow as hell. Dunno if cause theres a lot of people using it or they change something. But how do i improve it on my laptop. How do those wifi cards work on laptops?

OMG I am so excited to be able to help with something
Try renewing your IP adress

start
run
type cmd + enter
type: ipconfig /renew (exactly that way) + enter

I have no idea what it means to renew your IP address but whenever I do this at school my signal boosts

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Originally posted by Slylee oh well, different strokes different vaginas

Some dance to remember ~ Some dance to forget

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Originally posted by Ania_xox OMG I am so excited to be able to help with something Try renewing your IP adress start run type cmd + enter type: ipconfig /renew (exactly that way) + enter I have no idea what it means to renew your IP address but whenever I do this at school my signal boosts

technically it shouldnt boost any signal.

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k cool, thanks for the replies