Autocorrect URL typos in FireFox address bar

Although, it's a popular extension already I am posting about it for the benefit of anyone who doesn't know of it yet! This firefox extension corrects typos in URLs that you enter in the address bar. For example, if you type google.con, it will correct it to google.com . Quite handy if you are prone to commiting those typos frequently.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2871

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Free Health & Fitness Softwares

Free Learn Yoga Software
MB Free Learn Yoga is an educational tool for learning the basics of yoga. This program is extremely simple and very useful for beginners who want to learn how to practice the different Yogas. It is an advanced yet handy software that provides information on every aspect of yoga, the different mudras, meditation, benefits of practicing yoga and meditation and the like.

EvenFit
Track weightlifting, cardio, running, biking and swimming workouts
Design Workout Templates and schedule future workouts
Track body weight, calories, sleep and much more

Yoga freeware














yoga freeware features yoga instructions (hatha yoga, raja yoga & jnana yoga), articles and photos of asanas.

Exercise Diary
















Exercise Diary fitness software accurately records and reports your workouts. Exercise Diary will help you to exceed your limits and achieve the body you desire. Lose fat and increase muscle mass. Every day you wait is a day of lost progress!

Exertrack-Exercise,fitness,workout log software
Exertrack is Exercise, workout and fitness software designed to keep you in shape.Exertrack software makes it easy to create and manage your workouts, as well as find and rank new workouts.

Visual Heart Rate
This free Heart Rate Monitor software allows you to make easy and accurate measurements of your heart rate (beats per minute).

Food File
Food File is a free food database and calorie counter for 1000s of food products.

BMR Calculator



















How Many Calories Do You Need? Find Out with a BMR Calculator

Workrave
Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses, rest breaks and restricts you to your daily limit.

Free Blood Pressure Recorder Download














Use it daily with a blood pressure meter to keep check of what your blood pressure is doing. High Blood Pressure or Hypertension is very common and a major cause of premature death in the western world. If you are over 40 years old, you need to make sure you do not have it. If you do then you need to see a doctor for advice on how to treat it.

Pimp My Meal
Calory calculator with many features : BMI (body mass index) ,BMR ( basal metabolic rate )and caloric needs according to the Harris-Beneditc formula.

BMI Calculator for Windows
The 'What Health BMI Calc' is an easy to use body mass index calculator for Windows. Body Mass Index can be used to determine if an person is overweight. In keeping with the World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) recommendations, only height and weight measurements are needed to calculate BMI.

The Life Ahead Program
Manage Your Exercise and Cardiofitness
Manage Your Diet and Weight
manage Your Health and Life

DietControl
DietControl is absolutely free software tool for management your personal diet program. DietControl helps you to build a variety of diet programs, according to your specific nutritional needs. It is the easy way to build your meals according to the diet program. With help of DietControl you can track and compare your body measurements, you'll know exactly how well or poorly you're doing.

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Free OCR Software - Extract text from Images

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Intelliant OCR is an optical character recognition commandline utility, able to convert scanned images into a searchable PDF format, including both image and text in a same standard container. This increases the value of your intellectual capital, allowing you to best utilize your image documents with any search engine. It is remarkably fast, light (the installator weighs only 5 Mb) and the recognition function makes quite a nice job for the main european languages. Several text and image compression methods allow to enormously reduce the size of the documents. Input images can be in all the flavours of the TIFF format, even already encapsulated in a PDF document. Intelliant OCR processes monochrome inputs, and now also supports gray level and colour documents. Output documents can be in ASCII format, smart ASCII (tries to produce text as much like the original image as possible), RTF and PDF. You can specify all security options and properties (title, author, subject and keywords) in the version 1.4 of Adobe PDF format.

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OCR stands for Optical character recognition. OCR software enables you to extract the text from a scanned image and convert it into an editable text document. So if you want to keep that interesting piece of article from a magazine you do not have to sit and type in the whole article. Just scan the article page and then use any OCR software to convert it into editable text. There are many OCR software available though most of them are commercial and costly. And it doesn’t make much sense to spend so much money on it especially if you’d be using it once in a bluemoon. Below is a list of freely available OCR software which does the job for you.

TopOCR
TopOCR is designed to be simple and user-friendly for use with your digital camera or smartphone. Now, wherever you go, you can create documents from business cards, newspapers, books and magazines, all without lugging around a notebook computer and scanner.
http://www.topocr.com/

FreeOCR.net V2.2
Softi FreeOCR is a complete scan and OCR program including the Windows compiled Tesseract free ocr engine. It includes a Windows installer and It is very simple to use and supports multi-page tiff's, fax documents as well as most image types including compressed Tiff's which the Tesseract engine on its own cannot read .It now has Twain scanning.
http://softi.co.uk/freeocr.htm

Tesseract-ocr
The Tesseract OCR engine was one of the top 3 engines in the 1995 UNLV Accuracy test. Between 1995 and 2006 it had little work done on it, but it is probably one of the most accurate open source OCR engines available. The source code will read a binary, grey or color image and output text. A tiff reader is built in that will read uncompressed TIFF images, or libtiff can be added to read compressed images.
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

GOCR/JOCR
Developed under the GNU Public License. It converts scanned images of text back to text files.
http://jocr.sourceforge.net/

GOCR Windows Frontend 1.0
This frontend for GOCR is graphical and is designed to be simple to use, just select the graphics file that you want to recongnise, and the output will be shown to you. You can then copy this output and paste it to somewhere useful. Most major graphical file formats are supported.
http://www.brothersoft.com/gocr-windows-frontend-38579.html

OCR Desktop Application
A desktop utility that generates ASCII text from images such as a bitmap or image file. Incorporating Neural Networks, Artificial Intelligence, and trained with over 4 million font variations; our OCR utility incorporate the latest optical character recognition technology to solve your OCR problems. The utility is free for personal use, the registered version turns off popups and advertising.
http://www.ocrtools.com/fi/prdOCRFree.aspx

SimpleOCR
SimpleOCR is the popular freeware OCR software with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. SimpleOCR is also a royalty-free OCR SDK for developers to use in their custom applications.
If you have a scanner and want to avoid retyping your documents, SimpleOCR is the fast, free way to do it. The SimpleOCR freeware is 100% free and not limited in any way. Anyone can use SimpleOCR for free--home users, educational institutions, even corporate users.
http://www.simpleocr.com/

Ocrad - The GNU OCR
GNU Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program based on a feature extraction method. It reads images in pbm (bitmap), pgm (greyscale) or ppm (color) formats and produces text in byte (8-bit) or UTF-8 formats.
http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html

If you have MS-Office you already have an OCR tool ready. You can use Microsoft Office Document Imaging as an OCR tool.

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Free Guitar Tuner Softwares

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Accurate and easy to use software guitar tuner, that works in a similar way to a digital pocket tuner that you would find in a music shop. This tuner supports Asio v2 and has an audio monitor built in to make tuning easier. The tuner can be set to different keys, and it displays what notes each string should be tuned to for the selected key.


This 17 minute video for beginners will kick start your guitar learning process - 96 barre chords in an easy to remember format!


D'Accord Guitar Chord Dictionary 3.0 for Windows (95, 98, Me, 2000, XP) is the new version of the best chord dictionary software! Useful to beginners and skilled guitarists.
With this software you will learn everything about chords and scales. Browse, play and print guitar chord positions! You can also import chords from lyrics that you find on music websites. It works for all popular stringed instruments!
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Find it hard to tune that Guitar? Unless you are a pro chances are you do. Try your hands on these Guitar tuner software which makes it easy for you to tune your guitar. There are better tuner software available beyond this list. Here I have tried to focus on the 'freebies' thing.

Digital Guitar Tuner is a free Windows software, which let's you accurately tune your guitar using direct input or microphone. Version 2.3, featuring 27 tuning types, is available for downloading.
http://www.guitar.sk/guitar/guitar_software.htm

Free guitar tuner, for tuning acoustic and electric guitars, from GCH Guitar Academy. Has a selection of tones to tune from, electric guitar, acoustic guitar and pure tone. Best of all its completely FREE.
http://www.soft32.com/download_102682.html

The Audio Phonics Guitar Tuner is a fast and accurate guitar tuner available for Windows 95/98/NT/2000. Using proprietary pitch recognition technology, the program can find exact notes in less than 50ms latency. The recognition technology also adapts to the speed of the processor for smooth tracking. The program is easy to use, good looking and best of all it's free. Just download and unzip the package, then run 'APGuitarSetup.EXE'.
http://www.bigrockeng.com/apgt.html

Tuna Pitch is a Mac OSX app to tune your guitar with 5 built-in presets, and the option to set all six strings to any note. Also, with the standard EADGBE tuning, there are Drop D, Drop C, Open G, and Open D tuning presets.
http://www.freeverse.com/apps/app/?id=5012&view=goodies

Renegade Guitar Tuner
http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=59

RoboGuru Guitar Tools
A guitar chord finder, guitar tuner and metronome.
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/downloads/RoboGuru_Guitar_Tools_49677_p/

Guitar Tuning Fork - Guitar Tuning Fork is musical tone sound generator program for musicians. User can get sound of six open guitar strings tones and A4 tone (440 Hz). There is volume control in this program.
http://guitar-tuning-fork.yellow-gold-software.qarchive.org/

Audio Tuner is a free instrument tuner. Play your instrument into your computer's microphone and Audio Tuner will tell you the frequency being played. Select the note to tune it to and Audio Tuner will tell you if you are too flat or too sharp. This is applicable to guitars, ukuleles, pianos etc..
http://www.supernifty.com.au/wiki/index.php?title=Audio_Tuner

gTune for Gnome
A Guitar Tuner for Gnome.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/4189/gtune/index.html

Gstring
Gstring is guitar tuning application for Linux written in C using the GTK+ toolkit and FFTW for its fourier transform. A non-GUI version called "string" is included so you can run this without GTK or GtkDatabox.
http://www.employees.org/~stannous/gstring.html

GuiTuner
GuiTuner is a simple guitar tuning program for Linux.
GuiTuner tries to detect the pitch of the sound recorded in real time from the audio device using some methods ( by now only based on FFT ) that you can configure at runtime. It is self-explanatory, you just have to connect your guitar or your microphone to the sound card, configure the input device using a mixer and see what the program tells you: it displays the note nearest to the picked sound and the interval between it and the note produced by the instrument. If the sound produced is lower than the right one the left arrow becomes green, if is higher becomes green the right arrow. From version 0.05beta1 is available a simple tone generation section, that uses presets.
http://digilander.libero.it/guituner/index.html

KGuitune/QtGuitune/GtkGuitune
Guitune is a linux program for tuning guitars and other instruments by using the method of Schmitt-triggering, i.e. counting the number of triggerings between two trigger levels in a certain amount of time.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hardware/2684/kguitune_page.html

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Winamp Plugin

This is not a 'best of' or any other similar kinda list. It's just a random list of various plugins I have used at various points of time and liked. You may want to check these out ..   

DFX Audio Enhancer 

Audio Enhancement for Winamp. Renew stereo depth, boost your audio levels and produce deep, rich bass sounds with DFX.

http://www.fxsound.com/dfx/index.php?vendor=0&subvendor=0&plus=0&refer=0 

Tape Restore Live

A free Winamp plugin that improves the sound of cassette tapes. 

http://www.hansvanzutphen.com/tape_restore_live/download/ 

Audioburst FX System

It  enhances digital audio by increasing the power output from your speakers.

http://www.qolabs.com/audioburst/ 

Winamp Freeverb 

One of the best free public-domain reverb Plugins

http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details/144431

PaceMaker

PaceMaker is a Winamp DSP plug-in allowing you to adjust tempo, pitch and speed independently. With just a couple of more tweaks, and a bit more precission it could be used by DJs for mixing MP3s. 

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/plug-ins/winamp_plug-ins/pacemaker.cfm

iZotope Ozone

DSP for enhancing audio. Analog modeled EQ, tube compressors and amplifiers, room simulators and more.

http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details/79374

QSound Qmp3D 

Qmp3D from QSound Labs is a software plug-in for maximizing your audio listening 

http://www.softwarehouse.de/oli/extref/p_detail/P10856_english.htm

Shibatch equalizer plugin 

accurate equalizer plugin for winamp

http://shibatch.sourceforge.net/

Dynamic Surround 

Stereo and mono sounds are extended to surround sound

http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details/97895

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Reveal the real url behind tinyurl

Always wondered what is the actual url behind those useful but secretive tinyurls? Well you can actually find out the real url behind the tinyurl without visiting the url. But you need firefox and Greasemonkey for it. Here's the Greasemonkey script that reveals the real url as a Popup Preview.

You can install the script for here ..

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30 Screencasting Software with download link

What is Screencast?
You know print screen and what it does. Print screen captures a snapshot of your computer screen and lets you save that as an image. Screencast is something similar, but the difference here is that instead of taking a still image of the screen, a screencast is a recording of the computer screen output. It is a recording of the computer screen for duration of time along with the user’s activities.

Use of screencast?
Screencast is used mainly to create demo for software products and also to create video tutorials (Like this) . Most of the Screencast software allows to record audio and also to edit the frames of the videos, with stuffs like inserting an image, etc. This makes a screencast an ideal choice to create software demos. The user can view what is going on the screen and also listen to an explanation of the same.

The list below covers some of the most used software used to create a Screencast. I have tried to focus more on the freewares.

vnc2swf (Free)
Vnc2swf is a cross-platform screen recording tool for ShockWave Flash (swf) format.
Vnc2swf comes with two different implementations:
Python version (pyvnc2swf): [Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows. ]
C version (vnc2swf): [Unix, Linux ,Mac OS X]

http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/

AutoScreenRecorder [Free-Windows]
Screen recorder solution to record screen to a video or Flash file, so you can record screen, set schedule, auto-scale videos.
http://wisdom-soft.com/products/autoscreenrecorder_free.htm

XVidCap.[Free- Linux ]
XVidCap is a screencast tool for X-Windows system

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xvidcap/

CamStudio [Free-Windows]
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
http://camstudio.org/

Virtual Dub [Free-Windows]
VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms. It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.
http://www.virtualdub.org/

recordmydesktop .[Free- Linux ]
recordMyDesktop is an easy to use yet effective desktop session recorder for Linux. The program is separated in two parts; a simple command line tool that performs the basic tasks of capturing and encoding and an interface that exposes the program functionality in a usable way.
http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org/about.php

Jing [Free/Mac OS X/Windows)
The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere.
http://www.jingproject.com/

Screenography [Free to try / Mac OSX ]
Screenography is an extremely easy program to capture your screen to various image, movie and Flash formats. Very useful for creating tutorials, training videos/CDs and demonstrations.Screenography is also available in a Lite version (Screenography Lite) which does not have the capability of recording your screen to movies.
http://www.verticalmoon.com/downloads/downloads.htm

iShowU [Commercial /Mac OS X]
Capture and record video from your screen into a Quicktime movie, in realtime
http://www.shinywhitebox.com/home/home.html

Screen Record [Free to try/ Windows, Mac OS X]
ScreenRecord is a screen recording tool that allows the user to capture continuous images on the screen as a Quicktime movie. It is useful for creating training CDs, visual tutorials, and many more. It can even be used as a monitoring device.
http://www.miensoftware.com/screenrecord.html

Windows Media Encoder [Free-Windows]
Windows Media Encoder is one of the best tool for creating a recording of the computer screen. It enables content developers to convert both live and prerecorded audio, video, and computer screen images to Windows Media formats .
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx

TurboDemo [Free to try / Windows)
Capture screenshots and explain software, PC applications, websites and products with animated demos and tutorials. TurboDemo uses an intelligent capturing technique for single screenshots that can then be edited as slides. Mouse movements are automatically reproduced. Projects can be exported into various formats for Internet, Intranet or published on CD’s.

http://www.turbodemo.com/eng/index.php

UVScreenCamera [ Free to try- Windows]
By using UVScreenCamera you can easily create animated demo or tutorials by recording your computer's desktop activity, including all mouse movements, window graphics, mouse clicks and everything else you see on the screen. The recorded clips are stored into UVF, EXE, SWF or AVI movie files, streaming just 30 to 400 KB per minute.
http://www.uvsoftium.com/

ALLCapture [ Free to try- Windows]
Record screen activities in real-time to quickly and easily create your own screencasts, demos, tutorials, software simulations and videos for the Internet without any programming language necessary.
http://www.allcapture.com/eng/index.php

Fraps [Commercial/ Restricted demo – Windows]
Fraps is a benchmarking, screen capture, and real-time video capture utility for DirectX and OpenGL applications
http://www.fraps.com/

Wink [Free- Windows, Linux]
Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.
http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

Camtasia Studio [Free to try/ Windows]
Camtasia Studio screen recorder is smart, and does the hard work for you. Never created a video before? No worries, Camtasia Studio will help you look like a pro.
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp

DemoCharge2005 [Free to try/ Windows]
Creating a demo with DemoCharge is simple: record your animation, enhance and edit the individual frames, and output your demo as a DemoGIF (animated GIF). File sizes are small enough to email, publish on the Web or include in offline documentation and Help files.
http://www.codecharge.com/download/

Snapz Pro X [Commerical / Mac]
Snapz Pro X allows you to effortlessly record anything on your screen, saving it as a QuickTime® movie or screenshot that can be emailed, put up on the web, or passed around however you want.
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/

WinCAM [Free to try/ Windows]
WinCAM records all the screen activities such as the movement of the mouse, the processes of applications, the inputs from the keyboard and all the way to the execution of any programs. WinCAM's innovative object editing tools allow you to insert various shapes of caption boxes, graphics, images, narrations , background music, and sound effects in all different layers in the easiest way. Versatile frame-by-frame editing tools will help you produce your movie with a clean and professional-looking cut . Also the movies can be converted to EXE, WCM, AVI, ASF, MOV, RM and SWF files. Interactive features are available in higher versions which allow the users to interact and participate with formats.
http://www.wincam.net/wincam.htm

Adobe Captivate (Previously Macromedia Captivate) (Commercial/ Windows )
Adobe Captivate is an authoring tool to create software demonstrations, software simulations etc in .swf format. It can also be used to create screencasts. It comes with many features but if all you need is a basic screen recording function, there are cheaper options available.
http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/

BB FlashBack (Free To Try/ Windows)
With BB FlashBack you can create software demonstrations, screencasting, presentations and tutorials, enhanced with sound, text and images which can be published to Flash, AVI, WMV, EXE and PowerPoint.
http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/BBFlashBack.aspx

Demobuilder (Free To Try/ Windows)
Demo Builder is used to create interactive flash movies that show how applications and systems work. Use the full motion recording method while you demonstrate your application, or use the screenshot method to take a series of screen captures of your application. Either way your recorded sessions are fully editable, so you have full control over the look of your flash movies before publishing them.
http://www.demo-builder.com/download.html

Wildform Flair (Free To Try/ Windows)
Easily create outstanding Flash and video presentations, convert PowerPoint to Flash, author demos, tutorials and simulations and generate LMS compliant quizzes. Flair lets you create advanced Flash multimedia projects without any programming! With Flair you can -

# Create professional Flash & video presentations
# Convert PowerPoint to Flash
# Author E-learning quizzes and courses
# Generate demos, tutorials and simulations
# Produce multimedia websites, slide shows & ads
http://www.wildform.com/products/flair/

Istanbul (Free/Linux)
Istanbul is a desktop session recorder for Linux. It records your session into an Ogg Theora video file. To start the recording, you click on its icon in the notification area. To stop you click its icon again. It works on GNOME, KDE, XFCE and others.
http://live.gnome.org/Istanbul

InstantDemo (Free To try / Windows)
A simple and quick Screen Recording Software which lets you record your Windows desktop activity in real time. Not the one if you want an advanced and feature rich tool.
http://www.instant-demo.com/download.php

Envision (Free To Try/ Windows)
Envision is a cheap option provided you already own Flash. It is the a Screen Recording/Capture extension for Flash and can be used to create Desktop Screen Captures, Product Demonstrations, Interactive Tutorials etc.
http://www.digitalcuriosity.com/Envision/Envision.htm

Cankiri (Free / Linux)
Cankiri is a single file screen recorder for Linux and other systems that run GStreamer 0.10 and PyGTK 2.8 licensed under the GNU GPL
http://www.tortall.net/mu/wiki/Cankiri

Screen Mimic (Free To Try - Mac OS X)
Screen Mimic allows you to create screencasts (recordings of your Mac OS X desktop) that can be saved as Adobe Flash (SWF), Flash Video (FLV), or Quicktime (MOV) files. These files can be easily uploaded to a website, used in a kiosk system, and many other applications.
http://www.polarian.com/products/ScreenMimic.php

SnagIt (Free To Try/Windows)
With SnagIt you can –
Capture anything on your screen - from an area to a scrolling web page.
Edit your screen capture using the built-in image editor.
Share, save, and print your screen capture in the format of your choice.
http://www.techsmith.com/download/snagittrial.asp

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