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Free YouTube Download description, Audio Downloads List By 30 Day Change. YouTube video downloading tools come and go, and most of them are not really that good. They're slow cumbersome, and so mired in banner advertising and pop-ups that it's easy to give them up. But one free tool that stands out from the crowd in a really big way and makes downloading YouTube videos a delight is Free YouTube Download. What makes FYD different from the others?

Well, apart from its ease of use, it lets you download complete YouTube playlists, videos from a YouTube channel, and even video responses to videos, simply by cutting and pasting the necessary link. Downloading is fast, the quality is excellent, and during downloading, the advertising isn’t in your face(compared to what many of FYD’s rivals do), which is always a bonus in my book. Free YouTube Download is extremely simple to use. One of FYD's really neat features is its ability to auto-detect YouTube URLs in the Windows clipboard. TrashMail description, Spam Blockers Downloads List By 30 Day Change. Quite often, you will come across freebies on the Internet such as free music or free eBooks, but as the saying goes, "you don't get something for nothing. " In return for that free MP3 or eBook, the site owner will want your email address, which they will then use to flood your email inbox with never-ending spam about Viagra .

TrashMail is a Firefox add-on and Chrome extension which aims to instantly stop all this nonsense with a simple right-click of the mouse. It's true that you could go directly to websites like TrashMail and just use the site. But what makes this add-on stand out is how fast and effortless it makes the whole process. After installation, you will either need to sign up for a free TrashMail account (if you don’t already have one) or sign in (if you do have one). This enables the browser to keep track of all of your TrashMail activity. Multiple domains are available, which is great if the site you're on has blocked the TrashMail domain you first try to use.

Substance description, Word Processing Downloads List By 30 Day Change | PCWorld. Writing a long document sometimes feels like a balancing act. You can't just load Notepad and bang it out top to bottom, but if you use a word processor you can quickly become mired in formatting and details. Substance is a free, open-source Web app that offers a different approach: structured content-oriented writing. That's a mouthful, but basically it means that you get to focus on the text and structure, without thinking too much about the formatting.

Although Google Docs, Microsoft Office Web Apps, and Zoho all offer solid Web-based word processors, they are still word processors. Other approaches to authoring documents online include wikis, such as DokuWiki or MediaWiki (which Wikipedia uses), but they often employ special syntax and are not always visually appealing. Structure does not offer much in the way of formatting options, but it is absolutely gorgeous, and it makes just about anything you write seem intelligent. --Erez Zukerman. SkyDox Business Edition description, Project Management Downloads List By 30 Day Change | PCWorld. SkyDox, a primarily cloud-based service, offers file sharing and collaboration in an easy-to-use format--and it won't break the bank either. That's a rare combination that makes the thirty-day free trial of this $15/month product worth taking a look at. Log in to your account and you'll be taken to your neatly organized SkyDox homepage.

Its layout features three primary columns: on the left are the folders and sub-folders used to organize your files, in the center is a list of the files you've uploaded or had shared with you, and on the right is an activity feed, showing the users who have viewed or shared files with you, and what changes they've made. Getting started is a breeze, and it's easy to understand the purpose behind all of the icons on the page. Once a file has been uploaded to SkyDox or a folder has been created, you can share it within SkyDox and externally. SkyDox is working on adding offline access to its platform.

--Liane Cassavoy. Kwik Media description, Design & Multimedia Downloads List By 30 Day Change. Nero has never before been lauded for its interfaces. But new times and new blood have conspired to make Nero Kwik Media Free, a gratis version of the company's multimedia librarian, player, burner and transcoder--intuitive, of all things. Not 100 percent so, but close. Nero has also opted to make the program dead-simple to use, though the company may have erred too far in that direction. Kwik Media opens to the home screen, where you see common tasks such as burning CDs or DVDs, but you can quickly move beyond those to the video/photo, and music sections. While Kwik Media is easy to fathom and use, it's also dictatorial. Kwik Media supports a wide variety of file types, converts video to mobile device formats, creates slideshows, interfaces with social sites, and burns media to disc.

Kwik Media is a very powerful multimedia handler. Note: Kwik Media will install the Ask toolbar if you don't deselect this option during the install. --Jon L. Family Tree Builder description, Genealogy Downloads List By 30 Day Change. Genealogy software Family Tree Builder is a helpful research tool for people who find it a daunting task to figure out the best way to link together all the information they collect about relatives through letters, old documents or photographs. Like most family tree software, Family Tree Builder can import GEDCOM files with no problems, and it also offers to import Family Tree Legends, Family Tree Maker, Personal Ancestry File (PAF), and Legacy Family Tree files. I was unable, however, to import Family Tree Maker files (version 2012 failed; older versions only imported a partial database), so I would recommend sticking with GEDCOM. You also may use Family Tree Builder to start from scratch, which the smooth, well thought-out UI makes easy and intuitive.

Either way, growing a family tree with Family Tree Builder is very similar to that of Family Tree Maker 2012 ($40). Family Tree Builder's process makes sense: You start anywhere on your tree and add parents or children as you go. PhraseExpress description, Automation Tools Downloads List By 30 Day Change. PhraseExpress, now in its ninth version, is a powerful macro and text expansion tool that automates entering commonly used phrases, in addition to several other useful functions. By using PhraseExpress, you can link commonly typed pieces of text, such as "You know that 'news' story is from The Onion, right? " to short keywords, such as "ONIN", and PhraseExpress will automatically produce the full phrase as soon as it detects the keyword. With the release of PhraseExpress 9, we get an assortment of new features, such as support for Windows 8 and cloud drives, that reflect the modern-day computing environment and user expectations. PhraseExpress cost $50 for business use after a 30-day free trial; it's free for personal use.

You can organize phrases into folders, grouping commonly-used concepts together, such as addresses, business greetings, favorite quotes, and boilerplate sections of text. PhraseExpress 9 includes Windows 8 support. PhraseExpress has some minor issues. BlueScreenView (portable version) description, Utilities Downloads List By 30 Day Change | PCWorld. Microsoft's Windows OS has come a long way, but it's still not perfect. Just as anyone who's experienced the infamous Blue Screen of Death recently. When Windows crashes in this fashion—screeching to a halt, often when you're smack dab in the middle of an important piece of work—searching for a cause is often a frustrating, unfulfilling experience. But the notorious "blue screen of death" doesn't have to leave you scratching your head if you fire up the portable version of the handy utility BlueScreen View.

It scans Microsoft's minidump files, it's free, and it doesn't require installation. These files, which are automatically created when Windows crashes, are typically saved in your computer's C: drive; BlueScreenView knows exactly where to look for them. You do need to make sure your system is saving these minidump files, as most Windows PCs will, unless they've been modified. BlueScreenView isn't going to fix your PC's problems, but it isn't supposed to. —Liane Cassavoy. PPT2DVD Pro description, Presentation Downloads List By 30 Day Change. If you'd like to free your PowerPoint presentations from the confines of Microsoft PowerPoint, say hello to Wondershare's PPT2DVD Pro. This application greatly simplifies the task of converting your PowerPoint content into a video file that you can burn to DVD, share on the Web, or view on numerous portable devices. Using PPT2DVD Pro to convert your presentation to video is much less complicated than creating the presentation in PowerPoint itself.

You choose whether you want to create a DVD or a video file, add the presentations you'd like to include (up to 12), set the correct settings for the DVD or video file, and click to create the final result. If you like, you can add a DVD menu by using one of the basic but perfectly professional templates that Wondershare includes. You also can add background music and set the transition time between slides, if you haven't already done so in PowerPoint. And that's it. --Liane Cassavoy. Morphine description, Browsers & Clients Downloads List By 30 Day Change.

Chrome extension Morphine takes Benjamin Franklin's famous line that "time is money" very seriously. With Morphine, developed by 16-year-old Teddy Cross, you redeem blocks of idle browsing time for blocks of productive browsing. Browse work-related websites for 10 minutes, and accrue one minute of goofing-off time. You can tweak the numbers, but the principle stands: Morphine lets you save time--literally. To get started with Morphine, you must feed it with a list of sites to block.

I kept the default time settings, so for every 10 minutes of non-blocked browsing, I gained one minute I could spend on blocked websites. If you go to a blocked website without redeeming some free time first, Morphine simply pops up those same buttons along with your current balance, reminding you to redeem some time. Like WasteNoTime, the biggest problem facing Morphine is how easy it is to circumvent: Just right-click its toolbar button and select Disable. --Erez Zukerman. Cozi description, Household Downloads List By 30 Day Change. Cozi makes life more comfortable.

If your family organizational system is anything like mine, complete with an illegible dry-erase board, a whole lot of magnets, scraps of papers, and plenty of chaos. This free online tool reduces the clutter and makes family organizing a cinch. To set up your family's Cozi account, create a login, add family members (and their email addresses and mobile phone numbers, if they have them), and get to work. The central feature is a shared calendar, which color-codes appointments and events by user.

This makes it easy to see who needs to be where and when, with just a quick glance. Even better is the way the calendar lets you create events using natural language. Additional features include to-do lists, which can be joint tasks or assigned to individuals. The one feature that feels slightly out of place is the family journal: it allows you to create a family blog of sorts, where you can post photos or text about your family.