American Idiots, links galore

I don’t know if I am just tiring of the show or  because it is a full moon, but sitting through 2 freaking hours of American Idol last night was borderline torture for me.  I couldn’t wait for it to be over.  At least half the male contestants I could care less about.  I was just bored.  Paula looked and sounded like hell as usual and Simon made fun of her as usual.  It’s just the same old crap.  I think I am going to push to skip the shows until they at least get to top 12.  I think Ali will go along with me, she isn’t all that into it either.

I was looking through a PC Magazine recently.  They had a section about the best of FREE stuff.  There was a TON of great sites there.  Here are a few that caught my attention the most.  I checked all of these out personally. All free, all good!

 www.handbrake.fr – DVD to MPEG4 -conversion

www.youconvertit.com – file format conversion

www.getpaint.net – Photoshop like features for nothing

www.videora.com – convert videos for ipods

www.tversity.com – stream to any internet device

http://www.cockos.com/reaper/ – audio manipulation

https://secure.logmein.com – like gotomypc but free

www.utorrent.com – tiny but fully functional torrent client

http://www.netstumbler.com/ – wifi detector

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ – free, powerful audio editor

http://free.grisoft.com/ – Free, good anti-virus protection

www.nanoscan.com – quick scan to see if your pc has viruses or malware on it

housecall.trendmicro.com – another online virus/malware scanner

http://www.kompozer.net/screenshots.php – free web page authoring software

http://www.defraggler.com/download – free, small, disk defrag program

http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/ – securely erase files

http://www.nirsoft.net/ – TONS of useful freeware utilities

http://www.glarysoft.com/gu.html – freeware collection of utilities to help your pc run better