Free Riva FLV Encoder will help you to transcode your existing videofiles to the advanced Flash Video (FLV) format. After selecting a source-file you can easily transcode it into Flash Video using one of the presets or your custom settings. To view the result Riva FLV Encoder comes with the free Riva FLV Player. At present you can transcode the following formats: AVI, MPEG, Quicktime, WMV.  The new Riva FLV Encoder 1.2 supports exporting images from a video as JPEGs.

Download your copy of free Riva FLV Encoder here.

Features

• custom settings for audio- and video-encoding
• deinterlace
• image extraction
• FLV 1.1 (metadata)
• Custom colored borders (Padding)
• Crop parts of the video
• Cutting with a startoffset and a encode duration
• Drag-n-drop of video files directly on the encoder
• Audio parameter check
• language: english, french and german

System Requirements

• Pentium 1,0 GHz or above
• display with at least 800×600 pixels resolution 
• 64 MB RAM or more
• 4 MB available hard drive space
• Windows 98 or better
• FlashPlayer plugin V7 or better for Internet Explorer.
• Windows-compatible sound card

STOIK Video Converter is the popular freeware utility which has millions of satisfied users who enjoy power, speed, and simplicity of this versatile instrument – a rare combination in the world of modern video compression technologies. Second version brings further functional and interface enhancements, while preserving the straightforward interface design which makes this program so easy and fun to use.

Convert AVI, WMV, DV  files in all possible combinations. Pick up one or multiple source video files, select output audio and video settings using preinstalled or custom profiles, and convert to single or multiple output video files. Now supports DivX + MP3 AVI, Windows Media 9, multiple file conversion, and file merging.

NEW IN SVC 2.0:

• Windows Media 9, DivX AVI supported
• Preinstalled profiles for WM9, profile editor
• Merge files
• Convert multiple files at once
• DV file output
• Preserve interlacing when changing frame size, e.g. NTSC-PAL
• Output profiles, WM9 profiles, profile editor

GreatNews is a perfect solution to save your time while reading news! You can see all your favorite news feeds together, read an search and don’t miss something important. GreatNews displays full pages of news articles across rss feeds, optimized for fast reading. So you can skim through pages in seconds, and pick interesting ones to dig in. GreatNews stores all your favorite articles locally, so you won’t lose any article when the web site is down or updated. You can also assign labels to articles so that you can retrieve them later by a single click.

Categorize news articles with labels
Use labels to organize your articles. With just a single click, all items with the same label can be listed as if they are under the same folder. You can also use labelsto customize article exports.

Channel Statistics
Channel Statistics shows your top 10 most or least visited channels.

Keep tracking what’s happening
With Search Channels, you can type in stock symbol to track the latest news about the company via Yahoo Company News. Or use keywords to monitor latest blog comments via Feedster, MSN and Flickr.

Auto-discovery
No need to hunt for RSS links on a web site anymore. GreatNews’s reading pane discovers RSS or OPML links automatically when you browsing the web site. Simply click the RSS icon on the status bar to subscribe.

… and there’s much more!

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NoteTab Light is the ultimate free Notepad replacement and a capable HTML editor. A slimmer version of the award-winning NoteTab Pro, this slick application makes text editing a breeze. Move quickly around a stack of large files with a simple tabbed interface. Format your text to your heart’s content. Write with the font of your choice, fixed-width or proportional.

If you need to cut and paste chunks from a pile of files, forget the Clipboard: you can set up a Paste Board file to save text clips automatically. Strip HTML tags from your files. Call up complete document statistics instantly. Use powerful, system-wide search and replace tools.

Speed up your work with text macros: you can use them as shortcuts, or even to auto-replace those persistent typos. Handy sample macro libraries are supplied, and you can easily build your own. Make the most of NoteTab’s many options to suit your own workstyle.

There’s more, much more, in this package…

Download NoteTab Light: a free Notepad replacement, feature-rich text editor, and HTML editor from here

Emurasoft’s EmEditor now have FREE version! I think that EmEditor is the best text editor in the world – try it and you will understand me. Why is EmEditor the best text editor?

1. EmEditor can launch very fast, almost instantaneously!
2. Extendable with plug-ins!
3. Powerful macros with your favorite script language!
4. Unicode support!
5. Easy and intuitive design with tabbed windows!
6. Many other features, such as keyword highlighting, regular expression search and highlighting, bookmarking, etc.

Download free EmEditor from here