The Free Youtube Utility combines several different modules to search, download, convert and manage Youtube videos in one interface. The software program is compatible with all latest versions of Microsoft Windows including the soon to be released Windows 7.

The Youtube search works independtly from installed web browsers. It will process the first five Youtube results pages by default. This setting can be changed to a maximum of ten processed results pages.

Videos are then displayed with their title, description, playing time, view count, url and date they have been added. A double-click on individual videos will send them to the download manager of the Youtube software program. Multiple videos can be send to the download manager together.

The download manager will start Youtube video downloads immediately. Already downloaded videos can be played in the interface or send over to the video converter to convert them into a different video format.

The file manager will list all downloaded Youtube videos giving the user the opportunity to play them at any time from within the interface.

Videos that have been downloaded can be converted into 16 different output formats including iPod, PSP, 3GP, iPhone, DVD, AVI, VCD or Mp3.

There is no option to change the quality settings of the video conversion. It is however possible to automatically convert videos that have been downloaded into a selected video format.

The Free Youtube Utility integrates itself in the Internet Explorer web browser offering one-click downloads of Youtube videos from within the browser.

The software program works pretty well and combines all the tools needed to work with Youtube videos.

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Many computer users believe that memory optimizers are software programs that offer barely any positive effect. Some computer memory optimizers reduce the memory by raising the virtual memory instead, others degrade performance by optimizing the memory while others do nothing at all. Roman send in a link of the computer memory optimizer Minimem that might change the public perception of memory optimizers once and for all.

Minimem is available as a portable and installer for the Windows operating system. It can optimize all running processes of a Windows operating system. Unlike other programs of its kind it offers the user the choice to select the processes that should be memory optimized.

Minimem will only display processes that use more than 15 Megabytes of computer memory. It is possible to change the value to predefined values between 5 and 100 Megabytes. The memory limit can be turned off as well to display all processes in the interface.

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Google Chrome is an increbible browser. It is light, fast, reliable and simple to use. The downside is that it still misses some of the most common features other famous browsers have got for years. Wouldn’t you like to get an improved, tweaked, hacked Google Chrome version full of interesting options and features?

ChromePlus is basically the good, old Google Chrome but…on steroids! As a matter of fact, ChromePlus has got a bunch of great features to make your Internet surfing easier than ever. Here is a small list of its main features:

• Mouse gesture.
• Super drag.
• IE tabs.
• No Chrome background communications.
• Download tools supported in context menu.

If you want to download this improved, tweaked Google Chrome version, or if you just want to know more about it, visit the official website.

The motivation to create MP3 Diag was born out of fru

stration with existing solutions to diagnose and tag a mp3 collection properly. The developer did a thorough analysis of many existing mp3 taggers and came to the conclusion that many used non-standard ways of storing data. These errors were still tolerated by most mp3 players but could cause lockups or even crashes on others. MP3 Diag can analyse a mp3 collection and perform the following operations on each mp3 file:

• Adding / fixing track info, including album cover; information can be retrieved from several sources: Internet, clipboard, file name, local files, and (obviously) keyboard
• Correcting files that show incorrect song duration
• Correcting files in which the player cannot seek correctly
• Converting characters for non-English names
• Adding composer name to the artist field, for players that don’t handle the composer field
• Renaming files based on their fields
• Changing word case for track info

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Microsoft has just released a new version of Windows Live Movie Maker which is a free video editing software available for both Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Windows Live Movie Maker now includes several new and impressive transitions and visual effects that are easily accessible from the new Office 2007 like ribbon toolbar. You can even pin these to the title bar of the program for quick access.

Microsoft discontinued Photostory with Windows Vista but the same Ken Burns effect can now be replicated in Movie Maker using the new Pan & Zoom effects (see screenshot below).

Movie Maker can render videos in full High Definition (1080p) format and you also have the option to upload movies directly to YouTube just like in Google’s Picasa software.

The only disappointing part is that Live Movie Maker won’t probably work with your Windows XP system.