VLC for all your media playback needs

Ari — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:12:10 +0000

Recently, a friend asked me what he should install on a new PC before he takes a backup snapshot. The PC is going to be used by the whole family as a media PC in addition to other functions. I put VLC Media Player on this list of must haves.

VLC is a feature rich media players that plays EVERYTHING. No matter what type of file I have thrown at VLC it has handled it without an issue. VLC does not require the installation of additional codecs. It plays most every file immediately after installation. VLC is also skinable so you can customize the way VLC looks.

VLC media Player is a free and open source cross platform (Windows/Mac/Linux) media player. I highly recommend it.

You can grab VLC from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

WinMerge

Ari — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:40:56 +0000

Ever need to compare the contents of 2 files? You could use WinDiff. But WinMerge is a far better option.

WinMerge

Like WinDiff, WinMerge allows you to compare individual files and directories. However, WinMerge also lets you move different sections between the files with one click. This lets you selectively merge the 2 files with the content you want. This feature is very useful when checking different versions of configuration files or code.

Also WinMerge has plugin support for other formats like MS Word and Excel.

Best of all WinMerge is free and Open Source.

You can download Winmerge at http://winmerge.org/downloads/

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VLC for all your media playback needs

WinMerge