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Freemake video converter is a simple, free, video conversion software which can take most of the formats and convert it into popular formats like mp4, wmv, avi etc. You can also add images, music to the video and edit videos like windows movie maker. It has an upload to youtube feature that automatically converts, splits videos and uploads multiple videos to youtube. You can also convert videos into mp3 or DVD format. The conversion options are minimal, you cannot change the bitrate, which is set to very high quality, high file size setting. I use it to compact videos I shoot from my mobile phone. It converts the 720p videos from 12Mbps to about 4Mbps which brings the file size down to 1/3rd without any perceptible loss. The UI is stylish and simple just like the software. I would have liked few more options, but the software should satisfy most of the people with its clean, simple and elegant features. Download : http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/

WinDirStat is a disk usage viewer that graphically displays your disk usage. Very useful if you want to maintain disk space. You can use the windows right click menu option "send to" to see the disk usage of any folder you want. Just place the windirstat shortcut in your "send to" folder (default location %username%\SendTo ). Now if you right click on any folder you can use sendTo option to check the disk usage of that folder. You can download here WinDirStat [download.com]

List of my favorite software Here's a list of my favorite software.All are freeware .Mostly for windows The KMPlayer -has so many features ,very useful Media Player Classic VLC Izarc 7zip Irfanview -Image view,edit Mozilla Firefox Opera Mozilla Thunderbird Pidgin Miro - video download software µTorrent Flashget 1.96 - download manager with scheduler Notepad++ - - very good replacement for notepad Open Office Autoit , Autohotkey -windows management scripting tools ,automate many tasks Manictime -keeps track of your activities Audacity -edit audio files Ccleaner -keeps widows clean Update 19 Jul 2011 Ninite - install multiple apps at once Instead of OpenOffice , better option is Libre Office as OpenOffice was taken over. Keepass to store password Truecrypt to encrypt hard disk Sugar...