LameXP is a free audio converter which uses the famous LAME MP3 Encoder.

It supports Wave, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC/MP4, FLAC, WavPack, Musepack, Speex and APE as input formats and can convert them to MP3, Ogg Vorbis and AAC/MP4.

This program even supports multi-threading encoding, which means that it can convert two files at once, saving you some time if you have a CPU with 2 or more cores.

For MP4/AAC encoding support you need to download the free Nero Digital Audio Encoder. Just download it and copy the EXE files inside the LameXP folder.

It is portable because it doesn’t require any installation.

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Notepad++ is an open source text editor that has many useful features, like syntax highlighting, code folding, autocompletion and macro recording.

It has a portable version available.

You can read all the features in its website.

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A new version of paint.NET has been released today.

The responsiveness of the adding and subtracting image selections is much better in this release, and according to the changelog also the performance was improved but i didn’t notice it because is fast enough right now.

Paint.NET 3.35 latest changes:

• Posterize adjustment.
• Intersect selection mode.
• Dramatically improved performance for selection editing modes (add, subtract, intersect).
• Bug fixes.

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I have posted about foobar before. This new version has some important changes like the ability to choose several item within the albums list and they included some DSP (Digital Signal Processing) plugins with Crossfade and Skip Silence features.

foobar2000 0.9.5.4 latest changes:

• Media Library Search: queries using “SORT BY” create always-sorted autoplaylists by default.
• File format handling updates:
  • Security updates to Vorbis, Speex, FLAC and WavPack libraries.
  • Fixed a rare Ogg seeking accuracy bug.
  • Improved MP4 parser security.
• Converter improvements:
  • No longer aborts the entire operation when one of queued tracks can’t be processed.
  • Optional status log popup after conversion.
• Album List: ability to select multiple items at once by holding shift or control keys.
• New built-in DSPs: Crossfader, Skip Silence.

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This great open source FTP client has a new version.

Remember that you can download a portable version and that there is a server version if you need an FTP server.

FileZilla 3.0.11.1 latest changes:

• Show number of filtered files in status bars if directory appears empty
• Support for international domain names was accidentally commented out
• Add missing path separator in remote filename on file exists dialog
• Fix shrinking panes if using widescreen or blackboard styles
• MSW: If showing file changed notification dialog after editing a file, program could become unresponsive in some cases
• MSW: Fix visual problems with right-to-left languages introduced with the flicker corrections in 3.0.11
• MSW: Main component can no longer be unselected in the installer

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For anyone that makes use of environment variables in Windows, Rapid Environment Editor makes adding, editing or deleting them very easy and fast.

It is a perfect replacement for the inconvenient dialog that Windows offers to do this. You can even preview the expanded values right away in the same window, which is very useful for testing variables.

It displays system and user variables separated for better management.

You can download a portable version.

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A new version of this registry defragmentation programs is out.

Now they included a portable version in the download page, which is great.

Quicksys RegDefrag 1.5 latest changes:

• Fixed bug in font ANSI charset
• Fixed bug in column order at Registry Information
• Added new language: Dutch
• Updated languages: Polish and Czech
• Minor bugs fixed

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Here is a small update the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu.

I didn’t find any release notes about Ubuntu 8.04.1 but they will update them soon.

People that already has it running can update it within Ubuntu itself. This download is for users that want to try it as it comes as a disc image, of for those that always download new disc images to store them in case they need them.

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