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Find obscure eBay deals with Get it Next
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Looking for a great deal on eBay for the holidays? Emily Chang over at eHub has done it again by finding a little gem called Get it Next. Quite simply Get it Next puts a fast and appealing web 2.0ish face on your ordinary eBay searches. With bigger graphics and most of your most important buying information up front you won’t need to drill down into each auction to find a deal. Get It Next shows current price, time left (down to the second), sellers rating, and shipping costs right up front.
Also nice are the “find a deal” and “bulk deal” tabs which help you find auctions ending in the next 4 hours. Think of it as a four hour woot that allows you to search by item. You would be surprised at some of the auctions ending with little or no bids.
All in all Get it Next is a great tool for the bargain hunter surfing eBay.
Convert MP3 files to SWF flash files
Ever need to post a MP3 or audio file to the web but don’t want it ripped down from the web with the greatest of ease? Maybe you want to preview your music or concerts on the web, whats the best way to share that audio without counting on something like Quicktime?
With Batch Create MP3 Stream you simply drag and drop your files into the file list and convert. Batch Create does a great job at encoding your files so they sound their best. On the other side it offers a nice flash audio controller that can start, pause, and rewind your audio. For my money this is one of the easiest ways to convert a MP3 to a SWF file. Its not free, but at $29.95 MP3 Stream Converter is a screaming deal if you have to post hundreds of audio files to the web.
Control the volume of your PC with the scroll wheel on your mouse
Control the volume of your PC with the scroll wheel on your mouse. Makes it easy to turn down the jams when a phone call comes in or worse yet the boss.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/volumouse.html
Pandora in a Box runs your Pandora from your system tray like a real music player
From the creators of the Wheel of Food the random lunch decider comes “Pandora in a Box” a small program that can run your Pandora in a small window at the bottom right of your screen or minimize it to your system tray. This makes Pandora more of a music player instead of a web page and reacts much like the typical music playing software.
http://noheat.com/download/SetupPandorainabox.exe
Feel free to try out the beta version without ads…
http://www.noheat.com/download/Pandorainabox2.exe
I will add a installer later for this application if testing goes well
WavePad is a powerful audio editor that can make changes quickly
Last minute edits are a constant in my life that’s why I rely on applications that can launch quickly, make quick changes, and be done so a gold master can get out the door without calling in the troops. WavePad, named after the infinitely useful Notebad but for sound waves fills in a need on my PC where Sound Studio lives on my Powermac. Here are a few features…
* Supports a number of file formats including wav (multiple codecs), mp3, vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and many more.
* Sound editing functions include cut, copy, caste, delete, insert, silence, autotrim and more.
* Audio effects include, amplify, normalize, equaliser, envelope, reverb, echo, reverse, sample rate conversion and more.
* Tools include spectral analysis (FFT) and speech synthesis.
* Audio restoration features including noise reduction and click pop removal.
* Supports sample rates from 6000 to 96000Hz, stereo or mono, 8, 16, 24 or 32 bits.
* Ability to work with multiple files at the same time in seperate screens.
* Includes its own CD ripper with ‘ultrafast ‘rip mode and cddb music database lookup.
* Links directly to the Express Burn CD Recorder to burn your sound files to CD.
* Recorder supports autotrim and voice activated recording.
* Easy to use interface will get you started running.
