This page contains links to recommended tools and on-line resources used in tips and tricks or otherwise referenced in articles on this site.
| FFmpeg This command line utility is the go-to tool for working with video and audio. |
| Youtube-DL This command line downloader is primarily for downloading from Youtube but can also download from a wide variety of other sites. |
| Youtube-DL GUI This program provides an easy graphical user interface to Youtube-DL. |
| Xmedia Recode This program provides an easy graphical user interface to FFmpeg and makes it easy to extract and transcode video and audio.
Download last reliable version 3.4.3.6 here. To install, open the zip file and copy the "XMediaRecode3436" folder to a convenient location. To run, simply double click "XMedia Recode.exe" within this folder. |
| VLC Media Player This program plays just about any video file, plays streamed videos and provides stream capture, along with a number of useful tools. |
| Audacity This program allows audio files to be easily edited, joined or split and provides a rich set of effects. |
| Fast File Renamer Plus This program provides powerful bulk file renaming capability. |
| Script This program implements a simple Win32 scripting language for building your own utilities. |
| Hex Editor A full featured hex editor for editing files at byte level. |
| SVG Editor An editor for creating and modifying scalable vector graphics files. |
| HTML Colour Picker An easy way to get colour codes in HTML compatible formats. |
| JSON Viewer View JavaScript Object Notation files in an easily readable format. |
| Regular Expression Tester Build, test and debug regular expressions. |
| PDF Editor Free online PDF editor - has limits but useful in an emergency. |
| Extract images from PDFs Useful PDF tools including a tool to extract embedded images from a PDF file. |
| Free Icon Database A huge range of free icons in various sizes and bitmap and scalable vector formats. |
| Convert Images to Base64 Converts an image to Base64 encoded text, suitable for embedding into a web page. |
| Mirror and Rotate Images Mirror and rotate images to 1 degree resolution. Useful to correct skewed image scans. |
| Create Animated GIF Images Load multiple images and convert to an animated GIF. Other GIF tools available too. |
| Online OCR Load images and convert to text. |
| Web VTT Converts subtitle files in SRT format to VTT format used in HTML5 media players. |
| Identify Music Online Upload song to identify artist and title. |
| HTML Character Codes HTML Character Code reference for special characters and symbols. |
| PDF to Word Document Converter Online website to quickly convert a PDF document to an editable Microsoft Word document. |
| QR Code Generator Generate a simple Quick Response code based on free text, a URL, contact details, phone number or SMS. |
| Internet Speed Test Check internet download and upload speeds with iiNet Internet Speed Test. |
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