is Microsoft office starter free? if so where can I download it at?

Software: Shazam
Website: Midomi

I'm not sure if this is the right thread but does anyone know of any reliable and free SMS services from PC to mobile phone?

Google Voice.

On Win7, looking for two things:

1. Something that'll let me make windows always on top (so I can pin a netflix window AOT)

2. Anything that'll handle transcribing a dictated voice memo in an mp3 file. I'm sure the machine transcription will be crappy. Doesn't bother me.

free > cheap > $$$, but any options are worth hearing about.

Thanks.

Thanks for the suggestion but alas, I'm in the UK not North America.

see the post above yours

thx, but I don't use smartphones and the songs I want to identify are just background electronic music in some youtube videos, so it's not like I can sing it and some software will recognize it. I would have to have the software recognize the song from a file either on the internet or my hd.

You can text from your email. Each provider has it's own domain, so you can email/text to something like 3105553456@verizon.com

I had a search around in response to this post and found a number of possible ways to do email to SMS with Orange phones in the UK, so far these have failed to arrive when sent from my Hotmail account:

number@omail.net

0number@orange.net

there is a 3rd option

number@orange.com which hasn't yet arrived on my phone but is not showing as failed in my inbox.

Has anyone got this to work?

SORRY TO POST THIS ON YOURS BUT THIS WAS A GREAT POST AND I WANTED TO ADD TO IT. THANKS.

(Windows)

Your forgetting a free program that beats all. (If someone brought it up sorry didn't feel like reading all the posts)

Search And Destroy

Search and Destroy is ... to the home of Spybot-S&D©®, the best (according to PC World, PCMag.com, ...) privacy software available!

and a little perk that can save you so much trouble is the Tea Timer. The Tea Timer will alert you when ANYTHING is trying to change your registry files.

I hope everyone uses Firefox if not I can explain why it is better then Internet Explorer.

WOT is a firefox addon that will prevent you from going to the wrong website. Search anything on google and it will show you Green Dots for good sites and Red Dots for bad sites. And with an account you can rate sites. Highly recommend it.

WOT

I know that it works in the states, but unfortunately I cannot test it for anywhere else.

Have you tried contacting the cell phone company to see if they have a solution? If they do use one of those addresses then they should have info for you.

anyone have a good free program that will let me rip the audio from video files?

http://audacity.****************/

It probably won't help you much, but I was at a presentation of the developers of http://www.sonarflow.com/ and they said their program could do that. I didn't test it myself yet, if you do, let me know if it works!

Edit: Just tried. Apperently it's still beta and doesn't have all the features yet.

http://www.launchy.net/
use it every day, perfect on a laptop

I just got my Ipad 2 and I wanted to convert some of my movies from desktop into MP4 so that I can watch it on the ipad. Do you guys know of any free software that can do that? I am using Leawo MP4 converter.. it's free but i would have to pay to convert to higher resolution

http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/

free, open source, and really easy to use.

+1 for Miro. Only problem is that it doesn't seem to allow batch conversion.

Handbrake.

What about a free tool that converts .m4v files to either .avi or .wmv?

Thanks

IIRC, I was using this on a Win7 netbook (now back to Vista laptop, works fine there too; dev says full functionality only on XP): http://www.thewonderfulicon.com/download.html

TWI is a tray icon with easy always-on-top/normal/hidden window toggle.

googs,

I think MiroVideoConverter will do the conversion for you.

Handbrake or Miro. Or even Avidemux.

Thanks guys!