Free Audio Books of the Month, March 2010

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, read by Michael York, unabridged edition at booksinaudio.com. Please note, that this download will only be available until March 16.

Great Speeches in History, narrated by Paul Sunderland, Antonia Bath and David Mitchell, at LearnOutLoud.com

The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, narrated by Paul Michael, unabridged version at christianaudio.com

Our Exif Deletion Tool Was Renewed

Today our tool for deletion Exif metadata, ExifCleaner was updated to the version 1.2. The changes for the current release are:

  • Added an option for deletion the Adobe XMP metadata.
  • An option for removing IPTC (including the whole Photoshop IRB section), if it presents in the file.
  • Now you can copy selected Exif strings to the clipboard via the context menu or using the Ctrl+C command.
  • Fixed detection of the shell extension on x64 systems.
  • Fixed displaying the image icons on some Windows versions.
  • Some minor enhancements.

Discuss this announcement on the support forums.

The Free Auto Muter for Windows

A new free utility, the auto muter of sound is available. It is called Mute on Lock and works in all Windows versions with fast user switching (starting from Microsoft Windows XP up to the newest Windows 7). Allows you to mute speakers when you are locking the workstation, or by pressing the configurable hot key.

You may discuss this announcement in the discussion topic.

Two More Free Audio Books Are Available for Free in February 2010 Only!

Thought Vibration by William Atkinson, narrated by David Mitchell, unabridged edition at LearnOutLoud.com

Religion Saves: And Nine Other Misconceptions by Mark Driscoll, unabridged edition at christianaudio.com

An Updated Audiobook Player Is Available

On Friday, February 5, 2010 our audiobook player, Angel’s Vox was updated to the version 1.3. This is what is new:

  • Changed an icon of the Sleep Timer button.
  • Fixed the problem with skinned scroll bars when in the always-on-top mode.
  • Minimizing to tray when the Shift key is hold down.
  • Skinned dialogs for opening files were replaced by the standard system dialogs.
  • Added an optional support of multimedia keys (see the dialog Settings).
  • Added an option for an exact seeking and length detection.
  • Added an option “Automatically create a record in the Library on calling the Play File(s)/Directory command”. It is enabled by default.
  • A few minor enhancements.

You may discuss this announcement in the discussion topic.

Audiobook for Free in January: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

This book is presented by christianaudio.com and its unabridged version is available for free in January 2010 only. Do not miss out — get it here!

An Update of Our Exif Tag Remover

On Thursday, January 7, 2010 our Exif removing tool, ExifCleaner was updated to the version 1.1. And this is the list of changes:

  • Added context menu for the image list.
  • Shell integration with x64 Windows systems.
  • Handling of directories on drag & drop into the image list.
  • Handling of the whole directories on passing them as command line parameters.
  • Displaying Exif contents for already processed images.
  • Now filenames in the list change to final after cleaning Exif data.
  • Redesigned the Clean Setup dialog window. Now it has two tabs (Clean Options and File Options) instead of one with two groups. This allowed to make the tag selection tree more high and convenient.

You may discuss this announcement in the discussion topic at our support forums.

Free Audiobooks in French

We are glad to share with you an address of the great source of free audiobooks in French language: Litterature audio.com. Most voices of these guys and gals are incredibly fine. Just check it and enjoy!

PS. If you know other good websites with free audiobooks in any languages, please drop us a line and we’ll broadcast them here.

Angel’s Vox 1.2 Is Released

We are pleased to inform you that an update of our audiobook player for Windows, Angel’s Vox 1.2 is now available for downloading. Here is the list of changes:

  • Added support of waveform audio (WAV) file format.
  • Added “pause playback” and “pause playback and quit” options for the sleep timer.
  • Added menu items and keyboard shortcuts for speeding up and slowing down the playback.
  • Always-on-top feature for the main window.
  • A confirmation dialog now shows when a user tries to delete an audiobook from the library.
  • Fixed disabling the trackbar when a user adds audiobook to the library.
  • Corrected detection of a bitrate.
  • A few small fixes and improvements in a program code and installation script.

Discuss this version and announcement here.

Audiobook for Free: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoevsky till the End of December

Christianaudio.com is offering The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky as a free audiobook of this month, December 2009. This is an abridged version, please take it into account. The book is translated by Constance Garnett and narrated by Simon Vance. You may have to register to get it, but it’s worth it. They will send occasional e-mails about special deals, but never spam you to buy from their site. The link is here, and the coupon code is DEC2009. Enjoy!