If you’re not much of an iTunes fan, you can still manage your podcasts easily with Juice. This open source and multi platform (Windows, Linux, and MacOS X) podcatcher will check and download your podcasts whenever you want.
Juice is extremely simple to use:

 Find the RSS feed of the podcast and add to Juice’s subscription list. [...]

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Audacity is a great application for you to edit audio files, add effects, or even convert them. Its most basic functions are quite easy to do such as record, cut, add another audio stream, to name a few.
 
You can easily use Audacity to create podcasts, free cell phone rings, and convert audio files into a [...]

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Miro comes to organize all the video content on the web in a very nice way for us. First, right out of the box there is a very nice way for you to find and watch videos from YouTube, blip.tv, DailyMotion, and others. Just use the search bar at the bottom of the program to [...]

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VLC, in my opinion, is one of those programs that needs to be installed on every machine. I mean, on every machine you’d like to watch movies on. Which is easy because it works on Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux.

This program plays pretty much any video format you want, and audio files but it isn’t [...]

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MediaCoder is the all-purpose media file converter. In my opinion it is surely one of the best open source programs out there. You can convert easily almost any type of audio or video file. There isn’t a need to download special encoders separately, they come already included in MediaCoder, so you’ll only need 1 download.
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