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Control Windows volume with keyboard shortcuts with 3RVX

3RVX3RVX is a utility that lets you control your computer's volume using global hotkeys including keyboard or mouse shortcuts. If you don't have a keyboard with volume controls on it, this can come in handy and save you the valuable fraction of a second it takes to click on the over the Windows volume icon and adjust the volume the old fashioned way.

As an added bonus, 3RVX also has a rather attractive volume indicator that shows up when you adjust the volume. The default view looks a lot like the OS X volume indicator. But you can choose from a number of skins or create your own. You can also change the global hotkeys, choose whether to show a system tray icon, and tweak a number of other settings. You can check out some of the settings in the image after the break.

3RVX is available as a free download. The developer's page is a bit sparce, but just look around until you find the installer for the most recent version. You can also check ou the documentation for more information.

[via Freeware Genius]

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Filed under: Audio, Utilities, Windows

VolumeTouch: Adjust your PC volume with your mouse

VolumeTouch
VolumeTouch is a utility that replaces the sound icon in the Windows system tray with a volume meter that gives you a live preview of your volume settings. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. The program also lets you adjust your system volume using your mouse.

Here's how it works, you hit the Ctrl+Shift buttons and then move your mouse scrollwheel up and down to adjust the volume. If you don't like those button combos, you can choose a different key combination, or choose a different mouse behavior. VolumeTouch lets you control the volume by moving the mouse up and down or left and right as well.

You can also choose one of 5 skins for the tray icon. Some skins look better than others, but each gives you a real time view of your volume level.

[via Freeware Genius]

Filed under: Audio, Utilities, Windows, Podcasting, Freeware

Volumouse - control volume from your mouse wheel

Volumouse configurationAs a laptop user, I work in many different environments, sometimes with external speakers, sometimes with headphones, and sometimes (sadly) using only my laptop's tinny little speakers. In each of these different configurations I have different ways of controlling volume, or at least I did. Now I use Volumouse. Lifehacker pointed to this extremely useful little utility, which allows you to use your mouse wheel to control the volume of your system (or specific applications) depending on how you have it configured. It doesn't interfere at all with the regular use of your mouse wheel, and seems to be totally compatible with my other favorite mouse wheel utility, KatMouse.

Wendy at LifeHacker suggested configuring Volumouse to control your volume when the mouse pointer is anywhere on your taskbar, and I personally find that to be the ideal configuration.

Filed under: Audio, Internet, Utilities, Windows, Freeware

FlashMute: Kill obnoxious browser sounds

FlashMuteIn my opinion, one of the worst web design faux pas is sound that starts playing automatically, perhaps surpassed only by music that can't be turned off without navigating away from the page. I'm amazed that it has taken so long for someone to make an app for dealing with this problem, but thankful that they have in the form of FlashMute. It's a free Windows app that will let you mute individual Flash movies or, alternatively, all sound coming from your web browser. FlashMute is a tiny app (a 234k download) that is operated by clicking on its icon in the system tray or pressing Ctrl+Alt+M which, to quote the FlashMute web site, "serves as a panic-button if a loud Flash movie jumps up on you," and it supports Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, and Mozilla.

[Via Lifehacker]

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