Entries Categorized as 'CD and DVD'
April 26, 2009
After a recent exchange of ideas about Abiword on identi.ca, I decided to take a closer look at it again. Although OpenOffice is currently my office suite of choice, it is a bit bloated and slow. So, what does Abiword have to offer?
It is blazing fast;
works in Windows and Linux;
has all the main text editing [...]
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March 22, 2009
If you’re using Linux with Gnome, do a mouseover the music file and you’ll start hearing the song immediately.
You don’t even need to double-click to open the file in a media player, not even a mouse click is needed. Nice little hidden secrets of an awesome desktop file manager.
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March 22, 2008
[Windows] If you want to store your CDs into your hard drive, you can start ripping them using CDex. I always like to convert my audio CDs into files so I can listen to the songs easily on my mp3 player and even to guarantee I’ll always have a copy in hand if I lend [...]
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February 15, 2008
Want to take your DVD and watch it on your iPod, PDA, smartphone, or just build a movie collection inside your computer? Simple and easy it is with Handbrake, a multi-platform (Windows, Linux, and MacOS X) DVD to mpeg-4 converter.
Handbrake will allow you to extract video, audio, and subtitles of the DVD. The output formats [...]
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February 5, 2008
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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January 27, 2008
Infra Recorder is a very good software that I use to burn CDs and DVDs on my Windows machine. I’ve used it to burn data CD/DVDs, and work with iso files. Which means, bye bye proprietary Nero. According to the site, its full features are:
Create custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them [...]
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January 25, 2008
Want to burn a movie DVD with files from your computer? Do it ever so easily with DVD Flick. I’ve yet to find another program that is better and easier to use then DVD Flick.
You can even add subtitles (and edit its appearance), add different audio tracks, and adjust some other settings of your [...]
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