Free CD/DVD burning software with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD support

Have you spent few dollars on purchasing a CD/DVD burner like NERO, only to find out later how it fell short on your expectations? If you are someone who likes to own everything free, you might want to try BurnAware Free, an inexpensive (read, free) alternative to the CD/DVD burning utilities available in the market [...]

MP3Tunes offers 1GB free online music storage

Michael Robertson, the mogul behind Linspire, ajaxLaunch and formerly MP3.com, has announced that his MP3tunes.com is now offering 1GB of free online storage for your music files. The service, called Oboe, is a “music locker” that you can upload your files to on Windows, Mac, or Linux, and then listen to them via unlimited streaming [...]

Delicious Embedded Player

If you post mp3 files or podcasts you might want to take a look at this new feature from del.icio.us. It’s a simple piece of code you put between the Head tags of your blog or other web page: script…
Delicious Embedded Player
Originally from Technophilia by Abdul Jaleel

GMail Now Plays MP3s

GMail now makes it easy for you to play those MP3 files without ever leaving your email. As soon as you receive an attachement that is in the MP3 file format you should see a link below it that says…
GMail Now Plays MP3s
Originally from Technophilia by Abdul Jaleel

A brief look into P2P BitTorrent networks

As part of the research for a new product, I took a look at some existing P2P networks, specifically those networks using the BitTorrent technology. The entry below will provide you with a basic understanding of what you need in order to access and use existing P2P BitTorrent networks.

Safeguarding the test system

Before [...]

How to rip the audio from your video files

I was paging through ffmpeg’s info when I came across this handy little tidbit. Say you have an awesome video (avi or mpg) that you really want to listen to on your mp3 player. Since you can’t play mpg files, you’d like to convert it to mp3. Well, with one simple line [...]

Tip #38: Capturing Audio To MP3 in Windows XP

Today’s tip is on capturing audio in Windows XP as an MP3 file. We’ll be using a small utility which provides easy usage from within batch files or in scheduled tasks, as well as when used directly.
The free utility we’ll use for capturing audio is called SoundCapture, and is available from here. This [...]

How to create a Podcast using Smartphone

Ingredients:

a smartphone with email and Web access

  a free account on Audlink.com

a blog that supports enclosure tags and RSS feeds 
Optional:  Blogging software for your smartphone, like mo:blog

Getting Started: Create an Audlink Account
The very first thing you need to do is set up a free account on the website Audlink.com.
Audlink is a tool that [...]

Virus Fact: You Need to Be Virus Free

For years I have been advising and informing business men and women that they really “should” keep on top of the virus scene if for no other reason than to save themselves the grief a subsequent virus infection can cause. Those days are way over. You no longer have any choice; you need to make [...]

How to Pick a Linux Distro (Distribution)

Entering the Linux World
As I have embarked on finding the right Linux distro I have observed a great deal about the Linux world. Where Linux is quite popular in other countries, there is an undercurrent of Linux users in the US. Now, I know there are probably hundreds of thousands (if not millions) [...]