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3 Alternative CD Ripping applications on Windows / Mac OS X / Linux

Wed, 2009-07-01 23:54

The age of the "mighty" Blu-ray discs is here but still ever wondered where you can get those free cd ripping softwares for your PC or Mac?
Well here's our choice of some alternative ripping software that you may or may not know about.

Windows

Audiograbber
Audiograbber
If you use Windows you must have heard of Audiograbber. The Application comes with a lot of nifty features like deleting silence from the start of the audio files and normalization.You can even convert all those old tapes into mp3 files or wav files. Now thats sweet music to my ears.

Free CD to MP3 Converter 3.0
Free CD to MP3 Converter 3.0
Another freeware for Windows,it comes with support to record from your mic,wma converter,ogg converter and it also brings info about the track like artist,album,genre etc from a free database online. Like audiograbber, this app also comes with a normalization feature built-in.

FreeRIP
FreeRIP
This great app gives you a lot of features like flac encoding for all you music lovers in addition to the basic cd ripping features like mp3 conversion. It also has a mp3 tag editor which makes it really cool to personalize the music that you have. It comes in two versions basic and pro version which offers more features.

Mac OS X

iTunes
iTunes
What better cd ripping application for mac than its very own iTunes. With builtin support for playlist and organizing your playlist and its very own library, iTunes tops the chart.

Max
Max
Max is a really cool software with builtin support for flac,ogg and wav it has a clean interface with a ton of features.With tag editing,converter this makes a nice app if you are looking for an alternative to iTunes.

X Lossless Decoder
X Lossless Decoder
X Lossless Decoder is another great app which is offered as freeware.
The app wave,aac,mp3,ogg and flac encoding. It can decode convert and play all supported files like flac,monkey's audio(ape), tta etc

Linux

    Grip | Download
  • RipperX | Download
  • Sound Juicer | Download

    • Grip
    grip
    Grip is a popular player + ripper in linux. The app supports all features like partial encoding,multiple encoding and conversion from .wav files to mp3,ogg and flac files.It also comes with a tag editor for mp3 files.

    RipperX
    RipperX
    RipperX is a free tool that can rip audio files from your cd and encode it into mp3 files as well. The application is very light weight and like so many other support flac,ogg and mp3 files. It also supports CDDB scanning.

    Sound Juicer
    Sound Juicer
    Sound Juicer is a clean, mean, and lean CD ripper for GNOME 2.

    All the linux cd-ripping software can be installed from your friendly linux distribution repository

Author: John Doe

Firefox 3.5 Released

Tue, 2009-06-30 22:48

After several delays Firefox 3.1 3.5 is released.

Download | Firefox 3.5 Features

Author: CoolGoose

How to extract images from a word document using OpenOffice

Sun, 2009-06-28 15:29

Did you ever sit and wonder how to extract all the images quickly and easily from a word document (.doc, .docx, .odf etc) ?

The standard method is to use the Save as option and select the html save to web format, but that creates .gif images that lose quality.

Another method that's easily done with OpenOffice (or any other application that knows how to save in .odf format like Kword or Abiword).

  • Step 1. Open the document.
  • Step 2. Go to File > Save as option and click it
  • Step 3. Select odf as the new format.
  • Step 4. Navigate to where you saved your new odf document.
  • Step 5. Change your document's extension by renaming it from .odf to .zip
  • Step 6. Extract the new .zip archive
  • Step 7. You will find a Pictures folder that contains the images.
Author: CoolGoose

Site layout

Sun, 2009-06-28 10:36

Hey folks. I've tweaked a bit the site layout.
Please let me know if you like it more or less.

There will be some ads in the future (from buysellads hopefully) but there will be quality targeted ads (hopefully) that will help this website move forward with even more reviews / tutorials / software articles.

Miro Internet TV 2.5 Preview

Sat, 2009-06-27 16:54

Internet TV is one of the most developing field in the tech market.
The origin of this field can was with the introduction of streaming video. The quality of the video depended on your connection speed. With the advancement of broadband Internet, the quality of the video and ability to access it online increased. The next revolution in this field was YouTube, which gave the idea of social interaction with video. But the problem with YouTube was that movies can only be viewed in a little pop-up windows. After this the idea of high definition video which utilizes fast broadband speeds for streaming the content over the Internet emerged.
AppleTV and Joost are some of the products which are developed to satisfy the above mentioned need. They bring the best features of on-demand television and streaming video together, creating a revolution in the Internet TV market.

Author: John Doe

How to encrypt Windows partitions using Bitlocker To Go

Thu, 2009-06-25 23:02

Even if Windows 7 isn't yet released a fair amount of people use the Release Candidate and are pleasantly surprised.

The BitLocker feature introduced in Windows Vista allows users to encrypt the content of their hard drive. Windows 7 offers an advanced version of this called “BitLocker To Go” which will allow the users to encrypt their portable USB flash drives.

Author: John Doe

Personalise your DVDs with Apple's iDVD

Tue, 2009-06-23 23:16

iDVD is Apple's DVD authoring and burning software.

When it first launched in 2001, it caused a revolution in the consumer authoring division.
The newest version in the series is iDVD '09 which comes packed with iLife 2009 application suite for Mac.
With iDVD you can make professional level DVDs at the touch of a button.

Author: John Doe

Linux Mint 7 Review

Tue, 2009-06-23 10:07

Linux Mint's purpose was always to be a very user-friendly, simple, and up to date Linux and GNU desktop distribution. Besides being based on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope (and early on, really just a variant of Ubuntu with integrated media codecs, and Linux 2.6.28, it also incorporated the highly popular open source technology of Gnome 2.26, and Xorg 7.4.

Author: John Doe

Firefox 3.5 Features Review

Sun, 2009-06-21 22:33

Happy news for the Firefox lovers. The latest version that is Firefox 3.5 is about to release soon.

So far it is assumed that the new Firefox browser will be used by more than 30% of the internauts.

The browser can set aside various other browsers now used, including paid and free versions of browsers.
The expectation is now more than it was for the former versions.

Author: John Doe

Garmin ditches own Linux OS in favor of Android / Windows Mobile

Sat, 2009-06-20 22:14

According to the company's regional director for Southeast Asia sales, Hektor Tung, Garmin-ASUS is going to ditch their custom made Linux OS (currently used only on their G60 GPS, that should appear in Q3).

Although you would think that their GPS devices will overlap the existing Google Maps solution a reprezentative of Asustek is convinced that there's enough space on the market for both solutions.

Author: webmaster
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