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Windows 8 Pro To Windows 8 Media Center Pack Free Upgrade Promo Until January 31, 2013

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Windows 8 comes included with Windows Media Player. But do not mix Windows Media Player with Windows Media Center. Since, Windows Media Player in Windows 8 can’t play DVD movies anymore, you have to either opt for an alternative player such as VLC Media Player or you will need to buy Windows 8 Media Center Pack key. Yes, you read it correct, with Windows 8 Pro, you have to buy a separate license for Windows Media Center, which used to come bundled with earlier versions of Windows.

If you are an owner of Windows 8 Pro license, here’s some good news for you. To promote Windows 8 among its users, Microsoft is giving away free Windows 8 Media Center Pack product keys. You can use this free Windows 8 Media Center Pack key to upgrade Windows 8 Pro to Windows 8 Pro Pack. If you are having Windows 8 license, you will need to first upgrade to Windows 8 Pro, before you can activate Windows 8 Pro Pack using the promo license key. You can get the free license until January 31, 2013. [Read more...]

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Audials Light: Listen To Online Radio, Watch Videos, Record Media, Manage Your Media Collection

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Audials Light is a freeware easy to use multimedia application that allows you to create playlists, listen to online radio and search video files online. We have earlier reviewed almost all Audials software including Audials Tunebite, Audials Moviebox, Audials One. All of these software were paid versions, but finally, Audials has come up with Audials Light, the freeware version of their popular range of multimedia application. [Read more...]

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Audials Tunebite 9 Review (Plus Giveaway)

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Audials Tunebite 9 is a versatile multimedia application. Tunebite allows you to remove DRM from copy-protected music, films and DVDs. It also allows you to record audio from sites like Grooveshark.com, Last.fm and streaming radio from any website like Spotify. It also lets you download videos playing on any website like YouTube, Vimeo, synchronize media collection with portable devices, play videos and comes with a built-in audio and video converter.

Here, I’ll take the latest version of Audials Tunebite 9 for review. At the end of the article you’ll find information about our exclusive Audials Tunebite 9 giveaway. [Read more...]

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VLC Media Player 2.0.1 Security Update Released

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VLC Media Player is one of the most popular media player among our readers. On February 18, 2012, VLC developers released VLC Media Player 2.0 “Twoflower”. After 15 million downloads of VLC 2.0, the VideoLAN and VLC development team has released the second version of “Twoflower”, version 2.0.1.

According to the official announcement, VLC 2.0.1 is a bug fix and security update release with some additional features. Security issues SA-1201 and SA-1202 are fixed in this release. The first resolves a stack overflow in VLC’s MMS support and the second fixes an issue VLC’s Real RTSP support. [Read more...]

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Audials Anywhere Light Beta Freeware Now Available For Download

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Audials Anywhere transforms your computer into your own Personal Media Cloud. Earlier, we shared with you all some exclusive insight about the new technology RapidSolution Software AG, the developers of Audials are working on. We also shared some exclusive leaked screenshots of what you can expect from the upcoming software. If you missed it, you can read here.

As we were expecting, RapidSolutions Software AG has finally released the beta version of Audials Light for everyone to test. We downloaded the beta and installed it on our test machine. Here’s our quick take on the upcoming technology. Read on after the break to find out more. [Read more...]

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Audials Anywhere Turns Your PC in A Personal Media Cloud [Leaked Screenshots]

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AudialsOne is one the most complete media solution available today. We have earlier reviewed AudialsOne 8 and have seen what it is capable of.

Now, we have received some inside information from some trusted sources about a new technology the developers of AudialsOne, RapidSolution Software AG, are working on. Rumor is the developers will title it “Audials Anywhere“.

Audials Anywhere will allow users to get access to their personal media collection from anywhere. Users will be able to easily share music, videos and film with their family and best friends through the upcoming version. [Read more...]

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Download VLC 2.0 Now, Includes Faster Decoding, Supports Blu-ray

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VLC Media Player 2.0, dubbed as Twoflower, is a major upgrade with many improvements and new features. VLC Media Player once started as an academic project back in 1996, is now no doubt one of the most popular media players. It hit version 1.0 back in 1999 and finally today, the media player reached version 2.0.

Some of the notable changes in this version are support for more formats, experimental Blu-Ray support, faster decoding on multi-core CPU and mobile hardware, and professional High-Definition and 10-bits codecs, improved integration of the RealVideo and Real Formats as well as better support for FLAC.

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Rip, Save, Convert All Your DVDs, Videos Using Handbrake [Review]

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Everyone of us likes watching movies and if a movie is worth keeping in our collection, we also look forward to its official DVD/Blu-ray release. After we’ve brought the movie DVD, we either want to keep a copy of it in our computer for archival purpose or want to watch it on our growing collection of portable media devices.

Now, you might be wondering how to rip and encode your DVDs for keeping them safe and watch them on your iPod, iPad, Android, iPhone or other portable device? Handbrake is one such good free tool to rip and encode your DVDs for keeping them safe.

Handbrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multi-platform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. Let’s take a quick read and know more about Handbrake.

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