AudialsOne Platinum 4 [Software Review]

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Websites: Homepage
Manufacturer: RapidSolution Software
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Version Tested AudialsOne Platinum
Version Number 4.0.28408.800
Build Date Oct 15, 2009

Overall Rating:

VERDICT

Using AudialsOne can result “in an unlimited dose of entertainment every second, quickly filled up GB’s even TB’s of hard disk space and using the full potential of your unlimited Internet connection!“

FOR

Quick downloads of online audio or video, automatic tagging and the ease of use. Support to remove DRM protection from audio, video or even HD videos from your own paid media files.

AGAINST

Inbuilt media player can have more features like an equalizer and some more controls.

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Free WinX DVD Author Giveaway worth $29.95 [Expired]

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dvd-author-proWinX DVD Author is powerful DVD movie creator and DVD burning software to make DVD from various video formats, like AVI, MOV, MPEG, WMV, FLV, etc. With this DVD authoring software, it is easy and fast to create your stylish DVD by making DVD menu, clipping video segment, adding subtitles. Download WinX DVD Author for free and convert your favorite videos to DVD.

You can create your own custom DVD in just three easy steps. First, you need to add videos to the program. Technical information related to the video – like bitrate, screen resolution, etc are displayed in this step. You can select between DVD-5 and DVD-9 DVDs, change the aspect ratio and switch between PAL or NTSC video formats here. [Read more...]

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DeskTube – Free Adobe AIR Youtube Application that supports Twitter, Facebook, MySpace

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youtubeWant to watch YouTube videos without the browser? DeskTube might be the application you need. DeskTube is an Adobe AIR application. As the name suggests, DeskTube is a free desktop application which YouTube functions to the desktop to give YouTube users instant access to the video site by just double clicking the application on the desktop, without the need to open your browser. It is not just a YouTube “desktop application”, using it, you can connect with your friends over Facebook, tweet to the world with Twitter, record and upload videos to YouTube, or even video chat with three friends. [Read more...]

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5 Free Web-based Services to Download Youtube Videos [Updated]

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youtubeLately, I have looked at ways to download YouTube videos to get local copies of your favorite videos. For those of you new to this whole concept of downloading videos off video sharing sites, here’s a small info for you all. Many of these sites works by simply grabbing YouTube videos in their native Flash format (FLV). To watch these files on your desktop, you’ll either need to get yourself a FLV player or convert the files into another format, so that you can watch the video in your favorite media player (or on your iPod/iPhone, cell phone, etc.). Some of the listed sites offer functions to convert the videos on the fly along with the video download functions.

Now, on with the list! [Read more...]

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URL Snooper – Download Any Media you can see in your Browser

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URL Snooper is a great tool that can sniff URLs hidden behind Javascript or ActiveX scripts. It can be used for many purpose one of which is to get the hidden URLs for streaming video and audio files so they can be downloaded locally. URL Snooper is basically a packet sniffing program that uses the excellent free WinPcap network sniffing driver. You just need to click on the “Sniff Network” before launching the page that contains the multimedia files you want to download.

This is an extremely powerful tool, if you master its different uses. Note that getting the URL you want will involve a bit of luck and some guesswork. Once you have found the URL, you will need a download manager for downloading. You can check out the Flash tutorial for some more insight about how it works.

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VLC Media Player Keyboard Shortcuts

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vlc128x128VLC Media Player is one of my favorite media player. It is one of the best media player which is available, can play any media that you throw at it! I know that it doesn’t need any new introduction, so today I am sharing with you the full keyboard shortcuts that I know and use. You don’t have to be rocket-scientist to know that using keyboard shortcuts really helps and makes our life easier and gives us more control! And who wants to fiddle with the mouse and point at any button when you can just press a key or a combination of two to do the job in a fraction of second? ;-) These keyboard shortcuts below work for VLC Media Player 1.0.x and will/may also work with the previous versions and the latest versions seamlessly. If I missed any or if I mistyped any keyboard shortcuts don’t hesitate to tell me using the comments below. Happy controlling VLC! :-)

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Get Nero 9 for Free, No Activation or Serial Key Required

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nero-free-versionNero is the world’s best data disc burning software from Nero AG (formerly, Ahead Software). Many of us are familiar with Nero brand as Nero OEM suite is bundled with many optical disc recorders or CD/DVD-RW drives. Nero 9 supports quicker write speeds, new formats like Blu-ray and also bundles multimedia creation tools for DVD authoring and audio CD compilation, Nero has been one of the most capable applications in its field.

Nero 9 complete suite of software which supports CD/DVD, Blu-ray and HD DVD burning is not cheap though, with single license purchase costs $79.99. As an end-user you will get a lot of unwanted applications along with the complete suite which you will rarely use. This complete suite is also heavy in size too.
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VLC Media Player 1.0.0 Goldeneye Released

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vlc128x128The VideoLan project today announced the release of VLC Media Player version 1.0.0 (Goldeneye). This major release introduces many new features, formats and codecs to VLC Media Player and fixes a high number of bugs that were present in previous versions of the media player.

VLC Media Player is more than a media player. It is cross-platform, open-source, multimedia framework, player and server. VLC Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac, etc.) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a media converter or a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks. You will find the full feature list here. [Read more...]

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