Computer Audio and Video (Free Download)

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Audacity 1.3.5 Beta
Audacity Development Team - 3.04MB (Open Source). Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows. Download now
Audiograbber 1.83
Audiograbber - 1.59MB (Freeware). Audiograbber is that grabs digital audio from cd's. It copies the audio digitally-not through the soundcard-which enables you to make perfect copies o... Download now

BSplayer 1.37.826

BSplayer - 2.76MB (Freeware),BSplayer is an application that plays back all kinds of media files (avi,mpg,asf,wmv,wav,mp3...) and specialises in video and divx playback. Download now

Codec Pack All-In-1 6.0.3.0

9.59MB (Freeware). Do you download movies and get confused by all the different formats and codecs? Now you don't need to worry about downloading your movie codecs separ... Download now

dBpowerAMP Music Converter 12.4

Illustrate - 4.03MB (Freeware). Often called a Swiss army knife of Audio, dbpowerAMP is able to: Download now

DivX Play 6.8.3.9

DivX Team - 19.76MB (Freeware). The DivX Play Bundle gives you everything you need to start watching high-quality DivX videos, including DivX Video-on-Demand movies. Download now

Foobar2000 0.9.5.3

foobar2000.org - 2.68MB (Freeware). Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include ReplayGain support, low memory footprint and nativ... Download now

GOM Player 2.1.9.3754

Gretech - 5.57MB (Freeware). GOM is a FREE media player with popular audio & video codecs built-in. Download now

iTunes 7.6.2.9

Apple Inc - 57.01MB (Freeware). iTunes is an audio player for playing and organizing digital music files, and purchasing digital music files in the FairPlay digital rights management... Download now

jetAudio 7.1.1 Basic

COWON America - 23.42MB (Freeware). JetAudio is integrated multimedia software made up of a single compact rack. Not only does it play various music and video files, it also has features... Download now

K-Lite Codec Pack 3.95 (Full)

13.47MB (Freeware). K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs, DirectShow filters and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding (playing... Download now

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 3.95

17.37MB (Freeware). K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs, DirectShow filters and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding (playing... Download now

KMPlayer 2.9.3.1431 Beta

KMPlayer - 14.19MB (Freeware). The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/... Download now

Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1

1.93MB (Open Source). Media Player Classic was designed to look just like Windows Media Player 6.4, but with many additional new features. It has a built in DVD player with... Download now

MediaMonkey 3.0.3.1173 RC7

Ventis Media - 6.55MB (Freeware). MediaMonkey is a music manager and jukebox for serious music collectors and iPod users. It catalogs your CDs, OGG, WMA, MPC, FLAC, APE, WAV and MP3 au... Download now

Miro 1.2.4

Participatory Culture Foundation - 24.52MB (Open Source). Miro (formerly known as Democracy Player) is the free and open source internet TV platform. Download now

QuickTime Alternative 2.6.0

12.70MB (Freeware). QuickTime Alternative allows your system to play QuickTime movie files (.mov) without having to install the full version of the Quicktime Player. It i... Download now

QuickTime Player 7.50.61.0

Apple Inc - 22.67MB (Freeware). QuickTime Player from Apple allows the playback of quicktime movies (.mov) and many other formats: Download now

Quintessential Player 4.51

Quinnware - 2.21MB (Freeware). Quintessential is a multi format audio player with lots of extra features. With its new extended freeform skinning engine and plethora of feature ext... Download now

Real Alternative 1.80

6.12MB (Freeware). Real Alternative allows your system to play Real Media files (.ra .ram) without having to install the full version of RealPlayer. Download now

RealPlayer 11.0.0.446

RealNetworks Inc - 12.67MB (Freeware). RealPlayer (renamed from RealOne) allows your system to play Real Media files (.ra .ram). Download now

Songbird 0.6 Beta

Pioneers of the Inevitable - 14.25MB (Open Source). Songbird is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox, it ... Download now

VLC Media Player 0.8.6h

VideoLAN.org - 8.96MB (Open Source). VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg...)... Download now

Winamp 5.531 Full

Nullsoft - 8.57MB (Freeware). Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music and video player for Windows. Winamp supports MP3, CD, WAV and other audio formats, custom ap... Download now

Windows Media Player 11

Microsoft Corporation - 24.56MB (Freeware). Windows Media Player is the all-in-one media player that provides the best experience for discovering, playing, and taking your digital entertainment ... Download now

Zoom Player 5.0.2

Inmatrix - 1.45MB (Shareware). Zoom Player is a very fast media player. Prior to Zoom Player, playing media files on the PC was either overly simplistic for the Power User or overly... Download now

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DVD Repair, Scratched DVDs and Unfinalized DVDs recovery tips and tricks

Simple and (hopefully!) free procedures to handle unsuccessfully finalized DVDs, damaged DVDs or DVDs that have not been burned correctly by a video camcorder,recorder or burner and has some corrupt data.

It is a good idea for you to first consider other possible causes of what appear to be DVD errors such as a dirty disc surface, a dirty lens in the DVD reader or other software and hardware related problems. Prior to embarking on any of the following you need to eliminate all possible causes for having trouble with a DVD. Check to see your DVD burner has the latest firmware by going to the manufacturers website. Check to see if the media (brand and type) is compatible with your DVD burner/reader. Once you are certain that you have an unsuccessfully finalized DVD or a corrupt DVD you can get started.

Scratched DVD Disks
A simple visual inspection of the surface of the disc will tell you straight away whether your first problem is physical damage to the disc. If you can see a scratch or scratches on the surface then this may need to be addressed first. I say "may" because personally I use DVDFab to check to see if the disc will copy before I embark on any other course of action. DVDFab can read through a lot of surface errors because of its superior algorithms so I always take the lazy route and see if I can simply make a new copy. Now failing that you could go online and buy some expensive DVD scratch repair kit. Or you could do as I do and go to your local hardware store or even your own garage! All you will need is a bottle of any neutral colored (clear) car polishing product. Turtlewax happens to be the one I use. Take a VERY soft cloth (NOT paper towel), apply a little polish to the surface of the disc and GENTLY (remember, it's not a car!) rub the disc. Use straight strokes from the centre of the disc to the outer edge and continue to do this until you can see the scratch either disappear or reduce noticeably. Then using the same motion and fresh cloth buff the disc back to its original shine. Now try it with DVDFab. If you are still unsuccessful repeat the process until you can be certain, again by visual inspection, that the problem is now not coming from a damaged disc surface.

DVD Data Repair/ Recovery
The software you can use for this are DVDFab, Nero 8 (trial) and Isobuster. In the case of Isobuster you can try the free features first but failing that the full featured version needs to be purchased. A straight search of Yahoo or Google will find you the relevant sites.

Put the problem disc in the DVD drive of your computer then:
1. DVDFab. Try to use DVDFab first, as it has the best algorithms for reading anything on a DVD including how it integrates with the DVD drive, honestly sometimes I think it would read a bagel if you put it in there!

Select "DVD to DVD." DVDFab will now try to read the contents of the disc and, if it can, write the contents to a folder on your hard drive. It is as simple as that. It is either going to work or not! If it does do it then the copy you now have on your hard drive will be fully repaired and you can then burn a new copy.

Failing that:
2. Isobuster. Using the free functions try to make a disc image file and burn to another DVD. Isobuster has three alternate methods of dealing with data corruption. It can replace the corrupted area with nothing, with fake data or with a series of zeros. It will give you the choice and just select them in order to try each until one works. Isobuster will not create the disc image file unless it knows it will be successful. If Isobuster has created the file (note where it was going to put it first!) you will have to re-name the extension to .iso. Use the disc image file to burn a new DVD disc. At this point, if you now have a new disc, you need to check that new one carefully. There is always the possibility that Isobuster has just made a perfect copy of your faulty disc! So now you have a brand new faulty disc!

Failing that: You will need to pay for the full version of Isobuster but ONLY buy it if you got this far. If Isobuster free couldn't even read the disc then don't bother. From this point forward the best you can hope for is the extraction of the MPEG video files or data files on the disc. You ARE going to lose the video menus and you may lose some of the video or data.

• Start Isobuster then load the disc.
• When Isobuster has detected the files on the disc run the "Find Missing Files and Folders" option under the "File" menu.
• You will now have an entry on the left hand column of "files and folders found by their signature."
• Select that, then go to "File," "Files found via their signature" then "Extract files found via their signature." Choose a location and let it run.
  

Now you will have all the files where you selected them to go. The ones with the extension .VOB are the MPEG files from your disc wrapped in the VOB container. They can then be imported into a video editing program using the "Import DVD/VR" function or can be read by most DVD burning software.

Unfinalized discs
If at all possible try to get the original device used to create the disc to finalize it. If this is not possible or the original device is failing to successfully finalize the disc you may have to resort to the Isobuster routine above.

If you have been left with an otherwise perfectly good disc, but unfinalized, do the following.
This requires Nero 8 (Trial version).
Go to the Nero website, download and install Nero 8. Yes, it's big...sorry!

Place the unfinalized disc into the computer DVD tray. Open Nero 8 StartSmart.
Click "create and edit" at the top of the screen.
Click "author, edit and capture video." NeroVision 5 will start.
Click on the disk tools drop down menu then click "finalize disk."
In the option box that appears choose "no menus" and let it run.

Hopefully you now have a fully finalized disc that is readable.
Hope this helps!

About The Author:
Lance is not very good at writing about himself in the third person. He is an ex-patriot Australian living in Taiwan running a business consulting company. His grasp of the Chinese language ranges from poor to laughable and in most circumstances his actual use of the Chinese language results in laughter. The silent conversationless world in which Lance lives leaves him plenty of time to research things and that is what he does well. He is particularly good at finding out how to do stuff and relating it to others who are also not necessarily experts in that specific field..

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SPAM - History and Prevalence

The term Spam is thought to be derived from a Monte Python skit. But the fact that Spam makes up over 80 percent of emails sent isn't that funny!

A Monte Python sketch performed in 1970 references the British rationing during World War II. SPAM was one of the only meat products that was readily available and not being rationed. Python's sketch is set in a café and every item on the menu contains Spam lunch meat. A song repeating the word SPAM is being sung and is drowning out the waiter who is dictating the SPAM filled menu in detail.

An instance of unsolicited commercial email was originally noted in 1978. Although it seems that the idea was born years earlier when an unsolicited electronic messaging using the media occurred by telegram in 1864! In the 1980's the term Spam started to be used to describe annoying users of early chat rooms who would repeatedly type the word Spam in an abusive manner to drive others out of the room. Especially others from rival groups surrounding said topic. They would also flood the screen with quotes from the Monte Python sketch in the same manner. Soon rather than being called flooding or trashing it became common place to refer to these methods as spamming. Later it evolved to mean excessive multiple posting of the same message. In the 1990's we began to see the excessive amount of "get rich quick" schemes being advertised in this manner. Commercial spamming began in 1994 courtesy of two lawyers advertising their immigration law services. Shortly there after the focus of spamming and anti spam efforts moved to email and that is where the focus of this phenomenon remains today.

Most of us receive some type of Spam everyday. Spam is incredibly easy and inexpensive to create and can be very profitable. There are a number of companies set up to send "bulk e-mail". They are able to send billions of messages a day. In the US there have been a number of lawsuits concerning Spam and laws created trying to reduce the production. Therefore, it is becoming more prevalent that these companies operate out of foreign countries. They have also changed their soliciting methods to read "spam-free" which refers to a person who has chosen to "opt-in" by clicking a box near the end of some enrollment form thereby agreeing to have updates or newsletters sent. Sometimes this box is pre checked and you must un-click in order to "opt-out". These names are then sold to the bulk e-mailing companies.

Spam filtering software is the best technology available at the present time to reduce Spam. Spam filtering is included in most versions of anti virus software. It is pretty simple for spammers to sidestep these filters simply by misspelling keywords. Also, these filters often block e-mail that you do want to receive because of key words being misinterpreted. SPAM hits other venues besides email such as instant messaging, chat rooms, newsgroups, forums, mobile phones, online games, search engines, and blogs. For the time being it looks like the only way to avoid a majority of Spam is to avoid traditional email all together. Requiring a person to fill out a form that is in turn sent to the recipient successfully blocks spammers. This is currently how many business and organizations including the White House are handling their e-mail.

The term Spam is thought to be derived from a Monte Python skit but is not received by many as being humorous. Spamming is a phenomenon that has been beneficial for some and a nuisance to the masses who make up the recipients of the billions of messages sent per day.

About the author:
I have an extensive background in Finance and Fiscal Procedure. I also have a web business where I offer Educational Computer Games. I am very interested in the product itself as well as the subject matter that it involves. Please use the link above to visit us at The Software Spot! Thank you, Allison Merlino
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Computer Hardware Upgrade

Introducing :

Hardware troubleshoot
Motherboard , power supply, memory (RAM), hard disk, monitor, graphics card, sound card, processor, etc.

Hardware cleaning tips
How to clean motherboard? How to clean computer case? How to clean a printer? How to clean a mouse? How to clean a keyboard part-1? How to clean a keyboard part-2? How to clean a disc drive? How to clean the registry (software)?

Download hardware driver
Motherboard, display (VGA) card, sound card, printer, etc.

Should You Upgrade Your Hardware PC?

What if you found that your computer is out of date? You probably want to upgrade your computer since you have no choice to do so. Your works depend on your hardware computer upgrade. That’s how you going to have a good result.

But before you make any further step, try to learn about your computer. Search all options and ask for advice. Only after this you can go and buy a new component. It’s also useful to check if you really need an upgrade.

Sure, it’s not funny if you keep your old computer but you still loose data when you do your works. Its just a matter of time before you experience a hard drive problem when you still using your old computer. You don't want to loose your data, right? Of course most people only think of backing up their data after they experience a problem. Don't set yourself up for a data loss disaster. Check what hardware you need for your computer.

If you have problem with your hard disk, such as crash when you do your work, better you have it renewed. Most people upgrade their hard disk to increase the size so that they can use it for games, movies and playing a lot of music. A 20 GB hard drive is sufficient to keep new office and internet applications, and all your files and data. A medium sized hard drive would be around 40 GB and the maximum would be around 60 – 80 GB.

You can choose which perfect for your work. Of course the price is also depending on the capacity of your hard disk. If you are a gamer, you may want to have high capacity hard disk such as that 60-80 GB. But if you just used it for your writing, a 20 GB is more than enough.

Another hardware you may need to upgrade is the RAM or Random Access Memory. This memory keeps data that is being worked on now and may or may not be transferred to the hard drive that represents the long-term memory of the computer. Current processors can perform an enormous number of operations per second. Almost all computer have 64 MB RAM and often 128 MB. If you want to run newer applications on your PC then you must upgrade to 128/256 MB RAM. A lot of people who upgrade from 98 to Win 2000 discover that their computers lock up very often. This is because they don't have enough RAM.

So, those are only some part of hardware you might want to upgrade. There are others such as motherboard, CPU or port which you can upgrade. Your action depend on your need.


About The Author
Tony Gevano interest in observing people's way in choosing things has made him become a writer in various kinds of materials. He wrote almost anything he likes. You find his writing in different Website, among them is in: http://www.d-tools.info.

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