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| July 25, 2009
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Top 8 free CD, DVD Burning Tools

CD/DVD Burning tools are essential and part of everyone’s life, whether it is burning music CDs or Photo Album or Movie Backups, they are always needed. There are many such commercial tools. Out of them Nero and Toast are very famous and successful ones. Also, there are many Free CD/DVD burning tools and can be good alternatives to Nero or Toast burning software. Here is a list of 8 such tools for various OS flavors ranging from UNIX to Windows to Mac OS!

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1. ImgBurn (Windows, Linux/UNIX)

ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-Ray burning application that is very capable. It can burn Audio CD’s from any file type supported via DirectShow / ACM - including AAC, APE, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA and WV. You can use it to build DVD Video discs (from a VIDEO_TS folder), HD DVD Video discs (from a HVDVD_TS folder) and Blu-ray Video discs (from a BDAV / BDMV folder) with ease. ImgBurn supports all the Windows OS’s - Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7 (including all the 64-bit versions). If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes.

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2. CDBurnerXP (Windows)

CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free.

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3. InfraRecorder (Windows)

InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration. It supports, Dual layer DVD, various music files like Wav, MP3, OGG and more.

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4. K3B (Linux)

K3B is CD/DVD authoring software for KDE/Linux and great features. It can also do CD to CD/ DVD to DVD copy and more.

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5. Brasero (Linux)

Brasero is a application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome Desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible and has some unique features like file filtering etc to enable users to create their discs easily and quickly.

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6. Burn (Mac OS)

Simple but advanced CD/DVD burning software for Mac OS.

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7. BurnX Free (Mac OS)

BurnX Free makes it very easy to burn CD’s with multiple sessions in an hybrid format for compatibility with other platforms. Available only for Mac OS X, this application lets you burn a CD or DVD by dragging and dropping files or folders to the main window, you can use sessions so multiple burns can be done in the same disc (CD only). It also has the ability to erase a CD or DVD.

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8. SimplyBurns (Mac OS)

SimplyBurns is a Mac OS X application with a GUI, which allows the user to burn CD / DVD media.

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Do you know any better ones? Please have your comments and we will check them out!

  

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Category: Alternatives, Tech Reviews | Tags: , , ,
| July 23, 2009
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The Barrier to Using The iPhone for Business Has Just Fallen

While Nokia is doing its research by prototyping Nokia Easy Meet, a web-based mobile collaboration service, Cisco has extended its SaaS and premises-based collaboration applications to the Apple iPhone 3G to deliver an unparalleled mobile collaboration experience. The Apple iPhone with Cisco’s WebEx technology capabilities makes a simple, but very powerful interface. With the introduction of Cisco WebEx Meeting Center for iPhone, the barrier to use the iPhone for business has just fallen.

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As you would see with any other iPhone app UI, it provides a powerful user interface on your iPhone to schedule, start and cancel a WebEx Meeting. You can stay connected with important meetings where ever you are and get a full meeting experience with native 3G or WiFi support for simultaneous data and audio. This puts an end to the days of just listening-in to a Web meeting.

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The main features include:

  • Attending Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Web Meeting with full screen view and integrated audio.
  • WebEx subscription not required!
  • Schedule, start and cancel WebEx meetings
  • Invite attendees either before or during the meeting
  • View contents shared from any computer: documents, applications or screen sharing with live annotations
  • See who is in your meeting and how they joined by icon represented differently for joining from mobile and computer
  • Start an individual or group chat with other meeting participants
  • Control the audio with mute and unmute capabilities
  • Check details of the meeting in progress

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Take advantage of a screen view optimized for iPhone in either vertical or horizontal and meet easily with other WebEx users with any platform Windows, Mac or Linux.

Well, the iPhone user interface is fare better that the user interface provided by Nokia Easy Meet, the two are not apple to apple comparison. Well, its Apple’s iPhone App comparison with Nokia Widget!

Nokia Easy Meet is more towards Friends and Family meetings whereas the Cisco WebEx is more for business purpose.

The iPhone app is free and can be downloaded at the App Store.

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Category: Gadgets, Mobile, Tech Reviews | Tags: , , , , ,
| July 22, 2009
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Nokia Trying Its Hands On Web-Based Mobile Collaboration

Nokia is working on a web-based mobile collaboration service called Nokia Easy Meet which lets you use your mobile device and/or PC to create, conduct, and participate in meetings with your business colleagues as well as your friends and family. The service which is in beta is aimed at sharing content synchronously and in real-time.

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Meeting with Family

While on vacation you see a perfect gift to your mom. You think its perfect but you won’t risk buying it before talking to your sisters about the gift. Well, what should you do? Snap a few photos of the gift with your mobile device and then you login to Nokia Easy Meet. Using Nokia Easy Meet, you could create a family meeting right from the store. This service sends out an email or SMS to the each participants. With just one click, each sisters can join the meeting via a PC or a mobile device and view the photo while talking together. Your sisters could use the chat features of Nokia Easy Meet or even download the photos.

With just few clicks you are able to collaborate with your sisters and share photos and converse in real-time.

Discussions with Business Colleagues

While you are traveling on a business trip, you would like to share the slides with your project team and discuss. Nokia Easy Meet allows you to create your own unique URL for regular collaboration. During the conference call, you can share PowerPoint slides and images while discussing the project via voice and chat. The services also captures the meeting minutes for future reference.

Sneak Peak at Nokia Easy Meet

  • A S60 widget can be installed on your mobile phone and customized with your user and password. Auto login can be enabled and the list of meetings are always accessible easily when you login.

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SignUp

  • Enter your user name and password to login screen

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  • If you are a participants and the conference URL is sent to you via email or SMS, then you don’t need to signup. You can just login using your email ID

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  • Once you login, the meeting list screen is presented. You can just click on the meeting to participate. You can edit or delete the meeting only if you have created it.

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  • Two different screen layouts – Wide Screen layout and Small Screen layout are supported

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  • Participants can view the list of file shared.

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  • Participants can download a copy of shared file or upload a new file for sharing

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  • You can either upload a file from your mobile phone or a remote file

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  • The host can then share the file by just few clicks

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  • The host can then start sharing the slides, select colors from the draw pallet and highlight the slide contents while presenting

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System Requirements

While the goal is to support all mobile devices with browser, extensive testing are done for E90, E66, E71i, N95, N800/810, GooglePhone, iPhone/iTouch. Browsers supported are S60, Opera, Firefox, IE7, Safari and IE6 is not supported.

While its a cool service that enables web-based mobile collaboration, the challenge is in making the service more efficient for mobile users.

Will Nokia overcome these challenges? Well, Nokia Easy Meet is a research prototype and hasn’t been integrated with Nokia Accounts yet. Will it get anywhere near to the WebEx on iPhone? Time will tell..

Is this a killer app for mobile?

Try it yourself at http://easymeet.nokia.com and let us know your comments/suggestions.

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Category: Gadgets, Tech Reviews | Tags: , ,
| July 22, 2009
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Socialseek - An Easy Way To Stay On Top Of All Social Goodness

Now it’s fun, simple and easy to stay on top of all the social goodness happening online. Press, blogs, tweets, videos, pics, and events on any topic, in your city or anywhere. See what’s making noise - hot topics, stars, favorite team, even your brand - all in real-time and stay in the scene with Socialseek!

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Sensidea has rolled out a new very innovative social media monitor that lets you track all the social goodness for free called SocialSeek. With a very good coverage of its launch at Techcrunch, has seen incredible response with a 700+ download on the first day. What a great way to start!!

SocialSeek is a desktop application that runs on Adobe Air. You can search for a topic, item, brand or company across news sites, blogs, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and events. You can also track mentions of a particular search query by city and receive charts that show trends on popularity of a topic across websites, or Twitter.

It’s a boon for the social marketing gurus.
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10 Strengths of SocialSeek’s are
1. Seek Blogs, Tweets, Videos, Images, and Events!
2. Add any site you want to track, no problem!
3. Real-time automatic updates and notifications!
4. Track all the chatter by city or anywhere
5. Find something interesting? One click away! So simple but so powerful…
6. Compare topics to see what’s making more noise
7. Quick charts to see trends and track what’s hot
8. Export results to CSV & PDF
9. Brands! Track yourself against the competition!
10. Windows & Mac Compatible!

Competitors to Socialseek include Viralheat and Peoplebrowsr, which both help marketers track the buzz around a certain individual or brand on social media sites and web sites.

Category: Tech Reviews, Web 2.0 | Tags: , , , ,
| July 22, 2009
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Explore social networking sites with Flock Social Web Browser

Flock 2.5 is a Free and Open Source, Web Browser specially built for browsing Social Networking sites such as Twitter, Blogger, Facebook, MySpace and many more. Advantage is that it beautifully combines traditional browser features along with focus on social networking and web 2.0 features. Flock is an award winning browser that is available for Windows, Linux as well as Mac OS. It is based on Mozilla Firefox Codebase and quite stable and usable as Firefox :). Needless to say, with an estimated $30 million funding, Flock is becoming a prominent browser player quietly and steadily.

Flock 2.0

Flock 2.5 integrates social networking and media services including MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, etc Notably, when logging into any of the supported social services, Flock can track updates from friends: profiles, uploaded photos, and more. Flock’s latest 2.5 version added Twitter Search functionality, multi-casting of status updates to multiple services, and the introduction of instant messaging via Facebook Chat in the browser.

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Accessing your mails is so easy, Just select your email provider, Gmail, Yahoo mail or AOL mail (as of now) and enter the username and password. That’s it. You sift through your emails easily.

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Flock is also a very capable RSS aggregator with category support.

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Flock supports 3rd party add-ons, here is a Winamp add-on toolbar on Flock!

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All in all, Flock 2.5 is a capable Browser with extra focus on Social networking, RSS, emails, chatting etc via unified user interface that eases your life without having to juggle between multiple applications.

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