Not too long ago, the program that was most used for burning was Nero. This program long time ago turn into powerful, multifunctional software suite with numerous components. Media suites like Nero are everything we’ll ever need for producing and burning our disc media.
However, how many times you just use such media suites to simply back up files or create your audio CD? Face it, you use most often the only one burning part of any media suite. So why to pay for features you don’t need? If all you need is simple and good burning software, BurnAware Free Edition will be a right choice.
BurnAware Free Edition is designed to easily perform the most common disc burning operations, such as creating data discs, creating and burning disc images, writing multi-session discs, and writing Audio CD and DVD-video discs. The program supports all types of optical media from CD through to a Blu-ray writable disc.
The user interface of BurnAware is well designed and it is easy to use. When the program is started, it displays a window with the list of menu items.
Here you can select the relevant menu item to go to the desired screen where you can compile and work on your project.
Create data disc menu item allows you to compile and burn all types of files and folders as well as to create a disc image from the files on your hard drive.
The developers did not use the classical structure with two panels, one of which is a navigator on the local file system. Adding data is quite simple. Just click the Add files button to open the Add files and folders window where you can select files and folders you want to add.
However, I think it’s much easier to open any file manager and drag the desired objects on the window of BurnAware Free Edition.
After adding the files you can start the burning process by pressing the red button in the top right part of the screen.
Burn ISO image menu item lets you to burn a disc image. However, using BurnAware Free Edition you can burn only ISO image files.
Creating of Audio CD or DVD-video is also quite simple. But BurnAware Free Edition can create Audio CD only from WAV, MP3, or WMA files.
Like any disc burning software, BurnAware supports both options for disc erasing: quick and full. However, unlike in the case of the actual burning process, when you select for disc erasing you are given no information on the amount of time required for the completion of the task.
BurnAware Free Edition is absolutely free and has all basic functions of burning software. It’ll get the job done without investing much effort in working with it.
BurnAware is also available in Home edition that unlike the basic free edition includes some additional features like creating bootable discs, creating ISO images from discs, supporting ISO/UDF/Bridge file systems and CD-TEXT for Audio CD’s
Download BurnAware Free Edition (OS: Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista; Freeware; Size: 4.4 MB)
Download BurnAware Home Edition (OS: Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista; Shareware; Size: 5.6 MB)
However, how many times you just use such media suites to simply back up files or create your audio CD? Face it, you use most often the only one burning part of any media suite. So why to pay for features you don’t need? If all you need is simple and good burning software, BurnAware Free Edition will be a right choice.
BurnAware Free Edition is designed to easily perform the most common disc burning operations, such as creating data discs, creating and burning disc images, writing multi-session discs, and writing Audio CD and DVD-video discs. The program supports all types of optical media from CD through to a Blu-ray writable disc.
The user interface of BurnAware is well designed and it is easy to use. When the program is started, it displays a window with the list of menu items.
Here you can select the relevant menu item to go to the desired screen where you can compile and work on your project.
Create data disc menu item allows you to compile and burn all types of files and folders as well as to create a disc image from the files on your hard drive.
The developers did not use the classical structure with two panels, one of which is a navigator on the local file system. Adding data is quite simple. Just click the Add files button to open the Add files and folders window where you can select files and folders you want to add.
However, I think it’s much easier to open any file manager and drag the desired objects on the window of BurnAware Free Edition.
After adding the files you can start the burning process by pressing the red button in the top right part of the screen.
Burn ISO image menu item lets you to burn a disc image. However, using BurnAware Free Edition you can burn only ISO image files.
Creating of Audio CD or DVD-video is also quite simple. But BurnAware Free Edition can create Audio CD only from WAV, MP3, or WMA files.
Like any disc burning software, BurnAware supports both options for disc erasing: quick and full. However, unlike in the case of the actual burning process, when you select for disc erasing you are given no information on the amount of time required for the completion of the task.
BurnAware Free Edition is absolutely free and has all basic functions of burning software. It’ll get the job done without investing much effort in working with it.
BurnAware is also available in Home edition that unlike the basic free edition includes some additional features like creating bootable discs, creating ISO images from discs, supporting ISO/UDF/Bridge file systems and CD-TEXT for Audio CD’s
Download BurnAware Free Edition (OS: Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista; Freeware; Size: 4.4 MB)
Download BurnAware Home Edition (OS: Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista; Shareware; Size: 5.6 MB)
Saturday, March 08, 2008
DVDFab Platinum 4.1.0.2 - Great DVD Copy Software
The new version of DVDFab Platinum has been released recently. This program combines the functionality of DVD copying, video converting and DVD burning software.
DVDFab Platinum offers you 7 DVD to DVD copy modes: Full Disc, Main Movie, Split, Customize, Clone, Merge and Write Data.
Full Disc mode allows you to copy all movies, menus and trailers to DVD with just one click. Moreover this copy mode can automatically compress DVD-9 movie to fit on a DVD-5 single layer disc. But if you want to preserve original quality of DVD-9 movie, you should use DVDFab’s Split copy mode, which copy a DVD-9 onto two DVD-5 discs with 100% quality, and preserve original menus.
Main Movie mode lets you copy the main movie only, excluding all the additional features like unwanted audio and subtitle, etc.
If you want to make a DVD with only your favorite titles, and without those annoying commercials, just use the DVDFab’s Customize copy mode.
DVDFab Platinum also allows you to make a perfect 1:1 copy of DVDs, merge several movies of several sources into one DVD and burn disc from an existing DVD folder or image on your hard disc drive.
The program has strong set of mobile device conversion options. DVDFab Platinum can convert DVDs to formats supported by mobile devices like iPod, PSP, Xbox 360, PS3, NDS, Cell Phone, ZUNE, PVP and PDA. So you can copy your DVDs to your favorite portable device.
DVDFab Platinum is also able to change the region codes, remove all DVD copy protections such as CSS, RC, CPPM, RipGuard, APS and many others.
DVDFab Platinum has very simple and clear user interface. The program also supports many languages. It is very easy to use and navigate.
The new version of program has added "Crop" feature to remove the black bar on many widescreen movies. Added feature that allow user to resize output from letterbox to pan&scan. There are also several others new features, improvements and bug fixes.
DVDFab Platinum is a powerful and very easy to use DVD copying software that takes everything you love about DVD coping and puts it in one clearly organized location.
Download DVDFab Platinum (Size: 6.0 MB; License: shareware; OS: Windows All, Linux with Wine)
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Nero CD-DVD Speed – The Best Free Way to Test the Quality of Your CD/DVDs
There are many optical disc recorders and great number of brands that sell CDs or DVDs, and you shouldn’t count solely on a brand name when you require long term data reliability. You can verify written data in your favorite CD burning program, but it’s not enough. If you want to be sure in the quality of your home-written media, you need a program to test your optical drives and media.
One of the most popular programs for this purpose is Nero CD-DVD Speed that is part of Nero Toolkit.
Nero CD-DVD Speed is a powerful tool for testing optical drives.
The program has simple tabbed interface that is very easy to use. The first tab is called Benchmark. It allows you to check the read speed of a disc, DAE quality (for Audio CD), disc access type, access times, CPU usage at different speeds, and data interface burst rate.
After scanning a disc you will see the curve of reading speed. If this curve isn’t smooth, then you should worry about reliability of your media and written data quality.
Nero CD-DVD Speed allows you to perform test of writing performance of your optical drive (Create Disc tab).
On the tab “Disc Info” you can find such information about disc as disc type, manufacturer, write speed, number of layers, disc capacity, disc status and others.
One of the most important features of Nero CD-DVD Speed is its disc quality test. When this test is complete, you will obtain report about the discovered errors and will see two histograms that demonstrate the errors encountered. And finally Nero CD-DVD Speed calculates cumulative quality score. The higher this score, the better quality.
Nero CD-DVD Speed also includes a ScanDisc function with File Test & Surface Scan to check the integrity of the optical disc and allows to perform TA jitter test.
The are several others features such as overburning test, advanced quality DAE tests, etc.
Nero CD-DVD Speed supports for CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and HD DVD drives and media. And finally this good and very useful program is absolutely free.
The latest available version of Nero CD-DVD Speed is 4.7.7.15 that has been released recently.
Downloand Nero CD-DVD Speed 4.7.7.15 (733 KB)
Monday, December 17, 2007
DAEMON Tools Lite 4.11 is available
The new version of DAEMON Tools Lite has been released recently. It is DAEMON Tools Lite version 4.11. DAEMON Tools Lite is free and well known application for cd/dvd-rom emulation. This program is able to emulate almost all known copy protections on the market today, allowing you to run backup copies of Laserlock, SafeDisc, CDCOPS, Securom, Protect CD and StarForce protected games.
DAEMON Tools allows you to create a virtual DVD-ROM drives. So you can mount and use nearly any CD and DVD images without the need for the physical disc.
DAEMON Tools supports all popular versions of Microsoft Windows including Windows XP and Windows Vista. It also supports more CD/DVD image types than any other optical disc emulation program.
The program has simple and well designed interface. It creates a small system tray icon that gives you quick access to all its commands. Here you can select the number of virtual drives that you want to have at your disposal and mount images for each of them. You can assign each virtual drive any letter of English alphabet which is not yet in use. There is also a capability to select the regional code for any created virtual drives. I want to note that mounting and unmounting of virtual drives occurs almost instantly and without the need to reboot.
The features of the DAEMON Tools can be extended with additional modules, which are produced by third-party developers.
Major improvements of the new version:
- included DT Panel with Internet search box and "Mount'n'Drive manager"
- DT tray behaviour changed to DT Pro style
- Languages are now changed more easily and more convenient
- Fixed several bugs
Before you begin to download this good and very useful application, I would like to warn you that DAEMON Tools Lite contains an optional adware toolbar. I recommend you deselect this option during installation.
You can download free version of DAEMON Tools from this page. (2.4 MB)
Monday, December 03, 2007
AnyDVD HD 6.3.0.0 – The Easy Way to Remove Copy Disc Protection
SlySoft Company has announced the release of the new version of AnyDVD HD. It is AnyDVD HD 6.3.0.0 – the universal utility for removing the copy disc protection from any dvd, hd or blu-ray disc. It fully supports HD-DVD and Blu-ray, including Decryption of HD-DVD and Blu-ray movie discs.
This utility works in background and watches for disc to be inserted. As soon as the disc is inserted, AnyDVD HD scans it and automatically removes the copy protection of DVD movie, allowing you then to backup the disc data using any DVD backup tool. It also removes any region code restriction, thereby allowing you to watch movies with non matching region codes with every DVD Player Software you like!
AnyDVD HD can remove all unwanted movie features such as non-skippable commercials, subtitles and prohibition messages. Just check in the settings things you don’t want to see, and you’re done.
But decryption is not all that AnyDVD HD offers. It can help you to control speed of your drive to reduce the noise level.
Program frees you from the necessity to buy new equipment with the HDCP support. It allows you to watch movies over a digital display connection on your pc.
Another additional unique special feature is the ability to remaster any commercial movie disc using simple XML scripts, which can replace files on the physical disc. With the help of this feature you can customize discs as you like without even making a copy to hard disk!
The new version has improved support of HD DVD and Blu-ray discs. The support for new copy protection was included. There are also some minor bug fixes.
I think AnyDVD HD is great utility and it is must have for almost everyone who plays DVDs movies on his pc.
The licence of this program is shareware. You can download the last version of AnyDVD HD by clicking on this link. (1.97 MB)
Sunday, November 04, 2007
The New Version of UltraISO
The new version 8.6.5.2140 of UltraISO recently became available. It is a program for creating, editing and converting CD/DVD image files.
By means of this utility you can edit ISO image files directly, extract necessary files from image, create images from CD/DVD drives or build a new one from files and folders on your hard disk. UltraISO can maintain bootable information and gives you the possibility to create your own bootable CD/DVDs. In addition, UltraISO supports nearly all known CD/DVD image file formats and can convert them to standard ISO format.
The new version of UltraISO is optimized for multi core processors. There are also some improvements and bug fixes.
In my opinion UltraISO has very easy to use interface and is one of the best programs from its family.
The license of UltraISO is Shareware. Its cost is $29.95. You can download it from this page and get a free trial before you buy.
