Disk images come in various formats like the popular ISO format but also img, bin, mdf, cdi, nrg or b51. The formats are created by various applications and one hardly comes upon a burning software that can burn all of the formats. Converting the formats into a supported format is probably the best solution if [...]

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If you have liked the Desktop Christmas Tree you will love Snow Desktop as it is the perfect companion for the Christmas Tree. Snow Desktop will make it snow on the desktop once it is executed. Not the usual kind of snow though that is falling from top to bottom in an overlay without interacting [...]

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Whenever a Microsoft Outlook user fills in an email address in the email client it will be saved by the software so that it can be auto completed the next time part of the address is entered in the to, cc or bcc form. NK2View is a Nirsoft application that can be used to manage [...]

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If you like to listen to music in iTunes you might have noticed that iTunes does not provide keyboard shortcuts to control the playback when iTunes is running in the background. Other music players like Winamp or AIMP provide that feature which might be interesting for many users. The developer of iTunes Media Keys released [...]

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Minime (via Lifehacker) is an AutoIt application that can be used to put any open window – be it program or folder – into the Windows System Tray. While that is not really something new it comes with a feature that might be interesting to users who run many applications and folders. Minime bundles the [...]

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Crystal Disk Info has been covered before at Ghacks as a tool to display the hours a hard drive has been running. The hard drive diagnostic tool can do a lot more than that however but more about that later in the article. The software program is a portable application that can immediately displays information [...]

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We covered a software program yesterday that allows you to remove the region protection from Blu-Ray rips stored on the computer’s hard drive. Today’s application can be used to rip Blu-Ray movies to the that hard drive. The application is portable but requires the Microsoft .net Framework 2.0. Blu-Ray Disc Ripper is the perfect complement [...]

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Roman send me an email yesterday reminding me that I never covered Easeus Disk Copy at Ghacks. He used the disk copy software in combination with gParted to move his operating system and files from his old hard drive to a bigger one. EASEUS Disk Copy is an excellent disk copy software for all operating [...]

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Although Blu-Ray has won the battle of this generations HD formats against HD-DVD it is still far away from winning the battle against the DVD format. The majority of Blu-Ray players had made their way into the homes in the form of the Sony Playstation 3. PC users can purchase Blu-Ray players and the more [...]

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