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Page 6 of 8 MultimediaAudacity – http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/ Have you ever had an audio file that you were dying to edit? Perhaps lecture notes where you wanted to remove the long pauses and hour length social commentary from the instructor? Give Audacity a shot. It works on all operating systems and gives you the ability to edit your audio as you would a soundtrack for a movie. SlimServer – http://www.slimdevices.com/ Sometimes I want to be able to access my music when I am away from home. Wouldn’t it be nice to stream it to your workstation at the office or your cell phone so that you did not have to download gigabytes of MP3 files? Now owned by Logitech, SlimServer is a great application that will create a web-based index of all of your audio. It even integrates with your iTunes library and can display artwork. You can create radio stations of selected music so that only the music you want to hear is streamed to your remote player.There is no requirement to purchase a SlimDevice player. You can use any media application that has the ability to connect to an HTTP URL. However, the sleek little devices allow you to connect to your home audio system with a remote control so that you can play your music wirelessly in any room of the house. These things are just awesome! iTunes – http://www.apple.com/itunes/ Yeah, I know. But hey, it is free! And it far outshines Windows Media Player 11. I just switch mine to rip my music to MP3 instead of the proprietary Apple AAC codec and I have music that I can load to any MP3 device or stream on the web to wherever I am. And with my iPod Video, there is nothing else that works as well. DVDFabDecrypter – http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm Now we start got get a little closer to the line of ethics. I am a strong adherent of copyright law. Under traditional copyright law, I have the right to make backups or archival copies of my media in the event the original is destroyed by fire or other disaster. And with the number of electronics I have, that is always a possibility. DVDFabDecrypter allows you to make an exact copy of your DVD movies (sans encryption) so that you can then burn them to blank DVD media. Let the attorneys and politicians fight over the legalities. I don’t want to have to buy a second copy of a move just because the quality of the media on the original was crap. And why pay Circuit City or any other retailer that offers it the $4.00 for scratch insurance that only lasts for one year. I can provide my own insurance by making an archival copy of my movie first and filing the original away so it can remain undamaged. DVDShrink – http://www.dvdshrink.org/ What if you used DVDFabDecrypter to backup a 9GB movie but you only have the ability to burn to a DVD 4.7GB disk? DVDShrink allows you to compress that video, remove menus, remove language track (who really listens to the French edition on any US DVDs anyway?) and burn the modified image to the lower capacity media. Sure, you lose some quality, but it is hardly noticeable. Videora iPod Converter – http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/ What if you want to get that movie on your iPod video? I mean, you likely paid over $400 for it. Why not use it to take your movies with you on a trip? Videora iPod Converter allows you to do that with your decrypted movies. This is THE solution for any Windows user who wants to get his or her movies on their iPod. There is even a version for converting these for your xBox360. Handbrake – http://handbrake.m0k.org/ If you are a Mac user, there is an even easier way to get your media converted. Handbrake does the whole conversion process for you straight to iPod or AppleTV formats. It is free and fast and the quality of the outputted video is exceptional. I saw no loss of quality after converting the movie 300.
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