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Five Best DVD-Ripping Tools

10 Jan 2010

You pay good money for your DVDs, but they’re hardly the only format you need these days. These five ripping tools ensure you can back them up, keep them on your media server, and load them on your favorite portable player.
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Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite DVD-ripping tool. We [...]

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12 net technologies that shaped the decade

In: Internet| Reference| software

27 Dec 2009

It seems like a long time since the year 2000. Much of the tech we take for granted didn’t exist at the turn of the century, and yet technologies such as Twitter have become part and parcel of our everyday lives.
Here are the online technologies, sites and services that future historians will see as [...]

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Tags: AJAX, BitTorrent, Blogger, Facebook, Flickr, Google, Napster, PayPal, Spotify, twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube

Most Popular Firefox Extensions and Themes of 2009

In: Internet| Reference| software

24 Dec 2009

This year’s release of Firefox 3.5 gave us a lot of reasons to like it, but its extensibility remains everyone’s favorite feature. These add-ons and theme tools were the most popular in the year gone by.
This list is culled from a straight listing of the most popular posts that offered a Firefox extension for download [...]

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Tags: Extentions, Firefox, Themes

Songbird 1.4.2 Released, Brings New Look, CD Ripping, and Device Support

In: Linux| Mac| Multimedia| Music| software

23 Dec 2009

Windows/Mac/Linux: Previously mentioned Songbird, the open source, Mozilla-powered, supposedly iTunes-killing media player has updated to 1.4.2, bringing a host of new features, including AAC metadata support, a new feather (skin), CD ripping, and support for many mass storage devices.
Apart from the snazzy new purple feather, the biggest features in this release are definitely CD ripping [...]

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Tags: Linux, Mac, Oprn Source, Songgird

Google Launches Chrome for Mac

In: Internet| Mac| Whats New| apple| software

8 Dec 2009

The day has finally come. As we were expecting, Google has just released Chrome for Mac, and can now be downloaded by Mac OS X 10.5 or later users.
If you’re anything like us, you’ve been anxiously waiting the chance to get your hands on the new browser since last year’s release of the Windows version.
Of [...]