Previous week I bought a new camera and no matter what I shot I just loved sharing it with everyone. I use Picasa Web Albums and Flickr to share my photos with my friends. Indeed these services are beyond doubt one of the best but still my not-so-technically-sound parents were not able to view them [...]
DVD
I am sure almost everyone has used an archive manager to pack files and folders together but today I would like to share with you a very nifty tool, Folder2Iso using which you can create an ISO from any kind of a folder, along with its subfolders. Some of you must be thinking, “What is [...]
Your friend wants to borrow one of your prized DVDs. You loathe to lend it to him because you have a hunch you might not get it back. The easy solution would be to copy or clone the original DVD and give him the copy. The problem – nearly every commercial DVD in the market [...]
Though, Windows 7 comes bundled with a built-in CD/DVD burner that can burn IMG and ISO files, it is pretty basic. One of the better alternatives to a tool like Nero is a free and unglamorous piece of software called CDBurnerXP. CDBurnerXP (ver.4.3.8) made its mark in the days of Windows XP when users cried [...]
A good friend of mine asked me a couple of days ago at the gym whether or not he could rip DVDs to his computer. (He also had an entire other scheme to go to the library and rip those DVDs to his computer, but that’s a whole other can of worms and I wouldn’t [...]
If you’d like to create a backup of cds and DVDs so that you don’t have to insert the disc each time you want to watch your favorite movie, you need a DVD ripper software that can do that effectively. WinX DVD Ripper Platinum for Windows is a feature-rich tool that can rip a DVD [...]
UIF (Universal Image Format) is a format used to compress and backup CD or DVD data. It has many advantages over other compression formats such as RAR and ZIP, like ability to password-protect and encrypt data. It also supports backup of multi-session CD/DVD, Audio-CD, VCD, SVCD and DVD-Video. Due to these features, ISO files are [...]
Previously we told you about ISO files and how to extract, burn and mount them. Windows 7 provides an easy option to convert ISO files into disc. You don’t need any third party tool to perform this operation. To burn the file to disc perform the following steps:
ISO file, which is also known as a disc image, has .iso file extension. It contains a copy of the entire CD/DVD from which it was extracted. It means when you burn an ISO file to a blank disc, you’ll get the same files, folders, and properties as the original disc. ISO files are used [...]
Sometimes your CD or DVD drive doesn’t show up in the My Computer section. You can’t use your CD/DVD drive in spite of actually having it on your computer. Also, sometimes it may happen that it shows up but is unable to play the files in CD/DVD. Such problems in Windows aren’t that uncommon. This [...]
If you have had any experience of ripping a commercial DVD to your PC then you would know it isn’t a straight-forward task of copying data from the DVD to PC. The DVDs are usually DRM-protected/encrypted and don’t allow you to rip stuff from them easily. And a lot of times it happens that you [...]
