When Mireth Technology began business, the price of optical drives that could burn DVDs hovered around $1,000. That’s changed over the years, and so has the company’s flagship product, iVCD. Originally designed to create video CDs on a Mac, the application has evolved into an all-purpose DVD, VCD and SVCD authoring and burning program with support for a broad range of video formats — AVI, DIVX, WMV, MPEG, MOV, iMovie and QuickTime — and North American NTSC and European PAL standards.

StarTech.com’s new DisplayPort KVM Switch helped me solve a computing problem I did not realize I had. The company’s KVM Switch provides direct connections to monitors and computers without using a converter. The DisplayPort KVM Switch let me control two DisplayPort-capable computers with a single keyboard, mouse and monitor. The device’s
graphical and audio capability did not degrade the output from either computer system. Years ago when I first began using more than one computer, I relied on an A-B box to connect the two desktop machines to the same printer.

Today’s enterprises are clamoring for software applications that run in a wide variety of environments — everything from physical to virtual to cloud. If you are a software vendor, how do you make it easy to give them what they want? You could hand customers your software on a CD and let them figure it out. However, in this environment, independent software vendors that find ways to help their customers get where they need to go earn big dividends in terms of market adoption and revenue.

If you want to know why the netbook is headed to the endangered species list, take a look at Gateway’s new ultraportable. The handsome offering with the bland designation “EC 1437u” has power, performance and a small footprint, all for a very reasonable price of $549.99. When the notebook is pulled out in a crowd, its glossy, cherry-red shell is sure to evoke envious questions about its origins. Although larger than most netbooks, the Gateway model is still smaller than a clipboard, albeit thicker and heavier.

Lawmakers are moving to ban the use of computer laptops and other personal electronic devices in airline cockpits to prevent another incident like the Northwest Airlines plane that overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles. Sen. Byron Dorgan, chairman of the aviation subcommittee, said in an interview that his staff is working on a bill that he expects to introduce in about a week. He said he was surprised to learn after the Oct. 21 incident that the FAA doesn’t specifically prohibit pilots from using personal devices during flight except below 10,000 feet while the plane is taking off or landing.

One question that often plagues me is whether it’s worth upgrading an existing Apple notebook with more RAM and a new hard drive — or whether it’s a better option to simply buy a whole new one altogether. I tend to buy a new PowerBook, iBook, or MacBook every two years or so, and usually around the 16-month point, I’m in a quandary — I’m usually running out hard drive space, I’m running more applications at the same time than ever before, and now the new MacBook Pro models are fantastic but don’t seem quite worth the cost just yet.

There’s more for Mac users to like in a pair of media servers unwrapped this month by HP. The new media servers, the MediaSmart EX590 and EX495, offer an array of new features aimed at Apple-using households. They can collect media from Macs on a home network. Media collection can be automated so as new photos, video or music are added to a Mac on the Net, they will be automatically copied to the server, where they can be viewed or heard, depending on access configuration, by any computer or device — like an iPod touch — connected to the network.

Nidesoft DVD to iPhone Converter – Nidesoft DVD to iPhone Converter is a powerful yet easy-to-use iPhone converter that can convert DVD to iPhone MP4 M4V video (MPEG-4) H.264, rip DVD audio to iPhone MP3 and M4A audio formats, and copy your DVD movies onto Apple iPhone with great quality. With this Phone converter, you can also convert DVD to other Apple mobile devices including iPod and Apple TV.

Nidesoft DVD to iPhone Converter fully supports dual-core CPU with super fast conversion speed. With this excellent DVD to iPhone Converter, you can easily convert DVD movie to iPhone with rich options such as customizing file size, DVD movie trimming, DVD video crop, subtitle selection, audio track selection and so forth.

With the adoption of powerful DVD to iPhone encoder, whether you are an expert or a beginner, to convert DVD to iPhone with this DVD to iPhone converter software is just a breeze! Download DVD to iPhone Converter now and enjoy your favorite DVD movies on your iPhone anytime and anywhere.

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Xilisoft AVI to DVD Converter – Xilisoft AVI to DVD Converter is fast, easy-to-use DVD authoring software and DVD Converter which convert AVI to DVD, burn DivX, MPEG, AVI to DVD disc playable on portable/home DVD players. It allows you to specify NTSC or PAL, adjust 4:3 or 16:9 video aspect, and burn DVD disc, DVD folder or ISO file.

Since its upgrade to version 3.0, the AVI to DVD Converter is much stronger with much friendlier interface and is a lot steadier and more competitive with faster burning speed and higher output quality. With it, you can convert and burn downloaded videos onto DVD, which means the internet will become the storehouse of your home theater!

Compared with other applications, Xilisoft AVI to DVD Converter has more features attracting your eyes:

1. In the new 3.1 version, many new features have been added in. For example, it supports previewing, video trimming, video miniature, menu editing, setting actions after done.

2. It supports multithreading and batch conversion.

3. It fully supports Intel® Pentium4 Hyper-Threading Processor and Pentium D Processor (820, 830 and 840);

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Nidesoft DVD Audio Ripper – Nidesoft DVD Audio Ripper is a software which porvides a easy , fast method to rip DVD to MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, AC3, OGG formats.

DVD Audio Ripper has fast ripping speed beyond your image, saves your time greatly. Its Main Interface is very concise which you can use with ease.

As a DVD MP3 Ripper , It ’s an ideal solution of ripping music DVD movies and convert DVD to mp3. Now, you can enjoy your favorite movies with your portable players and ipod!!!!

Features

1. Extract and rip audio from DVD to MP3 and WMA for all MP3 players such as iPod, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, Zune, iRiver and so on.

2. Rip DVD audio to popular audio formats including AAC, AC3, M4A, MP3, WMA, WAV, etc.

3. Fully support dual-core and multi-threading. A great DVD to MP3 converter to rip DVD audio to mp3 with super fast speed.

4.Powerful video editing , allow you to adjust brightness, contrast, volume, etc,.And check the audio track or caption of videos as you like to convert DVD to AVI.

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Absolute DVD Copy – done.

Independent burning function: Burn your DVD files from hard disk independently.

DeCSS enabled: To tab the full potential, Absolute DVD Copy contains an embedded DeCSS interface and an authorizing function for DVD drives. (See legal statement in HelpFile and License Agreement);

Authorize of DVD in Drive;

Auto-Error Correction Mode.

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DVD Audio Ripper – DVD Audio Ripper is a professional software DVD movie soundtrack ripper that can extract movie soundtracks from DVDs and rip DVD audio to MP3/WAV with complete sound effects. It can rip DVD audio to MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, AC3, OGG, RA and AU formats.

New features:

1.Support multi-core processor;

2.Support 5.1 channel surround sound system;

3.Add new profiles.

Features:

1. It supports AC3 and LPCM audio track and supports sample rate 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz and 48 kHz to 44.1 kHz down sampling.

2. It supports ID3 tag and permits you to edit music info for each file before rip them.

3. It also supports both DVDs and IFO files.

4. It can rip DVD movies by chapters – DVD Audio Ripper will auto list all chapters in a DVD, then you can extract sound tracks by chapter easily.

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