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April 7th, 2008

Burn CDs, DVDs or Blu-ray Discs with Express Burn Plus For Free!

Express Burn Plus is a program that lets you create and burn audio CDs, data CDs, video DVDs, data DVDs or data Blu-ray discs under Windows or Mac OS X.

It is so easy to use that even Grandma could use it and she did in record time!

With Express Burn Plus you can record an audio CD, video DVD or data CD/DVD/Blu-ray quickly and easily by dragging the files you want onto the Express Burn Plus icon and clicking Burn. You can also use Express Burns easy to use interface to navigate to your files and add files or folders as you please. The software does the rest, including converting the files if required.

Oh did I forget to say that it’s free :)

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Writes the following types of discs:

    • Data CDs (perfect for backup)
    • Audio CDs (for traditional CD player)
    • Mp3 CDs (larger capacity alternative to audio cds)
    • Video DVDs (to be played on a standard DVD player - Windows Only)
    • Data DVDs (4.5GB+ on a single DVD )
    • Blu-Ray discs (25GB+).
  • Supports multi session recording to CD (you can choose to add more music tracks at a later time).
  • Records CD Recordable (CDR) and CD Re-recordable (CDRW) discs.
  • Can seamlessly burn audio CDs with no pause between tracks.
  • Audio CDs are recorded with direct digital recording (so perfect audio quality is maintained).
  • Audio CD burning supports wav, mp3, wma, au, aiff, ra, ogg, flac, aac and a number of other audio file formats.
  • Burn ISO compliant data DVDs and Blue-ray discs (DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, BD-R, BD-RE, BD-R DL, BD-RE DL).
  • Video DVD Authoring - video files will be re-encoded and made in to a standard DVD Movie disk, playable on a DVD player (Windows version only)
  • Video burning supports avi, mpg, vob, asf, wmv, mp4, ogm and all video formats that have a DirectShow based codec.
  • Choice of widescreen or standard formats for video dvd authoring (Windows version only).
  • Record video files to PAL or NTSC (Windows version only).
  • Support Joliet and CDA formats.
  • Data CDs support multilevel folders and long file names.
  • Data CDs are fully ISO compliant with Joliet extension.
  • Includes command line operation for automation and integration with other programs.
  • Supports fast, right mouse click functionality for burning ISO images.
  • Simple, easy to use interface for day-to-day operation


It has a very quick install but on the initial install options there are options to install other programs. I never touched these programs.

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More burning software-

Nero 6 Power Pack (replacement of Nero 6 CD/DVD Burning Suite)

ULEAD Burn.Now 1.5 SE

Mac Burn

Magix MP3 Maker XXL

March 27th, 2008

Turn Based Multiplayer MMO Space Strategy Game - Space Empires V (SEV)

SEV is the fifth generation of the popular Space Empires 4x strategy game created by Malfador Machinations.

Before I start waffling I must say this game isn’t free! I have found it so good on the demo that I had to buy it.

Watch space battles played out in glorious detail and realistic effects. Expand, Explore, Exploit, and Exterminate in a huge living breathing galaxy. New features abound with political alliances between multiple empires, a top-down ship design system, a hexagonal movement grid, and many more. Due to player demand, the game is completely “moddable” and even adds a scriptable AI system to the mix.

This is a great game if you like this sort of thing. It is not a flashy sit in the cockpit shoot them up but is extremely complicated. It will take you probably a few hours or even an afternoon to learn it (like me). A lot of budding dictators play this but it can take up a lot of time, beware.

space empires 5

  • 24 bit 3D real-time rendered graphics.
  • Detailed Tactical Combat (and a combat simulator to test your designs!).
  • New vehicle types and sizes: Ships, Bases, Freighters, Fighters, Mines, Satellites, Troops, Drones, and Weapons Platforms.
  • Ability to completely design and customize all of your vehicles.
  • Large Galaxy: 100 solar systems with 15 planets each.
  • Huge Technology Tree: Thousands of tech levels with hundreds of components and facilities.
  • Completely customizable game graphics: Create your own planets, stars, vehicles, etc.
  • Completely customizable AI players: Create your own AI players with unique traits, styles, and speech.
  • 14 unique races to play or customize (or just create your own!)
  • Randomly generated map for every game (or load an existing map).
  • Complete game customization allowed by players (”mods”).

Space Empires V (PC)

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