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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 5th, 2008

Click-N-Type virtual keyboard A Free On Screen Keyboard Program

If, like me, you can’t use your hands then this is an essential program. There are a lot of onscreen keyboards that do exactly the same but cost a whole lot more. This great free program even has a word predictor and you can pick the database language you want. I have used this for years and it is always kept up to date.

Click n type is an on-screen virtual keyboard designed for anyone with a disability that prevents him or her from typing on a physical computer keyboard. As long as the physically challenged person can control a mouse, trackball, touch screen or other pointing device, this software keyboard allows you to send keystrokes to virtually any Windows application or DOS application that can run within a window.

Click-N-Type Virtual Keyboard by Lake Software

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