Software

CD Burner XP is a full featured Windows application that lets you burn CDs and DVDs. You can burn data, audio and video cds as well as BluRay format DVDs. This light weight program is incredibly fast and reliable and can also be used to create .iso images. Being free, it can do everything that many expensive and bloated programs such as Nero or Roxio would. It is also a great product to upgrade from the OEM software that comes bundled in with most burners. The OEM software (For example Nero lite, Roxio lite) is most times is a scaled down version of the full suite and is either lacking features or is time limited. If you want to have features like burning iso images or video DVDs, you would need to upgrade and pay. We can walk you through some of the tasks that CD Burner XP can perform, in this article.

The first ever cloud computing based anti virus was launched today by Panda Antivirus. The product is called Panda Cloud Antivirus and its backend is based on Panda Antivirus datacenters with a very light frontend client on your machine, this makes its performance incredibly faster than desktop antivirus applications. The application is able to block and deal with threats like Conficker, as soon as they are discovered on the net. Being based on cloud computing, this product is very different from traditional antivirus software such as Norton or MacAfee, as most of the horse power in scanning comes from Panda's servers (somewhere in the cloud).

Have you ever been in a situation where you had to rebuild your machine and had a hard time gathering the required drivers ? Most people think if backing up their data, but not their drivers. In case the machine dies or has to be rebuilt, one often finds running from one machine to another with a USB drive or Floppy, because that network and other drivers they needed did not work.

Torrent technology has become so popular that now Bittorrent based TV is coming. Did you know that a lot of popular entertainment studios and news channels like BBC are making their content available to end users using bittorrent? The reason bittorrent is so attractive is because it presents the end user with an "on demand" experience, rather than to wait for a regional release of a popular TV soap (like Desperate House Wives), folks in Australia for example can already download current episodes from the United States Community. Tribler is one such company, which intends to bring Torrents to "traditional TV sets". When integrated with TV sets, users would be able to navigate, use and control Tribler with just a remote

Have you ever wished that you had a way of running a favorite application or game of yours on a machine without needing to install it or to have administrator privileges to run it ? Or sometimes you would you just want that DOS, Windows95 or Windows 2000, XP application to be compatible and be running in Windows Vista ? Sometimes you just want something portable, that you can run on a client's machine using your USB drive, without having the application write anything to the hard drive ? VMware's ThinApp is the solution that provides you with your wish!