Many of us are fed up with the bloat that ships with many of the multimedia suites. Yes, these are great for handling video and burning a DVD of a recent wedding reception, but less useful when you simply want to burn a few files to disc or, perhaps, create a simply audio CD for the car. With this in mind, you just want to choose your audio files, burn the disc and get away.
Sure there are plenty of freeware burning apps available, but there are few better commercial burning tools than Ashampoo Burning Studio. For this weekend only, we’re giving you the full version of Ashampoo Burning Studio 2010 Advanced, worth $49.95. If you have an earlier version of Burning Studio, including the standard Burning Studio 2010, the Advanced edition is worth an upgrade. You get a much improved burning module, updated user-interface and more.
Hurry as Ashampoo Burning Studio 2010 Advanced is available to download between Friday and midnight Sunday.
Running a different operating system on your computer provides users with a number of new possibilities, especially if you are not required to reboot your machine or leave Windows. You could use this facility to test a newer version of an existing operating system to see if it’s compatible with your current hardware, or to run an alternative OS, so you could run applications that are OS specific. 
We ran the first 
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Nearly everyone has old tapes, cassettes, VHS videos, LPs and other old audio sources with some of our favourite tracks. I’m game enough to admit that I found one of my old favourite extended S-Express tracks on an ultra-rare 12″ vinyl the other day. Borrowed a friends record player and remembered how great that track was. Gone are the days where we could find this track on Napster and other, well, less legit sources. The solution is to record the old audio from our LPs via a cable connected to our computer. We need the software to process the audio, however.
Many of us simply want to burn data to disc and, for this reason, there are few better tools than Ashampoo Burning Studio. If you’re one of the many users who rate this software very highly, you’ll be pleased to know there’s a new v10 due for official release at the end of May. Note that there’s already a beta version available to download and test.
Backing up the right kind of data is hard work for most business users. For example, how many times have we backed up our documents, accounts, other work files and user data, but forgotten vital files such as our font collection. If you purchase commercial fonts, you normally get a once-only opportunity to download and store on your computer. The aren’t cheap, either, particularly for a multi-seat commercial license. Make sure you safeguard important files such as this in a secure location.
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When your baby takes its first steps, you want to be there with your video camera. Now our mobiles enables us to capture video, this has been made possible. For many of us, we want to get this and other videos to our family and friends and the easiest way is to compile your own movie and either burn to disc or upload to your homepage. You need a media suite to be able to achieve the best results.
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