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DVD Knife Quickly Extracts Any Clip From DVDs
9:00AM Whitson Gordon | Trying to extract clips from a DVD is usually a roundabout process that involves a lot of waiting. Free utility DVD Knife makes it easy to extract clips from any part of your DVD. More »
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WinX DVD Author Available For Free For A Limited Time, Regularly $29
5:30AM Adam Pash | Windows only: WinX DVD Author is a shareware application that converts and burns most popular video formats directly to DVD, and it’s available for free during the month of October. More »
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Dirpy Converts YouTube Videos To Audio For Later Listening
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Many YouTube videos are just as enjoyable as straight-up audio. If you’d like to grab a lecture or comedy routine for the road, Dirby can help. More »
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The Definitive Guide To Ditching Your Discs
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | Moving, needing cash, running out of storage space—they’re all great reasons to consider backing up and ditching your physical. Here are our recommended methods of saving, selling and trading your CDs, DVDs and video games. More »
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RealDVD Killed Off In Court
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | RealDVD, the bold attempt by Real Networks to offer a legal DVD ripping solution, was shelved in October and has now lost its first court case. More »
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TubeMaster++ Updates To Make Grabbing Videos, Music Even Easier
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: Last year we shared TubeMaster Plus with you, an extremely handy program for downloading videos and music from streaming sites. TubeMaster++ has been released and comes with a slew of new features. More »
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AcidRip For Linux Rips DVDs With Two-Click Ease
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Linux only: Just over a year ago, we offered a semi-easy way to rip DVDs in Linux to video files. Had we been up on AcidRip, we could’ve saved ourselves about 900 words. More »
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DVDSmith Movie Backup Copies Everything Or Just Video Easily
9:00PM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: DVDSmith Movie Backup is terrible for our headline style, since it does exactly what its name implies. It’s great, though, for anyone who simply wants to watch a DVD without the disc. There are just five buttons to click on DVDSmith’s single window, and most times you’ll only need one. You can choose between “Full Disc,” which gets you menus, extras, and the full DVD-watching experience, or click “Main Movie” to grab the longest video and audio tracks. What you end up with on a “Full Disc” backup is a familiar VIDEO_TS folder, wherever you told the app to put it, and a bunch of .vob files, which can be played in most advanced media players like VLC. “Main Movie” does much the same, but with fewer .vob files turned out. DVDSmith is proud to announce on their site that their tool breaks through all the the major copyright protection schemes. If you’re looking for a bit more control over your DVD backups, check out the free, cross-platform Handbrake, our own DVD Rip, or any of our Hive Five best DVD ripping tools. If you’re looking for a DVD backup tool an 8-year-old could grasp, though, DVDSmith Movie Backup is worth a click or two. DVDSmith Movie Backup [via Life Rocks 2.0] More »
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Top 10 Things You Can Do With A DVD
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | The proliferation of thumb drives and external hard drives has made optical media like DVDs seem a little less handy—but there are still plenty of ways to put DVDs to good use. These shiny, multi-gigabyte discs can run entire operating systems, put movies on your computer and vice-versa, host a robust copy of Wikipedia, and do so much more, if you know how to work them. Check out some of our favourite hacks and tips for getting the most out of DVDs, whether released by Hollywood or purchased at OfficeMax. Photo by MiNe (sfmine79). More »
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