How to Rip Your CDs - What About It? by Mike Singh
With the copy-protected CD controversy in recent years, music studios are attempting to design CDs to prevent its users from ripping them onto their computer. Exactly what is ripping? It refers to digitally copying the CD's music onto your computer, also known as "ripping CDs". ... Songs that are stored on the hard-drive can be backed up with player software, such as Windows Media Player or Winamp. ... Depending on how much power and flexibility needed, a person can order the Smart CD Ripper with a free download trial version, for the Smart CD Ripper software or its Smart CD Ripper Pro...

Video Gaming Technology Takes Strides Forward by Julia Hall
One type of technology that definitely brings people a lot of entertainment, enjoyment, and even social bonding is video gaming platforms. Ever since Atari and other primitive video game platforms first came out about thirty years ago, the video gaming industry has tried to make better and... That's because the Xbox 360's ability to play high def DVD's comes from an optional HD-DVD drive that can be attached to the unit via cable, and the Play Station 3 comes with a Blu-ray drive installed. ... Both of these two products have a lot in common, including the fact that they both have multiple...

CD Burner: The Day The Music Burns by Robert Thatcher
Before, owning a copy of your favorite artist would only mean buying either from a local music store or online music sites. And a copy with an average of 16-18 cuts would cost you at least $10. If you think this is reasonable, then consider yourself lucky. ... It could copy from one CD to another or from a hard drive to a black CD and vice versa. ... These programs let you store the songs you have downloaded to your hard drive or transfer it to your portable MP3 player. ... If you know how CD player looks like (and I’m sure you do), you would recognize the CD burner.

Buying A Computer: Drives (Part 3): Affordability And Performance Buying Tips by Olan Butler
Hard Drive and Multimedia Drives: Today, we will delve into the optical drive family used in computer desktops today. This family consists of the compact disk (CD) and the digital versatile disk (DVD). CDs for a computer are no different than audio CDs for your CD player. ... We will now look at the two basic CD formats: CD-R and CD-RW. ... CD-R stands for CD recordable. ... Here’s a little affordability tip: In reality, with the right software (Nero Ahead is such software), you can write to a CD-R multiple times; however, you cannot physically over-write the previously written data.

How to Download an Audio Book From Your Hard Disk to Your iPod by Robin Henry
When you load a CD into your computer's CD-ROM reader, it automatically loads iTunes and then, if it's set up with its default, will begin loading the audio files onto the hard disk drive. But what happens if you have downloaded an audio book file from an Internet site directly to your hard disk... Because audio book files can be huge, I tend to zip them and backup a copy to my external, portable hard disk drive which I use to store data instead of bogging down my laptop hard disk drive. ... Next, burn the files to a CD-ROM using Windows Media Player (Windows operating systems come with...

Necessary Technology For College Success by Darrell Causey
The world has changed and the needs of the college student have changed as well. It used to be that plenty of paper, pencils, notebooks and highlighters were all that you needed to be prepared for college. But in today’s fast paced technological world much more is needed to be successful. ... Price Range: $39 - $79 MP3 Player An mp3 player is one of the newest study tools and has many uses. ... In most cases, the standard ram and hard drive will be more than sufficient for the average college student.

Zune Digital Player: What Will play - and Won't Play by Harvey Chute
There's a lot of misinformation on the web about what will and will not play on your Zune. A recent poster in our forums summed up the confusion: "I am hoping you can answer a question for me. I have about 10 GB of music on my hard drive, over half of which I have purchased through music... We found the last point hard to believe for a long time. ... I really want to purchase a zune, but I am concerned this player won't play the music I have already purchased from reading some posts, blogs and news.

Apple iPod - Why Apple Dominates the Mobile MP3 Player Market by Donny Duncan
Noticing a growing market for mobile MP3 players, Apple released the original iPod in late 2001, and it was quickly destined to be a huge success. It was exactly what people wanted.. It had a simple interface, it had a large storage capacity, and it was extremely attractive and recognizable. ... iPod Shuffle - The iPod Shuffle is Apples first attempt at the flash drive market, since all of their other products have spinning hard drives. ... It wasn't enough to drive sales of the iPod up though, Apple needed a bigger market, they needed the Windows market, which was (and still is) much...

Utilizing Your Entire Music Library-How to Put the Music into the Computer by Mike Singh
Before a person begins to organize their music and have it available at a touch of a button, they should check and see if they have the right things to get started: a computer with a hard drive, a CD burner, and the broadband Internet connection. Any computer will work, unless an excuse is... Some of us love eighties metal bands, but some Metallica songs far exceed the seven or eight minute mark and most manufacturer specifications for how many songs you can fit on a hard or flash drive player are based on four minute song length.

Solid State Hard Drives - They Will Replace our Existing Hard Drives - When? by Charles West
Finally - and yes possibly because of mp3 players and the continuing development of such - the cost of Solid State computer memory is dropping. Camera memory cards or sticks as some people call them are very well priced and readily available, you can now get up to 2gb, and in some cases 4gb... Main Features of these units: - Fully Compatible With IDE Interface - Complies with Standard ATA Interface - No noise - No Seek Error - Very high Shock Resistance - No Latency Delay - Low Power Consumption - Highest Product Quality and Fastest data access - Error...