Advantages: Easy to use, flexible, and comprehensive
Disadvantages: Gaps between CD tracks

...Music is a huge part of my life, as with many other people. You only have to take a look at my 100+ album collection (or at EnglishPatient's 3000+!) to know that people are serious about what they listen to, me not least. I even download mp3s from new bands on mp3.com. Sure, people might not agree with the scope of my taste, but I think variety of taste is important – music helps us to express ourselves and get us through our lives – in the bad times and good. So, how I play my music is equally important to me. What I need is a cheap, flexible, simple to use program that is comprehensive in it's support for musical formats. Nullsoft's Winamp gives all this to me – and more. It's something of a household name these days – most people have heard of the popular sound player, as much as they know about the default... Read review

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Advantages: Great way to make music
Disadvantages: Can become expensive

...? Well, here goes... *** DT DRUM STATION *** available from http://www.d-lusion.com This gives you the drums you will need for your song. The Drumstation is a software drum synthesizer based on the famous drum machines TR-909, TR-808, and TR-606. Everyone must remember 808 state? No? Oh, Am I showing my age!!! Thats how they got their name. Named themself after a drum machine. you can have up to eight channels for individual drums or WAV files. A typical set up might be: Ch. 1: Bass Drum Ch. 2: Snare Drum Ch. 3: Hi Hat Ch. 4: Crash Cymbal Ch. 5: Hand Clap Ch. 6: Toms Ch. 7: Low Bass Drum Ch. 8: Synth Drum It also gives you the ability to add effects and filters for each channel. So you could add some reverb to make the bass drum echo a bit or delay to make it sound a bit out of time like our drummer... Read review

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Advantages: Encoding, Excellent Layout,Plays Everything, Record audio cds,customizable
Disadvantages: costs money

...I download a lot of MP3 files every week. I store all these in one folder, my hard drive is clogged full of them. Categorizing them is awkward as putting them all in one folder makes it hard to find the mp3 file i want. I use Windows media player and Real Player to play music files, but now i have found a easy way to store, categorize and play mp3 files, Real Jukebox Plus. Its a tool from Real Networks for £25 ( you can get the basic version for free but has limited tools and options). If you have Real player already, then you will get this for £20, but i still think its a decent price to pay even if there is more jukeboxes out there. Downloading And Setup - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Firstly, you will have to go to http://www.real.com and it will give you a choice to download either real jukebox basic or real jukebox plus... Read review

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Advantages: Time saver, Data saver
Disadvantages: Various confusing versions, No multiple NT images with 2001

...of the supported models was the Iomega ZipCD, which I believe is an external model. If this worked you could use this writer on multiple machines. The next option is to create a ‘Peer to Peer Network boot disk’. This allows you to connect two computers via a network cable. A number of network cards are supported including most new 3Com models in particular. The final option is to create a standard boot disk with ‘LPT and USB support’. With this option you can clone and image from one machine to another linked via either your LPT port (your printer port) or USB port. Incidentally you may have wondered why Ghost is really a DOS based application. In truth it makes sense, as you couldn’t really run Ghost within a GUI operating system where a number of files are open and such forth. Ghost 2001 comes with one other... Read review

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Advantages: mp3,cd,radio player
Disadvantages: not that i know of

...CDR and play the in a MP3 CD player. .Repeat - You can repeat all the songs. .Save - So you don't loose all your music you can save the playlist. I got this product from MP3.com. The product is free and very good. I would reccommed this product to a) anyone who wants a good mp3, cd, radio player b) anyone with sense!!!!!!!!! There is no limit to how many mp3 files you can have, and at this present time I can't find any disadvantages with this product. Ill tell you if there is! Bye!... Read review

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Advantages: Faster downloads, easy to use and easy to set up
Disadvantages: Not many, but no feature to play MP3's like Napster

...I'v been using 'Downlaod Accelerator' since March, and to date I have had a thouroughly pleasing experience with it. Essentially, it is a way of managing the files you download. It has a multitude of features, all designed to make downloading files from anywhere on the 'net simple and fast. WHERE & HOW TO GET IT Download Accelerator is available completely free of charge. I found out about through the information pages on MP3.com, but it is available to download direct from www.downloadaccelerator.com, or www.speedbit.com. They both go to the same site. Once there, simply download the copy you want. I'm running version 4.2, but currently they are distributing the beta version of version 4.3. It's unlikely to be much better than v4.2, so stick with the tried and tested version, rather than a beta... Read review

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Advantages: Music!
Disadvantages: Downloads!

...Now I am not going to be the one who tells you it's OK to download copyrighted music from the internet - but it is possible to do it and this piece of software can be a great help. Sonique is a software MP3 player, which you can download for free at www.mp3.com and in my humble opinion it is one of the best player out there. To begin with it is very slickly presented, it looks simply gorgeous on your desktop or wherever, you can minimise it while you surf and listen to your favourite tracks which I find very useful. You can also change the way it looks, by downloading skins from the sonique website, and you can also get some technical support and help here if you need it too - www.sonique.com. One of the most useful features sonique has is the search facility. You can simply enter the title or band/artist name and the program... Read review

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Advantages: Easy to use, good control features
Disadvantages: Not as seamless with other packages as they'd have you think

...This is where I break the golden rule – the one which says write what you know…don’t do techno if your strength is lyrical introspection. Anyone expecting my usual musings on literature or earthly rambles is therefore free to go. This is straightforward consumer feedback. THE PRODUCT Contribute 3 – a web publishing package from Macromedia. All the technical details are available at www.macromedia.com & I will leave interested parties to seek them out. What follows assumes that anyone reading has an interest in the potentiality of the product & is merely the first impressions of a new user. Updates may follow in due course. I also apologise in advance, especially to Macromedia, if I’ve got this review in the wrong Category ~ see Context below! CONTEXT A hitch in the operation of Dreamweaver provided the opportunity... Read review

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Advantages: Easy, small
Disadvantages: No offline messages

...you to send them an e-mail to invite them to join. Done that? Alright, now you're ready to chat! Features As you will see, MSN contains only basic features, and that’s why it’s so good. ICQ has so many features that it makes the program unpractical. Moreover, you won’t use 80% of the features it’s got. Let’s hope Microsoft will keep MSN as simple as it is now! What can you do with it? ------------------------ 1) Chat You can chat with all your friends who are in your contact list and online. If they come online, a window will appear a few seconds down on the right. (You can switch this off if you want) If they aren't online, MSN will ask if you want to send them an email instead. You can also invite other persons in your conversation. This way you can chat with 3 or more persons... Read review

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Advantages: Fast, Secure, no spyware, no popups, tab browsing
Disadvantages: none that i know off

...versions as well as others. 1. To download Firefox, go to www.getfirefox.com and select "Free Download" 2. When asked to 'Open the file' or 'Save it to your computer', select 'Open' to begin installation OR if you save it to your computer, save the file to your desktop 3 Double-click the Firefox Setup.exe to start the install. Here is the cool part the nice people at mozilla have gone out of there way to help you switch from internet explorer, when you first install firefox a wizard opens and lets you import your favorites, options, cookies and passwords, which means you don't even have to remember what password you use on ciao it still remembers it for you. They have free online support should you need it. How do I use it? Look wise there is little difference, sort of, ok it looks much better and has more options... Read review

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