31 March 2009

Internet Radio Ripping

Listen to a lot of music? Checkout SHOUTcast online radio, presented by NULLsoft, the makers of Winamp and Reaper Music Production suite. It contains thousands of digital radio stations in every genre. Similar apps are IcyRadio and StationRipper.

Say you're listening to the music online, but want to save the streamed music onto you're harddrive? You need either ScreamerRadio, which plays and rips the stream to the mp3 format, or StationRipper (both free), which rips 2 streams at once (free version) and has an integrated browser, but you need an external audio player to listen (Winamp, VLC Player, Windows Media Player).

Please note: I do not condone any illegal practice in regards to the aforementioned applications. Use responsibly and read any Licenses provided with said applications.

(c) [mercnet]

Portable Applications

Have you ever wished you could take your favorite applications with you to work, or anywhere else? You should checkout PortableApps.com. Use Firefox? Got to the site, download the Portable version of Firefox, install it on your USB Flash drive and your're good to go!

You can carry a number of essential applications with you on your pendrive, such as a Microsoft Office substitue called OpenOffice- which can open and save Office files such as Word (*.doc). Some others: ClamWin AntiVirus, Filezilla, GIMP, Thunderbird, VLC Player, WinWGet, etc.

Once you run any of these Portable applications made from Open Source software, all your settings and files stay on your're USB instead of the computer you're working at which is good from a security/privacy standpoint.

(c) [mercnet]