Tips Of The Week

Tip 1:

DeepBurner doesn't provide a proper Disc Information like Type of disc (CD/DVD, R/RW) and Size of disc (Used space and Free space) etc., You better make things sure before clicking on the BURN button.

Tip 2:

DeepBurner's GUI may not impress you at the first sight. After clearing the two mini-choice windows, you'll see 3 columns in the CD-1 window. Select CD/DVD files in the left column and then Right-click on "CDRoot" in the middle column and add files/ folders (change the volume name if you want to). The right side column shows the log. Skip AUTORUN and PRINT LABEL in the left column and go to BURN DISC straightaway unless you are creating a Bootable CD/DVD with a printed label.

eMule Vs uTorrent

Question Of The Week

eMule Vs uTorrent
Which is Better?

When you read last week's Question (ED2K Vs Kad), you might have thought if that was the logical question. TRUE!! The logical question is ED2K Vs Torrent OR eMule Vs uTorrent. The answer is simple. Use uTorrent for new and popular files and eMule for old and rare files!! There are some reasons for that.

1. For new and popular files, you'll get a variety of choices in terms of file size and quality. You'll find the description of the downloadable file in umpteen number of torrent websites. Even though eMule's SEARCH tab provides us file size, we won't get sufficient description to assess the quality.

2. Apart from the file description, you might also want to read comments from the users who have already downloaded the file. You will find such comments in most of the popular torrent websites. Even though eMule provides space for comments (Right-click on the file name after adding it for download), I don't find many comments there.

3. I have already told you that eMule is very keen about saturating your upload speed limit but not download limit. It usually maintains the upload: download ratio approximately about 1:5 and rarely it goes upto 1:10. This ratio won't bother DSL users since they have equal bandwith for uploads and downloads. In ADSL connections upload bandwith is only about 10 to 20% of download bandwith. Since some amount of upload bandwith is required for non-data transfer (Overhead), surely ADSL users will prefer uTorrent for new and popular files since it maintains the upload: download ratio upto 1:20 or even more. Download Speeds on uTorrent are typically higher, due to the fact that there are no queues for downloaders.

4. One last difference I want to mention is that we can't set download/ upload limits seperately for each download in eMule while it is possible in uTorrent which restricts the upload speed limit as low as 1 KB per file. This feature may be important for some users who would like to set different upload speed limits for different files.

DeepBurner

Program Of The Week

DeepBurner

If you are a big fan of Nero, kindly skip this post. Those who are uncomfortable with the price, file size and/or functions of Nero, please take a note of this program. It is a tiny DVD Burner program. It has the functions of Nero Burning ROM and Nero Express (Burn data CDs/DVDs, Burn AudioCDs, Create and burn ISO images, Bootable CD/DVD support) and it is FREE.

The only functionality missing is Burn Video DVDs. But I wouldn't bother much about it because of two reasons. First, most of the video files downloaded from internet are usually AVI, WMV, MKV, MP4 etc., and they can be written as Data DVDs. Second, you can still add AUDIO-TS and VIDEO-TS folders from Movie DVDs to be written as Data DVDs if they can be read by your standalone DVD player.

The creators of DeepBurner have also released a priced version called DeepBurnerPro which can Burn Video DVDs and make Disk-to-Disk copies.

The final statement is I myself am a big fan of Nero and I like most of its functions. At present, the only problem for me is my hard disk space. I am planning to buy a new hard disk sooner or later and then I would like to install Nero version 10 with most of its features.

Filehippo

Website Of The Week

www.filehippo.com

Last week we saw Oldapps in which old versions of free software are available. This week I present you with Filehippo which provides the latest versions of free and trial software. Similar to Oldapps, programs are presented under different categories for the users' convenience.