DVD protection is advancing at an ever increasing rate but unfortunately for the manufacturers, so are the ripping programs. If you’ve ever had problem’s copying one of your favourite DVD’s (just to make sure you’ve got a backup of course) then DVDFab could be what you’reve been looking for. It has proved popular a hit with thousands of Softonic users so far and there seems little prospect of its popularity waning.

DVDFab is an all-in-one DVD copying/converting/burning software. In just one or two steps, you can copy DVD’s to DVDR/PSP and even iPods. For such a powerful package, it only requires a mere 1.3MB of your hard drive hardrive so its not bulky like similar packages. However, note that this is the ‘lite’ version of the software; and the fully featured Express edition will probably weigh-in at somewhat more than this.

The conversion process itself couldn’t be easier. There are 5 DVD to DVD copy modes available - Full Disc, Main Movie, Split, Customize and Clone. To use any, its simply a matter of inserting your disk and Windows will ask you if you want to open it with DVDFab amongst other programs installed on your PC. In Full Disc mode, all movies, menus and trailers, are copied to a DVD in one click. In “Main Movie” mode, only the movie is copied with your specified audio. In “Split”’ mode, you can copy a DVD-9 onto two DVD-5 discs but also preserve the original menus on both discs. According to the developers, this rare little feature is apparently ideal for TV series DVD’s.

The handy “customize” mode allows you to personalize your DVD’s by recording such things as only your favourite scenes, removing adverts or selecting only certain audio tracks. Finally, “Clone”’ mode allows you to make exact 1:1 bit-to-bit copy of DVDs or even copy games disks such as PS2 DVD’s. There is also a DVD to Mobile option so you can reduce your favourite films to watch on your iPod or other favourite hand held device. Formats available include MPEG-4, DivX, XVID and Mp4.

DVDFab is a tough cookie – even those disks that refuse to be copied with other programmes can usually be cracked. The customise option allows you to get rid of pesky files that stand in your way and just rip the actual movie or essential files. It can also help in reconstituting recovering scratched or dirty disks that don’t play properly in your DVD player anymore. In addition, the ripping speed is remarkably fast. Depending on the size of disk, you can record a new one in less than 10 minutes although the average time is around 30 minutes.

One of the minor drawbacks to this ripper is that the inevitably heavy processing power needed to rip a disk often results in crashes. This will obviously be less of a problem on more powerful machines but on machines with old processors, using DVDFab may become impractical. Many user forums are however full of praise for DVDFab claiming that it can rip more disks and whatsmore, faster than comparable products such as DVD Shrink or ShrinkTo5. At the end of the day, most users consistently report they appreciate the simplicity and power of this rip-roaring ripper.

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Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical DVD drive, although it only exists virtually. Image files generated with CloneDVD software can be “inserted” into the virtual drive from your harddisk or from a network drive and thus be used like a normal DVD.

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As video goes the way of the good old cassette tape, DVD has become universally adopted as the format of choice for watching movies. Of course, the medium is not infallible, and DVDs are as prone to scratching or damage as VHS tapes were to getting chewed by the machine. CloneDVD represents one of the easiest ways to back up your movies to disk, ensuring that even novice users don't have to worry about loss or damage of their favorite films.

The interface is wonderfully simple to use, allowing you to select your source location and destination through an obvious wizard-style menu system. The beauty of the program is that it gives you a number of options for cloning to help you compress the file size without compromising movie quality. For instance, you can choose to omit certain extras from your DVD such as foreign language subtitles or theatrical trailers. Copying speed is among the fastest around, allowing you to copy to an ISO file on your hard drive or directly to recordable DVD in a flash.

Although the application doesn't allow you to clone copy-protected media, this is of course, illegal anyway, and if you want to perform such operations then there are alternative applications available that can be used alongside CloneDVD. If it's simplicity of use and speed that you require then CloneDVD is more than capable.

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Copying or cloning CDs has become increasingly difficult with copyright encryption getting more and more sophisticated.

However, there are always a few programs out there that seem able to crack just about anything and CloneCD is certainly one of them. CloneCD gives you the option to clone as much or as little as you want from not only CDs but DVDs as well. Why the developers chose to keep the name CloneCD is a mystery because this program is more than capable of both.

The utility can compress extensive footage at high speed due to what the developers call "advanced transcoding technology" and it allows you to select both the audio and language you'd like to use from DVDs. The program works very well with ISOs and UDFs and is particularly useful to "unblocking"copyrighted disks - i.e. those CDs or DVDs which are copyrighted and won't play in your CD player. However, it should be noted that copyright laws vary from country to country and that you should not be using this program to break copyright laws or decode commercial disks - it's entirely for your own use.

For unblocking or copying locked or heavily encrypted DVDs or CDs, CloneCD is an incredibly powerful application.

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WinHex is a universal hexadecimal editor, particularly helpful in the realm of computer forensics, data recovery, low-level data processing, and IT security. An advanced tool for everyday and emergency use: you can inspect and edit all kinds of files, recover deleted files or lost data from hard drives with corrupt file systems or from digital camera cards.

Features include:

• Disk editor for hard disks, floppy disks, CD-ROM & DVD, ZIP, Smart Media, etc
• Native support for FAT, NTFS, Ext2/3, ReiserFS, CDFS, UDF
• Built-in interpretation of RAID systems and dynamic disks
• RAM editor, providing access to physical RAM and other processes' virtual memory
• Data interpreter, knowing 20 data types
• Editing data structures using templates (e.g. to repair partition table/boot sector)
• Concatenating and splitting files, unifying and dividing odd and even bytes/words
• Analyzing and comparing files
• Particularly flexible search and replace functions
• Disk cloning (under DOS with X-Ways Replica)
• Drive images & backups (optionally compressed or split into 650 MB archives)
• Programming interface (API) and scripting
• 128-bit encryption, checksums, CRC32, hashes (MD5, SHA-1, ...)
• Erase (wipe) confidential files securely, hard drive cleansing to protect your privacy
• Import all clipboard formats, incl. ASCII hex values
• Convert between binary, hex ASCII, Intel Hex, and Motorola S
• Character sets: ANSI ASCII, IBM ASCII, EBCDIC, (Unicode)
• Instant window switching. Printing. Random-number generator.
• Supports files >4 GB

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Zoner Photo Studio includes all the tools you need to make the most of your digital photo collection.

This comprehensive suite covers every necessary step in photo managing, from extracting pictures from your digital camera to sharing them online. You can view the whole photo directory in thumbnails and double-click on any of them when you want to see if in full screen. Plus, if any of your photos needs optimization, you can also use Zoner for that, as it features tools to balance color, correct gamma values, resize images or even remove that undesirable red-eye effect.

Besides acquiring and optimizing, what I liked most about Zoner Photo Studio was the wide variety of publishing options the program includes for photos. From using your favorite shot as a desktop wallpaper to creating a DVD slideshow to enjoy your pics on TV, there are a bunch of really interesting possibilities, such as creating a web gallery, a customized calendar, a panoramic photo or even a 3D image, to name a few.

To be honest, the only drawback to Zoner Photo Studio is its clunky interface, although fortunately it can somewhat be fixed with skins. The real problem is that there are so many windows, sub-windows, panels and menus (especially when creating photo albums) that it feels confusing and overwhelming, to say the least.

Zoner Photo Studio gives you everything you need to view, optimize, share and enjoy your digital photos.

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If you've ever needed to backup a DVD, then it can be quite a time consuming and complicated affair depending on what's on the disk. Easy DVD Clone backups your DVD's on another DVD or on your hard drive in just a few clicks. Your DVD backups can either be the complete disk with all the extras, or you can choose to backup just the main movie with selected audios and/or subtitles.

The most important thing to judge such a program on is the speed of the backup plus the video and audio quality of the final backup. The program supports backups DVD to DVD, DVD to Hard Drive, Hard Drive to DVD, Hard Drive to Hard Drive, and also allows you to burn existing DVD files to DVDR directly. I particularly liked the fact that you can shrink DVD's easily reducing 9GB DVDs onto a 4.7GB DVD without a big loss of image quality. Alternatively, you can split the content of a 9GB DVD onto two 4.7GB DVDs with absolutely no loss of quality. The program is also regularly updated so that the program can handle the latest codecs and compression ratios.

A powerful and easy to use program that makes DVD backups a breeze.

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Moleskinsoft Clone Remover is a program for finding file duplicates. It can find identical files stored in different 'places' (hard disks, CD, DVD etc) of your computer even if the names of the files are different. Files with identical content can be found on any Windows computer.

If you use this software, you can find file duplicates with a couple of mouse clicks as the program is very easy-to-use and does not require special computer skills. If you have problems doing something, you can always use the built-in help system.

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AV MP3 Player Morpher 3.0 works very well as an MP3 player, but the amazing thing is that it allows you to morph music with exclusive plug-in effects. You can also change the pitch and timbre of a singing voice. Now THAT is cool. This clone CDsoftware will unlock your creativity by creating and burning entertaining CDs and DVDs like never before.

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PhotoSuite® 8 puts the power to create spectacular photo projects of the highest quality right in your hands. With One Button Photo Fix, Smart Views, and Peer-to-Peer photo sharing your life just got a whole lot more organized. What’s more, the DVD creation capability turns your slideshow productions into DVDs that you can easily share with friends and family on your TV!

Main features:

Make every picture perfect

Automatically remove red-eye, scratches - even dust. Get even more creative with tools like cloning, effects brushes, smart edge detection, and masking.

Add your own personal touch

Create photo collages and control layers, fading & transparency. Tap into 340+ effects & transitions, 80+ photo content projects, 25 labels and 20+ menu styles!

Create photo slideshows

Easily share photos using peer-to-peer technology - no upload or large email attachments required. Or, create up to 999-photo slideshows and burn to DVD!

Files at your fingertips

Access the files you need with a unified view of your photos in one place. Your PC will monitor new files added and auto-update the information in the Media Manager.

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With Cute CD DVD Burner, you can create and burn audio and data CDs and DVDs with all files of any format (Include MP3,MPEG and so on), Making bootable DVDs and CDs, building and burning ISO image file in high speed. Creating multisession discs, importing previous sessions, testwrite,backup,Long filename support, built-in ASPI layer, erasing rewritable discs, preventing bad burns and CD creation errors (BURN-Proof, Just Link, and OPC technologies) are all included in the Cute CD DVD Burner. It's a powerful yet small CD DVD burner that uses few resources. CD-R(W),DVD+R(W), DVD-R(W) and DVD-RAM are supported.

Cute CD DVD Burner is also an amazing CD DVD cloner. If you have a DVD-Rom and a DVD RW drive, you can copy a new disc from the source disc(So do CD-Rom and CD RW). In another hand, cloning CD DVD is still available even if you have ONLY ONE DVD RW drive (CD RW drive). The program has One Drive Copy function that helps people who do not have two disc drives to copy discs.

Backup Schedule is a very userful function that backups files and folders your selected beforehand.It will carry out the backup task periodically (Day(s),Week(s),Month(s), any one you like). Easy and friendly interface as well as changeable skins(12 skins available) makes it easy-to-use and personal.

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DVD Cloner Pro is the most powerful dvd movie clone software ever. It produces perfect copies every time, and does it quickly and efficiently. Video quality of copied discs is perfect, since there's no recompression or altering of the VOB files from the original disc.

Features:

• Perfect 100% DVD Clone. Just like your original DVD movies
• Copy all the Special Features, Menus, Subtitles & Languages
• Sound and video never change in quality
• High speed and easy to use. Just a few clicks
• Playable in almost all DVD players
• Copies DVD Movie to One Blank Disc
• Uses most DVD-R / DVD-RW / DVD+R / DVD+RW burners
• Supports both NTSC and PAL DVD movies

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Copy DVD Movie Now allows you to make the highest quality backup copies of movies you have. Copy DVD Movie Now has an advanced, yet simple to use movie clone engine which can copy any DVD movie on the market. Video quality of copied discs is perfect, since there's no recompression or altering of the VOB files from the original disc.

Features:

• Burn DVD Movies to DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W) Discs
• Copy all the Special Features, Menus, Subtitles & Languages
• Transfer Full Multi-Channel Audio (Dolby 5.1, DTS)
• High speed and easy to use
• Advanced compression technology
• Copies DVD Movie to One Blank Disc
• Copy every language available on Original DVD
• Supports both NTSC and PAL DVD movies

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007 DVD Copy is a software to backup your preciousDVD Video Disk to DVDRW disk without any quality loss. It can copy any DVD video (D9 and D5) on to your DVD disc (4.7GB/Single Layer or 8.5GB/Dual Layer) without loss of content or quality. It copys all existing DVD contents including whole movie,language tracks, subtitles, and etc. 007 DVD Copy has an user friendly interface, anyone can master it within 5 minutues.

Features:

• Real DVD movie clone, absolute the same as the original disk.
• Support all-region discs, remove region protection(Region-free), remove RPC-I/RPC-II/RCE region protection automatically during copying.
• Copy a dual-layer (DVD9) movie into one DVD5 with all the Special Features, Menus, Subtitles & Languages.DVD to DVD copy directly.
• Support both NTSC and PAL DVD.
• Fastest video compression engine built-in, copy one DVD-9 movie into one DVD-5 disc within 1 hour (Depends on your PC hardware's speed).
• Dual-layer 8.5GB disc supported, Copy DVD-9 to DVD-9.
• High compatibility, copied DVD disk is playable on both PC and home DVD Player.

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With its high speed copy engine, FT DVD Clone will allow you backup your DVD9 discs within 30 minutes and if you want to save the main movie only, then all you need is 10-15 minutes. You can backup to a variety of formats, including DVD +R/RW and -R/RW. The backups may fit on a less spacious disk but the loss in quality will be negligible.

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DriveClone 2.0 is a hard disk utility that is used to back up or clone hard drives or partitions. It creates a compressed archive file that contains all of the files, partition information and security information stored on a hard disk or partition.

DriveClone can be used for many different purposes:

• PC users can use DriveClone as a quick and easy way to back up and restore their data in the event of a system crash.
• System administrators can use it to dramatically reduce the time they spend restoring, reconfiguring or copying data onto the hard drives of many computers.

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