We constantly hear about the importance of creating backup copies of all our important documents, in case someday our computer happens to die. So if you've finally decided to follow this wise piece of advice, you can start with Uranium Backup.

This backup application will help you create security copies of selected files and documents and save them in different locations, including network units, USB devices and removable hard drives. Of course, you can also backup to another folder in the same drive, but that wouldn't be very smart (if you lose that hard drive, you lose both the original and the backup copy).

The most outstanding feature in Uranium Backup is that you can schedule those backups to be run at specific days and times. The scheduling menu has lots of options so you can easily have your backups done when you're not using the PC and thus it doesn't disturb your work.

On the downside, this freeware version doesn't include other interesting features like the ability to save backup copies to an FTP drive, a CD or a DVD.

Uranium Backup is a simple, easy-to-use backup tool you can use for your security copies, provided you don't need FTP support.

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Ripping CD's is increasingly difficult because of the protection that manufacturers place on the disks.

Now however, there are some programs strong enough to break that protection such as RipIt4Me. These encryption methods cannot be dealt with by most major DVD rippers and burners because they employ such encryption as ARccOS and RipGuard DVD techniques that totally immobilise programs such as DVD Shrink or DVD Decrypter. RipIt4Me is an incredibly powerful ripper which can handle just about any encryption. Of course, it should only be used for non commercial use - such as your own personal backups of your own commercial discs. The program is very simple to use with a "One Click" wizard to take you through the very simple ripping procedure which consists of little more than inserting a disc, browsing to a save location, and off you go. In it's latest incarnation, the program now has an automatic updater and an encryption decoder which detects whether the DVD appears to be protected or not. You'll see this displayed in the main window during the first step of the wizard.

This is a remarkably powerful ripping tool that can rip just about any copyrighted DVD (although not all) but only use it for your own backups.

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Have you ever wanted to extract the audio from that great concert you have on DVD? Until now, DVD audio ripping was a complicated task that only advanced users could face with some probability to success. But with Free DVD MP3 Ripper, everything just turned much easier.

This simple tool can rip the audio track from your DVDs and save it to MP3, so that you can enjoy that concert in your iPod on the move, or extract certain movie fragments to use them in your own video creations. The program supports not only DVD but also VCD, SVCD, MPG and MPEG movies. Besides, it also enables you to choose between several MP3 settings and edit the ID3 tags of the file you're about to create.

Free DVD MP3 Ripper is very easy to use. However, bear in mind that you may need the appropriate codecs to be able to preview the video in the embedded player and also to extract audio files successfully.

With Free DVD MP3 Ripper you can easily save DVD soundtracks as MP3.

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