The Best Free CD, DVD, Blu-ray burning software – better than NERO

Ashampoo Burning Studio Free
Download: download from download.com

I have been using various free CD & DVD burning softwares, but somehow yearned for more familiar and convenient interface just like NERO . And when I found out about this software, I knew that this was the one that I’ve been looking for a long time.

Ashampoo Burning Studio Free 6.61 is Free CD / DVD / Blu-ray Disc burning software. This is a free version according to Download.com (shown below image) but I was not able to find this product on Ashampoo.com website.

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You can

  • Burn files into CD, DVD, Blu-ray disc
  • Backup files into mutiple CD, DVD, and Blu-ray
  • Burn music CD from music files such as mp3
  • Burn DVD , VCD, and SVCD movies
  • Copy disks
  • Create or burn disc from image file

Wow, that’s more than what I needed and with the familiar friendly easy-to-use screens!
My search for the free CD/DVD burning software has finally ended.

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TClock – Today Dates showing in Windows Task Bar Clock

Website: http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclocklight/index.html
Direct download: http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclocklight/tclocklight-040702-3.zip

At work, I have to write many emails and record work history. But frequently I forget the day’s date and have to move mouse over the task bar clock and wait for the tooltip to appear with the date or double click to access default windows calendar when I get impatient with the tooltip.

But here is my little freeware solution that helps me a lot! Now I know the date by just looking at the task bar clock. No more mouse hovering is needed!

Here is the original task bar clock

And this is the task bar after TClock was turned on with custom date & time format string.

Of course you can set the font type and size. In fact TClock has more functions that you can play with (Alarm clock and addtional options that can change Taskbar’s look) Below is the properties dialog screen shot.
TClock Property screen shot

Just unzip the downloaded file to a folder and drag the executable to your startup folder. So whenever the computer boots , TClock would show you the date information.

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