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DVD Burning software for Windows: DVD Flick.

About DVD Flick

DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks as well as subtitles of your choice.

Features

• Burn near any video file to DVD
• Support for over 45 file formats
• Support for over 60 video codecs
• Support for over 40 audio codecs
• Add your own subtitles
• Easy to use interface
• Burn your project to disc after encoding
• Completely free without any adware, spyware or limitations

For a more detailed list of features, see the Features page.

This page linked here has listed a bunch of “Best, Free Alternatives to Nero CD/DVD Burner” software for Windows.

They reckon it’s accidental, but I dunno… That many prescription drugs and those types? hmm….  Seems to me more like they took a long time for the toxicology report so they could come up with a good story not to hurt his rep too much.

The feds are trying to figure out how Heath Ledger got all the prescriptions for the dangerous combination of painkillers and sedatives that led to his accidental overdose.

TVGuide.com reports that the Drug Enforcement Administration has launched an investigation into how Ledger got prescriptions, if in fact they were prescriptions. According to officials, the DEA has requested copies of Ledger’s autopsy as well as the original police report from the crime scene. The NYC medical examiner said this morning that he found the cause of death to be a lethal array of opiates and benzodiazepines; oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine.

Click here… it’s not over yet

Today I installed the NX server on my Mepis Linux box and the NX client on my Windows XP computer.

I’m going to try using the Mepis box via NX NVC to see how much I really need my Windows XP operating system. If I don’t require it much at all I might end up wiping my Windows XP computer all together and installing Mepis Linux on it. The Mepis box I’m connected to is only a Pentium III 900 with 256Mb RAM and it runs KDE very well, even via an encrypted NX VNC connection!

If you want to see some information about this, check out my post on the MepisLovers website: “Remotely accessing Mepis PC from XP“. Using the easy-to-read Wiki on the Mepis website, it took only a few minutes to get it up and running.

Anybody got an idea of a freeware application for Windows XP to monitor the amount of usage for each application and how often it’s used?  I want to see which are the most used Windows XP applications without writing down each time I launch one. Be nice if it drew a graph you could look at.

I want to switch over totally to Linux, but want to be sure I will have all the applications I want to use on it.  My main concerns are:

1. iPod - I know I won’t be able to use my DRM’d iTunes music, but I think amaroK can manage iPod music nicely and gPodder for podcasts.

2.  One I know I won’t be able to replace is the application to connect my k800i mobile phone to the PC and synchronise calendar, contacts and notes. For some reason nobody has written an Open Source freeware application to do this.  For starters, I’d expect I’d need specific drivers to allow Linux to see the Sony/Ericsson k800i phone and be able to connect to it for synchronising.   The good thing is this phone can be put into FILE mode and it appears as two USB drives in Windows, so I expect this will probably work fine with Linux for copying images and movies on/off the device.

Microsoft went public Friday with a $44.6 billion cash-and-stock bid to acquire Yahoo. In its response, Yahoo called the Microsoft bid “unsolicited” but did not reject it.

Microsoft’s offer, which was contained in the letter to Yahoo’s board, amounts to $31 a share and represents a 62 percent premium over Yahoo’s closing price on Thursday. Microsoft said it will offer shareholders the option of cash or stock.

“We have great respect for Yahoo, and together, we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers, and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online-services market,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a statement.

Yahoo said in a responding statement that its board “will evaluate this proposal carefully and promptly, in the context of Yahoo’s strategic plans, and pursue the best course of action to maximize long-term value for shareholders.”

The deal comes as Microsoft and Yahoo have both struggled to compete against Google.

Microsoft didn’t mention Google by name in its announcement, but it did indicate that its acquisition bid was aimed squarely at its rival.

“Today, the market is increasingly dominated by one player, who is consolidating its dominance through acquisition,” Microsoft said. “Together, Microsoft and Yahoo can offer a credible alternative.”