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Mix your digital songs with itDJ for Mac

Both aspiring disc jockeys and those looking to experiment with music may have trouble finding a way to work with digital audio files. ItDJ for Mac accurately simulates a DJ's equipment using digital media.

ItDJ for Mac comes in its full form as freeware, with no payments required for additional features. The program installed fairly well, but one additional download for playing certain audio files was required before it completed. Upon starting, ItDJ immediately synced up with iTunes to make the digital music files available. The interface would be confusing for anyone who isn't already familiar with the … Read more

Convert any media file to MKV or MPG files with EasyBrake

The Matroska Multimedia Container format (MKV) derives its name from the famous Matryoshka Russian nesting dolls, in which one doll contains many other dolls. Like other container formats, MKV files can contain any kind of multimedia: audio, video, images, and data like subtitle tracks and commentary. Unlike many popular (and common) multimedia container formats, MKV is entirely open source. Zoltan Nemeth's EasyBrake is a free tool that converts just about any digital media format you can name into MKV or MP4 (MPEG-4) files using the HandBrake conversion engine. Among many other updates, the latest EasyBrake version uses less memory. … Read more

Movie Keeper

Do you own many DVDs? Do you loan them to friends and then forget? Maybe you have VHS, DVD, and Blu-Ray versions of the same movie. You need help, and not for chronic videophilia. Something to help you manage your movie collection is in order, like Personal Video Database (PVD) from Nostradamus. It's optimized for cataloging and maintaining a large movie collection. This free program's grouping and searching features make it easy to find movies, and it accepts plug-ins that can retrieve detailed information online. It even has a loan tracking feature that can help you keep track … Read more

Ineffective alert

Browser-based e-mail notifiers have become de rigueur, and it's no surprise that Google Chrome has its fair share of these add-ons. Unfortunately, as much as we wanted to like Google Alerter, this particular application needs a little more work before it's ready for prime time.

Google has introduced quite a few services that have become popular in addition to its much-lauded Gmail, and Google Alerter attempts to help you keep track of several of these. In addition to Gmail, the add-on also alerts you to new items in Google Reader, Wave, and Voice. We thought this sounded promising, … Read more