Continuing this little series of mine about DVD ripping and encoding software to take  your movies with you, today I’ve got Aplus DVD Ripper Professional up on the testing block. Is it any good? Well not really honestly… In my time with it I’ve found it doesn’t quite work the way ‘I want it to’ and that’s what counts right? The end users needs are what should be taken into consideration above all else.

I ran the program three times to convert my movie to PPC format, all three times I ran into problems and virtually an un-viewable end product. After three tries I figured I wasted more than enough of my time with this product and it was time to move on to something else… but continue on to check it out and see exactly why I would avoid this product..

Read Full review HERE: http://tiltsite.com/2008/08/aplus-dvd-ripper-professional/

Asus EAH 4870 TOP Videocard Review:

Link: http://www.rbmods.com/Articles/Asus/4870_TOP/1.php

Quote: Today we are taking a look at one of the top of the line cards at this time. The card costs a bit more than the others on the market so the main question is does the card really perform so well that it’s worth putting the money into it. We are going to compare it vs a few other Asus cards that have proven to perform quite well and we will also see if we can tweak a bit more out of the card even though it’s factory tweaked already.

Quote: “We take the Sapphire HD4870 512mb GDDR5 for a ride and pitch it up against its nearest rivals. in the latest review of ATI’s flagship model.”

Link: http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.php?/gpu_displays/sapphire_hd4870_512mb_ddr5/1

Titel:
DDR2 1066 RAM on Phenom and Sockel AM2+

Teaser:
How does DDR 1066 RAM perform on an AMD AM2+ Phenom platform? Some surprises came to light within our test.

Link:
http://www.tweakpc.de/hardware/tests/ram/ddr2_1066_ram_roundup_amd_am2+/s01.php

Please note the little flag on the site for an automatic translation.

Never Back Down DVD & Blu-Ray Review @ Ascully.com

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“Never Back Down was a decent popcorn film that delivers on all of the levels that a fight movie is supposed to….”

Article Link - http://www.ascully.com/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=783

Article Title - Never Back Down DVD & Blu-Ray Review @ Ascully.com

http://lanoc.org/reviews/?p=519

The ability to hot swap hard drives have been around for a long time in the business market. You don’t see it as often in the home or even enthusiast market. Thermaltake came out with their BlacX recently; giving people the ability to hot swap hard drives into a small box on your desk. This gives you the ability to use hard drives the same way that tape drives and zip drives have done in the past. And with 750 gig hard drives breaking under a hundred dollars you can backup and swap hard drives freely without worrying about running out of space. We are going to take a closer look at the USB2.0 model number N0028USU. We are going to see how it performs compared to other hard drive enclosures that we have looked at to date, along with how a product like this can change the way people backup and transfer files. Click to read more.