Nick Glover

Today I was thinking that I still need to catch up on the last episode of 24, but then remembered that if I watched it online, I’d have to deal with ads. Not that that’s any different than watching on TV, but still. So then I started wondering why Hulu hasn’t offered a “go pro” option for subscribers. Imagine this: you pay a small fee, say $5/month or something, and in return you don’t have to deal with ads on your shows. TV companies are happy because they are still getting revenue from the shows, thus the last few channels still refusing to use Hulu have more of an incentive to switch. Hell, they could even offer paying subscribers access to HBO programming or something. It’d be like cable and TiVo combined into one awesome, available-wherever-you-are package. Get on it, Hulu.

Today I was trying to copy some discs for my uncle and I realized that every CD ripping/burning software I have tried sucks. I have an older version of Nero that came with my disc drive and it freezes up quite often, usually when my disc is just about finished burning, but sometimes near the end of the image creation process. I tried CDBurnerXP, but that insists on me selecting which type of disc I want to copy, and when I select “Audio CD,” it rips all the tracks to wav files and then burns them all again as an audio CD. So then I tried InfraRecorder, which can’t seem to even read the discs in the first place, rendering the program completely useless. Right now I am using ImgBurn, but it has far too many options and seems to require .cue files to be selected when I’m trying to select the image to burn. I don’t know what those files are, but I do know that when I tried selecting the ISO that ImgBurn created for me, it said that it wasn’t a valid image file. Uh… what? And the default image file type is .bin, so I have to browse to a new location and select ISO to use the normal standard.

If someone could just make an image ripper/burner program that is super easy, works with ISOs like everyone else, and has very few (if any) settings to mess with, that would be great. I want three buttons at most: rip to image, write from image, and copy. Copy would just create an ISO (not some stupid, useless bin file) and then burn it so I don’t have to do it in two steps, then it would delete the temporary file. And the program wouldn’t make me deal with .cue files, which I don’t even understand why I need since I SHOULD be able to just burn from an ISO.