Posts tagged slow
Jun 28th
A few days ago I downloaded Extra DVD Ripper Express from Give Away of the Day. It’s a handy little program that you use to rip DVD’s to your computer in almost a dozen different possible formats. This way you don’t have to spend extra money to get videos off of iTunes or similar programs, as well as enabling you access to movies that you wouldn’t otherwise be able to get off of programs like the aforementioned iTunes.
Extra DVD Ripper Express, with its frankly ridiculous name, as many pros and cons. One advantage is it provides you with a safe legal way to get DVDs onto your computer. It also looks fairly good. They skinned the program after Window’s Media Player 11, which in my opinion is one of the best looking programs available. That being said, the pleasing visuals don’t help the interface at all. It’s frankly rather jumbled, to the point where it can be down right confusing to use the program. Extra DVD Ripper Express is also rather slow. I ripped rip Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade to my computer in the M4P format, and it took approximately 6 hours to be fully ripped onto my computer. Something that may have just been my stupidity, but I choose to blame on the program, are subtitles. It has them on default, and I didn’t notice when I ripped Indiana Jones. In essence, I wasted 6 hours ripping a movie only to find out that it has subtitles when I never asked there to be.
All in all, I would say Extra DVD Ripper Express is decent. It’s slow, confusing and needs to shorten its name, but it works. If you got it from Giveaway of the Day, keep it. If not, don’t bother buying it. Just torrent the movie or something. Not that I encourage stealing or anything.
Aug 21st
Even though the title may be confusing to some, the idea is simple. If your computer is trying to run a process (program/application) that is stealing a ton of your computer’s memory, then Process Tamer tells the program to watch it, or you (the user) is going to get mad and break something. For example, I open up Internet Explorer, and gasp!, my computer gets all slow because IE is stealing of my computer’s resources to make it run. Insert Process Tamer, and IE realizes its bad behavior and lets the rest of the computer take some juice.
I have been using this program for a couple days now, and I can actually feel a difference in my computer speed, whenever Firefox trys to eat my computer alive, PT slows it down and the computer continues running normally. Plus, it’s free (like I’ve reviewed shareware?), so why not give it a try? If you don’t feel like visiting the homepage for this program, here is a direct download link. If you want a license key for the software (I don’t know why you would), just signup and the website and have fun.