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Monday, December 30, 2002
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Put on your DJ shoes this New Year
Raman Mohan

HERE is a New Year gift for our readers – a brand new CD player freeware – that does what you could never have dreamt of doing with any conventional CD player program. It makes you a DJ. The other featured freeware eases your nerves while you are surfing.

Ots CD Scratch 1200

This is a revolutionary CD player application that enables you to do the unthinkable, such as scratch a CD, playing a CD backwards, playing two tracks from a single CD at once, and playing two CDs at once. CD Scratch’s unique real-time turntables, coupled with the emulated turntable effects, will give you the closest feel yet, on a software level, to turntable DJing. CD Scratch has a powerful Auto DJ feature that can mix your CD tracks just like a professional DJ, providing you with seamless mixed music. CD Scratch has been programmed lean and mean.

The CD Scratch installation requires minimal disk space, approximately 1.35MB, and will run efficiently on the following minimum specifications: OS: Microsoft Windows ‘95, ‘98, ME, 2000 or XP, CPU: Pentium II 233MHz or better (Pentium III 500 MHz or higher recommended), RAM: 64 MB or more, Soundcard: A soundcard with DirectSound or WDM drivers, Video: A video card capable of at least 16-bit "hi-colour" mode with a screen resolution of 800 x 600 or higher is required, CD-ROM: To use the CD Digital Audio Direct capabilities, you will need a CD-ROM drive which can accurately read CD-DA streams. To install CD Scratch, double click on the OtsCDScratch1200Setup.exe installation file. In the OtsSetup - CD Scratch window click on Next. Read the OTS corporation software license agreement, and if you agree to the terms click on I Accept. Click on the Begin Installing Files button. You will be prompted by the Installation Successful window, click on Next. Your system may need to be restarted. You will be prompted by the Select "On-Air" output device dialog box. Select your main soundcard driver and click on OK. Download from this link: http://cdscratch.com/

Pop-Down

This is a program designed for Internet Explorer. While enabled, popup windows will never interfere with your Web surfing again. Popups are killed before they are created, so you will never see them, nor download any of their content.

Pop-Down will notify you each time it kills a popup, so if it kills one you wanted, simply depress the Ctrl key while the popup is being created, and it will not be killed. It works with Microsoft Windows ‘95, ‘98, Me, NT, 2000, or XP and requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or greater.

Its key features include: switching among three modes of operation - Only Allow Direct Launch, Allow a Maximum of: # and Do Not Allow Any. It can also play a custom wave file, or beep the PC speaker, when a popup is killed. Download http://home.rochester.rr.com/artcfox/Pop-Down/#Download