In college, the walk from the parking lot to class or your dorm can be a BITCH without an iPod. Yes, the iPod is God’s gift to the college student, right up there with the Blackberry and internet porn. But for all of its benefits, Steve Jobs sure did include some retarded flaws. Well here are some programs and sites to help you keep your playlists top-notch and eclectic (and your outdoor social interactions to the bare minimum).
1. Music Rescue
Unfortunately, your music library is fragile. If your computer dies and takes your music with it, you still have your iPod, right? However, iTunes only lets you transfer tracks bought from the iTunes Store back to your new/fixed computer. What about those tracks ripped from CD, or lovingly recorded from your vinyl collection?
Enter Music Rescue – the answer to your nightmare. Music Rescue will copy your music, video, podcasts, audiobooks, audio recordings and notes right back to where they came from, be it iTunes, a custom media server or anything else.
Download the link right here: http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/products/musicrescue/
2. Allok 3GP PSP MP4 iPod Converter
Allok 3GP PSP MP4 iPod Video Converter contains Video to 3GP Converter, Video to PSP Converter, Video to PS3 Converter, Video to MP4 Converter, Video to iPod Converter, Video to Zune Converter, Video to Xbox Converter. It is a AVI/3GP/MP4 file conversion for your portable media player (MP4 player), iPod, Apple TV, PSP, PS3, Zune, Xbox360, Archos, Cellular Phone, Pocket PC, Palm etc .Integrated world class MPEG4/H264 encoder brings you amazing video quality with super fast conversion speed.
It can convert almost all video format, e.g. DivX, XviD, AVI, WMV, MPG, MPEG, MP4, M4V, FLV, 3GP, ASF, RM, RMVB, MOV, MOD, ASX, MKV, OGM, SVCD, VCD, VOB to AVI/MPEG/ASF/WMV/3GP/MP4 Video format.
Download from this link: http://www.alloksoft.com/3gp_psp_mp4_ipod_video_converter.htm
3. WinRAR Trial Version
All the benefits with none of the Trojans or MalWare you’ll get with Limewire. The best part is you can keep the trial version forever (with limitted features though). It will prompt you to buy it after a month but since it doesn’t delete itself and all you need from it is to extract music, movies, etc, there is no reason to do that.
Download it from this link: http://www.win-rar.com/
4. warez-bb.org
What good is WinRAR if you don’t know where to get files for it? The Campus Socialite has got the hook-up. Warez-bb.org has everything. Movies, ebooks, music, programs, and anything else you can think of (well sorry, no porn). Registration is free and all of the links are checked daily by the sites moderators.
5. Megadownload.net
If you don’t want to deal with a forum, go right to the horses mouth. This searches other filestorage sites for you. However, sometimes RAR files require a password to open so you may download something here and not be able to open it.
*Special thanks to KennettNet and Alloksoft for the program descriptions.
Disclaimer: The Campus Socialite would never encourage the theft of music or anything else at all. Take that lawyers!
