specific sonic record now question
Hi all, Ok, so I had a chance to delve into Sonic's Record Now program for burning and copying cd's. The one area where I am having difficulty making headway is how to rip songs from cd, turn them into mp3 or WMA files, and save them on the hard drive. Does this program support that feature? If so, what are some general steps to accomplish this? If it makes a difference, the screen reader in question will be Window Eyes. Thanks, Scott ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Article: Privacy Guru Locks Down VOIP
Privacy Guru Locks Down VOIP By Kim Zetter Story location: www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68306,00.html 10:20 AM Jul. 26, 2005 PT First there was PGP e-mail. Then there was PGPfone for modems. Now Phil Zimmermann, creator of the wildly popular Pretty Good Privacy e-mail encryption program, is debuting his new project, which he hopes will do for internet phone calls what PGP did for e-mail. Zimmermann has developed a prototype program for encrypting voice over internet protocol, or VOIP, which he will announce at the BlackHat security conference in Las Vegas this week. Like PGP and PGPfone, which he created as human rights tools for people around the world to communicate without fear of government eavesdropping, Zimmermann hopes his new program will restore some of the civil liberties that have been lost in recent years and help businesses shield themselves against corporate espionage. VOIP, or internet telephony, allows people to speak to each other through their computers using a microphone or phone. But because VOIP uses broadband networks to transmit calls, conversations are vulnerable to eavesdropping in the same way that e-mail and other internet traffic is open to snoops. Attackers can also hijack calls and reroute them to a different number. Few people consider these risks, however, when they switch to VOIP. Years ago, people kind of stumbled into e-mail without really thinking about security, Zimmermann said. I think that what's happening today with VOIP is that we're kind of stumbling into it (as well) without thinking about security. People don't think about it, he said, because they're used to phone calls being secure on the regular phone system -- known as the Public Switched Telephone Network. The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, (while) the internet is like a crime-ridden slum, Zimmermann said. To move all of our phone calls from the PSTN to the internet seems foolish without protecting it. Interest in VOIP is growing rapidly because the user pays less for the service and pays no long-distance toll charges. Some services are free. According to one recent survey, 11 million people worldwide use a subscription VOIP service, compared to only 5 million in 2004, and at least another 35 million use free VOIP services. That leaves a lot of people potentially open to eavesdropping. It's not as easy to eavesdrop on VOIP as it is to intercept and read e-mail. Phone conversations aren't stored or backed up where an attacker can access them, so the conversations have to be captured as they occur. But a program available for free on the internet already allows intruders to do just that. Using the tool, someone with access to a local VOIP network could capture traffic, convert it to an audio file and replay the voice conversation. The program is called Voice Over Misconfigured Internet Telephones, a name clearly chosen for its catchy acronym -- VOMIT. Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer of Counterpane Internet Security and author of the Crypto-Gram newsletter, said that the need for VOIP encryption is a given. If you're concerned about eavesdropping, then encryption is how you defend against it, he said. And it's not that hard to do. It's just a matter of writing the code. But David Endler, chairman of the VOIP Security Alliance industry group and director of security research at TippingPoint, said a protocol for encrypting and protecting VOIP data already exists and companies are starting to make VOIP phones that support the protocol. But he said that people typically don't enable the encryption option. Probably because we're not seeing attacks yet, he said. He said most users are less concerned with eavesdropping than with having VOIP service that provides the same quality and reliability that they expect from regular phone service. Some people can see clearly that there's a need for this, and others wonder if anyone cares about protecting phone calls, Zimmermann said. But those are the same people who wondered why anyone would want to protect e-mail. I think as people gain experience with VOIP they're going to have a great appreciation for the need to come up with extra measures to protect it. Endler also said that companies using VOIP are reluctant to implement encryption because of the overhead involved in managing the public key infrastructure, or PKI. You have to be able to store a key on most of these end points, he said. PKI requires two keys for encryption: a public key that a user gives to anyone who wishes to communicate with him or her, and a private key, which decrypts messages that the user receives. That won't be a problem with Zimmermann's system, which doesn't use PKI. Zimmermann said PKI is unnecessarily complex for VOIP. There's no need to centrally manage public key infrastructure to make a phone call, in my view, he said. He won't elaborate on how his system works but is preparing a protocol
Re: sonic record now
hi Scot, its 100 percent accessible using hal anyways. its all keyboard driven, and a lot faster than dare I say roxio and perhaps Nero. the layout is a little different first, but after a while you get used to it. example, you want to create an audio disk, you choose it from the jobs in the file menu bar by pressing the alt key to bbring the menu up. you can then set the recording speed and how many copies etc from the main window. then you click on add track button, this will let you browse through the media you have on your computer that you want to add to the project, select what you want, and press open. this will copy the items to a temp directory. then go back in to the file menu, and select record from there, or you can press 1 of the function keys think its f6 but it will tell you the short cut when you land on it from the menus. you can do video disks, disk to disk, mp3 disks, data disk etc. hth - Original Message - From: Scott Blanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 7:52 PM Subject: sonic record now Hi folks, I'm wondering what people's experiences are with Sonic Record now. I'm mostly interested in the accessibility of things like copying cd's, burning cd's, ripping tracks. I may be working with someone who has this program, (Sonic I mean), and I only have the vaguest sense of the program. Thanks, Scott ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sonic record now
How about JAWS? - Original Message - From: simon.dowling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 5:14 AM Subject: Re: sonic record now hi Scot, its 100 percent accessible using hal anyways. its all keyboard driven, and a lot faster than dare I say roxio and perhaps Nero. the layout is a little different first, but after a while you get used to it. example, you want to create an audio disk, you choose it from the jobs in the file menu bar by pressing the alt key to bbring the menu up. you can then set the recording speed and how many copies etc from the main window. then you click on add track button, this will let you browse through the media you have on your computer that you want to add to the project, select what you want, and press open. this will copy the items to a temp directory. then go back in to the file menu, and select record from there, or you can press 1 of the function keys think its f6 but it will tell you the short cut when you land on it from the menus. you can do video disks, disk to disk, mp3 disks, data disk etc. hth - Original Message - From: Scott Blanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 7:52 PM Subject: sonic record now Hi folks, I'm wondering what people's experiences are with Sonic Record now. I'm mostly interested in the accessibility of things like copying cd's, burning cd's, ripping tracks. I may be working with someone who has this program, (Sonic I mean), and I only have the vaguest sense of the program. Thanks, Scott ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sonic record now
I believe Roxio and Sonic are the same company, so I would think there must be some similarities. __ NetZero Is Giving Away $3,000 A Day! Sign up for NetZero HiSpeed 3G with Instant On! Visit http://www.netzero.com/3Gsweeps TODAY for your chance to win! ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File Sharing programs
Hi,not sure of your name smile!.Alan here fromAustralia.saw your Posting to the P C Audio List but was warned not to reply by the Moderater.Just a short note to say I also am interested in any responces you may recieve re File Sharing Programs.I am a Jaws user,how about you?.Ifyou want to get back to me,my E Mail address is:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 05:46 AM 8/14/05 +0200, you wrote: Hi Listers, I wonder what file sharing programs are accessible and are there free with out spyware or addware? What are blind people using? I would appreciate any responses. Thanks. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.4.6 - Release Date: 12/5/04 -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.4.6 - Release Date: 12/5/04 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.avi to .wav question
I'm using the program avi to wav, and I just received an error message for the first time. I of course was attempting to change a file from the .avi format to a wav file. I received the error message when I selected the file in question. The error was: File is not indexed type of avi What does this mean? And how can I work around this error? Thanks, Scott ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
