Time to Upgrade to Audials One 12 Just $19

The new version of Audials One has been out for awhile, but I haven’t jumped to the upgrade yet mostly because I’ve been waiting for a sale. The $39 upgrade price that the Audials site offers isn’t bad, certainly better than the $80 for a new copy, but that’s still a bit steep for me. Well, the waiting is over. Avanquest has come out with an offer to upgrade to Audials One 12 for a mere $19. You can’t for a lot more than that can you? In case you were wondering, Audials One is a pretty impressive Swiss Army Knife when it comes to digital media. It’s a combination of Audials MovieBox, TuneBite and RadioTracker. But it does more than just play music, videos and tune into radio stations. You can just as easily record music from sites like Pandora and Grooveshark, download videos from YouTube and extract the audio track as an MP3 and you can capture video […]

Nvidia Shadowplay vs. Beepa Fraps

I know I’m late to the party when it comes to capturing game play videos, but I recently tried this out using both Beepa Fraps and the built in Nvidia Shadowplay tool. The results were quite interesting. First of all, they are both very easy to use and some excellent videos. In both cases the amount of configuration was selecting where to store the files. By default they go in the Videos directory, but since I have two drives I moved them off to a separate location. So how did it work? Both worked incredibly well and I didn’t see any degradation of performance in Dirt 2. Both can be activated by pressing a key combination and then saved by hitting another combo. It’s pretty much that hands off. At the end of my gaming adventures I had plenty of videos of my greatest spills and thrills. So which is better? That is a harder question to answer based on […]