You can mount it as a remote drive on your PC and then burn stuff from your PC to DVDs.  This saves the hassle of transferring files each time you need to copy something on a compact disc.

The tool is Windows only so Macbook AIR users cannot use it. There is a free version available that is more than enough for home users. Works with both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows machines.

Features

• Share CD/DVD burner with other PCs over the network.
• Mounts the burner as a remote drive on the recipient PC.

Check out Paragon Net Burner @ www.paragon-software.com/business/net-burner (via Nirmal TV By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

You can pick the cover type from a drop down list which also displays the size of each cover. You can also add text on the front and on the edge of each cover, insert images from your computer, and choose specific fonts and sizes. You can also draw a brink on the cover, and once done print the cover easily.

Features:

• Create covers for wide variety of discs.
• Includes DVDs, PS3, VHS and many more.
• Insert custom images and titles.
• Works on all Windows OS.
• Similar tools: Artworkcreator, PaperCase and CoverCreator.

Download DVDSlim @ www.elefantsoftware.weebly.com/dvd-slim.html [Via GHacks]

You can grab videos from any source including webcams, camcorders or YouTube and convert a professional looking DVD that will have a DVD menu as well as subtitles. If you already have videos in specific formats, DVD Author can convert those for you too. The freeware can convert videos from AVI, MP4, MKV, M2TS, M4V, FLV, 3GP, WMV, MPEG, DivX, Xvid and H.264. It works with all DVD burners and lets you convert more than one video at any given time.

You can also add background images and music to your videos using this freeware and create a DVD menu with a single click. If you don’t want to create an actual DVD but still wants your files compiled together in a DVD format, DVD Author lets you do that by converting all the files to the VOB format.

The DVDs you burn will work on widescreen (16:9) as well as standard televisions (4:3). If you come across any issues while using this freeware, the DVD Author website has some very helpful tutorials, articles as well as a user forum where you can discuss problems.

If you are looking for a fast DVD ripping solution, WinX also offers the WinX DVD Ripper Platinum edition that can copy a DVD to your hard drive in an estimated 5 minutes.

Features:

• Burn DVDs by compiling videos from different sources.
• Convert videos from almost any format to VOB.
• Create DVD menus and insert subtitles.
• Supports all DVD writer devices.

Download DVDAuthor from www.winxdvd.com/dvd-author

“When It Drops” is a user friendly website that lists the week’s releases. These releases include movies, music albums, DVDs, books, and video games. By default you see only the current week’s releases but this setting can easily be changed to “Last Week”, “Next Week”, and “Next Two Weeks”.

Hovering your mouse pointer over the thumbnails on the site’s homepage reveals more details about the release. For example for a movie thumbnail you get a link to its trailer, its RottenTomatoes score, and a link to purchase its ticket.

Similarly you get purchase links by hovering the pointer over other thumbnails.

To view more releases in a particular category, click on the “See More Releases” at the end of each category.

Features:

• A user friendly website.
• Lists the recent, current, and upcoming releases.
• Releases include movies, music, DVDs, books, and game releases.
• Provides purchase links for each release.

Check out “When It Drops” @ http://whenitdrops.com

You can search for a cover or browse through the list in alphabetical orders. FreeCoversWorld has covers for movies, music albums and video games for Xbox, PS and Nintendo. You can find front as well as back covers for most of the albums. Once you click on download, it will allow you to download the high-resolution JPEG image to your computer. It is also a great tool to get album covers for your iTunes collection.

Features:

• Download free covers for CDs, and DVDs.
• Over 100,000 covers for movies, music and games.
• Front and back covers available.
• Free cover software for Windows.
• No registration required.
• Similar tools: 5byfive and AllCDCovers

Visit FreeCoversWorld @ www.freecoversworld.com

Once you’re done you can download your work as a ZIP file. This ZIP will contain a PDF file you can print, as well as a PRJ file you can upload to Artwork Creator to pick up editing your project where you left off.

This is a tool that does one thing and does it well. Sure, you can download your own CD or DVD cover at home using software like InDesign, but why do that when a free web application can get the job done for free?

Features:

• Create covers for CD or DVD covers.
• Insert graphics and text.
• Download your creation as a ZIP file containing a printable PDF.
• Similar tools: PaperCase and CoverCreator.

Check out Artwork Creator @ www.artworkcreator.duplicationcentre.co.uk

Albumart is a search engine for album art, CD covers and DVD covers. They appear to be very popular and claim to serve up more than 20,000 searches every day!  Albumart was established in 2006 due to the fact that 9 out 10 websites dedicated to album art were horrendous.  This is a free site with no advertising and lots of album art ““ works for me and in my search I found the cover I was looking for rather quickly.

You can see my search for Jay Z below returned all 10 of his albums. Great job guys!

Features:

• Find and download CD and DVD cover  art.
• Ad free searching.
• Easy to use interface.
• Home page shows the latest searches.
• High quality images.
• They seem to have every item ever created!

Check out Albumart @ www.albumart.org (by Karl L.Gechlik at Ask The Admin)

Unlike other online used item marketplaces like eBay, here you can instantly view the trade-in price for your media titles and sell it to the site without waiting.

Apart from the Internet store, merchandise on SecondSpin also comes from its several stores in US and brokers around the country. It has a richer selection of used media merchandise than most of the other online marketplaces.

Features:

• Popular Internet marketplace for used CDs, movie DVDs and Games.
• Buy used media at lower prices.
• 100% quality guarantee. Defect rate is less than 1%.
• Sell your own unused CDs, DVDs and Games to the site.
• Instantly view trade-in price for your merchandise.
• Sign up to start trading.

Check out SecondSpin @ www.secondspin.com

Additionally to downloading covers you can read reviews and view related YouTube videos. Links to trailers, subtitle and torrents are also included.

If you have covers of your own you can upload them and share them with the community.

Features:

• Extensive game, move and music cd cover collection.
• The site list around 350.000 covers for 120.000 titles.
• Search for CD covers and browse alphabetically.
• Download covers onto your computer.
• In cludes additional links to YouTube videos, torrents, trailers and subtitles.
• Similar websites: CoverCreator and PaperCase.

Check out AllCDCovers @ www.allcdcovers.com

The application is free and there is no sign up, just go to the site and start using it.

Features:

• CD / DVD cover maker and booklet designer.
• Create as many covers as you like.
• Customize text, colors and background.
• Create multi-page booklets.
• Print crated covers.
• Free and no sign up.
• Similar webtools: PaperCase

Check out  CoverCreator @ www.readwritethink.org/materials/cd-dvd