Being a musician I’ve spent a lot of time working with programs that convert audio formats and other ones that burn CDs and DVDs and so on, but I’ve never really had a program that could do pretty much everything I wanted to do with digital media in an all in one package.

Well, I’m pleased to say that I’ve finally found a powerful all-in-one multimedia package. It’s called Blaze Media Pro. You can use it as a video converter or as an audio converter - well both really. It just depends on your needs.

Now, some of you only know me from my humor blogs, but I also have two music and guitar related blogs. I’ve been saying for ages that I’ll be posting video guitar lessons and perhaps some audio clips, but I just haven’t gotten around to it because we didn’t have software that did everything we need to do to produce decent video and audio for the blogs, but with Blaze Media Pro I’ve got everything I need!

There are so many features it’s hard to know where to begin! As I said earlier the main features that you might be interested in are video and audio conversion, but you can also use it as a CD or dvd ripper and burner, editing audio and video, recording, playback, video capture, video creation, audio and video merge and much more. You can even burn VCD and SVCD with Blaze Media Pro. Now that’s a cool feature.

When using playback on a music CD you’ll discover that you can perform lyric search, MusicID audio recognition, audio tagging and so much more. This program is going to make it so much easier for me to do video podcasts on my music sites.

You might be wondering what formats this software can convert? Well it’s audio conversions include WAV, WMA, MP3, OGG, AIFF, MPEG-4, ALAC, AAC, M4A, AC3, FLAC plus it can also do two way conversions for AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, ASF, WMV, Flash (SWF and FLV), PSP, 3GP, iPod and MOV for video.

The software can be used to edit MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI and ASF formats, plus there are quite a few special effects and color adjustment operations that can be used when editing a video. Not to mention the fact that audio files can easily be insert into or extracted from the video, plus all the major image formats - GIF, JPG, PNG, RAS, TGA, TIF and more can be inserted or extracted when editing or creating a video.

If you’d like to try this great new all in one multimedia program you can buy it directly from the Blaze Media Pro website or you might want to take it for a test drive first and download their free trial version.

If you, like me, have been looking for an all in one package like this I really think you’ll be impressed with this software.

Let me know if you try Blaze Media Pro - I’d love to see what you do with it.

Remember hearing about the tornado that hit Minn. at the end of May? Well, residents of Hugo, Minn have stated that they saw some strange happenings during the tornado.

Jason Akins said the twister unwound a roll of toilet paper in his bathroom — draped it across the countertop, then rewound it in the sink. The toilet paper didn’t even rip.

“All I could say was, ‘You have got to be kidding me,’” Akins recalled.

Now isn’t that strange? I wonder if it was as tightly rolled as it had originally been?

Oddly the winds didn’t touch the dishes of cat food and water that were set out for his pet, yet they ripped away his roof and overturned the sofas.

It’s almost like the Tornado has a personality … for example Terry Clarkin said that the Hugo tornado picked up and stuck four steak knives in his yard. The knives landed in a perfect square with the blades stuck in the earth about three inches deep.

Across the street, a tree had been stripped of leaves, and instead was filled with pink wads of insulation — looking much like a tree from a cartoon.

Other interesting finds included a fishing boat against the remains of a front porch while others found canoes, toys and bank books.