Niall's Blog

I use Windows sometimes and its very useful to be able to mount CD/DVD image files rather than having to waste a disc burning them to physical media. Of course, this functionality is included with most free operating systems like OpenBSD and various Linux distributions. However, on Windows, most of the well-known applications with this capability are commercial shareware (DaemonTools, Alcohol 120%). While its not Open Source, I came across SlySoft Virtual CloneDrive. This is a small freeware application which can mount various formats of CD/DVD images. It doesn't have any annoying nags and works just fine.

Niall O'Higgins is an author, event organizer and software consultant. He wrote the book MongoDB and Python, published by O'Reilly. Events he organizes include We Have Tablets, the #1 Bay Area Tablet Computing Meet-up and PyWebSF. He also offers consulting services for Mobile, Tablet and Cloud Computing.