Convert DVDs to Avi
As you might know I have a modded xbox that has a replaced bigger hard drive and I use it to watch movies from my Xbox Media Center.
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Stellarium your own free planetarium
Men has been looking to the stars from the beginning of the world and this tradition is still visible in our modern world, although for slightly changed reason
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FineTune a Pandora like Music website
If you do now Pandora you feel right at home when entering the FineTune website.
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Riaa is sueing Allofmp3
Ding Ding Ding, welcome the the next round in this amazing fight.
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Software for Starving Students
The name of this software distribution is probably a little bit out of line but the purpose is not.
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Games for the Weekend 5 Base Invaders
The objective in the highly additive freeware game Base Invaders is simple: Defend your central tower.
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Karens Replicator automatic backup solution
I think it is funny that I never experienced a hard drive failure in my whole life.
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And so the Pirates win the day
It began with the ban of the Russian website allofmp3 by the internet provider Perspektiv.
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Why you should switch your parents PC to Ubuntu
About a month ago my mother called and asked if I could help her with a problem on her computer that I build and installed for her.
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Internet Censorship 101 - DNS Server Filtering
I decided to start a Internet Censorship 101 series of articles that takes a look at and explains the various methods of censorship on the internet and possible
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How to bypass Internet Censorship
If you are looking for a comprehensive, and I mean really really comprehensive, guide on bypassing internet censorship you might want to take a look at the exce
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Firefox add-on to discover media links
I'm currently using the Video Downloader add-on for firefox to download videos from websites such as youtube or google video.
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BitComet 0.80 has been released
While downloading the latest version of the bittorrent client BitComet it came to my mind that I never wrote an article about this excellent client here at ghac
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Add Features to your MP3 Player
If you are currently unhappy with the features of your mp3 player you might want to take a look at the open source rockbox firmware which adds lots of functiona
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Low budget presents for Christmas that rock
Christmas is only seven days away and it becomes harder to find presents for your loved ones that do arrive in time and are personal at the same time.
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Lie Detector for Skype
If you ever wanted to know if a person you are talking to in Skype is telling the truth you might want to give the KishKish Lie Detector plugin für Skype a t
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Increasing the performance of Windows Vista
My first impression of Windows Vista was that it was a very shiny operating system with lots of useless stuff (for me) that wasted lots of valuable ram on my sy
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Vlite Windows Vista Configuration Tool
Windows Vista installs many programs and add-ons on your system during its installation which most users normally do not need.
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How to Repair the Vista Bootloader
I encountered a problem after I installed Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux next to my Windows XP operating system.
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Game for the Weekend 4 Battle for Wesnoth
You know it must be Friday when I'm introducing a new game for the weekend.
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Access Internet and Files on an expired Windows installation
You got 30 days to activate your windows operating system, once the time period is over you can't log into Windows anymore and most users feel a little desperat
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My first day with Ubuntu
I tried to install Kubuntu yesterday but the partitioner failed and I decided to try out Ubuntu today because I knew they were using different partitioners.
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Skype 3.0 final has been released
A new version of the communications suite Skype has been released today.
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Adding Windows Vista and Kubuntu to Windows XP
I did not expect that it would take this long to install Kubuntu Linux and Windows Vista on another hard drive of my computer.
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Extract Flash Files from Browser Cache
Whenever I want to save a flash file, like a game or animation that I have been playing / watching, I have to go to the cache folder of Firefox and search for a
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Piratebay fights back
Fight fire with fire - that song came probably to the minds of the Piratebay crew.
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Preparing myself for Linux and Vista
Today I'm going to write about my master plan to install Ubuntu Linux and Windows Vista on my system to have them at my disposal next to my current Windows XP i
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Make your apps portable
Lifehacker.
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Large List of Podcasts that teach you something
There are not many people I know that do not have a mp3 player.
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Things to check before switching to Vista Part 4
Welcome to the fourth and final part of my Things to check before switching to Vista series.
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Hide all icons on your desktop
I bet that you have many icons on your desktop.
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ShowMeDo Free Video Tutorial Website
ShowMeDo is a relatively new website that is about videos by the people, for the people as they put it.
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Some Games for the evening
I found some great (online) games today that I would like to pass on.
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Free Online Conversions
Sometimes you download filetypes that your computer can't read because of a missing viewer or that you would like to transport to a portable device that only re
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Things to check before switching to Vista Part 3
Welcome to the third part in my Things to check before switching to Vista series.
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Find out which codec is missing for playback
It happens sometimes that you download a video clip from the internet and have troubles playing that movie on your computer.
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Game for the Weekend 3 iSketch
I know that this is the second online game of the weekend in a row but this is just to much fun, and that's what games should be all about fun.
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Fox says that linking to sites that host illegal tv shows is illegal
Fox, the big media company, is apparently forcing a website owner to shutdown his website for linking to tv shows at sites like youtube and dailymotion claiming
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Security and Privacy Complete
Several security software solutions like xp-antispy exist for Windows XP and Security & Privacy Complete is one of them.
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Things to check before switching to Vista Part 2
We were taking a look at possible hardware incompatibilities of Windows Vista yesterday and will do the same today for software.
