DVD Copy protection, how easy it’s to bypass…

Now, I have a 5 year old….  And that means, I really need to ensure that the DVD’s she can use are backed up…  But many discs are starting to use a relatively annoying but easily defeated copy protection… This can be identified since the DVD’s are reporting that they have 99+ tracks…  So Handbrake […]

Does HDMI cable “quality” actually affect transmission?

I guess I could call this, are Monster Cables better than these other cables question: I really don’t want to pay a ridiculous price for a “name brand” HDMI cable if it doesn’t really do anything for me. I’m just curious: now that most transmission is digital (packetized) is there such a thing as a […]

Fact or fiction? 8 HDTV claims demystified

If you’re buying your first HDTV or an upgrade from a starter set, your new television may deliver a better picture than the one you’re used to. But picking the right HDTV can be confusing, especially when your favorite blue-shirted salesperson may be steering you in a certain direction in hopes of a bigger commission. […]

Disable AirPort when Ethernet cable is connected

From MacOSXHints… At my office, I needed to find a way to turn of the wireless network when someone plugged in their network cable. I also did not want them to be able to turn the wireless network back on until the network cable was unplugged. I came up with the fallowing solution. I created […]

What disk formats can MOSX read?

All versions of Mac OS X, at least past 10.2, can read NTFS. USB, Firewire, network drive, doesn’t matter… According to Wikipedia, it supports HFS+ (default), HFS, UFS, AFP, ISO 9660, FAT, UDF, NFS, SMBFS, NTFS (read only), FTP, WebDAV, ZFS (experimental). Snow Leopard, assuming you re-install the boot camp drivers, allows your Windows OS […]

What’s the difference between Track-At-Once & Disc-At-Once?

Track-At-Once This is the first option that was introduced when CD duplication software was first created. With this mode, each time a track is finished burning, the laser recording the information stops. When it stops, two run-out blocks of data are written. After that, one link block and four run-in blocks are written when the […]