2 Programs to Help You Watch DVD’s On Your iPad

by Apr 13, 2010

Wouldn’t it be nice to use your iPad to watch DVD’s on your next flight? If you have a ton of DVD’s with family videos, compilations, and other films, you can use Handbrake or DVD to iPad Converter to rip and convert your DVD’s to the appropriate iPad format so that you may enjoy your…Continue Reading

Convert UIF Files to ISO’s with UIF2ISO for Free

Mar 08, 2010 6 Comments

If you have UIF files and don’t know what to do with them or don’t want to pay the $40 or so that MagicISO costs, then I have a solution for you. I wrote an article a couple of months back detailing how to convert UIF files with MagicISO, however as others pointed out, unless…Continue Reading

How to Transcribe iPhone Voice Memos with Dragon Naturally Speaking

Feb 12, 2010 16 Comments

As a new father, Dragon Naturally Speaking has become my best friend. While holding the baby I am able to dictate the text for the posts you’ve seen the past couple of weeks on this blog. While I’m away from my home computer an my Yeti Mic I have no way of dictating text so…Continue Reading

Convert M4A files to MP3′s with VLC Media Player

Feb 11, 2010 14 Comments

I’ve been fiddling with ways to get audio files from my iPhone to my computer and then using Dragon Naturally Speaking to transcribe those audio files. One of the first obstacles I encountered was the file format of the voice memos created by the iPhone, they are stored as .m4a files which Dragon doesn’t recognize….Continue Reading

How to Mount VHD Files Without Virtual PC

Jun 08, 2009 20 Comments

I use VirtualPC for a lot of the guides you see on this website. The beauty of this application is that changes made on the virtual computers are transparent to the host PC, which means I don’t need to format my computer every six months because it has all the junk that has been left…Continue Reading

Quick and Dirty Way to Copy Protected PDF’s

Feb 27, 2009 12 Comments

This article came about my experience with a copy protected PDF file that I was using for one of the cases assigned to me in the Business Modeling class I am attending. The case requires that I determine if a series of account balances match to expected cash flows. I am to use regression and…Continue Reading

How to Enable and Disable Picasa’s New Photo Viewer

Nov 17, 2008 4 Comments

If you’ve been using Picasa 3 for some time you either love or dislike the new Picasa Photo Viewer. The Picasa photo viewer was intended as a replacement for Windows built-in picture viewer. Whether the Windows Picture viewer or the Picasa Photo Viewer is preferred is a question of taste, either way I have highlighted…Continue Reading