Oh boy, this week the ‘quality’ of the biggest Linux distributions almost depressed me. Here are a couple fine examples of issues that one will never experience in the commercial software world. You see, after more than one and a half years of testing distributions, except for the times I was happily using PCLOS 2008, [...]

After quite a bit of consideration, I finally decided to order myself a PlayStation 3, the 40GB model. Unfortunately I had to send it back for replacement or repairs, as the unit I received was obviously faulty. Interestingly, I am not the only European customer that has bought a faulty PS3 40GB unit. Read on [...]

DVD Rebuilder (DVD-RB) is currently the highest quality method to backup a DVD, while retaining menus and extras. The software acts as a front-end for various tools, and provides a simple “one-click” interface for DVD to DVD-R compression.
Instead of performing a quick transcoding, which results in a lesser quality copy, DVD-RB re-encoder the video using [...]

In this guide we will use DVD Rebuilder Pro to make a backup of DVD. DVD Rebuilder is pretty easy to use and there’s also some nice features for advanced users. DVD-RB doesn’t require any commercial MPEG-2 encoder, though one can be used. In DVD-RB Pro you can use either QuEnc, HC, ReJig, ProCoder or [...]

DAEMON Tools Pro - is professional version of DAEMON Tools, which is the worldwide most popular application for CD/DVD multimedia emulation and proven and tested by tens of millions users throughout the whole world. DAEMON Tools Pro is now capable to make CD/DVD images. You can protect your virtual CD/DVDs with a password.

Want to avoid [...]