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Watching original DVD movies are really enjoyable due to its superior graphics and sound quality. However DVDs movies do not come cheap. On top of that, DVDs, being media formats, are unfortunately susceptible to wear and tear, and possibly damages to the physical DVDs.

One way to protect your expensive DVDs investment is to backup your original DVDs so that you can keep your original DVDs in safe storage and let your family and kids have fun with the backup copies of your DVDs.

A good DVD backup software should have features, among others, that allow you to not only backup your videos, but to remove DVD protection such as CSS encryption, decryption, Macrovision and region code for your own use. You should also be looking for DVD backup program that is uncomplicated and fast to install and easy to use, that even the most novice PC users can effectively backup their own DVD movie collection,

There are many options to choose when deciding on the DVD backup software out there in the market and Slysoft AnyDVD is one of the better ones available.

AnyDVD works quietly in the background to automatically remove the copy protection of a DVD movie as soon as it’s inserted into the drive, allowing you then to backup the movie using a DVD backup tool such as CloneDVD and CloneDVD mobile. You can also remove the RPC region code, thereby making the movie region free and viewable on any DVD player and with any DVD player software.

AnyDVD allows you to remove unwanted movie features such as subtitles and prohibition messages such as copyright and FBI warnings.

Decryption is not all that AnyDVD offers. You can control the drive speed of your DVD drive, allowing you to reduce the noise level when watching movies on your PC. You can even adjust the display frequency of your monitor for both NTSC and PAL displays.

As a bonus, AnyDVD doesn’t just stop at DVDs. It also decrypts protected audio CDs to allow you to copy them.

The following are some of the features available in Slysoft AnyDVD DVD backup software that will help you to clone DVD:

• Works automatically in the background
• Removes encryption (CSS) and region code (RPC) from DVDs
• Removes analogue copy protection (Macrovision)
• Removes features such as forced subtitles and warnings
• Decrypts without the need to save the data onto your hard-disk
• Decrypts ‘on the fly’
• Prevents automatic launching of ‘PC-friendly’ software on video DVDs
• Allows adjustment of your monitor refresh rate for both NTSC and PAL monitors
• Allows execution of external programs on disc insertion and removal
• Allows speed control of your DVD drives
• Compatible with all DVD media
• Works with all DVD-drives, regardless of region code
• Works with all DVD copying, such as CloneDVD, and all DVD player software
• Works transparently for the operating system: DVDs can be shared over the network and copied with the command prompt or with Windows Explorer, etc.
• Proven to be stable and fast and does not require an ASPI driver
• Features AnyCDDA: play, copy and rip protected audio CDs

System Requirements
IBM-compatible PC with a minimum 500 MHz Pentium-class microprocessor and 64 MB RAM
Windows 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP/XP64/VISTA/VISTA64
2 MB hard-disk space

Popularity: 8% [?]

Do you use Skype for your telephony requirements? Now you have another option for a Voip-based telephony services.

VoipBuster works very much like Skype. You can make calls to your friends and relatives for free if both ends are using VoipBuster. You can also buy some credits and make calls to other mobile or fixed phones.

What makes VoipBuster different from Skype is that, you can call fixed phones in designated countries for FREE for 120 days from the day you top up your credit for 10 Euros. How’s that for a saving? Better still, your credit will never expire. So if you are running out of 120 days free calls, you top up another 10 Euros and get another 120 days of free calls to any fixed phones in those designated countries.

But I guess you have to make use the credits somehow, right. Just use it for calling other mobile numbers or fixed numbers in those countries not covered for 120 days free calls. The charge is cheap too, if not cheaper than Skype in certain cases.

Here is my saving calculations, applicable for Malaysian subscribers using Streamyx broadband connection only:

Before I subscribe to VOIPBuster
Streamyx package MYR 66 per month
Fixed phone call charges MYR 80 per month (Approximate)
Total monthly charges MYR 146 per month

After I subscribed to VOIPBuster
Streamyx package MYR 66 per month
Fixed phones call charges free
VoipBuster credit MYR 16 per month (Approximate, based on 10 Euros for 3 months)
Total monthly charges MYR 82 per month

Saving MYR 64 per month (about 43%)

Not bad right? What are you waiting for?

If your country is listed above, you are eligible for free calls to fixed phones. Get VoipBuster now.

Technorati Tags: VOIP, VoipBuster, Skype, free calls

Popularity: 7% [?]

Ever since I am involved with internet, I have accumulated a lot of user IDs and passwords for various sites that I have joined such as forums, memberships, affiliates and so on. Initially it was OK to just write down these passwords on a piece of paper and key them in when you need it, but with tens of IDs and passwords to remember and key-in, I cant take it anymore.

I downloaded a trial version of RoboForm and installed it on my laptop and my login-life is soooooooooo much easier thanks to RoboForm. I decided to purchase the software after the trial ended. My PayPal account is now USD39.95 poorer but I am one happy blogger..no more passwords to remember.

Actually I bought RoboForm2Go version, the one that can be installed on my USB drive, so I can just plug it in into any laptop or PC. As a security, RoboForm asks you to enter a master password the first time you use the RoboForm to login, so if you lost your USB drive full of IDs and passwords, you are still safe..unless of course you use an easily guessed password or write your password in your USB drive which isn’t very smart to do…
I highly recommend RoboForm2Go for all of you especially internet marketers, since you guys normally have zillions of IDs and passwords. I have registered as an affiliate for RoboForm so if you like to try or buy one of the most useful software ever invented, RoboForm, I would appreciate if you download or buy it from my affiliate link (just click the baner) so that I can earn some commision. Otherwise, all profits go to RoboForm alone….why not shareit with me?

Happy login!!

Technorati Tags: roboform, roboform2go, automated login, usb drive, internet marketer

Popularity: 6% [?]

Are you still using IE for browsing the internet? Maybe its time to re-consider switching to Forefox 2.0, even as a standby browser in case your IE is playing up on you.

The latest Mozilla browser is so configurable you can tweak a lot of different settings to suit your needs.

You say you don’t like the new way to close tabs? Change them. You want Firefox to stop hogging your RAM? Reduce it. You want to save sessions when Firefox crashes? Save them.

Check it out at Lifehacker via Gadgetell

Technorati Tags: Firefox, browser, Mozilla

Popularity: 4% [?]

Webmasters normally need to display a lot of images on their webpages. One method to use so that the image is uploaded and displayed faster is to use thumbnail of the original images.

The thumbnails that are hyperlinked to the original images are displayed first. This shouldnt take very long with thumbnails. When a thumbnail image is clicked, the actual and bigger image is then displayed in the browser window.

One such software that can help webmaster to convert normal images to thumbnails is Easy Thumbnails, created by Fookes Software. The beauty of this small software utility is that it is offered completely free.

Checkout the sample that I created. Click the thumbnail to see the actual image. If you would like to download the software, please click here.

Key Features
Can scale images up or down with high quality results.
Choice of eleven resampling filters, including Lanczos3.
Can sharpen soft images, particularly those from digital cameras.
Shows a real-time preview of the target image and its file size.
Preserves EXIF data in JPEG images larger than 300×300 pixels.
Automatically removes EXIF data from small thumbnails.
Supports JPEG 2000.
Supports lossless rotation of JPEG images.
Offers an extensive set of command-line switches.
Can create Web pages of image sets, based on customizable templates.
Free software producing quality results.

Supported Image Formats
JPEG (*.jpg;*.jpeg;*.jpe;*.jps)
JPEG 2000 (*.jpc;*.j2k;*.jp2)
Portable Bitmap (*.pbm; *.pgm; *.ppm)
Portable Network Graphics (*.png)
Tagged Image File Format (*.tif;*.tiff;*.fax)
Truevision Targa (*.tga;*.targa;*.vda;*.vst)
Windows Enhanced Meta File (*.emf)
Windows Icon File (*.ico)
Windows Meta File (*.wmf)
Windows or OS/2 Bitmap (*.bmp;*.dib;*.rle)
Wireless Bitmap images (*.wbmp)
Zsoft PC Paintbrush (*.pcx)

Which software tool you use to convert your images to thumbnails?

Popularity: 4% [?]