Convert a DVD Movie Directly to AVI with FairUse Wizard

Are you looking for a way to backup your DVD movie collection to AVI?  Today we’ll show you how to rip a DVD movie directly to AVI with FairUse Wizard.

About FairUse Wizard

FairUse Wizard 2.9 uses the DivX, Xvid, or h.264 codec to convert DVD to an AVI file. It comes in both a free version and commercial version. The free, or “Light” version, can create files up 700MB while the commercial version can output a 1400MB file. This will allow you to back up your movies to CD, or even multiple movies on a single DVD.

FairUse Wizard states that it does not work on copy protected discs, but we’ve seen it work on all but some of the most recent copy protection. For this tutorial we’re using the free Light Edition to convert a DVD to AVI. They also offer a commercial version that you can get for $29.99 and it offers even more encoding possibilities for converting video to you portable digital devices.

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Delete Duplicate MP3s in Windows

Anti-Twin (Freeware) - Find and delete duplicate files or similar images

Anti-Twin (Freeware) - Find and delete duplicate files or similar images

Search for identical or similar file names Pixel-based image comparison, e.g. search for similar pictures Free for private use

Anti-Twin is a small software application which compares files, i.e. it searches for duplicate or similar files on your hard disk drive. All similar or identical files that were found can either be sent to the recycle bin or directly deleted. This will increase the hard disk space on your computer.

Select the option “Compare file content” to compare the entire binary content of the files. This means that the file names are irrelevant. Here, the basic principle is: “Name is but sound and smoke - size matters! And never lose sight of the inner values.”

Anti-Twin is an excellent application to e.g. find and delete duplicate MP3 files in a download folder or to find similar images. Apart from that, Anti-Twin helps you clean up employees' chaotic file repositories in company networks, e.g. by searching for unnecessary file copies and redundant data back-ups.

Anti-Twin is freeware and can be downloaded from the Download page (see menu top right). Please also read the instructions and note the warnings.

Scheduled sending and email reminders: Boomerang for Gmail

I use Boomerang every single day. I remember signing up for Boomerang when it was first launched in 2010, but I hadn’t really put it to use until the new year, when I needed it to facilitate a personal New Year’s resolution to be better at following up with clients and coworkers.

Boomerang schedules emails to be sent later, and you can also set emails to be sent on a recurring calendar. Personally, I love the setting that sends an email back to you if you haven’t received a response within a specified period of time.

Now thanks to Boomerang, if I haven’t heard back from a client or coworker within the expected amount of time, the email returns to my inbox so that I can follow up and remind that person of the task at hand.

Scheduled sending and email reminders