Virtual CD/DVD for Free!

I recently bought a 500GB hard-drive. One of my motivations was that I had started to lose a couple of DVD’s because of scratches and some of the movies I have I don’t want to have to replace, it just seems wasteful. So, I’ve ripped a number dvds into an ISO on my harddrive. Well, that’s great, only now I realize that I’ve got ISO’s that I want to turn into XVid or DivX formats and the free tools I’ve found don’t seem to read ISO format. In addition, being a software developer and being adverse to keeping a lot of CD images around for installs, have a number of ISO files as CD Images (for burning when I need a copy to give out) of my software installs. Read more

Backup for All of Us

I’ve been thinking about backup lately. I’ve been managing with a manual backup process that I seldom do. For myself I need an automated program. Fortunately I haven’t had any big disasters so far. However that’s no guarantee for tomorrow. Read on for my needs and solutions. Read more