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12Feb/090

Microtip: Backup Your Hard Drive

In previous tutorials, I have shown how to do quite a few(1, 2, 3, 4) things with IMGBurn.  Today I will show you how to make a simple backup of your important files.

11Feb/090

Microtip: How to Shrink Your Backups

Yesterday we covered how to make an exact backup copy of your DVD Movies.  Today I will show you how to do that very same thing, except make the end-result fit on a much smaller DVD.  Most of your exact backups will require a DVD+DL for the backup, but this method will let you use a simple DVD+R for the backup!

10Feb/090

Microtip: How to Backup Your DVD Movies

In my previous guide, I talked about how to make a DVD Movie from a video file using DVDFlick.  This time I will explain how to make backup copies of your DVD movies using IMGBurn.  Making backups is a very wise practice, since DVD Movies happen to be so fragile -- a badly placed scratch can stop most DVD Players in their tracks, rendering your movie possibly useless.  So go grab your DVD library and some blank media and get ready to protect your collection.

9Feb/090

Microtip: Make a Movie with DVDFlick

So, in my other tutorials we've covered how to burn data to media using IMGBurn.  This time I will explain how to burn a DVD movie using DVDFlick, which uses IMGBurn!  Grab your favorite video files and a stack of DVDs -- get ready to rip all your favorite video files to DVDs for playing on your home DVD player.

5Feb/090

Microtip: Burn Data With IMGBurn

Today's Microtip will explain the basics of how to burn data on your blank media. To clear things up, if you store video or audio as data, it will not play on standard DVD or CD players, only other computers. Now that you know this, we can proceed.

3Feb/090

Living in a (free) Virtual World

Since the dawn of the computer people have been paying for software that shouldn't have cost anything at all. Free software has been around forever, and that won't change anytime soon. Though some will "sell out" and start charging, most people keep developing software that competes, and sometimes destroys it's costly competition.

Here is a list of my favorite 12 free programs