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Convert DVD movie to iPod Touch or iPhone format with Handbrake

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Astrum

My favorite serial is British “Fawlty Towers” with brilliant John Cleese as Basil Fawlty. All twelve parts are full of sharp-tongued hilarious dialogs. As people say: “the best farce ever written in the English language.” I wholeheartedly recommend. Anyway, I wanted to convert … Continue reading →

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Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 licence reset

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Astrum

Someone might think it was an attempt to fight unlicensed use of Creative Suite 5.5, when few days ago Adobe had reset licences of pirated copies of its software — Photoshop, Dreamveawer and others. So users may see the dialog screen with the … Continue reading →

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Remove DRM from Adobe Digital Editions – How-To guide

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Astrum

[updated 17 Oct 2011] Like Adobe says: “Make reading an engaging experience!” So engage yourself and break free your pdf books, which you bought legally. In the first article “Remove DRM from Adobe Digital Editions – Background” I showed how … Continue reading →

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Remove DRM from Adobe Digital Editions – Background

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Astrum

Three years ago I wrote an article about breaking of Adobe Digital Editions DRM protection on books purchased legally, when you want, for example, to access your books with alernative PDF readers like Foxit. Or some people simply say that we should … Continue reading →

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Potential Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (PFMEA) in software design

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Astrum

I would like to start promoting one very effective technique for use in software design. The technique is called FMEA which stands for Failure Mode and Effect Analysis. It’s originating from automotive industry and mostly popular in plant maintenance and product … Continue reading →

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Plan Z. Destroy all your data with DBAN.

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Astrum

Sometimes you need to quickly destroy all your data, for whatever reason. In this case Darik’s Boot And Nuke bootable CD can help. What you need to do is download the file image dban-2.2.6_i586.iso (last version 2.2.6) and burn it without unzipping. Then … Continue reading →

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Fastest WiFi Connection at home

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Astrum

If you have equipment capable of the fastest WiFi connection available today — 802.11n, 2.4 GHz (up to 600 Mbit/sec) — make sure can you take advantage of it. Check if you use encryption WPA2-PSK+AES (Modulation Type 64-QAM) and 40 MHz-wide channel. What WiFi channel … Continue reading →

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Stop paying Rapidshare, get Mipony instead

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Astrum

Mipony is a very nice download manager, which can be real lifesaver then it comes to getting files out of free host sites such as Megaupload, Rapidshare, Hotfile, Easy-share, Gigasize, Mediafire, Depositefiles, Filefactory, Uploading, 4shared, and others — complete list can … Continue reading →

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How to ensure you get quality music files from internet

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Astrum

Music which is available in the internet is not always of best quality, even if it is available in rich and fat OGG, FLAC, or WAV formats. Some people may fake the files to have higher filesharing rating, by converting them … Continue reading →

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Amazing Adobe Creative Suite 5 vs AMT Subsystem Failure

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Astrum

I’m truly surprised with number of searching requests related to AMT subsystem failure. Looks like the problem is still a pain. I think I have a final advice for these people — switch to Adobe Creative Suite 5, it has … Continue reading →

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