Re-creating DVD from VOB files

On a DVD-Video disc, there are two folders, AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. In the VIDEO_TS folder, there are many files with the extensions .IFO, .BUP and .VOB. The .IFO files are simply information files; they have no video or audio data at all. they hold information on the VOB files, which are the actual MPEG-2 Video, [...]

WinRAR Encryption Strength

WinRAR is a compression software but also offers you the benefit of industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits. Another open source compression software, 7-Zip also offers stronger AES-256 encryption for files and folders. Just wonder how effective are the encryption modules in these compression softwares, can [...]

Busy Saturday

This weekend has been a busy one, brought the kids to the new Jurong West Sport Complex situated at Jurong West Street 93 for a swim. You can find lots of facilities there, a stadium, badminton court, gym facilities, indoor and outdoor pool, kids playground and japanese restaurants etc. We took lunch at Nihon Mura [...]

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Sending exe files via Gmail

Thanks to the new GMail Anti Virus Scanner, you cannot send or receive emails with exe, dll, ocx, com or bat attachments even if they are sent in a zipped (.zip, .tar, .tgz, .taz, .z, .gz) format (The .rar format is still allowed). Sometimes you just need to send exe files, such [...]

Online File Storage

Here is a list of online file storage, for your uploads.
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hotlink any type of media
free image upload (No Registration Required!)
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500MB file
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http://www.filefactory.com/
500MB perfile – [...]

USBDumper

USBDumper (article is in French; here’s the software) is a cute little utility that silently copies the contents of an inserted USB drive onto the PC. The idea is that you install this piece of software on your computer, or on a public PC, and then you collect the files — some of them personal [...]

x10hosting

great host! but you need to have login to forums.x10hosting.com at least once in two weeks, no posting required. For once, I forgotten about this login requirement, and my account was suspended. I put up a request for my account to be unsuspended, and to my surprise, my account was unsuspended in less than an [...]

T43 upgrades bluetooth daughter card

My ThinkPad – T43 doesn’t come with bluetooth so whenever I need to use bluetooth, I would need to plug-in a USB Bluetooth device, pretty cumbersome. I am quite tempted to install a bluetooth daughter modem card (BDMC-3), but not sure if there is already bluetooth antenna pre-installed. Will have to bring may laptop to [...]

Can’t play DVD files?

You can decrypt using DVD43 – its free, runs on the tray and will decrypt practically anything. The latest version is 3.9.0. You should get a compatible DVD copying or burning software such as Nero Recode to burn the decrypted DVD etc. DVD43 works fine with DVDshrink 3.2.0.15 which will pull the whole image off [...]