Friday, July 17, 2009

How to get the Gmail Beta logo back

As you have probably noticed, Google's email service (Gmail) has finally come out of beta. If you liked the Gmail beta logo for some reason, there is a way to get it back. Thanks to Gmail Labs it is possible for this to happen.
Once you are at the regular Gmail page, click the green Gmail Labs button on the top right hand side of the page. Clicking that will bring you to the Gmail Labs page where you can choose what things you want to test out. Since the topic of this post is to bring back the Gmail beta logo, we are going to enable the "Back to Beta" option (it is the fourth one down at the time of this post) Once you have enabled that, your Gmail logo will now display the tiny "BETA" text on the Gmail logo, as if Gmail were still in beta.

Friday, July 10, 2009

Best freeware for ripping movies?

Like me, I have a few movies that I really like. I would love to back them up on my computer so if something happens to the DVD itself, I can still watch them. I have heard about this freeware application for Windows and Mac for a long time called Handbrake. I tried it once and I could not get it to rip a DVD. I gave the program another try a couple of days ago. Handbrake did the job very well. Handbrake has many options to change the size of the video and or declare how big the file will be on the computer.

http://handbrake.fr/

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