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With QuickTime pro, you can save it as a QuickTime file to your Movies folder, then open up iDVD, drag and drop the movies into your iDVD template and create a DVD of the videos complete with menus and your own soundtrack.

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Personal Finance Tips Your Professor Never Taught You

November 6th, 2006

Here’s a good list of Personal Finance Tips

If anything the first set of tips should get you in pretty good financial shape.

The Painfully Obvious But Rarely Followed Tips

Pay yourself first. Try to put away at least 10% of your pre-tax income into a savings account.
Spend less than you earn. While this seems obvious, Americans are notorious for doing just the opposite. Stop spending and start saving.
Pay your bills on time. Avoid needless late fees and know how much money you actually have.
Avoid debt to the extent possible. Student loans and mortgages can be “good debt”, but even then, make paying them off a priority.
Set a budget. And live by it. Use a computer program or just a paper and pencil. Whatever works.
Set concrete goals. Know when you want to buy a new home, when you want to retire, and how much you are expecting each to cost you.
Have an emergency fund. Have at least three months’ income (some say six) in a high-yield savings account that can be easily accessed.

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iRecord

November 5th, 2006

Perhaps the easiest TV capture device I’ve seen so far. Just plug in your USB drive to iRecord and it does the rest. You can encode music too and transfer them directly to iPods and flash drives. The only negative thing I see here is the lack of Firewire port to connect your video camera or to your computer. I hope the next version of iRecord will include it. Just the thought of transferring files through an older USB 1.1 device would be pretty painful.

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The Missing Secrets of Nikola Tesla

November 1st, 2006

Fascinating video on one of the most important and almost forgotten scientists of all time. He is well known for his contributions to the discipline of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th century. Tesla’s patents and theoretical work form the basis of modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution.

Nikola Tesla, always visualizes his inventions before attempting to work them out. He did not rush to embody them in form and then spend his time in correcting defects. Having first built up the idea in his imagination, he held it there as a mental picture, to be reconstructed and improved by his thought.

“In this way, I am enabled to rapidly develop and perfect a conception without touching anything. When I have gone so far as to embody in the invention every possible improvement I can think of, and see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete, the product of my brain. Invariably my devise it should; in twenty years there has not been a single exception.”

It’s also fascinating how he viewed all matter and energy:

“Long ago he recognized that all perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the Akasha or luminiferous ether, acted upon by the life giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never ending cycles all things and phenomena. The primary substance, thrown into infinitesimal whirls of prodigious velocity, becomes gross matter; the force subsiding, the motion ceases and matter disappears, reverting to the primary substance.”

I believe he was on to something.

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