How to backup a DVD

Posted 2 years, 6 months ago at 4:56 pm. 16 comments

If you’ve tried watching DVD’s on your laptop (eg on a plane or in the car) you’ll notice the batteries wear down pretty quickly. Here’s how to copy your DVD onto your laptop, which you can do at home, so when you take your laptop on the road you don’t need to take the original disk, and the batteries on your laptop last longer. Continue Reading…

How to install Front Row

Posted 2 years, 6 months ago at 5:39 am. 1 comment

I just installed Front Row on my non-front-row mac and it works with my ATI Remote Wonder USB Remote Control. Very nice.

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Here’s how I think I got it working, I tried a few things, this is what I think did it: Continue Reading…

How to make a Family Feud game in Keynote

Posted 2 years, 6 months ago at 5:36 am. 4 comments

I wanted a ‘family feud’ style gameshow in keynote, but it was a bit complicated trying to make the ‘right answer’ appear. I found the best way to do it was to have 25 slides of all the different possible combinations of hidden/shown answers, then a heap of hyperlinks between various slides depending on what answer was picked. It worked out well. Continue Reading…