Doc Ott’s Life Hack Blog

For anyone who has a wireless card this is good stuff.Wi-fi hacking and hacking prevention a>

This allows you to set up a batch file that will open a set of applications at the same time, even setting specific web pages to open. It saves me a little time. Each day I am opening several different apps, why not do it all at once?
Simple batch files for windows.

I have been thinking about trying out linux for a while now. Each day I see more momentum towards it as an alternative to Windows and Microsoft which I have never been a big fan of. If I can get away without it, great.
First things first: Get the basics:
Linux Tutorial
and here is a Linux […]

Occasionally I want to send huge files to someone (many many MB) but email systems sometimes poop on big files. I have found this
Mailbigfile service that allows you to mail files as big as 1 GB. It temporarily allows the file to be stored on their server (1 week I think) until your […]

A few months ago I discovered Damn Small Linux, which you can load onto a flash drive, plug into any machine (even one with Windows OS running) and load up a Linux shell. It was pretty cool and I played around with it for a while, again thinking about learning about Linux.
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No great surprise that this is finally here, an open source app that convert DVD straight to iPod compatible formats.
Handbrake was built for Mac and Linux first, a Windows version is forthcoming

I have been watching a lot of google videos lately. They do not, however, give you a simple way to download them. Here, is the complex way:
How to Download Google Video
But it downloads it as a .flv file. If you want to convert it to another viewable file format, go to this Video Help File […]

I allready posted a procedure for converting video files into iPod worthy files, but thisVideora Converter looks even simpler and more robust.

Soon I will be getting a Video iPod from my school to start playing around with and I found this post on how to Convert .avi to iPod video using 3GP Converterwhich should come in handy

Vitrite Gives you a tool to make any of your desktop windows transparent, a little or a lot. I can see how this is useful when you are trying to read words from one application whilst typing them into another. I hate minimizing and adjusting both so I can see them at the same […]