Confessions of a cat

Well, you have tried everything to no avail. You are fed up with trying to find a proper (preferably all in one) application that lets you encode your DVDs to nice mkv files with all the chapters and all the audio tracks plus subtitles in one nice file. Or you just want to get rid of one audio track or make the just downloaded file a bit smaller so that it fits onto a DVD or DL DVD. 

Or you have a few files that you want to put onto your iPod / iPhone / iTouch, or PSP, Zune, PS3, Xbo 360, you name it.

Or maybe you have heard about Visualhub for the Mac but it costs more than you want to spend on an application that is no longer maintained (1.34 is the last one of it). You want to be sure that you use something that is being taken care of to a certain degree at least.

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Since I got into moderate electronics hacking lately (again, after like 10 years) and bought a nice 50w soldering-iron, and a small drilling/milling machine, I started to came across this name: “dremel”. And american people usually referring to their milling/drilling tools as “dremel” and they used phrases like “use a dremel on it”, etc. This was all very hazy to me.

Not so long after I figured that “dremel” is like “black and decker” or “bosch”. I also figured that dremel seems to be bought by bosch. They kept the brand though (I guess mainly for americans, as in Europe, Dremel as a brand is fairly less known).

And now I see that Dremel refers to itself as:

Around the world, Dremel is known as creator, innovator and manufacturer of the high-speed rotary tool.

That explains everything.

So, I saw this nice little package in a store near where I live, and immediately got interested. Mainly because I wanted to get a heat-gun (and have already bought a small blow-torch for this purpose) and it is one

Dremel Versatip 2000

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Especially when you’re in public spaces or at home, late into the night and do not want to disturb people around you with a stupid chirpy chime sound - the “startup sound preference pane” comes very handy, since there is no option in OS X (at least in tiger and leopard) to turn off the startup sound.

Hearing the windows xp / vista startup sound is also annoying but at least there is a way to turn them off in the GUI in windows. Lots of people do not do that of course. Now that I am sitting in the drupalcon conference in Szeged, Hungary I see that most geeks use Apple laptops (macbook and macbook pro 15″ are the most used). However if you forget to turn down or mute completely the system volume when you switch it on, lots of people will be distracted around you. You do not want anyone to be aware of you in most cases, especially when you are just turning on your laptop. Who the hell (should) care(s)? So be kind and grab and install the below system preference pane, and use the ‘mute’ option in it. Pleeeeeeeease…!

http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~arcana/software.en.html

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