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Sometimes the cure is simple

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After reading a bit about a program called Mac the Ripper, and putting that together with the capabilities of my Macintosh, I decided conduct a little experiment. I would buy a region 2 encoded DVD, use Mac the Ripper and my Mac's DVD region switching capabilities to rip it to my hard drive, then use Toast Titanium 7 to burn to a region 1 encoded disc to play in my Toshiba DVD player. I'm happy to report the experiment was a success...mostly.

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The good news is that you can convert your albums to digital music for CDs and iPods. The "also" good news is that it's not all that difficult to do, but the important thing to be aware of is that it does take a bit of time (about an hour and a quarter to an hour and a half per album) and there are really few steps that can be skipped. It's not an automatic process. Not difficult, but not automatic.

For incremental backups of vital files and for file transfer duty between computers, the shuffle and nano can certainly do the job.

More than just a digital jukebox, you can use your iPod as a hard drive backup and file transfer device

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