Consultations are free. While I can’t work miracles, but you’d be surprised what you can learn in nearly 20 years in one of the top tech companies in Boston. Any fees will be discussed once we agree it makes sense and will be appropriate for the specific work being accomplished. Need help setting up the … Continue reading Consultations
Category: Uncategorized
Speeding Up Your Android Device
Does your Andriod phone run slower than it used to? To some degree, this is expected. As time goes on, Android gains more capabilities through new OS releases. Applications take more resources as they add features, which could happen at any time. There are some apps that are known to be resource hogs, slowing down … Continue reading Speeding Up Your Android Device
Digitizing your Movies
Do you have a large collection of DVDs or Blu-Ray discs? Would you like to be able to watch the movies on your phone, tablet, laptop or another device? How about sharing your movies with friends easily? Let us help you digitize your movie collection for a low fixed cost per disc ($1 per DVD, … Continue reading Digitizing your Movies
Enabling Closed Captioning
After sharing out my movie to a friend who is hearing impaired, I decided to look into how I would go about making sure that my movies would be accessible to her. Closed captioning for movies is supported by embedding the subtitles in the movie files themselves, or through the use of external files. My … Continue reading Enabling Closed Captioning
Ripping Blu-Ray
Blu-Ray discs require a different approach for ripping than DVDs do for a few reasons. Mainly in that you need to have Blu-Ray reader in your computer and the size of the content is going to be a lot larger. While you can expect a DVD rip to weigh in at 5GB or so prior … Continue reading Ripping Blu-Ray
Ripping DVDs
My tool of choice for my DVD ripping needs is Handbrake. It is an Open Source tool which supports Windows, Mac OS X or Linux. It is highly configurable, but also has a great set of defaults for various codecs and container formats. On the ripping side, it natively supports ripping unencrypted DVDs and supports ripping … Continue reading Ripping DVDs
Set Top Box Features
Over the years, I've used a number of different set top boxes for viewing media. So far I've yet to find the perfect option. Mainly because in addition to our home Plex server, we also use a number of additional online streaming services for watching shows, and the support of those services varies quite a … Continue reading Set Top Box Features
My Movie Collection Odessey
Since I was a kid, I've always been a bit of a gaming and media junkie, often spending time on the computer, video game systems or watching movies. In my adulthood I slowly started to accumulate a movie collection. The bigger it got, the more of a pain it was to select and choose a … Continue reading My Movie Collection Odessey