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How To Rip DVD’s for iTunes

Published on December 20, 2007 in Tricks, Tutorials and iTunes. 13 Comments Tags: , , , .

How do I get DVD movies into iTunes and on my iPod? How do I rip movies for iTunes? Can I do it for free?

Well, this post is the solution to your problem. I will guide you step by step through a totally free tutorial that only uses free software to rip your DVD’s into iTunes and later enjoy them on your Apple TV or iPhone or iPod or whatever!

Is this easy? Hell yeah. Just some clicks and then you have it in iTunes.

Before we get started for this tutorial, I would just like to say that ripping the movies is illegal if you share or distribute them over the internet. This tutorial is intended to show you how you can get your self-bought DVD onto your own Mac and into your own iTunes. I think that for personal use you are free to rip them into your iTunes library – but don’t trust me here for 100%, I am not sure on that!

This is a long, long post, so I did split it into two parts. So, click the link below to read on.

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Safari’s Web Inspector – Hell nice!!!

Published on December 7, 2007 in Mac OS X Leopard, Safari, Tricks and Tutorials. 6 Comments Tags: , , .

Safari 3 is Apple’s latest browser and is surely my favorite one in the world of browsers. Firefox, is just yuck, it has a ugly look and ARG – just horrible. We then have Opera which is the worse that I have ever experienced – I mean, just look at the icon??? Who wants that in a dock??? No one!!! BTW – same goes for the Firefox icon (Even though the fox is a nice idea). Better is the Camino Browser which is a mixture of Firefox’s browser engine and Safari’s elegance. Well done Camino group!!!

In any case, I’m a 100% Safari user and will never switch to a different one.

Now to the post, since Safari is quite new, it has some great features that have yet not been discovered. One of them is a advanced source-code inspector that makes life easier than ever, at least for developers.

Firefox has a plugin named Firebug which allows you to look at the source-code of a page, steal stylesheets in a snap and lots of other great things. Safari now supports this without any sort of plugin. A right-click inspector will allow you to get this:

The image above shows the loading time for certain things of my site. All visually interesting and the power of this “inspector” is just amazing.

Here is a image which shows the source code with syntax coloring.

This image shows how elements are set up within other elements, basically displaying the whole hierarchy and then the corresponding style attachments for this element! Coooool!

This is known through Coda already – but it is just nice to see this out of Coda.

Now how do you get this cool thing? It’s totally easy, just follow this steps:

  1. Open Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app).
  2. Paste in this command line:
    defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true
  3. Hit enter and now open Safari.
  4. Open any page and then right-click (or on a MacBook: ctrl + left click) and select the Element Inspector.
  5. Now you have a new window with all the features above. If you want the Element Inspector in the same window as the actual page, then click on the lower-left icon looking like three boxes
  6. If you want to get the inspector away, just paste in the same command line into Terminal, only with “false” at the end instead of “true.”

I hope you enjoy this little trick. :-D

iWeb Resources

Published on September 24, 2007 in Tutorials and iWeb. 5 Comments Tags: , , .

This is a post that will link to all my iWeb related stuff! The reason why I did this is because the search that I have on this site will only search blog-posts and not the static pages. As a results – all my articles wouldn’t show up on any searches. That’s to bad and that’s why I have made this post. Anyway, here is the complete list:

iWeb Templates

  • My iWeb Templates for iWeb 1.X and some for iWeb 2.X are here.
  • 11Mystics iWeb Templates for iWeb 1.X and iWeb 2.X are here.
  • Lamiavia iWeb Templates for iWeb 1.X and some for iWeb 2.X are here.

iWeb 2.X Tutorials
These tutorials will only work with iWeb 2.X (iLife ‘08). They will not work with the first iWeb. I have my old iWeb 1.X tutorials still up, they are below. Don’t mix them up!

iWeb 1.X Tutorials
This tutorial will only work with iWeb 1.X and not with iWeb 2.X (iLife ‘08). So please do not mix them up!

iWeb Software
This software was especially made for iWeb and will adds cool jQuery Accordions or do other things:

  • iCordion – Creating jQuery Accordions for iWeb.
  • iWeb Expander – Add Statcounters, Favicons or Google Search to your iWeb Site.

Enjoy!!!