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Burn (almost) any video file to a DVD

Lifehacker has a great article on how you can transcode just about any video file (divx, xvid, etc...) onto a DVD that will be playable on just about any standard DVD player. I have had many people ask me questions about how to do this and this article has a fairly detailed breakdown of the process. However, it only talks about Windows software. If you are looking for some OS X software to rip DVDs, I recommend MacTheRipper and for transcoding video files to DVD I recommend ffmpegx. If you're a Linux user, then I highly recommend k9copy for copying DVDs and just plain ffmpeg for transcoding them.

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The Megapixel Myth

The CEO of the photo sharing site SmugMug has written a great article about how camera manufacturers rip off consumers by promoting the deception that a camera with more megapixels equals an increase in image quality. There are many people that I know that simply don't understand that it's not how many megapixels that are important, but the quality of the lense, the size of the sensor and many other factors that play into the image quality.

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