Trying to extract clips from a DVD is usually a roundabout process that involves a lot of waiting. Free utility DVD Knife makes it easy to extract clips from any part of your DVD.

Generally, in order to extract a small clip from a DVD, you’ve got to rip and convert the entire movie—or at least a specific chapter—before you can work with it. DVD Knife does away with this lengthy process with a quick, four-click solution. When you start it up, you just open the disc, navigate to and mark your start and endpoints, and click save. DVD Knife will extract the clip (without compressing or decompressing) into a small VOB file that you can then convert into whatever file type you need, giving you more time to actually concentrate on the goal at hand (or to finish up that project quickly and go do something else).

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Have you ever thrown your hands up in frustration because you simply want to use the Monitor, Keyboard and Mouse of a laptop to access a server or other standalone device? I have, but never know what product could help…now I do.

The Portable Laptop KVM Adapter from StarTech is specifically designed to turn your notebook into a portable KVM station. Simply connect the adapter between your standalone [or GUIless device] and notebook and you’re off and running.

I would think the biggest market for such a product are large data centers where they need to access any number of servers without a full KVM installation.

“Aside from a rack mount LCD console, which can be expensive, server administrators and technicians would typically have to use a server room ‘crash cart’, which is a cart comprised of a keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Although a typical ‘crash cart’ is somewhat mobile, it lacks the portability of our Laptop KVM Adapter, which provides identical but more convenient control”.

The NOTECONS01 USB 2.0 Laptop KVM Adapter offers immediate BIOS-level access to the connected computer from the laptop control point, as well as the ability to handle full configuration of the attached PC, server, or other headless machines such as ATMs, kiosks and VLTs.

But the portable USB KVM station doesn’t come cheap, the MSRP starts at $470.

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Windows 7 is drawing raves from pretty much everywhere these days–many of which are the result of direct comparisons to its oft-derided predecessor, Vista. Windows 7 definitely seems to have Vista beat as far features, security, and ease of use go, but what about speed concerns?

We’ve seen some conflicting reports, in terms of system boot time, so these two guys decided to put the two OSes to the test. They loaded Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and Vista Ultimate 64-bit on two otherwise identical Lenovo Thinkpad T400s. Which system booted up faster?

The above video captures the second boot for both systems. They rebooted both computers a handful more times, and retried the test later in the day. You can see the decidedly different results below.

Advanced search engine optimization in action.

Recently, a guy ordered a 10ft AC cord from HP for use with his power adapted. For just one small piece of power plug, this is how it was delivered to him. In a 10kg wooden pallet, directly from Inventec in Shanghai.

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