Daily Tip 12: Remove Meta-Data Tags in Image Files in Vista

November 4th, 2008  |  779 views | Published in Daily Tip, How To's

Many people may not realize this but many image files, such as JPEGS can carry lots of personal data like the camera it was taken with, the time, the place, and other image type stuff.  If you are one of those paranoid people who do not like private information shared on the internet such as Flickr, then you can remove these things easily in Vista.  Read the rest of this entry »

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Daily Tip 9: Delete / Remove Duplicate Songs from iTunes

October 9th, 2008  |  1,184 views | Published in Apple, Audiophiles, Daily Tip

Over the years, when collecting music, your iTunes library may get out of hand, in fact, it may even be too cluttered or too messy.  Here is a tip on how you can get it to be nice and clean by deleting duplicate songs you may have in your iTunes.  This will save you room on your iPod or iPhone and will definately make your playlist much better with less clutter and no duplicates.

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Daily Tip 7:How To: Remove / Strip DRM off iTunes Music Tutorial

September 23rd, 2008  |  4,013 views | Published in DIY, Daily Tip, Hacks, How To's

The tutorial shown below is for users who is annoyed by iTunes DRM and wants to strip it off because they want to play it in other devices, use it as background music in a home video, or anything else that DRM limits it to do.  Many people know you strip off the DRM of iTunes music by simply burning the song to a CD, and ripping it back over, losing very little quality (if settings are correct).  This method does the same exact thing but you will not need a CD-RW disc, a CD ROM drive, or even need to burn anything!  It’s that simple.  Let’s show you how to perform this.

We are going to be using a program called TuneClone.  TuneClone is basically a program that acts as a virtual CD drive that allows you “burn” MP3 from iTunes and “rip” it.  TuneClone “lies” to your computer saying that you have a CD-RW drive that it will burn to (like Alchohol 120%).

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How To: Remove DRM from Windows Media .WMA / .WMV using FreeMe2

July 10th, 2008  |  11,974 views | Published in Hacks, How To's

What is Freeme2?

FreeMe2 is free open-source software available for people to strip down DRM protection for .WMA, .WMV, and any other Windows Media file. Unfortunately, you cannot strip down iTunes DRM’ed MP3s using this program.  DRM is digital protection that only allows you to play that music file or video file on the computer or the specified device.  It also can strip DRM video and audio streams too.  Moving it to another device will enable the DRM and not allow you to playback the files.

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