Various Technical Topics

Converting Data From One Format To Another

How to Convert PAL DVDs to NTSC, create and burn Your Own DVDs, and do other Video Conversions

How to Copy and Burn DVDs, even those with CSS encryption and copy protection, using free software and free operating systems

How to Download Videos from YouTube and convert them to XviD and DivX

How to Extract MP3 Audio from a Video File

How to Convert Audio Files from WMA or FLAC to MP3

How to Rotate Digital Camera Movies by 90° and Convert them to DVD

How to Modify a Flatbed Scanner to Scan X-Ray Films

Technical Writing

Some thoughts about writing technical material

Building And Fixing Things

Repairing a Tektronix 2445A oscilloscope

How to build your own oscilloscope probes

How to build a 50Ω RF load and power meter

Some Vaguely Steampunk Projects

• How to Interface a Soviet Багта-50 1955 rotary-dial telephone with the GSM network and VoIP
• A Fully Metered Power Controller and Lamp
• How to Control a Stereo with a 250-volt 100-amp Double-Pole Knife Switch
• An Intentionally Archaic Lamp

Surface-mount technology (SMT) construction — the NC2030 QRP HF transceiver

Attempting to Recover Data from QuickDisk Media

Motorola DCT 2000 Set-Top Box Diagnostics

EIDE / PATA / SATA / USB / Floppy cable pinouts

Network and telecommunication cables — Cisco T1 serial cables, Cat 5 Ethernet cables, fiber, telecommunication punchdown blocks

How To Brew Your Own Beer

How To Recover A Digital Camera That Has Been Submerged In Beer

Measuring AC Power Usage

Radio topics — Ham radio, construction and repair, propagation, frequencies, etc

Metal Treatment

• How To Remove Bluing (an anti-corrosion surface treatment) from Steel
• How to Parkerize Steel (apply an anti-corrosion and lubricating phophatized surface treatment)
• Assembling an M1 Garand From Parts

Construction / modification / repair references, and parts vendors

HTML and Webmaster Tools

• HTML Tools — Validation, Color definitions, Unicode, etc
  • How to do Search Engine Optimization
  • Browser and Display Greyscale Test Page
• How to analyze Apache logs in detail with basic UNIX commands
• Using Google AdSense within XML/XHTML

Links to other sites

• CableWholesale.com has a nice archive of technical articles about cables, connectors, how to choose and use them, etc.
• Free Online Technical Courses
• DVD hacking — http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks
• Linday's Technical Books — a great source of reprinted technical books — http://www.lindsaybks.com/
• A recommended resource to help you get school grants.
• Getting real online degrees is not easy, search for real ones.
• Free on-line journal on Postscript and PDF
• Nice free PDF astronomical charts:
  • http://www.midnightkite.com/starcharts.html
  • http://observe.phy.sfasu.edu/SFAStarCharts/SFAStarChartsAll.pdf

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