Computer in the head, FREE DVD creator, and search books

-Yea.  I know.  It's not about technology or computers, but it's USING THE COMPUTER IN OUR HEAD TO SOLVE A PROBLEM -tp. Prevent Flat Bike/Motorcycle Tires. Here's an easier way to flat-proof your bicycle: make a flap of stiff plastic that extends in front of the back wheel until it nearly touches the pavement. Then glue or rivet a rubber flap to the lower edge that brushes against the pavement. A bleach bottle is a particularly good source of plastic since you can gain some stiffness from curve to the neck, and depending on your bicycle design, you might even profit from the neck itself. I learned this many years ago when I was a motorcycle mechanic and discovered that perhaps 90 percent of all flats are on the back wheel. The reason: the front wheel stands the object up, the back wheel runs into it. All the flap does is knock the object back down, and that's all that's necessary. I put one these on my motorcycles and have never again had a flat in more than thirty years and hundreds of thousands of miles of riding. I put them on my bicycles too, and never have flats. -- Bill Babcock

-Free DVD Creator provides you a handy tool to convert and burn DVD movies from video files. It can create DVD from all video formats such as AVI to DVD, DivX to DVD, Xvid to DVD, MPEG to DVD, WMV to DVD, MP4 to DVD, MOV to DVD, RM to DVD...Then you can play the DVDs on portable or home DVD player. With Free DVD Creator, you can create DVD movies with NTSC or PAL video standard, 4:3 or 16:9 video aspect, 720x480/720x576 or 352x240/352x288 video resolution. Create DVD menus with built-in DVD menu maker. And burn DVD movie disc or just create DVD files (.ifo, .vob) on your hard drive. With Free DVD Creator, you can easily turn the vacation, wedding and family movies into DVDs that you can burn and share with your friends and family. And it's completely FREE! Have fun~ :-)Also like DVD Flick, the Free DVD Creator wizard is dead simple to use. First select the movies you want to burn and arrange them in the order you'd like them to playback and appear on the DVD menu. On the next screen, you can completely customize your DVD menu screen. Once you've made it that far, just start burning. Free DVD Creator (like DVD Flick) will handle all of the file conversions necessary, then write the DVD-ready video to a DVD complete with your custom menu. If you have trouble with the one step convert-and-burn (when I tested it, Free DVD Creator created the DVD but didn't immediately burn), just re-open Free DVD Creator and this time select Video DVD Burner instead of Create Video DVD. Then just point the Burner at the VIDEO_TS folder that Free DVD Creator made the first time around (by default it's located at C:\DVDTemp\ and hit Burn. That worked for me without a hitch.  http://www.minidvdsoft.com/dvdcreator/download_free_dvd_creator.html

-SEARCH BOOKS.  Great tool.  See the book: http://bigbooksearch.com/books/oreilly+programming  Try your own searches.

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