How to Write Short Stories

June 13th, 2009 by Luke Wilson, under Copy and Writing. No Comments

The structure of the short story is a bit different then that of a regular story. For one you do not have the time or luxury of taking time to develop the protagonist. It must be done quickly. The reader must be drawn into the story almost immediately. Novice writers are often given, this advice.

1) Put a man up a tree 2) Throw stones at him 3) Get him down

Short story writing is not very dissimilar to writing any other type of story. You will first develop your protagonist, present him with a few challenges to get past, and then provide a way for the protagonist to prevail over his challenges.

You will want to make every word matter when you begin to write a story. Don’t rush in too fast by expressing your gift with words, or trying to write overly impressive dialogue and descriptions. This would be a big mistake. Every extra word that is not necessary will only water down the real impact of the story.

The best short stories focus on a short period of time. They are focused on one single important event in the main character’s life. Focus on the time and event very carefully, as it will drastically affect the outcome of your short story.

When the reader gets to the end of the story, they first should be surprised and delighted that the story was so good and so short, and most importantly they should not feel cheated. When a reader offers you their time, the writer should do everything thing his/her power to make sure that it was time well spent.

DVD Rip Technology

June 13th, 2009 by Admin, under DVD Stands, DVD Tips, Wooden DVD Stands. No Comments

New technology means new experiences for us. And DVDs are exactly that – a new way to watch our favorite movies, TV shows and anything else with a completely new level of quality.

However many advantages the DVD technology has like video quality, sound, compactness, it has one disadvantage – it’s not very durable.

That’s why you have to backup your DVDs from time to time. Now this doesn’t mean you should it every month. But once in a while you’ll have to or you’re going to lose your favorite DVD.

But don’t worry – there are literally 100s of software programs out there that will do all the work for you. You’ll be able to copy your DVDs to CDs, or DVD to DVD. Heck, even VHS to DVD or CD.

But there’s one problem here as well – not all software programs are created equal. Some are geared towards the PC nerds. And when you check out a few of them you’ll agree with me that this is the case with most of them. It’s really hard finding one that’s really simple a press-one-button-and-you’re-ready kind of software.

Now, even when you find one simple solution it’s still not certain if it’ll fit your needs. Because basically the simpler the software program is the less functions and worse quality it has. So that’s basically the dilemma you’re pretty much bound to experience.

It all depends on what you really need the end product for — if you’ll be watching it on a TV picture quality is probably not that case so much because you won’t be able to see the difference on your TV. But otherwise you better check out your options carefully before making a decision.

Go to the search engines (no need to scan through every one of them – just your favorite will do) and make a search for DVD copying or DVD ripping software. You should find quite a few. Read the reviews and make your decisions. Most of them offer free trials so you’ll even be able to test them without spending any money whatsoever.

My advice to you is to ask a few friends (especially if you have some more experienced ones) or go to Download.com and read what the experts have to say. Maybe even buy a few PC magazines or visit their forums online (most of them have) and ask what would people recommend you based on your needs and experience.

Happy Ripping!

About the Author
John Layton is the author of DVD Ripping Technology and can provide additional tips and advise at his website http://www.dvd-ripnow.info and http://www.fastdvdcopy.info he also publishes a daily blog at http://www.internetsighting.info

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Copying DVDs Is As Easy As Pie

June 13th, 2009 by Admin, under CD Stands, Copy and Writing, DVD Stands, DVD Combo Stands, DVD Tips, Wooden CD Stands, Wooden DVD Stands. No Comments

Often, dvds are expensive and need to be backed up. However, a lot of people misuse this and using software technology, rip off and copy dvds to share among friends. The worst part is that people do not stop there either. Some even go and put it up on the Internet for others to download and copy. This is against the law. The biggest concern today is how to stop piracy. Although no foolproof method has emerged, companies are trying their best to copy protect as much of their media as possible. This makes it hard for the serious consumers to copy and backup their dvds.

DVD disks are encrypted with something called the Content Scrambling System (CSS). The DVD player decrypts the data on the fly as it’s reading the disk. People who want to make a DVD player have to get an expensive license to this secret encryption algorithm from the DVD Copy Control Authority (simply “Copy Control”). Each applicant gets his or her own secret key with which to unscramble the DVD so it can be played. And if one of those keys were to fall into the “wrong hands,” then future DVD disks could be made so that key wouldn’t work on them anymore.

Even with all of these precautions there is still tons of DVD copying going on today. How? When the DVD first came out, no unscrambler or player was built for linux so the Linux community made their own program to descramble the code. This made Copy Control go mad. They took the programmer and lots of people to task but this did not help. The cat was out of the bag and there it would stay.

Why should people copy in the first place? If people got good and low cost services from the Internet, then they wouldn’t copy dvds for reselling and copying. Making pirated home dvds is not very cheap and hence a possible solution to the problem could be that movies should be put online at a low cost and old episodes should be stored for viewing at a yearly cost.

Instead of thinking about this, the DVD copy control has declared a war on all its users. This simply makes people more and more irritated by which they bring out copied dvds. For example, before even DVD uncoding software was made by linux programmers, pirated dvds were shipped from Hong Kong at a very low price.

Now an important question has come up. How safe is it to link to information in cyberspace really? The DVD copy control association has gone ahead and sued 72 people in the US for posting the keys to descrambling. As I said earlier, this is the code the linux community developed to unscramble and read dvds. Is it right? Who can say? Is it fair to blame everybody who links to it? Time will tell. It is however not fair to use old laws to judge cases involving new technology and even newer products.

About the Author
S. Stammberger is the editor CopySoftware Tools. Find out how to copy dvds, vhs, and cds the easy way.

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