8 tips for shy people

Unless you're a narcissist, self-promotion isn't an instinctive behavior. In fact, promoting yourself and your work can feel downright unseemly. It's no wonder self-promotion feels so unnatural for most of us: No one likes a braggart, and bragging is one behavior that most cultures seem to condemn. "In Asia, they have the expression, [...]
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Convert Your iTunes Purchases to MP3s

As you've probably heard by now, Apple has announced plans to ditch DRM for good. That means all songs you purchase from iTunes will arrive on your PC without the usual copy-protection shackles. However, this doesn't give you carte blanche. Because Apple still encodes songs using the proprietary AAC format, your [...]
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Recover data from optical media with CDRoller

Digital Atlantic's CDRoller purports to recover data from any type of UDF/ISO9660/FAT32 disc that can be written: CD, DVD, HD DVD, Blu-ray. It's always tricky testing recovery programs, especially those that work with optical discs. All I can report is that it worked with several test CDs/DVDs that I keep [...]
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