DVD Collection

Some people, like me, have fairly large DVD collections. Sometimes they can be quite a pain to keep track of what you have and what you don't. When birthdays and holidays come around and family and friends decide they would like to give you a gift, a lot of times they decide on a DVD movie or television season. The tricky part for them is figuring out what to get you because they have no clue what you have or want because your collection is so huge. This is even more of a problem for me because I keep all my DVD's stacked 4 rows deep under my television in our media cabinet. They're not even organized in any way.

A few weeks ago a friend directed me to a software company that makes a product to help people like me keep track of their DVD collections. Invelos makes a DVD Profiler package that lets you enter in your DVD's to a database. You can search for your specific DVD edition. You even have the ability to just type in the UPC number on the back of your DVD case. Their database is made up of mostly user contributions. This means if a DVD you try and enter isn't in the database, you can enter the information in yourself and upload it to them. The benefit of this is that unless you're entering in your DVD the day it released, the odds are it's already in there.

Once you've got your DVD collection squared away you can even upload it to their website, from which you can make it available to friends and family. This allows them to see both what you have and what you want via your wishlist. After having tried to code my own DVD database for my collection a few years ago, I can say this product exceeded every expectation I had for it. A very cool little piece of software.

25th Anniversary of Tetris

I'd have to say Tetris is hands down the best game ever made. The reason I say this is because it's so simple, yet so addicting. This is a very simple game with very simple rules. Blocks drop down and you have to place them in such a way to fill the rows, otherwise they stack up and you lose. Other games have come and gone, yet I still can enjoy playing Tetris. Not many computer games are still enjoyed 25 years later as much as Tetris is.

I still remember the first time I played Tetris. It was when my dad brought it back with him after going on a work trip, back in the late 1980's. Tetris was also the first game I ever remember having to compete with my father for time to play it. He wasn't too pleased why I finally knocked him off the high score list on our home computer.

Download the Original DOS version of Tetris

Mass Effect 2 E3 Trailer

Again...this game is going to be awesome!