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I have at hand a great number of DVD movie collections, and some of them are very old. I have to take good care of these old DVD discs. However, exactly last Sunday, when I wanted to watch a movie, one of my favorite DVD movies became eternally unusable as it was over-scratched.

While accepting the fact, it is necessary for me to find an active and effective way to solve the problem. If I had had an extra copy of the disc, I could still enjoy the movie. So I guess whether there exist such programs that backup DVD movies to blank DVD discs so that I can still take the copy out even if the original disc is broken or out of use. I made a Google search for them and my final target was Wondershare DVD Copy for Mac. I only wanted to backup those old DVD movies. What frustrated me was that the majority of them are copyright protected and the other applications I found were not able to copy the DVD movies. However, this program helped me out. It can remove the protection mechanisms for me and I can make another copy of my movies.

Besides, I also have several VIDEO_TS folders that were ripped from several DVD's before. I thought this was able to keep the DVD movies, however, I found this help me nothing but take up much hard drive space. In the end, I burnt these ripped files to DVD's again.

So you see, this Mac application really lent me a helping hand. Now, I don't need to worry about how to save the DVD discs' life even if they are terminally unusable. And I don't need to rip the DVD's to my computer in order to back up them. And for you, I am sure you can find it more useful and helpful. Well worth a shot, in one word.

Here is the step by step guide for the Mac DVD Copy program
How to Copy DVD Movies on Mac OS X

Are there any recommendations for free Mac programs that can convert video files to dvd disc?

Here I found a step by step tutorial about how to edit DVD movies on Mac OS X and burn DVD discs with iDVD
How to edit DVD and burn DVD on Mac OS X
It can help to edit a half-prepared DVD movie, say a DVD taken by DVD camcorder, to a high quality DVD.

HandBrake is a free DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter for Mac OS X 10.3.9 and later. Here is a step by step tutorial about how to use HandBrake to convert your DVDs into MP4 format for storage and playback on your hard drive
How to Rip DVD on Mac with HandBrake « Best Free DVD Ripper for Mac OS X (include Leopard)

Have you played Minesweeper on Windows? It is not just for Windows anymore!
I poked around the Internet for a decent Minesweeper version for Mac OS X and really found one that was to my liking.


And you are sure to find the game called Magic Pen below rather creative(make clever use of your physics):


If you have interest in them, you can go to Free Download Best Mac Games Here to download them for free.

Top 10 Mac freeware applications download:
Download Best Mac Freeware Applications Here
They are really very useful for those who own a Mac.

Minesweeper on Mac is cool.