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In 1979 a gentleman by the name of Marion Frank Rudy was to change the lives of professional athletes and sneaker lovers around the globe.

His invention of pressurized gas encapsulated in a polyurethane chamber, or Nike Air to your good self and me, will ease the pain of sports men and women the world over. How ironic that his ground breaking invention, actually performed the complete opposite of ground breaking!

Nike had struck gold, this was not just another addition to it’s already performance orientated range of sports shoes. This was an idea that over the next thirty years would not only sustain its place in sneaker history, but advance further than any other cushioning system that dared to imitate or compete.

Many tried and some had a degree of success, but Nike Air Technology more than proved it’s self and to this day still has a strong hold on the global running shoe market. Nike will only give us a small insight in to the actual development and technology involved in its air chamber, just enough to help us understand how it works and how it protects our fragile joints and limbs.

The aim of the pressurized gas chamber is to disperse pressure from the point of impact when your foot strikes the ground. On contact, the gases inside the polyurethane chamber will expand and force the chamber to its original shape, therefore offering the wearer a noticeable spring back up when his/her foot leaves the ground.

To further enhance the full benefits of Nike Air technology, Nike removed sections of foam from their shoes that were previously used as cushioning materials.

This made Nike’s shoes even lighter, and more air chambers were inserted in to the trainers sole unit to the point where currently Nike offer a 360 degree air cushioning system.

By: Richard Turner

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Passing media from one hand to the next without paying the owner of the copyright is wrong. But if you want to make a backup for your personal library, you are smart. Even if most of your movies are downloaded directly onto a computer hard drive, having a hard copy is a smart course of action. If you want to make a backup to your movie collection, you will need to know who makes the best DVD rippers and who to avoid.

Reviews gave the number one position to DVD Cloner 7. It is the newest in the Cloner series and it has the very best features. The power packed software is user friendly and has all of the latest decryption codes. It includes multi-format compression and DVD restoration for those movies that have been handled roughly. If you want to rip Blu-ray or HD, you will need to download a few bonus features, but doing so is made easy to understand by the Cloner designers.

Just a little less praise-worthy, according to reviewers, is the 1 click DVD Copy 5. When set up, this software is said to be as easy to use, and efficient as the Cloner software. However, reviews suggest that it is somewhat of a hassle to find and download the third-party decrypter needed to rip your media.

If that seems like a difficult task you might want to choose another DVD ripper. The DVD Fab Platinum 5 is equipped with all the features. It has a sharp learning curve and users say the end product is slightly inferior to other software’s, but it has everything you will need to get right to ripping DVD’s. In the end, once you are familiar with the enormous feature set you are ready to burn any DVD, Blu-ray or otherwise.

Lastly, DVD 95 Copy Pro 3.8 to round out the competition. There are tons of other software’s out there, but these four had the best reviews from the most sources. Copy Pro 3.8 is lauded for the numerous compression options. It takes a savvy user to wield the power of the compression features and that can make it tricky for first time users. Getting used to the compression features will unlock a truly good program and getting there is tough. The one downside to the software is that it lacks a good ripping component. Once you decide what you want to spend, go out and find one of these great DVD rippers.

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