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Microsoft Released Servicepack 2 for Vista

Windows Vista SP2 includes numerous changes to the Vista operating system. Here are some of the highlights of what it'll do for you:

• Let you record data onto Blu-ray discs

• Add into your system Vista Feature Pack For Wireless, which provides support for the latest Bluetooth technology -- Bluetooth v2.1 -- as well as for the Windows Connect Now (WCN) Wi-Fi protocol

• Give you better Wi-Fi performance when you're exiting Vista's sleep mode

• Make your RSS feeds sidebar gadget work faster and better

• Give you the latest desktop search engine, Windows Search 4

• Cut down the resources it takes to run your various sidebar gadgets

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AMD 3D Browser for Vista

AMD managed to pull a rabbit out of its hat and showed us its AMD live web browser, which is currently in Beta stage. This new stuff renders Fudzilla.com nicely and it can organize your videos and pictures. It is actually a part of AMD’s live package: a 6MB small download that can organize and render in “much better than vista-like experience” Videos, HD videos, pictures or your music. AMD calls this application AMD live browser.

The best of all is that it’s incredibly easy to use. What we really liked was the fact that you can browse the net and at the same time you can watch a video, and this is what many people usually do. This is just a wish coming true.

You simply drag your video to an upper right hand corner and it resizes itself and makes a space for the browser; all this runs in real time.

The HD Video power will depend on which CPU you have. It will naturally work the best with four cores while the less you have, the less performance you shall get.

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WAMP SERVER

What is WAMP
WAMP is a form of mini-server that can run on almost any Windows Operating System. WAMP includes Apache 2, PHP 5 (SMTP ports are disabled), and MySQL (phpMyAdmin and SQLitemanager are installed to manage your databases) preinstalled.



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Free Flash World Clock For Your Web Pages Or Blogs

ClockLink provides fashionable clocks that you can easily embed in your web page. All you need to do is simply paste the tag on your web page. Our clock will display the city name of your choice if you choose. You can also choose a time zone for your clock so it will show the correct time.

How to Modify/Customize Welcome Message On XP

If you are using windows XP as your operating system you can modify/customize Windows default "Welcome" message.








First you need to download a freeware tool called "Resource Hacker". You can download it from Here.

You don't need to install on your system. Just unzip and launch resources hacker.exe.

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How to Convert Mono Track to Stereo Track

STEP1:
1. Download a freeware called "Audacity"
2. Download a free plugin called LAME MP3 to export your audio clips in MP3 format.
3. Watch here how to install Lamemp3.dll



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How to Identify the Codecs from multimedia files

"Codec" is a technical name for "compression/decompression". It also stands for "compressor/decompressor" and "code/decode". All of these variations mean the same thing: a codec is a computer program that both shrinks large movie files, and makes them playable on your computer. Codec programs are required for your media player to play your downloaded music and movies.

If you want to know your multimedia files contains which type of codecs (Audio and Video), you can use a freeware utility called Media info.

1. Download and install "Media Info".
2. Select your Multimedia File (audio or Video).
3. Right click on your multimedia file and choose "Mediainfo".

thats all.

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Free Video Cutter Cuts and Splits Your Videos


If you've ever needed to extract a small section of a much longer video to share with friends or family, Free Video Cutter 1.1 is a dead-simple solution.

The application cuts, splits, or clips your large video files into smaller, easier to share files.This lightweight video editing tool works with several popular input video formats (including MPEG, DivX, Xvid, AVI, WMV, and MOV) and supports six different output formats. That's about all it does—simple but effective. As the name suggests, Free Video Cutter is a free download, Windows only.

10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About


Youtube - You know that site with videos and all. Yeah! It turns out that its quite popular and you happen to visit and use it quite often. Instead of just searching and playing here are some top Youtube URL tricks that you should know about:


1. View high quality videos
Youtube gives you the option to switch to high quality videos for some of the videos, however you can check if a video is available in high quality format by appending ‘&fmt=18′(stereo, 480 x 270 resolution) or ‘&fmt=22′(stereo, 1280 x 720 resolution) for even higher quality.

2. Embed Higher Quality Videos
While the above trick works for playback, if however you want to embed hig quality videos you need to append “&ap=%2526fmt%3D18″ and “&ap=%2526fmt%3D22″ to the embed url.

3. Cut the chase and link to the interesting part
Linking to a video where the real action starts at 3 minutes 22 seconds, wondered if you could make it start at 03:22? You are in luck. All you have to do is add #t=03m22s (#t=XXmYYs for XX mins and YY seconds) to the end of the URL.

4. Hide the search box




The search box appears when you hover over an embedded video. To hide the search box add ‘&showsearch=0′ to the embed url.

5. Embed only a part of Video


Just append ‘&start=30′ to skip first 30s of the video. In general you can modify the value after start= to the number of seconds you want to skip the video for.

6. Autoplay an embedded video
Normally when you embed a Youtube video and load the page, the player is loaded and it sits there waiting for you to hit the play button. You can make the video play automatically by adding ‘&autoplay=1′ to the url part of the embed code.

7. Loop an embedded video
Append ‘&loop=1′ to make the video start again without user intervention after it reaches the end.

8. Disable Related Videos


Publishing your content in the form of Youtube video? Don’t want people to see other people’s content that may be related but may as well be in competition to you? Just add ‘&rel=0′ to the end of the url part of the embed code and you just turned off the related video suggestions!

9. Bypass Youtube Regional Filtering
Some videos are only available in certain parts of the world. Your IP Address is used to determine your location and then allow or deny access to the video. Change the url from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= to http://www.youtube.com/v/

10. Download Video
Although not inherently a youtube trick but useful all the same for downloading videos. Just change youtube to kickyoutube in the url of the video and it will take you to kickyoutube.com with all the options for downloading the video you were watching.

Do you know of some similar Youtube URL tricks and hacks? Fire them in comments!

ImgBurn - Easy & Free CD and DVD Burner App

ImgBurn is a CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray burning application that is fast, lightweight, and completely free.

Editor’s note: Disc compatibility depends on your CD/DVD/Blu-ray/HD-DVD writer hardware.

Core Features

Create images from files and folders - useful to backup your data
Burn data files or images to disc - to burn downloaded software or movies
Create image file from disc - for creating copies of discs
Easily build DVD Video, HD DVD Video, and Blu-ray Video discs - for creating discs playable in your DVD player
You can also use ImgBurn to burn standard Audio CDs from any music files such as MP3, WAV. It supports a variety of image formats and almost all types of optical discs, so you don’t need to look any further for your disc burning needs.


Installation is fast and simple with the 1.9MB download. You can get a Portable version of ImgBurn here or easily create one yourself. ImgBurn runs on Windows and on Linux under WINE.



The welcome screen is very intuitive. You choose a mode of operation depending on your task:

Use the Write Mode to burn images to disc. For e.g., when burning a .ISO file to disc.
Use the Read Mode to create an image from a disc. For e.g., if you want to duplicate your friend’s disc, or create a backup copy of a disc, you would first create an image of the source disk.
Use the Build Mode to create data discs containing backup copies of your chosen files/folders.

Burning Image (Write Mode)

In the Write mode, you select the image file that you want to burn on disk, insert a blank disc, and click Burn.



Creating Image from Disc (Read Mode)



The Read Mode displays information about the disc, and you choose the destination file for the image. Simple!

Burn Data Files (Build Mode)

If you want to backup data to discs, use the Build Mode. You can also use this to burn “VIDEO_TS” folders to create regular DVDs that play in your DVD player. You select files/folders in the left pane, and click the Calculator icon to see how much space will be utilized on the blank disc currently inserted.



The Options Tab allows you to choose the file system on the target disc and other preferences. Advanced users can also change how file date/time stamps are set, create bootable discs, and set ISO9660/Joliet/UDF restrictions.

ImgBurn offers a plethora of options for intermediate and advanced users, via neatly organized groups in the Options dialog. It also has a fairly extensive list of command-line options, for automating it via batch files.



ImgBurn is fast, simple, and best of all, completely free. You will never need to pay for another disc burning software with ImgBurn in your arsenal!

What do you think? Does it give Nero Burning ROM or any other commercial burning application a run for their money? Let us know!

Absolutely free online file converter


No need to install anything on your computer. Use the easy upload interface to convert your file. Your original file will not be affected, and you can choose your own file name for the converted file which will instantly download to your computer.

It supports many more file formats. View Site

Using Firefox or Internet Explorer as a Calculator

Do you want to use your Firefox or Internet Explorer as a calculator? Follow these simple steps:

1. Set top right in-browser search to Google (it is Google by default)
2. Enter the expression to be evaluated
3. Do no press Enter; wait for a sec for the suggestion drop down, and here it is:

Search Your Files and Folders with Super Finder

You can search files and folders of your computer by using Super Finder.
Super finder is a excellent tool available free of cost and more powerful than windows default searcher.

1.first Download Super Finder

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How to Insert a Icon and Background Image to Your Pendrive

If you are using Usb pendrive or USB External Hard disk it is possibe to add a Background image. First you need to create or download a image 48*48 in .ICO format.
name it usb.ico .For your background image you need a 1024*768 size image in .JPG format. name it image.jpg

Then Open you notepad copy paste the following lines:

[autorun]
ICON=usb.ico

then save as "autorun.inf"

Open again notepad and copy paste the following lines:

[ExtShellFolderViews]
{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC} = {BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
Attributes=1
IconArea_Image=image.jpg
IconArea_Text=0x00000000

Save as "desktop.ini"

Now you have 4 files as "autorun.inf",desktop.ini","usb.ico","image.jpg"
Finally just copy the 4 files and paste it your Usb Pen drive's Root.
Unplug and replug your Usb using Safety remove option on your windows.
that's all.

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6 Free Softwares For Designers

These are absolutely free tools to use and great for web designers.

Synfig


Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources.Synfig eliminates the task of manual tweening, producing smooth, fluid motion without the animator having to draw out each frame individually. This allows you to produce 2D animation with fewer people while producing art of a higher quality.


Scribus


Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.


HandBrake


HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. HandBrake now offers total control over multiple audio tracks. HandBrake is no longer limited to DVDs: it will now accept practically any type of video as a source. This massive enhancement was achieved by tapping into the power of libavcodec and libavformat from the FFmpeg project.


Paint.NET


Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.


Artweaver


Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work. You can create sketches from photos and experiment with a wide range of brushes. The brush simulation is thereby so realistic as possible.


Photoscape


Photoscape is the fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos. You can do resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming etc

How to De-activate Windows Defender on Vista

How to De-activate Windows Defender on Vista

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How to ADD My Computer as a Shortcut

How to ADD My Computer as a Shortcut in Windows Vista

If you are using Windows Vista, you can add your My Computer as a shortcut in taskbar.

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Find Your XP/Vista Key from your Installed system

Find Your XP/Vista Key from your Installed system

If You are using Windows XP/Vista OEM edition, the key of your system different from the sticker pasted on your system's cabinet.(COA Sticker)

Just Download our Key Viewer developed By Pudhuvai IT Solutions.
Open Downloaded File thats all

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How to delete Temp Files on Windows

How to delete Temp Files on Windows Using CCleaner

1.Download a freeware CCleaner

2.Install CCleaner

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