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Convert Video_TS Folder To One Video File

The following article is going to explain how you can convert a video_ts folder into one video file that can be played on the computer or burned to CD. Joshua came up mentioning if I knew a solution to do that and well, here it is. A Video_TS file is usually created by those DVD [...]

Author: , Thursday August 21, 2008
Categories: Software, Windows

Visualize Hard Drive Space

I covered software programs or Windows Explorer extensions that would display hard drive space usage before. (for example Folder Size or JDiskReport Hard Drive Analyser) FoSiX is another tool that displays the storage consumption of each system partition that, hard drive and external device that is currently connected to the computer. The software provides a [...]

Author: , Thursday August 21, 2008
Categories: Software, Windows

Yahoo! Messenger Buddy Spy

Instant Messengers have a feature to change the current status of the active user. The different statuses range from available over do not disturb to invisible. The Instant Messenger contacts see the statuses of their buddies unless the status has been set to invisible. Invisible means that the user is online but showing as offline [...]

Author: , Thursday August 21, 2008
Categories: Software, Windows

Credible Reporting eh?

I use Digg (on occasion), StumbleUpon and sometimes Google News. The New York Times and Techmeme satisfy the rest of my needs. I didn’t really think I could be interested in yet another crowd-powered news aggregating website… Mixx, Reddit, Regator, Social Median,  Soshable, Propeller, Sphinn even… whether they’re the next Digg I have no idea… [...]

Author: , Thursday August 21, 2008
Categories: Online Services

Update To Opera 9.52 Now

Several security vulnerabilities have been lately discovered in versions of Opera prior to Opera 9.52. The security vulnerabilities are classified as highly critical and include possibilities to bypass security, spoof, expose sensitive information, DoS and provide system access to an attacker. The Opera 9.52 changelog contains information about the security vulnerabilities. Each one of the [...]

Author: , Wednesday August 20, 2008
Categories: Browsing, Opera, Security

SpeedswitchXP Laptop CPU Frequency Control

Laptop users love batteries that last longer. At least those laptop users who use their laptop on the road, those desktop replacement laptops are usually to big and heavy to be carried around anyway. One of the best ways to extend battery life is to reduce the cpu frequency of the laptop. That’s usually not [...]

Author: , Wednesday August 20, 2008
Categories: Mobile Computing, Notebooks, Software

SMPlayer Portable

Now look at that. Brad Linder over at the Download Squad discovered a portable version of my favorite media player SMPlayer. SMPlayer itself is a frontend for the highly popular MPlayer which can play most media formats right of the box. It’s a multi-plattform player available for Windows and Linux. The portable version of SMPlayer [...]

Author: , Wednesday August 20, 2008
Categories: Music and Video, Software, Windows

Google Experimental Search

Google is testing new ideas and implementations before they go public for everyone. The testing grounds for Google Search are called Google Experimental, a publicly accessible area where everyone can test out a few new features that might make it into the public Google search. Three ideas are currently listed on that page: Alternate views [...]

Author: , Wednesday August 20, 2008
Categories: Google, Online Services

Create Your Own Manga Avatar With Face Your Manga

Anime are popular, mangas are popular and hentai is, well popular to. That integral part of Japanese culture has long made its way into the West and kids are crazy after manga stuff. Face Your Manga tries to take advantage of the fact by providing its visitors a way to create their own Manga avatars [...]

Author: , Wednesday August 20, 2008
Categories: Funny, Online Services

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