gHacks technology news » save http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:18:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 How To Save Files In Different Formats http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/12/how-to-save-files-in-different-formats/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/12/how-to-save-files-in-different-formats/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:48:14 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14349 microsoft windowsUsers who want to create a bat file usually start by creating a text document in Windows and change the file extension afterwards to bat. The same principle is used when creating other formats like html documents. The following tip is not limited to Windows Explorer or text documents. It works as well in web browsers like Internet Explorer or Firefox, email clients like Mozilla Thunderbird and Microsoft Outlook and practically any program that is offering to save files.

The save as file dialog is usually offering a few file formats a document can be saved in. This limitation can be overridden by putting the name and file extension in quotation marks.

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It is therefor possible to save information in different data formats even if they are not supported by the software program. It is even possible to select data formats that are not compatible at all with the data. A text document could be saved as an excel document or zip file. This will obviously throw an error when trying to open the file unless the right viewer is selected.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/12/how-to-save-files-in-different-formats/feed/ 2 Record more than 4000 internet radio stations http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/17/record-more-than-4000-internet-radio-stations/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/17/record-more-than-4000-internet-radio-stations/#comments Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:06:40 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/17/record-more-than-4000-internet-radio-stations/ If you are looking for an easy way to record internet radio stations look no further. Phonostar is a free radio player and recorder that comes preconfigured with more than 4000 radio stations. Phonostar tries to automatically determine the audio source that can be used to record songs and loads the interface afterwards. Top stations are selected and a double-click starts the playback of that station. Please note that all top stations seem to be in German, conduct a search for English stations.

Phonostar has more than 2100 English stations in it database including such famous ones as digital imported radio. If your favorite stations are missing you can simply add them by clicking on On Air and selecting Add radio station or open stream url. Before you are ready to record songs you should enter the recording settings and change the default format from .wav to .mp3 to save space on your hard drive. Click on recording in the left pane and select mp3 as the file format.

Click on Options > Settings afterwards and check the Recording settings there as well. Change the default dir for the recordings if you do not have enough space on c:\ like I do. Everything can remain as is. To record simply click the red button in the left pane and the recording process starts.

I did not find a way (unfortunately) to change the way the recorded files are named. Some programs are able to save information like artist, song title and album when recording and it seems that Phonostar is not able to do that. This is clearly a disadvantage.

Phonostar is nevertheless a fine program that makes it easy for even inexperienced users to record songs of internet radio stations.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/17/record-more-than-4000-internet-radio-stations/feed/ 0 Save Quicktime Movies from Apple Trailers http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/31/save-quicktime-movies-from-apple-trailers/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/31/save-quicktime-movies-from-apple-trailers/#comments Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:33:23 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/31/save-quicktime-movies-from-apple-trailers/ I do not like Quicktime that much. I hate to use additional clients next to VLC to be able to view certain movies on websites. I also do not like the fact that you can’t save movies easily if you do not use Quicktime Pro. I discovered a method that makes it possible to save movies from the Apple Trailer website to your local drive and watch them in your favorite movie player afterwards. I use VLC for this purpose but Quicktime Alternative for instance should be fine as well.

I’m going to explain the method using an example. I’m really looking forward to seeing the movie 300 which will come out in march. A new trailer for that movie was released a few days ago and I want to download it to my computer to be able to watch it again without re-downloading it. The first step would be to visit the apple movie trailers website.

Click on the link to the movie 300. The main page of the movie shows up where you can select the resolution of the trailer that you want to view. Right-click and select view page source. Find either 480, 720 or 1080. Skip the first and copy the second url that you find.

480 – http://images.apple.com/movies/wb/300/300-tlr1_480p.mov
720 – http://images.apple.com/movies/wb/300/300-tlr1_720p.mov
1080 – http://images.apple.com/movies/wb/300/300-tlr1_1080p.mov

Add the letter h before the resolution, it would like this

480 – http://images.apple.com/movies/wb/300/300-tlr1_h480p.mov
720 – http://images.apple.com/movies/wb/300/300-tlr1_h720p.mov
1080 – http://images.apple.com/movies/wb/300/300-tlr1_h1080p.mov

This is the direct link to the movie. You could use a download manager to download it or save the page once the movie has been completely loaded.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/31/save-quicktime-movies-from-apple-trailers/feed/ 16 Auto-Download Images from Image Shack http://www.ghacks.net/2005/12/22/auto-download-images-from-image-shack/ http://www.ghacks.net/2005/12/22/auto-download-images-from-image-shack/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:52:34 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=243 binaryhack.org that lets you mass-download images that are hosted at imageshack.us. All you need is the pearl script and the mechanize module to download images from imageshack. If you are running windows you need a pearl interpreter, PxPearl seems to work with this script.]]> I found a pearl script at binaryhack.org that lets you mass-download images that are hosted at imageshack.us. All you need is the pearl script and the mechanize module to download images from imageshack. If you are running windows you need a pearl interpreter, PxPearl seems to work with this script.

You can edit the code that not only jpg jpeg are saved but also .pgn .bmp and every other image format you add there. They probably add support for more image hosting sites in the future.

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