Archive for January, 2009
Windows 7: Nothing More Than Vista Face-lift
I am disgusted each day I use windows 7. It is nothing more than a vista re-loaded. It is in fact worse. I long for my dear windows xp. All I have to do is word processing and browsing internet and viewing occasional Excel sheet and PDF documents that come via email. I think I can be more productive on XP.
I think, time is not really on Microsoft’s side. They are releasing one failed product after another. They are like Motorola these days. Motorola never came up with anything better after its RAZR mobile phone design. The bets version of Windows 7 Sucks and sucks badly. have a look yourself. Is this all worth an expensive hardware upgrade?
How to Save Convert Video to Audio In Windows
Just follow this Step by step guide on how to convert or extract audio from video to MP3 using Free Video to MP3 Converter.
Step 1: Download Free Video to MP3 Converter
This is a free software. There is no spyware or adware in it as far as I know. Its is safe to install and to run on any version of windows including vista
Step 2. Launch Free Video to MP3 Converter
Follow Start > All Programs > DVDVideoSoft > Programs > Free Video to MP3 Converter or just click the DVDVideoSoft Free Studio icon on the desktop.
The interface is very simple and self explaining. There is a field for input files, a field for an output path, and the list with preconfigured profiles.
Step 3. Select Input Video Files
Click the upper Browse… button to select an input file(s) from your computer.
If you convert many videos at one time it can be useful to save the list of them.
Just make the right click of the mouse and select the Save list… item or press Ctrl+S.
Step 4. Select Output Location
Click the bottom Browse… button. Choose the location where you would like to save a new MP3 audio file(s). Click Ok.
Step 5. Set Tags
Click the Tags… button to set tags for the output MP3 file(s).
In the Tags window specify the track number, title, artist and other parameters as you want.
Click OK to switch back to the main program window.
Step 6. Select Output MP3 Profile
In the list of Presets select one of the available pre-configured MP3 presets:
- High Quality (MP3, 256kbps, 48000Hz, STEREO);
- Optimal Quality (MP3, 192kbps, 48000Hz, STEREO);
- Standart Quality (MP3, 128kbps, 44100Hz, STEREO);
- Economy Quality (MP3, 96kbps, 22050Hz, STEREO).
Step 7. Trim Video
Click the Trim… button to open a new window.
Use navigation line and special buttons to set a start and end selection markers position.
Click OK to switch back to the main program window.
Step 8. Extract Audio from Video to MP3
Click the Convert button along the bottom of the interface to convert video to mp3 and wait just a few seconds.
R. MAK. says goodbye to ixibo! A Technology Blog
Last night I, finally handed over the passwords for ixibo along with its hosting account to Maria. She will be the new owner and administrator for www.ixibo.com. It has been a great ride from founding this blog to Google Page Rank 3. Since May, 2008, I along with Henry, Paul, Sara and others worked very hard to make this blog a success. we achieved part of it together.
But I have some other big projects in pipeline so, I thought it would be a good idea to handover the keys of this blog to someone who is really passionate about technology and a great team player. I will keep contributing as a guest writer occasionally but now it’s Maria’s show.
Finally, I would like to say good luck and thank you to all my readers. Your feedback and comments have been the single largest source of inspiration that led me to success as a professional blogger. I will keep on doing what I do best… blogging and tweeting on twitter.
here are some of the projects I am currently involved in. hope you will like to take a look at what will be working on doing.
- Renewable Energy Blog (Taking over from Sara as she is getting very busy in her study)
- Outsource to Pakistan (A Business Process Outsourcing Startup)
- I travel to work! Do you? A Travel Blog
- Live Chat Providers (Another Initiative for Small Businesses)
- Fair Loan Rate! A Personal Finance Blog (My newly discovered passion)
- DWI Laywer’s Blog (Helping My Brother get his law blog running)
- Best Things in Life and Cheap and Inexpensive (Starting an Online Store)
- Bee For Beelog! A Blog Network ( A place where people can start new blogs)
- AsiaSat 3S A Satellite TV Blog (My favorite satellite)
- A Recruiter’s Blog (My Headhunting side of career)
You see, I am doing all this so in order to focus better I have to shed some weight. but I will remain a guest writer and extend my help whenever needed.
Have a nice day and subscribe to RSS Feed which is now showing 0 for strange reason :p
Run Away & Hide! When A Hosting Company Offer You Unlimited Bandwidth And Disk Space.
These days “Unlimited packages” being offered by many web hosting companies and web hosting reseller. Be it dedicated server or virtual private server, people are just looking for cheap webhosting. demand for unmetered bandwidth and unlimited ftp space have become increasingly common. Companies are claiming to provide unlimited disk space and bandwidth. This is just an advertising gimmick.
Bandwidth is the quantity of data that is transferred, from and to your server. Let me do some math. Let’s assume, you have an HTML file that is 60 kilobyte in size. If anybody accesses that file. he will use 60kb of bandwidth in that particular data transfer.
Let’s assume your website gets 100 hits a day. This means 6000kb of bandwidth utilization per day. If we expand it to monthly basis. the total bandwidth required would be 180MB
6000kb * 31 days = 186000kb (roughly 180 MB)
Using the method I mentioned above, anyone can determine their bandwidth requirement. Also you can decide if you need a dedicated server or a virtual private server called vps. (by the way in webhosting linux is better than windows vps)
Size of your website and it’s popularity are the basic and most important factors that you should keep in mind when choosing a web hosting package. A little website with just a few static HTML pages containing some images can easily fit into a small hosting package that offer 200MB space and 1GB monthly bandwidth. On the other hand, if you have a website that is huge and contains audio and video files and it is visited by thousands of people every day – you must consider a package that is large enough to keep all you files and should allow at least 300GB of monthly bandwidth aka data transfers.
How to Use iPhone or iPod to Remotely Control a PC
Think about this, Your iPhone or iPod touch can now double as a remote control for your PC
Is it possible? Yes … Now your iPhone provides you a better way to handle your PC. Is it more productive? this is yet to be seen. I think this is pretty cool thing that a iPhone has the ability to access a PC wirelessly. Great for Remote administrators.
Let me show you, How an iPhone will work as Remote Control for a PC?
- You just need to have a remote desktop software like Tight VNC or VNC Lite.
- Download one of the software listed below and install it.
- Set a password on your computer to make sure only you can access the PC.
- Enter your computer’s IP in your phone’s Safari Browser.
- You are ready to rock and roll.
There is no feeling that compares to be able to use windows via touch screen. Its magic, Its pure fun.
Hey Microsoft! Do We Really Need Windows 7?
Yesterday at dinner table, few of my tech friends and I were discussing release of Windows 7 by Microsoft. the little chit chat soon turned into a heated debate. Operating systems choice is a very subjective matter. There is no one-size-fits all OS. Each person choose his OS according to his personal taste and requirement. Most people currently use more than one Operating systems. Windows is such necessary evil that everyone has to use it at. There is no escape from Microsoft Windows. Although the list of free operating systems is growing, we still needs windows for majority of tasks(this statement was most controversial last night).
I still use Windows XP 2002 Professional, I have installed all critical updates and service packs. It came with my laptop and I am pretty happy with the way it works. I am not upgrading soon. not in next 2 – 3 years. Economy is slow, we need to keep the costs down. It is not a good time to invest in new hardware no matter what anyone says.
How many Microsoft programmers does it take to Change a lightbulb?
How many Microsoft programmers does it take to Change a lightbulb?
None. As They’ve declared "darkness" a standard.
Flashback: 80 MB Hard disk for $12K was Cheap!
The other day, I was clearing the attic and found some really old computer magazines. May be they are my uncle’s. During next few day’s I would be sharing some interesting pieces from those no so long ago IT and computer industry. The buzz words are similar. the Advert says.
Now you can get our disk systems within 30 days ARO at industry’s lowest prices:
- 80 Mbytes for under $12,000*
- 300 Mbytes for under $20,000*
Field-Proven reliability, total software support and 30-day delivery. You’ve come to expect them all from us. And that’s why we’ve become world’s largest independent supplier of minicomputer disk storage systems.
Now add low price, Lower than minicomputer manufacturer, lower than any other independent – the lowest in the industry. Why? Because we buy more disk drives than anyone else and we can afford to pass the OEM discounts on to you.
MS Office 2009 on Windows 7 Failed to Impress
Few hours ago a Wzor, A Russian site leaked few screenshots of the Office 14 alpha build that went into beta testing this week. It appears that some of the testers leaked these images.
This build of Office system 2009 which is pictured below seems to be installed on Windows 7 and it doesn’t look like that Microsoft bothered to improvise on it’s UI. Almost nothing has been overhauled yet and the visuals are very similar to Office 2007’s UI.
According to Alpha testers Microsoft is targeting a 2009 release and Office 14 could still be named Office System 2009. What you can see below are some of the screenshots of office 14 aka office system 2009. (please click to expand images)
MS Word 2009 Screenshot
Top 5 WordPress Virtual Appliance Downloads
There are number of virtual appliances available for some one who is deep into wordpress blogging and developing plug-ins and themes. The main benefit of these wordpress virtual appliance are they help you easily get straight to development on one the most popular blogging tools. You focus on what you are best at in the sandbox created by these appliances. that is developing themes and plugins for WordPress.
Leaving the detail of creating development sandbox to LAMP professionals is a great time saver. IMHO these people are really heroes as they are creating great “time savers” for rest of the world. I should make it clear that these are not official wordpress appliance but you can download then with trust as they are from very respectable sources.
What are the benefits of using WordPress virtual appliance?
- It saves time, money and resources.
- Easy deployment.
- Experiment.
- Small memory footprint.
- Free.
- Convenient.
