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How to Download Video From YouTube? 2007-09-02 02:54:00 I'm not sure if it is illegal to download any video from YouTube
but use at your own risk. I recently found a good website to download any video from YouTube. Unlike some of the websites it either hangs or the file that you downloaded is not complete. This is really annoying!Ok, the web site is keepvid.com and you can bookmark this page for your convenient. This webpage is reliable as compared to others website. To download the video just paste your YouTube link and click download. You will see something below:›› Download
Link ‹‹ (.flv - Flash Video)Click on it and it will be downloaded save as a filename called get_video by default. Ok, here is a little bit troublesome if I try it save as other filename and it doesn't work. You can try it, it probably has already been fixed by the time you read t his post. So what I do normally is to download the get_video file by default and then rename it to .flv.Here is the website again keepvid.com. Not only from YouTube it also can be
Improve Windows XP or Vista System Performance 2007-08-23 09:56:00 Sometimes I just feel sad when I use my friend or my colleague's PC and their system performance is really unacceptable SLOW!!! So I'm thinking to share this very simple tips to you guys. Hopefully you can find it useful or at least can improve your Windows
performance.Ok, if you like all the fancy Windows Effects stuff and it's default UI apperance and you're okay with it's existing performance, you can ignore this post. However, if your Windows performance really affects your productivity(which is my case), and you don't really care the Windows Effects and appearance, what you can do is to DISABLE ALL THE FANCY WINDOWS EFFECT STUFFS.In XP, go to:Start -> Control Panel -> System
-> AdvancedIn Vista
, go to:Start -> Setting -> Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> System -> Advanced System SettingsThe "system property" dialog box appears:Click the setting in the performance, "Performance
Options" dialog appears:Well, just click "Adjust for best performance" and click OK. Now Read more:Improve
Understand Why Linux Uses Up All the Memory Resources 2007-08-14 13:45:00 Have you ever wonder why your Linux
uses up all the memory resources even though you don't run any applications? On the other hand in Windows, I see a lot more free memory resources. You give me an impression that your memory manager is better but why? Does Linux really sucks because of memory leak? Is it due to the fact that Linux is open source and therefore the quality is low?I bought a Dell Machine sometimes ago and install the Linux Redhat on to that machine. The dell machine has 2 G of memory space. Therefore, I think it should be more than enough. However, after the machine turned on less than 24 hours, the free memory left only24 M bytes (see it from the top command) even though I killed all the applications.Therefore, I made a conclusion that is the OS problems and it does not manage the memory efficiently and causes the memory leak. Even the application has memory, the OS should able to clean it up when the application exists. What a screw up Open Source OS? "You are really Read more:Memory
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Windows Vista - Is it the right choice? 2007-08-13 08:35:00 Perhaps this is the most common question everyone is asking after Microsoft announced the new OS and force all of us to use it. So you may want to justify yourself, why should I buy or upgrade to WindowsVista
? If you want to do a comparison between Vista and XP, just google it and you will find plenty of information. But, don't waste your time because all these comparisons are just crap.Here are my advice:If You're Windows XP UsersYou don't do anything. You don't need to upgrade to Windows Vista
. Unless you really have a very valid reasons to upgrade. Do you? Perhaps I'm wrong? In terms of usage of my personal experience, I don't feel any major differences between XP and Vista.Their interface is exactly the same except those fancy UI which I normally disable them in both XP and Vista for performance. Honestly, I don't feel there is a need to enable all these fancy UI stuff? Other than just make myself pretent to be cool at Starbuck, I really can't find a single reason why we n
Next Generation Office Tool - OpenOffice 2007-08-10 22:56:00 Have you ever been thinking to bring back your Microsoft Word (MS Word) document from office and want to read it at home? Work from home? Not only just reading, you may also want to make editing to the MS Word document. Unfortunately, you need a license to use the tool, Microsoft Office (MS Office) but you can't afford to buy the license. Even though you can afford to buy, will you pay $149 (The cheapest suite - Microsoft Office Home and Student) just to use it with probably less than 5% of the product features? So, what should you do?The solution is the OpenOffice
. Most importantly, the office tools are free! Yes, it is free and it allows you do read and edit your MS Office document. I have been using this tool for 2 weeks and it works perfectly and I do no encounter any problems so far. Not believe me? You can Download OpenOffice and try it by yourself.Not only supported MS word but also MS Excel. The most amazing thing is it supports Macro! All the macros that I have written in MS Read more:Generation
View Galaxy and Stars from Google Earth 2007-09-23 08:00:00 Recently, a new version (Ver 4.2) GoogleEarth
allows you to explore the sky. So for those who are interested in astronomy, they should be very excited with this features. Are they?Anyway, I just give it a few minutes try on this feature. In short, sorry Google, "I don't like it". First, I try search "Nibiru", the tenth planet in our galaxy but no luck. Second, I try search "Earth". Third, "Sun". None of them give me any result. Ok, last chance, I search "Milky Way" our galaxy name, no search result. Ok, I give up. Perhaps I don't know how to search at at all. It is just not user friendly enough.I try zooming in and zooming out, I'm expecting something amazing like we zooming the earth. It lets me down again. It is not fun to play as compared to the Earth View.If you are really interested and all the while you study and research all different kind of galaxy, stars, I think you can give it a try. If you are just like me, and expecting something amazing like "Earth" view, an amazi Read more:Galaxy
WordWeb is Not Completely Free!!! 2007-09-11 10:01:00 Just aware of this after reading the post from Shuva few days ago about. The best free dictionary - WordWeb is not completely free. This is their free licensing agreement:You may use the program free of charge indefinitely only ifYou take at most 4 flights (2 return flights) in any 12 month periodAND you do not own or regularly drive an SUV (sports utility vehicle).If you do not qualify you must uninstall the program after the 30-day trial period or purchase WordWeb Pro.The full license is here. This is the most funniest licensing term that I have ever heard. I just told my friend today, he is shock too! Anyway, thanks for Shuva for bringing the awareness to us. But, the question still will you uninstall it if you don't meet the term?I'm quite sure most of the Asia people, they will not follow the term. I"m not sure about the Western (e.g. US, Europe) culture. Looks like they really follow? I don't know.
Best Video Codec - K-Lite Codec Pack 2007-09-05 09:27:00 Have problems watching the Video format that you just downloaded? Just give it a try, K-Lite Codec
Pack. This is the best codec that I have tried so far. There are 3 version of of the K-Lite Codec Pack: BasicStandardFullTo make it simple, just download the Full version. This is what I usually do. I will basically install everything except the player -Media Player Classic. Honestly there is no point to install the player since the windows has already come with the player (Windows Media Player).Download the K-Lite Codec here.After you install, all kind of video format can be played except for Real Player format (e.g. *.rmvb). So what I normally do is to download it from www.download.com, just do a "Real Player" search. The reason I don't want to download from official real player website is because it mentions 14 days trial in the website. I have no idea why they want to do this. I thought real player is the freeware? Nevertheless, what I downloaded from www.download.com have no expired
AVAST is better than AVG 2007-10-05 05:44:00 This is just to share a bit why I say that. I has been using the AVAST for less than 6 months and the AVAST manage to catch 3 viruses threat so far when I'm browsing the internet. However, the AVG can't catch them at all.I tested this by disabling the AVAST and visit the same site that has that virus threat. I forgot what site I have visited, if not I can probably put it here for you guys to give it a try. Anyway, this is just my experience. Honestly so far, I haven't catch any virus using AVG. I have been using AVG for 1 year. The last time I install AVAST it detected a virus in my PC which didn't caught by AVG all the while. This is so scary.Have a second thought before you decide to remove AVAST and keep AVG or choose a AVG. Is AVG is really better
? I should have test the site with McAfee Anti-Virus. Anyway, I'm doubt. That's why I install both AVG and AVAST as what I recommended in my previous post. Why don't you do the same?
100 Reasons to Use Vista 2007-10-15 05:40:00 Microsoft posted a web page with 100 reasons why everyone's so speechless. It basically give 100 reasons why Vista
is so amazing and why people should upgrade to Vista? This is so amazing that they can come up with 100 reasons. For me, I only able find 2 reasons as stated in my previous post on whether we should upgrade to Vista or not.First reason is Windows Aero. It is a very cool UI feature, it gives the feel of Macintosh. But remember it eats performance and your battery life (if you're using laptop). Based on some reviews on Windows Aero's performance, it consume 4-5% more power than XP. So if power and performance is not a top priority concern, Windows Aero is cool.Second reason is the security. I feel better with the User Account Control and it gives me peace of mind from hackers or intruders.Oppss... that's all I can come up with. Are those 100 reasons crap? Are these 100 reasons the key feature? Do we really need them? or it is just something not essential? I don't know, Read more:Reasons
Qlock Kicks Out Daylight Saving Wrongly 2007-11-05 06:27:00 Yesterday, Nov 4 2007 was the last day of daylight saving in US. However, the Qlock kicks out last week on 29 Oct 2007. I check the Qlock setting and it shows the daylight saving ends at the last Sunday of October (29 Oct) which is wrong. The daylight saving should end yesterday. It looks the Qlock is not that accurate in daylight saving.Accidentally, I found out a new feature in Vista allow you to add additional clocks. It adjusts the daylight saving correctly. This is what I do:Click the Time at lower rightClick "Change Time & Settings"Click "Additional Clock" tabHere you go, just set the additional clocks that you want based on the time zone. Once you done, move our your mouse and you see the following tooltip:Then, click the time and see the following:Is it cool? The only problem is it only able to show 2 additional clocks. I think it still okay with me since I use the third clock (UK) once in a blue moon. This is only available in Vista but not in XP. Now, I start wondering s Read more:Daylight
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Firewall Blocks File Sharing in Vista 2007-11-04 04:28:00 For some reasons, my laptop (Microsoft Vista
) unable to share files in my office network. I can connect my laptop to my office PC (Microsoft XP) but not the other way round. Ping is okay but is the file sharing doesn't work from Vista to XP. I have tried couples of steps but no lucks. However, this doesn't happen in my home network where I can share files in 2 ways with my PC (XP).At last, I figure out the firewall which blocks the file sharing in Vista. I do enable the file sharing in the firewall (that's why I can use it in my home network) and somehow it doesn't allow in my office network. So what I did is to disable the firewall and everything works fine. I just disable the firewall in local LAN network but not the wireless LAN network. It should be quite safe since most of the time I use the wireless LAN network.I don't know if this is a bug but I believe so since I"m working fine in my home network. So if you encounter file sharing in Vista, for a quick fix you may want to Read more:Blocks
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Structured Web Search by Yahoo 2007-11-28 07:24:00 Recently Yahoo
introduced a structured web search which is said to be suitable for e-commerce application (e.g. online shopping). However, I can't test it out as it seems like they haven't implemented yet in their search engine. I wonder could it be something similar to the Cluster Search
Engine (Clusty). Could it be yahoo steal the concept from Clusty? Maybe something more advance than this?So the first question you or I may ask, will Structured
web Search by Yahoo can beat Google? I honestly don't know because I can't try. They just said it soon to be rolled out. If I want to give my best guess, I will say "No way, Structured Web Search by Yahoo cannot beat Google". Yes, that is only based on my feeling until I really try it out. Maybe I've already fallen in love with Google. Opss...Related Post:Cluster Search Engine by Vivisimo
Cluster Search Engine by Vivisimo 2007-11-28 06:23:00 What search engine you're using right? Google or Yahoo? No need to say much, I bet most of you are using the Google search engine. Yes, I'm one of them.Today I'm going to introduce you a new search engine that you may have never heard of it before. It is called Clusty. It was originally from Vivisimo company. It is a new way of searching the web. Instead of displaying a million of pages in a long list, Clusty uses a "cluster" concept to group meaningful pages together. Most importantly this cluster search engine helps you find result that you may have missed especially those results appears in the third or fourth pages of your Google or Yahoo search.This is what you may want to do:1. Search
from Google but can't find what you want.2. Try it out Clusty, it may hits.Ok here come a sad news based on my personal experience, most of the case whatever I can't find in Google, I can't find it in Clusty too. Only just once in a while for certain keyword the Clusty gives me a better result Read more:Engine
Vista Performance Is 10% Slower Than XP 2007-12-04 10:56:00 Other than driver compatible issues and you may want to ask what Vista
sucks? Yes, you're right. It is the performance. In short, Vista is 10% slower than XP. Check out the news here.Summary of the NewsVista SP1 will released next year and it is intended to boost the performance. However with the SP1 beta testing, yes it does boost but less than 2%.Microsoft responds some craps that they will continue make improving and make the Vista a better tool.Microsoft mentions a lot of us do not fully understand the features in Vista. We need to be educated. Perhaps Microsoft means the 100 reasons to use vista in my previous post.Others not important stuff, marketing talk.Well, Vista when are you going to catch up XP? Wait until XP retire? or Wait until the later service pack from XP that slows down the performance in purpose?Related Posts:Improve XP or Vista Performance
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Rescue Windows System Files - SFC Utility 2007-10-20 02:08:00 One of the thing that I dislike Windows
as compared to Linux is the stability issues. Windows loves to crash especially if you do not restart your PC for a long period of time. It happens to me many times already. Most of the cases, what I do is to re-install my windows. I have been doing this once a year in average.What the heck yesterday, it happened to me again. 2 of my main applications (i.e. MS office, Citrix Client) cannot run at all after I restarted my PC. It has some kind of "dynamic dll link error". I try the system restore point, it didn't help at all. Ok, never mind, I re-installed one by one to fix the problems.However, I'm happy too fast. I got the following RUNDLL error message when I run the system properties from control panel:"An exception occurred while trying to run "C:WINDOWSsystem32shell32.dll, Control_RunDLL "C:WINDOWSsystem32sysdm.cpl", System
"It seems like the sysdm.cpl is corrupted and I have no choice to reinstall the OS. I hate windows! I almost give Read more:Rescue
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Copy & Paste Folder Tip in Windows 2007-12-18 10:15:00 I used to copy a lot of folders from one machine to another machine. However, I misunderstood the overwrite feature in windows. This is to share my stupidity.
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