There are times when a number of small video clips are created when one uses the video function in one’s phone or perhaps you’d like to join together a set of mpg clips created by your digital camcorder. If your camcorder or clips are in the MPEG format, you’re in luck – a simple command line will append and merge the clips into a single large clip allowing you uninterrupted viewing pleasure. This is done by using the COPY command and without the need for any external utility. This method will work for MPG files for sure, but rarely for…

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First, a short disclaimer: This post merely shows you a method. You alone are entirely responsible for what you use it for. There are times when we need to grab media like images, audio and sometimes even embedded video files from various sites. Rather than right-clicking on each element, here’s a quick an easy way to grab all the media you want using Firefox’s native functionality – no additional plugins like DownThemAll needed. We’re gonna use the Page Info feature of Firefox to help us in our efforts. On the page that you wish to grab the images from, click…

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A new iteration of the popular blogging platform WordPress has been recently released. Codenamed “Baker” after renowned trumpeter & vocalist Chet Baker, the new version has a slew of under-the-hood changes in addition to changes to the Administrative interface: New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin interface Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options Support…

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A lot of users are on Twitter to connect with other people for either expanding their horizons or to increase brand awareness of their firm / product / blog etc. No matter why you’re on Twitter, perhaps a bit of ego-stroking or actual knowledge of the statistical metrics generated by your profile might be of use. In this post, we’re taking a look at a few sites that provide statistics for a Twitter Profile: TweetStats.com offers charting and graphs to better let you understand your usage habits. There are charts that’ll show you the average number of tweets per day…

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Mozilla developers march on in their quest to dethrone Internet Explorer from its perch by releasing Firefox 3.1 Beta 3. There’s been slight confusion amongst the online community what with Mozilla announcing a change in naming convention 3.1 → 3.5. Meaning the final release will be termed Firefox 3.5. There are developments that matter to the end-user in this release – both cosmetic as well as core features that improve the average person’s browsing experience. Performance A marked improvement in browsing and rendering speed as compared to the 3.0.x versions, although truth be told, Google’s Chrome still feels slightly faster….

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We’ve all heard of Wikipedia – for a whole load of students, it has been the go-to site for project work and reference material. It’s great strength lies in the multitude of collaborators – writers, proofreaders et al associated with the site doing what they do out of a general sense of altruism and trying to spread knowledge. Of course, Wikipedia is available in a number of languages, so it isn’t restricted to English although that is by far the most developed section of the site. For users on mobile phone, there’s also a mobile version of Wikipedia. A related…

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I needed a monitoring software to see when my CPU usage would cause a spike alongwith a noticeable drop in the free RAM. Although, I found a great many freeware and shareware options, very few met all the criteria I had in mind: should be freeware should be portable (no installation needed) should be as small as possible should have some customisable features It didn’t take me long to find, use and now recommend SysTrayMeter. It meets all the criteria set out above – weighing in at a measly 15 KB (That’s right! Fifteen kilobytes.), and occupying only between 1…

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Windows uses Print Spooling to store the print jobs (data sent to a printer) in a buffer, allowing the program that sent the data to the printer to resume its normal operation. Basically, it means that your Word Processor need not wait for the file to print before restoring control to the user. You’re free to work on the document while the printer keeps printing. Spooling also lets users place a number of print jobs in a queue instead of waiting for each one to finish before specifying the next one. You can always check out your printer’s queue of…

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So, you’re a conscientious system administrator or even a very neat and tidy home user who likes to keep his/her PC fully updated and patched against any malignant threats that float around on the interweb. Good for you. You subscribe and read so many postings on various security related forums. So when a new exploit comes along that makes use of a previously known hole, you want to make sure your system’s up-to-date. To help you out in that endeavour, Nirsoft’s WinUpdatesList is a GUI based viewer that displays all the hotfixes and service packs that are currently installed on…

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So, you’ve got your blog listed with a major search engine and you’ve also got enough content to warrant a search box on your blog. Cool. Now how about giving your readers the ability to search thru your site via the Firefox Search box (shortcut CTRL+K).  Here’s how: We’re going to make use of the Mycroft Project: The Mycroft Project provides a collection of Sherlock & OpenSearch Search Engine Plugins (17032 at the last count) for your web browser. Sherlock is supported by  Mozilla Firefox and  Mozilla SeaMonkey and other browsers based on the Mozilla core. OpenSearch is supported by …

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