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Multimedia Monday: MediaCoder

MediaCoder is a FREE universal audio/video batch transcoder distributed under GPL license, which puts together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats. The best feature of MediaCoder is the ability to transcode files in batch format. If you’re looking to load your music player and you have all your files in different formats, then you can use MediaCoder to convert them all into the format supported by your player. The site mentions four typical applications: Improving compression / reducing file size Converting for audio/video […]

China limits kids’ online gaming time

Amidst concerns of curbs on free speech and online gaming addiction, China has passed a decree to limit the amount of time kids spend gaming online report Xinhua. Kids spending more than three hours online will lose half the credits they earned and those spending more than five hours online lose all of them. Online gamers will also need to get themselves registered. Ars Technica got the full […]

Tip Thursday: Personalize Google

People using Google Personalized Homepage would be well aware that you can add pages, read feeds and lots of other stuff. Recently the folks at Google introduced a brand new feature to make your homepage look even better, viz. Themes. Currently there are seven themes that you can select from besides the original default one. There is one special thing about the themes. Can you tell me what it is? Thanks to Ravi for the […]

Tool Tuesday: Lorem Ipsum Generator

If you’re familiar with free templates, or have been working in the printing industry you would have come across this text often: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Lorem Ipsum or Lipsum, as it is more popularly […]

Multimedia Monday: Prism Video Converter

Prism Video Converter is a free video file format converter for Windows. It can convert video files from avi, mpg, vob, wmv (Windows Media Video formats) and more into avi, asf or wmv files. You will need to have the appropriate codecs installed in order to run the conversion. Features: Converts avi, mpg, vob, asf, wmv, mp4, ogm and all video formats that have a DirectShow based codec to AVI and Windows Media Video formats. If you can play the video file using ‘Windows Media Player’ you can convert it using Prism. Set compression/encoder rates of output files. Set resolution […]

Fun Friday: Rotate

Don’t we all love games. But, nothing stimulates the mind more than a game that needs you to rack your brains. That is what Rotate and its successor Rotate2 hope to establish. Rotate uses photos from Flickr and jumbles them up. You need to rotate the individual pieces and place them the right side up to complete the picture, all the while as a timer ticks down. Rotate2 is similar, but instead of images it uses pipes. You need to rotate the various parts of the pipe and close all open ends of the pipe. You progress on to the […]

WordPress Bug Fix Release

The WordPress team has released WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.10. This is yet another release in a short file in an attempt to fix minor XSS bugs and a major XML-RPC issue. In short it is a needed upgrade. If you’re irritated about the frequent upgrades, save time by following my tutorial to upgrade via […]

Tool Tuesday: IE NetRenderer

If you’re on a Mac or you have already upgraded to Internet Explorer 7, then you’ll be pretty lost about how your site looks like on lower versions of Internet Explorer. For me this is a big problem because half my visitors to my several sites are still using IE6 and you have to admit that IE6 is a pathetic browser. IE7 is a lot more compliant and displays sites a lot correctly than its predecessors. While there are several services available, one service I love to check what my browser looks like is IE NetRenderer. IE NetRenderer allows you […]

Multimedia Monday: jetAudio Basic

I’m very picky about how I play my music and videos and have several different media players installed that fulfil different purposes. One such player is jetAudio Basic which is my primary player for playing folders or playlists. jetAudio comes in a free Basic version and a paid Plus version. Plus adds the mp3/mp3PRO conversion support, recording support and several audio utilities. However, even the Basic version is feature packed. Besides playing a huge variety of file formats, you can also rip audio CDs, lookup information from the Internet CD Database, convert both audio and video between several file formats, […]