If you’re like me and can’t trust all those app-launching programs available from shareware sites, here’s something you might like, an app-launcher from Microsoft Office Labs. The basic idea is to let you launch your most frequently used applications with convenience and less-headache.
So, if you have a desktop like mine, cluttered with all kinda applications, IDEs, games, folders, temporary files etc, wait no more, you wont have to keep searching for your favorite app’s icon on desktop anymore, just drag that favorite program to “Speed Launch’s” Bull’s eye (which happens to right above your system tray). And thats almost all about it.
Speed Launch window can be launched by the Win+C key combination, and you can add as many applications as you want. Five of those applications will appear on the main window (as in the screenshot above), whereas you can use the textbox to type and launch any of the applications you’ve added to Speed Launch.
Ever wanted to compress your huge 4GB+ DVD movies to 700MB dvd-rips while still retaining the original DVD quality? Well thats what we’re gonna learn today. You might be familiar with the regular 700MB dvd-rips ‘scene’ releases, where most underground DVD movies are in 700mb compressed avi format. Today we’ll learn how to compress your personal DVD movies to small 700MB compressed format like the ‘scene’ releases, so that you can keep your DVDs safe in your drawer and enjoy watching the compressed rips from your hard disk drive.
Now if you’re familiar with the ‘xvid asd’ compression format used for those tv-shows rips, you might know how nicely compressed those videos are. You get a complete 50minutes season video in a 350MB avi file. We’re gonna use that sort of superb compression for our DVD today in this following tutorial. You’ll see that even when our ~4GB DVD movie is compressed to a 700MB dvd-rip, there wont be much difference in the video or audio qualitybecause of the compression softwares and audio/video settings we’re going to use.
Considering how easy it is for hackers to guess your password by dictionary attacks, its not a good idea to use dictionary words as your password, and remembering alpha-numeric passwords that help against dictionary attacks is such a tough task, I mean I can’t get myself to learn a password like ‘hC2zTtx45p’ by heart.
Well, you’ll be glad to know that we’ve got a savior for you all. Now you can use your favorite images, songs and videos etc as your password. Two researchers from Carleton University have created this protoype that lets you generate passwords from images, songs and video etc. Now all you have to do is to select a unique file (image for example) and use Carleton university team’s ObPwd firefox extension to generate a 12-character alphanumeric password. Don’t worry non-firefox users, there’s a standalone version of this thing available from the same download page (check out the read link at the end for the download page).
Thats right folks, Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu linux distros) joined Linux Foundation today. Linux Foundation that was formed last year acts as a collective representative of the whole Linux community in different areas such as Public Debates etc. Though many Linux distributions haven’t joined Linux Foundation yet, it is expected that they will eventually.
Canoncial joined LF with silver status, the lowest of all (still better than nothing). Many prominent companies like Nokia, Dell, RedHat and Dreamworks are also silver status members. Silver status members contribute between $5k to $20k annually. Canonical move has made Linux Foundation even more powerful and has helped moving it one step more closer to becoming a collective representative of all Linux distributions.
While I understand that the 5Gbps USB3.0 speed makes this 6Gbps transfer speed of “SATA 6Gb/s” a little less impressive. But still this speed boost announcement by SATA I-O is good news for all you game lovin’, vista using netizens caz a two-fold increase in transfer speeds (2x, that is).
The announced specifcations allows products designers to beging work on SATA 6Gb/s products. Although the specifications aren’t finalized yet and SATA I-0 will continue to thrive for improved data streaming and better power management. Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s a fresh trailer showing Miss Lara Croft in action in her upcoming game, Tombraider: Underworld. There are still around 2+ months left to Underworld’s release, but things are heating up now. Last week we saw the released photo session of Lara’s Model Alison Carroll, now this video. The gameplay looks solid in the vid but I wont be makin’ any assumptions as it’d be too early, we’ll see that when the game is released. Here’s the released trailer.
Ok guys, take this with a grain of salt or two. This hacker called StreetskaterFU over at PS3HAX has apprently found a way to load Blu-Ray games off the PS3′s hdd. PS3HAX has confirmed as the claim being legit and people are actually confirming this hack as been working.
Well it sounds too good to be true, but if its really workin’ then its great news ‘the scene’. Currently its stated that the hack works for older games only. Games claimed to be working with this hack are Warhawk, Gran Turismo 5, COD3, MotorStorm & RFOM and that both legal and illegal copies can be played (should be bad news for $ony). Check out the following video of this hack in action if you want want to believe.
Ever wanted to compress your huge 4GB+ DVD movies to 700MB dvd-rips while still retaining the original DVD quality? Well thats what we’re gonna learn today. You might be familiar with the regular 700MB dvd-rips ‘scene’ releases, where most underground DVD movies are in 700mb compressed avi format. Today we’ll learn how to compress your personal DVD movies to small 700MB compressed format like the ‘scene’ releases, so that you can keep your DVDs safe in your drawer and enjoy watching the compressed rips from your hard disk drive.
