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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Paid To Read & Survey





Updated: 12:30 PM 02-Feb-08

Regularly Added & Updated for Reliability

Good Paid To Read & Survey programs that pays & are NOT a Autosurf, Multi-Level Marketing, Pyramid, Ponzi, Matrix or "Get Rich Quick" scheme. They are a new innovative, international and FREE English based service that allows advertisers to reach thousands of potential customers by displaying their ad on their, "Surf Ads" page.

Companies spend Billions of dollars a year trying to convince consumers that their products are the best and to buy their products and services. They achieve this by getting an understanding how people think and shop. Knowing this, companies are willing to pay you for your opinions in survey programs. Overall your opinion could help the companies to upgrade their products and services.
Note: Currency here is in USD unless specified

Survey TIPS
Honest answers to survey and profile questions are vital to the integrity of the research process.
The provider, and its clients, depend on factual information in order to make decisions about products, services and advertising — decisions that affect consumers like you.
Please take your time and provide thoughtful and honest answers to profile and survey questions.
Providing inaccurate or dishonest information or "speeding through surveys" may limit your eligibility to participate in future surveys.


"Refer-a-Friend" to maximize your revenue beside taking the surveys on your own.
By refering others to these programs with your registered codes will contribute more to your revenue.


PTR 1 - Bux.to
Click On Banner To Join!!
Join free and receive a $0.05 Sign-up Bonus


Currently,Bux.to only make payments via PayPal.



Can other people in my household join?
They must have a valid unique e-mail address and valid unique PayPal address/account to register with our program. As far as cheating goes, our software detects users who create fictitious accounts and use the same computer so if someone else in your household wants to join and will legitimately use their account; you shouldn't be flagged for abuse.

How you make money
You view websites in 30 second sessions via the "Surf Ads" page. Once the 30 seconds is up, you'll either get a green tick sign or a red 'X'. The green tick sign means you've earned $0.01 and as premium member $0.0125 for the visit and the 'X' means you have not earned money for the visit. You'll get red X's when you have more than one website from the "Surf Ads" page open. When this happens, you get no credit.

A valuable benefit to both the members and the advertisers is the repeat exposure that the advertiser gets. Whenever you click and view a website, you can visit that website again in 24 hours as long as the visit cap hasn't been reached. That's right! After 24 hours you can click and view the website again. This gives the advertiser optimal exposure by using "repeat advertising" and it further increases the members earning potential.

PTR 2- He-SaysShe-Says
Click On Banner To Join!!


100% FREE TO JOIN. There may be more than one account per household, however each person registering an account "must have a separate computer and separate ISP" to participate in our program.All international members welcome.
FreeMembership: $8.50 payout (must have $2 in personal earnings) to request payment. Points may be redeemed for cash.Issue
payment within 30 days.Paypal Payout Options No Fee.

Referrals(Active members only) gives member 7 points for your first level referrals directly referred and
10% of their direct referral earnings.
5% of their indirect referral level earnings.
3% of their 3rd level referral earnings.
1% of their 4th level referral earnings.
1% of their 5th level referral earnings.
1% of their 6th level referral earnings.
1% of their 7th level referral earnings.

Regular Paid to Read Email
Members menu :
CashPaid2Click are limited to certain countries.
Paid2SignUp are limited to certain countries & Your search interest box has to be checked.
Paid2Signup to free programs.
PointsPaidToClick are regularly available in good quantity. 7 secs earn 1/2 cent
Redeem 563 Points For $0.25 Cash to Your Account ~ Cost: 563 Points
Redeem 1125 Points For $0.50 Cash to Your Account ~ Cost: 1125 Points
Redeem 2250 Points For $1 Cash to Your Account ~ Cost: 2250 Points
Redeem 4500 Points For $2.00 Cash to Your Account ~ Cost: 4500 Points
PTC specially for US, UK, Can, AUS only

PTR3-Maineclicks

$1.00 just for Signing up
Paid from your active referrals ¤
Referral GiveAways!
1 referral given away weekly to active clickers
Click Banner to join!!


Paid2Click
Lots daily at $0.001 for visiting sponsor's site for up least 30 seconds.

Paid2Signup
No Signups from China, Thailand, Iraq, Iran, Taiwan, Poland are Allowed!

You must be a member of Maineclicks.com for 30 days and have NO cheat clicks
before you are eligible for the paid to sign ups.


Paid2Search is limited to:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, and United States of America.



¤ Cashout at $10.00 Paypal


¤ Points converted to cash - 1 point = 1/2 cent

Eligibility: all international English fluent members over 16

PTR4-Bux3
All conditions & offers are the same with Bux.to
Bux3.com, the latest paid to click site was launched in early Jan 2008 and is only days old. Initially, many thought that Bux3.com is a sister site of Bux.to as the screen layout and design are exactly the same up to the words.
Who is behind Bux3.com
Click Banner to join!!


PTR 5- EnglandBux.org
Click On Banner To Join!!
englandbux.org
At EnglandBux.org, you get paid to click on ads or receive paid mail and visit websites. The process is easy! You simply click a link and view a website for 45 seconds to earn money. You can earn even more by referring friends.
You'll get paid 1 pence (£0.01) for each website you personally view.
You can earn 50% of the revenue of any other member that signs up by following one of your referral links.
All Payments are made via PayPal, E-Gold. The minimum payout is £10

Earnings Example:

» You click 10 ads per day = £0.10
» 25 referrals click 10 ads per day = £2.50
» Your daily earnings = £2.60
» Your weekly earnings = £18,2
» Your monthly earnings = £72,8

The above example is based only on 10 daily clicks. Some days you will have more clicks available, some days you will have less. What if there were more ads available?

Just join, try our service and receive a £0.05 Sign-up Bonus

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PTS 1- A.W.$urveys

Membership at A.W.Surveys is Free and you will not be required to pay any membership fees or any other expenses out of pocket.

Online surveys are used as a technique for gathering information for companies. They generally are a set of questions which require a participant to answer and then the information is eventually given back to company for reporting purposes. The companies are willing to pay a fee to the participant for their opinions and time.

AWSurveys accept members from around the world.Also accept in any area that allows the use of Paypal.

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PTS 2- SurveySavvy.com
Unlike other online panels that reward you only for completed surveys, SurveySavvy give you incentives for referring others.SurveySavvy give back! An average of 20% of the company's yearly online revenue goes back to SurveySavvy online community in the form of incentives!

SurveySavvy.com pays members an average of $2 for every survey a SurveySavvy.com member's referrals complete and $1 for every survey their referrals complete.
Click On Banner to join free!!

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Friday, January 25, 2008

How do i burn a .mkv file to DVD?

Updated 30thMay2009

An MKV file is a Matroska file. Matroska is an open source container format. It is an alternative to the popular AVI and MP4 formats and it also surpasses them in many areas.
Matroska is a container format file that stores multiple streams (video, audio and subtitles)

How do i burn a .mkv file to DVD?

1)DVDSanta4.5
DVDSanta is an All-in-One software that lets you copy, create, convert and burn your DVD movies. It can copy 9GB double layer DVD movies into a 4.7GB DVD-R disc, can turn your photos into DVD movies with Hollywood style motion effects, can convert other video formats(avi,wmv,vob,asf…) into DVD video, can transfer miniDV camcorder tapes directly to DVD video. dvdSanta is extremely easy to use, fast and powerful.
First download & install these supporting softwares:-
1)Matroska pack
2) MKVExtractGUI OR MKVE Wizard
What this software does is it extracts video, audio and
subtitles. all you need is the subtitles with and extension
of .srt

In addition to ensure that dvdSanta can burn your most up-to-date video files onto DVD. You need to have some latest audio and video codecs installed on your PC. If you do have all the codecs you need on your PC, skip this part and read Step 1.

http://www.dvdsanta.com/divx-to-dvd.htm
* 1) Install latest Microsoft DirectX 9.
* 2) Install latest Microsoft Windows Media 9.
* 3) Install the latest Official Xvid codec from ClickHere
* 4) Install the latest Official Divx codec from DivX.com
OR for 3 & 4 Just INSTALL Codec Pack All in
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Now you extracted the subtitlesopen dvd santa 4 -
NOTE: It is VERY important to have the latest DivX/Xvid codecs installed on your PC. Old codec versions may cause problems when encoding the newer video files.


Load the mkv file there and under subtitle choose extracted
subtitle then you're all set.

What are the system requirements for dvdSanta?
Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 2000 with DirectX 8.0 or higher.
Pentium Processor or better, Pentium 4 or higher recommended.
256MB RAM or more, 512MB RAM is recommended.
3MB Hard disk space for install.
5GB of Hard Disk Space for Media Files
Windows Media Player 9 or higher
DVD Burner

Homepage
http://www.dvdsanta.com/

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Guide: Understanding ConvertXtoDVD v3.00 Interface

Get free DVD menu Templates Bonus (New template added 12/22)


PDF document with Guidelines & Recommendations for ConvertXtoDVD v3.x
updated 2009-03-07

ConvertXtoDVD -

vsoConvertXtoDVD version 3.6.4
Download at Developer Page
Download at Mirror Link
Add-ons for ConverttoDVD 3 series & VSO products
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Version 3.5.1.135
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See µTorrent file download
They fixed the conversion speed with this one. Uninstall and delete the convertx folder convertx folder from program files and install new.

Version: 3.4.7 -
Torrent Download
See µTorrent file download

Version: 3.1.0.24 - Released the 29th May 2008 Size: 14.80 MB
Multi Rar Download: VSO ConvertXtoDVD 3.1.0.24.part1.rar VSO ConvertXtoDVD 3.1.0.24.part2.rar

* Version: 2.2.3g
* Date: 11-20-2007
* Size: 7.9 MB
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TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress
Adding and Editing Subtitle
Convert Matroska (MKV) to DiVX video format
Compress into smaller good quality movies.
.MOD file extension
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack
MPlayer for Windows
Zoom Player

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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Video Image Splitter

VidImageSplitter 1.1

Simple but very powerful video to image converter with various capabilities.

VidImageSplitter - is a powerfull utility for converting either all or only specific frames of the movie to separate image files. Many output format are supported - jpeg, png, bmp, gif - whatever you want :)

* All popular video files are supported (wmv, avi, mpeg, mov etc.).
* Various output formats are supported (bmp, jpeg, gif, tiff, png).
* An option to choose start/stop capturing times.
* An option to choose so-called "capturing step" either by time or by frame numbers.
* Logo's imposition is added

IMPORTANT: VidImageSplitter released for free. You can use VidImageSplitter without limitations, but You may not charge money for VidImageSplitter under any circumstance without our consent. You can use the program for non-commercial purposes in non-business, non commercial environment. That is, you only intend to use it at home for private us


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Networking with Microsoft Windows Vista



Networking with Microsoft Windows Vista: Your Guide to Easy and Secure Windows Vista Networking

552 pages | PDF | 15,2 Mb
Your Guide to Easy and Secure Windows Vista Networking is a complete beginner’s guide to creating, configuring, administering, and using a small network using Windows Vista computers. Inside you’ll find comprehensive coverage of networking hardware, including Ethernet (wired) hardware (from NICs to cables to switches to routers) and wireless Hardware--from wireless NICs to access points to range extenders.

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Sunday, January 20, 2008

DAMN NFO Viewer

DAMN NFO Viewer 2.10.0032.RC3

DAMN NFO Viewer description
DAMN NFO Viewer - the BEST utility for viewing text files containing ASCII Art (NFO/DIZ/TXT)
DAMN NFO Viewer is an utility designed for viewing text files containing ASCII Art (e.g. nfo files), and it proved itself to be handy.

So, if you're fed up with starting some DOS-like file manager each time you need to view nfo file, or ain't too happy with the viewer you use, or (worst case) use Notepad - give this little tool a try.

Here are some key features of "DAMN NFO Viewer":

Available in multiple languages
· Chinese Simplified, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish. You can choose the languages during installation
and switch between them later via Settings dialog.

Hyperlinks / Email addresses autodetection
· The viewer automatically detects hyperlinks / email addresses and shows them as clickable shortcuts.

Customizable appearance
· You can set text/background colors, colors for hyperlinks and hovered hyperlinks, whether or not you want hyperlinks to be underlined, and choose between 3 built-in fonts, available in different sizes.

Word Wrap
· You can switch between word wrap, character wrap and no wrap.

Shell integration
· The Viewer can be set as the default application to open files with .nfo and .diz extensions. You get fancy file icons as a bonus.

Smart line breaks handling
· Unix style line breaks are supported (that is, you won't notice any difference). Moreover, the Viewer correctly displays files with doubled/tripled/etc. (e.g. because of improper multiple Unix<->Windows conversions) line breaks.

Unicode support
· Unicode version of the program is installed automatically if the operation system supports it. Unicode version provides better support for multilingual user interface.

Copy-on-Select
· When this feature is on, text gets copied to clipboard automatically after you have finished selecting it (released shift key or left mouse button). After the selected text has been copied, the selected area will flash shortly and the text will get deselected (so for those who thought it's a bug: it is not).

Direct Scroll mode
· In this mode there's no caret so you can't select text with keyboard, but you can navigate through file contents more easily (like in your browser). Turning it off makes it more like viewing a file in a text editor. and more...
· ...including Most Recently Viewed nfos list (accessible via menu or Alt+R), Drag&Drop support, ... well, check for yourself.

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Batch Rename Files

1) Batch Rename .EXE Publisher's Description

Run dynamic lists of files through an extensive array of filename filters to ensure that your files are labeled and organized exactly how you want them. Use filters to add information, remove spaces, change capitalization and more. Batch Rename .EXE provides you with comprehensive labeling solution in just three simple steps.


System Requirements
PC, Windows, 32MB+ RAM, 66+ Mh'z Processe
What's new
Command Line Support, Context Menu Support, MP3 Info
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free_swf_video_multiplayer_v3.2.zip

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Flash Movie Player 1.5-Download
Details
View: screenshot
Size: 435.34 KB
License: Freeware
OS: Win95,Win98,WinME,WinNT 4.x,Windows2000,WinXP,Windows2003
Publisher: Eolsoft
Flash Movie Player is a freeware standalone player for Shockwave Flash (SWF) animations, based on Macromedia Flash Player plug-in. In addition to all Macromedia Flash Player abilities, it has a lot of extended features, such as animation rewinding, advanced full screen mode, browser cache integration, .exe projectors support and playlists. Moreover, Flash Movie Player can extract flash movies from .exe projector files and save them in SWF format.
Requirements: Macromedia Flash plugin


Applian FLV Player 2.0


The easy way to play FLV (Flash Video) files downloaded from YouTube and other flash video sites.

View videos at 1x, 2x or even full screen. Download this fully functional software for FREE now!


Get A Free Streaming Audio Recorder: The Applian FLV Player includes an option to install Freecorder Toolbar, a free audio recorder that works right within your browser. Make MP3's from anything you can hear on your PC, including sound tracks from videos, music, and more. Works great with Windows Vista.

FLV Player Feature summary:

  • Play FLV files on any Windows PC.
  • Double-click files in File Explorer to play them automatically.
  • Zoom 50% - 100% - 200% and full screen.
  • Double click video view-port to toggle full screen.
  • Drag-and-drop multiple files.
  • Play URL's, Streams and Local Files.
  • Remember position on screen at next launch.
  • Remember audio settings at next launch
  • Optional video smoothing for fast CPU's.
  • Small download. Just 2.12 Mb.
  • No viruses, spyware or adware.
  • 100% FREE. Download now!




Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer/RealOne Player.
Download Real Alternative 1.75

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How Digital Photography Works 2nd Edition


A full-color, illustrated adventure into the high-tech wonders inside your digital camera by the author/illustrator team that created the bestselling How Computers Work.



With clear and simple explanations that say, “You, too, can understand this,” and brilliant, full-color illustrations, How Digital Photography Works, Second Edition, gives you detailed information on the hidden workings of digital cameras, professional picture-taking techniques, and even photo-editing software. Some of the topics covered in this groundbreaking book include:




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Saturday, January 19, 2008

Ulead.VideoStudio.Plus.with.Dolby.Digital.PowerPack.v11.5

Ulead.VideoStudio.Plus.with.Dolby.Digital.PowerPack
.v11.5

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Input File Format Support

* Video: AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, HDV, AVCHD*, MPEG-4 , H.264 , QuickTime, Windows Media Format, DVR-MS, MOD (JVC MOD File Format),3GPP**, 3GPP2**
* Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 , MP3, MPA, QuickTime, WAV, Windows Media Format.
* Images: BMP, CLP, CUR, EPS, FAX, FPX, GIF87a, ICO, IFF, IMG, JP2, JPC, JPG, PCD, PCT, PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, PXR, RAS, SCT, SHG, TGA, TIF/TIFF, UFO, UFP, WMF
* Disc: DVD, Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD)



System Requirements (For general and Proxy HDV Editing)

* Intel® Pentium® 4 (equivalent) or higher recommended
* Microsoft® Windows® XP SP2 Home Edition/Professional, Windows® XP Media Center Edition, Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Vista™
* 512 MB (1GB RAM or above recommended)
* 1 GB of available hard disk space for program installation
* Windows-compatible sound card (multi-channel sound card for surround sound support recommended)
* Windows-compatible CD-ROM for installation

System Requirements
Easy & Powerful Video Editing +
DVD Authoring

Imagine the Movies You’ll Make

VideoStudio Editor gives you all the tools you need to produce great-looking home movies. Follow an easy, step-by-step workflow that lets you spend your time being creative rather than learning technical editing.

Movie Wizard is ideal for users new to video editing. Select from attractive themes and let auto-editing create a professional opening sequence for you. Instantly produce entertaining photo slideshows with Smart Pan & Zoom. You’ll have a complete movie in only three steps.
DV-to-DVD Wizard™ The fastest way from DV to DVD. Just hook up your camcorder and choose the clips you want. In just two steps you have a finished DVD complete with menus, titles, transitions and music.

Plus Total High-Definition Solution
Make the most of your HD camcorder, widescreen TV and surround sound system. Easily produce high-definition videos and HD DVD discs with the best quality picture and sound.

Plus Multiple Overlay Tracks and expandable timeline
Create sophisticated picture-in-picture and montage effects with up to six overlay tracks.

Plus Multi-track Movie Wizard templates
Automatically create great movie-style opening sequences and movies with picture-in-picture overlays, music and titles.

Plus Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
With Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, your home movies will sound like you're in a movie theater.

Auto Color and Tone filters
Auto-correct videos that were recorded in poor light conditions.

DeBlock and DeSnow filters
Clean up video with digital noise or blocky compression artifacts.

MPEG Optimizer
Suggests encoding settings for the best quality and speed.

DVD Authoring
Create fully-interactive DVD or HD DVD* motion menus and submenus, including 16:9 widescreen. Customize menus by resizing and positioning buttons. Apply menu transitions that segue smoothly between menus and DVD content, and menu filters which allow you to create movement even on static menus, for professional-looking DVDs.

Plus MPEG-4 and H.264 Support
Take advantage of output templates for creating video for iPod®, PSP™, Zune™, Smartphones, PDAs and other portable devices.
Plus InterVideo® WinDVD® Player included
Share your standard and high-definition video, (AVCHD, MPEG-2 HD/WMV-HD), right from your computer.

* Plus version

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Friday, January 18, 2008

There Is No Disk in the Drive. Please Insert a Disk into Drive



Error Message When You Start Your Computer

This issue occurs when all the following conditions are all true:
• You have a removable drive, such as an Iomega Zip drive, configured as drive letter C.
• You do not have a removable disk in the removable disk drive.
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed here.
RESOLUTION
To resolve the issue, use one of the following methods:
• Insert a removable disk in the removable drive before you start the computer.
• Change the drive letter assignment for the removable drive to a letter other than C.

To change the drive letter assignments in Windows XP, follow these steps:
1. Log on to the computer as Administrator.
2. Insert a disk in the removable drive.
3. Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Manage.
4. Click Disk Management.
5. Right-click the partition, logical drive, or volume that you want to change, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
6. Click the removable drive, click it, click Change, click the drive letter that you want to use, and then click OK.


APPLIES TO
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition
• Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

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FilmEasyDevelop 2.0


scan negative into positive image software
FilmEasyDevelop is a powerful tool for converting negative films you kept into high quality positive images. It's suitable for almost all types of color or B&W film.
http://www.fishesdesign.com

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Saturday, January 5, 2008

Zoom Player





Zoom Player is a computer program that plays video and sound files on Windows-based personal computers. It is a general player that can play, essentially, anything that is playable on a PC, depending on what "filters" (or "codecs") are installed with it. This dependency on third party filters is both the strength and the weakness of the player. It is only as good as the filters used, and the user may have to acquire and install filters from third parties for many media types. The need to install and understand the right filters can be difficult for non-technical users (although the latest versions of the program give the user considerable help with that process). On the other hand the player is highly customisable and if set up correctly can present among the best audio and video quality that is possible from a PC[citation needed]. It is therefore popular with Home theater PC enthusiasts.

Zoom player is proprietary software distributed under a proprietary license. A version with some advanced features removed is available for non-commercial use without monetary cost but full-featured versions require payment.


Zoom Player comes in 3 flavors:

• Zoom Player Standard, a flexible feature rich Media Player that for all its features and goodness remains bloat-free;
• Zoom Player Professional, which on top of being a great Media Player, incorporates the most powerful DVD Front-End you could imagine (and even a few features you didn't think of imagining);
• Zoom Player WMV Professional, adding Windows Media DRM playback support.

Download Zoom Player Standard
Direct Download at Inmatrix.com
Direct Download at OSNN.net

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SearchWithin

SearchWithin is a free full text index search engine that allows you to quickly search inside the files on your drive or network. It looks beyond the titles and inside PDF, HTML, Text, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Word Perfect and Microsoft PowerPoint documents. SearchWithin works just like major search engines, using advanced querying and full-text search technologies to help you find the information you need fast. Results are automatically displayed in your browser.

Using SearchWithin, you can easily retrieve the documents that contain the multiple keywords and phrases you are interested in. SearchWithin makes it easy to apply powerful "and/or" operators to your search. It also allows you to search multiple indexes across a network and publish your own indexes for others.

SearchWithin works by building an index of your drive's documents. This allows it to sort through gigabytes of data in under a second. The SearchWithin Indexing Service may be installed to conveniently schedule automatic, daily index updates. Indexing an entire 20 GB hard drive takes only about 30 minutes. You can add or update documents at any time by running the indexer again. You may also create a new index by selecting the "Create New Index" checkbox.

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Sothink Web Video Downloader for Firefox

Sothink Web Video Downloader for Firefox 3.6.71113

Sothink Web Video Downloader for Firefox is a simple and small Firefox extension (add-on) for you to quickly capture and download Web videos and Flash files from internet. You can use it to download different formats of Web videos (including flv, swf, wmv, asf, avi, mov, rm, rmvb), streaming Flash videos, embedded Flash videos, Flash files, Flash games, etc. Web Video Downloader can work as a YouTube video downloader, Google video downloader, video blog downloader, FLV downloader, SWF downloader... to help you collect fabulous videos from Web with ease. It also provides a free FLV Player for you to play downloaded FLV video offline conveniently.

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Vuescan PRO v8.4.51

VueScan Pro is an easy to use scanner program that saves you time and improves your productivity. VueScan saves you money by letting you continue using your existing scanner, and it gives you higher quality scans than the software that comes with your scanner. VueScan supports more than 500 scanners and 209 digital camera raw files. VueScan changes nothing on your system, installs nothing in your operating system and all other scanner software will continue to function.

Changelog:
(VueScan version 8.4.51)
- Improved Nikon 35mm strip film auto frame alignment
- Fixed problem with crop box when zoomed on Mac OS X
- Fixed problem with HP ScanJet 5300C/5370C
- Fixed problem with UMAX PowerLook 2100XL
- Fixed problem with HP DeskJet F2100/F4100
- Fixed problem with Quit command on Mac OS X 10.2/10.3

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FREE PREMIUM ACCOUNT FOR RAPIDSHARE

Looking for a free premium account.. you need to do some work…
1. Register account at rapidshare collector’s zone
Just upload a regular file via Rapidshare homepage.
After the upload you will be asked automatically if you want to have a free
Collector's Account.
2. upload some files…(read the rules on minimum file size)

(You will get one point per download if the downloader is a free-user AND your file is bigger than 1 MB AND the downloader has generated less than 5 points in the last hour. These rules have been introduced to protect rapidshare from abuse.)

3. Give your link to your friends or any sites..
4. Once you get 10K points, you get one 30-days premium account. download limit per day is 3.5GB. go crazy..!!!!
Enjoy it and tell your friends.

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Thursday, January 3, 2008

Chess Flash Game


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Want to learn how to play chess? Want to learn how to play a bit better? Here are some fairly easy "lessons." Those relatively new to chess should play though the introduction to chess and the section on chess strategy just below.

Feel free to explore the site. By clicking on the links just below, you'll be able to learn about chess tactics, chess openings, and even view some of the greatest chess games ever played!

Basic Rook Strategy

Basic Knight Strategy

Basic Bishop Strategy

Basic Pawn Strategy

Five Steps to Victory

Play chess against J-Chess!. Don't get discouraged if you lose! Remember, we don't race against motorcycles, and in the weight lifting events, we don't compete against fork lifts!

Some other chess sites

Sign my Guest Book (temporarily down)

Help start the discussions at the new Chess is Fun Message Board

About Jon Edwards

Jon has just become the 10th United States Correspondence Chess Champion. He began playing correspondence chess (ie, through the mail) in 1986. His correspondence chess rating of 2470 is the highest ever obtained in APCT (American Postal Chess Tournaments) history. Jon also plays within the ICCF (International Correspondence Chess Federation) and represents the United States on its National Team. He is currently competing in the 11th United States Championship, in the 1992 APCT championship final, in the 8th North American Invitational Correspondence Chess Championship, and he is representing the United States in matches against Israel and Latvia. His victory in the US Championship gives him a berth in the forthcoming World Correspondence Chess 1/2 final.

For more information about playing correspondence chess, you can contact the APCT at:

Box 305
Western Springs, IL 60558
or call: (708) 663-0688


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Microsoft Office 2007

Office 2007 requires Windows XP with Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, or Windows Vista.

Microsoft Office 2007 (officially called 2007 Microsoft Office system) is the most recent version of Microsoft's productivity suite. Formerly known as Office "12" in the initial stages of its beta cycle, it was released to volume license customers on November 30, 2006[1] and made available to retail customers on January 30, 2007.


See also Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack

Microsoft Office Word 2007 helps people create and share professional-looking content by combining a comprehensive set of writing tools with the easy-to-use Microsoft Office Fluent user interface. Here are the top 10 ways Office Word 2007 can help you create professional-looking content faster.
Reason 1 Spend more time writing and less time formatting.

The Office Fluent user interface presents the right tools when you need them, making it easy to format your documents quickly. Now you can find the right features in Office Word 2007 to make your documents communicate more effectively. Using Quick Styles and Document Themes, you can quickly change the appearance of text, tables, and graphics throughout the entire document to match your preferred style or color scheme.

Reason 2 Communicate more effectively with SmartArt diagrams and new charting tools.

New SmartArt diagrams and a new charting engine help you create great-looking content with 3-D shapes, transparency, drop shadows, and other effects.

Reason 3 Quickly assemble documents using Building Blocks.

Building Blocks in Office Word 2007 can be used to assemble documents from frequently used or predefined content such as disclaimer text, pull quotes, sidebars, cover pages, and other types of content. This will help ensure you don't spend needless time recreating content or copying and pasting between documents; it also helps ensure consistency across all of the documents created within your organization.

Reason 4 Save as PDF or XPS directly from Office Word 2007.

Office Word 2007 offers you a choice for sharing documents with other people. You can convert your Word documents to Portable Document Format (PDF) or XML Paper Specification (XPS) format without the addition of third-party tools to help ensure broad communication with users on any platform.1

Reason 5 Publish and maintain blogs directly from Office Word 2007.

You can now publish blogs directly from Office Word 2007. You can configure Office Word 2007 to link directly to your blog site, and use the rich Word experience to create blogs with images, tables, and advanced text formatting features.

Reason 6 Master your document review processes using Office Word 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

With built-in workflow services in Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can initiate and track document review and approval processes from within Office Word 2007 to help accelerate review cycles across your organization without forcing people to learn new tools.

Reason 7 Connect your documents to business information.

Create dynamic Smart Documents that update themselves by connecting to your back-end systems using new document controls and data bindings. By using the new XML integration capability, organizations can deploy intelligent templates to assist people in creating highly structured documents.

Reason 8 Remove tracked changes, comments, and hidden text from your documents.

Detect and remove unwanted comments, hidden text, or personally identifiable information using the Document Inspector to help ensure that sensitive information doesn't escape when your documents are published.

Reason 9 Use the tri-pane review panel to compare and combine documents.

Office Word 2007 makes it easy to find out what changes were made to a document. A new tri-pane review panel helps you see both versions of a document with deleted, inserted, and moved text clearly marked.

Reason 10 Reduce your file sizes and improve corrupt file recovery.

The new Ecma Office Open XML Formats offer a dramatic reduction in file size as well as improvement in recovery for damaged files. These new formats provide a tremendous savings to storage and bandwidth requirements, and reduce the burden on IT personnel.

1 You can save as a PDF or XPS file from a 2007 Microsoft Office system program only after you install an add-in. For more information, see Install and use a PDF or XPS add-in.




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VistaGlass Final

With VistaGlazz you can also use custom styles on your Vista system.
VistaGlazz supports 32bit and 64bit - VistaGlazz is Vista language independent - VistaGlazz works on every Windows version that supports the Aero look (Ultimate, Business, Home Premium). With this simple application you can easily patch your Windows Vista system to use custom styles. Similar to the UxTheme patch for Windows XP. After that you can modify your Aero style to use the glass transparency effect on maximized windows

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Wednesday, January 2, 2008

LunarCal - A Perpetual Chinese Lunar Calendar

LunarCal is a 160-year perpetual Chinese Lunar Calendar for 1900 to 2060. Chinese festivals are listed and the moon phase is displayed. A program that enumerates the Chinese calendar - past, present and future. It will display 160 years of the Chinese calendar for years 1900 thru 2060. The program is GUI based and runs on Win9x / WinXP / NT platforms / Windows Vista RC1. It can be used as an educational tool.

Download Page

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Adjust the brightness on Video playback

Video playback is too dark on some files
Adjust the brightness. There are several ways to do that:

Graphics card

Most graphics card drivers allow you to adjust various picture properties such as Brightness, Contrast, Gamma and saturation.

You can access your graphics card control panel via:
Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Display -> Settings -> Advanced

Decoding filter

Most video decoding filters have an option to adjust the brightness. For example DivX, Xvid and ffdshow have such an option.

In Media Player Classic the properties of a filter can be accessed via:
MPC menu -> Play -> Filters -> [name of decoder]

In BSplayer the properties of a filter can be accessed via:
Right-click menu -> Options -> Filters -> [name of decoder]

In Windows Media Player it is not possible to access the properties of a filter.

In ZoomPlayer the properties of a filter can be accessed via:
Right-click menu -> Filter Properties -> [name of decoder]

Windows Media Player

1. In WMP, right-click on the title bar of the window or the Now Playing tab
2. In the context menu, select: View -> Enhancements -> Video Settings

Note: If you can't adjust the sliders in Video Settings, then you need to enable the option in WMP to use the video mixing rendering (VMR). To turn on VMR in WMP, do the following:

1. In WMP, right-click on the title bar of the window or the Now Playing tab
2. In the context menu, select: Tools -> Options
3. Click on the Performance tab.
4. Click on the Advanced button.
5. In the Video Acceleration area, enable Use video mixing renderer.
Q: Video playback is too bright or too dark on almost all files or the colors are all messed up
A:

This is probably caused by incorrect settings of your graphics card drivers. Some versions of the nVidia drivers are notorious for messing up their own settings.

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TuneUp Utilities

Improve your system's performance, thoroughly clean up your hard drives, solve your PC problems with a few clicks, and customize windows to your personal requirements. All in one program, simple and intuitive - TuneUp Utilities .
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A powerful maintenance suite with lots of tools to explore. TuneUp Utilities 2012 is a suite of tools for cleaning up, optimizing, fixing, customizing, and generally getting the maximum possible from your PC.






10 fundamental reasons for using TuneUp Utilities 2008

* Powerful hard drive defragmentation
* Optimum start-up, Internet, and Windows acceleration
* Quick and extensive clean-up for hard drives
* Effective elimination of junk data
* Fully-automatic clean-up and improvement of your PC
* Extensive clean-up of the registry
* Effective help in solving standard Windows problems
* Secure data recovery and data elimination
* Simple custom Windows configuration
* Individual Windows styling
Free trial version of TuneUp Utilities 2008
Download Addons
TuneUp Utilities 2008 can be used with the following versions of Windows:

* Windows 2000
* Windows XP
* Windows XP x64
* Windows Vista™
* Windows Vista™ x64






Highlights of TuneUp Utilities 2009
TuneUp Start page: Intuitive Layout, Easy to Use
* Provides quick and easy access to the most critical optimization functions
* A single yet comprehensive appraisal of your PC’s current performance and overall system health


TuneUp Speed Optimizer: Intelligent, Powerful Utility for any User Skill Level

* Easy optimization in just a few clicks
* Identifies unused programs and resource-draining functions
* Recommends tools for optimal PC performance


TuneUp 1-Click Maintenance: Automatic, Fast Optimization
* Enables one-click maintenance of the most important functions of your PC
* Cleans the Windows registry
* Deletes temporary files and folders
* Increases the system performance through integrated defragmentation
* Streamlines your desktop and simplifies folder shortcuts with one click
Free trial version of TuneUp Utilities 2009
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TuneUp Utilities 2009 can be used with the following versions of Windows:

* Windows XP, Service Pack 2 or later (both 32- and 64-bit versions)
* Windows Vista™ (both 32- and 64-bit versions)

The operating systems Windows 98 and Windows ME were supported up to the version "TuneUp Utilities 2007."
The operating systems Windows 2000 and Windows XP with Service Pack 1(Sevice Pack 2-3 tested ok) were supported up to the version "TuneUp Utilities 2008." Also tested to support Windows Vista.

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Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Defragment Your Hard Drive

DEFRAG from MS-DOS
Purpose: Optimizes disk performance by reorganizing the files on the disk (new with DOS Version 6).
You should start DEFRAG only from MS-DOS. Starting DEFRAG from a program such as Microsoft Windows may cause you to lose data.


Reboot to Safe Mode
(Warning - Colors will look wierd in safe mode and everything will be bigger, it will go back to nomral when you are done.)

* you will see a black screen with white text or a logo.
* Press F8 every second or two until you see a menu
* Select SAFE MODE and press ENTER.

Disable your screensaver

* Right click on the desktop.
* Select PROPERTIES
* Select the SCREENSAVER tab.
* Select None from a drop down list on the left labled Screensavers.
* Press the Apply button and then the OK button



At Desktop-START/RUN-Type : cmd
In Dos windows type: defrag C:
(Even if the defragmenter reports that your hard drive is 0% fragmented, continue with defragmentation)
Type exit when finish & press enter
Options
/F - Used to defragment files, ensuring that the disk contains no empty spaces between files.

/U - Used to defragment files, leaving empty spaces between files.

/S - Used to control the way in which files are sorted in their directories. Without this option, the current order of files will be maintained. You can use any combination of the following sort options . Do not put spaces between the values.

N Alphabetical order by name.
N- Reverse alphabetical order by name.
E Alphabetical order by extension.
E- Reverse alphabetical order by extension.
D By date and time, earliest first.
D- By date and time, latest first.
S By size, smallest first.
S- By size, largest first

/B - Used to restart your computer after files have been reorganized.
/skiphigh Used to load DEFRAG into conventional memory, rather than in upper memory.

/LCD - Specifies an LCD color scheme.
/BW - Specifies a black and white color scheme.
/GO - Used to disable the graphic mouse and graphic character set.
/H - Used to move hidden files.

Example
If you want to load DEFRAG into conventional memory and run it specifying that the files on drive C be sorted alphabetically by name, enter the following:

defrag c: /f /sn /skiphigh


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