Sometimes I still use the Media Player Classic on my PC to watch movies. Sure I have Realplayer and Divx players but sometimes MPC is still a classic. Now I’ve found a way to download subtitles to it. Its kinda easy. Check the link at Downloading subtitles using MPC
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iBUYPOWER, know for it’s innovative and powerful gaming PCs, is excited to launch its new line of Video PC’s. The Video PCs’ are built with the amateur videographer on mind – individuals who prefer to shoot video rather than stills, and post their experiences on sites like You Tube. The iBUYPOWER Video PC line includes the Video Bot, Video Pro, and Video Extreme, which are priced at $1,299, $1,799, and $4,299 MSRP respectively.
The Video Bot, housed in an NZXT Appollo case, features the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 CPU, nVidia 9800GT GPU, and 4 GB of DDR-2 RAM. Customers looking for a little more power will find it in the Video Pro. iBuyPower packed an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 processor, ATI HD 4850 graphics card and 8 GB of DDR- 2 RAM into a Gigabyte Poseidon case.
The Video Extreme however, is built to be just that – extreme. Housed in a Thermaltake Armor case, the Video Extreme is stocked with the best components available – an Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme QX9770 CPU, ATI HD 4870 graphics card, 8 GB of DDR-3 1333 RAM, Blu-ray burner and a 1200W power supply.
“Millions of people visit sites like YouTube to share their videos everyday, yet before now no computer manufacturer has built a pc dedicated to the needs of this community,” said Darren Su, Vice President of iBUYPOWER. “We decided it was time to provide these aspiring filmmakers with a professional video editing solution.”
All three of the iBUYPOWER Video PCs come with Adobe’s Premier Elements 4.0 editing software, built-in 8 channel surround sound, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition, a 12-in-1 card reader/writer and a 3 year limited warranty. (FULL SPECS BELOW)
As part of the launch iBUYPOWER is giving away a Video Pro System, a $1,799 value, and a $2,000 gift card to the winner of the Favorite Gaming Moments YouTube Contest. Contestants will upload videos they create of them reenacting their favorite gaming moments. The contest will run through August with a winner being selected from a group of ten finalists by the You Tube community in the second week of September. Visit here for contest details
An Internet Explorer Firefox Plugin is quite useful when you can’t load certain sites in Firefox. I was surfing a property site that had flash embedded and somehow it refused to load in Firefox. Then I tried IE View, and the site loaded perfectly. I highly recommend this IE View – Internet Explorer Firefox Plugin but take note it opens a whole new IE window.
Another Internet Explorer Firefox Plugin that’s good is IE Tab. This Firefox Plugin opens an IE browser in your Firefox tab, instead of opening a whole new IE window.
IE View is a simple Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox extension (for Microsoft Windows systems), which allows the current page or a selected link to be opened in Internet Explorer. I use Firefox 99.99% of the time, but there are those moments — particularly when testing new pages, or when viewing that rare IE-only page that’s actually interesting — when I need to see what things look like in IE.
IE View adds menu items to the page context menu, and the link context menu. Right-clicking a link now includes an “Open link target in IE” menu item. Right-clicking elsewhere in the main body of the page (not within an image, text box, etc.) gives “View this page in IE.”
You can also add sites to an “always-view-in-IE” list. These sites, when reached in Firefox, will automatically reopen in Internet Explorer. The site you are currently viewing can be added via the Firefox
EatLime Online File Sharing – an online file sharing site that gives you 1GB of sharing for free and unlimited free data transfers. There are options to transfer data over Email and IM, and to import your contacts for easier transfer of data. Here’s how it works
EatLime Online File Sharing details :
* It offer a sharing capacity up to 1GB size
* It allows to sent multiple files contemporary.
* It allows to send or share an illimitate number of files.
* It allows to import Gmail, Yahoo, Aol, Hotmail email contacts.
* File that are shared can be sent by simply selecting and pressing Ctrl-T
* It allows to share any type of file, video clips, file audio, and so on.
Here’s some good news for Asus Eee PC lovers. The $399 4GB Asus Eee will come in 5 Colors -”Pure White, Galaxy Black, Blush Pink, Lush Green and Sky Blue.”
Do you ever follow a link on a website, click it, and then run into a wall because you have to register in order to gain accesss to the linked site? Maybe you’re just not interested in registering because it’s a one time thing and you’re not likely to ever go back to that site again in the next ten years. You’d just rather not register, thank you very much. BugMeNot was started with just this scenario in mind. It’s a registration sharing tool – you share your logins and pick up other people’s logins so you don’t have to register for hundreds of websites you’re not going to go back to on a regular basis. It couldn’t be simpler to use; you just type in the url of the website you want access to, and if someone’s provided a login for that site, it’ll immediately pop up. If you want to contribute a login to share the joy, that’s simple and quick too. BugMeNot also offers disposable email addresses when you can’t avoid providing an email address.
I used to notice the Safely Remove Hardware icon was always missing from my taskbar. It was pretty weird. I would log in as Admin to my Windows XP PC but the Safely Remove Hardware Icon would always be missing. So I surf around and found 2 solutions.
1. Run a command to bring up the Safely Remove Hardware dialog screen.
There are times that the Safely Remove Hardware Icon is missing or disappeared from the try bar. In Windows Safe Mode, you can’t find the Safely Remove Hardware icon at all! Is shutting down the computer the only way to safely stop and unplug your USB devices? Fortunately not. Here are some ways you can bring back the Safely Remove Hardware window when the icon is missing. source
2. Download an app called USB Disk Ejector. A program that allows you to quickly remove USB devices in Windows. It was originally designed to remove only USB pen drives but will now eject any USB device. It can be run as a non-visual command line program or a normal gui program. Its very useful if you have a USB flash/pen drive, especially if you use a menu such as PStart or the Portable Apps launcher.
With discussion continuing among media and users about Microsoft’s Vista and Apple’s Leopard releases, there’s growing demand for the Mac in large enterprises. But does the large enterprise market offer the best path for Apple?
Alykhan Jetha (AJ), CEO of Marketcircle, has some strong opinions about Apple, Microsoft, innovation or lack thereof.
Read more here and take a look at AJ’s blog posts. If you’d like to speak with AJ, please contact me as soon as possible (Macworld08 is looming)!
Laptopmag sent their OLPC XO to a former colleague living in Africa. She took it to Guinea and Mali, and let the village children have at it. Here’s her story and some amazing photos…..Cool to see poor kids like them having a good time.
Today starts the two-week One Laptop Per Child’s Give 1, Get 1 program. The XO laptop is being made available to U.S. and Canadian consumers, but only if they buy one to donate to a developing nation. At a cost of $399 for both computers, you can get the 3.2-pound green-and-white laptop that’s resistant to spills, rain, dust, and drops, and includes its own operating system (called “Sugar”), a built-in video camera, an Internet mesh-networking platform, gamepad controllers, and a screen that rotates into a tablet configuration. You can place an order via phone, (1-877-70-LAPTOP), or through www.xogiving.com, and receive one year of complimentary access to T-Mobile HotSpot locations throughout the United States; these hotspots can be accessed from any Wi-Fi-capable device, including the XO.
I’ve just created a 130 MB video file to be posted on my new wedding blog but I don’t have any conversion software to make it as a Flash file. So I tried searching online and found that many free Convert video online sites have a limitation of 100MB. Then at last I found at site at all2convert that does files up to 200MB. If it still does not work, I will need to buy a video conversion software and download to my laptop.
