• Your Account

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org

• Categories

  • Cars
  • Linux
  • Mobile
  • Uncategorized
  • Web
  • Windows
  • Wordpress

• Recent Posts

  • Export CSV from MySql Database via SSH
  • Download and convert YouTube movies…
  • My brand new car
  • Firefox 3 and bookmarks
  • My search for the best webhost…

• Poll

  Favourite smartphone

  • HTC
  • E-Ten
  • HP
  • Asus
  • Mio

  View Results

   Loading ...
• 

Download and convert YouTube movies…

One  of the most interesting tools I found was Vixy.net Converter, a small beta application which downloads and converts YouTube videos to many formats. You just copy the videos link and paste it in the application, select which format you want to save, and that’s it. It supports divx, mov, mp4, 3gp, and mp3 only. I recommend the desktop version not the online one because most of the time I used it gave me “Server too busy…”

Firefox 3 and bookmarks

Firefox is curently at version 3.0.1. I’ve always used it and I am simply in love with it. I have the same profile wich i am using since version 1, and every time I format my computer or change it, I simply copy back my profile folder and point profiles.ini to it. A few days ago I did a little “house keeping” to my bookmarks and observed that the file bookmarks.html in my profile folder was still the same. First of all I tried to figure it out by myself, but I had no success, so I googled it. I found out that since version 3 firefox doesn’t use anymore bookmarks.html but places.sqlite in the profile folder. Bookmarks.html is still used for import/export purposes.

Command Window in Vista Setup

If you found yourself in the position of needing something from the Vista installation disk, you can always raise a Command Prompt Window, and navigate to that location. For example you need the product key so you can copy - paste it rather than typing it by hand.

During the GUI phase of the installation you can press the SHIFT + F10 keys, and you will have yourself a Command Window. From this you can navigate to a text file, or run regedit.exe or any other executable Vista copied to the installation folder on the hard disk.

Thank you Daniel Petri, for this information.

Changing Remote Desktop Port

Remote Desktop is disabled by default in Windows Vista, but it’s easy enough to turn it back on. If you need to access your Vista PC from another box, it’s an essential thing to turn on.

To get to the configuration page, you can either right-click the Computer icon and choose properties, or you can type in system into the start menu search box, and then System.

Now you’ll want to click the Remote Settings link on the left hand side.

Check “Allow Remote Assistance connections to this computer” and “Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop” (this means that you can access your remote computer using Windows XP also).

Note: This will not work for Home editions of Windows Vista.

Read more

Microsoft & Yahoo

The Microsoft and Yahoo merger is still far from over despite failed negotiations between the two companies. Yahoo managed to remain independent and fend off Microsoft’s unsolicited acquisition proposal for no less than three months and now the Sunnyvale Internet giant has to suffer the consequences. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is mounting nothing short of an all out attack on Yahoo, attempting to replace the Board of Directors that said “no” to the Redmond giant. Icahn, who nominated himself for a seat on a new board of Directors for the Sunnyvale Internet company revealed that he represented a group of shareholders who believed that a bundle between Microsoft and Yahoo would be capable of taking on Google. Read more

Shutdown Command in Vista

Allows proper local or remote shutdown of machine.

SHUTDOWN [/i | /l | /s | /r | /g | /a | /p | /h | /e] [/f] [/m \\computer][/t xxx][/d [p|u:]xx:yy [/c "comment"]]

Read more

• Powered by: