Archive for May, 2008

[Windows] Converting Your Videos To iPhone Format

Videora screenshot

If you are looking for a free software to convert your existing video files to iPhone format so that you can watch it on the go, then Videora iPhone converter is the one for you.

Videora iPhone converter is a free video converter that converts video files, YouTube videos, movies and DVD’s into iPhone format. The software supports a variety of video formats, including avi, divx, xvid, flv, x264, vob, mpeg, DVD etc.

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Popularity: 9% [?]

5 Great Alternative To Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a great product. I have been using it since 2003 and I simply love its functionality and ease of use. If there is anything to complaint about, then it has to be the high cost (US$649) involved in buying the software.

For those who can’t afford Photoshop, here is a list of the 5 great free alternative to Photoshop.

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Popularity: 16% [?]

How To Get a Mac OSX Style Dock In Hardy Heron

For those who are a crazy fan of the Mac OSX dock, you can now install Avant Window Navigator to achieve the similar dock-like effect in Ubuntu Hardy Heron.

Avant Window Navigator Preview

Avant Window Navigator (AWN) is a dock-like navigation bar for the Linux desktop that positions itself at the bottom of the screen. It can be used to keep track of open windows and behaves like a normal window list.
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Top 10 Things That You Need to Do After Installing Hardy Heron

The latest version of Ubuntu - Hardy Heron, comes with a lot of improvement and functionality over its predecessors. However, unknown to many, some of the best features are hidden and are not enabled by default. To really get the most out of Hardy Heron, you really need to uncover these features, activate and configure them to perform at its best.

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Manage Your Hard Drive Usage With WinDirStat

WinDirStat is a disk statistic viewer and cleanup tool for all variants of Windows OS. What makes this open-source software different from the rest is that you can delete and remove unwanted files right inside the program. Most disk usage analyzers only allow you to view the file size and the percentage of the hard drive it occupied, but WinDirStat allows you to do more than that. Instead of going to Windows Explorer, find the files and delete it, you can now do it right in the program.

WinDirStat screenshot
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Popularity: 6% [?]

Console Gaming For iPhone

[Game console lover] If you need a reason to convince yourself to buy the expensive iPhone, here is it: You can now play all your favorite console games in your iPhone, via the emulators. Be it Playstation, Nintendo or even Sega Genesis, their emulators are easily available in the installer app. Simply click and install and you will be playing your favorite game in no time.

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Zenbe: The next Gmail killer?

Zenbe is a late starter in the webmail arena, especially after the market has long been dominated by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. However, this newcomer into the industry does has some ‘killer apps‘ that could probably snatch some market shares from the leaders.
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Great Alternatives Search Engines That Are Unknown to Many

Other than the big four: Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask, how many search engines do you know? One? Two? Five? Or Ten? Most people don’t realize that there are LOTS more search engines than just Google, and a great proportion of them are targeting great niches and providing useful information (and features) that you can’t find in the big players.

Below I have compiled a list of some of the great alternative search engines.

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How to Check MD5 Hash?

MD5 is a message digest algorithm that takes a message of arbitrary length and produces a 128-bits digital signature of the message. It is most widely used for verifying the integrity of the file downloaded from the Web. Since it is almost impossible to produce the same digital signature from different message, by simply comparing the MD5sum of the downloaded file and the MD5 hash provided by the owner, you will know if you have downloaded the exact copy of the file without any error.
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Enabling USB support for VMware Server in Hardy Heron

After installing VMware Server on Hardy heron, if you find that your virtual machine cannot detect any USB devices on the host, that is because Ubuntu has removed the support for /proc/bus/usb/*.

The following is the way to solve this issue:
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Popularity: 12% [?]