Friday, April 30, 2010

How to burn files larger than 2GB using Nero

To burn a data DVD with a file that is 2 GB in size or larger you must use the DVD (UDF) format and not the default DVD (ISO) which is regularly used for creating a data DVD in Nero Burning ROM.
You will receive a message telling you that you have to use a different specification setting : “The file “” is larger than 2GB and therefore cannot be store in an ISO file system. Please use the UDF file system to write such large files. This can be done by selecting another compilation type.”. And this is because the ISO 9660 specification doesn’t allow to write files that are larger than 2 GB.To burn more than 2 GB at once you have to use “DVD-ROM (UDF)”. The following steps will help you to do this:
1. click and lunch Nero StartSmart (Nero icon)
2. on the left side of the window you will click on Nero Burning ROM
3. again look at the left of the new window, scroll down and click on DVD-ROM (UDF) – in the image, at the bottom.
4. click on NEW
From here you’ll have to follow the regularly steps in burning you DVD.
As you can see, that annoying message disappear and you can drag & drop files into burning section, larger than 2GB.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Web Link color

Is the hypertext links color, meant to be blue? Well, yes. Google made an experiment with two type of links color, blue and green, or more precisely using colors between blue and green and guess what? It seams that blue links are more clickable, people are more often click on blue links than green ones (hmm, still wondering why techcrunch is using green links).
But why blue? Why not red links, orange or black? This is a hell of question, since nobody can stand with a strong answer. But let’s list together a few theories about blue “Google” link color, why is this that impressive, what are the possible motivations for people to click on blue links:
1. We’ve got used with blue links from the beginning of the internet, the blue links being used as a universal link color. Nowadays is still the default link color for all the existent web browsers.
2. Blue stands out. I’m not so sure about that. I’m thinking that red is a more powerful color that blue, more dynamic and it should (I think it actually do) do a great job in sales. But let’s just admit that between blue and green, blue stands out.
3. moreover, some designers are even thinking that hypertext links should be either blue or purple (which is actually the color of craigslist links!). Both Gerry McGovern and Jakob Nielsen have a strong belief that should be no links other than blue and purple (the last one for visited links) if somebody really wants users clicking on that links. They think that changing the links color from “default” is confusing the users.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Methods of removing yahoo toolbar

The most easy method of removing Yahoo! Toolbar is to click on that pencil from the toolbar and select the Uninstall menu command.
The second way is addressing to Firefox users only. Click Add-ons or Extensions in the Tools menu, scroll down to the Yahoo! Toolbar, click on it and click uninstall.
Third method for removing Yahoo! Toolbar is to go into Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs and uninstall Yahoo! Toolbar from there.
Last method. If you have problems removing Yahoo! Toolbar you can try to remove the toolbar by using a run command. Go to Start menu and select Run. Type firefox.exe -ProfileManager and press the OK button. Select your profile and delete it. Create a New Profile by clicking that button and follow the screen instructions to create the new profile. Now you can try again to uninstall Yahoo! Toolbar, following the steps above.
Regularly Yahoo Toolbar is auto installed on the internet browser once with Yahoo messenger installation. But, out there are other installation programs trying to install these annoying toolbars, as well. So, be careful what are you installing next time and take your time reading carefully what the installation’s windows says.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

How to get past the 72 mins of video on megavideo

This is the message you get after watching 72 minutes of a movie on MegaVideo. And obvious is very very annoying. But still there is a reasonable method of watching movies for unlimited time.The method consist in using a piece of software which is hiding/changing your real IP, named HotSpot Shield. Is free and is doing pretty well the job. All you have to do is to alternate turning ON and OFF the HotSpot Shield. In this way you will watch 72 minutes of a movie from within an IP address and after that from another IP you can continue with the rest of the movie. I could watch movies for a couple of hours yesterday using this method :)
Just to make sure the method will work you can disable the cookies for TVShack only. I’m not 100% sure that is really helping but I did disable that cookies and everything is fine.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

How to Watch Live TV channels streams with VLC media player

You can download my Live TV Streams List and play it with VLC or you can open it with notepad and change the order of TV channels or even delete from the list what you don’t want. If you want to edit the file just pay closer attention to do not mess it up :)
If you want to play individual TV channels, copy the TV stream URL, click on Media tab and then Open Network and fill in the URL of the stream in the address field and click play.
Stream protocols you can play in VLC:
RTSP – Real Time Streaming Protocol
MMS – Microsoft Media Server.
URL – Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Send email using iPod Touch Notes app

Notes is a simple text editor for iPod Touch / iPhone which is coming installed by default when you buy one of these Apple products. Today I have discovered a new and interesting feature this Notes application is providing – sending emails even if in out of network mode, with no internet. Notes iPod application can be used to send emails.
What is Notes actually doing is sending emails when the iPod got network connection, a kind of “send it later” email functionality, which is not really bad if you have to compose a few email when let’s say you aren’t home, with no internet connectivity. In other words you can use the boring time spent on the bus writing emails which will be delivered to their destination when you arrive home or at a whatever place with internet connection.
To use this amazing email functionality all you have to do is to open Notes from your iPod Touch,tap “+” sign (top-right corner),write your email and then tap the Email sign (bottom-left, that “letter” sign).The email will be sent as soon as you’ll get network connectivity on your iPod Touch.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

How to copy iphone apps to your computer

1. Open up iTunes and connect your iPod Touch / iPhone to your computer.
2. Go to Store (top menu) and click on Authorize Computer.
3. Go to Advance (top menu) and click on Turn On Home Sharing.
4. Go to File (top menu) and click on Transfer Purchased from “your_name” iPod.
Now that you transferred all of those iPod applications to your Computer you have to find them and copy them in a safe place on your hard drive(s) just to make sure in case of iPod failure or Windows problem you still have your purchased apps. You can install them with just a double click – will go automatically into your iTunes Applications.
The default location for your applications should be: C:\Documents and Settings\YourName\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Mobile Applications\