October 3, 2008

Add Your Logo To A Video File For FREE!

Many people like to add their logo or their URL to video files. I will show you how to add a professional looking transparent logo to your video files using a free program called VirtualDub which is the best free program to work with AVIs (like DIVX, XVID or any other AVI format). You can use the same technique to add a picture or a text using VirtualDub. Prepare your logo by opening your favorite image editor and making a new image file, try to use a suitable dimensions and suitable color that will...

.NET Framework Cleanup Tool User's Guide

This .NET Framework cleanup tool is designed to automatically perform a set of steps to remove selected versions of the .NET Framework from a computer. It will remove files, directories, registry keys and values and Windows Installer product registration information for the .NET Framework. The tool is intended primarily to return your system to a known (relatively clean) state in case you are encountering .NET Framework installation, uninstallation, repair or patching errors so that you can try to install again. There are a couple of very important caveats that you should review before using this tool to remove any version of the .NET Framework from your system: This tool is designed as a last resort for cases where install, uninstall, repair...

How To Capture A Frame From Any Video File

To capture a screen of any window you have one of two options: either you press the Print Screen key on your key board (or Print Scrn) to capture the whole desktop or press (Alt + Print Scrn) to capture only the active window. Black area? Read how to fix this. Open the video file using your favorite software. Press (Alt + Print Scrn) together on your key board, now you have copied the active window to the clipboard. Open Paint by going to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Paint. Click on Edit -> Paste (Ctrl + V) to...

October 2, 2008

Free your RAM and improve system performance

1) Start any application, say Excel. Open some large documents. 2) Now go to Windows Task Manager and click Processes tab and sort the list in descending order on Mem Usage. You will notice that excel will be somewhere at the top, using multiple MBs of memory. 3) Now switch to excel and simply minimize it. (Don’t use the Minimize All Windows option of the task bar). 4) Now go back to the Windows Task Manager and see where excel is listed. Most probably you will not find it at the top. You will typically have to scroll to the bottom of the list to find excel. Now check out the amount of RAM it is using. Surprised? The memory utilization has reduced by a huge amount. 5) Minimize each...

Make Your XP Look Like Mac OSX

So you want your to look like a Mac OSX. There are two ways to accomplish the OSX look: the easy way - with a transformation pack, and the hard way - manually. I will, of course, show you how to do this the easy way: Step 1: Get a transformation pack. The best Mac OSX transformation pack for Windows XP is probably FlyakiteOSX. The creator’s website itself is worth the visit, but if it doesn’t load in your browser, get Firefox, and here’s a download link. Step 2: Install Run the installer and when you get to the following screen, MAKE SURE you check the box Create System Restore Point. The transformation...

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