March 29, 2009
This is the way we can transfer musics from cassette tape to an audio CD:
You need cassette player that has an out line, usually for headphone. Then you need cable to connect the cassette player to your computer. Insert it one end to the headphone line of the casette player and the other end in the microphone. See pictures below.
in the computer
in the cassette player
You need a audio recorder software installed in your computer, the best I know is Audacity. Download it here. Don’t forget to have “Lame mp3 encoder” to make it working with mp3 files.
If everything are ready, then do this step :
- Open Audacity, click the record button
- Play your music in cassette tape player. In the Audacity window you will see that there is a recording process. See picture below.
- When the side A of the cassette tape reach the end, just turn to side B.
- Finally you will get a file of several songs/ music, depend on how many songs/music you have been recorded. Don’t save it yet, because we will save each song/music as one file.
- Select the wave of each song/music, go to menu “File” –> Export as mp3 (or can be also as wav), until you get all the songs/musics audio file.
- Now, the last part is burning the audio file to CD audio. Use your burner software, Nero or can be the free one such as Ashampoo Burner studio 2006. Choose menu “create audio CD” and add all the audio file, then burn it. That’s all!!
With this way, you can transfer all your favorite tapes collection to audio CD or mp3 files!!
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March 29, 2009
Sometimes your article in the webpage is too long, you want to hide it and put a button for showing it. You can see the example here. You can use javascript, as below :
- Put the javascript also in hte head area.
<script type=”text/Javascript”>
function expandcollapse (postid) {
whichpost = document.getElementById(postid);
if (whichpost.className==”shown”) {
whichpost.className=”hidden”;
}
else {
whichpost.className=”shown”;
}
}
</script>
- This is the “button” to show or hide, put in the web page area as you’d like. You can have an image instead of text.
<a href=”javascript:expandcollapse(‘any_name’)”>[+/-] show/hide the hidden part</a>
This method can be used for blogs those allow javascript, such as blogger.com
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March 20, 2009
I didn’t know how it was happened and what has the owner of the computer done.
Everytime Windows start up, Incredible Mail try to install. I didn’t find the program in add/remove software (control panel), also in the folder C:\Program Files. I openned Run-> msconfig, to see the start up entries, but couldn’t find it there as well.
Finally I found the culprit in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Aplication Data\Temp; The folder named “IM”. I deleted it, and no more Indredible Mail installation in the start up.
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March 10, 2009
I reinstalled the Windows of one old computer. Everything was ok except the video driver. In the device manager (right click “MY Computer” -> properties -> hardware ->Device manager) you can see the big yellow questionmark, lack of video controller. The computer doesn’t have video card, it is integrated with the mother board. I could not find the original driver CD.
This is the way you should do if you face some similar case :
- Make sure what driver you need. In my case, I have to know what graphic driver I need. For this purpose, use “Everest Home Edition”, a freeware to diagnose your hardware system. You can download it here. For my computer, I found that it needed Intel 8215 graphic controller.
- I went to download center of Intel, search it and download the driver.
- Run the driver in the computer, and the problem solved!
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March 9, 2009
Some Youtube videos are difficult to be downloaded, or if it is downloaded – then it is difficult to be converted. Usually it has name “videoplaybac.flv” instead of a “random_character.flv”; as I have posted it some days ago here.
At that post, I suggest to download it using PQFLV downloader, then convert the flv file with WinFF opensource software.
Not satisfied with that solution, I tried with Moyea FLVdownloader 1.15.0.15 (NOT Youtube downloader); Use the “manual” using its browser, see this screenshot.
A new window “Grab video” would appear. Put the url in the browser and click “go”. That browser would grab the real url of the video. Click the checkbox and click “download” button.
It will download the video in background, silently and very fast. The .flv downloaded file is in good quality and accepted by many other video auditing/converting software without problem.
You can download Moyea FLVdownloader 1.15 in this site. The official site and many other sites provide only the newer version (version 2), but it doesn’t have the “browser” integrated and it can’t download this type of Youtube movies.
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March 7, 2009
My computer is protected by Kaspersky AV2009 and has Internet Explorer 6 and Firefox. One of my friend used it for internet using the Internet Explorer. I didn’t know what did she do, but suddenly (I guessed she just click something) the AntiVirus alert came – blocking the attempt of Internet Explorer to connect to http://msvcp70.biz/e 509.gif
Even after she closed the Internet Explorer, the alert came continually – meant the attempt didn’t stop. Then I open task manager (Ctr+Alt+del), and saw that “Internet Explorer” still running. I kill the process manually, then the alert stopped.
I thought everything was okay. But the next day, when I started up the computer, the alert came again. It is Internet Explorer that tried to connect to that same site.
So, I run “hijackthis” and found this two entries of “msupd55419.exe:
I fixed it. After reboot, the alert didn’t appear again.
But to make sure, I install SuperAntiSpyware and run complete scanning. One trojan was found :
After reboot, I open Internet Explorer. The attempt didn’t appear. Means, it must be okay now.
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March 5, 2009
Some Youtube videos are really “naughty”, so difficult to be downloaded. Most of downloader software would just say : “downloading failed” or “no video found”.
Before, I found Moyea downloader with flv browser (version 1) was good enough. With its flv browser, it almost never failed. But when I tried to find the installer, it is no more available. Now, the newer version (version 2) doesn’t have flv browser and it doesn’t work as well as the one with flv browser.
So, up to now, I stick with PQ FLV downloader. Such as this video, some downloader software couldn’t download it. PQFLV did! I saw something quite strange in the default video name: “videoplayback.flv”, see the screenshot below :
Usually the video name is like this screenshot :
The .flv file plays well in PQFLV player, but it couldn’t be processed by AVS video editor, it stucks. Also in other video editor softwares. Then I tried to convert it to .avi and other video format, using IVC (Internet Video Converter), AVS video converter – all stucked. I tried to capture using Camtasia Studio, also failed. I tried to extract the audio using AoA Audio Extractor, also failed.
Finally, I found a marvelous opensource video conventer, it is WinFF!! It converts the .flv with good quality! And FREE!! Moreover, it has the versions for Linux and Windows. Get it here.
My problem was solved!! With the new video format, I can edit it and even reconvert it to a “normal” .flv file.
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