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Download DVD Shrink v3.2.0.15 - To fit a DVD-Video disc on a single DVDR disc

2012-02-08T01:25:00.001+00:00

DVD Shrink is a versatile freeware tool for fitting a DVD-Video disc on a single DVDR disc.

DVD Shrinks allow the user to select compression level for each video track separately to obtain the desired disc size (which is usually below 4.38GB).

Source: DVD Shrink v3.2.0.15

YouTube Downloader 3.5 - Convert downloaded videos for iPod

2012-02-08T00:53:00.001+00:00

YouTube Downloader allows to download videos from YouTube and all other video share sites.

The software also allows you to convert downloaded videos for iPod, iPhone, PSP, Cell Phone, Windows Media, XVid and MP3.

Source: YouTube Downloader 3.5

Megavideo (and similar) with unlimited Illimitux for Chrome and Firefox

2011-02-20T19:44:00.001+00:00

I often use to watch old serials TV, that I can’t find in other way, in streaming video on Megavideo. But as you surely know there is a time limit for a continuous viewing without charge.

Fortunately there is a way to bypass in simple way this limit, with Illimitux, an free plugin for Chrome and Firefox.

Installation is very simple and within few minutes you can see any video in streaming without time limitations

Installing Illimitux

It’s enough to go to in the main page of the service and click on icon of your own browser. Addition this, you should also to install CacacoWeb , an application based on p2p used to sharing media data

Once installed both, it’s enough to go to in the page of Megavideo or similar to it to see appear a window in down:

Clicking on “Remove limitation” will be open a new window where will start the streaming of the your video. Without limitations of any kind.

How protect files by password

2011-02-18T23:31:00.001+00:00

Do you need protect a file?

Protect Me is a free software for Windows that lets you to protect important files with a password, so nobody can open them.

Its operation is very simple: create a folder protected with password and put inside all data you wish. To open it you should enter the password that only you know.

Go to website of Wecode.biz and click on Download (Click Here) to download the software. On page that opens, click here to download the file.

Once downloaded, unzip the archive ProtectMe!2010v1.0.1.1.zip just downloaded open the software ProtectMe!2010.exe. The software doesn’t requires installation: it start automatically.

Now you can create your own folder “container” protected by password. To do it select any file on your computer and move it to the window of Protect Me to add it to your “container”.

Selected all files that you want to protect, enter a password in “Type in the password you’d like for you secure container below”, click on Create Container button and choose where to save the container. The software will create a software that you must start (doing double click on it) to see, after entered the password set, all files within it.

Free Pointers and Cursors Mouse to download – How to change Cursor Mouse

2011-02-18T13:56:00.001+00:00

You changed thousands backgrounds, hundreds of icons and dozens of themes for the desktop, but you always missed one thing: the mouse cursor. Think about it, every time you changed the look of your Windows (and often you did it) you never have changed the dull white arrow that "flapping" up and down the screen.

That’s an unforgivable mistake for a manic of the style like you ... but don’t worry, remedy now! On Internet there are lots of cursors for mouse for free download ready to arrive on your desktop PC. Here where to find them and how to apply on Windows.

The best website where to find free cursors mouse is deviantART, where you can find hundreds of pages filled with cursors having the possibility to download everything you whish without incurring advertising or invasive computer dangers of various kinds.

To download a cursor mouse from deviantART, click on the preview of the cursor that you want to take and in the page that opens, click on Download File located to the right. To flip the pages with the cursors for mouse, use Next Page and Previous Page located on the bottom of the page.

Usually, the free mouse pointers to download are distributed in format zip or rar. To apply them to your system, extract the content of the file downloaded in a folder and if in the file ( and then in the folder where you have extracted the content ) there is also a file in .inf format (es. Install.inf), right- click on it and select “Install from menu” that opened to install pointers on your PC.

If you using Windows XP, you can apply pointers just installed by clicking on button Start and go into to Control Panel. On the window that opens, first click on Printers and Other Hardware, then click on Mouse to access to settings of the mouse. Then click on Pointers tab, select the set of downloaded pointers from Internet from the drop down Scheme and click OK to apply it to system.

To apply mouse cursors on Windows 7, click Start and going into to Control Panel, On the Windows that opens, first click Hardware and Sound then click Mouse (under Devices and Printers) to access to settings of the mouse. Then click on Pointers tab, select the set of downloaded pointers from Internet from the drop down Scheme and click OK to apply it to system.

If into the archive with pointers that you downloaded there is no a file in .inf format, you must apply pointers one by one manually. To make it, go into to setting of the mouse (as just seen), select the kind of pointer to change from the list (eg Normal select, Help select, etc.). click on Browser to select the cursor to use from the folder where you have extract it earlier and click Apply to save the changes

Hamster Video Converter: the video converter that supports more than 200 devices

2011-02-18T00:12:00.001+00:00

Hamster Video Converter is an easy and intuitive free software that lets to convert any video to be able to reproduce it on iPod, iPad, iPhone, PS3, PSP, Blackberry, xBox, Zune, Apple TV, iRiver and so on.

It lets to contemporarily convert different files video, in batch.

It is easy to use and comes with a handy drag'n'drop interface. To use it you do not need special knowledge and can also be used by a beginner, thanks to the driven procedure.

Converts in the formats 3GP, MP3, MP4, AVI, MPG, WMV, MPEG, FLV, HD DVD, M2TS and others ...

Supports over 200 devices and 40 languages

Hamster Video converter although it's a free software, it results to be a complete and efficient way to convert popular video formats.

Hamster Video Converter is a freeware and is compatible with Windows / Xp / Vista / Seven.

Download Hamster Video Converter

Silk: to make color three-dimensional figures

2011-02-08T22:25:00.001+00:00

The website weavesilk.com lets to make splendid color three-dimensional figures.

With patience and practice you can create real works of art, to use as wallpaper for mobile or desktop PC.

Created by Yuri Vishnevsky a student of computer science impassioned of mathematics, art and piano.

Some examples of what can be done with this tool can be found on the Silk’s homepage.

Go to weavsilk.com

Sencha Animator: to create CSS3 animations advanced in simple way

2011-01-29T22:23:00.001+00:00

Sencha Animator, is an desktop application to create animations CSS3 for WebKit, Apple iOS, Android and BlackBerry.

Thanks to the simple editor (very similar to Adobe Flash) whoever, without particular knowledges and without writing a line of code, will have the ability to create animations in CSS3.

In this page found some demos that will let you to understand better the potentialities of this program.

Sencha Animator is free and is available for Mac, Linux and Windows.

Try it.

Download Sencha Animator

ThePirateApp: The Open Source successor of Mulve

2011-01-29T01:33:00.001+00:00

ThePirateApp is a new software P2P open-source that lets to download media files to high speed.

The download speed is really amazing! The reason for this elevated speed of download is that the transfer of the files doesn't happen from computer to computer (as it normally happens in the softwares P2P like eMule), but from several Russian server, where there are an infinity quantity of file audio.

This software comes with malware-free and all are invited to contribute to future versions and the improvement of the same software.

Download ThePirateApp

SearchPSD: PSD file search engine

2011-01-28T23:08:00.001+00:00

SearchPSD is a search engine of file in format .PSD.

The engine, though still young, it already offers us a database of 1500 files PSD divided into categories (buttons, logos, player.).

Every user can upload their own work (through this form) to enrich the database of SearchPSD.

From the upload form is possible also decide the license to attribute to the file.

All files can be downloaded free of charge, in every case, the advice is that to have a look to the licenses (if you intend to make commercial use) to avoid future problems.

Go to website of SearchPSD

iPhone Explorer: use iPod, iPad and iPhone as an hard disk

2011-01-20T22:05:00.001+00:00

iPhone Explorer is a freeware that lets to use an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch as if it were in formality disk or unity flash USB.

With iPhone Explorer we have the possibility of browse / edit / insert / delete the files and folders on our iPhone as if it were a normal pen drive or flash drive USB.

The use of the software is very simple and intuitive: it is possible to use the drag-and-drop to add or to remove file and folders from your iPhone.

iPhone Explorer is compatible with any the iPhones and iPod Touch including the new iPhone 4 and iOS.

IPhone Explorer runs on Windows Xp / Vista / Seven and Mac.

Download iPhone Explorer

Extreme Planet Makeover: Make your own planet

2011-01-20T21:32:00.001+00:00

Extreme Planet Makeover is a simple application, developed from the Nasa, with which we can create and to personalize our virtual planet.

You just need to define parameters such as the type of planet, its dimensions, the distance from its solar star and its age.

At the end you can download the image of the planet in .JPG format.

Go to the site of Extreme Planet Makeover

The list of the Best 10 Web Sites of 2011 to Download Torrent

2011-01-20T14:38:00.001+00:00

Today we list you those that will be, to our opinion, the best sites to Torrent download of 2011

1. The Pirate Bay

We could not to start that with The Pirate Bay, maybe the most famous in this sector, also if it's not a good moment for him.

The other 9 sites to unload torrent

The operation of all the sites is similar: insert in a box of search the name of the file, the title of the film or however a word that permit to find what interests us. Let's Send or press the Browse button and it will appear us a list of file from which to select that more proper for our demands. We won't bore you, therefore, repeating for every site the same description; we list you, one after the other, if you are not sorry, the sites that I have found.

2. Torrentz

3. Isohunt

4. Kick Ass Torrent

5. BTjunkie

6. Demonoid

7. Extra Torrent

8. Torrent Downloads

9. Torrent Reactor

10. Lime Torrents

And with this our list is concluded

How to download torrent in simple way

2010-12-21T14:10:00.001+00:00

Today I want to explain you how is possible to download with the torrents in simple and quick way without installing any program exploiting the free service offered by a site. In fact thanks to this site we can convert the files torrent and to download them on our computer without the need of any clients as uTorrent or BitTorrent. All we must do is to get the URL of the torrent or download the file torrent and insert one of the two in the form on the site in question. But let's see in the detail the small procedure to follow.

How to download file torrent
The site that lets us to convert the files torrent so that to be able to download them without installing any program calls Torrent2Exe.com, let's see how it shows to our:

There are two ways to insert the torrent that we want to convert and download:

1. Inserting the URL of the torrent that you can take by right-clicking the mouse on the link or the icon to download the file torrent from sites as Mininova and choosing Copy Link Location. Let's see an example:

2. Or else download the file torrent on our computer and then select it clicking on Browse button.

After having inserted the URL or directly the file torrent select the option Normal size, no additional download will be required.

Now we just have to click on Start Download.

On our computer we will download a file called tor.exe. Clicking on it will open a small window and the download of the file will begin. Here is the window in question:

I remember you that can use Torrent2Exe on both Windows XP and Windows Vista and if you use an any firewalls you must decontrol the execution of the program for the download.

32 sets of icons in 3D for all tastes and demands

2010-12-19T21:21:00.001+00:00

If you like collect icons, be happy, because today you will feel like a glutton that enters the factory of Willy Wonka.

We are, in fact, to propose you a collection of 32 sets of 3D icons that they will not only help you to personalize your desktops in the way most elegant and original possible, but in some cases they will also allow you to enrich your commercial projects for free.

To download these icons to click on link below, decide your pack favourite and click on the image to download it.

Download 32 sets of 3D icons

Tutorial: Create Web 2.0 buttons in Photoshop

2010-12-17T23:41:00.001+00:00

Here is a beautiful tutorial to create buttons in style web 2.0 with the application Adobe Photoshop.
This tutorial there might be also useful for other uses, besides the buttons as banner or header. In few footsteps you will be able to make some beautiful images like those ones that you see below, Let's start with the steps to follow:

Step 1

Run Adobe Photoshop and create a new image, any size. Usually larger than 450x300 may be fine. You select the Rounded Rectangle tool and draw a shape as that one above.

Step 2

Double click on the level of the form to open the window of Layer Style. Set the following parameters:

Drop shadow:

Opacity 31% Distance 1px, Choke 0%, Size 0 px

Bevel and Emboss:

Depth 100%, Size 0px, Soften 0px

Gradient Overlay:

Click on the gradient bar and set: in position 0% (the beginning of the bar) color #1378cd, in position 100% (the end of the bar) #4da5f0

Stroke:

Size 5px, Position inside, Color #54abf6

Step 3

Now insert your text. align it horizontally and vertically in the center. The character here used is a Lucida Sans Unicode; 55pt; rounded; Double click on the level and in Blending Options set:

Gradient Overlay: Position 0% color #9ec7eb, Position 100% color #ecf6ff

Step 4

It's the moment to insert to the left a small logo to improve the everything. To do it, selects the rounded rectangle tool with radius 5px. Draw it as above. Now, in the Blending Options , set the various parameters in this way:

Inner shadow
Opacity:45%
Distance:0px
Size:43px;

Bevel and Emboss
Depth:100%
Size:0px
Soften:0px
Opacity Highlight Mode:50%
Opacity Shadow Mode:100%

Gradient Overlay
Double click on the gradient bar and set:
Position:0% #0e2f4a
Position:47% #001a31
Position:48% #002545
Position:100% #0f4b7f

Stroke
Size:5px
Double click on the gradient bar and set:
Position:0% #1468af
Position:100% #50abf8

Step 5

To make everything more beautiful, give it an glass effect. To do this hold down the CTRL key and select the level of your shape. Once that is done, use the rectangular selection tool, Hold down Alt and capture the area as shown above.

Step 6

You fill the selection just captured in white and set Opacity 15%

Save and View the Chronology of Facebook Chat

2010-12-14T19:58:00.001+00:00

Many users of the social network Facebook will surely have tried to recover the chronology of the chat to reread the messages exchanged with own contacts, thing however impossible until some time ago.

From now however thanks to the addon Facebook Chat History Manager 1.1.5 you can to save the chat of Facebook to memorize the chronology of the chat on the computer so that in the future the messages we will be able to read the messages exchanged through the Facebook chat.

the extension is available only for the browser Mozilla Firefox and is simple to use and fast to install, will be enough to open the browser Firefox, unload the extension and allow the installation, then once the installation will be completed restart the browser and you will be ready to save all the chats of Facebook.

Once installed the addon and restarted the browser, entering the admin panel you can browse through the names users with which you had chatted in the days, weeks and months ago.

An extension really useful and much appreciated by members of Facebook, considering that it has already been downloaded from over 184.648 members.

Download Facebook Chat History

Windows 7: 9 Christmas themes to decorate the desktop

2010-12-14T17:56:00.001+00:00

It is on 14th December and come into our houses the atmosphere of the Christmas 2010, a Christmas that everyone whish serene and happy. And as the best way to start a nice Christmas, if not "decorating" the desktop with some beautiful themes suitable for the occasion?

To rhetorical question we reply serving you a collection of 9 Christmas themes for Windows 7 that will help you to bring on your systems backgrounds, icons, and colors suitable for the occasion. It concerns mainly simple themes, which do not require additional software to be used, but there is also some visual style that to be applied need the presence of NiwradSoft UxTheme Patcher, UxStyle, Windows Themes Installer or other similar solutions.

Now, remain you only to give a look here under and to choose the themes for Windows 7 Christmas that more suit it to your tastes.

Christmas theme for Windows 7 - it includes 11 themed wallpapers, 5 icons and a set of Christmas cursors.

Christmas Theme Pack - Includes four wallpapers of Christmas that every 10 seconds alternate it automatically.

Joulu - an elegant visual style for Windows 7 designed to measure for the Christmas parties.

Blue Christmas - a simple theme for the desktop for who prefers the blue to the red typical of the Christmas.

Server Emule, new list of the fastest and secure ones updated to December 2010

2010-12-14T15:44:00.001+00:00

eMule is undoubtedly the program of file sharing more used to the world, and it founds him as well you know on the networks eDonkey and Kad.
A few months ago suffered a serious it of arrest for the closing of some of the most important servers eMule, and then today us of InformaticPractice we want to furnish you a list of the eMule servers safer and faster (updated to December 2010):

To add the eMule servers the procedure is always the same, once opened emule:

Go to the Server tab in the panel of eMule.
Delete all the servers in the list.
Insert to the right in the field "Update server.met from URL" the address and click on "Update".
Restart eMule

Following the lists that propose the servers safer and fast eMule, update to December 2010:

http://peerates.net/servers.php
http://www.gruk.org/server.met
http://www.server-met.de/dl.php?load=gz&trace=33357819.4167
http://ed2kmet.x24hr.com/pl/slist.pl?download/server-good.met
http://ed2kmet.x24hr.com/pl/slist.pl?download/server-best.met

Despite these lists are updated daily, it is however possible to incur in spy or fake server, the best thing it would be to manually add the servers considered, by eMule server users, fast and safe, here are:

!! Saugstube !! IP:193.138.221.214 porta:4242
# eMule Serverlist Nr.1 # IP:193.138.221.213 porta:4242
# eMule Serverlist Nr.1 # IP:193.138.221.210 porta:4242
eDonkeyServer No1 IP:77.247.178.244 porta:4242
Razorback 3.0 IP:85.17.52.92 porta:5000
Razorback 3.1 IP:193.138.205.25 porta:5000
Razorback 3.2 IP:85.17.52.124 porta:5000
United Europe 1 IP:85.17.208.77 porta:8899
United Europe 2 IP:85.17.145.2 porta:8899
United Europe 3 IP:85.17.154.36 porta:8899
www.UseNeXT.to IP:80.252.110.146 porta:4661

New Server Emule for Fastweb updated to December 2010 (for users of the version assembly there is no need of it):

Quakenet Indirizzo ip: 1.105.182.66 porta: 2002
Quakenet 2 Indirizzo ip: 1.105.182.69 porta: 2002
Fastwebspeed Indirizzo ip: 1.244.67.127 porta: 2002
http://update.adunanza.net/servers.met
http://met.syltonline.de/server.met

Other sure servers are available to the address:
http://www.emule-mods.de/?servermet=show
To insert them inside your list server, go to the screen server of emule and enter the data above brought in the window New Server, or create a link Ed2k following the syntax ed2k://|server|IP|door|/

We have mentioned before to the servers spy and fake, but what exactly are?
The first ones are server maintained by the companies anti-p2p on the net edonkey 2000, and lately they have known a rapids diffusion.
The main purpose of these companies is to use the servers spy for monitor what the users share and spread file garbage in the attempt to produce discouragement and uneasiness to users.
As it regards the servers fake, Peerates furnishes us this description:

They don't normally react to the requests P2P.
The total number of consumers and shared file it is counterfeit.
Don't show valid results for the greatest part of the searches.
Don't furnish any valid source for the files to download.

Always have under I check the servers emule, can consult the list that furnishes us the official forum of eMule or P2P Forums and eventually to insert the various addresses IP inside the PeerGuardian so that to turn offshore always from server spy emule or server emule fake!

To have Always under check the emule servers, you can consult the list that furnishes us the official forum of eMule or P2P Forums and eventually to insert the various addresses IP inside the PeerGuardian so that to stay always away from spy or fake emule server !

Template for Channels Youtube Gratis

2010-12-13T23:10:00.001+00:00

Do you have a YouTube channel or you’re thinking to create one? Well, as you will know it is possible to personalize the graphic theme of the channel Youtube to really liking, even if the operation is not so easy for the less experts.
Just for this today I recommend you some sites where possible to find some already templates ready to Youtube and indeed interesting to make your own original channel with a new look

The first site that we recommend you is FreeYoutubeLayouts.com, that offers more than 233 models for Youtube all free. To apply a template is enough to select it, to download it and to apply the background color settings in the YouTube channel.

Other site is MyTubeDesign.com, where you will find other themes for YouTube very beautiful and free.

You won't have anymore excuses starting today of to have a Youtube channel so boring, and surely your visitors will be happy of it.

To create a Comic strip Online with the Heroes Marvel

2010-12-13T22:12:00.001+00:00

Surely among you readers of the blog there will be different impassioned of comic strips and among the more beds and famous in the world there are without doubt those of the Marvel heroes, but perhaps not everybody you know that there is a online service that allows you to create your own personalized comic strip using the characters of the Marvel series.

To create a comic strip personalized Marvel cannot be easier, in fact the editor is very simple and intuitive to be used: it first of all needs to choose before if it is desired to create a strip or a whole page, then the structure and you are ready to insert backgrounds, characters, dialogues and others useful things to create the comic strip with so much of options to regulate the dimensions, the orientation....

At the end of the job, when the comic strip is completed, it is possible to download it in PDF format or print it directly on paper.

If you have always desired to create a comic strip but you have never done it because you are unable to draw this is the right solution!.

Link: Tool Online Marvel Comics

PDF to JPG – PDF Converter easy to use

2010-10-12T15:14:00.001+01:00

This free tool can convert PDF files into a range of image formats, including JPEG, BMP, GIF and PNG, PDF to JPG is very easy to use – simply add a file, or a folder of PDFs if you want to batch convert several at once, choose an image format and start the conversion.

PDF Converter

Google SketchUp – 3D modelling free program

2010-10-11T18:59:00.001+01:00

3D-modelling programs don’t get any easier to use than the latest version of Google SketchUp.

Creating a 3D model is simply a matter of laying down a flat geometric shape and then pushing or pulling it to add depth. If you want to create a cube, for example, all you have to do is draw a square and then click on it and drag the shape upwards.

Transforming the cube into a house just involves carving out doors and windows, splitting the top face into two and dragging it to make an apex roof. The various tools on offer let you create some surprisingly detailed objects with ease but if you don’t have the patience or inclination to build something from scratch, you can always import and adapt an existing project from Google’s 3D Warehouse.

Although you can use the program to design any 3D object, SketchUp 8 is particularly well suited to creating building Maker, get textures from Street View, export models directly into Google Earth and add geo-location to your model via the built-in Google Maps.

Other new features include improved terrain and coloured aerial imagery, volume information for solid objects and the ability to push and pull selected faces, even if they are hidden behind something else.

The Pro version (which costs a whopping $495) introduces some additional features, including Solid Tools and an improved Layout component, but the free edition should be good enough to caret for most people’s modelling needs

Spype’s Trick – Use secret smilies in Skype

2010-10-11T18:23:00.001+01:00

When you’re instant messaging someone is Skype you can add an emoticon by clicking the down arrow next to the smiley face and selecting the one you want. Skype offers instant access to 72 different designs, but it actually recognises shortcuts for an awful lot more, including a complete set of flags of the world.

To see the full list of supported emoticons, and their shortcuts, go to factoryjoe.com

CloudMagic – Firefox and Chrome search extension

2010-10-09T23:53:00.001+01:00

It doesn’t take long to search for messages in Gmail, but this browser extension for Firefox and Chrome turbo-charges the process by presenting and updating results as you type.

CloudMagic works by indexing the content locally on your hard disk and adds a special CloudMagic search box to Gmail. You can preview individual results and copy and paste content from old emails into a new one without having to leave the Compose window.

You have to log into CloudMagic to use it but your credentials are stored locally so only you will have access to your account. Future versions of the add-on will also work with Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Google Docs and more