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General Software Discussion / Re: Converting from FLV to AVI

« Last post by Mark0 on May 23, 2007, 02:43 PM »

Sometimes, or for small files, the online convertes also can come handy. I have collected a couple ones here:
File Extension - File formats converters

Bye!

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Living Room / Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git

« Last post by Mark0 on May 18, 2007, 05:08 PM »

If you never heard Linus "live", this is a great speak IMHO to get a some bit of Linus's way of doing things:

YouTube - Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git

It's also a lot of (geek) fun! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Web Mail Recommendation?

« Last post by Mark0 on May 18, 2007, 09:09 AM »

Gmail integrate also the Google Talk IM (Jabber based) right in the browser, with the conversations logs that become like mail threads, and equally searcheable. Going from mail message to IM and back is very handy.

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Living Room / Re: Cool Google trick: search file types

« Last post by Mark0 on May 17, 2007, 06:45 PM »

I use the filetype: search a lot, mostly for finding samples of some filetypes for creating new defs for TrID. One may be really surprised seeing how many files are left in pubblic (and thus index) areas!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Web Mail Recommendation?

« Last post by Mark0 on May 17, 2007, 06:41 PM »

Another vote for Gmail here!
I got my account back at the time trough GmailSwap (or something similar), offering a picturecard from Venice!
First I wanted to try it just out of curiosity and for the "Google" factor, then started using it more than The Bat!, then started using Gmail from his web interface exclusively.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: File Extension Seeker

« Last post by Mark0 on May 17, 2007, 11:48 AM »

Thx mouser!

I tried to post a story on Digg, let's see in how much time it disappear from the upcoming stories to never be reminded again!
http://digg.com/soft...r_search_engine_fast

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Living Room / Re: Mac Mini & Boot Camp alternatives?

« Last post by Mark0 on May 17, 2007, 06:03 AM »

Never used a Mini, but I'm using an Intel iMac for about 1 year now so maybe I can provide some feedback.
I use it mainly as a classic WinTel machine. With BootCamp (that really is just a partitioning utility + boot loader + a bunch of Win drivers + a nice installer), and setting the Win partition as the default bootup option, you'll forget you are using a Mac (if you need).
So, if you had some doubts about compatibility issues, or strange "quirks" about using the Mac as a PC, you can be sure there aren't any.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / File Extension Seeker

« Last post by Mark0 on May 17, 2007, 05:48 AM »

File Extension Seeker

This on line tool let you query a BIG list of file extensions & corresponding descriptions across various file extensions sources (mainly FILExt & FileInfo, ad the moment, in addition to my own data coming from TrID file identifier data base). I got permission from the above mentioned sites to crawl their pages to keep my data always up to date.

Complex queries can be made on the file extension, but also on the file type description. Keyword match is by whole word, but an asterisk can be used at the start or at the end of a word, to match anything before or after.
So you can very quickly see what can be a .DAA file, for example, or get the list of all filetypes that contain the word 'document' but not 'microso*'.

All the results all clickable and will jump on the corresponding page of the listed website, to gather the whole details that any site can provide.

The layout and some other details are still be worked on, but the basic search functionality is up & running, so I hope it could be useful to someone.



Also, there's an integrated and autodiscoverable Firefox search engine on the page. Just click on the Firefox search engine combo, and select "Add File Extension Seeker" to add it to your search engines list. Then it will be possible to quickly search for a file extension directly from FF search bar.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which Software MP3 Encoder already supports DualCore Cpus?

« Last post by Mark0 on April 04, 2007, 07:20 PM »

MP3 encoding, by itself, is not much suited for parallelization.
IMHO, you best bet is using a proven encoder like LAME, and start 2 process working on different files.

If you use a tool like ExactAudioCopy to rip & encode, it have already the ability to start more than one instance of the encoder.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bear Bottoms Freeware: A very nice high-quality software site

« Last post by Mark0 on December 04, 2006, 06:49 PM »

Nice! Lots of interesting software to try & check!

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Living Room / Re: I'd like to express thanks to the DonationCoder.com community today

« Last post by Mark0 on November 24, 2006, 04:31 PM »

Many thanks to you mouser!!
And off course also to all the other posters that really make this place special!

 

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Living Room / Re: digg requires far too much effort!

« Last post by Mark0 on November 24, 2006, 04:27 PM »

I have to agree definitely about the "curious" vs "interesting" thing.
Just for a very recent example. Yesterday, after browsing with Google Earth in the Amsterdam zone, I saw what immediately seemed the result of some kind of optical aberration.
I posted a Google Maps like to it on Digg just out of curiosity, with a bit "sensationalistic" title ... and the morning after I saw it was dugg over 600 times, and was about the 5th or 6th item on the front page!!

P.S.
By the way, It's this: Seen on Google Map: A 'Star' over Amsterdam!! - It's over 1.400 now.

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft + Novell = ?

« Last post by Mark0 on November 19, 2006, 06:23 PM »

Just check this:

Link: eWeek.com - Microsoft's Muglia Talks Longhorn, Novell and Java

Since the advent of open-source software and its usage by business customers, there has been an open question about intellectual property. So this deal is a milestone in that it shows how commercial and open-source companies can work together to assure customers that when they acquire Novell SUSE's open-source technology they are in compliance with, and are respecting, all of the intellectual property that exists in the environment.

Easy to see where this is heading...

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft + Novell = ?

« Last post by Mark0 on November 18, 2006, 06:00 PM »

I think it's just another episode in the war of FUD, patents, etc., after the SCO one failed.

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General Software Discussion / Re: IDEA: Kid-Safe browser

« Last post by Mark0 on November 14, 2006, 07:35 PM »

I have seen mentioned this (but never tried):

http://www.kidrocket.org/

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Living Room / Re: Go for a good laugh in this comparison between regular Europeans and Italian

« Last post by Mark0 on November 09, 2006, 05:32 PM »

Bozzetto is great! 

BTW- App103...

Please tell me capisci is correct, I lose sleep over these kind of things...

-Edvard (November 07, 2006, 12:11 PM)

It's written correctly. As for the pronunciation...

Spoiler

I would probably try to write it for an non-italian as: cupeeshee. That for proper Italian. The sound of the Wiktionary writing remind me more that of some southern dialects.

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General Software Discussion / Re: New Mozilla CERT Security Alert

« Last post by Mark0 on November 09, 2006, 06:57 AM »

Glad to see that this vulnerabilities are already promptly patched (plus the 2.0 version of Firefox isn't affected).

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Top banner weight

« Last post by Mark0 on November 05, 2006, 09:55 AM »

Same for the forum top banner. The orginal PNG is about 34KB:



JPEG version:

(10KB)

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Site/Forum Features / Top banner weight

« Last post by Mark0 on November 05, 2006, 09:49 AM »

I just noticed that the (beautyful!) top banner is an over 80KB PNG:



Isn't that a bit too much? I checked because I noticed it downloading when going to the homepage. I had probably cleaned the web cache, and saw it appearing nearly row-by-row.

So, I tried to come up with a couple of more lighter JPEG versions, without sacrificing too much quality:

(30KB)
(20KB)

What do you think?

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Living Room / GeoURL - Find your web neighbours

« Last post by Mark0 on November 04, 2006, 01:01 PM »

From the site:

GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you. GeoURL is listing 516,559 sites.

To be added to the geo-index, one just need to add a couple of meta tags on his homepage, and then tell the server to crawl that URL. Then, one can discovers websites or blogs within a certain range from his location, setup an RSS feed to be notified about new near websites, etc.

Link: GeoURL (2.0)

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Living Room / Re: what do YOU install on a fresh Windows PC?

« Last post by Mark0 on November 04, 2006, 06:50 AM »

TotalCommander & Firefox are my first two downloads & installs.

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Living Room / Helloween masks

« Last post by Mark0 on October 26, 2006, 06:19 PM »

The scariest one:



Subnetmask XP!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 2 hints and tips

« Last post by Mark0 on October 26, 2006, 04:07 PM »

Just one tip that interested me. Firefox 2.0 default putting the close icons on every tab. I prefer instead just one single red X icon, on the right.
Just set browser.tabs.closeButtons = 3 to have it this way.

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General Software Discussion / MiniDumper - a little hexdump utility

« Last post by Mark0 on October 24, 2006, 09:49 AM »

N.B. I hope this is the right section for posting this, instead the the "Announce Your Software/Service/Product", since it's such a small & free utility. Eventually, my apologies and feel free to move it.

MiniDumper is a very small tool that come out after seeing the many posts on FILExt's forum made by users that try to discover info about certain, unknown files. It's only purpose is to make an hexdump of the header (first 256 bytes are usually enough) in an easy way. The dump can be copied to the clipboard with & already formatted with the proper UBB code with a single click, ready to be posted on a forum to ask for assistance.
Single 20KB EXE file, no installation needed.



Sample output:

[Select]

MiniDumper v1.02 - (C) 2004-05 By Marco Pontello

File name: c:\windows\media\onestop.mid
File size: 39KB

0000: 4D 54 68 64 00 00 00 06 00 01 00 11 00 C0 4D 54  MThd..........MT
0010: 72 6B 00 00 00 EE 00 FF 03 08 4F 6E 65 20 53 74  rk........One St
0020: 6F 70 00 FF 02 1B A9 32 30 30 30 20 4D 69 63 72  op.....2000 Micr
0030: 6F 73 6F 66 74 20 43 6F 72 70 6F 72 61 74 69 6F  osoft Corporatio
0040: 6E 00 FF 01 0D 44 61 76 69 64 20 59 61 63 6B 6C  n....David Yackl
0050: 65 79 00 FF 01 01 0A 00 FF 58 04 04 02 18 08 00  ey.......X......
0060: FF 59 02 00 00 00 FF 51 03 08 F9 CB 81 40 FF 51  [email protected]
0070: 03 0B 4D 85 B4 48 FF 51 03 0B 4D 85 98 00 FF 51  ..M..H.Q..M....Q
0080: 03 09 27 C0 C2 00 FF 51 03 08 07 EC B0 08 FF 51  ..'....Q.......Q
0090: 03 05 0E E4 B4 38 FF 51 03 06 C8 1C 81 38 FF 51  .....8.Q.....8.Q
00A0: 03 0B 2A 3B 84 1B FF 51 03 0C 0B E2 45 FF 51 03  ..*;...Q....E.Q.
00B0: 0E 15 C5 44 FF 51 03 10 F4 47 29 FF 51 03 13 12  ...D.Q...G).Q...
00C0: D0 33 FF 51 03 0E D3 8C 95 00 FF 51 03 16 E3 60  .3.Q.......Q...`
00D0: 81 40 FF 51 03 06 5B 9B 99 40 FF 51 03 07 A1 20  [email protected]..[[email protected]...
00E0: B4 40 FF 51 03 13 E7 1C 81 40 FF 51 03 0B 2A 3B  [email protected][email protected]..*;
00F0: B1 48 FF 51 03 12 AF 2A 83 38 FF 51 03 0B 96 C6  .H.Q...*.8.Q....

Link: MiniDumper

Hope it maybe useful in some occasions.
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Living Room / Re: Zap reader

« Last post by Mark0 on October 24, 2006, 07:04 AM »

Wow, amazing reading experience!

Thank you!