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Make email signature to work with Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail

by riyas 2 comments

You may be familiar with use of email signature. It helps to add an identity tag below mails. Here we describe about creating an email signature which would have your basic contact information, IM Client username and links to social profiles

WiseStamp is a free website which lets you to make a customized signature. You will have to install WiseStamp add on in firefox before starting make use of it. After installing add on you can start customizing signature by clicking edit signature option in the add on box. it will save the signature. You can add this one below your emails while composing mail in firefox.

Features:

1. Only works with firefox web browser

2. Supports Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and AOL

3. Allows you to create 2 types of signatures- Personal and Official

4. A tiny HTML editor is provided. There you can add you name, other personal information and links to your email and blog

5. Lets you to display usernames of IM clients like skype, MSN, Google talk etc.

6. Allows you to add links to various social profiles

7. You can edit settings at anytime

Visit WiseStamp Homepage now and find some signature models here.

How to check web pages' last update

by riyas 14 comments

Tag Internet Tips and Tricks

How to check whether you are getting latest information from a website. In case of blogposts, it is simple. We can know date of publication of a post. But there is no such facility in some sites like Wikipedia which is a huge resource of information. But we could overcome it using a simple trick.

To check a web page's last update, go to that page in a browser. After loading the full page remove the url from address bar then type in the following code as shown above.

javascript:alert(document.lastModified)

Hit enter. A pop up window will show you the exact date and time of last updating the page.

This code will display web pages' last update including specific time. This trick helps you know whether you are getting the latest information or not.

How to convert a DVD movie into 700 MB XviD AVI file

by riyas 0 comments

Tag Multimedia Softwares Tips and Tricks

Now days XviD AVI movie files are very popular and a good alternative of DVD movies. They can be simply carried in a single CD each. It would have a very good clarity slightly lesser than DVD movies. A DVD disc could have almost 5 XviD movies in it.
I had been looking for software to convert my DVD movies to 700 MB files. I found a cool and user friendly software FairUse Wizard which can do all jobs mentioned here.

How to use Fair use Wizard

Get latest version of FUW from here and install it into your computer.
Open Fair Use Wizard. You will get the main window. Here I use version 2.8.
Before starting encoding, click on options
Here we can choose which codec to be used, size of the file and encoding speed. Quality encoding speed will take more time to encode. But it can produce high quality video.
The combination of next generation codec H.264 with MP4 and AVI are also available for encoding.
The x264 codec would also be preferable to encode video. It is the open source version of H.264 codec. MKV container will be most selective one to host x264 video.
You can also select desired subtitle from subtitle track drop down menu. Remember the DVD movie must have selected subtitle.
Click next. You will get back the main window.
If you are not familiar with advanced options, simply select Full auto mode. It is highly recommended. Name the project and choose a destination folder. Click next.
A new window will pop up. It will ask for the source drive or DVD image file from your hard drive. I recommend using image file for encoding. It would speed up encoding. Back up DVD movie into your hard disk as image file using any freeware like DVD Shrink.
Go to next stage. The program itself will do all other tasks. Encoding time would depend upon your system configuration.

Start watching movie just after finishing all processes. Enjoy!
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A mirror for Google

by riyas 4 comments

Tag Internet Websites

We know the Internet is the world of information and Entertainment. But some times we find some websites stands out only for making fun. Here is a website that can make fun with Google.

ElgooG is a website which makes an image of Google. This site absolutely looks like Google as seen in a mirror. You can feel this while typing key words also. First get a mirror if you use this site.

Get the start button in windows XP to display the system time

by riyas 9 comments

Tag Tips and Tricks Windows XP

Here is a funny hack. Replace letters in start menu with system time. It is very simple. For this, a small freeware is needed. At first, get it from here.

Download this cool freeware to your hard drive and install it. This program replaces the word ‘Start’ with the clock.

This tiny piece of code comes with startclock.ini file for making configuration changes such as 12-hour clock with seconds, 24 hour clock load program at start up, refresh rate (be careful while change this setting ;smaller the number, more the CPU usage) and hide the tray icon. To exit this program press “Ctrl+Alt+x”. That’s it, now you can save precious space on the taskbar by replacing the clock from the system tray.