How To Save Video To File on Linux & Windows

July 12th, 2008 In Linux wine (or crossover office if you like to pay) is used to execute Windows applications. wine normally open exe files only.

May 23rd, 2008 OGG files are created by most Linux software as it is an open source video file format, and truth be told has much better compression than mpg, wma, avi or other popular file formats on Windows. Having said that, ogg files can be converted to flv (Flash Video) files or avi or even mpg file format.

March 10th, 2009 Yes, you heard it right. Today I will tell you a trick by which you can save a youtube video from youtube only.

June 22nd, 2008 The Linksys Compact Wireless-G Internet Video Camera WVC54GC is a Linux based wireless webcam with its own streaming web server built in. Windows users can view the video stream through their browser without the need to install any extra software other than allowing the supplied Active-X control to run.

April 29th, 2009 Many of us have Windows and Linux as dual boots on our computer. While its good to have them both to get the best of both worlds, there are some problems too.

October 23rd, 2007 Sometimes windows installers come with msi extension instead of regular exe extension. Such software can be installed with the msiexec command which comes with wine.

October 14th, 2007 Autoexec.bat is a legacy file in Windows which is executed every time you start Windows. Commands you want to run with startup of windows, and applicable to all users, are added to autoexec.bat.

December 25th, 2008 This is a very important trick for Windows users. Though its fairly old still I thought of putting it up finally in case someone needs to copy the outputs of the DOS he is working on.

September 3rd, 2007 Partimage is a Linux utility which saves partitions having a supported filesystems (see below) to an image file. It is a free and open source alternative to the popular software Norton Ghost or DriveImage.

August 30th, 2007 By default, Windows Vista uses Live File System to incrementally add files to your CD. Live File System is a file storage system that can be used to create CDs and DVDs.

April 13th, 2007 I talked about xmemo as possible ipmsg alternative for Linux. Unfortunately I found it very much inferior to ipmsg.

February 18th, 2007 The basic idea of RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) is to combine multiple small, independent disk drives into an array of disk drives which yields performance and recoverability exceeding that of a Single Large Expensive Drive (SLED). Redundancy is also provided (unless RAID 0) which allows easy and often automatic recovery from hard disk crash.

September 21st, 2007 We will soon get into vodcasting / video blogging. I am looking at using either a decent mobile camera with video capabilities like the Samsung U600 or using a digital camcorder.

December 22nd, 2006 Linux colorization of terminal output is very straining to the eye even for normal people and absolutely meaningless for color-blinds. I find it irritating as it makes it really hard to see, especially with the bad choice of colors like deep-blue on black.

January 3rd, 2009 Amongst the very few irreplacable products that Microsoft Windows have come up with, Microsoft Office 2007 is one very close to it. It has so many features and standardized options that I can not think openoffice as an alternative to it.