Articles and reviews from Zach

Multiply's high jumps May 6, '07 6:07 PM for everyone Category: Other I do not know if some from you have tested so far , but not long time ago I have found a new site that shows very interesting information about a site's popularity Popuri.us takes results from many search sites and shows that in a very concise matter As for example it collects the popularity rate from Alexa. When I first tried it Multiply was at 430 - January 2007 - and on 6-5-7 it jumped to 252!! AS it can be shown in the Alexa's page http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=http://.multiply.com the change in months is abt 31% This is the traffic picture : Also what is making bigger impression is the user and traffic rank: As per the above page 15.3 of it users come from Philippines [!!] with Indonesia and USA being at second and third rank and Spore and Msia in 3rd and 4th In contrast the site compete shwa a people count [the number of people visiting the site ] ...

MP3 Surgeon :Program to split MP3 files May 6, '07 6:27 PM for everyone Category: Computers & Electronics Product Type: Other Manufacturer:   MP3 Surgeon THis is my best program to split big Mp3 files into song files. The program has been bought via their intermediate 'registernow', as mp3surgeon.co.uk just offers a test version capable up to 5MB which is OK for very low bit rates [ie up to 32kb for about 1 hour of audio ] and its last version is of 2004 Here i will describe you how i can split the file recorded from a cassette into my computer First say that we are using the full version of this program . Once started and a tape side loaded into it, it shows this way : In the main screen you see as like 5 thick PIs : These are the main songs graphically as they could be shown in a ‘volume tracer’ . In between them there are some very narrow ‘notches’ that show the blank audio parts. At the bottom of the big graph there are two markers that can be slip...

Downloading videos -Clipfinder Sep 30, '07 4:09 PM for Zacharias 's network Category: Computers & Electronics Product Type: Other Manufacturer:   Ashampoo Clipfinder Clip finder is one program made by Ashampoo and is freeware . it can be downloaded from their site www.ashampoo.de and www.snapfiles.com/get/aclipfinder.html this is the information shown in the folowing page --- http://www.download3000.com/download_20631.html (the latest 1.19 version ): After the picture and music files, now it`s time for the videos. Online portals like YouTube.com, MyVideo.de, VideU.de and ClipFish.de have long since become cult, they collect many funny and creative short videos. In the office and of course also in your everyday life in the meantime it is considered to be chic to call up the video portals for a short break and to start a couple of films to relax or for your own enjoyment. The Ashampoo ClipFinder knows the most important portals and can, analogue to a search ...

Downloding videos -Orbit [update 22-11] Sep 30, '07 4:13 PM for everyone Category: Computers & Electronics Product Type: Other Manufacturer:   Orbit Orbit is a web 2 (such as multiply ) downloader with very nice capabilities , p2p support (??? Did not find anything about peers ) with multithread capabilities and is freeware too. It can be found on http://www.orbitdownloader.com/index.htm It has two nice capabilities: -using as a common downloader. Entering the address it can download the files directly. The advanced options seem also important as they determine the program’s behavior with multi threads , the data it collected from the browser and the possible mirror sites. The maximum connection are 10 and I have set it to its default number of 8 -its nice plug-in grab++ . it is referred as a 'sniffer' and acts as address grabber that can grab flash, video and 'music' This plug in is the strongest part of this program. Starting this plug in before lo...

Downlaading videos : hacking your own browser's cahe Sep 30, '07 4:15 PM for everyone Category: Computers & Electronics Product Type: Other Manufacturer:   hacking your own browser's cahe And another more sure way ...hacking your browser's cache This was the way i used it before using orbit , the most secure and most simpler.... As i use Xp and both opera Mozilla these are the following ways: C:\Documents and Settings\"user name'\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default IN tihs there will be a alphanumeric string with slt extension ( $%$^%^.slt ) Going two levels under , on cache and changing the view to detailed list with backwards time sorting and with quick refresh you will find a size change in one or several files. This would be our file. C:\Documents and Settings\"user name'\Application Data\Opera\Opera9\profile\cache4 for opera Here there is an opportunity to know also the file type . Immediately you will find ...

Wimpy - Flash player Nov 25, '07 4:03 PM for everyone Category: Other Wimpy is a nice and very small program (ca 2MB )of the second ‘flash video’ generation . The program is a standalone player – ie without any installation required – and can be downloaded from this site : http://www.wimpyplayer.com/products/wimpy_standalone_flv_player.html and is available in both Mac and Windows versions AS you may see from the picture the player is very tiny with nearly nothing special except its drag and drop capabilities. However comparing to the K-lite codec and its MP classic program as well VLC as most of the flash files are of variable bitrate . the program can still seek the file without being stuck or stopping playing Next as with all previous wimpy can have more than 2 instances so that more than 2 files can be played instantly . See here: (at the top right picture you see the singer playing a buzuki , it is a Greek music organ ) The nicest points for ...

FLV player for flash videos Nov 25, '07 4:08 PM for everyone Category: Other Flash video player : FLV player Another very interesting flash video program that canbe found in this site : http://www.martijndevisser.com and can be doanloaded from: http://www.download.com/FLV-Player/3640-2139_4-10769546.html This is another ‘standalone’ player that requires just a simple installation. Its installation is the fastest I ever seen making just the copy into the program files directory and associating the flv/wsf file types with it. Its interface is very nice comparing to the very poor of Wimpy Operation: The program seems good for dragging files into its window . However flash files with different file name , say files that downloaded incomplete from the internet via orbit or any other file manager , once dragged cannot be played The window is dependent of the video file. Once a file is dragged FLV’s window is resized. Looking into memory resources , I found that flv play...