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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

combine gmailboxes to storage

http://convivea.com/product.php?id=4

http://www.javaeye.com/news/3964

9 Jul 2008 update: A new version was released since some users complained that they had problems with login; please install the latest version 1.0.13 and reboot Windows.

http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

wisdomap

http://www.wisdomap.com/

Friday, June 06, 2008

Business Templates & Images

http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/06/05/free-templates-for-nearly-every-type-of-document/

http://www.hp.com/sbso/productivity/office/

Monday, June 02, 2008

在线pdf viewer

http://view.samurajdata.se/

input a web link

or upload a pdf ,word doc

Friday, May 16, 2008

web video download tools

The Best Web Video Download Tools

Streaming web video is great and all, but every once in a while you find something that you just want to save and cherish for always. If your home Internet connection is as unreliable as mine you’ll understand what I mean. There are a bunch of web sites and little apps to help you save hard copies of web videos, but perhaps due to their teetering on the edge of violating video hosts’ TOS, they are less than user-friendly. So yesterday I decided to go through them all and figure out which ones are the best.

To start with, I tried to eliminate services that spew out overwhelming ads or restrict themselves to YouTube. After that, the tools fells into one of four categories: URL-entry sites, Firefox extensions, userscripts and software downloads. Among them, the trade-off seems to be convenience vs. power.

URL-entry sites: KeepVid is perhaps the best known of this bunch. When you find a video you want to save, you copy the URL and paste it into KeepVid, which returns to you a link for downloading FLV or MP4 versions. To actually get them to your desktop, you have to right-click save and rename the file extensions. KeepVid also offers a drag-to-install toolbar button — convenient, but it still doesn’t save you the renaming hassle. Another option, ClipNabber, supports an even wider variety of video hosts. I also saw recommendations for VideoDownloader, but it seems to be error-prone.

Firefox extensions: These are much more powerful, especially for sites where the unique URL for each video isn’t obvious. I liked Video DownloadHelper, which gives you a small icon that rides along in your toolbar and wakes up every time you navigate to a page that has video. It also allows you to download multiple videos at once. Here’s a page with tons of user-submitted tutorial videos about how it works. Sothink Media makes a Firefox extension too, and comes with its own FLV player.

Greasemonkey and other userscripts: If you don’t want to deal with a bookmarklet you can do a little more work to get a download button to appear right on video pages. Download Video is a script that works for a variety of video sites. However, it doesn’t currently seem to be working on YouTube, and neither does this YouTube-specific script. For now these probably aren’t a good bet because they’re too glitchy.

Software: If you’re really serious about this (which I’m not) you might want to leave the browser and install a separate application for the specific task of downloading Internet videos. Sothink Media makes one of these for Windows but you only get 30 days free before you have to pay $30. It also captures any video you come across, which in this day and age of video banner ads, is overkill.

DVDVideoSoft’s app is full-service, but it only works for YouTube and on Windows. Get Tube is a Mac alternative, but it also works only for YouTube. RealPlayer’s solution is a bit of a hybrid; the new version of its player slaps a button on videos around the web à la the Greasemonkey options, but then whatever you download is locked into the whole RealPlayer system. Vixy also looked promising but I couldn’t get it to work.

So now that I’ve completely overwhelmed my test computer with doodads and plugins, I would say my favorite of the day was the Firefox extension Video DownloadHelper. Tiny, quiet and powerful works for me.

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firefox download helper 只能用在有限的站点,不如orbit灵活,flv全靠orbit,swf差些比如infoq 的幻灯swf分成多个不好一次抓,得看完才有links



Monday, April 21, 2008

Faststone capture --no free

最後的紀念:FastStone Capture 5.3 免費版到此為止

faststonecapture01

CyberNet 看到了 FastStone 廣受好評的螢幕擷圖軟體 FastStone Capture 將在5.4 版以後,轉為需要付費註冊的共享軟體。和當初 WinSnap 轉為商業版的理由類似,就是為了提供對於 Vista 更好的支援,以及加入更多特效功能。FastStone Capture 受到喜愛的兩個最重要的原因,應該是支援長網頁的擷取方便美觀的圖片加註功能,基本的架構有點像我之前介紹過的PicPcik, 但是 PicPcik 的優點是它是一款綠色小巧的軟體,而 FastStone Capture 則提供了更漂亮的教學圖片製作工具、更方便的懸浮工作列、和實用的捲軸視窗擷取功能。FastStone Caprure 5.3 目前仍然是一個具有豐富功能的軟體,所以你可以選擇不要升級到商業的版本。

利用部落格右上角的「電腦資訊部落格搜索引擎」找了一下,發現已經有許多中文部落格對這款軟體做出詳細介紹了。所以我選出兩篇各有特色的文章如下,想了解這款軟體深入功能的朋友可前往參考:

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Hitted by virus ...

Only Panda on line scan supports Firefox, others require IE

BitDefend only one can be installed after infected machine.

Services can not be created ...

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Device Manager Lost





re: Empty Device Manager

"The issue is security permissions in the registry. I cannot tell how they are lost
but I can tell you how to fix it short of having to re-install Windows!

You must use regedt32.exe in Windows 2000/XP (as I have not seen this problem posted
for any other operating system). Be very carefull making changes in the regisrty!

You must be logged on as a local administrator to perform this task:

1. Go to "Start", "Run", and enter "regedt32"
2. Maximize the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" window.
3. Scroll down to "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum"
4. With "Enum" selected click the "Security", "Permissions" menu.

Note: At this point you will probably notice there are no permissions on this key.

5. Click "Add".
6. Add the group "Everyone" and the user "SYSTEM".
7. Select "Everyone" and check "Read" ONLY!
8. Select "SYSTEM" and check "Full Control".
9. Click the "Advanced" button at the bottom of the window.
10. On the Advanced window check "Reset permissions on all child objects..."
11. Click "OK"
12. On the warning window click "Yes"
13. Close REGEDT32

You should now be able to see everything in Device Manager, Network Places Properties,
and Printers."


Blank window filled -and printers were back