Rotate A Video 90 Degrees With VLC

Have you ever captured video with your cell phone or camcorder only to discover when you play it back on your computer that the video is rotated 90 degrees? Or maybe you shot it that way on purpose because you preferred portrait style to a landscape view? Before you go straining your neck or flipping your monitor on it’s side to watch your video, here is the method how you can view it correctly in your computer screen.

If you simply want to rotate the video while you watch it, I am showing you how to accomplish that with VLC Media Player.

Rotate and Watch a Video in VLC

At First, Download, install, and run VLC Media Player.

Open your video file by going to Media > Open File… and browsing for your file. Or, by just dragging and dropping your video onto the VLC player.

Choose Tools from the Menu bar and select Effects and Filters.

On the Video Effects tab, tick the Transform checkbox and choose your degrees of rotation. The video is rotated counter-clockwise, so to rotate clockwise 90 degrees you’ll want to choose Rotate by 270 degrees.

Now you can enjoy your video the way it was intended to be viewed.

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What is hiberfil.sys ?

Windows has two power management modes that you can choose from: one is Sleep Mode, which keeps the PC running in a low power state so you can almost instantly get back to what you were working on. The other is Hibernate mode, which completely writes the memory out to the hard drive, and then powers the PC down entirely, so you can even take the battery out, put it back in, start back up, and be right back where you were.

Hibernate mode uses the hiberfil.sys file to store the the current state (memory) of the PC, and since it’s managed by Windows, you can’t delete the file.

Disable Hibernate / Delete hiberfil.sys in Windows 7 or Vista

You’ll need to open an administrator mode command prompt by right-clicking on the command prompt in the start menu, and then choosing Run as Administrator. Once you’re there, type in the following command:

powercfg -h off

You should immediately notice that the Hibernate option is gone from the Shut down menu. You’ll also notice that the file is magically gone!

Disabling Hibernate Mode in Windows XP

It’s a lot easier in Windows XP to get rid of Hibernate mode. Just head into Control Panel –> Power Options, and then find the Hibernate tab. Uncheck the box, reboot your PC, and then you can delete the hiberfil.sys file.

How To Completely Disable Subtitles In VLC ?

If you watch a lot of videos using VLC, you might have noticed that it enables subtitles by default if they are there, which can be pretty annoying at times. Here’s the quick tip to disable them entirely.

Of course, you can always turn them back on if you want on an individual video basis.

Disable Subtitles

Head into the VLC preferences, and then click the All button at the bottom of the screen.

On the left-hand side, choose Video –> Subtitles/OSD, and then uncheck the boxes for “Autodetect subtitle files”, Enable sub-pictures, and On Screen Display. That should do it, unless the subtitles are forced in the video for some reason.

Note: Certain video formats like MKV can sometimes have subtitles enabled even though there isn’t a separate subtitles file. This is why you need to remove “Enable sub-pictures” as well, which totally disables the on-screen text. You can choose to only uncheck the autodetecting of subtitles instead if you’d prefer.

And of course, you can simply right-click on the video, head to Video –> Subtitles Track and then choose the subtitles if you still wanted them.

Note: this only works if the “enable sub-pictures” option is still enabled.

Fotobabble : A Website To Create Talking Photos

Fotobabble lets you create talking photos in two clicks. Simply upload a photo and then record your voice directly through your computer to create a talking photo. You can easily share it by e-mail, Facebook, Twitter or embed it into a blog or website.

Fotobabble takes photo sharing to a new level. Fotobabble lets you create talking photos in a matter of two clicks, to enhance photos you want to share with friends and family. Adding a voice…..your voice or perhaps your child’s voice, gives photos life and creates a memorable experience for someone in the process.

Imagine sending a photo while on safari to your friend that is captioned by your voice telling her how you felt the moment you first saw the lion?

Imagine sharing a photo of a 70th birthday party with family on the other side of the world with their voice as an overlay to a shot of their great grandchild sitting on their lap?

Imagine sending a photo to your boyfriend or girlfriend of yourself while adding a romantic or fun message to an image of you standing in front of a sunset?

Imagine adding voice to an event invitation telling your guests about the band you just hired or a book group invite sharing a teaser about the book in two lines?

Simply upload a photo and then record your voice directly through your computer to create a Fotobabble. Then share it by e-mail, Facebook, Twitter or embed it into a blog or website.

It’s free and all completely web-based. No software to download, just register and get started in seconds.

How To Create Talking Picture ?

1. Just signup a free account on fotobabble

2. Insert a title, add a image and click next

3. Now click record and speak into the built in microphone of your computer.

4. Once you have done, click stop and play your voice. If you’re not able to hear your voice, check your volume is turned on and also make sure you have the latest version of Adobe Flash.

5. Add tags and you can also choose your project to be public or private.

6. Save it and it’s ready to share.

7. You can embed in your blog or website, share with your facebook, twitter friends etc.

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Solution to "Your System Is Low On Virtual Memory" Problem.

I’m going to tell you how to resolve this problem in Windows XP and Windows 7.

 

Most people know how to fix this problem inside of Windows XP, as under Windows XP, it’s well documented on many sites. The steps are quite simple: 

• Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
• In the System Properties dialog box, click the Advanced tab.
• In the Performance pane, click Settings.
• In the Performance Options dialog box, click the Advanced tab.
• In the Virtual memory pane, click Change.
• Change the Initial size value and the Maximum size value to a higher value, click Set, and then click OK.
• Click OK to close the Performance Options dialog box, and then click OK to close the System Properties dialog box. 

For Windows 7 follow these steps: 

• Open Computer up and hit the System Properties button, or Right Click on computer and hit Properties, or even still, go to the Control Panel and open the System button
• Then on the left hand side, there’s a button marked Advanced System Settings
• On the popup that opens, make sure you’re on the Advanced tab, then hit the button marked Settings under the Performance subsection
• After that, hit the Advanced tab on that new popup, then hit the Change button for the Virtual Memory sub-section
• Finally, once here, uncheck the “Automatically Manage Paging” option and increase the size manually. 

Note: If you reduce your page file because you want to regain space, you will run into fatal errors and things acting up. If you are not having any problems with Virtual Memory, DO NOT TOUCH IT.

ALZip : A Freeware for unzipping All Zip files

Unlike other unzipping programs, such as 7zip, which uses a folder with the letter that compares to the file type (Z, for zip, 7 for 7z, R for RAR, etc) and WinRAR (which uses a standard set of books), ALZip uses eggs.

What’s really nice about this program, ALZip is the fact that it handles so much in the ways of files on top of it’s cuteness. ALZip is a file compression program that can unzip 40 different zip file archives. It supports ZIP, 7Z, RAR, EGG, TAR, TBZ, LZH, Z, JAR, ALZ, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BHX, BIN, BZ, BZ2, CAB, EAR, ENC, GZ, HA, HQX, ICE, IMG, LHA, MIM, NRG, PAK, TBZ2, TGZ, UUE, UU, WAR, XXE, ISO, LCD, ZOO, for uncompressed and compresses to ZIP, EGG, ALZ, TAR, TBZ, TGZ, LZH, JAR. Yes, you read it right, it compresses to EGG. That would be the new 8.0 alpha that just got released that supports that format, and it’s basically an ultra compressed ZIP file. It’s interface is also darned easy to understand, to say the least, it’s impossible to get lost in the interface.

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I Love PDF - Webpage To Merge, Split and Manage Your PDF files

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. Adobe PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system.

I Love PDF is a simple online tool for editing your PDF files, You can edit, merge and split your PDF files. Just play around with the settings and finally get the download link for your PDF file which you have edited. This service is absolutely free.

How To merge PDF files ?

Go to section Merge PDF. Click on the button to select PDF files and select two or more files on your computer. The order of choise will be the order in which they will merge. You can select 10 PDFs and the maximum weight of each one can not exceed of 8MB. Once selected all PDF files click on 'Merge PDFs!' Wait a few seconds and you will can download your file. Your file will remain saved in ilovepdf.com for 15 minutes, during this time the link to the PDF file that appears in the download page can be shared with everyone. Once passed the 15 minutes the file will be completely deleted from ilovepdf.com. If after downloading you don't want your generated PDF file been saved during the 15 minutes you can press 'Delete this file now' and the file will be deleted immediately.

How To split PDF files ?

Go to section 'Split PDF'. Click on the select button PDF file and select a file from your computer. The weight of the file can't exceed 8MB. Once selected choose if you want to extract only one page or page ranges, you can choose up to 10 different ranges. Once you are ready click on 'Split PDF!', wait for a few seconds, and you will can download your separated PDF files. Your file will remain saved in ilovepdf.com for 15 minutes, during this time the linking of separate PDF files that will appear in the download page can be shared with everyone. Once passed the 15 minutes the files will be completely deleted from ilovepdf.com. If after downloading you don't want your generated PDF files been saved during the 15 minutes you can press 'Delete this file now' and the files will be deleted immediately.

Requirements:

Firefox 3.0 or higher.

Google Chrome.

Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher.

Flash Player 9 or higher

Javascript

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ConverMyPDF - A Website To Convert PDF Document into Word, Text, HTML or Image

ConvertMyPdf is a small online tool, which helps us to convert PDF files into Word, Text, HTML or Image file formats. It has a simple user interface and you can easily catch up without any explanation. With this online service, you can convert your single PDF file into different file formats. In the same way , you can also convert a word file into PDF etc.

Just Go to ConvertMyPdf.net > Select your PDF file by browsing from your computer > then select the option which you want to convert. You have four options like Word (.doc), Text (.txt), Image (.jpg) and Html (.html). You can select any of these options and Convert it easily.

After selecting the options, Click convert and download, it takes few seconds and then it gives you the download link. You can save it directly to your computer without much difficulty.

It is available in two languages – English and French.

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Pazera Free 3GP to AVI Converter - A Mobile Phone Supportive Video Converter Tool

Pazera Free 3GP to AVI Converter is the free video converter which convert mobile phone video files (3GP and 3G2) into AVI or MPEG. 3GP / 3G2 files are commonly used in 3G mobile phones, but they are not supported by Windows Media Player and other popular media players. To display 3GP video you need to convert that file into more reliable format, such as AVI or MPG.

 

3GP and 3G2 files are commonly used in the modern mobile phones, but they are not supported by Windows Media Player and other popular media players. To display 3GP/3G2 video you need to convert that file into more reliable format, such as AVI or MPG.

 

The application allows you to set many parameters used by encoder: audio and video codec, audio and video bitrate, fps, sampling frequency, resolution and other.

 

The Pazera Free 3GP to AVI Converter interface is a very simple and user-friendly. To convert flash video files, just drag & drop them into main window and click CONVERT button.

 

The most important features of the Pazera Free 3GP to AVI Converter :

• Conversion from 3GP and 3G2 to AVI or MPG.
• Supported video codecs: XviD, DivX 3, H.264, WMV, MPEG4-FFmpeg, S-Mpeg 4 v. 2, Motion JPEG (MJPEG), HuffYUV.
• Supported audio codecs: MP3 (Lame), MP2, AC3, AAC, WMA, PCM 16-bit.
• Generating video files compatible with the MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 standard.
• Decoding the most important audio and video codecs used in 3GP/3G2 files: MPEG-4, H.263, AVC/H.264, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, AAC etc.
• 2-pass encoding which will improve the video qaulity.
• Don't need any installation. Just extract ZIP archive and click 3gptoavi.exe.
• Portability. This program can be run from portable devices.
• Supported languages: english, polish.

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How to hide a partition in Windows XP ?

Method 1:

1. Download and install TweakUI from Microsoft, or one of these links: MegaUpload 1 / MegaUpload 2

2. Go to Start -> run, type tweakui and press OK

3. In TweakUI go to My Computer -> Drives and uncheck the partition you want to hide

Method 2:
The second method would be with Hide Folders XP, you can find it HERE

1. Download it, install it, run it, register it

2. When you run it, i think it's gonna ask for a password, after you set the password press Add, select the partition (or the folder) you want to hide and press OK

3. Now right click on it in the list and check one of the options:

- Hide object

- Lock object

- Hide and lock object

- No object protection

4. Go to Tools -> Settings and do the following settings:

If protection is disabled on quit: select Enable protection

Check Ask password when uninstall

In the Advanced tab, check Protect files and folders in Windows Safe Mode

In the Startup tab, check all the options

5. Press OK and restart

Kruptos 2 : A Free encryption Tool to protect your files and folders with password

Encryption encodes the data using certain algorithms and the only way to decode the data is by providing the password used originally. There are lots of encryption programs out there (there's even one built-in Windows Xp Professional) but a surprisingly easy and powerful free encryption software is Kruptos 2, developed by Steve Beckett.

1. Download Kruptos2 from the Kruptos2 Home Page

2. Install it

Select files/folders. The easier way it's to right click a folder (or file) in Windows Explorer, choose Kruptos 2 and after that Encrypt folder (file).

Enter a password. Before the encryption starts, you have to choose a password for it. Also, you can enter a hint word, that later might remind you of the password you used, in case your memory is on a break. Note that once the password is set and the file encrypted, it's almost impossible to recover the file unless you know the password. So make sure you enter something you'll remember.

Encrypt. Once the encryption is finished you'll receive a message about the status of the encryption (successful, failed). If you've encrypted a folder, you'll see that the name of the folder is the same but the name of the files are now completely changed and they show a "locked" icon.

Decrypting the files. To decrypt, simply right click an encrypted file and select Decrypt. You will be prompted for the password and once that's entered and validated the files will be decrypted.

File shredding. When you normally delete a file (using the simple Delete key), that file is not actually erased from your computer, and can be sometimes recovered. This is why, when you really want to delete a file you'd better use the File Shredding option. What this does, it's re-writing the file with a character, then the character's complement, and then a random character for a number of times specified by you (1-16). Given it's a method used by the Department of Defense, it's pretty sure that the file cannot be recovered.

That's it. Once you play a little more with Kruptos you'll see that's not difficult to use and it provides an additional security measure by encrypting sensitive data.

MassMirror.com : Upload any file on some of the top free hosting services automatically.

MassMirror.com allows you to send any file (max 1gb or 1,000mb) Send images, music files, movie files, and more to anyone for free! Your file will be distributed on some of the top free hosting services automatically. Simply upload your file to MassMirror.com. Your file will receive a custom url for your recipient to download! It's that simple!

This free service allows you to upload any file (image, music, documents, and more.) for free to the Internet. It is great for distributing files to your friends, family, or co-workers.

This technology enables you to upload your file to our servers with a real-time progress bar. Your file will then be saved and stored on the free hosts we support. Then simply share the url to anyone with access to the world wide web. You can even use this service to mirror file downloads from your own site.

This is one of the most advanced, most compatible, quickest, and easiest upload services on the world wide web and we are always improving.

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Microsoft Gif Animator : A Freeware tool to make animated gif files.

Microsoft GIF Animator is a historical computer software program for Microsoft Windows to create simple animated GIF files based on the GIF89a file format. It was freely downloadable from the Microsoft Download Center, but is now only available on third party download sites.

Animations could be looped, spun, faded in and out; users could set the size and transparency of images. Automatic or custom palette creation was supported.

1. Download and install Microsoft Gif Animator from HERE

2. Save every frame as .gif in Paint

3. CLick New

4. Now click Open and open the last frame

5. Click the Insert button and add the remaining frames in a descending order

6. Go to the Animation tab, check Looping and set the number of times you want it to repeat

7. Now select all the images and go to the Images tab

8. In the Duration (1/100 s) box, enter the duration of each frame (100=1 second)

9. When you're all set, save it

VirtualDub : A video capture/processing utility tool

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms (98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is written by Avery Lee.

1. Download and install VirtualDub

2. Run VirtualDub and open the video from File -> Open video file...

3. Go to Video and check Full processing mode

4. Go to Video -> Compression, select (Uncompressed RGB/YCbCr) and click OK

5. Go to File -> Export -> Image sequence

6. Insert the desired file name

7. Select the output directory from Directory to hold

8. Select the Output format (Windows BMP/TARGA/JPEG/PNG) and click OK

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CarryoutText : A Website To Convert Text to MP3 Files

CarryoutText is an easy to use service that converts your text to a MP3 file for you take with you! It converts English text to a downloadable MP3 file that you can listen at the computer or with your MP3 player.

There are two choices for converting your text to an MP3 file: You can either upload a Word, PowerPoint, PDF, XML, TXT, CSV or HTML file, or you can paste text directly into the converter.

Larger files take a few minutes to convert to MP3 files. For the 30, 971 character file we pasted, it takes about 4 minutes. A Please Wait screen appeared during the wait.

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Disable Startup : A Free Startup Manager and Monitoring Program

Disable Startup is a Free Startup Manager and monitoring program, it can scan all Windows Startups on your computer, and monitor all new startup items, helps you control, manage and optimize Windows Startup configuration. It can work with fine Windows XP and Vista, is one protecting tool for Windows Startup from changes. This software can help you save system memory and resources by disable unnecessary programs. Disable Startup also monitor the start page of Internet Explorer; stop any change that you don't know.

Why Windows Users Need Disable Startup?

Windows startup becomes more unsafe and unstable than before, much software add itself into Windows startup one-sided LOVE, and boot up together with Windows system. In these startup software, some software is no bad, but sentimental mawkish, like MSN, AOL, Skype, ICQ, RealPlayer, usually these programs runs at the background without user¡¯s knowledge, thus using up RAM and processing power in turn causing our computer to be sluggish, let your pc system slower and slower, waste memory and resources of your computer, why not disable it from your startups, run it just when you need.

Besides these good software, some harmful programs like spyware, virus, dialers, reminders, monitors, key recorder, hidden itself on startups, these make your system healthier, and the whole system is unsafe, It is the time that you must remove these unnecessary programs, Improve your system performance now, Disable Startup can help you to do all these jobs, and it is one FREE utility.

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Solution To : Incorrect Icon Shown for a File Type ?

Recently I received a query wherein the user had incorrectly associated .zip file type with Adobe Reader. The problem is that the .zip file type is still showing the Adobe Reader icon, although the association settings are correct.

And, one of my blog reader said he was facing this problem that even after changing the file association for some file the file showed different icon image.Despite changing the file association for the song file from windows media player to VLC player, his song file showed the same icon image as linked with the Windows media player.

Forcing A Refresh Of The Icon Cache

Usually, the icon should be refreshed after a restart. If that does not happen, you can force a shell icon refresh by performing a task that triggers the calling of SHChangeNotify API. For example, you can use the Default Programs applet and set Internet Explorer as your default browser, in order to refresh the shell icons. Follow these steps:

1. Click Start, Default Programs

2. Click Set your default programs

3. Select your web browser, email client or any other item in the list.

4. Click the Set this program as default button.

5. Click OK.

Check if the icon for that particular file type (eg .zip) is fixed.

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Whenever the file association settings are changed or new association is created via the registry or script, the system might not be aware of the change unless the SHChangeNotify API is called specifying the SHCNE_ASSOCCHANGED event, or until the system is restarted.

Sog DVD Ripper : Convert DVD Movies to any Video Format

Sog DVD Ripper Platinum is an all-in-one solution for ripping or converting DVD to avi, DVD to DivX, Xvid, MPEG1/2, MPEG-4, H.264, wmv, flv (flash video), DVD to iPod/ iPhone/ AppleTV , DVD to mobile phone (3GP), DVD to PSP, DVD to Zune, DVD to PDA, or extracting DVD audio to mp3 music files and capture a picture from DVD Disc so that you can play it on PC, iPod, iPhone, Apple-TV, MP4-Player, PSP, Mobile Phone, Zune, PDA, easily rip or convert DVD to the right format and then update it to Youtube. The utility is able to access all commercial DVDs even if they are restricted. This program supports remove all the restrictions of DVD (CSS, Region, RCE, Sony ARccOS , etc. ) . You can try ripping and converting the DVD in other formats.

 

Features:

• Convert DVD to AVI/DivX/Xvid with AC3 and MP3 track.
• Convert DVD to MPEG-4 H.264 MPEG1/2 video format.
• Convert DVD to WMV FLV video file.
• Convert DVD to iPod iPhone Apple TV video file.
• Easy video splitting, full control the output video quality and image size.
• Extract DVD audio to MP3 format.
• High picture quality and high sound quality like original DVD.
• Easy to add or remove DVD subtitle to output video file.
• Full control audio and video parameters .
• Support all commercial DVD and remove all the restrictions of DVD (CSS, Region, RCE, Sony ARccOS (Sony DVD encryption )

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