Make Screensavers, YouTube Videos from PowerPoint

Sometime I've got some questions: how to set Screensavers from Powerpoint(PPT) file and how to create movie from PPT files that can be uploaded to Youtube or Google video. An this tutorials answers two common questions for you.

To Create Picture Screensaver from PowerPoint Slides.

Create an empty folder in "My Pictures" on your hard-drive. Now open the PPT or PPS file in Microsoft PowerPoint and click File -> Save As. Select "Enhanced Windows Metafile" in the file-type drop-down and click "Every Slide"

Your Powerpoint presentation is now available as EMF file in one folder. Right click the deskop -> Properties -> Screensaver and select the "My Picture Slideshow" screensaver. Browse to the folder where you save the PPT and you're done. [Disable "Use Transition Effects" for best results]

How To Upload PowerPoint to YouTube or Google video.

First you must convert PPT files to movies files or flv files. Then you can upload to YouTube or Google video.

There are two option here - either run the PowerPoint as a full-screen slideshow and capture the desktop using some screen recording software OR make a movie from PowerPoint slide images. We'll use the latter approach though you won't see the animations or transitions in the PowerPoint movie.

Start a new project in Windows Movie Maker and import (Ctrl+I) the entire folder of images in the timeline that we created in the Screensaver hack above. Switch to storyboard in WMM, drag all the image to timeline and click Tools->Options->Advanced. Now change the picture duration and transition duration (keep this to a minimum value). Finally save the movie file - your PowerPoint is now a video.

Picasa Tip: Super-Fast Full-Screen Preview

Here is a secret keyboard shortcut to fullscreen view of your images in Picasa. When you are in Library View, Move your mouse over any picture thumbnail, Hold down the 'CTRL' key, and then press 'ALT' key. You will instantly get a fullscreen view of that picture.

As soon as you take your finger off the 'ALT' key, you will be returned to the regular library view. This trick helps you to view the current picture in detail. This trick also works on the current photo when you are in Edit Room.

If you're looking to quickly compare a few adjacent thumbnails with the benefit of a full-screen view, simply scroll the mouse wheel when using the ctrl-alt key combo. (This is especially handy if you've just imported a clump of similar photos and want to quickly decide which to keep.)

How to Record Skype Calls

I mainly use Skype to chat with some friends of mine and can’t honestly say how I ended up using this voice over IP software and not some Instant Messenger. Skype does have some advantages over common Instant Messengers, you can call the “outside” world and have multi-user conferences. Me and two friends used to communicate in Skype when playing World of Warcraft and it did work quite well.

Record recording should be something build in Skype if you ask me. It’s a great way of keeping archives of phone conversations that can be useful in several situations. Unfortunately though there was not a completely free add-on that would record calls in Skype.

This has changed with the release of Call Graph. This Skype add-on records phone conversations as mp3 files. The recorded conversations can be tagged for better identification.

It looks pretty simple and that’s exactly what it is. Additional information about the calls are saved. The name of the user you have spoken to and the date and time. These information in combination with the tags make it easy to find calls of a specific user, date or tag.

I did not try it out but I suppose it is also possible to record Skype calls by using an audio software like Audacity. It’s a bit more complicated and not that automated but it should work fine as well.

Tip for download on rapid

Rapidshare is the biggest store online. But when download on rapid, you must buy an account if want to download faster and easier. This tutorials help you how to use rapid easier.

1. Search file on rapid.

On rapidshare there's many many file about ebook, software, film, music, picture. But, we can search on there when rapid hasn't a search box?.
Very easy. We can search on rapid.

2. Tutorials when download on rapid.

If you've an account, you can download easy, no limited when download and more. So, if i haven't an account, can I download easier?

Very easy!!
Step1: Remove time out.
When download a file, if you select free option. You'll lose about 30s and more. If you don't want to wait, you can remove this time.

This time we must wait.. 0.5 minutes
On Address we type: javascript:alert(c=0) then Enter


We can download this file but unwanted wait.

3. Fix limit download proplem.

Click Start -> Run -> Type CMD then Enter.
On Command Promt windows we type ipconfig /flushdns then enter.
We use : ipconfig /release to disconnect Internet and ipconfig /renew to reconnent Internet

We must delete cookies.
If use Firefox:
Tools -> Options ->Privacy tab -> Show Cookies -> Select Remove all Cookies.

If you Internet Explorer
Tools -> Internet Options ->Genaral tab -> Browsing History -> Delete ->Delete Cookies

Now we's just renew IP and we can download another file.

25 Search engines to search files on rapidshare

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Yahoo! Buzz Publishers Get Highest Site Traffic Ever!

What happens when your blog story gets featured on the front page of Yahoo! Get prepared for the highest site traffic ever. As Yahoo! Buzz is getting a revamp , some lucky publishers are getting an opportunity to join as Yahoo! Buzz Publishers and drive huge unbelievable traffic to their sites with pageviews being limited by how much load the web hosting server can handle…

Salon.com announced that it hit over 1 million uniques in one day for the first time in the company’s 12-year history, a traffic milestone reached when Yahoo! linked from its home page. Techcrunch reports that they received their highest traffic day ever with over 1,000 comments on the post, which almost brought the site down.

Yahoo is still ramping up the number of links it puts on the home page from Buzz, and is being careful about the potential to flat out nuke websites with all the traffic they can send. But it’s clear that a link from Yahoo.com blows away anything Digg or any other competitor can offer. That will keep the Buzz publishers, who must be invited into the service, paying attention.

How does Yahoo Buzz send you huge traffic?
Yahoo! Buzz features the most interesting stories and videos on the Web and the content is ranked based on votes, search-term popularity, and what people are reading and emailing that instant. Yahoo Buzz does not use holding story pages on their site, but rather directly links to the story page boosting traffic to your site to read the full story. You can promote the story further by adding a vote button. Selected Top Buzz content may be featured on the Yahoo! homepage too!

Yahoo! informs that the current beta test is limited to a small set of select publishers to ensure they can evolve the program in a way that is most beneficial for a good user experience. They will be accepting new publishers soon and you can join the mailing list for updates.

Can your web server survive 1 million hits?

This is way beyond the number of visitors Digg or Fark can send your way. Most sites hosted on shared webhosting will not be able to handle such traffic even for minutes, so I guess they will be joining in top websites and blogs on dedicated servers initially who can handle the traffic. Do you prefer your few thousand daily visitors, or rather have a crashed site everyday…Thanks to quicktips

Where to Find Images for Your Blog

“Where do you find images for your blog?” That is a question that I get asked quite often, therefore I decided to write about it.

The interesting thing is that the quality and sophistication of the images that I use grew gradually with my blogging experience. When I started blogging, I would just use Google Image Search. Some of those images were really awful, and some were even copyrighted. I used them nevertheless, thinking that both my readers and the authors would not care that much…

Over the time I discovered better places to find images. Royalty-free ones, which is more important. Below you will find 3 sources that I use often.

iStockphoto

I started using iStockphoto (referral link) only recently because I was reluctant to pay for images. “There are free resources out there, why should I pay then?” That was my reasoning, but I changed my mind after taking a look at the quality and variety of their database.

For most blogs the small format will suffice, and they cost $1 a pop. I think that is a reasonable price, specially if you consider that the quality of the images can separate your blog from the pack.

Stock.Xchng

While I like iStockphoto, I also like to save money. Most of the times before going to their site I will check some free resources to see if I can find a suitable image. My favorite one is Stock.Xchng.

The site has a smaller database, but the quality of the images is good enough. Another benefit is that you don’t need to register up (unless you want special image formats), just right click and “Save image as.”

Yotophoto

Yotophoto is a search engine that will look for royaly-free images on several places around the Internet (including Stock.Xchng, Flickr, Wikipedia, Morguefile and others).

The quality of the images is not so good, but it can be useful if you are looking for something very specific.

Copy your files faster and Easier

It takes a lot of time to copy the files from one source to another.When I copied my data from my 80GB portable Hard Drive to my Laptop it took almost an hour to do so.I searched for a utility that can save my time in doing so.TeraCopy copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features.


•Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.

•Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.

•Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer which is very handy feature when you are copying large set of data.

•Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files which saves a lot of time.

•Shell integration. TeraCopy can completely replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual.

Learn more about application Teracopy and download it.

Create MP3 Files From Text in Emails and Web Pages

Vozme is web based tool that turns any snippet of text into an MP3 audio file that you can either listen online or download to your local hard drive.

You just have to copy the text from a web page or an email and paste it inside the Vozme text box.

While there are tons of solutions that convert text to spoken words, what I liked about Vozme is the clutter free interface and the fact that it runs inside the browser without requiring any downloads.

Bloggers can easily integrate the Vozme feature in the site so visitors can either listen to your full blog posts or they can select a portion of text and have Vozme narrate it like a speech.

Vozme.com - Accepts Spanish, English and Italian languages. Thanks Jane.

Recover Corrupted or Damaged Outlook PST file

In most of the Windows PC users trust on Microsoft Outlook email client for sending and receiving emails. And sometime the Outlook PST file may get corrupted or damaged due to any virus activity or some malware attack or even due to improper shutdown of the PC. And you all know, office mails are very important as they are the key communication channel for your business.


In similar situations we need to have a recovery software specific to Outlook PST file. So you can tryout outlook PST file repair software from stellar Information Systems.

Download Outlook PST file repairing software

Make firefox tabs more colorful

Here is a nice addon for Firefox, which will make it look more colorful. With the help of this addon you can add different colors to each tabs in the Firefox web browser. You can do a lot of customization in color schemes for each tabs in Firefox with this addon. This would help you to apply colors to each tabs based on URL, so that you can differentiate each site with specific color.
Another feature is that you can control the fading of each tab, depending on whether it is selected or not. I feel its a very cool addon Firefox, and all the Firefox fans must try this atleast.

Install Colorful Tabs addon for Firefox

Find your right PC configuration through internet

Microsoft corporation has launched a website for helping people to choose right computer configuration specific to each users need. The web site named myrightpc.com gives a very easy and user friendly interface to help users to choose their best PC configuration satisfying their needs.


In order to choose the best configuration for your needs, user has to visit the myrightpc.com and answer very few questions. After collecting all the inputs from user, the site will give the PC configuration report. The report will have all the details about the different components in the PC that fit best with user's needs.

This site is mainly targeted to promote Windows Vista from Microsoft, thus you cannot expect any other Operating System prescribed in the configuration. Also there is a list of retailers in different cities across India for purchasing the prescribed PC configuration. Although the site targets Indian users, but the PC configuration wizard can be used in other countries like United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, Germany, Japan, Russia and China.