October 23rd, 2007 by Jake
I’ve dealt with a lot of video converters over the years, a lot of which were utter crap. But recently I stumbled upon a converter that did it all, for free. I’m actually impressed that other converters aren’t as simple as this one.
It’s called Any Video Converter. No, I’m not getting paid to write this, I just wanted to tell the world that I think this is a great program.
It’ll convert to/from MPEG, AVI, FLV, or MP4. There are even advanced options for customizing size, aspect ratio, bitrate, and start/endpoints. It even works with the custom codec and unusually high bitrate used by Fraps, so I can take a 1GB game video and compress it into a 15MB MPEG-2 video for YouTube with a few clicks. And while there’s a “nag screen” after converting is complete to buy the Pro Edition (the standard version is freeware), it’s a small price to pay for a solid, working video converter.
To all the other video converters out there: Take a page out of this program’s book.
February 2nd, 2007 by Jake
Forget Alcohol 120% and DaemonTools, Microsoft has their own virtual drive utility, and it’s free.
It’s called the Virtual CDRom Control Panel (Peraonslly, I like Microsoft Virtual Image Mount Utility, or MVIMU, more.), and while it doesn’t come with Windows by default and doesn’t look as shiny and pretty as some of their other utilities or Microsoft’s new operating system, it does get the job done (and it’s really small!). Download link and usage instructions after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
July 28th, 2006 by Jake
Alright, it’s time to see who really reads these.
If you would like an invitation to the Maxthon Invited Preview, please leave a comment with a valid e-mail address (I promise you won’t get spam).
The current alpha I’m running (2.0.0.5256) doesn’t have all the features of Maxthon 1.5.x yet, but I’ll give them leniancy there because the control panel is now 100% HTML and JavaScript (AJAX, if you wanna call it that), so they have to convert everything. I’m also running IE7, which adds most of the quirks of the Mozilla engine (stuff like PNG Transparency, proper CSS rendering, native tab support, built-in security), and Maxthon is like a cherry on top of the sundae. I love it!
Anyway, if you’d like an invitation to use this and all later versions of Maxthon 2.0.x Alpha, please leave a comment. I have 10 invitations, but I’ll only give out 5 here (I’m saving the other 5 for other people). Hurry up and comment!
