Sunday, April 5, 2009

How to Use Screen Capture feature of Picasa

Google ha released Picasa 3.0 recently. Many interesting features have been introduced such as face tagging, more Collage templates, blogging, online shop integration etc 
One interesting feature is Screen Capture. Keep Picasa running in background, just open it and minimize it. When you press "Print Screen" key on keyboard, current desktop will get captured.
You will see, this captured image under Projects section "Screen Captured"  album. You can easily locate these images on local file style.


This is how you can make your job easy without installing any special screen capture.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Simplest Way to Try Ubuntu [ Linux ]


Installing Ubuntu [ Linux ] has never been so easy and straight forward. Many people don't want to try Ubuntu because they think it is very complicated , very difficult to install, it will mess up whole hard disk partition and so no. Out of all these problem , first and most difficult problem is "Installing it".

There are many people those want to try Ubuntu but don't want to shift over completely at first time. They wanted to feel it and move over it slowly. For such people , there is a very easy and straight forward way .

Ubuntu 8.1 has introduced Wubi installer for windows, using this you can install ubuntu as a simple Application in windows. It is only 2-3 steps process.

1.  Download Wubi installer [ here ] or get Ubuntu 8.1 installer CD

2. Run installer , select "Install inside Windows" option


3. Select any drive which has free space , specify installation size, user name and password. That's it , you are done with installation process. 



Sit back and let it install. It takes care of making virtual partition, formatting it, installing OS, making entry in all available OS on your machine. After this installation process completion , just restart you machine. You will see dual boot option in starting , one for Windows and another for Ubuntu.  Now you can use both OS using dual boot option.

Un-installing ubuntu is mush easier than installing, just go to Add/Remove program in windows and uninstall Ubuntu application, that's it.


 

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

How to rip/cut Songs/Scenes into divx from DVD

Here is the simple solution to rip/cut selected songs or scenes from a DVD. You need two  software tools to do this .
  1. DVD Shrink 3.2
  2. DivX Convertor 
DVD shrink is open source software to shrink/cut/backup media content Here are the steps to  do this 
  1. Open Dics in DVD Shrink 

2. Select Re-author option to change mode from Full Disc to ripping mode




3. Drag and drop corresponding Title from DVD Browser section to compilation section at left side

  4. Now select that Title and click on Start/End Frame option 


5. Now you will see one small windows , where you can set starting and ending point.

6.  After selecting start/end point and clicking on OK, click  Backup option on top. You get option to save ripped clip.

7.  This ripped clip will be in VOB format , now you can convert it in to divx/avi using DivX converter.

So in simple 7 steps you can rip scenes from DVD.