Whenever we dial some customer care or enquiry number we are greeted with long and boring series of navigational commands “Press1 to do this, 2 to do that and more. .. “ , now if you are a regular caller that hurts but with some clever use of DTMF tones signals knowledge we can trick the IVRs machine and can quickly navigate to wherever we wish inside a menu .
Hello friends, I searched the Internet for a decent video converter that converted 3gp video from my mobile to wmv, mpg or any other common and easily playable format. I tried several of them but the winner was Format Factory as it converted / transcoded my video easily with no anomaly in playback speed, quality etc. I would recommend Format Factory to you people as it helped me a lot and I researched the web and found out that it is very trusted and reliable converter of all the free video converters available. It works equally well for other formats including mp4, mkv, wmv, avi, xvid and others.
Here is this small software utility to quickly change the current default browser on Windows systems easily via the system tray. Some people will ask what’s the need to change my default browser, well to answer you it’s a straight simple tool to do various operations that you might require, like you wish to quickly launch separate browser for Work and Entertainment purposes, also web pages that you might have saved directly open in default browser , now if you need firefox extensions or some Activex that runs only in IE, you can easily make your choice.
This is for newbies in Linux who are trying to learn Linux and in the meantime require to install several apps most of them are available in the repository ( Ubuntu,Suse,Fedora etc .) , installing from repository is very easy but if you download a tarball or a compressed archive of the software package source code then you can easily install it using these commands at your terminal ( command interpreter )
Assuming ,
- You have downloaded a file named mytarball.gz(replace with whatever is your file name)
- you are in the same directory as where the file resides
tar -zxvf mytarball.tar.gz
./configure
make
sudo make install
assuming that you are in the directory where you downloaded the tar.gz file, for more details on this and how it works, you can read a well written article by Joshua Price here, I dont think it would be worthwhile to repeat the same steps and explanation here .
One often hears some slang words like woot and ASL on internet chats and Emails and wonders what do these words actually mean, these are basically slangs used on the WWW and here is a brief list of some common and popular slang words used on the Internet, for a comprehensive and daily updated list of such terms you can always check out UrbanDictionary.com.
0-9
1337 (written in ASCII) – From the word Leet, derived from the word elite
2 – too, or to
4 – For
