Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on October 13, 2006 by CyberNet.

Every now and then I have to convert a video from one file format to another and it is a pain to find the software to do it…especially free software! That is where Super comes into play. It can handle a huge variety of video formats and can convert them to nearly anything you would want! Here are a few of the converters that it comes with:

• Mobile phone converter
• PocketPC converter
• iPod converter
• PSP converter
• VCD converter
• SVCD converter
• DVD converter
• AVI converter
• MP4 converter
• MOV converter
• ASF converter
• FLV converter
• MPG converter
• OGG converter
• WMV converter
• GIF converter

The list is actually even longer but those are probably some of the most common ones that people will use. On top of being able to convert videos it can also play/save Internet Media Streams (such as mms://, rtsp://, and http://) without any problems!

So even if you don’t plan on using this program right now I still suggest that you bookmark it, because when you do need it you won’t be able to find it!

Download Super (links located at the bottom of the page)

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This article was written on August 21, 2007 by CyberNet.

Time Saving Tuesday

Transferring files from one folder to another, or from computer to computer is something most people do on a regular basis. Have you ever thought about speeding up the process by using a file transfer utility? They’re similar to the download managers in your web browser, except they’re made to be used all around your computer.

The best part is that the two free programs that I mention below replace the built-in Windows file transfer manager. You can still use Windows Explorer just as you normally do, but anytime you try to copy, paste, or move files, these apps will do the dirty work for you. Not only that, but both programs will pick up where they left off, should you shutdown your computer in the middle of a transfer, or need to stop it for some reason. Heck, you can even pause the transfers and resume them later on!

–Copy Handler (Homepage)–

This is probably my favorite of the two programs this article covers. It has an insane number of options (over 60) that you customize, doesn’t require any installation, and is open source. One of the reasons that I love this program so much is that you can adjust the number of simultaneous transfers, and once that number is hit it will queue up the rest for later on.

After you download the ZIP folder and extract the contents, the first thing you’ll want to do is register the DLL. This will ensure that Copy Handler replaces the built-in transfer manager for Windows:

Then whenever you go to transfer a file you’ll be presented with an extremely compact file transfer window (left – actual size), or you can open a more detailed window full of all the stats that you crave (right – click to enlarge):

Then if you want to try and speed things up even more, or want to change how something works, just head on over to the options where there are plenty of things for you to play with:

There is one downside to this program, and it’s that it isn’t actively developed any more. The last update was provided back in October 2006, but luckily it still works great on Vista. The developer is currently looking for a sponsor so that he can continue the development on Copy Handler.

–TeraCopy (Homepage)–

This application is similar to the Copy Handler above, but I saw it on Lifehacker recently and it also piqued my interest. I gave it a whirl and found it to be much simpler than Copy Handler. It doesn’t really have anything for you to configure, and what you see below is essentially the entire application.

You’ll be notified if an error occurs while in the middle of a transfer, but TeraCopy will continue working on the other files. That way one bad file doesn’t screw up the entire batch of files being transferred.

–Overview/Benchmarks–

You’ll only notice a large speed difference with these file transfer utilities if your moving or copying many files, or really big files. To give you a quick comparison of the differences in using these I transferred 85 images over the network that totaled 114MB. Again, the differences aren’t that large, but if you’re moving around a few gigabytes of data these utilities could possibly chop a few minutes off of the transfer time.

• Copy Handler – 58 seconds
• TeraCopy – 1 minute
• Vista (with Performance Pack) – 1 minute and 3 seconds
• Vista (without Performance Pack) – 1 minute and 14 seconds

Note: Default options were used in each of the applications.

If you find yourself frequently moving large things around, these apps could be priceless to you. Of the two, I would recommend Copy Handler to anyone that is a power user, and TeraCopy for anyone looking for a simple replacement for what’s built-in to Windows.

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This article was written on July 26, 2008 by CyberNet.

Windows only
I’ve been a big fan of uTorrent for quite some time mostly because of its small size, but there are a lot of features it has that I’ve never really needed. For example, how often do you look at all of those fancy graphs in uTorrent? If you feel the same way then you might want to checkout the Halite BitTorrent client.

Halite is a simple stripped-down BitTorrent client without the frills of uTorrent, but it comes packed with stellar performance. When downloading a file using Halite it used up no more than 8MB of memory, which is just a little bit less than uTorrent. Download speeds are also on par to what I get with uTorrent for the same files, which is probably one of the more important things.

Overall I’m pleased with how Halite handles itself, and I’ll definitely be using it more from now on. If you’re on Windows this is a great solution, otherwise you can checkout some of the other cross-platform BitTorrent apps that we’ve covered.

Download the Halite Bittorrent Client [via Lifehacker]

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The Worldwide Developers Conference 2007 (WWDC) started today, but there weren’t many new things revealed as I had expected. A large majority of the time was spent going over features that users can expect to see in October when Mac OS X Leopard is released, but the coolest thing in my opinion is that Safari is coming to Windows. More on that below…

I listened to a streaming audio version of the Steve Jobs Keynote and was able to put things together by following Engadget’s live coverage. They did a great job snapping images and posting them as quick as they could, so all of the images below were taken from their site. Here’s the overview of what was talked about:

• EA games are coming to the Mac
• An overview of 10 features that will be found in Mac OS X Leopard
• Safari running on Windows XP and Vista
• What’s the iPhone have for developers?

–EA Games Coming to Mac–

EA is taking a big step in releasing games made for Macs, and the new selection being made available in July includes:

• Need for Speed Carbon
• Battlefield 2142
• Command & Conquer 3
• Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix

Then in August Mac users will see Madden 2008 and Tiger Woods 2008 being released for the Mac operating system.

–Mac OS X Leopard–

The new Mac operating system will have more than 300 new features included. Here are the 10 features that Jobs detailed at WWDC 2007:

1. Leopard has a new desktop with a 3D-looking Dock (also has a reflective appearance which is slick) and transparent Menu Bar at the top. There are “Stacks” in the Dock which are essentially folders that expand in the Dock.
   
2. New Finder that has pretty cool features like Cover Flow for your documents:
   
   The new sidebar adds built-in searching and “smart searches” that can do things like find files from today:
   
3. Quick Look lets user preview files without having to open the application, and many of the popular file formats will be supported out-of-the-box. For those that aren’t included, they can always be added by the developers of the applications.
4. Leopard is completely 64-bit! 32-bit apps will still be supported and ran side-by-side with the 64-bit Leopard. To demo the speed difference between 64-bit and 32-bit, Jobs opened a 4GB photo which took 28-seconds with the 64-bit machine and 81 seconds with the 32-bit.
   
5. Core Animation: Improved graphics and animations for the operating system make it look even more amazing. Here is a screenshot from a demonstration where he did a search for “water” as a tag on the videos, and the filtering of the videos happened instantly:
   
6. Boot Camp is, of course, shipping with Leopard which is compatible with XP and Vista.
7. Spaces…essentially virtual desktops on a Mac, except they are on steroids. You can drag things from one “space” to another, which is indeed very cool.
   
8. The Dashboard is getting some new features, including a new “movie time” widget which checks for movie times at your local theater. It also allows you to watch movie trailers right there, without need to visit a site.
   
   You can also use Web Clip to make widgets out of nearly any site, which examines the site for the content that you would be looking for. You can even customize the area that the Web Clip selects for the widget.
9. New features in iChat, such as sharing your videos or photos where they will be shown right there in iChat.
   
10. Time Machine lets you set-up backups in a single click, and it just backs up everything so you don’t have to specify exactly what you want to backup. These backups can even be done to a networked drive over a wireless connection. One of the cool things is that you can restore just a single file, and you can even find the files by searching for them via Spotlight. Alternatively you could restore your entire Mac.
    

Jobs closed up the features by making fun-of Vista, saying that the Basic version is $129, Premium version is $129, Business version is $129, Enterprise version is $129, and the Ultimate version is $129.

–Safari on Windows–

Oh, but then Jobs said there is one more thing! Safari 3 is coming to Windows! I’m really excited about this because it will make Website testing a lot easier. Jobs did say that Safari on Windows beats both IE and Firefox when it comes to rendering time, but will that be enough to attract new Safari users?

You can go ahead and download the public beta (found here) which was made available today. It will be interesting to see how people latch on to it.

Jobs did hint at distributing Safari with iTunes since they get more downloads of that in a days time than Firefox, so that should help boost their market share a little. Especially since most people will be oblivious to the fact that the software is also installing a browser, because we all know people who click right through the installation screens without reading what they say.

–iPhone–

The iPhone is coming June 29 as we all knew, and Jobs took the time to tell the attendees that developers will be able to create great AJAX apps that work beautifully on the iPhone. There is no SDK needed for developers since the iPhone has the full Safari engine in it. If it works in the newest Safari available for Windows or Mac, then it will work
on here!

Of course developers can also make Web 2.0 apps that make a phone call, check your email, or pull up an address on Google Maps.

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I was beginning to think that there was no real purpose to the Caps Lock key other than to annoy you when it’s accidentally turned on. Then Ghacks comes through and digs up an application called Capster (Windows only) that can really save you oodles of time with a concept that is so incredibly simple.

What you have to do is download the application and put it in a cozy spot on your computer. There’s no installation so the next thing you’ll need to do is fire it up. You should then see a window similar to the one pictured above where you can browse for the application that you want to start with Windows. In this example I chose Firefox, and I set it to only start if the Caps Lock key is on.

Then you’ll click the Create Shortcut button to have it place a shortcut on your computer. What you need to do now is put that shortcut in the Startup folder located in the Start Menu, and after that Capster will take care of the rest. The next time you start your computer it will try to run each application, but it will first check to see if the Caps Lock is on or off and proceed accordingly.

One of the reasons that I really love this application is that it is designed to have a minimal performance impact on your computer. Capster doesn’t have to stay running in the background thanks to the clever shortcut creator, and that’s something I really applaud the developer for. I highly recommend checking out this app if you’ve been yearning for a quick on/off switch for your startup applications.

Capster Homepage

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