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ffmpeg is a pretty handy tool for format transcoding, basic editing (trimming and concatenation), video scaling, video post-production effects, and standards compliance (SMPTE, ITU). One of the basic requirement of merging or combining two or more videos is a task that can be easily accomplished by using ffmpeg . ffmpeg is a free and open source as well. And the performance is easily on par if not better than most paid software solutions. In order to merge two or more videos follow the steps:-  First copy all video files into a folder. (Make sure you have checked "File name extensions". Next you need to download ffmpeg for Windows from their website . Choose 64bit unless you are using 32 bit version of Windows and select Static. Download the file. It should be a compressed file. Now open the file. And Go to "Bin", there you will find three files. You need to copy ffmpeg to the folder containing video files. Next ...

Microsoft's just released the Release Preview of Windows 8 yesterday. With Windows 8 Microsoft is trying to 'Kill two birds with one stone' i.e. its targeting both desktop PCs and Tablets. Can Microsoft succeed in this ambitious plan, we are certainly not sure. Here are some of the points that suggest Why it will be an utter failure bigger then Vista why:- Metro UI/UX- First and foremost thing users will notice when they boot up to Windows 8 will be a new interface. Gone are the traditional Windows UI elements like Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons, the gorgeous Aero glass effects, now everything is replaced with a gaudy colors that remind you of classical Windows 1x era. Instead of icons you will be greeted with big in your face tiles for each app that might remind you of Tetris or Lego building blocks or remember AOL 1996. The Start screen is your new desktop, Yes you read it right now you default d...

Are one of those guys who wants to fiddle with their phones. Well here is a new thing to try out. Install full Windows 95, 98, XP or full Linux OS on your Android phones. XDA-Developers forum member mnomaanw  shared a way  to get Linux--along with various old versions of Windows--to run on Android smartphone. His method will let you run either Linux, Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows XP on the HTC device, allowing for a bygone desktop experience on your smartphone. These are not mobile themes or ARM version of Windows CE made to look like 98 or XP. These are really the full versions of x86 Intel/AMD compatible Windows that you install on your PC. To install Windows just download the few mentioned APK files. Get an ISO image on your SD card. Install and Run  Bochs apk.  Here are the controls :- It emulate touchpad on touchscreen and left/right mouse buttons on volume  You can also click touch screen to generate mouse left button click.  Back...

Following Google Chrome's six week release cycle, Mozilla rolled out the tenth iteration of its popular open source browser Firefox 10 on Tuesday. Though the software does bring an array of tweaks and enhancements for both users and developers, it's perhaps most notable for the fact that it marks the debut of the business-oriented Extended Support Release (ESR)  program Mozilla has been working on with the Enterprise User Working Group it re-established last summer. As the biggest UI tweaks will arrive in Firefox 12, the majority of changes are under the hood: except that the "forward" button now only appears once you've pressed "back." New API,  which lets developers show part of their web page / app in full screen. This can be used for not only video, but games, or even other HTML based apps, such as presentation slides as well. Anti-aliased WebGL graphics and and the IndexedDB implementation has been updated to match the specification.  A...

You can make your PC narrate welcome message each time you logon to Windows. You must be familiar with Windows build-in Text to Speech program (Narrator) which is in comparison with Windows Vista, more powerful and easy to go around with. We will be creating a simple script to use Windows Narrator class to speak the message. To begin, all you need is to create a VB script file to make use of Windows 7 narrator. First, create a new text file and open it in Notepad. Now insert the following lines of code. In the second line, you can enter any phrase or a sentence that is to be narrated, within the double quotation marks. Dim speaks, speech speaks=”Welcome Mr User” Set speech=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”) speech.Speak speaks Save the changes made and close the file. Now rename the file extension to .VBS. In the last step, all that is required is to place this newly created script into Windows Startup folder. In Windows 7, you can directly navigate to Startup folder using the ...

Many people are not aware of this, but it is quite possible to install Windows Vista, or Windows 7 from a flash drive. Even among those who are aware of this face, few like to do it themselves, since the procedure involves some command line voodoo. Many people are afraid that the smallest misstep will render their device useless. Well, gone are the days when such people would need to go to the neighbourhood geek to get their USB devices made bootable and ready to install Windows 7. Windows 7 USB / DVD Download Tool is a software focused on doing one thing, and one thing only. It takes a Windows 7 disc image file, and produces a bootable DVD or USB drive for the user. It is true that in DVD burning scenarios, there are plenty of other choice and better competitors, but few are capable of creating a bootable Windows 7 USB with its clean GUI, easy interface and impressive performance. What's more? It's completely free! Its operation is simple. Select the Windows 7 ISO imag...

                                                                                   VS Recently I was experimenting with one of my old machines, with old I mean an Intel P4 @ 1.8Ghz, 1GB RAM, Intel 845G chip-set, 32MB on-board RAM, 120GB 7200rpm HDD. OK I downloaded the latest Ubuntu 10.04 from Ubuntu site & did a clean install & downloaded the latest updates & fixes available & recorded the time which was:- Cold Startup :- 57 seconds for login screen to appear Shutdown:- 17 seconds Now I reformatted it and did a clean install of XP SP3, then downloaded the latest patches & fixes available. These were the timings of XP on the same machine Cold Startup:- 1 minu...

These days many computer users learned how to compute and surf on a laptop rather than on a traditional desktop. For these users, a trackpad—which combines both a touchpad and mouse buttons— is more familiar than the traditional computer mouse. Apple, with its extensive experience with multi-touch trackpads has introduced an item that people have been asking me about for many years: the Apple Magic Trackpad ($69 list), a trackpad for desktop computers. Like its counterpart on Mac laptops, the Magic touchpad supports four-finger multitouch gestures, and it offers Apple's much-lauded design aesthetic. But for those used to navigating with a traditional mouse or with a touchpad that has separate mouse buttons, the learning curve could be a tad steep. Design The Magic Trackpad is essentially a sloping slab of aluminum with a glass mousing surface. It feels like a larger version of the trackpad found on all current MacBook and MacBook Pros. The Magic Trackpad is just under an inc...

Apple on Wednesday released an update to Safari 5 which turns on extensions support akin to what browsers such as Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer have been offering for years. Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine’s and Web site’s coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media’s internetnetnews.com. Microsoft, Amazon and Twitter Agree … He had reported the problem to Apple more than a month before, but decided to disclose the vulnerability after he received only automated replies to his e-mailed queries. Like its App Store, it appears that the extension must carry some type of digital signature provided by Apple in order to install. It was not specified though whether this meant that an extension would ne...