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Do you utilize YouTube to host videos you create and want to share with the world at the best quality? Has someone else created a YouTube video, but you are only interested in a portion of it for your blog or website? Here are 2 tips that help ensure your audience has a better YouTube expereince:

Tip 1. Forcing the browser to use the High Quality version of the video

You may notice just under the lower right coner of the video window, some videos have an option to “Watch In High Quality”. By default, these videos will play as a 320×240 FLV file at 320Kb/s. Check out this sample:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBGeNeofk0A

The user could click on this link to “Watch in High Quality” which will reload the video and play the MP4 version , which is 480×360 at 512Kb/s. By adding &fmt=18 to the end of the URL, you’ll make the URL you share with others bring them right to the high quality version. Here’s the same video in the High Quality view:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBGeNeofk0A&fmt=18

What else are you gaining besides increased video resolution? The video is compressed with H.264 compression, so you get better video even at the same data rate. You also go from a low fidelity mono audio feed to stereo @ 44.1Khz sample rate.

&fmt=6 increases the resolution from 320×240 to 448×336, Flash 7 video @ 900Kbps; audio @ 44.1KHz 96Kbps Mono CBR.

&fmt=18 increases the resolution to 480×360, H.264 video @ 512Kbps; audio @ 44.1KHz 128Kbps Stereo. Note, the bandwidth may be lower, but it’s utilizing a more efficient compression codec.

UPDATE: &fmt=22 increaes the resolution to 720p HD video if the source was uploaded at a high enough resolution.

Tip 2. Advancing the video to a specific playback point.

If you evern wanted to link to a video in YouTube that was lengthy, but had a very interesting part partway through, there is a hack to allow you to begin playback at a precise time. You can specify the minutes and seconds of the start time like this:

add #t=53s to the end of the URL to start at 53 seconds into it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBGeNeofk0A#t=53s

add #t=1m57s to the end of the video URL to start playback at 1 minute 57 seconds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBGeNeofk0A#t=1m57s

Think of this as bookmarking your video clips! Now you can link to a video, and have an index of the segments included, which link right to that precise moment!

Yesterday was at my customer’s place and the manager reported to me that his laptop’s DVD drive cannot be used. At first I thought that it is the same old complaint on some CD or DVD cannot be read but I was wrong. Once Windows XP has been fully loaded, I opened My Computer and the DVD drive is not there! First thing to check when a CD/DVD drive is not working is to try to eject the drive to see if there’s power. Yeah the drive ejected without problems. Then next step is to check the Device Manager to see if Windows is able to detect the drive in the first place or whether it had any problems with the driver.

True enough, there’s a yellow exclamation mark for the DVD/CD-ROM drives category telling me that there’s something wrong with it. I double click on the drive at device manager and I saw this error message that says “Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39). Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device.”

Microsoft advises to update the driver by going to the Driver tab, and then click Update Driver to start the Hardware Update Wizard. Follow the instructions to update the driver. I did that but doesn’t fix the problem. I’ve even tried to uninstall the drive and then active the “Scan for hardware changes” to install the drive again.

Finally I remembered a similar problem which I’ve experienced when I got my new Acer laptop which is the DVD drive missing from My Computer after uninstalling NTI Media Maker 8 and then installing Nero 9. It is actually the same problem which is DVD drive missing from My Computer except previously the device manager didn’t show any errors but now I got error code 39.

I tried my luck on removing the the UpperFilters and LowerFilters from registry, rebooted the laptop and voila! the DVD drive appears in My Computer!

Here are the steps to remove the UpperFilters and LowerFilters to fix the code 39 error in device manager:

1. Go to run (or hit Win+R), type Regedit and click OK.
2. Expand My Computer in Registry Editor, and then expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
2. Expand SYSTEM, and then expand CurrentControlSet.
3. Expand Control, and then expand Class.
4. Under Class, click {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}.
5. In the details pane of Registry Editor, on the right side, delete UpperFilters and also LowerFilters.

From the previous case of missing dvd drive and also the unable to install scanner problem, I’ve started to understand that whenever you’ve previously installed and uninstalled any software/driver which later causes an error in Device Manager, you should first try to remove the UpperFilters and LowerFilters. Of course, always backup the original registry key that you’re going to delete using “Export”.

More Than 200 Key Commands For Window Xp

Run Commands To Access The Control Panel

Run Commands:

Windows XP Shortcuts: Shortcut Keys

Windows Explorer Shortcuts: Shortcut Keys

Internet Explorer Shortcuts: Keys:

Accessibility Shortcuts: Shortcut Keys

Microsoft Office Keyboard Shortcut Keys

Important Word Shortcuts:

Excel Time saving Shortcuts

Easy move through Powerpoint

Download and enjoy

http://rapidshare.com/files/172942551/windows_xp_keyboard_commands_by_hassant.rar

Hidden Programs In Windows Xp

1- Private Character Editor
This program is for designing icons and Characters(Alphapet)
Click :start
Then :run
type :EUDCEDIT
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2- iExpress
This Program is for conerting your files to EXCUTABLE files
Click : start
Then : run
type : iexpress
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3-Disk Cleanup
This program used for cleaning harddisk to offer space
Click : start
Then : run
type : cleanmgr

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

4-Dr Watson
This program Is for repairing problems in Windows
Click : start
Then : run
type : drwtsn32
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5-Windows Media Player 5.1
Opens the old media player
Click : start
Then : run
type : mplay32
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Program …………. CODE
__________ __________

Character Map = charmap

DirectX diagnosis = dxdiag

Object Packager = packager

System Monitor = perfmon

Program Manager = progman

Remote Access phone book = rasphone

Registry Editor = regedt32

File siganture verification tool = sigverif

Volume Contro = sndvol32

System Configuration Editor = sysedit

Syskey = syskey

Microsoft Telnet Client = telnet

1. Open the Registry Editor by clicking on
Start > Run and entering regedit.

2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_
USER\Software\Yahoo\pager\Test

3. Right click on any blank space in the
right column and choose New Dword
Value.

4. Call it “Plural”.

5. Double-click and assign a decimal value
of 1.

Now close the Registry editor and restart
Yahoo! Messenger, and you’ll have
multiple logins. (This does not work with
version 9, though)

You no longer use a floppy drive these days, so there’s no reason for it to be displayed in My Computer. Open the Registry Editor and go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
If this key does not exist, create it. The modify or create a 32-bit DWORD namedNoDrives.
Assign it a value of 1.

Torrent downloading is no longer limited to your PC. Yes, it’s available for mobile phones, and more importantly,it’s available for Symbian phones.
This means you can now use GPRS and WiFi to download torrents. One such client is called Symtorrent; you can download it from http://symtorrent.aut.bme.hu/
Download the installer for your version of S60 and copy it to the phone through a cable connection or overBluetooth.
Go to Menu > Applications
and you will find SymTorrent installed.
Start it and choose
Options > Add Torrent to add new torrents. You can use the left and right direction with the
joystick to look at statistics such as download speed, number of connections, etc.

Auto-complete URLs In IE7

Enter a word, such as Microsoft, in the address bar and press [Ctrl] +[Enter] to automatically prefix “http://www.” and append “.com” to it and launch the URL.

[Shift] + [Enter] suffixes “.net”,

and [Ctrl] + [Shift]+ [Enter] appends “.org”.

Add [Alt] to these shortcut combinations to open the link in a new tab.

Although WinRAR’s just another compression utility, it also has a few hidden eggs. These can be found in the About window.
First, make sure you are using the default WinRAR theme.
Click on Help > About WinRAR. Click on the pile of books on the left,
and you’ll see them slide down.
Instead,if you hold down [Ctrl]+ [Shift]and click on the WinRAR
logo with the background of the seashore,
you’ll see the waves beginning to pour in and out.

For them who accidently deleted their important sms. i found a new trick! trick to read deleted sms..this is very simple and 100% working.. So heres the trick.

Required utility:
you will need X-plorer download from here.
http://rapidshare.com/files/40191426/Xplorer.rar

Procedure:
Step 1) Open X-plorer

Step 2) Select drive C: or D: depending on the memory in which the Sms messages have been saved.

Step 3) For example u selected c: , Then open “system” folder.

step 4) Then in “system” folder open “mail” folder.

step 5) Then in this folder u will see different folders (eg 0010001_s) and certain files (eg 00100000). These files are the actual messages. Browse through every folder and open all files till u get the sms u are looking for.

Step 6) For opening the files don’t choose options>file>open as it will show format not supported rather choose options>file>hex/text viewer. By selecting the “Hex/ text viewer” u ll be able to open and read the deleted SMS message.

i tested this on my cp and will work on all s60v2 phones who use X-Plore