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Video Capture

Debut is a simple, easy to use video recorder that lets you capture video files directly on your PC using a webcam (video camera), or capture device (from video). This software can also capture and record almost anything that can be played or displayed on the computer screen. The program saves the video on your hard drive as avi, wmv or many other file types. ~ts

Boot from USB drive

O'Reilly digital multimedia have a blog on how to create a USB bootable disk utilizing HP support tools. See the following link for details. Dell diagnostics utility can also be used to create a USB  bootable drive, see this link .  ~stepkas

Google Mobile on BlackBerry

When I tried to access http://mobile.google.com using my BB8320 in the Philippines, I am always presented with a non-English, non-Pilipino language. I was guessing that it must have been Chinese language which I can not read at all. To get around with this, use the following URL instead: http://www.google.com/m?hl=en ~ts

Customizing Windows XP Start menu via registry keys

Customizing Windows XP Start menu is quite fun but if you are using 10 or more PCs as my job requires me under a workgroup environment then sometimes it becomes tedious. I heard that this can be done using policies but I can’t remember how to do this in a non-domain setup. Anyway, for my personal taste and requirements, I need to hide some items from the Start menu(non-classic mode). Since I am using more than 10 computers, sometimes even more, I was looking for a cheap solution to customize it really quick and easy. Below shows my .reg file that one can use or as a starting point for specific needs. <—– start copying starting from the line below and save the file as xpcustom.reg ;xpcustom.reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] ;Show Control Panel as a submenu "Start_ShowControlPanel"=dword:00000002 ;Hide MyDocuments "Start_ShowMyDocs"=dword:00000000 ;Hide Recent Documents "S

Copy and Paste in rdesktop

I have installed Remotedesktop Client 0.23 (Gnome frontend for rdesktop) to connect to my Windows machine. Unfortunately, I am unable to perform copy and paste between my rdesktop sessions and/or rdesktop to a text editor running in Linux. The good thing is that there is a work-around for this. Connect to the Windows machine using RDP 5. Thus say: #: rdesktop -5 hostname -g 1024x768 -u user.name ~ts