Real World Computing

It's taken a bit longer than I expected to find a free solution to conversion of video files for the Blackberry but I've finally found one. The software to use is called; Internet Video Converter (I used version 1.52 standard) and you can get it from this web site ( http://ivcsoft.free.fr/ ). The application relies on either the FFmpeg or the Mencoder files in order to do the conversions. These files are available separately but I think they're also included with the utility. Converting the File Rip, Download or otherwise obtain your AVI file . Start the Internet Video Converter Application . Click on the Tab marked Transcoder . Click on the button marked 1. Select a Video . Choose a video file to use (there is a 1 second DOS screen that appears - don't panic about this). The Save As section will be filled in automatically. Change it if you need to. In the format list choose; Mobile QVGA 320x240 - AAC/good (.3GP) . Note: If you have a different type of blackberry...

I used to be able to access the Domino server console by using Remote Desktop on the server but recently, the Console started to disappear. At first, I figured that it was something I'd done wrong, until I saw a post on the Notes 8 forum . It's a Windows XP Service Pack 3 issue; So, here's the fix; The command line parameter has changed and if your remote desktop icon for your domino server used to be as follows; mstsc -v: 10.12.2.2 -console you need to change it to: mstsc -v: 10.12.2.2 -admin ...following installation of XP service pack 3. Where 10.12.2.2 is the IP address of your server.

I recently saw a post about using third party software to display pictures and figured that this feature was worth reiterating. Windows XP comes with a built in screen saver called my pictures slideshow which does the trick nicely. There is no need to install third party software. Here is an easy way to configure this screen saver for simpler changes; First of all, you should create a folder on your hard drive where you will store pictures for your screensaver. In my case, I have stored them in G:\SaverPics. Screen Saver Installation Procedure Right mouse click onto your desktop background and choose properties from the pop-up menu In the display properties dialog box, click on the Tab marked screen saver . In the list of screen savers, select " My Pictures Slideshow " Click on the button marked settings . On the settings dialog, you can choose how frequently the pictures should change and how big they should become. I tend to prefer 100% of screen . You can click on Brow...