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Archive for August, 2007

How to convert/export Audio files to MP3 from Audacity?

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Audacity is an excellent audio editing software that you can use to edit audio files on your computer easily. It supports editing of audio files in various formats, but there’s a minor glitch: Though you can edit MP3 files on Audacity, you cannot export and save them back on to your PC.

Audacity

If you try to export an audio file to MP3 on Audacity, you’ll get the following error which will tell you to install the LAME MP3 encoder that contains the lame_enc.dll file that is need by Audacity to export files to MP3:

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August 30th, 2007 at 3:44 pm

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Download Application Launchers for Windows

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Whether it’s launching applications, or diving into folders, the Windows Start Menu is not the right one to use. Too many programs and cluttered lists make it the worst to use, not to mention that each menu takes a hell lot of time to load.

Moreover people prefer using keyboard shortcuts than their mouse all the time, so here I’ve compiled a list of application launchers for Windows that can save your invaluable time, and keep you productive. Bloggers can use these tools to save some time and get ready with fresh content.

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August 28th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

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Good Keywords – Free Keyword Research Tool

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Good keywords usage is very often essential to drive traffic from search engines, and using the right terms naturally in your posts brings in quality organic traffic for your blog.

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August 26th, 2007 at 11:50 am

Posted in blogging

3 simple tips to gain more RSS readers

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Apparently, the amount of RSS readers a blog has decides its status ;)

RSS

It’s highly important that you concentrate on increasing the number of RSS readers of your blog, so here go three little, yet highly efficient tips to build your RSS subscriber base:

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August 25th, 2007 at 3:29 pm

Posted in blogging

Better interface to browse through YouTube videos

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YouTube’s interface can be much better. They could’ve made a good use of AJAX, but they haven’t. Each video loads in a new page, more time, more pageviews.

YouTube Videos

YouTubeDesktop.com brings a change.

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August 22nd, 2007 at 3:12 pm

Posted in internet

Get productive with your instant messenger

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Most people spend a lot of time chatting on the web, and IMs have been a productivity killer to many of us. But did you know that you can make your IM client a bit more useful by adding a few useful bot programs to your buddy list?

Here are three that can help you to do some useful tasks from your Instant Messenger.

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August 21st, 2007 at 3:30 pm

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Search uploaded images in the WordPress Admin Panel

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WordPress is an amazing blog platform, yet has some minor incapabilities. One of them is the highly incapable image browser in the Admin Panel. It lacks the most needed search feature – you can browse through images you’ve uploaded, but you can’t search them by keywords.

WordPress

Contents Magic has recently released a WordPress Plugin that adds a little, yet highly useful feature to the WordPress Uploads page.

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August 19th, 2007 at 5:31 am

Posted in wordpress

3 free Internet TV players

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This is a guest post by Ramkarthik of Blogging Tune. For tips on improving blogging and various money making opportunities, check out his blog at Blogging Tune.

Whether you are a child or an adult, 6 years or 60 year old, you like to watch television. But can you have a TV in your office? If your answer is YES, then there is no problem. If your answer is NO, then you must have this alternative. There are online TV Players available for free download. You can download them, watch TV channels on your laptop in your office or any place you go, if you have internet connection enabled.

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August 18th, 2007 at 10:32 am

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Now, fast forward videos in YouTube player

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YouTube has now added a new feature to their video player that lets you watch videos in fast forwarding mode.

YouTube

That means, you don’t need to wait for the entire video to buffer, just click on some point on the slider in the bottom of video player, and watch it from that point onwards.

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August 17th, 2007 at 3:15 pm

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Three free online translators

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Online translators are tools that translate pieces of text from one language to another with the help of some complex computer algorithms.

Translation

You might need to translate a block of text, and are looking for tools to do so. You need not necessarily download quite hefty translation software to your PC, instead you can try these online translators:

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August 14th, 2007 at 3:47 pm

Posted in tools