Sunday, April 26, 2009

Convert (encode) and Play any media file for Free

SUPER (Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer) is a free utility tool that provides a simple, yet very efficient GUI to convert to and from almost all media files and plays them too. It is a easy to use Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player.
More from their website -
SUPER © "The Player" surpasses any known player by supporting just any Multimedia file format. SUPER © plays files that cannot be played with WMP or even other libavcodec-based players like MPC and VLC.
SUPER © also plays and saves Internet Media Streams of different protocols ( mms:// rtsp:// http://).
SUPER © "The Encoder" is the fastest and simplest tool to encode full length movies to any other format without any time or function limitation.
The best thing about SUPER is it is free to download and user. No trial or evaluation versions. SUPER © does NOT require any additional external codec to be installed, absolutely nothing. Necessary codecs are built in!
Few more converters are given at this link

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Free up some space on your computer's Hard disk running Windows Vista

I've Windows Vista Home Premium OS on my laptop. I was trying to find some space to copy a big file on any partition on my Laptop's drives when I noticed that C:/ drive is left with almost no space despite being a 25 GB partition and no secondary software (other than default OS software) installed on it. Neither it has any big media file or anything else.
I was wondering what could it be eating all the space on C:/ drive! When I started looking for help at several forums, got some tips, tried and was able to free up around 25% of space on C:/ drive. Here is what I tried and worked for me -

Tip 1 - Use 'Disk Cleanup'. A utility that comes bundled with the Windows. In Vista, click on start, type Disk, select Disk Cleanup from the filtered list and select option to clean for all users.

Tip 2 - Use 'vsp1cln.exe' utility , If you have SP1 installed. Typically You can find it under C:/Windows/System32 folder, or else you can go to Start->Run, type 'vsp1cln.exe'. It will do the rest for you.

Tip 3 - Disable Hibernate option, using the Disk Cleanup utility. It might free up at least 1 GB of space.

Tip 4 - Regularly cleanup the 'Temporary Internet Files' and 'Cache and Cookies' in your browser. (Tools->Internet options)