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Downloading Free Screensavers

Wednesday 9 September 2009 @ 4:00 am

There are tons of Screensavers that can be download for free on the Internet, and nearly all of these can be installed easily. These are usually categorized and related to themes. Nature lovers can pick picturesque locations. Fish lovers can pick out from other kinds of aquariums with multi-colored fish that are lapping through colored water. Those who actually like adventure sports or aircraft can select from a wide array of animated images and clips of death-defying stunts. Screensavers can as well be slide displays from different photographs of movie celebrities, sportspersons and politicians.

Yet, several precautions need to be taken before downloading Screensavers. The most fundamental one is that Screensavers must be downloaded from trusted web sites. It’s also always a good idea to scan Screensavers for computer viruses and some other potentially dangerous elements, like spyware and adware. If an anti-virus is already installed on the computer, a right click enables a menu which provides for a ‘scan with…’ option. The option can be chosen and left-clicked to check the picked out download before double-clicking it and performing installation.

Sometimes Screensavers are extremely graphic-intensive. This means that they contain so many computer graphics that are huge files. Tremendous files need lots of space on the computer when they run, and affect the computer performance. Your computer might operate so much harder and so much faster than regular, this can cause the computer freezes. Then the computer needs to be reboot and all the unsaved data on the computer such as open files that were being worked on before the Screensaver was activated will be lost.

Numerous Screensavers also make the hard drive of the computer collapse, causing unretrievable data. So, it is essential for users to download Screensavers that are compatible with the configuration of their computers. This means that the speed of the CPU in the computer, and the available space on it, should be sufficient for the Screensaver to be downloaded, installed and operated.

Many users like to create their own Screensavers, frequently with the visuals and audio of their choice. Several software applications facilitate this. Out of these, several can be freely downloaded from the Internet. Nevertheless, these should be downloaded just from trusted websites, and should be supported by the configuration of the user’s computer. Once downloaded, these should also need to be scan for viruses and other common infections. When installed, these programs enable the user to combine pictures, video clips and audio clips to create a personalized Screensaver, sometimes even for circulation amongst best friends and family.




Understanding DivX

Wednesday 5 August 2009 @ 11:49 am

When you download a movie or looking for a downloadable movie, then you must have notice the word DivX.
But what exactly DivX is ?

DivX is a digital video compression decompression format, also known as codec, based on MPEG-4 technology.
These files are downloadable through a high speed internet connection without reducing the quality of the digital video.
So, i believe this is the best choice for a video exchange over the internet.

DivX was developed for Digital Video Disc encoding because of its high quality on a low bitrate. It was prepared as an alternative for video rental bussines . However, it was far beyond expectation in the DVD world. But it survive and becoming popular in the internet.

DivX Player is a downloadable software that allows you to search and download multiple videos at the same time. It operates almost like a download manager, so you can pause and resume your download any time. You can also add a URL of the video you wish to download as simple as clicking buttons. Organizing your video collection is very easy, you can even burn your video collection to a CD or a DVD just by simple drag and drop.

You can watch DivX videos with DivX player in your computer or laptop and you can also watch rented DivX movies.
And if you choose to watch your movie collection on your TV while sitting on your favorite couch that won’t be a problem.

DivX is an advanced digital video codec which attach into multiple video software that exist for public.
You can create high quality video with small data size so you can have several movie collections into a single CD.
And you can convert your videos to DivX in short time, just by dragging and dropping your favorite movie collections to the DivX converter.

These days, you can find lots of online movie sites which provide a downloadable movies. It will take short time to fulfill your movie collections, but of course it also depends on your internet connection.




Computer and Internet Glossary

Sunday 5 July 2009 @ 4:10 pm

Computers and everything related to it tend to have their own language, and sometimes the words make you confuse. Even if you don’t want to know all of them, it will come accross sooner or later. Here are some of the important and commonly used words.

Bandwidth.
Bandwidth is the amount of data, which is counted in bytes, that your website can send each second. It is also the amount of data that the visitor can receive from your website. If your website is hosted in a limited bandwidth or doesn’t have enough bandwidth, then the website will appear slowly.
For that reason, you should choose a web host that meets your needs, of course a good and complete service web host also comes with a higher price.

Browser.
Browser is a computer software that you use to visit a website.
There are several browser released by different vendors, such as Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome. Most of this browsers are distributed free of charge, you may download it from their official website.

Cookie.
Cookie is a file contains information about visitors of a website. Cookie can be saved automatically into your computer without you even notice about it. Sometimes a webmaster or website owner needs information on their website’s visitor about when did the visitor arrived in the website and some cookies have an expiration date depends on the website owner.

Download.
A process of transferring data from a website, or webhost to be exact, to a computer. This usually counted in bytes.
To download a file you can use a browser software, download managers or FTP softwares.
Some download managers are user friendly and easy to use, even for a user with less knowledge about computer software.

FTP.
File Transfer Protocol. This is a common method of uploading and downloading files to your website.
Filezilla is an example of user friendly FTP software, it is distributed for free.

Javascript.
A common language used to write ’scripts’ on websites. It is a script that can make a website more interactive.

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group).
This is the most popular picture format for the web, named after the group that invented this format.
If you want to upload your pictures on your website, i believe you should save them as JPEG.

Hardware.
Hardware is computer equipment that physically exists. Hardware is the opposite of software.

Hosting.
If you have a website and you want everyone from everywhere to see your website then you should have a web server that is capable of 24/7 online, so everyone can see your website. If you are unable to provide a 24/7 online web server then you should buy a service that is specially provide such service.

HTML. HyperText Markup Language.
A simple code used to indicate how to display a web pages, using a small ‘tags’ system.
As an example, a “b” tag displays text in bold, and the ‘img’ tag displays a picture.

Hyperlink.
A hyperlink is a text on a website that can be click and take you to another site, or to another page within the same site. A hyperlink usually created by using anchor tag “a”.

Software.
Software is a program that runs on the computer or a program make your website work.
For example, Firefox is a software, Apache is also a software.

Spider.
Spider is a program or a code used by search engine to scan your site, by crawling your site it would help them decide where it should appear when people search.
Getting visited by web spiders it good, these means your website will appear in search engine in a short time.

Upload.
Uploading is a process of transfering data from your computer into your website or web server. As an example, you can upload your company logo, post an article to your website or blog.

URL (Uniform Resource Locator).
This is a simple way of saying ‘web address’. This is what you have to type in your browser’s address bar to get directly to your website.