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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.




What is an Adware ?

Wednesday 29 July 2009 @ 5:14 am

Adware is similar to Spyware, a malicious software/programs installed into your computer without prior notice.
It happens when you install a software contains an adware, downloaded some files such as free games, free software, free music, ringtone, videos and more. An adware can also installed into your computer together with a free software that you previously installed.

These malware is rapidly growing and infecting many computers from around the world.
Compared to a spyware, an adware is harmless. It only generates popup banners and advertisements on your computer.
Although it is harmless, but for some people it is annoying.

How to prevent an adware ?
Avoid downloading softwares from untrusted sites, avoid downloading games, videos, musics from an untrusted vendors.
Read the user agreement when installing software, particularly a free software.

Cleaning up your computer from an adware.
First, you need to have an anti-adware programs. You may download from many trusted vendors such as AVG Technolgoies, Kaspersky, Symantec, and many more.
Second, install the software by following the installation wizard. Third, perform a complete scan on your computer.

After all the steps above completed, you need to recheck the security level on your computer. It should at least set into medium level to protect your computer from unwanted downloads.




Introduction to Wi-Fi

Wednesday 8 July 2009 @ 6:16 am

What is Wi-Fi ?
Wireless Fidelity, commonly known as Wi-Fi, is a set of networking technology that using radio wave as a media for transmitting data. Wi-Fi comes from WFA (Wi-Fi Alliance), a global non profit group of companies with their primary goal is to promote wireless networking technology based on 802.11 technology.
A networking product that has been tested is labeled with Wi-Fi Certified Logo.

In earlier times, the term Wi-Fi was only use with the device that meets the 802.11b standard which operates in 2.4 GHz frequency. It became rapidly famous with many access points service across the United States.
Then, these standards is spreading around the world, allowing users with wifi capable device such as laptops, PDA’s, Cellulars to connect anywhere that provides Wi-Fi access point.

There are three standards which represents the connection speed.
802.11a works in 5 GHz frequency with 54 Mbps maximum data rate, 802.11b works in 2.4 GHz frequency with 11 Mbps maximum data rate and 802.11g works in 2.4 GHz frequency with 54 Mbps maximum data rate.
All of these Wi-Fi standards are fast enough for a broadband connection.

These days, Wi-Fi has become one of the most important thing that support the growth of industry.
Many electronic vendors have equipt their new products with Wi-Fi. Lots of office workers using Wi-Fi to support their work such as transferring data, sending and receiving emails, online conference and many more.

No Strings Attach is probably what most people will say about this technology.

How secure is Wi-Fi ? I believe this question will come across in your mind.
Well, Wi-Fi continues to have security issues. WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) is used in the physical data link layer. It will secure the data transmitted from one point to another point.
Even though it is protected with WEP technology, it still vulnerable because it uses radio waves as transporting media and become easier to capture. Especially for the equipment that uses shared keys for a long time. As it can get into other hands that trying to use it with a wrong motive. So, it is necessary to change the key periodically.

source :
www.wi-fi.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Alliance
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi




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.




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