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Here I show you my strange problem I am having with the screen recorder which runs fine on Windows 7

Here is what I’ve tried:

• Reinstall Windows
• Reinstall Program
• Tried Standard Version
• Update Sound/Graphics Drivers
• Change MP3 Recording to on-the-fly/stop recording on the fly
• Changed bitrate 11khz/22khz/44khz
• Changed GDI to Capture Driver

Still the problem persists. I have sent a fault report to BlueBerry Software and hope they get back to this. Until then, I’m using Camstudio.

Update: Just as a reference, here it is working on Windows 7:

Note to newcomers: According to a reader, Mint4Win has not been included with the latest version due to an incompatibility with GRUB 2. All of the information below is for informational purposes and applies to earlier versions that include it.

If you guys saw my “My Experience with Ubuntu” post, you saw that I talked about Wubi, that let’s you install Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and MythUbuntu. Wubi doesn’t let you install Linux Mint, a known Linux Distribution. I searched Google, and I found an alternative, that let’s you install Linux Mint without burning any CD’s. The name is Mint4Win, but this has a problem, this doesn’t have a standalone version, like Wubi has. What does that mean? You have to download the .iso file of Linux Mint. After downloading that, you can use MagicDisc to emulate a CD/DVD drive, or InfraRecorder to burn the CD. Then, just go to X: (X being the drive you have, it could be D:, E:, or any other) and run mint4win.exe . You should get a similar window like this:

If you used Wubi in the past, you i’ll see it looks basically the same. Just put your Installation Size (I recommend 10GB or more), and put your Password and Username, and click install. It will start checking the checksums, to see if any Viruses was putted into the .iso, and after that, just restart the computer. Just select “Linux Mint” from the bootloader, and it will start installing, and after that, restart the computer one more time. I recommend you to try going to the other OS you have installed (Windows XP, Vista, 7, etc), to see if it corrupted any files (Most likely not).

And there we go, you have Linux Mint installed easily with your other Operating System. If you want to unnistall it, just go to Add/Remove Programs (XP), or Programs/Features (Vista/7), and search for Mint4Win.

Hope you liked this Post, i’ll see you in the next post

Desktops now a days are either really cluttered and or clean and simple. In the world of computer users the desktop is a place to drop files, put your favorite folders etc.  Now people do argue the fact that a desktop is meant to be used and not simple and no icons. While I agree here are my tips to keep it clean and simple but keep it effective and efficient meeting both needs.

TIPS

1- FOLDERS! = Create simple folders like

* To Folder ( For all your junk etc that come on the desktop that may be needed to  be sorted  later)

*Main Folders ( Documents, Pictures all depends on your use)

Also feel free to add a touch and customize the icons etc…

2- Dock It! = Depending on your OS if your already on OSX you can take huge advantage of putting everything on your dock and organizing it, now if your on Windows you can download programs like Object Dock (Plus) or Rocket Dock to really add a special touch to your desktop.

* Use Stacks and try to dock as many applications on your dock , and clean out those extra icons on the desktop .

Here are some tutorial videos

STACK ADDONS

OBJECT DOCK PLUS

3-KeyBoard Shortcuts

Now i know your asking how does this apply to desktop cleanliness , well if you set shortcuts for opening applications , turning down volume , opening documents etc this eliminates the need for extra files on the desktop and less navigating through your system making it more efficient.

I recommend applications like HotKeyz, hot key bind , AutoHotKey  etc

4- Misc.Tips

There’s a great array of apps that add a custom touch to organizing the desktop like

Stardocks ” Fences ” – which sets spaces for certain applications etc

Windows 7 Stacks – A great program which incorporates that stack feature of a dock into your windows 7 superbar.

Also organizing applications in there own spaces and corners etc really helps in seeing the whole environment of your apps.

5- KEEP IT UP!

Stay Organized , don’t fall out of the rythm make  a checklist in your mind or write it down and remember to

-Daily Clear out Recycle Bin

-Clean out extra /un -needed icons

-Organize Junk/To Folders

-Update your docks, superbar etc and keep at it daily , weekly whatever works best for you.

Also remember to always add your personal touch wallpapers, icons etc to make that extra great geeky feel =)

Enjoy the Tips

Comment your thoughts and your tips to the community…

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Hey  Guys! My name is Kieran Gumn,  I have been into computers and technology since I was very young, and I’m currently 15 years old.

I live in The UK, and have been proudly running Windows Vista since Last year. I Currently Have a Ei system 1511 Laptop, You can check this out Here.

Anyways, that’s probably enough from me… for now. See you guys around. 

I’d Like To Thank Duncan on giving me this trial its a big opportunity and I appreciate it.

 

REVIEW OF MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD

 

Today The world has lots of Mail clients such as Windows Mail, Hotmail, Google mail and A Few more. Most of these you have to access the web to get on to them. Mozilla Have bought out a new software called Mozilla Thunderbird.

Once you have got it downloaded it will come up with this screen.

To get started you must have a email account. At first i tried to set up my hotmail account But it was a little bit to hard for me. I suggest you use a googlemail account as all you must do is putin your password and username.

Rating’s

 

I Like this software as it is quick and dosent take a long time to load.

Performance 9/10

Themes 7/10

Overall 16/20

Thanks for Reading this post. You can follow me on twitter  By clicking Here, and go to my youtube channel by clicking Here

Thanks alot

Hey Dunc’s Web, Callum here and in this hopefully quick post I’m going to be talking about some cool user interface customization sites you may not have heard of.

The first one I would like to mention is Deviant Art, now I’m sure a lot of you have already heard of this as a website for manga, photography and various other kinds of art but there is a little section called Customization that has a lot of things to customize your system such as icons, wallpapers, my personal favourite visual styles and much more.

Next up is Crystal XP, this is basically a pretty cool website jam-packed with really great applications to customize Windows XP, a lot of stuff like bricopacks, icon designing tutorials and some other applications to generally try and tweak out Windows XP.

The second last one that I am going to talk about is Win Customize, what this is quite a lot like Deviant Art but instead of one category the whole website is devoted to customizing your computer.

Last but certainly not least is Interface Lift, this is probably the best website I have ever used to get any sort of wallpaper for my desktop, there’s always fresh content because it is updated every single day, they have also got an iPhone app for iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers called Backdrops if you want to check that out.

Thanks for reading this post Dunc’s Web, bye.

As most of you may know cloud computing lets users of the same cloud access each others documents, media and other assorted goods through the sharing of cloud networking. But something that you guys may not know, is that most of you are probably using cloud networking without even realizing it. Something I have noticed these past couple of months is that Google is a company that is strongly pushing this cloud technology the most. My guess as to why they are pushing so hard is because their operating system, Google Chrome, will be entirely based on “The Cloud”. Google has introduced Google Docs (I use to write all of my blogs) a prime example of the cloud, Google docs allows users to share and collaborate in real time on a single document then is stored on their server. Which means less space on your hard drive, no third party apps needed, and of course it will always be stored on the cloud.

Why are people pushing the cloud so much? Why can we not just do it our way? The answer is simple, cloud computing and networking is the future. It allows faster and a more reliable source of storage and also makes real time collaboration a piece of cake for anyone on your cloud. But who do you want on your cloud? Is cloud computing going to be a security failure? We do not know the answer to these questions just yet but companies such as Google and Yahoo will soon find out the answer and soon enough we will to. The cloud will prove to be something very powerful, but how reliable? Leave a comment about how you feel about the cloud and what you think will happen in the future about Google Chrome OS and other cloud networks.

-Adam “Anoxia” Radcliffe

I have been using Ubuntu Linux for a while, but recently unnistalled, why? I needed the Hard Drive Space, but i’m willing to install it again. I installed Ubuntu using Wubi, a tiny .exe file, that let’s you install not only Ubuntu, but Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and MythUbuntu aswell.

When I ran the Wubi Installer, it came with a simple window, asking to choose the version of Ubuntu, your username, your password, and to choose the Hard Drive space you need for it, the minimum is 4GB. When I clicked install, it started downloading the 64Bit version of Ubuntu, and the download speed was very quick, and I downloaded it in less than 10 minutes. After that, it calculated the Checksums, to check if the Ubuntu .iso file didin’t had any viruses, and I just rebooted the PC and selected “Ubuntu”, from the boot menu. When loading Ubuntu, it was a little slow, but it ended up starting the installation. It just taked some 10 minutes to install, and after that, it rebooted itself. I selected “Windows 7” first, to see if it corrupted Windows files, and it didin’t, so I just selected Ubuntu again, and it came up with the logon screen of Ubuntu, that looks very nice. When the desktop showed, I had an error asking me to install my Language Files (Portuguese), so I just installed it, and rebooted the machine. When I came to the desktop again, it had my language packs installed. Internet was detected, sound was detected, but the Compiz effects weren’t enabled. When I tried to enable them, it didin’t work, so I just searched on Google, and a result worked.

After making Compiz to work, I installed programs, that are on Windows too. All worked flawlessly, including XChat, that is paid on Windows, but free on Linux instead. I installed Wine too, Emesene, Audacity, and many other programs. For the people that might be saying “Linux doesn’t have many programs”, that’s not true. Linux has alot of programs, including some that are on Windows, and even games, like OpenArena. I had one problem though, my Microphone and Webcam didin’t work on Ubuntu, but I wouldn’t really be making videos, or using my Webcam on Ubuntu. One thing that I quite liked on Ubuntu, is that you can do alot of customizing on it, you can have specific window borders, and alot of other stuff, it reminds me of Windowblinds, by Stardock, that you actually have to pay for, but on Ubuntu is free! One thing that I also noticed, is that Firefox 3.5 isin’t on Ubuntu for some reason, but you can download Swiftfox, it’s basically Firefox 3.5, but for Linux, and you can use all the addons that you used on Windows or Mac, on Linux. Overall, it was a great experience on Linux, and I might install it again, I recommend you all to try the Live CD of it, or just try Wubi, because you can unnistall it quickly, and it doesn’t have the Grub bootloader, that I don’t really like.

So that’s basically my Experience on Ubuntu, if you didin’t know, i’m Nuno A.K.A NunoKaKa85, i’m a new writer on here, and i’m very proud to be one. You can check me out at YouTube and on Twitter, so thanks guys, see you all at my next post

Those of you following me on Twitter will know I recently said “Forcing myself to use Ubuntu. Bye bye Windows 7“. While that statement is true, I won’t be ditching Windows altogether (more on that in a future post). I have decided that I would document anything worth noting on the Operating System on DuncsWeb, and any help or suggestions for anything I have done are welcome in the comments.

Usually I end up putting Ubuntu in a Virtual Machine or trying it for 10 minutes and saying “thats not for me”. I guess I have been so used to Windows that it has made me closed minded. On my Current Setup, I have only used Windows 7 and Windows XP so I thought I would give my system a new lease of life with a distribution of Linux.

So, now that Ubuntu is installed, what were my first steps to configuring it?

As soon as Ubuntu installed, it told me I had over 200 updates to Install, so I let that do its thing. It then asked me if I would like to use a proprietry driver for my Graphics Card by ATI (This means we have to rely on ATI for the updates, which could leave open security holes), so I went ahead and did that also. I then rebooted and set graphics to Extra (System –> Preferences –> Appearance –> Visual Effects –> Extra)

A large set of applications are installed by default, one of which is Firefox 3.0, however the latest Firefox (as of this post) is Firefox 3.5.3. With a little bit of googling I discovered Swiftfox, a build of Firefox optimized for Linux (all add-ons, settings retained), which has been updated to 3.5.3. Once installed I found that this launched and opened pages significantly faster than Firefox 3.0 (which is still installed with Swiftfox, but will not run along side it).

Next was theming, those of you who saw my screen-shot of Ubuntu while I was on the wubi install of Ubuntu, will notice it was like this:

To look like the above screen-shot:

• I found this page in which I installed Lux and Moomex by dragging both files into “Theme” in System –> Preferences –> Appearance.
• Ignoring the “required GTK+ theme engine” error shown, I clicked on “LUX” and then customise..
• Clicking the window border tab, I clicked Moomex (this is because the default Lux theme has HUGE borders on its Windows!) then close
• Clicking the fonts tab I changed everything to “UnDotum” (keeping Window title font “Undotum Bold”) and then close
• For the firefox black theme, I used Black Stratini and to keep google black I used Stylish and Valacar’s Google Dark Grey Redesigned theme
• Xchat is available in “Add/Remove Programs” once clicking “Show: All open source applications” and retains its theme from the main one
• To make the black chat in X-Chat go to Settings –> Preferences – Colors and change “Foreground” to white and “Background to black”
• While you’re there, head to “Text Box” and click “Colored nicknames” and also change the font to UnDotum

At this point in time, I have the driver for my graphics card provided when I first started Ubuntu, however I am going to attempt to try and install the latest driver from ATI. In doing this I download a “.run” file. Being used to double clicking everything in Windows, this time I have to use the Terminal. To launch the terminal I would have to go to Applications –> Accessories –> Terminal but it would usually put me in the “Duncan” folder, and the Terminal is sensitive (so typing “cd duncan” instead of “cd Duncan” would bring up an error).

To make life easier, similar to a “Open command prompt here” when shift-clicking in Windows 7, it is possible to install a script that will allow you to do “Open Terminal Here”, with the instructions from This Post. Once installed, I could right click the desktop, click “open terminal here” and type “sudo sh <filename.run>” which means the following:

• Sudo: Run command as root (elevated priveleges) – You will need to type a password
• sh: Run the following file
• <filename.run> – The “run” file you downloaded from the web

A tip if you have a long name to type (e.g mine was “ati-driver-installer-9-9-x86.x86_64.run”), you can type “ati-” and then tab and the whole filename will appear. This is similar in functionality to “XChat” when typing usernames.

Next on the list was getting Flash, which I obtained from here choosing “.deb for Ubuntu 8.04+” and opening with “GDeb Package Manager” – which installed without a hitch.

How has your experience with Ubuntu been? Any suggestions on what I should do next?

Today it seems as if everything is heading to the cloud (Web based). Anymore I don’t have a desktop application for checking email, as I rely on Gmail and the same goes for a text editor and Google Docs. I’m a big advocate of backing up your files online as well as locally on an external hard drive. If you can fine a quality service that you trust, then why not backup some files just in case. So in this post I’m going to go over some of the top file hosting/sharing sites for you to backup your files on. All the sites below are free, but have paid versions. I did not cover any of the paid versions, these thoughts are purely just off the free version.

Dropbox
Price- Free!
Space- 2Gb (Up to 5.25Gb with 5Gb referral program and 250Mb for completing the tour)
Features- Nice desktop application that integreates with windows and Mac very well. The web interface is very nice as well. Image Gallery
Cons- Smaller amount of space than some of the other services

A Drive
Price- Free!
Storage- 50Gb
Features- File search, Remote file transfer, Desktop application (I could not get it to download so I can’t comment on it)
cons- Poor website with many ads, poor flash uploader

Mediafire
Price- Free!
Storage- Unlimited!
Features- Nice web site, unlimited uploads/downloads, Image galleries
Cons- 100Mb file limit, no desktop application, no hot linking images

Div Share
Price- Free!
Storage- 5Gb
Features- Website file manager is alright, but poor uploader
Cons- 200Mb file limit, no desktop application, no hot linking images

Out of these four great services I would have to say I’m torn on which one to use. If you need to store many smaller files like pictures, word documents, ect. I would have to go with Media fire or Div share as they have the 100Mb file size limit. A Drive is great if your wanting to store larger files like podcast, music backups, or videos. Then dropbox is great if your just wanting a good file hosting service with a really nice web interface and desktop application.  If I had to only choose one I would probably have to go with Dropbox just because of the quality of the service, but A Drive is not too far behind just because that 50Gb is really tempting.

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*Note: Even though all for of these services are very reliable you should still keep another backup of all your files. You never know what might happen…

Hey Hey Duncsweb Readers! My name is Matthew Gajownik, and my current Online Alias is WizardCM, although some might still know me by my old one, ComputerMaster. I have been into computers and technology since I was very young, and I’m currently 15 years old.

In my spare time I love designing things in Photoshop or coding websites. I have been actively online since May 2008 when I joined JCXP Forums as “ComputerMaster”. Since then, I have made many friends online, and learned a lot about technology, computers, website coding, and graphics design.

I have had a website since I was 12 (in 2006) and am up to my 4th or 5th which you can find here. I coded that entire site from scratch, other than the Wordpress Blog of course, and also made all the images. You can also find my Twitter account here, follow me if you want!

I live in Australia, and have been proudly running Windows 7 since September 2009 (Build 6801 x86). I currently run Windows 7 Professional x64 RTM legally on my laptop, which you can find out about here.

Anyways, thats probably enough from me… for now. See you guys around.