Tools

I’m looking for a software that let me input the list of books I have[Author - Title], generates a list of all books written by the author and diffrentiates between the books I have and the ones I don’t. The software I’ve seen only lets me work with books that I have and doesn’t list out books that I don’t have by the same author.

ummm….i’d say amazon.com your author and look at the list of books

then, maybe only capitalize the names of books you have and dont capitalize the names of books you dont…or some other way of differentiating them

that way, u can keep using the same software you’re using

Google Tech Talks
October 8, 2008

ABSTRACT

Ever notice that you seem to spend 80% of your time on 20% of your tasks? Or that 80% of the decisions in a meeting seem to occur in 20% of the meeting time? Welcome to the world of the 80:20 rule. When we design, build and test software, we have to determine where to start and what we should do next. The 80:20 rule helps provide an answer to these questions, while helping to increase our productivity and effectiveness. As well as being an agile principle, it’s a common thread in other disciplines, and there’s a special variation that applies to software defects. We’ll explore the different ways testers and developers are using the 80:20 rule. This rule could be a secret ingredient to help you build software smarter!

Speaker: Erik Petersen
Erik Petersen has been involved in custom software development since the 1980s, now focusing on testing and quality. He has presented at more than twenty Australian and international conferences, winning several awards. He mixes industry experience with powerful ideas and a passion for quality, and has influenced the work habits of hundreds of testers and developers across the world.

Erik’s been heavily involved in the Exploratory Testing community since before he even knew what it was called, proposing the idea of paired ET independently of Kaner and Bach in 2001. He is pushing forward with research on ET and other agile methods. He has reviewed many agile and testing books, and accidentally named the Master Test Report In the IEEE 829 Test Documentation 2008 standard.
Check out Erik’s link site at www.testingspot.net

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A friend of a friend has been making music himself using a software (or softwares) that my friend doesn’t know.

Do you know what software that can generate artificial musical instruments sounds and mix them up like the DJs do?

All you need to do that is a computer. With a program like FL Studio, you don’t even need a MIDI keyboard (piano). You can use the keyboard on your computer to tigger the instruments in FL Studio. Of course, if you can get a MIDI keyboard it would be best though.

All you need is a USB to MIDI cable, about 30-40 bucks and start up FL Studio and you are good to go.

Check out the demo of FL Studio here: http://flstudio.image-line.com/documents/download.html

Make sure you read the F1 help manual to get started. You can import any VSTi (virtual instrument) into FL Studio. Image-Line makes several, the flagship being "Sytrus" which comes with the XXL version of FL Studio at a major discounted price.

If you end up liking FL Studio, here is a link I used to buy my FL Studio with a 10% discount on the ENTIRE first purchase, anybody can use it:

https://support.image-line.com/jshop/shop.php?offer=Default&promo=BFHEHAH486

Once you buy FL Studio from image-line’s online shop, you get FREE LIFETIME updates..meaning you don’t pay a cent each year they release a new version (9,10,11, ect.. for free).

Good luck and have fun

I have recorded a clip in my mobile. And now i want to add a background music to my video clip.
To do so what software should i use? Please do tell me the famous software’s used for this sort of action.

Sony Vegas Pro is good, but another professional separating audio from video application can help you solve all your problems. Audio from Video Converter provides you a handy tool to extract audio/sound or background music from video files and digital camcorder records.

To rip a song or episode from a movie, Audio out of Video Converter is your best choice. With it, you can easily get MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, AAC, AC3, AIFF, AMR, FLAC, M4A, MKA, MP2 or some audio from video AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, MOV, VOB, MPG, ASF, RM, RMVB, FLV (Flash), etc.

Video to Audio Converter also supports converting a clip video file to audio file and join different videos, audios with highest speed on Windows XP (SP2 or later), Windows Vista, Windows 7.
When your output audio is too large to handle, Video to Audio Converter enables you to split it to several small clips by setting split time in Edit-Trim panel.

Besides, you can do further settings in advanced and general settings panels to customize output audios, e.g. choose audio sample rate, channel, encoder, etc.

http://www.mp4kits.com/audio/separate-mp3-wma-wav-aduio-from-video/

Photo Guide: How to separate Audio from Video to MP3 WMA WAV from Video?

a cracking tutorial showing u how to crack an actual software…in this case the software is 4Disk Clean Gold 5.5

if u dont have the tools i have used go to the following links:

4Disk Clean Gold 5.5:

http://tracker.5star-network.com/download.mis?id=17890&siteId=6

hiew:

http://www.4shared.com/file/54716030/c376bd15/Hiew.html

W32Dasm:

http://www.4shared.com/file/54716344/891c5192/W32Dasm_8.html

note: if the links dont work..please let me know and i will update them

This is only ONE method of cracking and will only work with some software applications not all. All depends on how your particular software was programmed/engineered.

#Educational purposes only

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I need software that I can create photo still virtual tours for real estate agents – software that will allow me to embed my finished slideshow onto my website, so that the agent can then be linked to my site to view show. I can only find photo editing software to save slideshow onto DVD, PC or email slideshow, but not software that I can do my project and then put shows onto my webpage.

Can anyone help me?

I highly recommend iPixSoft Flash Slideshow Creator, it can help you to make flash slideshow,flash banner, slideshow album, photo gallery for web design.

http://www.ipixsoft.com/flash-slideshow-creator.html

Below is samples on its official website:

http://www.ipixsoft.com/flash-slideshow-samples.html

Make a Photo Slideshow for Commercial Blog

http://www.ipixsoft.com/flash-gallery-tutorial/slideshow-for-blog.html

A new InfoClipz provided by www.infoworld.com. Infomation Technology explained in 3 minutes or less!

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This video explains how there are open source free software alternatives to some of the most popular commercial software. OpenOffice, Firefox, Audacity, GIMP, MediaCoder. Well worth a watch if you are unsure about the benefits of free software.
Source: http://www.cnettv.com/9710-1_53-25813.html

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I need to gain internet access from various locations which do not have any wireless networks which are accessible by someone who does not have the password. My brother in law said there is a software I can install which will allow me to bypass the encryption password. Also, can you tell me where I might be able to download this software?
Thank you!

The software he is refering to is a completed one that is expensive. It is also very ILLEGAL. It’s called Hack-in-the-Box (one of many).
If you do decide to use it & you get caught (a very easy task, much easier than hacking) believe me, the penalties are very severe. Hacking (which is what you’ll be doing) is considered a very serious crime. Depending on what the network has on it or what you say or do, it could be considered a terroristic threat.
Don’t go there. Penalties are too severe.

A computer has a processor, hard drive etc. We buy software like OS, office etc, for installing in it. But you can not install it in another computer. How does the software identify its "home" then? If I change the hard drive then can I reinstall the same software or I can not?

Each Network Interface Card has unique MAC Address.
All the components in the computer have a ROM which stores the serial number of the product. So the Motherboard etc. have a serial number which can be retrived.

The OS stores all these details during installation and during activation. The serial key is responsible for protectiting software piracy along with the activation which determin the HOME of the OS.

The activation has some threshold limitations.

Windows Product Activation (WPA) checks 10 hardware details
Display Adapter
SCSI Adapter
IDE Adapter (effectively the motherboard)
Network Adapter (NIC) and its MAC Address
RAM Amount Range (i.e., 0-64mb, 64-128mb, etc.)
Processor Type
Processor Serial Number
Hard Drive Device
Hard Drive Volume Serial Number (VSN)
CD-ROM / CD-RW / DVD-ROM

It then calculates and records a number based on the first device of each type that was found during setup, and stores this number on your hard drive. Initially, this is sent to Microsoft in an automatic dial-up, together with the Product ID number derived from the 25-character unique Product Key used in setting up Windows.

The hardware is checked each time Windows boots, to ensure that it is still on the same machine. Also, if you subsequently perform a complete format and reinstall of Windows, Microsoft’s activation center will have to be contacted again because the information held on the machine itself (the number previously written to your hard drive) will have been wiped out by reformatting the hard drive. If your hardware is substantially the same, this will be done by an automated call without your needing to talk to anyone.

What does ‘substantially the same’ mean? WPA asks for ‘votes’ from each of these ten categories: ‘Is the same device still around, or has there never been one?’ Seven Yes votes means all is well — and a NIC, present originally and not changed, counts for three yes votes! Minor cards, like sound cards, don’t come into the mix at all. If you keep the motherboard, with the same amount of RAM and processor, and an always present cheap NIC (available for $10 or less), you can change everything else as much as you like.

If you change the device in any category, you have lost that Yes vote — but will not lose it any more thereafter if you make changes in that category again. So, for example, you can install a new video display card every month for as long as you like.

Note that it appears that if you boot with a device disabled (disabled — not removed), the device is not found in the enumeration — so if, say, you disable a network connection which uses the NIC and then reboot, you may be missing its three votes and find that a new activation is needed. If you are doing such things, take the Hint 3 in What about formatting a hard disk? below, and restore the files concerned once the NIC is back in service.

What if I make too many changes?

If, on Windows startup, there are not the required seven Yes votes, the system will, in the original version of Windows XP, only boot to Safe Mode. You will be required to reactivate by a phone call to Microsoft. You will have to write down a 50-digit number, call into the activation center on a toll-free number that will be given to you, read and check back the number you recorded — and explain the circumstances. In exchange, you will be given a 42-digit number to type in. This will reactivate your copy of Windows.

This is made easier if Windows XP Service Pack 1 has been installed: The system will continue to boot normally for three days, during which time you will be able to contact the activation center via the net. If the extra changes have been removed, or if 120 days have passed since the original activation, you will be able to use the automatic process once more

What about formatting a hard disk?

Two things are recorded for disks: the number of the disk drive itself, and the Volume Serial Number (VSN) of the partition on it.

HINT No. 1: The VSN is part of the data in the partition’s first sector, so it is changed when you reformat the drive. It is worth getting the freeware utility Volume ID to restore the original VSN. Before you reformat, run VOL from a Command Prompt, note the VSN (e.g., 1F2E-3C4B) in the second line. Then, after the reformat and new Windows XP installation, defer the new activation until you have run Volume ID to restore the old VSN, and rebooted. This is not essential — but it saves one of the ‘Yes votes’ against any future hardware change. (If you don’t wish to run this utility, the next best way to obtain the same result would be to delete the old Win XP files from the hard drive before reinstalling, rather than actually reformatting.)

HINT No. 2: Another thing that changes the VSN is converting a FAT 32 partition to NTFS. So, if you upgrade a system using FAT 32 to Windows XP and intend to convert to NTFS, do the conversion before activating the system. Remember, you can wait a while: you have 30 days before you need to activate. The machine’s hardware at the time of the first activation is what counts. Or, if you have already activated, use Volume ID as described in Hint No. 1. If you are doing this after activation, also first back up the WPA.DBL and WPA.BAK files, as described in Hint No. 3 below, and, after completion of the conversion, restore these files and reboot again.

HINT No. 3: It is valuable to back up the two files WPA.DBL and WPA.BAK from the Windows\System32 folder.Then, should they get damaged, or should you do a ‘Repair’ reinstallation of Win XP, these files can be copied back to restore the prior activation status. However, this only works in those limited circumstances. The contents of these two files is matched to the specific Windows setup; therefore, contrary to what many journalists and members of the user community have written in recent months, restoring these files will not restore your activation status following a reformat and clean install.

The disk drive and partition recorded will be the ones that the system has found first when doing the initial activation: normally the one from which the system booted. So, if you change that disk and reinstall Windows to a new partition, you have lost two of the Yes votes. If, though, you add a new hard disk, copy the original partition onto it with an imaging program, and retain the original hard drive as a secondary data disk, it will still be found by a later check. This is because it searches for all disks, and the vote will be Yes in both categories if it finds the original one, with the partition not reformatted.

If you change the harddisk, yes you can reinstall the OS.