Karthik Chronicles

I just love watching videos on my PC and sometimes even capture some video from TV such as music videos so that I can sit and watch them later. The main problem I face other than shitty quality of my TV signal(yeah never figured out how to capture video from my DTH and the cable is too small too.) is that the captured files end up being terribly huge. I can’t have such files taking too much of space since, I am a download junkie. The only way is to convert them to small avi files by encoding them. I am really bad at encoding and never understand a thing on how to encode video files. I use AutoGK to encode sometimes but I prefer to use it only for big files like movies as such.

I came across this encoder named Super. Super stands for Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer. The thing I liked about it was it’s super simple interface. If anyone just goes around and tried it for like half an hour they would know exactly what to do. I really loved how all these different options helps you understand how to encode a big file to small size. I know hard core encoders would prefer Guardian Knot or Virtual Dub Mod over this anyday, but personally going through all these options is quite tough for me. It took me around 3 hours to figure out how to save a marked segment of a file(Yeah I am too stupid). So, I always prefer easy methods to do these things. I would recommend Super encoder to everyone since its really helpful and as it’s also free.

Download Method: This is the only problem I have with downloading Super from its website. I was not able to figure out how to download it from it’s website for a long time and found the answer on net somewhere, so , I am thankful to the person who had written about it. First of all go to Super’s website here. Then go to the end of the page and click on this text “Start Downloading SUPER ©“. This will take you to another page, on this page there is “download and use” written which you need to click. This will lead you to another page. This is fortunately the last page, here just go down and download it by clicking the text “Download SUPER © setup file“. You might say why not directly use the download link and download it but if you use it will directly lead you to first page so its totally worthless.

Website Link

Wikipedia Entry on Super

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             I would like to start with saying people on windows who haven’t seen a 3D desktop definitely need to read this one. I have been using windows for years now and have heard many people say that linux is the most unfriendliest operating system, I never asked questions about it. Read more »

             First of all sorry for not posting for so long. I have got busy with my studies so don’t expect more than 3 or 4 posts a month for this year.

          Topics are very rare which I like to discuss but my all time favourite is Google making some new software or giving us some AJAX application to use. The latest one in their line is Google Spreadsheets. If there is anyone who doesn’t know what a spreadsheet is then the simplest example would Microsoft Excel. Now this can be said as one of those pioneer applications which will introduce a revolution. It will enable you to work on softwares which are not even there in the computer you are working this will be very helpful in course of time. Now I wanted to see if we can really work on these thing or its just for the show so I tested it. I have uploaded the pics too. Read more »

After lot of waiting Qwerty invited me to the windows beta (I will also review the Linux version if it has any changes). It looks great first you have to install it and I faced a tough problem installing it, then I came to conclusion that the problem was the sidebar extension the Firefox which was creating the problem so I went ahead and uninstalled it.

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I dont know if this is old or new but i saw a link coming to my blog from there and thought of taking a look at it. It seems to be a good way of organizing the feeds though I am not very keen on doing that I thought giving it a try wont be bad. I tried to make it get the feeds of my own blog and it worked though it takes awfully a long time for that but it gathers all the posts and presents them in a very good way.
Now when you have two or more feeds ur page on google reader will look something like this.

You might see its quite simple and is low on features but for someone who just wants simplicity can go for this. But i dont think it will be liked by many for it lacks many features.

Google Reader

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Okay now some things go under slow development and some jump to advanced same thing happened to Live messenger it has updated itself now. The GUI is much better than the earlier one(though many people dont think so) but there is a problem all the colors are very light and it gives it a really bad look they should work hard on the colors and it also has someimprovments on the features side but not many big changes as of yet. So there is no need of a comprehensive review but only of some screenshots.

Yeah before I forget its no Hoax as i am using it.

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