Black On Stuff

I have two internet connections at home, mainly because I’m an Internet addict and any minute without Internet generates lots of frustration and secondly because I cannot afford to have any problems while connecting to the office network.
Now, one of my providers had some problems lately and I guess that’s just because of the rough [...]

Yesterday I installed Office 2010 beta on my laptop and started using Outlook right away. Some new features caught my attention:
- the way to install it through Click-to-Run streaming technology, that is you just download 2 MB and start using it right away, the programs will get downloaded in background but you’re able to use [...]

Time passed since the first release of Internet Explorer and version by version new features were added. While I’m writing this article, the latest version is 8.0 but still, after all these years, Microsoft did not manage to find the right way to parse an URL and extract the file name. Ordinary bugs keep showing [...]

It’s a fact that the movies shot by Canon cameras do not play on most DVD with DivX capabilities due to codec incompatibility. This is of course a problem. Another problem is that the shot movies are hardly encoded so the size is quite big for the number of minutes. Here is my guide to [...]

I’m using a lot of free software tools to accomplish various tasks at home and I do not always remember what I used last time. This is why I have decided to write it down here, to use it later for reference.
I had a simple task: to join several mpeg 2 files that were taken [...]