WinFF to convert videos in different formats in Windows

 Multimedia  No Responses »
Jun 172009
 

WinFF is a simple free GUI for the opensource media converter ffmpeg, the command line video converter. WinFF will convert almost any video file that FFmpeg will convert. WinFF converts multiple files in multiple formats at one time. WinFF is free opensource software released under GPLv3 license and is supported in Linux and Windows. WinFF supports multiple languages like Brazillian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese Tradditional, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish.

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gPodder – Free audio & Video podcast downloader in Windows

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Jun 172009
 

gPodder is a simple, free opensource software (licensed under GPLv3) to download free audio and video content (“podcasts”) from the Internet and watch it on your computer or on the go on your mobile or iPod. gPodder can support feeds from RSS, Atom and Youtube. gPodder is available in Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and on Maemo-based devices and supports iPod, MP3 player and mobile phones (e.g. Nokia N800 and N810). The user interfaces supported on gPodder are GTK+, Maemo 4, Maemo 5 and CLI.

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sc utility – control Windows Services from command line

 Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows XP SP3, Windows-Server-2003  No Responses »
Jun 082009
 

SC is a simple command line utility that can be used to communicate, control or query the Service Control Manager in Windows. “sc” should work in Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003/2008. “sc” is quite powerful that it can control services locally and on remote systems. “sc” can query details, start,stop, configure services that can all be done from the Service Control Manager (services.msc) ideally making it a great tool to include in scripts or for command line junkies like me.

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Windows 7 known bug: Previous versions under Network Folder properties show same day

 Windows 7  1 Response »
May 192009
 

This is more of an information than a solution.

If you view the previous versions under Properties of a Network folder, you may find all the versions have the same day of the folder creation than the backup version for the folder. The same folder will show the appropriate dates when viewed from a Windows Vista or a Windows XP machine.

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Guard against week SSL certificates in Internet Explorer

 Internet Explorer  2 Responses »
May 082009
 

A recently deomstrated vulnerability in the OpenSSL package on Debian Linux distribution has generated numerous certificates weak and are easy to crack. Many servers still use these weak certificates, even though it is impossible to establish a secure connection using them. The heise SSL Guardian checks the SSL certificates and warns you when it detects a weak one.

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