jeffrey robert lange

I wanted to figure out how to split a large .VRO file into many .MPG files. The reason I needed to find out how was because my dvd burner recorded a thirty minute tv show onto a dvd. I wanted to burn this dvd for archiving. The process was:

1. Record the tv show onto dvd.
2. Copied the .vro file onto my computer
3. split the large .vro file into 5 files using chunk
4. used DOS to rename the 5 files to .mpg files
5. used Windows DVD Maker to burn the 5 .mpg files to DVD

Here’s a shot of the DOS command I used. Please note that the chunk.exe file was in the same directory as the source file. The /n5 means 5 files. You could use /n2 to split the file in half. There are more directions on how to use chunk on their website.

As a computer user, you type a lot. As a human, you make typing mistakes. If you are like me, you might not like clicking on everything, so you use the arrow keys on your keyboard.

If going letter by letter is to slow, hold down the [Control] key while using the arrow keys. This will skip over the words, going to the beginning or end of the word, depending on the direction you move.

If you are using Windows and you need to quickly view a calendar to make sure the day of the week and the date match up, just double left-click on the time on your toolbar in the bottom right corner of your screen.

Did your keyboard break? In Windows, there is a way to survive without a keyboard at all, although it will take much longer to get anything done.

Click Start -> Accessories -> Accessibility -> On-Screen Keyboard in XP.

In Vista, you could search for the keyboard from the Start Menu, or go Start -> Control Panel -> Ease of Access -> Ease of Access Center -> Start On Screen Keyboard.

This example is why Vista’s search is so nice.

If you accidentally close a tab in firefox, you can reopen the tab by pressing Shift-Control-T on a windows machine and Shift-Command-T on a Mac. To see some more useful keyboard shortcuts for firefox, check out support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Shortcuts

To easily open a new tab in Firefox, just double click as shown in the video.

To clear you cookies and browsing history quickly in Firefox, press [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [Del] not to be confused with control, alt, delete, which does something entirely different. This tip is nice for when you use public computers. Do this after you are done using the internet so that people can’t easily get into the accounts you were logged into. This isn’t fail proof, but it discourages the people that would usually crack into your account, aka the scum of the earth.

If you’re anything like me, you take videos. I even take videos on my digital camera because it’s much easier than carrying around a camera and a video camera. Well, for some reason, most cameras love to record video as a .mov file, which is great. Unfortunately, there is no good way to get these videos into Windows Movie Maker. I found a opensource program called Jahshaka that can quickly and painlessly convert those movies into something Windows understands in a high quality way.

1. First, you’ll need to download Jashaka and make sure you have Windows Movie Maker.
2. Second, install Jashaka and open the program.
3. Now, click on file, load, and then load the video you want to convert
4. Now click encoder in the bottom half of the program.
5. Select NTSC, FFmpeg MPEG, and DVD. These are the quality settings for the video you are about to convert.
   
6. Click Start Encoding, tell it where to put the file and what to call it. NOTE: no file extension is needed. Jahshaka puts it in for you.
7. Wait for a bit for the movie to be encoded.
8. Do whatever you want to the video in Windows Movie Maker!

To refresh a website or your desktop, press F5.

If you use the Quick Launch tool bar, you can select the first shortcut (the leftmost shortcut) by pressing [Windows Key] + [1] and you can launch the second shortcut by pressing [Windows Key] + [2] etc.