For the joi de vivre,

Laugh? I nearly shit,,,

For those of you who can't be arsed...

Getting a blog and spending a few hours getting it to look how you want it to, and doing all the associated shit that goes with it, there is a site that takes pretty much all of this, scrunches it into a ball, and throws it into the bin. Posterous is a miniblogging site that allows you to easily post whatever you fancy; MP3's, documents and even video in the form of links and files, to a page dedicated to you.

Posterous automatically embeds players for the following sites: YouTube, Google Video, Hulu, Omnisio, MixWit, Justin.TV, Fliggo, Vimeo, motionbox, TED Talks, Viddler, Dailymotion, Blip.tv, Revver, TeacherTube, GodTube, seesmic, and Brightcove as well as allowing you to post on other sites like Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad, Movable Type, Livejournal and Xanga.

Founded by Garry Tan and his "college buddy" (Is this a euphemism? Answers on a postcard to the usual address) Sachin Agarwal, after they got sick of having to log into so many websites to blog something...

"It was kind of crazy. Log into Flickr, upload a picture, get an embed code, log into Blogger/Wordpress, paste the embed code, then finally after all those steps you have a blog post. We looked at email and just saw it was something nobody really used or cared about. So it all just sort of clicked." - Garry Tan.

When you think about it, the man has a point. Email is something that millions of people use each and everyday but not everyone is gung ho about getting a blog and putting the hours in to keep it fresh. Posterous takes all the hard work out of the hands of the user and allows them to post quickly and easily.

Garry and Sachin also plan on working on more ways to use email to connect people to the net simply and easily. Plans are in the pipeline for Posteous's staff to engage in non-profit work to help small charities set up a website that enables them to make themselves, and their mission, more widely known.

At the moment Posterous is a simple looking site when you first fire onto it but Garry assures me that the highest priority at the moment is themes and easy customising of your Posterous. I for one will hold him to it. Why not whip yourself over to posterous and grab yourself an easy updateable site.

Join the revolution, it's full of stars. Garry and Sachin may be two of them.

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Now playing: ZZ Top - Jesus Just Left Chicago

How to use Pazera Video Converter...

Ok so you have a nice shiny Ipod and want to put movies onto it. Here's how...

First, get over to www.download.com and download a copy of Pazera Video to Ipod Converter.

Start Pazera Video to Ipod Converter. You'll get a box like this...

Next you need to add the movie files from wherever you have them on your hard-disk. To do this click the Add Files button in the top right of the program.

A box will appear showing you links to the folders on your computer.

Find the file you want to convert and select it.

Pazera Video to Ipod Converter will add the file to the list of files to be converted.

The next step is to tell Pazera Video to Ipod Converter what type of file you want it to be converted to. To do this click the drop down box with profile written on it at the left hand side.

In the drop down box click the settings that you wish to use (Go for the Mov - Ipod/Iphone - Best Q - MPEG4 - 1500kbps - AAC 160kbps - 640x480 option.) and select it.

Click the button that has <-Load written on it.

The Video Converter will load the settings needed.

Make sure you have the output directory pointing to the directory you want to save your converted file in otherwise Pazera is set to save the file in the original directory by clicking the Browse... Button

Find where you want to save the file and select it. As you can see above I have selected the directory G:\Ipod Videos.

Done all that? You should now have a screen that looks a bit like this.

Finally check that the program knows all the information it needs to do the job you want it to. In the image below I have highlighted the things you have to do in order for the program to complete as desired.

Check that the File/s have been added.
Check that you have the right directory to save the converted file in.
Check that the profile settings are correct.

Done all that? Good. Now all there is for you to do is for you to click the Convert button which is located to the right of the Add File button you used to add the video you want to convert.

A screen like the one below will pop up and your video will be converted.

...Note... This is not an instantaneous thing so have some patience and wait until the program tells you it is finished. You'll notice a small bit of text, just below the black part of the screen with the video information that says Done, when it is.

To finish just hit the close button and shut the program down. And that, as they say, is that. You have now converted a movie file to a file that can be uploaded to your Itunes library.

Enjoy.

*Software used in this demo...

Pazera Video to Ipod Converter.

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Take this for a spin...

Whilst popping around the web trying to find all new and cool ways of customising Windows Vista I stumbled across a cool, and very skeezy, tool called 360Desktop. As the title suggests, 360Desktop is a program that enables a 360° panorama on your desktop.

Installation is simple and easy to understand, if it wasn't I wouldn't be writing about it, and the program itself is easy to use. 360 desktop also allows you to throw as many widgets onto your desktop as you like thanks to the easy to use widget creator.

Very useful if you are they type of person who has lots of shortcuts on your desktop or like a constant stream of information via RSS feeds.

Last night...

I was raving on about how impressed I was with the website drop.io and decided that I should spend an hour or two today getting into the thing and seeing what was what.

But as the saying goes, the best laid plans gang aft agley and after less than a minute I was distracted by another site and felt I should let you all know about it. Cooliris is a neat little plugin that allows you to view the media from a site in a nice 3D environment.

Particularly nice for Google Images, Picasa albums and media rich websites, Cooliris and Coolpreviews speeds up your browsing and works with Firefox, I.E, Safari, Bebo, Myspace, Facebook, Youtube and many, many, more.

During the evolution of this blog...

I've used many different sites to host pictures or other media files but I've never found one as good as Drop.io. Drop.io allows you to drag and drop many different format files from web pages or your desktop with ease.

After only five minutes I have found that Drop.io...

• Allows you to customise your drops look.
• Allows you to put a button on your blog so people can drop files to your drop.
• Works with twitter.
• Allows multiple users to drop files to the same drop.
• Has RSS feed capabilities.

You can drop by my drop (Did you see what I did there?) and see what's what by clicking here. I know I'll be playing around with it for the next week or so and recommend you do too. This thing could be huge I tells ya, HUGE!

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