Saturday, May 29, 2010

LAPTOP DOES NOT START ON PRESSING THE POWER BUTTON

Lately i have been noticing that many laptops do not respond on pressing the start button. My friend faced a similar problem few days back. Initially the problem seemed quite complicated and he thought he would have to spend a ransom to fix his laptop. I have a fix to the problem which i would like to share.
Take out the battery from underneath the laptop and then press the power button on top for about 15 seconds or so without the battery connected.This will surely solve the problem. I have tried it on a few other laptops facing the same problem. The fix may seem wierd but it is working. I asked my mentors and they told me that maybe charge was accumulating behind the power button and pressing the power button without the battery connected was removing the extra charge.


Thursday, May 20, 2010

Easy way to download videos from almost any "Streaming Video Site"

Recently my cousin told me about this site by the name of www.ted.com. It is a very informative site where all sorts of ideas are shared and spread. I tried to download a video but it seemed very tedious. After searching a lot i came across a solution.

Replay Media Catcher is a great way to capture the videos on ted.com. Remember that the secret to using Replay Media Catcher is that you need to open the program AND click "start recording" BEFORE even going to the website that you want to record from.

Replay Media Catcher makes it easy to download online video and audio/MP3 streams from millions of popular sites, with more supported formats and protocols supported than any other streaming capture program. All media from Flash and Windows Media servers can be recorded. Replay Media Catcher can even capture multiple streams simultaneously.

Just follow the following steps :

  • Download the torrent from http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5011952/Replay_Media_Catcher_v3.02___Patch
  • Make sure you disable your antivirus before you download the file as it may block the patch.
  • Run setup.
  • Do not launch the application when done with setup, click exit.
  • Put patch.exe in same folder as MediaCatcher.exe in /Program files/Replay Media Catcher/

  • Run the patch. In the lower left corner there are two buttons, Patch and Exit. Click patch.

    Run mediacatcher.exe and enter the serial and your done. Surely Worked for me on XP. Hope it works for you too.

    Dont forget to enable your antivirus again.