[Video]: Using a Blog Client

If you’re a heavy blogger, one of the best practices you must learn is to install a blogging client, then connect your blog to the program.

Using a blog client has its advantages. Writing, loading, editing and formatting is faster. You can work on the article even if you’re offline. You can take advantage of built-in features not usually found in the generic editor on the web browser.

Connecting your blog to a client is not at all that hard. One of the aims of my blog is to help even the most technophobic of users do things that may appear complicated, but in truth is, they can be accomplished with just a few simple steps. That’s the reason why I’m posting step-by-step guides and videos to assist users on a regular basis.

This article is split into two parts, based on the client used: Microsoft Word and Windows Live Writer.

Part I: Microsoft Word

Many computers still come pre-installed with Microsoft Office, so Word is pretty accessible. Posting to a blog is one of the best features of the program. To simplify things, I made this video showing the steps needed to register your blog.

How to setup your blog with Word.

 

→ Next, Windows Live Writer

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[Video]: How to Change the Background of Your USB Disk

Apparently, some of my readers have commented (thanks guys) that they were having trouble making the background work using the instructions I have posted in my previous blog post, so I decided to make a video detailing how it’s done.

Anyway, sorry I made the video in haste so it looks rather simplistic. No background music or captions. Hope you can get something out of it.

Click the Youtube watermark at the lower right portion of the vid for a larger screen.

How to Extract Music From Video Files Using VLC 0.9

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How to: Send Videos From DVD to Mobile

So, you have a massive collection of DVD’s at home but you don’t have enough time at home to view them on a DVD player. The good thing is that almost all handheld electronics, from generic multimedia players made in China to cellphones, iPods and many others are capable of video playback. In fact, the only problem you have is how to send the video from the disk to your phone.

While downloaded video is in a format usually recognizable from most video playback program, and all you have to do is to copy the file from the PC to your unit, the same cannot be done with regards to DVD’s. Also, IMO it was also more practical to acquire a DVD from the streets than waiting a few hours just to acquire videos from wherever you may get them. Besides, those that are extracted from DVD’s generally have better audio and video quality than downloaded ones.

The program I use to encode DVD’s is HandBrake, and one of the reasons I absolutely like it is because it’s fully open-source, and yet it is full of features and settings that you can adjust according to your liking, presented in a very simplistic user interface. But if you are intimidated by the sheer number of configurations that you need to adjust, there are also several predefined presets you can use to obtain the best results, for instance, for iPod’s and PSP’s, or make define you own.