Sorry for not updating the blog lately, I am stuck in a lot of projects and right now I am planning to abandon a few because I cannot manage them alone, my team is already jammed pack.

Grrrrrr ! Trademarks are headaches but I personally do respect them.

www.Diggfish.com had no association / affiliation with the www.digg.comand operated independently.  Since I registered this domain through Clixint Technologies, they have informed me today that the owner of Digg (www.digg.com) is upset with my blog’s diggfish.com domain ? LOL, well it was a formal email about trademark infringement, but trust me I had no plan to compete with digg.com or anything, we have different business models and no way similar neither my this small part time blog has anything to do with it, but they are right, using “Digg“, “Digg it” etc are the trademark or Digg Inc, and unfortunately my header color also match their header color, I will be updating this header in next couple of days.

Secondly I don’t have time to face problems that are specially related to legal, copyright infringement issues, so I planned to change the domain name istlsef. The idea behind “DiggFish” was something like “PlentyOfFish”, remember that website ? but here I thought I would post useful information that might help someone, but its gone and I don’t care, because I don’t appreciate illegal operations and I am only here to kill my time and help you ! Ok, I will get back to you in a couple of days,

BTW - Happy new Year !

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Very easy solution for converting your videos without any hassle of codecs

Video sharing, video blogging, video tutorials, video chat,  you see there is a lot of buzz about videos and its actually the future of internet. But video Conversion has been always a problem for the users who have not technically savy, they find it difficult to convert their videos from one format to another, usually for saving videos to their mobile devices or converting to DVDs etc.

And many companies have come on screen claiming to provide you the best  software capable of converting videos from one format to another for mobile phone, PC, Mac and Linux. A few of them are very good too, but not free or too expensive, many are just attracting users to increase their websites for traffic and getting their ads clicked.

Why video conversion was a big deal until now ?

1. Video Conversion software were too expensive
2. Very rarely produced by software companies
3. Almost no Open-source effort was involved

Today, if you go search Google for video converter you come up with more than 130,000 results.  Well many individuals adopted open-source software and produced their own tools by wrapping up the code with new GUI.

But yet, either expensive or lack of features, and none is there having all features.

What is the best solution for me?

First you need to decide and ask yourself; what kind of video you have and what kind of format you want to convert it to. Your answer may be one of the following:

I want to convert MPEG to WMV, or
I want to convert MPEG to AVI or
Convert MPEG to DVD (ntsc, pal, film)
Convert MPEG to DV50 (ntsc, pal, film)
Convert MPEG to VCD (ntsc, pal, film)
Convert MPEG to SVCD (ntsc, pal, film)
Convert MPEG to Quicktime MOV
Convert MPEG to FLV
Convert MPEG to MP4
Convert MPEG to 3GP
Convert MPEG to iPod or iPhone Video
Convert MPEG to Sony PSP Mobile Video
Convert FLV to MPEG, AVI, WMV, MP4, 3GP etc

Or convert between any of the above-mentioned videos formats.

Well, thats’ not a big deal, toady we have such software in market (thanks to software companies), that can converts between (from, to) almost any known video format. The software I own license for video conversion  is VCON Lite, which is (at-least for me) the best software I ever stumbled upon.

No fancy stuff, I use it because it is so easy and user friendly, to the point. The very first time I downloaded it, it was in testing phase and I wanted all of its features to test so I requested staff and they provided me lifetime copy of license with 25% discount (thanks to Clixint Tech), I found the link to the software from GimpTalk. Just drag-drop videos on software window, select output and click convert button, you are done. Easy ? yeah..

I actually needed software to migrate my wedding videos to my Nokia mobile phone and it did the job perfectly, within 10 minutes I was able to transfer 5 of mobile mp4 files to my cell phone.

It is not just a video converter, when I opened it’s settings, it also converts DVDs and creates VCDs SVCD with NTSC, PAL, and FILM settings. And Price, you wont believe $15 US Dollars with lifetime support. I think VCON leaves competition in dust. Its help makes life easier, understanding some core features of this software.

Diggfish discount : Well, if you contact their support and tell them you are referred by Diggfish, they will cut $5 from the price, cool :). I would suggest you to download and test this video converter and let me know your thoughts.

VCON Lite Home..
http://www.convertflv.com

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This article is written by a good friend of mine and he has asked me to keep his name hidden, but I also agree to his points to some extent.

Well, before I start writing this review, I must tell you that Firefox makes me sick, so I thought this review was necessary for atleast my loyal readers, its upto you whether or not you use it. The details below is how I see Firefox, even though I still think it needs a lot of improvements, or a complete redo or abandon the project completely. You must know the facts before downloading FireFox.

Well the very first words about FireFox are:
FireFox is a web browser, which has been making false claims since years.

Fact Sheet 

Why many peoples are using this crap?

Well, people want change and few other people take advantage of this habit of human being. Everybody knew that Microsoft provides the best technology and is on top, anyone who tries competing Microsoft brings up his/her own disabilities in front of public just like FireFox did. Someone launched a new web browser claimed to be:

Fast Browser : To hell with the ones call FireFox fast, how on earth you can decide its faster than any other browser. FireFox loads Damn Slow on almost any latest machine. The ones created it tell the reason that Cold-Start is slow but later it is fast. Cold-Start on a latest P4 is more than 1 minute. Do not tell me that FireFox is fast on Core 2 duo. Everything is fast on that machine. And 95% people don’t have this processor. Here are the facts to confirm you FF is damn slow.

Fact 1:

We turned off all add-on’s in both FireFox and Microsoft Internet Explorer, we restarted system, and launched IE first for Cold-Start testing on Pentium 4, IE started in 4 seconds and next start was half second means 500 milliseconds. Then we switched to test FireFox and it displayed the GUI after 1 minute and 43 seconds, next warm starts were like 4 seconds. You still call it fast?

Fact 2:

FireFox developers tried their best to make a browser that runs on almost all well known operating systems, such as Linux, Mac and Windows. This was the very first mistake towards creating an instable Web Browser. FireFox is built using wxWidgets which is a cross-platform library and, which itself is damn slow and bulky framework. It’s layout manager eats up the CPU even in a small single dialog based application. So fact 2 is wxWidgets makes FireFox even slower.

Fact 3:

Users scrapped old-fashioned browsers like Netscape Communicator, world’s moving towards adoption of what is best, and once Microsoft Internet Explorer was launched with updates all started using Windows’ native browser rather than paying just for nothing. That was I think Microsoft IE 4 or 5. Opera Browser revived very quickly by providing cross-platform capability. But few developers wanted to get popular by providing a web browser, so they adopted engine of Netscape Browser and put a new wrapper on it, this new strange vehicle is called FireFox today. Gecko is the name of the engine being used behind FireFox, which itself has no comparison with great speed of Internet Explorer Engine. So 3rd time FireFox is slow.

FireFox is not genuine effort towards building a web browser, but a strange vehicle built using parts of old scrapped vehicles.

FireFox is Fancy: 

Showing just a fancy interface does not attract serious users, 90% amongst all the FireFox users are teenagers who have only concern about the fancy look of their application. It’s fanciness also puts a hell of load over the load time.

Man get out of the fast operating system Windows, you do not deserve to be available for Window.

Secure: Really? upto what extent? 

Does it save me from spyware?
Does it save me from malware?
Does it save my PC from trojans?
Does it detect keyloggers on my System?
Does it save me from executable viruses?
Does it save me from hackers getting into my PC from unknown port?
Does it have any firewall?

No other browser does all above, then why is FireFox claimed to be secure?

Then how the heck it is Safe? It saves my passwords asking me for each site I visit, and if I mistakenly hit yes, I cant find a way to reverse it easily. FireFox simply includes a popup blocker that all other browser do have, what FireFox does extra is let not the document viruses come with images, that’s all. Does it mean it is most secure one? Heck.

Why FireFox is Junk?

Because every operating system has its native web browser, then why the heck there is a need of new browser, which is not that good after knowing all of the above facts. 

Linux– Konquerer
Windows – Internet Explorer
Macintosh – Safari 

Opensource but you don’t know programming:

They already have, and do not need aliens coming in, who knows, what does FireFox send to Mozilla server and collects from Mozilla server without your permission. You have never been into code of this thing, and probably wont get into it because you are not a developer.  

FireFox is good tool for hackers?

YES, users can manually edit cookies in FireFox; see the cookies and use for whatever purpose.

Finally – FireFox is propaganda not a web browser

SAY NO TO THIS PROPAGANDA AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT THESE FACTS AND USE YOUR NATIVE WEB BROWSER THAT COMES WITH YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM. AFTER READING ALL ABOVE, IF YOU STILL WISH TO CONTINUE WITH FIREFOX THEN I WON’T SAY YOU ARE NOT STUPID.

Don’t email me telling me what is good or bad, I tried to open your eyes and if you want to keep them closed, do it, it wont harm me.

I have no personal dispute with Mozilla Foundation and/or any interest attached with Microsoft Corporation, What I see is what I write. Its upto you which one you use, I am a windows user and I prefer Internet Explorer because its faster and I also have installed Firewalls to protect myself.

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