Today I came through one interesting pluggin for google Chrome browser. Name of the pluggin is “Web Page Screenshot “. It is a google chrome extension and won’t work in any other browser.

Usage of Web Page Screenshot

This google chrome extension let us take the full page screen shot of any web page which opened in Chrome browser. The saved image cab be saved in our computer in JPEG or PNG format. To download this chrome extension please visit the following link.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ckibcdccnfeookdmbahgiakhnjcddpki

Now you can see a page where you have one download link for Web page Screenshot.

You need to click on the install button to install Chrome web page screenshot on your browser. It may give you an alert where this extension can access your private data stored in google chrome.

How to take full page screen shot of a web page

You can see a camera symbol on the right hand side of the chrome address bar. You should click on that button to take the screen shot of the website loaded in google chrome.

The screen shot of the website which is taken by Google Chrome would look like below.

You can adjust the size of the image according to the available options and save it in your computer.

Domain Name system (DNS ) is using to assign names for a particular IP address. In Internet every communication is based on IP address. It is difficult to remember the 32 bit IP address and DNS server is resolving that issue by assigning a unique name for particular IP address. So if one user type one domain name on the browser the communication is like this.

Web browser——-> DNS Server

DNS server ———> Web server

The name to IP address conversion is also done in DNS server and it is very important that every computer should know the address of DNS server. So we need to set DNS address on every computer for the proper Internet communication.

How to set DNS(Domain Name System) from DOS prompt using single command

We can set DNS address for a computer from the command promptby a single command. The command to set DNS for a computer is:

netsh interface ip set dns “Local Area Connection” static 192.168.1.50

Where the interface is Local Area Connection

The IP address is 192.168.1.50

After global DNS and Open DNS we have one more choice in setting a reliable DNS services. Google introduce a new set of public DNS address called Google Public DNS which offers a high speed more secure DNS services. The addresses are:

8.8.8.8 and

8.8.4.4

[ DNS is used to covert domain name to corresponding IP address and vice versa. ]

Google has launched telephone support for the issues related to Google Public DNS service. The telephone numbers are:

* 877-590-4367 { For US customers }

* 770-200-1201 { Outside US }

To set Google Public DNS in your computer from command prompt click on the link below.

Setup DNS address on your computer from Command Prompt

To know more about Google Public DNS service please click on the link provided below.

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html

I like open source software but I do use other software too. I know, I know, I’m an heretic. *Feels the shame.*

I have a MacBook and I’ve had it dual booting OS X and Ubuntu (and other Linux flavours) which can usually be achieved quite easily with BootCamp, rEFIt and an Ubuntu Desktop LiveCD. But what happens if you decide you want to just run OS X again and want to expand the OS X partition to recover ‘free’ space?

Taking a hypothetical example where you have the EFI partition, an OS X partition, a swap partition and a Linux partition of whatever sizes, if you try to open up BootCamp to expand the OS X partition it will give you some error message about the drive not being one large HFS+ partition and so it can’t be repartitioned in BootCamp. I think this is pretty shabby, but it’s ‘new’ software so I looked around for solutions and tried a bit of hit and miss myself.

You’re supposed to be able to use diskutil’s resizeVolume operation to do what BootCamp does, but regardless of whether I had deleted the swap and Linux partitions, I could not get it to resize the OS X volume. It repeatedly gave me an error message stating: Resizing encountered error No space left on device (28) on disk disk0s2 (‘disk0s2′ being the OS X style partition identifier for my OS X partition that I was trying to resize.)

So, I searched for articles about this error and didn’t find much on the web. I played around a bit myself and I found something that allowed BootCamp to allow me to resize the OS X partition. I booted an Ubuntu 7.04 Desktop LiveCD and used the parted front end to create an unformatted partition in the ‘free space’. I rebooted into OS X after doing this and tried to run BootCamp and it worked just fine.

I hope this information is useful to some other people. If you have suggestions for key words to use in this article to make it easier to find, please e-mail me. I figured quoting the resizeVolume error I obtained would help a number of people get here.

Using Apple’s nasm one can compile a working XviD binary using the x86 asm that will run on Core Duo systems. Thanks to Christoph Naegeli and Andrea Gianarro for the following information.

Enter the build/generic directory in the xvid source directory, run bootstrap.sh and (for bash) run:

./configure --enable-macosx_module

Then edit build/generic/platform.inc and ADD the flags shown below:
"-undefined suppress" to SPECIFIC_CFLAGS
"-f macho -DPREFIX" to AFLAGS (so it reads AFLAGS="AFLAGS=-I$(<D)/ -f macho -DPREFIX")
"-read_only_relocs suppress" to SPECIFIC_LDFLAGS

Here’s my platform.inc if you would like to have a look to check you’ve edited it correctly.

Then make and make install as usual.

I also change -O2 to -O3 and add “-march=prescott” to the CFLAGS and configure with –prefix=/usr/local . The CFLAGS enable some GCC optimisations. There is debate as to whether the use of -march with “pentium-m” or “prescott” is better for the Core processors. I haven’t particularly researched it all that much but the Core is supposedly a heavily reworked Pentium 3 that is a bit like a Pentium M, has the same instruction set as the Prescott and behaves more like the NetBurst architecture. As such -march=prescott is supposed to be the most appropriate choice. When I get bored someday I’ll run some benchmarks and test to see which is faster.

The main settings you may want to alter are show below. You will want to reduce the options at the top first:

* 8x8dct and parti8x8
* brdo
* mixed_refs
* partitions
* max_b_frames
* me
* refs
* trellis
* subq

Getting the Dependencies
1. First, install packages that x264 and FFmpeg require. Make sure the Ubuntu universe and multiverse repositories are enabled. For help doing this, refer to Adding the Universe and Multiverse Repositories on the Ubuntu Wiki.

2. Uninstall x264, libx264-dev, and ffmpeg if they are already installed. Open a terminal and run the following:

sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg x264 libx264-dev

Next, get all of the packages you will need to install FFmpeg and x264.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion git-core checkinstall texi2html libfaac-dev liblame-dev libsdl1.2-dev libvorbis-dev libx11-dev libxfixes-dev libxvidcore4-dev zlib1g-dev

3. Yasm 0.5.0 is in the Ubuntu Hardy Heron universe repository, but is too old to be used for x264, so it must be downloaded, compiled, and installed.

cd
wget http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-1.0.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf yasm-1.0.1.tar.gz
cd yasm-1.0.1
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall --pkgname=yasm --pkgversion "1.0.1" --backup=no --default

Install x264
4. Get the most current source files from the official x264 git repository, compile, and install. You can run “./configure –help” to see what features you can enable/disable. If you are behind a firewall or unable to use git, then daily source tarballs are also available.

cd
git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
cd x264
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall --pkgname=x264 --pkgversion "1:0.svn`date +%Y%m%d`-0.0ubuntu1" --backup=no --default

Install libopencore-amr
5. This will allow you to decode and encode AMR audio. You can skip this step and omit –enable-libopencore-amrnb –enable-libopencore-amrwb in step 7 if you don’t plan on decoding or encoding AMR audio:

cd
wget http://transact.dl.sourceforge.net/project/opencore-amr/opencore-amr/0.1.2/opencore-amr-0.1.2.tar.gz
tar xvf opencore-amr-0.1.2.tar.gz
cd opencore-amr-0.1.2
./configure --disable-shared
make
sudo checkinstall --fstrans=no --pkgname="libopencore-amr" --pkgversion="0.1.2" --backup=no --default

Install libtheora
6. This is used to encode to Theora, the video type usually found in OGG files. The repository libtheora is too old, so it must be compiled. You can skip this step and omit –enable-libtheora in step 7 if you don’t plan on encoding to Theora video:

sudo apt-get install libogg-dev
cd
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.1.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf libtheora-1.1.1.tar.gz
cd libtheora-1.1.1
./configure --disable-shared
make
sudo checkinstall --fstrans=no --pkgname=libtheora --pkgversion "1.1.1" --backup=no --default

Install FFmpeg
7. Get the most current source files from the official FFmpeg svn, compile, and install. Run “./configure –help” to see what features or codecs you can enable/disable and which have a native implementation. If you are behind a firewall or unable to use subversion, then nightly FFmpeg snapshots are also available.

cd
svn checkout svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg
./configure --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-x11grab
make
sudo checkinstall --pkgname=ffmpeg --pkgversion "3:0.svn`date +%Y%m%d`-12ubuntu3" --backup=no --default
hash x264 ffmpeg ffplay

That’s it for installation. You can keep the ~/x264 and ~/ffmpeg directories if you later want to update the source files to a new revision. See “Updating Your Installation” on the first page of this guide for more details.

That’s it! Now head back to the FFmpeg guide for usage instructions and more.

Reverting Changes Made by This Tutorial
To remove FFmpeg/x264 and any changes made from this tutorial:

sudo apt-get remove x264 ffmpeg build-essential yasm subversion git-core checkinstall texi2html libfaac-dev liblame-dev libsdl1.2-dev libtheora libvorbis-dev libx11-dev libxfixes-dev libxvidcore4-dev zlib1g-dev

Lastly, delete the ffmpeg and x264 directories in your home folder.

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I just wanted to post a quick note, that I was interviewed and blogged about by the Association of Internet Marketing & Sales (AIMS). Here's the link to my interview!