Convert videos for free with Freemake converter

It is nearly impossible to live a year without having to convert couple of videos.....or abstain from watching movies. From converting unsupported formats to supported ones for your TV to ripping the audio track from a music video, whether it be for work or entertainment, a top-level conversion program is a must have for any computer.

But staring at your rich friend as he handles conversions with ease with Xilisoft converter is not going to get you anywhere. If you can't afford a paid one, thank the folks who make free software available and download Freemake Video Converter from http://www.freemake.com/  .

Arguably the best free converter available on the web, Freemake caters to everything you could possibly want in a converter program. It supports nearly every major video, audio and image formats and converts them into a host of popular formats like mp3, mp4, mkv, avi, wmv, swf and several phone formats as well.

It also offers neat video cutting and joining features and more. What more could you ask for?

One of the best screen recorders : Open Broadcaster Software

One of the first posts in this blog was how to record sounds with Hypercam, a simple, lightweight and popular screen recording software. Well, this posts brings to you yet another screen recording software that in my opinion is one of the best screen recording softwares you can get your hands (or rather, your mouse) on.

In this world where nearly every website and software developer just assumes their customers are going to be ready with unlimited internet to download gigabytes of data from the web, there is little love for limited internet users who have no choice but to make 2 GB last a month. Open Broadcaster Software (hereby referred to as OBS) is one of the few data friendly softwares left out there, offering a huge amount of options for a download a little above 7 MB, and for free.

It uses a variety of separate capture streams that can be layered, such as monitor, window, image and game captures. So in essence, you just toggle the streams for the whatever you want recorded, and hit that start record button. Oh, and it free, so no annoying watermarks.

As mentioned above, it has game capture mode, allowing you to capture full screen games perfectly, filling one of the primary shortcomings of most small and free screen recording softwares.

The comprehensive list of settings can be used to tweak the recording to more styles than flavors of chips, and can suit any need and overcome any situation. From an on-the-go resolution reducer that works like magic to reduce video lag to an inbuilt codec (So you don't have to spend 10 MB on Xvid like you did for Hypercam) to built in high quality sound recording (So you don't have to go through the trouble of enabling stereo mix), OBS offers everything you can expect in a free software and more.

From uploading your FIFA gameplay on YouTube to show off to your friends to screen recording a PowerPoint presentation to play on a Linux with an open office that messes up the .pptx formatting, OBS might just be the best screen recording software in its range.

You can download obs at https://obsproject.com/ .

Oh, and did I mention that it was totally free?

Know your PC specs with 'dxdiag'

If you are an avid gamer running a slightly outdated PC, you might have felt a little bit lost when checking the specs of FIFA 15 or GTA V which you were going to purchase. After all, none of us wants to dish out the bucks to buy a game that was never going to work anyways. But how exactly do we know the specs of our PC? The sticker on the palm rest only says so much, and many go for third party softwares to get the job done, all the while the solution was already loaded in your rig.

To know all your specs, open run from the start menu.

Type in 'dxdiag' (Which stands for DirectX Diagnostics) and click OK.

Wait a few seconds a window will pop up, displaying all you need.

The system tab shows details of the manufacturer, processor, RAM, BIOS version and so on. The part which will interest gamers most is the display tab, which shows the DirectX versions installed, graphics card name, video memory and more. The sound tab and the input tab also comes with several bit of useful information.

That's it, game on!

Online polls made easy with Strawpoll.me

From a simple survey to find the most popular video game genre from your circle of friends to an around the world open-to-all survey for making important decisions regarding the presentation of your company's latest product, online polls are an important utility of the web.

There are hundreds of options for conducting a successful online survey. While some websites offer what it says on the tin, some go a step further to provide extra services and options, while some advertisement-riddled websites are plain irritating to use. From among this mess, It is important to pick the right website that will do what is expected.

While Facebook's inbuilt polling system is ample for conducting surveys among your friends, it is arguably Google Forms that offer the best survey conducting on the web. These two are friendly to use and require little introduction. But in this post I will show you a plain, easy, simple and straightforward (Not to mention aesthetically pleasing) program for one-question polls.

Just go to http://strawpoll.me/ and you will be immediately struck by the simpleness. No ads, no fancy carousal showing off it's features, no log-in required. A yellow notebook page shows up, and all you do is enter your question followed by the options. You can enable multiple poll choices or the aptly named "Permissive vote duplication checking" (Just click the "Huh?" button nearby if you don't get what this means.) and create your poll. You will immediately be given a URL that leads to your poll. Now you can share this URL with anyone to give them access to your poll. The results show up as number of votes, the percent of votes, and a neat pie chart.

This is a good website that can come in handy on multiple occasions.

Hope that helped!

Download video soundtracks with video2mp3

Everyone who loves songs (Who doesn't?) but doesn't want to pay for it has innumerable free mp3 search and download engines such as mp3skull and mp3clans to toy with. But often we will find ourselves having to go to a suspicious looking website filled with gibberish and multiple download buttons and a ton of ads to download a song, or throwing your hands up in frustration after turning Google inside out and still finding nothing but YouTube videos......yes that's right, YouTube videos.

These days, everything of interest seems to get on YouTube in a few minutes.
The massive video sharing website also has virtually all songs, instrumental versions, multiple remixes uploaded by a wide variety of users and official accounts.

Whether it be the instrumental version of Summer of 69 or the DJ Earworm's mind-boggling remixes, or a nice BGM accompanying a totally random video, you name it, and it's in YouTube. Trouble is, it's an online video and not a downloadable mp3 soundtrack. While nothing stops you from downloading the video and converting it using any mp3 converter, the prospect of doing so bores some, and for many of us living on 2GB of data for 30 days, the very idea of downloading an HD video just to extract it's soundtrack is unthinkable.

That's where http://www.video2mp3.net/ comes in. This simple, fast, efficient and reliable tool is simply the best YouTube video to mp3 converting tool available online. All you need to do is copy the URL of the video with the soundtrack you require and paste it into the box, and hit that convert button. In a matter of seconds, the conversion is completed and the file is available for download instantly.

The website operates 24 X 7, converts videos to mp3 for free at lightning fast speed, and does not require you to sign up or do any other irritating stuff. The quality of the converted mp3 file peaks at a nice 256kbps.

www.video2mp3.net is a website really worthy of a Ctrl+D, especially for music lovers.