Subtitle Burning (AVI) - embedding into video

Burning in subtitles means that we’ll put them directly into the video source. This has the advantage of being playable on every platform (even PSPs and iPhones), but the process takes a lot longer and you won’t be able to remove the subtitles afterwards.

Usually, subtitles are burned into AVI files. We’ll show you how to add subtitles to avi movie file in the tutorial below.

Joomla! 2.5 User Groups permissions

Permissions to do things: Access Control

There are different levels of permissions for doing things in a Joomla! Web site. In particular there is a distinction between:-

Which users can gain access to what parts of the website? For example, will a given Menu Item be visible for a given user?

What actions a user can perform? For example, can a user edit or publish an article?

Users are grouped together in groups. In Joomla! 1.5 these groups give robust but fairly simple distinctions. It has a coarse granularity in that you cannot set permissions to small groups or individuals.

Five Best System Rescue Discs (Lifehacker.com)

When your computer starts behaving strangely, won't boot, or you start getting strange errors that you can't pin down, a great way to troubleshoot the problem is to boot to a rescue disc and see if you can isolate the problem. It might be your operating system, it could be hardware, but you'll never know until you boot to some other media to take a look. That said, there are tons of great system rescue discs to check out if you want a tool to save your ailing system. This week we're looking at five of the best, nominated by you, our readers.

A Lifesaving piece of Software - WinSock XP Fix 1.2

Why did I write in the title: "A Lifesaving piece of Software -  WinSock XP Fix 1.2" ? It`s because it really is! A few days ago I installed Hamachi Log Me In software, because I wanted to create VPN (virtual private network). After rebooting  the PC i couldn`t connect to the Internet anymore. Then I tried to uninstall Hamachi application, but it didn`t work as it should. I managed to uninstall application, but I have had some problems with Hamachi network adapter (it couldn`t be disabled). The best solution is to find it`s driver location  (you can find it in Device Manager under Network adapters) and delete the driver manually.

Ultimate Google toolbox: 20 tips, tricks, and hacks

Google's search, mail, maps, and cloud services are practically de facto public utilities. Fire up your browser, and there Google is. But don't take Google for granted—there's much more to its core services than meets the eye.

With this toolbox of tips, usability tricks, and third-party services, you can rule the Google universe and bend it to your will. The following will help you keep your privacy, fix Google annoyances, and get the most out of automation (so you can waste your time doing other things online).

Start Windows 7 faster

If Windows 7 takes more than a minute to start, it may have too many programs that open automatically with the operating system. Longer delays are an indication of a more serious conflict with a piece of hardware, a network, or other software.

High-performance PC hardware doesn't always deliver the speed users expect. But you probably shouldn't blame the hardware. The slowdown may be due to a software conflict.

Do I need to manually defrag a Windows 7 PC? ISOLVEDI

It is a good practice to run hard disk defragmentation in a month or a couple of months. Defragmentation better organizes a mass storage device so that its contents are stored in the smallest possible number of regions. Defragmentation thus puts the data together and enhances the speed of a system. Windows has an inbuilt defragmentation tool and there are plenty of other commercial defragmentation software as well. Running defragmentation regularly in a couple of weeks or months considerably enhances the speed of your system. But sometimes you may forget or even worse, you gradually give up the habit. But thanks to Windows 7 that automatically defrags your hard disk by default.

Top 10 Free Proxy Applications

To visit YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and some other websites that are blocked in China, sometimes I use free online proxy tools, but most of the time, I like using free proxy softwares, since they are faster and free of ADs.

Among those free proxy softwares, below 10 are the most popular.

Bypass Firewalls & Get into Blocked Websites in School or at Work with FreeProxy

Okay kids, you’ve been searching the web for how to get into blocked websites in school, with no luck. Face it, you’re living in a world where your parents and your teachers want to protect you from the vile and nasty evils that lurk on the Internet. Why? Are there really child predators hiding in every corner? Is it really critical that you are not allowed to check your Gmail account during your free period at school? The reality is that Internet security “experts” around the globe are taking their jobs just a “tad” too seriously.

Acronis True Image Home 2012 Plus Pack: Restoring to Dissimilar Hardware with Acronis Universal Restore

With Acronis Universal Restore you can recover the image of your system to a machine with dissimilar hardware.
This article applies to:
Acronis True Image Home 2012 Plus Pack (differences between True Image 2013 by Acronis, True Image 2013 by Acronis Plus Pack, and Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Workstation you can analyze in the table and paragraph below).

If you are using an earlier version of Acronis True Image Home, see respective articles:
Acronis True Image Home 2011 Plus Pack Restoring to Dissimilar Hardware with Acronis Universal Restore
Restoring to Dissimilar Hardware with Acronis True Image Home 2010 Plus Pack