How to extract MP3 from avi, flv and other vid formats [FREE]

I don't know why it took me so long to find this program but I did and it works great, as you can see below.


First I found version 1.0.0 of "Free Video Converter" on TuCows and installed it. During installation I had to install some browser add-on but keen to that crap I simply closed my browser and ran the install and then immediately went into program files and removed it before ever letting it run once. I'm pretty sure that got rid of all the extra's.


Below I will post a vid that I have wanted to convert for a few years, but I only used a flv version from YouTube, the one I have and will find on another drive is in AVI format and much better quality (Check back in about a week or so for the updated version of this post for the better quality versions)


Below that, the links for the software and another version, then just one more vid.


Enjoy,,,

Courtney Love - Hold onto me (Live on Letterman)

Converted to mp3 with Free Video Converter 1.0 [Download
Courtney Love - Hold onto me.mp3]
Play it here...

Download version 1.0.0 from Tucows [here].


Free Video Converter 1.0  is a freeware program from KayoteSof, their site is [here] and it offers version 1.91, but my rule of thumb is "don't fix it unless it's broken".

 Just some specs from their page here...

Free Mp3 Wma Converter V1.91

Free MP3 WMA Converter enables you to convert your MP3, WMA, OGG, AAC, Mpc, Ape, FLAC, WAVE files:

• Mp3 to Ogg, Mp3 to Wma, Mp3 to Mp3, Mp3 to Wav...
• Wav to Mp3, Wav to Ogg, Wav to Flac, Wav to Wma...
• Wma to Mp3, Wma to Ogg, Wma to Flac, Wma to Wav...
• Ogg to Mp3, Ogg to Wma, Ogg to Flac, Ogg to Wav...
• AAC to Mp3, AAC to Wma, AAC to Ogg, AAC to Wav...
• Ape to Mp3, Ape to Wma, Ape to Ogg, Ape to Wav...
• Flac to Mp3, Flac to Wma, Flac to Ogg, Flac to Wav...
• Mpc to Mp3, Mpc to Wma, Mpc to Ogg, Mpc to Wav...

And even more possible conversions !

Convert your favorite audio files... Tags's editor integrated (V1 and V2). Copy your audio CDs very rapidly thanks to “Free CD Ripper”. Simplicity at the service of efficiency.

Now the last vid, but I do warn you, it is a very low quality rip...

Courtney Love Entire David Letterman Appearance
(March 17th, 2004)

[Full Movie] Fall of the Republic HQ full length version

Brought to you by...

ChangeDaChannel | October 23, 2009

Order the DVD at: http://infowars-shop.stores.yahoo.net...

 
Fall Of The Republic documents how an offshore corporate cartel is bankrupting the US economy by design. Leaders are now declaring that world government has arrived and that the dollar will be replaced by a new global currency.


President Obama has brazenly violated Article 1 Section 9 of the US Constitution by seating himself at the head of United Nations' Security Council, thus becoming the first US president to chair the world body.


A scientific dictatorship is in its final stages of completion, and laws protecting basic human rights are being abolished worldwide; an iron curtain of high-tech tyranny is now descending over the planet.


A worldwide regime controlled by an unelected corporate elite is implementing a planetary carbon tax system that will dominate all human activity and establish a system of neo-feudal slavery.


The image makers have carefully packaged Obama as the world's savior; he is the Trojan Horse manufactured to pacify the people just long enough for the globalists to complete their master plan.


This film reveals the architecture of the New World Order and what the power elite have in store for humanity. More importantly it communicates how We The People can retake control of our government, turn the criminal tide and bring the tyrants to justice.

 

--Fall of the Republic HQ full length version--

This day in history in the news.

Well, if you wait a while today will be in history. That means this isn't a complete damn lie (I hope).


No full posts on these but titles are links to the original posts.


Comments are mine.


September 3, 2010 in the damn news:

Companies add 67K workers, but jobless rate rises

"WASHINGTON – Private employers hired more workers over the past three months than first thought, a glimmer of hope for the weak economy ahead of the Labor Day weekend. But the unemployment rate rose because not enough jobs were created to absorb the growing number of people looking for work."

First of all this is bullshit and I'm not even going to read this full news post. Want to know why? because I saw this coming months ago. First they change the self-employed rules which then takes contracted help out of the role of the self employed and places them in the role of as being employed by those who only use their services sporadically, like farmers hiring out small aspects of their crop preparation for transport or renewal or any other number of services used by small scale privately operated and run businesses and they then force those people to be listed as employed by those people. They know that the insurance and hidden costs are going to cripple the small time company and then later ruin the other guys ability to go out and hire on to work those small jobs but for today and for the record and for braggers rights a bunch of people got hired and it will last just a short time until everything goes "bang" and then the big guys get yet another small guys small farm or repair shop or whatever and this only ends when nobody has anything unless the government has its hand in it.

Next.....

Hillary Clinton’s one-man presidential campaign

"While the rest of the political world is preoccupied with the midterm elections, Chicago dentist William DeJean is hatching plans for 2012. He shelled out $5,000 to create an ad encouraging Americans to back a Hillary Clinton presidential run in 2012. He says the spot will run in New Orleans, Washington, New York and Los Angeles."

More smoke for the news media to be spreading around. Anything will work as long as they get and keep your attention on the stupid shit.

Read it if you want to but as far as I can see it's nothing but noise used to hide the real noise...U.S. unemployment soars to 9.6% after economy loses 54,000 jobs in a month

The U.S. unemployment rate rose to 9.6 per cent in August, official figures released today have shown.

'The data from the U.S. Labor Department showed the economy lost 54,000 jobs last month as the United States continues to struggle to recover from the recent global recession.
Economists had predicted even worse figures and despite the fact unemployment rose for the first time in four months, a number of experts described the news as 'positive'"

I'm confused. Didn't we just add 67,000 jobs? Now they say we lost 54,000? Did we only add 13,000 workers or did we add 67,000 then fire 54,000 all in the same month or did we add 67,000 then deport 54,000 because they were illegal immigrants and they were here stealing jobs from good honest Americans who were once illegal immigrants or their families were when they stole boats and ships and came over from Spain, England, Germany, France, Ireland, Sweden and Russia with stolen illegal alien slaves who worked for really nothing  and stole jobs picking cotton and oranges and cuttin firewood and all kinds of other shit. 


Now I'm really confused. I say we fukkin arrest everybody, arrest me even and let the judge sort things out but first make sure the damn judge aint an illegal alien here stealin a job from another "honest" American too.

How to Lie With Statistics (1954) - Huff.pdf

I better quit and think about this stuff for a while...

[E-Book Complete] Seeds of Deception - Exposing Lies About Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods (2003)

Seeds of Deception - Exposing Lies About Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods (2003) by Jeffrey M. Smith is a "must read" for those concerned with the ongoing and growing food orientated health problems here in America. 


Both me and my daughter have Coeliac Disease (Gluten Sprue), most people in America call it "Celiac". I have done a great deal of reading on the subject and most of the information about the recent rise of people effected with this food intolerance points to over processed foods and the modification of our food supply. It has become widely believed that tampering of our most basic and widely used grains and staple foods like corn and wheat has caused many peoples immune system to react to them with intolerance, causing symptoms ranging from allergy like to the equivalent of being poisoned.

It is becoming more and more clear to us that the average person cannot do anything to avoid the need to use these modified foods for survival and that means that only those average or below average in society need be effected by these changes to our food supply. The above average to the extremely wealthy though, well naturally they have more options and they have the resources allowing them the ability to survive off of a different standard of food so then, they have more choices than the rest of us. 

I guess what that means is it's the average person who really needs to force the changes to take effect and stop the poisoning of our food supply.  Of course others may find some time and help as they can but want to and want to is only "want to", just as need to is still as always "need to" and I think those of us that need to had better piss or get off the pot or fall down next to it and give up.


I can't say any more on this topic. It pisses me off to much and I try so hard not to scream out like an idiot about it my words just get muddled up and I confuse even myself. 

This is a download link to the book.

Laters all...

Google offers FREE phone to USA & Canada!

How cool is this folks???


The following I got from Yahoo News on this page linked here, but couple things first. After reading about it I signed up on this page here and that took almost all of about a minute. After getting my number Google called my home phone to test the call forwarding feature so that people can call my Google number and if I want to I can just answer it on my home phone. Then they offered a link through a pop-up window to see a vid on the features. Here is that link too, now I got my free phone and I'm hooked.


Enjoy the article, use the links, get the phone and save some money.

Google plugs free PC-to-phone calling into e-mail

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer

SAN FRANCISCO – Google Inc. is adding a free e-mail feature that may persuade more people to cut the cords on their landline phones.

The service unveiled Wednesday enables U.S. users of Google's Gmail service to make calls from microphone-equipped computers to telephones virtually anywhere in the world.

All calls in the U.S. and Canada will be free through at least the end of the year. That undercuts the most popular PC-to-phone service, Skype, which charges 1.2 cents to 2.1 cents per minute for U.S. calls. It also threatens to overshadow another free PC-to-phone calling service called MagicTalk that was just introduced by VocalTec Communications Ltd.

Skype, Google and many other services have been offering free computer-to-computer calling for years.

Google hopes to make money on its PC-to-phone service by charging 2 cents or more per minute for international calls. The international rates will vary widely, sometimes even within the same country. Google posted a rate chart at https://www.google.com/voice/b/0/rates.

People also will be able to receive calls on their PC if they obtain a free phone number from Google or already have one.

The phone numbers and technology for the new PC-calling service are being provided by Google Voice, a telecommunications hub that the company has been trying to expand. It had been an invitation-only service until two months ago when Google Voice began accepting all number requests.

Google disclosed last year that it had assigned about 1.4 million phone numbers through its Voice service, which can field calls made to a person's home, mobile or office number. Craig Walker, a Google product manager who helped develop Voice, said the service has expanded its reach since then, but he wouldn't provide specifics.

Besides planting Voice's technology into Gmail, Google also plans to promote the service by setting up red phone booths at universities and airports scattered across the United States. People will be able to make free calls from the booths to U.S. and Canadian numbers and save on international calls.

Google also plans to enable people to transfer, or "port," their existing home or mobile phone to Voice to widen the service's appeal. Walker said Wednesday that flexibility will be available soon.

The PC-to-phone calling option initially is being offered only to consumers who have accounts on Google's Web-based e-mail, but the company left open the possibility that it will be expanded to the millions of businesses and government agencies that rely on Gmail as part of an applications suite that includes other programs such as word processing.

The added competition comes at an inopportune time for Skype S.A., the Luxembourg-based company that recently filed plans for an initial public offering of stock. Skype has 560 million registered users, including 8.1 million paying customers (most people use the free PC-to-PC service). After four years under the ownership of eBay Inc., Skype was sold to a group of private investors last November for about $2 billion. The company has been doing well since the sale, earning $13 million on revenue of $406 million during the first half of this year.

As always my post is just a cheap imitation of the professionally done post and I recommend you go to the original [here] and see this formatted the way it was intended. 

Follow-up: 

Yes I have tried the Google phone app and "yes it is fantastic", but it is just a little more complicated than expected

I'll try to explaine...

I first thought it would be just another version of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), but instead it was sort of a marriage between internet phone, land -line & cell phone technology.

I live in a Village (not even a poor excuse of a town) up amongst the canyons in the desert region we choose to call "Nebraska". It's a fairly wealthy area carved out of society that at first glance has all the bells and whistles, all the little extra's that the rest of our society enjoys. What I have noticed though is it has much less. Everything here I have found to be partial to slightly less or even in many cases just a poor imitation of what the rest of those in out nation have just grown to take for granted.

Our internet service, our cell phone service, our governing agencies, all of those things just as just about all the rest of our services are nothing but poor representations of what we would expect to be. Our cellular service is like the rest of it out here. It reminds me of a cheap toy that comes to you out of the package broken and the best they can offer you is "we'ell it's betterin nothin, ain'it?".

So that leaves me with only one service which is only one land line because my personality is "Just keep your crap and talk to me when you've got it working", I don't even bother with the rest of their crap.

Back on topic... The features of this service are different in that you can program in your home phone, your cell phone number and your business phone along with other numbers and through it you can both send and receive phone calls from any of those services. You can also receive voice mail as an email transcribed from each if you should miss a call. 

LOL, I however can only use the land line end of it.

First I open up my Google phone page. Then I type in your phone number, then I select on which phone I wish to call you from and then I select the call button. I select "call from home". The computer then calls my phone and it rings. I then answer it to hear it ringing on the other end and when the person answers I hear them and we talk just as if I placed the call from home.

Pretty simple, huh? It is except this time I'm calling you for free and that's nice. 

I haven't tried it yet but I believe I can add other phones temporarily to it for use under other circumstances like when I'm traveling. Like when I'm on my way to Massachusetts to visit my family and while I'm there visiting.

This for me would mean no more lost access to people when I'm out or away and that I like.

Come back next week when I bitch about Connecticut, Virginia, Louisiana and Woonsocket, Rhode Island (not all of Rhode Island, just Woonsocket. I actually like Rhode Island but Woonsocket Sucks).

Make your own Multi Colored text.

Make your own Multi Colored text [here], it's fun and it's free. Great for email decoration or posts on blogs and such...
 
When you go there type in the text you want to use, pick from the color presets or add your own color codes  in the space below the options. then click on "Make HTML". From there you can select "Preview" and copy and paste the text as you see it in the pop-up window or just copy the code that will appear on the main window and paste that into your document or whatever...

FreeWare, A square clock screensaver...

Square Clock-7 4.0

"Square Clock-7" is freeware screen saver that displays the current time.

You can change colors of: background, dial, borders, numbers, arrows (seconds, minutes, hours), shadow.

Also you can select any font installed on your computer for show numbers, choose size of clock, method of show seconds (off, normal, full back), shadow and date.

System Requirements: 95/98/ME/NT3/NT4/2000/XP/Vista
License: Freeware, Download location is [HERE}
The supporting site is Style-7 under the FreeWare category.

NOTE: "Always" set a System Restore point before installing any software of this type. Because under General Rules Of Life, Section 1, paragraph 1, rule #1 "NOTHING IS EVER FREE!"

Duplicate file checker/remover free (ShareWare) from my Email here

I got this in my email this morning. I'm not sure about this version but I have used versions of this type of program in the past with mixed results, mostly good tho.

One problem that I have seen is the duplicate file that you remove may sometimes need to be in that folder for whatever program you are using to be able to access it correctly so duplicate or not it still might be better left alone where it's at.

A plus though is it can help you find extra copies of avi's, flv's and media to help you organize them better.

I may or may not try this one but if I decide to I know I'll just run it once and look at the locations of the files before deleting anything. I might just look at it once and wait a while before making any changes.

Anyway a link to the page the email accessed from is [here], their main site is "Duplicate File Checker" and the shorter version follows below.

Duplicate Checker 3.0

Duplicate file finder and remover. Imagine that you are trying to find a certain file on your computer and you have five files with the same name and same size

Confusing, isn't it? What file do you really need? To avoid such problems, organize files and save hard disk space you should remove unnecessary files.

If you are looking for duplicate image, photo, music, mp3 finder - it's decision for you. Duplicate Checker is a powerful tool for finding duplicate images, photos, mp3 and any other file types.

Main features:

1) search files with the same name, same size, same content (comparison of files uses CRC32 checksums);
2) image preview and thumbnails bars for pictures search, mp3 bar for music search;
3) many operations on list of found files - delete, move or copy;
4) export to CSV file Duplicate Checker has many advantages compared with other such programs including its high-speed search process using an engine based on the STL technology, and a suitable interface which clearly separates file groups. Follow the link and free download Duplicate Checker now.


Duplicate Checker 3.0 copyright information

It is not legal to make use of cracks, patches, pirate registration codes or serial numbers, key generators, and other similar tools that interfere with future developments of the software, while it is not safe nor allowed to obtain Duplicate Checker 3.0 from file sharing websites such as MegaUpload, Rapidshare or YouSendIt.

Using these methods to eliminate the need to obtain a genuine license for Duplicate Checker 3.0 could put your computer and activity at risk by infecting the system with viruses, spyware, worms, Trojans, dialers and adware, distroying its stability and stealing your personal information, as well as propagating through the network to take control of other computers. In such cases, you won't be able to use your computer, not even Duplicate Checker, anymore.

System Requirements: 2000/XP/Vista
License: shareware

Download Now Free link

Yahoo Group "mypsptubes" sucks, for the following reasons...

The following is based on an ongiong interaction between the art community and a yahoo group called "MyPSPTubes", they gave the following email address mypsptubes.violations@yahoo.com I suppose for sticky-tape or copy-cut & post complaints for "Vi-O-Lations" of the "Fair Use" provisions of the Copywrite Act.

I don't know if you know of this yet but a very old form (actually a few of them combined) of art has taken on a new trend. What we used to call montage, collage, scrap-booking or many other forms of art re-representation including the old classic decoupage has taken on a newer form. It is in essence the cutting out from pages portions of another artists work and altering it to be re-represented in combination with other forms of art or even just modifying it to present it in a new fashion that better suits your own personal tastes.

While we all know that stealing is wrong we also know that sharing is not. tubers (people who collect tid-bits of graphic material to reassemble and offer a new presentation of the designs) by rule do not do any of this for any form of trade, they earn no money from it. It is only a form of self expression and nothing more. Also it is legal to do this under the "Fair Use" rule.

Some people influenced by selfish greed, jealousy or countless other insecurities have taken it upon themselves to police this group of people and their art form. Funny thing though is it is seldom the artist that complains because to most artists it is a compliment ti have your work so deeply looked at, appreciated and presented to others as a symbol of it's quality and admirable qualities.

Ot6her groups are springing up all over the place. These groups believe they can take advantage of this art form (Full Advantage) and use it under policing tactics as a viable source of revenue. To do this they must first stop the free trade flow of this newer art form because as everyone used to know. You can't sell water in the rain.

The following is an email sent to a friend from one of those people looking to harass and scare other people away from sharing picture tubes for free and break up groups similar to their own group to place their group above all others and take control of the flow of this form of art.

ღ♥ Name Removed ♥ღ to undisclosed-re.

show details 7:03 AM (1 hour ago)

Images are not displayed.
Display images below - Always display images from name-removed@gmail.com

I have decided to leave the group. I am sorry Brenda I truly enjoy the shares that come through but I have again been reported. Thanks for having me and I hope you can determine who is ruining your group. If you have a group that will at least contact someone about a questionable share I would gladly join that group. I am going to miss everyone's awesome shares. Have a great holiday weekend my friends Big Hugs -Name Removed- -------Original Message------- From: Yahoo! Copyright Date: 5/28/2010 3:55:00 PM RE: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/name-removed-psp/ My PSP tubes and/or My PSP tubes' agent ("My PSP tubes") has notified Yahoo! Inc. ("Yahoo!") in compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") that you have submitted to the Yahoo! Group playtime-psp copyrighted material which is proprietary to My PSP tubes. My PSP tubes has further notified Yahoo! that you are not authorized to use the material in question at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/name-removed-psp/ Subject: [name-removed-psp] T&P » FairyInBlue Yahoo! respects the rights of both its users and the owners and rights holders of intellectual property. In compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and/or other applicable federal law, Yahoo! has removed and/or disabled access to the copyrighted material in question. As you know, Yahoo! may terminate any and/or all services and accounts without notice. Without waiving or limiting any rights or remedies Yahoo! has or may have, you are hereby advised that our receipt of another notification alleging the unauthorized posting by you of another party's intellectual property in connection with any Yahoo! service may result in not only the suspension of all Yahoo! Groups for which you are the designated owner, but the termination of all of your Yahoo! services as well as the deactivation of your Yahoo! ID. If you wish to attempt to resolve the matter by dealing with My PSP tubes directly, My PSP tubes may be contacted at: Email: mypsptubes.violations@yahoo.com <--- Name NOT removed!!! If you believe that you were designated by My PSP tubes and/or My PSP tubes' agent by mistake or misidentification, or if you believe that you have not infringed the copyrights of My PSP tubes, you may submit a sworn counter-notification as to the mistake or misidentification. To be effective, counter-notifications must be in writing and include: 1. Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled, including the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled; 2. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification; 3. Your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address provided by you is located (or if the address provided by you is outside the United States, that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for any judicial district in which Yahoo! may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the complaining party or its agent; and 4. Your physical or electronic signature on the counter-notification. Any counter-notification must be submitted to Yahoo!'s Copyright Agent in accordance with the contact information provided below, which is also available at: http://info.yahoo.com/copyright/details.html. Please be advised that Yahoo! will provide a copy of such a counter-notification (including your name, address, telephone number and any other contact information provided) to My PSP tubes Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation. Regards, Copyright/IP Agent, Yahoo! Inc. copyright@yahoo-inc.com **************************** c/o Yahoo! Inc. 701 First Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94089

__._,_.___

**COPYRIGHT NOTICE**
Being In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section
107, any copyrighted work in this message is being distributed under fair use, without any profit
or any payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for non-profit research and educational or criticism purposes only. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml


Now here's My Frikkin Comment...
"That's some moron from My PSP Tubes pissin up a tree Christine. Almost every tub is made from art already out there under the "fair use" provision of the Copywrite Act. I don't understand why, don't care, don't want to know why but this person reporting people seems to have a desire to corner the market on tubes. This of course would mean that this scum-bag wants to intimidate others from sharing so that he or she can violate the Fair Use Act and sell, market or have exclusive trade value to these picture tubes (*.tub and similar).

Who-ever, what-ever this delusion-ed person is has little or no meaning to me and push come to shove this idiot just identified himself or herself within this complaint " Email: mypsptubes.violations@yahoo.com" and again in the following....

"If you believe that you were designated by My PSP tubes and/or My PSP tubes' agent by mistake or misidentification, or if you believe that you have not infringed the copyrights of My PSP tubes, you may submit a sworn counter-notification as to the mistake or misidentification. To be effective, counter-notifications must be in writing and include"

I don't know if this asshole at My PSP tubes has even a clue as to how large the circle of people that share in tubes, how well they both know and know of each other or how quickly "My PSP Tubes" members and those attached to them will become outcasts across the whole WebRing consisting of tube collectors and tube users.

Business for this person is will become noted with shame and disgrace in no time (LOL, look at what the band Metallica did to Napster and then look at what we did to the band Metallica)Poeple like that fall fast and hard and shame never washes off..."

Now back to my frikkin comment that I sent to my friend. It reads as follows...

"That's some moron from My PSP Tubes pissin up a tree Christine. Almost every tub is made from art already out there under the "fair use" provision of the Copywrite Act. I don't understand why, don't care, don't want to know why but this person reporting people seems to have a desire to corner the market on tubes. This of course would mean that this scum-bag wants to intimidate others from sharing so that he or she can violate the Fair Use Act and sell, market or have exclusive trade value to these picture tubes (*.tub and similar).

Who-ever, what-ever this delusion-ed person is has little or no meaning to me and push come to shove this idiot just identified himself or herself within this complaint " Email: mypsptubes.violations@yahoo.com" and again in the following....

"If you believe that you were designated by My PSP tubes and/or My PSP tubes' agent by mistake or misidentification, or if you believe that you have not infringed the copyrights of My PSP tubes, you may submit a sworn counter-notification as to the mistake or misidentification. To be effective, counter-notifications must be in writing and include"

I don't know if this asshole at My PSP tubes has even a clue as to how large the circle of people that share in tubes, how well they both know and know of each other or how quickly "My PSP Tubes" members and those attached to them will become outcasts across the whole WebRing consisting of tube collectors and tube users.

Business for this person is will become noted with shame and disgrace in no time (LOL, look at what the band Metallica did to Napster and then look at what we did to the band Metallica). People like that fall fast and hard and shame never washes off..."

Final and in closing You guys SUCK at MyPspTubes group. You are an insult to the community and a disgrace to yourselves !!!

How to make your own Karaoke film for free plus a few for free.

My daughter is in the 4th grade and they are having a student concert on Friday night. The songs her class are singing are Earth Angel, Rockin Robin and Splish Splash. I had no trouble finding Earth Angel or Rockin Robin in FLV format as a sing-a-long type thing but Splish Splash without the farting baby in it was just not out there to be found at all. So I decided to some way make one.

Here's how I went about it...

First I downloaded four higher rated programs and played with each for over an hour trying to get results. AVSVideoConverter gave me the best of them all but it was only a trial version and it left a logo directly in the center of the vid making it unable to follow the lyrics. Another program called WinCDGPro3.0 was awesome but in close to two hours I could not find a way to save my project in any other format other than a playlist file on my computer and I needed this in AVI to burn it onto a disc with. The other two were likewise hyped up crap.

Just as I was getting ready to give up I decided to try two older progs that I have that have treated me well. One is VLC Media Player and the other was Format Factory.
I know I could have used a regular midi or mp3 file and typed into a file my own lyrics under several file formats and used them that way but I was nearing or passed hour five working at this so thinking it would not work I tried this anyway. I did a news group post search for Splish Splash in both CDG and MP3 formats and I loaded them into VLC. Great, it worked but still no good because it played both files simultaneously as one and in the details I found that it had 9 video tracks and the stereo MP3 track all running at once. This would leave me without anything workable to record to DVD.

After about twenty minutes I got it though. First I'm going to "try" to show you how, then I'll post my Karaoke/vid and the other two even if it is just for S**ts & Giggles.

Hope you likes it. If you don't then lie and say you did. I'll never tell on ya.

Starting here. If the images are too small to read, right click on
them and select "Open in a new tab" or window.

Adding the MP3 file and selecting the output folder.

(Where it'll end up later when yer done)

Now add the CDG file or the captions file that you made.

Convert it to Avi format to burn to DVD.

The file should be ready now. If you want to convert it back to a
"smaller" size FLV to post on the web, just reload
it and change the output settings and save.

Now my project and the other two since I ran on so much about em anyway...

Bobby Darin - Splish Splash (Karaoke File)

Jackson 5 - Rockin Robin (with Lyrics)

The Penguins - Earth Angel (With Lyrics)

The progs links again
(the text tags work too...)

VLC Media Player (Free Prog) [LINK]
FormatFactory (Free Prog) [LINK]
AVSVideoConverter (Try and then you buy, but decent results) [LINK]
WinCDGPro (Expensive but amazing features) [LINK]

Bunch of free stuff here...

20 nope, 21 Fabulous Freebies 2009

by Erin Burt from this page here [link to page]
Friday, September 4, 2009provided by

It's been said that the best things in life are free -- and we couldn't agree more. That's why we're back with our third annual list of our favorite freebies.

We looked for primo goods and services, no useless junk allowed. And boy, did we find 'em, from financial management and planning helps to entertainment and vacation freebies.

Go ahead. Embrace your inner tightwad:

1. Free Video Games

If you're looking for games for the kids -- or an excuse to act like a kid yourself -- head to Kongregate.com, Popcap.com, Pogo.com and OnlineFlashGames.org for thousands of free online and downloadable games of all types.

For educational or just-for-fun games suited to young kids, check out PBSkids.org, DiscoveryKids.com, NickJr.com and Scholastic.com/kids.

2. Free Birthday Goodies

A slew of businesses will give you prime freebies on your birthday that almost make getting older worth it. For instance, anyone can get free admission to Disneyland or Disney World parks in 2009. Join the birthday club at Toys R Us and your child (younger than 10) will get a free toy or gift card every year.

If you sign up in advance to join the club at your favorite eatery, you could score free food on your birthday too. For example, you can get a free meal at Famous Dave's BBQ and free ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery and Baskin Robbins. Search the Web for "birthday freebies," then call your local restaurants to ask whether they participate in the deal.

3. Free Shipping

Special delivery! Some retailers still offer free shipping on every order, including Alyssagiftbaskets.com (special-occasion gifts), Bluenile.com (jewelry), Piperlime.com (shoes), Shopbop.com (clothes) and Zappos.com (shoes).

Many merchants offer free shipping if you can pick up the item at your local store, including Walmart.com, Payless.com and REI.com. This comes in handy for online-only items, oversize purchases or goods that have sold out at your local store. Or, look for free shipping deals when you spend a certain amount, such as orders over $25 at Amazon.com. See FreeShipping.org for more deals.

4. Free Software

For most of your computing needs, you can get free software. For word processing and spreadsheets, go to OpenOffice.org. For antivirus protection, head to http://free.avg.com. For free basic photo editing, check out http://picasa.google.com, or for more advanced touch-ups, try Gimp.org. And to manage your finances, use the free programs at Mint.com or Wesabe.com.

5. Free Stock Trades

At Wells Fargo, you get 100 commission-free online trades per year if your cumulative account balance is $25,000 or more (including your Wells Fargo checking and savings accounts, certificates of deposit, IRAs and brokerage accounts).

Also, Zecco.com offers ten free trades per month if you have $25,000 in your brokerage account.

6. Free Credit Report

By law, you're entitled to one free report once a year from each of the three main credit bureaus. Go to www.annualcreditreport.com to find out what lenders can see about your credit history.

7. Free TV and Movies

Head online to watch free episodes from hundreds of TV shows -- old and current -- as well as free movies. And it's perfectly legal.

At OVGuide.com you'll find a list of TV and movie sites including Hulu.com, Veoh.com and Fancast.com, as well as individual network Web sites, such as ABC.com and CBS.com.

8. Free ATMs

A buck or two here and there may not seem like a big deal, but if you're frequenting ATMs outside your bank's network, the surcharges can add up quickly.

Get money from an ATM that belongs to a surcharge-free network. Allpoint has about 200 participating institutions and 32,000 ATMs. Money Pass has 600 members and 8,000 ATMs.

9. Free (and Risk-Free) Interest

Many banks offer free savings accounts, but they won't help your money grow. Instead, use a high-yield online savings account for your short-term savings, such as ING Direct, HSBC Direct and Emigrant Direct. They're FDIC-insured and were recently paying around 1.4%. They have no minimum-balance requirement, so you earn that rate whether you have $1 or $100,000 saved.

And consider the free interest-bearing checking accounts from ING Direct and Everbank. They're also FDIC-insured and were recently paying between 0.25% and 1.96%. (Most traditional banks' free checking accounts pay you nil.)

10. Airline Freebies

Airlines may be scaling back their perks, but some still have freebies for fliers. For instance, Southwest lets you check two bags for free, while most others charge extra for luggage. JetBlue lets you check one bag free, plus gives you access to free TV, satellite radio and all-you-can-eat snacks. Continental still serves free meals on several routes. And all kids under age 2 can fly free on your lap on any airline.

Don't forget about the free flights you can score by signing up for an airline's frequent-flier program (enrollment is also free). See the "Program Guide" at WebFlyer.com for the lowdown on each airline's rules.

11. Free Money for Grad School

On average, a year of graduate school costs $28,375 for a master's degree at a public school and $38,665 at a private school. But free money abounds, from grants and scholarships to assistantships and fellowships.

12. Free Rewards

You have to buy groceries and gas anyway, so why not use those purchases to get a little more green in your wallet? Sign up for a rewards credit card and get free money, gift certificates, airline miles or other perks. (Of course, it's only free if you pay the balance in full each month without incurring interest charges.)

When you have to make a purchase online, start at BondRewards.com to earn another cool freebie: You click on an affiliated online retailer (there are hundreds) to do your shopping as usual, and a percentage of your purchase is given back to you in your BondRewards account. You then redeem your rewards for U.S. savings bonds or cash.

13. Free Financial Advice

Not to toot our own horn (okay, maybe just a little), but Kiplinger.com is a treasure trove of free financial advice. Our tools and calculators will help you get on the right financial track.

Our expert columnists will answer your personal-finance questions. For instance, Kim Lankford answers your general financial questions, Janet Bodnar tackles family and kid topics and Knight Kiplinger advises readers on ethics and money matters.

14. Free Mobile Apps

You spent all that money on a new iPhone. Now download some free apps to help you save money and recoup the cost. For instance, the free Mint.com or Quicken apps help you track your spending and manage your money and investments on the go. AMT Hunter can help you find a surcharge-free machine near wherever you are. And iShop can help you search for the lowest price on an item before you buy.

There are plenty of other useful applications at the iTunes App Store, with free recipes, weather updates, diet help, music, games and more.

15. Free Books, Movies, & Music

If you haven't been to the public library lately, dust off your card. It's your ticket to mounds of free books, magazines, CDs and movies.

Many libraries also offer free lectures, book readings and community clubs to residents.

16. Free Online Bill Paying

Stop paying your bills by check and put their payment on autopilot. At many banks, including Bank of America, BB&T, SunTrust and Wachovia, you get free bill paying with every online checking account. (Be sure you read the fine print -- some banks may require you to maintain a certain balance in your checking account to get the freebie.)

But even if your bank doesn't give you this freebie, you can probably arrange for automatic bill paying directly with the parties sending the bills, such as your utility, credit-card, phone and mortgage companies.

17. Free Kids' Meals

Yes, there is such a thing as a free lunch -- or dinner. Kids eat free at Denny's, Lone Star Steakhouse and Roadhouse Grill every Tuesday night (and some Saturdays) with a paying adult. IHOP, Golden Corral, Marie Callender's and Chevys restaurants offer kids-eat-free deals at select locations.

You can search for eateries in your area at KidsMealDeals.com.

18. Free Digital Storage Space

With free online backup storage, you can protect your important files and photos from computer crashes, theft or natural disaster.

For instance, Spideroak.com and Myotherdrive.com each give you 2 gigabytes of free and secure digital storage space. You can also store your cherished photos and videos at sites such as Photobucket.com and Flickr.com. You can also store your pics at photo-print ordering sites such as Snapfish.com, Shutterfly.com or Walmart.com, as long as your account is active.

19. Free Tech Recycling -- With Benefits

Not only is it getting easier to keep your old electronics out of the landfill, but you may even get some free cash in exchange. Services such as BuyMyTronics.com, Gazelle.com, MyBoneyard.com and GreenPhone.com recycle or refurbish your old tech and send you a check in return. They take cameras, cell phones, MP3 players, game consoles and more.

If you can't find anyone willing to pay for your dinosaur, look for other free places to recycle. For instance, Best Buy will take many of your tech castoffs at no charge. And keep your eyes open for free e-recycling days in your city.

20. Free Capital Gains

Who wouldn't love to let their investments grow 100% tax-free? Take a pass on paying capital-gains taxes by investing in a Roth IRA. Any money you put into your Roth grows tax-free, and you won't owe Uncle Sam a dime when you cash out in retirement. It's all yours.

21. Free Cyber with Funk

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Windows 7 Beta (Free Download)

Windows 7 Operating System in Beta free?

I'm not sure on this one, but know it's out there because I already snagged it last January. Not from this link though. Actually I'm posting this for a dear friend who has that shitty version of Vista so that her son can have a look at it for her and decide if it would be right for her. (No I will not tell you her name. She is MY friend & I am greedy with my friends)

Now everyone can download Windows 7 software. Though you can install this full featured version of Windows 7, it carries the beta tag and is recommended for testers and developers who experiment with new software, test new features and give feedback to improve the software.

Install Windows 7

Firstly they recommend you don’t install the Beta if you cannot troubleshoot your own PC problems and Microsoft will not not provide technical support for the Windows 7 Beta. Also if you have only one main computer, don’t install the Beta on your primary home or work computer. You might be interested to take a Windows 7 tour before you get started.

Before you start, you should be prepared that the beta tag is for a purpose. You will need technical skills to install Windows 7 and should know hot to burn an ISO file to make an install DVD, install Windows, backup and restore your PC and set up a network.

Once you are sure you have those technical skills, check your computer specifications to know if your computer can install Windows 7. You will need a 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor, 1 GB of system memory, 16 GB of available disk space, support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128 MB memory, DVD-R/W Drive, and internet access. Here is a quick guide to install Windows 7 easily. You might also want to take a look at how to dual boot Windows 7 with XP or Vista. You can also install Windows 7 on Macbook Pro using Boot Camp.

Remember the Windows 7 Beta software expires on August 1, 2009. To continue using your PC, be prepared to reinstall a prior version of Windows or a subsequent release of Windows 7 before the expiration date. As new bugs are fixed, new beta versions will be released and setting your PC to automatically check for updates through Windows Update, will help to keep your version current and bug free. Read the release notes.

Download Windows 7

Download Windows 7 Beta now and experience the next generation of Microsoft Windows. The 32-bit version of Windows 7 Beta is available in five languages: English, German, Japanese, Hindi, and Arabic. The 64-bit version is available in English, German, Japanese, and Arabic. When you download the Beta you’ll be given a product key to activate the Beta within 30 days and this product key will work on three separate computers.

Though the Windows 7 Beta was available for a limited time to the first 2.5 million people who download the software only, the overwhelming response forced them to remove the download limit, and now anyone can download Windows 7 Beta inspite of the number of downloads they clock till January 24, 2009.

Alternative link: The Windows 7 Beta download is now available here. You can also try direct download links for both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions, though neither provides Product Keys.

Gizmo's List - The Best Freeware

This is from "http://www.sensiblyeclectic.com's" website, located on this page.
I don't know how accurate his links are, or how often he updates. But I did try a couple links in the "Cleanup & Tuning" section and received the "Page not found" error. That however might have just been me though because my son hogs the bandwidth for his games on weekend nights and it was last night when I tried.

Cleanup & Tuning
File Cleaning, Memory Optimizer, System Tune-Up and more...

Desktop & GUI
File Manager, Program Launcher, Start Menu, Tray Icons and more...

Disk & File Tools
Backup, Restore, Encryption, Synchro-nization and more...

Home & Office
Office Suites, Finance, Project, Spell-Checker, PIM and more...

Image View & Edit
Bitmap, Vector, HDR, Viewer, Photo Organizer and more...

Internet & eMail
Browser, eMail, IM, Download, Parental Filter and more...

Multimedia
Audio/Video Edit, Ripper, Burner, Online TV and more...

Networking
FTP, SSH, Remote Access, BitTorrent and more...

Programming
Editors, Binary Extraction, Search & Replace and more...

Lookup & Cataloging
CD, DVD, File and Software Cataloging and more...

Security
Anti Virus, Adware, Firewall, Intrusion Prevention and more...

System Info
Disk, RAM, Memory, Down/Up, WiFi Finder and more...

System Tools
Registry, Time, Vista Tweaks, Font Manager and more...

Hot Finds!
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NOTE: This "again" is from http://www.sensiblyeclectic.com's website. I am "only" posting this here for your convenience (and mine), I highly recommend you go to their site though and see what else they have to offer.