One thing we hear a lot these days are the add-ons of television watching using your computer. Through TV tuners and TV boxes, this technology has long been in the market but has never really gotten of the ground. Other than watching TV shows through its coaxial connection options, video editing professionals have also used TV tuner cards have allowed them to upload and store raw video files after which they can edit them using software such as Pinnacle and Cyber Director.

Going back to the basics, the only benefit a person would have when they can watch television on the PC is perhaps that of removing the need to look to and from the PC and an actual TV set. But as far as resolution is concerned, there will be a big difference especially if clarity is concerned.

Also, the load on your PC may need to be checked. With the software needed to run these applications, memory processes are sure to spike up each time they are launched.

For Internet enthusiasts, watching TV shows online allows them to forego the use of TV tuner cards. The advent of online shows has been a bane towards TV tuner cards,

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Same in Windows 2000 and 2003, Active Directory is also be able to setup in Windows Server 2008.

In Windows Server 2008, there are more features in AD, eg: RODC +++ which we will covers more in this blog.

In this session, we would like to share on setting up your first Active Directory for Windows Server 2008.

Before setting up AD, please ensure:

1) You already configured a static IP for your NIC
2) Given a meaningful name to the computer, knowing your domain name to assign
3) An available DNS server (Can be the same server as the AD)
4) ADDS role installed in that particular server to shorten the time for the installation.

Once those mentioned things done, what you need to do is just click Start-> Run -> DCPROMO

Attached the video for you guys to enjoy.

As you will have seen in my last post I have at last added video to this site. I used a handy freeware application called CamStudio to record what I was doing on my screen.

This software has some excellent features that include: recording of vocal commentary; addition of captions; and even picture-in-picture video of yourself if you have a webcam. There is some help for using the software at Nick the Geek’s Support Helpdesk, but I will give you a few tips to get you started.

Firstly, it is best to select a different video codec (the way that the video is encoded and compressed) than the default one to keep the file sizes small. From the Options men select Video Options. Pick a compressor from the list. There is a lossless video codec available to download on the CamStudio site. You can also reduce the quality of the video on the Video Options page to further reduce the size of the video file. You will have to make sure that the people who view the video have the correct codec installed on…

If you have a TV tuner card or video capture card then you can do worse than give dscaler a try. This free software combats the problems of interlacing and other visual quirks in captured video. It enables you to capture video from a hardware source and apply a variety of effects and filters to it in order to improve the quality of the output video file.

Once you have captured a video from an external source, you may wish to edit it. For professional video editing you have to spend serious money, but there is a free alternative: Virtual Dub. Whilst it is not as fully-featured as professional video editing software, Virtual Dub is still a powerful piece of software for editing or changing format of a variety of video file types.

Real Alternative is a small package that enables you to watch RealMedia files without installing Real Player. After installing this codec pack (software that translates digital information into video or sound) you are able to open RealMedia files with various…