Thursday, October 8, 2009

ExtractNow: allows you to extract multiple archives

ExtractNow is a simple utility that allows you to extract multiple archives quickly and easily. ExtractNow is not a complete archival solution. It's main purpose it to allow the user to extract multiple archives easily.


Why wear out your clicking finger extracting files one by one when you can extract at once? ExtractNow does a fine job of bundling compressed files and extracting their contents in one fell swoop. ExtractNow has a clean, well-designed and easy-to-use interface. To extract files, simply drag and drop them into the main program window, or right-click the files while in Windows Explorer. ExtractNow supports the two most popular compression formats, ZIP and RAR, as well as a handful of other formats. Simple but not simplistic, this is a powerful and reliable program that will be of use to anyone who manages many compressed files.

(Download.com Editor's Review)

Monday, October 5, 2009

Fuzzy Text On TV? High Resolution Font Problem?

Fuzzy text on TV? high resolution font size problem? 1 px shadow to the left problem ? Eye Fatigue?

I took all best answers from all over the net and these are the solutions for this annoying problem:

in order for it to be crisp and clear you need 1:1 pixel mapping and you'll want to feed it 1920x1080 at 60hz.
In the Samsung manuals there is a section on connecting a PC and explains how your particular model is switched to allow 1:1 mapping.

1) Try tuning on Clear Type.

Vista

Right click on any blank spot of desktop, and then select Personalize on pop-up context menu.
Select Window Color and Appearance.
Click on “Open classic appearance properties for more color options” link located at the bottom of the page.
Click on the Effects button.
Check the “Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts” box.
Select ClearType in the drop down list under the above title.
Click OK, then click Apply, and finally finish with clicking OK again.


XP

Right-click the desktop, select Properties.
Click the Appearance tab, and click on the Effects button.
In the window that opens up, check the second box that says Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts and select ClearType from the drop-down menu, then OK out of all windows.

2) Goto Windows Appearance - Change the font size to "Extra large"

3) Try tuning your cleartype-

ClearType Tuner PowerToy
http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/7/0/b7019730-0fa3-47a9-a159-98b80c185aad/setup.exe

4) Use magnifier tool to see clearly (Free Softwares from download.com)
http://download.cnet.com/1770-20_4-0.html?query=Magnifier&searchtype=downloads&filter=licenseName=Free|platform=Windows,Webware&filterName=licenseName=Free|platform=Windows,Webware&tag=ltcol

5)Is your LCD display little blurry and text little difficult to read? Clear Type Font smoothing should do the trick for better readability on your LCD display. Clear Tweak is a free utility that allows you to make changes to Clear Type contrast settings on Windows XP computer for better LCD display.

clear-tweak-xp-lcd-display


Download ClearTweak utility for Windows XP computer.
Credit:
http://www.tothepc.com/archives/improve-lcd-display-cleartype-settings-in-xp/



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