TrishTech Musings

Glorylogic Video Shaper : Convert Videos and Extract Audio Streams

These days making Youtube videos is a big craze. It seems like everyone is making videos for their Youtube channels. Some make videos of outdoor activities such as sports, hiking, swimming or just walking around the town. While others make  videos of indoor activities like talking about a topic, how-to videos, fixing videos and more. But before you upload your videos to Youtube, people say that…

RuntimePack Installs All Runtime Libraries on Windows

So many times when we download a new software and launch it, we end up encountering errors such as “The program can’t start because VCRUNTIME150.dll is missing from your computer”. This happens because our Windows PC is lacking the required runtime libraries needed to run that application. One way to tackle this problem is by installing the Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft Visual Basic and other…

How to Close Wise Money Transfer Service Account

Formerly known as TransferWise, Wise is an online money transfer service. They also offer apps for Android and iOS. Using Wise, we can transfer money to our friends and relatives in foreign countries. They claim that the money transfer is completed almost instantly and they give best exchange rates compared to other financial institutions. For using Wise, you must create a user account and fill…

How to Enable or Disable Automatic Updates in Vivaldi

Just like Firefox and Chrome, now Vivaldi has also adopted the policy of installing automatic updates for the web browser. Starting with the version 4.1, Vivaldi web browser comes with a feature to download and install updates automatically. According to a blog post by Vivaldi, these are going to be silent updates and the users will no longer have to click on anything to proceed with the…

Run Commands from Notepad++ with NppExec Plugin

Notepad++ is really great for editing source code files. But when you want to compile these source code files, you have to switch to another window. For example, if you are writing a C++  program, then you have to test it by switching to a command prompt window and running the compiler (e.g., g++). But with the help of a Notepad++ plugin NppExec, you can run any commands or external programs…

Libre AV Converter : Convert Video File Formats on Windows

Libre AV Converter is a media conversion and recording tool for Windows. It is powered by FFmpeg and supports conversion to and from all the FFmpeg supported media files including the videos and audio files. The people who find it difficult to work with FFmpeg’s command line interface, can use the convenient user interface of Libre AV Converter. Libre AV Converter offers a very compact user…

How to Recover Space on USB Drive After Using it for MemTest86

We have previously posted about how we can use MemTest86 to find faulty RAM modules on a computer. These bad RAM sticks can damage other parts of the computer such as the motherboard in addition to making the computer unstable. If you are experiencing frequent program crashes, BSOD screens, file corruptions and other similar problems, then chances are that one or more of your computer’s RAM…

Using Tuxboot to Create Clonezilla Bootable USB Drive on Windows

Clonezilla is an open-source Linux based drive cloning and backup software. Using it, we can create images of the entire drives or their partitions easily. We can later restore them from the backup. it supports all types of file systems and partition types (both MBR and GPT are supported). This is why having a Clonezilla Live USB drive is always handy. We can use a bootable Clonezilla Live USB…

Lightning Talks Countdown Timer : Small Timer for Presentations

Lightning talks is a new fast way to give a presentation in a limited time. This way you can give a presentation very quickly under 5 or 10 minutes and then others can do the same. Lightning talks are very efficient at saving the time and focusing on the very important information only. When you are giving lightning talks presentation over Skype or Zoom, you can use an open-source timer called…

How to Manually Update Firefox with MAR File on Windows

Whenever Mozilla releases a fresh new update for the Firefox web browser, it is made available on their FTP server many hours before you actually receive the update through automatic updates. If you cannot wait, then you can either download the full installer for the new version and install it on your system, or you can download a smaller partial update MAR (Mozilla Archive) file and manually…

CyoHash : File Explorer Extension for Calculating File Hashes

CyoHash is a shell extension for Windows File Explorer using which we can easily calculate file hashes. It supports many hashing algorithms such as MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 and also CRC32 checksums. This small application makes it very convenient to calculate file hashes under any Windows PC. After the installation of CyoHash on your Windows PC, it will add a new item in the…

Jovial Notepad : Portable and Simple Text Editor for Windows

All the versions  of Windows have been coming with a simple text editor called Windows Notepad. Even though we can do so much with Notepad, it still lacks some of the desired features such as encryption and syntax-highlighting. This is why Notepad++ has become so popular because it has finally filled the gap. However, if you are looking for a small, lightweight and Notepad-like text editor then…

JosePlayer : Small Minimal Media Player for Windows

JosePlayer is a very minimal and lightweight media player for Windows. It allows the user to quickly capture screenshots and depends on external codecs to play the media. If you do not want to install the popular media players like VLC or MPC, then you can try this small media player. It comes as a portable program packed inside a ZIP archive. We can extract the contents of the ZIP, and launch…

Calculate and Verify File Hashes Easily with fHash

When files are very small then we can compare them manually and find out if the two files are identical. Windows provides tools such as the fc command using which we can compare two files either in text mode or in the binary mode. But when files are huge, and you don’t want to download these files over and over again for comparison, then it is better to use file checksums or hashes. File hashes…

Create KDP Ready Beautiful Books with Kindle Create

If you are a budding writer then perhaps you should try Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) to publish your books over the Amazon Kindle platform. This way you can reach billions of people all over the world without having to deal with the traditional publishers and their moody agents. In order to facilitate the book creation process, Amazon is offering a free editor called Kindle Create. It can be…

How to Fix PC Stuck on “Verifying DMI Pool Data”

After man months when I tried to use my old desktop computer, it could not go beyond the basic hardware checks by the BIOS. No matter how many times I tried to boot, it always got stuck at the line “Stuck on Verifying DMI Pool Data”. This is not only annoying but also frustrating as the screen does not go beyond these words even if you wait for half an hour. There are many reasons for this…

Use Crucial Scanner to Find Compatible Hardware Upgrades for PC

Recently one of the memory modules in my old laptop had become faulty and I used MemTest86 to check for errors in this RAM module. When the RAM turned out to be faulty, the next obvious step was to find a compatible RAM module that works on my PC. Because if we buy a memory module that does not fit the specifications of the motherboard, it will not work and we will end up wasting money. One way…