SAFELY REMOVED USB DEVICE WITH OUT UNPLUG & REINSERT
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If you’ve requested for the free license of USB Safely Remove, then probably you have tried the new feature which is the “Return Device Back!”. After you had stopped the device, but still did not unplug it, sometimes it is quite useful to return it back into the system. For example if you remembered that you forgot to write a file to the external drive. In order to do it, you have to physically reconnect the device, however sometimes it’s quite inconvenient to do if the device is connected to the rear panel of the computer.
USB Safely Remove claims to be the first Windows program that allows you to return stopped device back and I thought that there isn’t a way to do it without using a software. Thanks to Ed for his valuable tip, we can now remount the ejected USB device with a few simple mouse clicks without reinserting (unplug and insert) the USB device.
Here’s what you need to do to have the “return device back” feature without using USB Safely Remove software.
1. Right click My Computer and select Properties (or you can simultaneously press Win+Pause/Break key). In System Properties window, go to the Hardware tab and then click the Device Manager button. In Windows Vista or Windows 7, you can just click the Device Manager link located at the left hand sidebar when you are at the System Properties window.
2. Click View from the menu bar and select “Devices by Connection“.
3. Find the parent USB Root Hub of the USB device that has a yellow color exclamation mark. Right click on the USB Root Hub and select Disable. Again right click on the same USB Root Hub that you’ve just disabled and this time select Enable.
Voila! The drive letter has been returned back to My Computer and the autorun or autoplay window will appear if it is enabled. Since this can be done in Windows itself, Microsoft Windows development team should consider adding a feature to easily re-enable the drive after ejecting without unplugging and reinserting. This tip has been verified to work on Windows XP, Windows Vista and even the latest Windows 7. No doubt that unplug and reinsert it way faster than this method IF the USB port is easily accessible. If not, this method would save you from bending your back and trying to reach the back of the case.
Thanks Ed for sharing something that took him 2 years to discover!
HOW TO EXTRACT AUDIO FROM VIDEO & CONVERT MEDIA FILE FORMAT
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I have a few friends who work as a DJ. Some of them are music remixers and some are working in clubs mixing live music. One of them which is pretty new to this business called me yesterday asking me if I know how to extract audio from a movie. DJs often need to use a small part or a short phrase from a movie to embed it into their remix or simply to scratching purposes. One common example that a DJ normally scratch is from a simple “Oh yeah” and the DJ can make it sound like “oh, ohhh ye-ye-yeahhhhhhh”. There are many more examples and it depends on the DJs creativity to make it sound better and more catchy.
I’ve never really done any research on which is the best audio or video convertor which can extract audio from a video file. If you do a search in Google, you’ll definitely find a lot of “convertor” software and most of them are shareware that cost money. Don’t be even surprised if some of them are actually from the same company and they re-branded their software to get more exposure and sales. I know about this because most of the spam in forum is about audio convertor software.
Look no further because here are 2 free media convertors which I’ve been using all along and it supports a lot of audio and video formats.
My first choice is Format Factory.
It is a multifunctional media converter that supports converting all popular video, audio, picture formats to others. To extract audio from a video, simply load the video file and then select “All to MP3″. Other than converting audio and video formats, it can also repair damaged video and audio file, reduce Multimedia file size, watermarking videos and images, rips DVD and the program interface supports up to 50 languages. Most importantly, this program is totally free and you can’t find any spyware or nag screens bugging you to donate. I also recently used this to convert a .MP4 movie to .AVI to play on my WDTV.
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My second choice is xrecode II.
It is converter and audio-grabber which allows you to convert many audio formats but it cannot convert video formats. Other than that, xrecode II supports parallel conversion by utilizing power of multi-core CPUs, normalizing audio files so that every mp3 plays at the same volume, able to combine multiple files into one large audio file, extracting audio from flv, avi, mov etc. video files (multiple audio streams are supported). Although it is a shareware that cost $15, it is fully functional with only a nag screen being displayed on startup.
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