Adobe Reader, the tool to opens PDF files created using Adobe Acrobat is one of the most used software for reading files. It is compatible with many devices, it easy to print PDF files, and also has several alternatives to accessing PDF files. One of these alternative to accessing PDF files that many people do not know is called Read Out Aloud. This feature converts text to spoken words. Adobe Reader versions 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 and 9.0 have this feature. You can use it to listen PDF files that have editable text. It cannot read images and documents that are scanned. It works in English.

Setting the feature Reading Out Aloud

For better use of this feature you need to set your preferences. Here, these are the steps:

-Open Adobe Reader

-Open Edit Menu and choose "Preferences" or hit "ctrl+k". This action opens a pop-up window.

-Choose in the left column headed "Categories", "Reading"

-In the box called "Read Out Aloud Options," set the volume that you want. Also, you can set pitch and velocity of listening in words per minutes. Windows only has a one default voice.

-In the box called "Reading Order Options," choose the reading order. The option recommended is: Infer reading order from the document.

-In the inferior right corner of the pop-up window click "OK"

Listening Your File

First, open your PDF file. Now, for listening your file you need to start Reading Out Aloud feature. The easier way is hitting the command "ctrl+ shift+y". Then, your have the following options to listen your file: listen one page, using the command ctrl+ shift+ v or listen the entire document use: ctrl+ shift+ b. If you like to make a pause in the listening use: ctrl+shift+c and resume using the same command again. Use the command ctrl+shift+e, if you want to stop your listening.

This accessibility feature is useful for people that have vision problems, or do not want to read a file. Also, it allows you to do other things like clean the house or cooking while you are listening your PDF files and it is a useful tool for people that are learning English.

Step 1: Partitioning Purposes

Most of the desktops or laptops are available in preinstalled partitions as in Windows, Linux, and other operating systems. However, the partition is almost always fixed as one huge Drive C, or two partitions of Drive C and D which will take up most of the hard disk spaces.

Before beginning to partition your PC into several portions that you desire, make sure that you know how many partitions you need, how much space to allocate for each of them and what you want to use for the partitions.

You may want to separate the operating system files from other files such as MP3 folders, data files, Internet Downloads, image folders, audio files, or game folders. Or you may want to have multiple copies of the same operating system, or you just want to create a multi-boot system with different operating systems.

For your information, you can create up to four primary partitions in each hard disk. If you use an extended partition combined with logical partitions, you can create as many as 16 partitions. Nevertheless, in most cases, two or three partitions are just more than enough for most computer Geeks.

Step 2: Preparing for the Partition

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Prior to partitioning, let's do a bit “stock clearing” to make things easier. Firstly, you should use the Scandisk tool to scan the partition (say Drive C or Drive D or both drives) in your PC for errors. To do this, click Start, Run and then press the Enter button. In the Open box, type sfc/scannow and click OK.

Secondly, you should ensure that there is enough free space in your PC. To achieve this goal, you can start by eliminating or archiving all unnecessary or unwanted files by uninstalling them.

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Next, run the Disk Cleanup tool to free up more spaces. To do this, click Start, Run and press the Enter button. Now, type cleanmgr in the Open box and click OK. To clear up all junk files, you should delete items in Download Program Files, Recycle Bin, and any other items which are labeled as “temporary.”

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After the third step, now proceed to run Disk Defragmenter so that you can consolidate the partition's free space. Click Start, Run and press Enter. In the Open box, type dfrg.msc and click OK.

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Take note that if you're in Windows, you should alert with the size and volume label of the partition that you will plan to shrink. Click Start and My Computer to obtain this info.

Step 3: Backup your Existing Partition

At this step, you should know that the idea of using partition software such as Parted Magic is to avoid you from the hassle of deleting your existing partitions or formatting the hard disk. However, you should take notice that either shrinking partitions or partitioning a disk will involve a degree of a risk. Therefore, you are recommended to backup your important data or files prior to the partition. To know more about how to do step-by-step backup procedures for both Window XP and Vista, you can surf to this website here.

Step 4: Downloading and Creating Disc

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For you partition purpose, download Parted Magic software, which is the live CD ISO File, which is a bootable Linux-based image. You can download this software here. Look for its filename which is pmagic-2.2 iso and its file size is roughly 45MB. After you have downloaded the file, remember to locate this file in a separate folder, say, “c:\pmagic”.

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After downloading the iso file for Parted Magic, you must convert your newly acquired iso file to a bootable CD. You can create the bootable CD either using your existing CD burning software, or a freeware such as ImgBurn. Next, click Write image file to disk as shown above. Once this is completed, the CD should be removed to the bootable optical drive on your PC. You can download ImgBurn here.

Step 5: Disconnecting your Unnecessary Drives

Before carrying out this step, make sure you shut down your computer and disconnect all unnecessary devices and storage drives. These may include USB flash drives, external hard disks, card readers and extra hard disks. This step is essential to be taken in order to accelerate Parted Magic's boot time and its device detection process. Removing unnecessary drives are vital to prevent you from accidentally changing partitions on the wrong hard disks or drives.

Step 6: Booting Parted Magic CD

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Now, you should insert the Parted Magic bootable CD that you created in step 4 into your optical drive, and configure your system to boot from this drive. Just before the Windows starts, remember to hit the key sequence or the special key to access BIOS settings (you'll always be prompted on screen). Under Boot option, you should select optical drive or CD drive, and then exit BIOS.

Next, you'll see the Parted Magic Boot Options Menu at the beginning of the boot procedure. You should now select the Default setting (Runs from RAM/ Ejects CD) unless you've a system with less than 256MB of RAM. After you made your selection, the OS will copy itself into your system memory and boot into the front end interface. After some point, the CD tray will eject (that means you can put it away because it is no longer needed for the rest of the process) and is now fully operating from RAM.

Step 7: Launching GParted (Parted Magic)

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After completing the boot process, you should see the Parted Magic as shown above. Next, you should launch GParted by clicking on its icon, the one which looks like a hard disk (the first icon from its list of detected device). Then, you've to wait for a while as there'll be a little delay. This is because GParted scans for available devices before it is ready to use.

Step 8: Selecting your Task

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From the main window of GParted, select the targeted drive. Automatically, GParted will select the first storage device it detects. From the toolbar, use the drop-down list to choose the correct drive, if the drive is other than the default selection. After selecting the drive, a graphical view of its partition scheme will be displayed in the main window. Now, you can choose the partition that you want to shrink. This is the largest NTFS partition which is usually called /dev/hda1. Make sure its label and size matches the partition info from step 2.

Step 9: Resizing the Partition

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From GParted's toolbar, click the Resize/Move button, and the “Resize/Move/dev/” dialog box will open. The color-coded indicator guides you to shrink the partition. The yellow block marks the amount of data used on the partition. You're advisable to leave enough space to the right of this mark while choosing to resize the partition. In this example, we'll resize the NTFS partition from 38.1GMB to 20.5GB.

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Click the Resize/Move button at the bottom right, and you'll return to GParted main window. Notice that the graphical view of the disk has changed, and previously-grayed-out options on the toolbar are now enabled.

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The status bar in the window's lower-left corner will also report a “Operation Pending” message. To complete the operation, that is to resize the NTFS partition, choose the Apply button in GParted's toolbar. Before any actual operations take place, a window will pop up asking you to back up your data. You can click Cancel, or click Apply to continue.

Step 10: Creating New Partition

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The unallocated drive space is now available for partitioning after shrinking the main partition. Click on the unallocated remaining on the drive, and click on the New button to bring up the “Create New Partition” dialog box.

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In the new dialog box, choose Primary partition instead of extended partition in the Create as: section. You can also key in a volume label in the Label: section. The new partition will take up all remaining space on the hard disk by default, so you should resize it if you plan to add another partition. Click Add to complete this step and to return to GParted's main window.

Step 11: Exit Parted Magic

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Your new window is now updated with the new partition. At this point, you can exit Parted Magic and reboot into windows by clicking on the exit button at the bottom right corner.

Step 12: Rebooting into Windows

When you're in the boot process, Windows will warn about disk problems and run Chkdsk. Do not be panicked; instead, you just allow it to complete the tests and verify the partition. When completing the loading, Windows will detect the new partition and report “new hardware found.” Next, it will prompt you to reboot the system. After the reboot process, the new partition will appear in the list of storage devices in My Computer, in which it'll be assigned a new drive letter, typically E: or D:. Now, you've successfully partitioned your hard disk. And you can now use it just like any other hard disk.

Three components are required to transfer files using FTP protocol. First is an FTP server. Then an FTP client and third, FTP connectivity. The FTP server or FTP site is a computer with large storage capacity. It is dedicated to receiving requests to upload files and respond accordingly. Files are stored in this FTP server in a well organized manner so that they can be easily retrieved on request. The FTP server can provide security to the files by utilizing user names and passwords. Files without security are categorized as public and accessible to everyone. Most of the web sites from which you can download files are examples of FTP servers. The server computer from which a file is to be downloaded is identified by its URL. An FTP address has the same form as a normal web site address. For example ftp://ftp..server name. An FTP client is required to access or download files from FTP servers.

 An FTP client is a software used to exchange files between two computers. The web browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and NetScape are examples of FTP clients. FTP connectivity is the medium used for transfer of data between server and client. Internet is the medium used for FTP connection. The main objective of FTP is to transfer all types of files over the internet. If an interrupt occurs in the middle of a download process, FTP is capable of resuming the download from the point of interruption. Resuming an upload process is supported by the protocol but it is not implemented in the commonly used web browsers. FTP protocol can be used to implement remote sharing computers; the power of another computer can be utilized over the Internet.

One reason for the universal acceptance of FTP is, it is independent of the operating system used or the way in which a file is stored in a computer. FTP is the ideal protocol for file transfer owing to its reliability and efficiency in data transfer.

You probably have a ton of files sitting right now on your PC from surfing the internet that you didn't even know existed. Help speed up your computer by cleaning those files out. There are a couple of options here for you if you are running a Windows based PC.

Start by going to your internet options first. You can get there by Clicking on “Start” then “Settings” then “Control Panel” and then finally double clicking “Internet Options” from the control panel list.

On the “General” you will see the option “Delete” under the heading “Browser history”. Clicking that button will permanently delete all of the files in your temporary internet directory.

On this tab you can also erase your cookies as well. That is entirely up to you. Ok so that gives you a start but it is not the be all end all of cleaning up your computer. Windows provides a nice utility called Disk Cleanup. To run this program, click on “Start”, then click on “Program Files” (or “All Programs” depending on the version of windows you are running, then click on “Accessories”, then “System Tools” and finally click on “Disk Cleanup”.

If you have multiple hard drives you will be asked which hard drive you want to clean up. The default is normal your “C” drive. Choose your “C” drive for now and click on “Ok”. The system will begin analyzing your computer. It may take a while depending on the size of your hard drive and how “messy” it is.

Once your computer has finished analyzing your hard drive a window will pop up giving you information on what should be done in order to free up space and clean up your computer. The computer's recommendations should be checked and is normally enough to go by. Click the “Ok” button and the clean up process will begin.

Again depending on the size of your hard drive, speed of your computer and other factors this could take a while. Once it is complete, you will have cleaned your hard drive up nicely.

If you do not see an increase in your machines performance you may need to run disk defrag to optimize your hard drive. You can learn more about disk defrag in my other article.

Limewire is a file sharing software that lets you download things off of other peoples computers, and them downloading from your computer. Of course you can choose whether to share and not to share things, and you don’t have to share anything at all. Limewire is totally legal, but it is usually used for illegal purposes, like downloading copyrighted content for free. If you are sued for downloading copyrighted content off Limewire, it could lead to substantiall fines. One way to avoid this is to use a proxy, or choose the option of not sharing any files on Limewire. Limewire is for sharing files with family or friends, like movies that are too large to email. Almost no one uses Limewire that way though, and there are endless viruses that are waiting to destroy your computer. Here are some guidelines you can follow before downloading off Limewire.

The first step is to scan everything you get with antivirus software. Some of the best antivirus software that I have used is Norton.] But if you want a really good free antivirus program, Avast antivirus is the way to go. Click here to download Avast Antivirus.

The next step that you should take be looking up the file on Bitzi. Every file on Limewire has this option to look it up. When you right click on the file and choose to look it up on Bitzi, you will be redirected to a website where other people that have downloaded the file can tell what it really is, and if it is harmful. I use Bitzi a lot, and it really works for most of the popular files.

The next step to make sure you are downloading the things you want to download is to see how many sources the file has. Usually the more sources a file has, the safer it is.

Files on Limewire are frequently mislabeled to mislead you into downloading them. Movies are usually mislabeled, and are not what you are looking for unless you want to download porn. Music is usually good. Be careful when you download cd cracks and other software that you would have to pay for, because a lot of times there are viruses packed in with the software.

Never download antivirus software off limewire because 90% of the time the files are viruses. When downloading off Limewire, use common sense, and be careful. I have had my computer messed up beyond repair due to viruses in the past, before I started following these tips, and I hope your computers stay safe, while letting you listen to music, and download software.

Cover Flow is a feature that lets you browse the cover art (of the albums) of your iTunes library. You can flip through your albums by dragging the horizontal scroll bar with your mouse, spinning the mouse wheel up/down, or even your arrow keys. Heck, Cover Flow even has a full screen option; this option makes your computer screen look like a sophisticated audio player.

Search

Although I am sure most people have noticed the search box, some might not know its full capability. The search box is capable of locating results in your library for the songs name, artist, genre, album, and even the equalizer setting. And for those of you who are too lazy to click onto the search box, all you have to do is start typing the name of the song you are looking for, and iTunes will automatically highlight the closest result.

Visualizer

Unless you have looked fairly deep, you may not have noticed that iTunes has a Visualization feature. For those of you who like to look at visualizations, when you've selected your song, press Ctrl + T, and it will switch to the visualization screen. Press Ctrl + T again to exit to the normal display.

Cover Art

I am sure everyone knows that you can add cover art to albums in iTunes, however, it is a fairly long process that can take a lot of your time if you don't use the convenient shortcut that Apple has provided. In the bottom left corner of iTunes, there is a box that you can simple drag images onto, and, just that like, that image is now set as the cover art for that album.

Mini-Player

Like all media players, iTunes has a mini player. This nice thing about this one is that it is very "mini". Most mini players of media players are still big enough, defeating the purpose of a mini player. The amazing thing about the iTunes mini player is that it is very small, meaning you can have it in a top corner of your screen, control it, and not have to worry about it getting in the way of your other programs. So if you are too lazy to switch to your iTunes window to change your song, then the mini player is for you.

Song Options

If you've ever wanted to make a quiet song louder (or vice versa), or wanted to cut out a slow ending or into, song options are something you will want to check out. Highlight the song you wish to edit, then press Ctrl + I, and click the Options tab. Here you can increase/decrease the volume, set a starting/ending point, and much more features solely for the selected song. Highlight multiple songs, and press Ctrl + I, to set options for all the selected songs; this beats doing this to each song individually if you are looking to edit multiple songs with the exact same changes.

Lyrics

For those of you with iPod touch's and iPhones, you will really like this feature. To access this feature, press Ctrl + I, then press the Lyrics tab. The lyrics feature is a simple feature that lets you write or paste lyrics for a song. Then, when listening to the music on your touch or iPhone, you can tap the screen and it will display the lyrics on the screen, then all you need to do is scroll down and read it. For those of you who are unable to sync notes from your computer, you can paste any text you wish into the lyrics section of a song, and you can put on a song, and then read through whatever text you added.

Locate File

If you're ever listening to a song, and want to find the audio file on your computer, for whatever reason, it is as simple as pressing Ctrl + R. This will immediately open up the folder containing the song, which is a faster method than looking for file manually, or even resorting to trial and error.

Preferences

Known in most programs as "options", preferences are something to check out for sure. To access preferences, press Ctrl + , (comma). Through preferences you can edit playback options, such as cross fade and shuffle, and simple preferences such as parental control and syncing.

Diagnostics

Diagnostics is a feature that checks important things such as your CD/DVD drive, network, connection, and iPod/iPhone connections. To access this feature, go to Help - Run Diagnostics. This feature takes literally less than a minute, and lets you know if all your drivers, etc., are working. This is good for anyone who is experiencing problems, as it can solve it fast and efficiently.

And there you have it, 10 iTunes features that you may have not been aware of. I hope this article has helped to improve your iTunes experience.

The Server Is For All of Us

The first point of note is that servers are not the exclusive prerogative of the client/server network model. They exist in the peer-to-peer network model. They exist in most small user environments. Even those with just the one computer and a network device called a router.

Remember, the moment you connect two computing devices you have a network and wherever a network exists then in all likelihood you will find servers. The point is that a server is not necessarily a separate discrete machine; it is a piece of software acting as an entity, which exists within a computing platform.

The server platform can be any computing device. It could be your desktop PC, or even the laptop, a PDA, an iPod, your phone or any other computing platform what so ever. Mr. Bill Gates reportedly said that he could foresee the day when there would be a computer everywhere in our homes.

Unfortunately, this alone is useless. We humans are users and as such, we consume services. Services are what that which serves provides. In other words, the server entity provides a service or services that other entities consume including the server itself, other servers and users (us).

Your toaster can be a computer containing platform housing a piece of software, called a server, which performs specific functions when asked to do so. In which case these functions would be to have the toast ready just they way you like it when you want it. This would be a type of server called a toaster server.

Without the special piece of “toaster server” software, it would be just another piece of overpowered hardware with some bread in it. Servers are everywhere and they are permeating our lives ever more every day. Just check out your mobile phone. It is the server software inside, which makes it all work at the touch of a button.

Another example that most of us users are generally unaware of is the fact that in using an Internet connection courtesy of an ADSL broadband modem/router we are in fact using a number of servers. There will be a DHCP server, a DNS server, some form of authentication server, a service management server and quite a few more.

Server Types

There are a number of different server types. The delineation between them marked by the differences in the nature of the services that they provide.

These services that servers may provide include all manner of “low level” services, automated services, transparent services, higher level services, user input triggered services, instantaneous services, dependant and independent services, service suites, operating system services, application services and many more. We are going to look at some of each.

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server

The DHSP server can automatically assign a client with an Internet Protocol (IP) Address. The DHCP server is one of the automated that I alluded to when mentioning the single PC and router network above. This type of server once correctly configured can function automatically without the need for human intervention.

Domain Name Service Server (DNS)

The DNS server assigns “human friendly” names to machines and services. For more information, regarding naming services and building your own naming conventions and structures click here Building Your Own Naming Convention.

Domain Controller Server

The domain controller is a directory and name server commonly found in Microsoft Windows Server network environments. The domain controller typically provides authentication, logon privileges, rights and permissions.

In Microsoft Windows Server environments, the domain controller also manages Group Policy. Domain controllers and Group Policy are topics that I will discuss in another article.

File and Print Servers

In most instances, the File and Print servers come in combination as standard features of most operating systems today. This holds true for the Network Operating System (NOS). Together these two servers typically deliver such services as:

• Data Storage Management
• Network Print Server and Print Device (the physical device) Management
• Regulation of File and Print/Printer Resources Access Management
• Monitoring of File and Print/Printer Resources
• File, Folder and Print Services Sharing and Management

Here are a few of the more popular Network Operating Systems (NOS) that natively provide support for File and Print Servers:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft Windows NT and the more recent Microsoft Windows Server 2008
• Mac OS X Print Server
• Novell SUSE Linux 10.2 Enterprise Edition
• RedHat Linux Server
• Ubuntu Server Edition
• Netgear's self contained network (Ethernet LAN) attached print server
• Samba - Samba is a free, open-source software solution that allows users to share files among computers running Windows, UNIX, & Mac.

Note: Microsoft's Windows 2000 and XP operating systems do have built-in file and print server functionality. However, it is the Microsoft's Windows Operating System (OS) server editions provide significantly better security and scalability than their “general purpose” Windows operating systems.

The Application Server

The application server sometimes referred to as middleware because they may function in between database servers and end users.

The Mail Server

The Email server provides support enabling the transfer and storage of email over private networks (LAN) and across the Internet (WAN).

The Proxy Server

The proxy server acts as an intermediary between LAN users & the Internet. In order to do so proxy servers need to perform a number of server service functions including:

• Masking - Masking of private network IP Addresses to enable devices with private (IP Addresses) network addresses to access the Internet
• Security - Strengthens security by only allowing certain requests to come through and by providing virus protection
• Web Page Caching - The proxy server can cache web page data for a specified period. This allows more rapid future access to the web resource.
• Examples - Some examples of proxy servers include Wingate, Squid etc.
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server - MS Windows 2000 server or later does not require a dedicated proxy server as this functionality ships with these server platforms by default.

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Server

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers make it possible to move files from one computer to another via the Internet. Common features and functionality include:

• User Authentication
• File Transfer Policies
• Detailed Activity Logging
• Virtualisation Technologies and Implementations
• Automation Capabilities

The Terminal Server

Dumb terminals (thin clients) supporting only a mouse, keyboard, monitors or printers can attach to the network via standard ports. This means that a dedicated Network Interface Cards (NIC) is no longer a prerequisite for the client and server to communicate via terminal services.

Further more the terminal server performs any processing that is required and sends the result back for the user to see. It provides the Windows desktop GUI to machines that do not have this capability themselves.

It is the job of the network administrator the network administrator will then be able to manage them.

Microsoft's Terminal Server is a prime example that has been included in their Windows 2000 operating systems (both client and Server versions) and later server versions of the Windows operating system.

The Web Server

The web server's primary function is to give access to Internet users to attach to the server in order to view and maintain Web pages. Web Browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape use standard protocols to request documents from a Web server on behalf of a user.

The Web server will retrieve the requested documents and forward them to the Web browser that originally made the request.

Web Server Technologies Supported

Web servers support a variety of technologies including CGI scripts, Active Server Pages, and secure connections to extend the power beyond the basic HTML code. The two most popular Web servers today are:

• Apache (for "A patchy" Web server)
• Internet Information Services (IIS) - Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)

There are too many other different types of server for me to cover them all here in this short article. I do hope that information presented here helps you to understand the server better.

For additional information, check the article “Server Platforms”. Until then enjoy!

In all tests, WinRar is used for the .rar compressions, and 7-Zip is used for both .7z and .zip formats.

Text Compression

In this test, compression levels are set to the maximum levels. Files compressed are a 16MB .txt file, and 10 copies of a 317KB .docx (word) document, for a total of 20,026,356 bytes.

Original size - Compressed size = % Reduction

• .Rar: 20,026,356 Bytes >> 1,731,928 Bytes = 8.64824 %
• .7z: 20,026,356 Bytes >> 172,215 Bytes = .85994%
• .Zip: 20,026,356 Bytes >> 1,972,471 Bytes = 9.84938%

Image Compression

In this test, 491 pictures of a mixture of .jpeg, .gif, .png, and .bmp totaling 51,738,734 bytes are compressed. Again, compression settings are set to their highest

Original size  - Compressed size = % Reduction

• .Rar: 51,738,734 Bytes >> 46,220,909 Bytes = 89.33521%
• .7z: 51,738,734 Bytes >> 45,437,377 Bytes = 87.82081%
• .Zip: 51,738,734 Bytes >> 46,322,811 Bytes = 89.52217%

Audio Compression

This test will throw 14 .mp3 files at our compressors. The total file size is 87,174,801 bytes. Compression settings are maxed out.

Original size - Compressed size = % Reduction

• .Rar: 87,174,801 Bytes >> 86,604,680 Bytes = 99.34600%
• .7z: 87,174,801 Bytes >> 86,958,008 Bytes = 99.75589%
• .Zip: 87,174,801 Bytes >> 86,419,078 Bytes = 99.13309%

Conclusion

The .7z format completely dominated the competition in text compression, giving it a secure victory in this battle. In the tests done, there was little difference between .rar and .zip, with .rar being able to compress about .4% better on average. However, .7z was able to compress on average about 3% better than the .rar format.

Now that the dust is beginning to settle, I am going to uninstall all of the compressors considered for this battle, and only the victor will remain standing in my system.

Download the winner here

Ever want to annoy someone really badly? Have access to their computer? You've come to the right place! This will show you how to make a file that keeps opening and closing itself until the computer is shut down. (At least, that's what I do to stop it.)

Warning: I have tried this before and I just turned off the computer to stop it. No permanent damage was done. If in fact the computer takes damage, I am not at fault. Do this at your own risk.

How to:

I have broken it into steps for you:

1. Right click and select "New > Text Document"
2. Open it - in it copy and paste this (change the message to what you want)
3. @echo off
4. Echo. (MESSAGE-GOES-IN-HERE)
5. Start repeat.bat
6. Exit
7. Now go to "Save as" and change the save as type to "All Files"
8. Save it as “repeat.bat”.
9. If it shows as an "MS - DOS Batch File" you have done this right
10. Do NOT open it until the time is right

When you open it, it will not stop opening and closing. Yeah, they're probably going to get annoyed. Well, hope you liked, and use this wisely!