So I decided to make a new Dubstep and Grime mix using my Numark OmniControl and my Korg KaossPad 3.

Download it, sit back and turn up the volume to let the basslines vibrate you into a higher state of consciousness. Think about the good times while bouncing to the beats at the beach or your favorite local club

I hope you will enjoy it! Feel free to comment if you like it and if you’re from the Netherlands and would like to book me you’re also free to do so

Download the full quality MP3 for free here:

LISTEN TO SOME BASS, NOW!

DOWNLOAD THE FREE DUBSTEP MIX MP3 320kbit (7zip ~95MB)

Click here if you need to download the free open source 7zip tool!

Stop The Conspiracy (X-Day mix) — Style: Dubstep

Psychological Warfare — Style: old-school Drum&Bass

Brighter Future (slackfull mix) — Style: Dubstep

Ye (raw edit) — Style: Chillstep, Electronic

Soundwave Warrior — Style: Hip Hop

See The Sunshine — Style: Dubstep

Crazy Thing In My Head — Style: Vocal Trip Hop

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Songs hosted on UBETOO.COM!

Listen to my music and watch my videos on Ubetoo.com

…that I’m making electronic music!

So check it out if you like dubstep, triphop or other experimental electronic styles. I’ll updating the page as soon as I’ll release a song!

You can listen to some of my songs for free here:

http://www.plugenjoy.com/slack-t-music/

Screenshots or captures are a great way to show people how something looks like on your screen. Windows already provides a build-in way to capture your screen(s).

If you press the “Print Scrn” button on your keyboard (it’s usually right above the “Insert” key) Windows will capture your current screen and store it in the clipboard. Usually you paste it into MsPaint or directly into your favorite office application.

To capture the current active window of e.g. your webbrowser you just have to press ALT+Print Scrn and Windows will copy the image of the active window into the clipboard. So far so good.

If you have to work with screenshots on a daily basis you won’t be very happy with the Windows solution. For example I need to make screenshots of applications to prove to the developers that there’s a certain bug in their fancy new program. I started to look around for a tool which is easy and fast to handle, preferably free, lets me draw some circles or rectangles on the captured image and allows me to save the captures directly into files without the need to start mspaint.exe.

Greenshot – Tiny, incredibly powerful screen capture tool

So I stumbled upon the free, open source tool called “Greenshot”. It features an own image editor which lets you to instantly edit the screenshot you’ve just made.

If you start up Greenshot and hit the “Print Scrn” button on your keyboard your cursor will turn into a crosshair which lets you to specify the region on your monitor to be captured.

After you have done that your screen will flash and the build-in image editor opens up where you can make further changes to your capture like crop it, write text, draw rectangles, circles or arrows and even obfuscate the parts you don’t want the recipients of your screenshot to be able to read.

And still, you’re able to capture single windows, or your complete screen(s). BTW, you can even capture the output of your video player which displays the picture in overlay mode!

Click on the Greenshot logo to get it or read more on what it can do for you!

What is the NX server?

The NX server and client application is developed by the Italian company NoMachine and provides a way to efficiently and securely access X-server based GUIs.

It compresses the X-server rendered screens and enables the client to access it via SSH. Thus making it possible to even access your remote linux server using an dial-up internet connection conveniently.

Is it expensive?

You can download and use the NX server and client for free. The free version is restricted to 2 concurrent client connections at the same time. If you need to set it up for more users you’d need to buy a license.

How do I get started?

If you use Ubuntu or Debian, you need to download the nxserver, nxnode and nxclient DEB packages and install them.

Download all 3 deb packages which suite your distribution (x86 or x64 packages are available) to your server from here:

http://www.nomachine.com/download.php

Now first install the nxclient package and then the nxnode and last but not least the nxserver. Make sure to meet the dependencies.

The packages get installed in the directory: /usr/NX/

After you installed all three packages you just have to start the nxserver by typing:

 sudo /usr/NX/bin/nxserver --start

Basically you’re done now! That was easy, right?

Now it’s time to install the nxclient on your client machine and set up the connection using the wizard which appears when you start the client for the first time.

If you have any questions regarding further settings just comment on this post!

What is VLC?

VLC is a free, multi-format and open source media player application written by the VideoLAN project.

But playing your favorite movie or audio files is not the only thing it can do. It is also able to encode and stream audio or video content.

The other nice fact is, that it is running under a multitude of operating systems like Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BeOS and BSD.

What types of streams can I record with it?

With VLC you can easily record MMS, WMF and ASF streams.

Tell me how already!

To record a stream you first need to get the streaming URL. You can mostly do that be right-clicking the video picture and selecting “Properties…”:

Look at the “Location” info on the Properties dialog:

Mark and copy the link by pressing CTRL+C and start up VLC. Now go to Media -> Convert/Save… click on the Network tab and paste the URL you copied from the stream earlier into the text box. It should look like this:

The next thing you have to do is to click on Convert / Save and you will see this dialog:

First, enter the file name of the destination file including the extension, e.g. NasaTV.asf
Tick the “Display the output” check box to see how the stream looks like while you’re recording. Then you select the Profile, which defines how the file format will be recorded as and click “Start”. I usually use “Video – WMV + WMA (ASF)”.

Now you will have to be patient, because it can take up to 1 minute, depending on your internet connection, for VLC to start displaying and recording the stream. When you think you have recorded enough, just click on the stop button to close the file you’re currently recording into.

You can download the VLC player on the official website.

Average users…

Most of the people nowadays turn on their computers and just start to browse the Internet to read news, update their Facebook status or check their emails. They don’t really care about how things work. But then, someday, they run into a problem. Some application doesn’t start anymore or suddenly something looks different and they start to panic.

Due to the fact that an average computer user doesn’t know and maybe doesn’t want to bother with the basic structures behind applications or even an operating system they often seek help from expensive IT experts who charge a lot of money for a simple task or just a quick change of some rogue setting.

Click on more to read on…

People are not aware that there are nice remote assistant tools available for free. I know that, because I use those tools almost daily to support customers at my daytime job and after I log in on their computers I often hear things like: “Oh my mouse is moving! This is so weird!”. The first few times I seriously had to suppress one or the other giggle, but then I realized that more people should be aware of those tools. So here’s a quick overview of the most common tools.

VNC – the classic remote support tool

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is one of the oldest remote support tools around. It’s available for a lot of platforms and consists of a server application and a client (or “viewer”). Many companys’ IT people install the VNC server on their clients to be able to quickly check what’s going wrong at a user’s computer without the need of running through the whole building to see that the user just needs to tick a certain check box in some application.

The downside of VNC is that it is relatively slow and it is not using encryption by default. So the main usage field is on a local network.

If you want to read more about VNC take a look at the official homepage.

TeamViewer – free for private use, encrypted and easy to use

TeamViewer is a bit different. Basically you download the software from the TeamViewer website, install or just run it and you’re good to help out your buddy or family member to solve that annoying computer issue they might have.

The person you want to connect to needs to give you a 12-digit ID number and a 4 digit password which his or her TeamViewer application is displaying. Then, after he or she allows you to take over his desktop, you’re good to go.

TeamViewer supports Windows, Linux and OS X operating systems and even works on the iPhone or iPad.

However please note that if you want to use it professionally you will have to get a license.

Find out more about or try TeamViewer on the official website.

You need to make tutorial videos to teach your new colleagues how to work with a certain application. Now you could create training documents and have some long or boring training session to teach them stuff they often don’t get after the training anyways.

The other option would be to just record step-by-step tutorials of your application. Your new colleagues would just copy over some training videos and watch them to see how to use that new software right.

The solution

Exactly for this reason, and probably because of my lazyness, I found a very nice free application called “Wink” coded by Debugmode.

Here’s the description from the official Wink website:

That sounds great, right? It is! You can just download it, install it (Windows or Linux with GTK 2.4 or higher) and create great looking flash videos of how you perform a certain action you want to show to your friends or colleagues. The tool itself has a pretty straight forward user interface which allows you to create a professional looking tutorial video. Either you capture your whole screen, a predefined area or a custom area of your screen.

But you can do much more than just record your desktop. You can add a voice recording to your video, add text comments, draw shapes, add weblinks links, etc. This tool is really advanced when it comes down to features. Also, editing your recording frame by frame can by done easily.

You can download this piece of software goodness by clicking on the Wink logo:

I really hope you’ll enjoy this tool as much as I did