Sometimes when we make presentation to others, we need to play a video to help us explain our meaning. Then we need to learn how to play video in PowerPoint. Here we will show you three methods to Play Video in PowerPoint.

Solution

1.   play a video directly

This method is to broadcast prepared video files as a movie file directly in the slide, the method is the simplest way.

1 – Open a presentation

2 – If you want to insert a movie, click the Insert-> Movie-> Movie from File.

3 – In the pop-up dialog box, select the prepared video file and click OK button.

4 – Then there will be a dialog box come up for you to choose how the movie will be played, Automatically orWhen Clicked. Choose the one you need.

5 – Select the video and drag it to the appropriate location and size.

During playing, click on the video window, the video will be paused; and if you want to continue playing, click again.

2. Insert the control to play video

This method is to insert a video file as a control to a slide.

1 – Run the PowerPoint program; open a presentation.

2 – Click Microsoft office button, choose PowerPoint Options.

3 – In the dialog box, choose Popular, check Show Develop Tab in Ribbon. And then clik OK button.

4 – Click Developer-> Controls-> more Controls.

5 – In the dialog box appeared, choose Windows Media Player, and then click OK button.

6 – Move the mouse to the editing area, draw an area of suitable size, then the region will automatically be turned into Windows Media Player.

7 – Select the player interface, and then right click it and select Properties from the list.

8 – In the Properties window, we can change the settings, such as Name, Size, Visible and so on. In URL text box, we should type in the movie’s URL address.

9 – During playing we can control the movie by the control bar.

3.   Insert objects

This method is to insert a video file as the object to slide, and the steps are:

1 – Open the slide, click theinsert -> Object command, open the Insert Object dialog box.

2 – Select Create from File option, then click Browse, choose the movie you want to put into the slide.

3 – The object has been inserted as the following.

4 – Select the object, right click, choose hyperlink, then select the address of the movie in your computer.

5 – When present the PowerPoint, click the name of the object so that the movie can be played.

Laptops tend to lose their charm quickly when you’re constantly looking for the nearest power outlet to charge up.  How do you keep your battery going for as long as possible?  Here are 15 easy ways to do so.

1. Defrag regularly -  The faster your hard drive does its work – less demand you are going to put on the hard drive and your battery.  Make your hard drive as efficient as possible by defragging it regularly. (but not while it’s on battery of course!) Mac OSX is better built to handle fragmentation so it may not be very applicable for Apple systems.

2. Dim your screen – Most laptops come with the ability to dim your laptop screen.  Some even come with ways to modify CPU and cooling performance.  Cut them down to the lowest level you can tolerate to squeeze out some extra battery juice.

3. Cut down on programs running in the background.  Itunes, Desktop Search, etc.  All these add to the CPU load and cut down battery life.  Shut down everything that isn’t crucial when you’re on battery.

4. Cut down external devices – USB devices (including your mouse) & WiFi drain down your laptop battery.  Remove or shut them down when not in use.  It goes without saying that charging other devices (like your iPod) with your laptop when on battery is a surefire way of quickly wiping out the charge on your laptop battery.

5. Add more RAM - This will allow you to process more with the memory your laptop has, rather than relying on virtual memory.  Virtual memory results in hard drive use, and is much less power efficient. Note that adding more RAM will consume more energy, so this is most applicable if you do need to run memory intensive programs which actually require heavy usage of virtual memory.

6. Run off a hard drive rather than CD/DVD – As power consuming as hard drives are, CD and DVD drives are worse.  Even having one in the drive can be power consuming.  They spin, taking power, even when they?re not actively being used.  Wherever possible, try to run on virtual drives using programs like Alcohol 120% rather than optical ones.

7.  Keep the battery contacts clean: Clean your battery’s metal contacts every couple of months with a cloth moistened with rubbing alcohol.  This keeps the transfer of power from your battery more efficient.

8. Take care of your battery – Exercise the Battery.  Do not leave a charged battery dormant for long periods of time.  Once charged, you should at least use the battery at least once every two to three weeks. Also, do not let a Li-On battery completely discharge. (Discharing is only for older batteries with memory effects)

9. Hibernate not standby – Although placing a laptop in standby mode saves some power and you can instantly resume where you left off, it doesn’t save anywhere as much power as the hibernate function does.  Hibernating a PC will actually save your PC’s state as it is, and completely shut itself down.

10. Keep operating temperature down - Your laptop operates more efficiently when it’s cooler.  Clean out your air vents with a cloth or keyboard cleaner.

11. Set up and optimize your power options – Go to ‘Power Options’ in your windows control panel and set it up so that power usage is optimized (Select the ‘max battery’ for maximum effect).

12. Don’t multitask – Do one thing at a time when you’re on battery.  Rather than working on a spreadsheet, letting your email client run in the background and listening to your latest set of MP3’s, set your mind to one thing only.  If you don’t you’ll only drain out your batteries before anything gets completed!

13. Go easy on the PC demands – The more you demand from your PC.  Passive activities like email and word processing consume much less power than gaming or playing a DVD.  If you’ve got a single battery charge – pick your priorities wisely.

14. Get yourself a more efficient laptop -  Laptops are getting more and more efficient in nature to the point where some manufacturers are talking about all day long batteries.  Picking up a newer more efficient laptop to replace an aging one is usually a quick fix.

15. Prevent the Memory Effect - If you’re using a very old laptop, you’ll want to prevent the ‘memory effect’ – Keep the battery healthy by fully charging and then fully discharging it at least once every two to three weeks. Exceptions to the rule are Li-Ion batteries (which most laptops have) which do not suffer from the memory effect.

Bonus Tip #1: Turn off the autosave function.  MS-Word’s and Excel’s autosave functions are great but because they keep saving regular intervals, they work your hard driver harder than it may have to. If you plan to do this, you may want to turn it back on as the battery runs low. While it saves battery life in the beginning, you will want to make sure your work is saved when your battery dies.

Bonus Tip #2: Lower the graphics use. You can do this by changing the screen resolution and shutting off fancy graphic drivers. Graphics cards (video cards) use as much or more power today as hard disks –

Ever closed a document without saving it? It often leaves you wondering how to recover unsaved word document as not many people know that they could recover their unsaved word documents without using any third party tools. Microsoft Word autosaves the unsaved word file on temporary locations and your file could be recovered from there, here’s how:

For Windows XP:

C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data\Microsoft\Word

C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Local Settings\Temp

For Windows Vista or Windows 7:

C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\UnsavedFiles

You’ll find an ASD file there, you could open it in Microsoft Word and it will show you the document that you closed without saving. Some data may get missing from the document but it is better to have it rather than not being able to recover at all.
It is also recommended to enable options to create backup and autosave the document in Microsoft Word. Backup file is created with .wbk extension. To configure this, follow given steps:

• Go to Word Options
• Click the “Advanced” Tab
• Under the “Save” section, you’ll find “Always create backup copy”. Its unhecked by default, check it.

Now Microsoft Word will create a backup copy and you’ll not have to refer to temporary file locations every time you close a word document without saving it.

How to transfer your wordpress blog from one host to another host
Backup your WordPress database using phpMyAdmin

First thing first, make a backup of your database using phpMyAdmin.   Once you have successfully logged into phpMyAdmin (cPanel -> MySQL -> phpMyAdmin) , click on the name of the database which contains your wordpress blog. Then click on Export in the main navigation area, within the export screen you must complete the following steps:

* click on ’select all’ and ‘SQL’ from the Export menu
* select ‘add Drop Table’, ‘add Auto_Increment value’ and ‘enclosure table and field names with blackquotes’ from the Structure menu
* select ‘Complete inserts’ and ‘Use hexadecimal for binary files’ from Data
* you can leave all the other values at their defaults

Once all those settings are selected you simply click on ’save as file’, this will download a filenamed wordpress.sql to your desktop. And that is that. You have successfully backed up your database.

If you don’t have PHPmyadmin installed on your hosting account, you can use mySQLDump from a SSH terminal.

Download/Upload all your WordPress files using FTP.

You will need to download ALL your files from your old host and upload them to your new host.  This includes files from your themes folder and plugins folder. Make sure you also download any folders which were referenced outside of your blog folder. For example I use a seperate folder called ‘images’ which is located outside of ‘blog’. If I didn’t copy and upload this folder to my new host I would have a lot of broken links to images within my blogpost. This is not a pretty sight.

The FTP client I use is Filezilla. By default Filezilla does not display your .htaccess file, probably for security reasons but I’m not too sure. To ensure that your .htaccess file is included in your download you must click on ‘View’ and then enable ‘Show Hidden Files’. If you neglect to upload your .htaccess file then your permalinks will get screwed up. That is of course if you are using permalinks.

Please note that you should not take this oppurtunity to update to a newer version of WordPress. Your database may not sync’ as a result. Complete your migration before you consider upgrading.

Edit wp-config.php and create a new WordPress database.

Okay, so we are nearly there. You must now edit wp-config.php to include the database settings of your new database.

Once you have edited the file with your new database settings, upload it to the root of your blog folder.

So now everything is set, expect that your new database does not contain any database tables.

Import your WordPress blog to your new Database.

You can use either phpMyAdmin to import your database or you can use BigDump.  BigDump is the preferred option if you have a large database (10mbs or more). There is a step by step guide on how to use BigDump on their website.

Once you have logged in, you can choose between two methods to complete the import. You can click on ‘SQL’ and run a query or you can use the ‘Import’ link to upload your wordpress.sql file into your database. I recommend using the former as the query can take some time and can sometimes crash your browser. Using the import feature seems to be a lot less strenuous on the browser.

Yes! Now any IM client or messenger could support Facebook Chat. You don’t have to stay logged in to Facebook in your browser and can receive messages from your friends, right on your IM client. Facebook Messenger is probably the only thing that has been lacking in otherwise a complete social network. Now Facebook Chat supports Jabber/XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), an open protocol for instant messaging, that can be integrated into any desktop or web based software. Google Talk also uses same protocol. This could benefit both, Facebook users as well as Facebook developers.

For Facebook users, it has been long due to have a trustable Facebook Messenger that could give them access to Facebook chat even after they closed their browser. Browser chat has also been missing important features like message alerts and sounds etc. Now we may see improved applications embedding Facebook chat.

Facebook developers get an exciting new prospect to work upon. They can integrate Facebook chat in web applications or desktop clients. To make it easier, Facebook is also launching support for Facebook Connect that will address the issues Facebook chat client developers may face. And great thing is that adding your Jabber based chat client to Facebook is very easy, just like implementing the Facebook Connect is.

Important Points to consider:

For Facebook Chat on 3rd party apps, you MUST have a Facebook Username

This is a must now. If you want to use a Jabber based desktop client to use Facebook Chat, you must have a Facebook username. Reason: Your chat identity will be username@chat.facebook.com. If you haven’t got a username, you can’t access Facebook Chat on AIM, Pidgin, Adium, iChat or any other IM client. To get a Facebook username, go to http://www.facebook.com/username.

When Logged into IM, You’ll Appear Online on Facebook

If you are logged into a third party chat client, you will appear online on Facebook.

Chat Settings can be changed from Facebook only, not from third party chat clients. You can allow/block friends from Facebook Chat after logging into Facebook. Only friends you chose will appear on Facebook Chat clients.