If you want to convert Video files into the correct .AVI format you can use Super (complicated download page!) freeware program. You need to select .avi as the Output container and follow the settings i have used Below. You can alter the Video bitrate and Frame per second (30 is the Maximum frame rate for the N95 phone). You can alter the Audio settings depending whether you have a music video or film.

1. Install Divx Player to your N95, via the Nokia Pc suite, Go to the Phone Menu/ Applications and move the DivX player into the Root folder for convenience by selecting Options/ ‘Move to folder’.
2. Transfer any .AVI files to your Phone via Pc suite, or data transfer ( You could remove your SD external card and transfer directly to that if you prefer).
3. Start the DivX player on the phone and select Menu/ Browse Files any compatible files will appear in the File browser, Select the .avi you want and press the center key (or menu/ Play). The volume is usually set high and can be turned down with the navigation keys.
4. Adjust the Settings from Menu/ Options to your personal preference. That’s it!

I have converted a couple of small Mpeg files to .avi for you. They are just intended to be used as test examples as they are taken from old footage from 1957 and 1942!! rather for their high quality. Click on the image to download

Elvis Presley & Frank Sinatra b/w 1957

The Blue Dahlia b/w 1946 ,Taken from YouTube

Changing the Look of your Internet webpages on your PC or Mac.

Are you bored of your Google plain Homepage? or the Youtube white background washing out the videos. Well you need not worry, its actually quite easy to do

You can change the colour and appearance using a freeware extension called Stylish
It ONLY works with the Mozilla Firefox browser, which around 34% of people viewing this page already have. It also works on PC’s and Mac’s.

How to get customized webpages

1) Download Firefox , there is a download link in the sidebar on this page “Get Firefox . . .”
or visit there homepage at www.mozilla.com/firefox

2) Once you have installed Firefox go to “Tools” in the Navigation bar and then select “Add-ons“.

3) In the new window at the bottom right click the text “Get extensions” and type Stylish in the search bar. Then install stylish and restart firefox.

4) Now you are ready to choose which customized pages you want , there are hundreds to choose from, but i will show how to get the one i created which works for Google.com and Google .co.uk , but you can edit the code, so that it will work with any countries Google search engine (details at the bottom of this section).

5) Now you should see an icon in the status bar (at the bottom of your screen) with a white piece of paper and brush, rightclick on this and select “Find styles for this page” or you can go directly to the page i created at Google classic Grey, Clean, Stylish

6) Then click the tab “Load into Stylish” , then go back your customized webpage and refresh the page. You should see the new colours immediately.

7) I also created a matching pages for Google Image Search as shown below here

and the one i use for Youtube is here

If you have a different google search engine like Google.fr, then all you need to do is go to Manage styles in the Stylish extension open up the code of the one you want to change, then Select all and copy the text to a program like Notepad. Then select “Edit” then “Replace” and change all the google.co.uk to your countries prefix ie. google.fr then select “Replace All” in the small dialog box,
Then select all again and Copy/Paste the new text into the Original stylish code and select “Save“. Then refresh the page.

Details of Replacing text shown below.

There are loads of really good firefox extensions , like Ad blockers, Favicon viewers, Customize google, its well worth have a look at some.