It is usually are movie files created for viewing in Quicktime. File Extension Mov will tell you that, as well as give you a quick introduction to .mov files and what usually happens when you try to open one from Windows File Manager and you don’t have Quicktime installed.

With the size of hard disks that come with computer or laptop systems these days it is not difficult to have almost every media player there is that can be safely downloaded from the internet.

File Extension Mov offers a free downloadable program on their website that they say can help you determine if you need any extra drivers or programs to run or open whatever files you have open on your computer.

In my opinion, however, unless the file is something you know you yourself created, or if it was from a reliable source, whatever is needed to open it is already on your computer. On a Windows system this would mean Media player to open video or audio files, Notepad to open any text files, or Windows write to open a document in rtf format. File Extension Mov may also help you find out which program you need, if in case you don’t have them on hand.

It just takes a bit of research and the right sources to make sure you get the right programs.

Been very, no really, very busy at work the past few weeks. One guy quit which left only two of us to handle an increasing amount of work. Today the other guy called in sick so I had to come in and do his work too. Just for today, I hope. So for today the office got a bargain, a person doing the work of two (three when you actually look at it) for the price of one.

Schedules like this do not allow me to go to the movies to unwind, which is tough because I happen to like the movies and popcorn and a cold dark place to hang out every once in a while. But even movies these days don’t come cheap in the Philippines, after tickets for two, bucket of popcorn, liter of root beer, there’s not going to be much left out of my PHP500 (roughly US$10-12).

So I go for the next best thing. Movies at home. I’ve made no secret of the fact that I do torrents, and that for me uTorrent must be the best ever software installed on my computer. uTorrent 1.8 is even spiffier than the previous version, with everything laid out in tabs giving you more control over the way you download whatever it is you download.

One problem I had run into is how browsing seemed to stop while I had uTorrent running. Quick google told me to look at the Bandwidth settings on Preferences, and to change a couple of settings from the default:

In Global maximum number of connections, bring it down to 100 from the default 200. And in Maximum number of connected peers per torrent, put in 30 instead of the default 50. That should bring your browsing back while you download whatever it is you download in torrents. Worked like a dream for me.

I’ve downloaded quite a few movies to start an eclectic collection of flicks that would have cost me hundreds of pesos, and with a program called ConvertXtoDVD I can even burn them into disks that I can play on a DVD player that will play home made DVDs.

With this system I don’t even need Quiapo.