Lately, i’ve downloading lots of FLV files off of multiple websites. I have both K-lite and VLC installed on my laptop, witch pretty much does the trick.
Today, i wanted to play an FLV file in Windows Media Player 11, but as you might have noticed, WMP does not support FLV playback. So here’s what i did:
To play FLV files, we need to have a splitter because of the way it encodes two streams. I chose the FLV Splitter from the Guliverkli2 project.
1- Download the Splitter, you’ll have to register the file manually.
2-Place the “FLVSplitter.ax” file in your preferred directory, i chose c:\windows
3-Launch the Run service, and run the following line:
regsvr32 C:\WINDOWS\FLVSplitter.ax
Congratulation, Windows Media Player 11 now supports FLV playback on your PC
P.S: The Guliverkli2 project provides support for many other file types then FLV, includin: ogg, mov, rm…..Make sure to check it out
I have used GreatNews: The intelligent RSS reader for over a year, and this application never failed me. GreatNews runs immediately and doesn’t require any special runtime environments.it’s a portable application.
With “Auto-discovery” Adding feeds to GreatNews is very simple, all you need to have is the link to the website and the reader will automatically find all the feeds offered by the website and give you the option to choose your preferred one.
Here’s a list of GreatNews Features(from the official website):
* Channel Statistics shows your top 10 most or least visited channels.
* Use labels to organize your articles. With just a single click, all items with the same label can be listed as if they are under the same folder. You can also use labelsto customize article exports.
* With Search Channels, you can type in stock symbol to track the latest news about the company via Yahoo Company News. Or use keywords to monitor latest blog comments via Feedster, MSN and Flickr
* Support all major feed formats, including RSS 0.9x, 1.0(rdf), 2.0, Atom 0.30 and 1.0. Support popular extensions like dublin core, content:encoding etc.
* Integrated internet browser, with tabs and popup blocking. Working closely with default browser like Firefox.
* With Import/Export wizard, you can import/export all channel subscriptions in a single step.
* Export rss articles to rss 2.0 format. You can also customize the export by selecting channel/group/label, and/or applying filters.
* Bloglines.com integration
Read everywhere at Bloglines.com, but read twice as fast at your desk.
* Full text search with keyword highlights.
* 100% Unicode support. Displays international languages on the same page. Use any languages anywhere in GreatNews, including Search, Label and News watch.
* “Channel Organizer” helps organize channel subscriptions in one place. Use “Find Channel” to locate your subscriptions quickly.
* Support HTTP Conditional GETs and gzip/deflate encoding to reduce bandwidth consumption.
* Track Comment function automatically updates articles with latest comments.
* BlogThis function to post directly to your blogging service. Support popular blogging tools like w.Bloggar, Zoundry and Windows Live Writer.
The popular BitTorrent tracking site Mininova announced the development of a new online video streaming service latest project in cooperation with a Dutch university development team. The service will offer Mininova users users the chance to videos streamed from .torrent files.
The first beta release of this software will be invitation-only for a small group of Mininova members, with no indication when it will be moved to open beta status.
The Open Source “swarmplayer” which is used for the video streaming service is developed in collaboration with the Tribler team from the Technical University Delft and Free University Amsterdam. Tribler is also working together with the BBC and several other European broadcasters, and they recently received a $19 million grant for P2P research from the European Union.
According to Mininova, the service will only work with the “featured” torrents, which lists all the distributors taking part in Mininova’s content distribution platform..
A check of Mininova’s current list of so-called “features” appears to include some very familiar names, including The Bourne Ultimatum, Ratatouille, and American Gangster — titles whose licensed status from their respective studios does not appear evident.
Though the legality of the site’s operations and services remains questionable, record and movie associations have had very little luck attempting to shut down Mininova thus far.
Mininova already has a music streaming feature for their content distribution platform, based on the Java applet developed by Bitlet
Mininova is listed among the 50 most visited websites on the Internet and has nearly 30 million unique visitors a month.
The site is looking for people to beta test the service, say Erik, one of the admins: “We are looking for people who would like to be in the first testing group who test the software, report suggestions and bugs you find.”
If you would like to join, reply to their blog post here.
While working on The Linker, it was suggested to me by the good people of FreeWebSpace.net to add some javascript that would automatically delete the text inside the input box. So here’s how i did it:
At first i had a simple input field wictch says “Write Your Preferred Shortcut Name”:
<input name="name" value="Write Your Preferred Shortcut Name" style="width: 390px" type="text"/>
That’s the html part, on to the javascript,For the Javascript i used the two built-in events: onfocus and onblur.The onfocus event occurs when an object gets focus, in the input field case, it means that when the field is selected.The onblur event occurs when an object loses focus, in the input field case, it means that when the field is unselected.
So what do we want to do these two events?
What i would like the script to do is automatically delete “Write Your Preferred Shortcut Name”, and when the input field is unselected while still empty the text should return. To do that, i included to if statments in the both events:
onfocus: if (this.value == ‘Write Your Preferred Shortcut Name’) {this.value = ”;} onblur: if (this.value == ”) {this.value = ‘Write Your Preferred Shortcut Name’;}
Since the moment i got my 1 GB Flash Memory stick, i began to gather all the portable applications i can find. Usually these applications are not marketed as portable, but you can easily figure it out by renaming the installation directory and running the application, if it run properly then it’s a portable application.
Here’s a list of free portable applications that every IT guy should have on his flash memory at all time.
PortableApps.com’s has a very nice list of portable application, here’s my favorite:
Angry IP scanner - Angryziber.com - IP scanner capable of scanning big ranges of IPs and checking for specific open ports.
SIW System Auditor - Gtopala.com - Gathers ALL available information about the system and dumps into a file.
CPU-Z - Cpuid.com - Gathers information on some of the main devices of your system and dumps it into a file.
LCleaner - 585Soft.com - Cleans the system from unwanted files
XP Security Console - DougKnox.com - This application offers hidden options in XP and can help you override modification implemented by Trojans and other malwares
The File Splitter - Dekabyte.com - This is a program that will split any file into pieces of any size and later combine the pieces to form the original file
Qumana - Qumana.com - A blogging tool, witch enables you to blog directly from your desktop
i will keep updating this list, every time i find a new portable application
If you’re wondering, that’s a 49 character long link. And odds are, it’s going to be hard for you to remember. That’s when The Linker comes in.
The Linker will cut down the link and offer you a simple “easy-to-remember” shortcut.
It offers you two option:
-Random Link: If you decide to let the program create a link for you, The Linker will automatically generate a unique number for you link, ex: http://linker.techachino.com/1
$NTUninstall is a folder that appears everytime you download on of Windows XP updates. For example, if you download KB924667, a $NtUninstallKB917953$ will appear in your WINDOWS directory.
These folders contains the information on how to remove the update, the same information used by “Add/Remove program” utility.
How to safely delete the $NTUninstall folders?
As i said before, these folders containing the uninstall information of windows updates, to delete them means that you can no longer roll back those updates. Nevertheles, these folders tend to take up space. So if you’re running out of disk space, you might consider deleting that data.
To find out the nature of the update in question, simply check Microsoft website, by copy/paste the id into the following link
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=(paste id here)
Now that you know what the update does, you can make your decision on whether you might uninstall it in the future or not. I recommend waiting a couple weeks after installation before making your decision. After that period, if you feel that your system is stable, odds are that you wont need to unistall the update anymore, you are good to go.
I recommend making a backup of everything before deleting.
Now, that you delete the folder, you might want to remove the entry from Add/Remove Programs.
To do that, launch the application and then attempt to uninstall the update.Add or Remove Programs will realize that the backup files already been delete and will automaticly remove the listing.
Surfing the net, i come across some amazin photoshops that i like to store on mu computer. Here’s a my top ten favorite pictures, listed in no particular order:
Darko on March 28th, 2008
Lately, i’ve downloading lots of FLV files off of multiple websites. I have both K-lite and VLC installed on my laptop, witch pretty much does the trick.
I have used GreatNews: The intelligent RSS reader for over a year, and this application never failed me. GreatNews runs immediately and doesn’t require any special runtime environments.
The popular BitTorrent tracking site Mininova announced the development of a new online video streaming service latest project in cooperation with a Dutch university development team. The service will offer Mininova users users the chance to videos streamed from .torrent files.
While working on 
Since the moment i got my 1 GB Flash Memory stick, i began to gather all the portable applications i can find. Usually these applications are not marketed as portable, but you can easily figure it out by renaming the installation directory and running the application, if it run properly then it’s a portable application.
