Sunday, December 14, 2008
Moving Blogs
The software is available here.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Terminal Services Session Timeout
Monday, November 24, 2008
Embed Audio with a Flash Player
1. Google Reader MP3 Player
Google Reader has an inbuilt MP3 player that is pretty much the same as Gmail player but it also works on non-Google websites. This player has volume controls, no Google branding and it auto-detects the duration of the music file so your readers know how long the song will last. To use this MP3 player on your website or blog, copy-paste the following code and replace the MP3_FILE_URL with the link to your MP3 file:
2. Yahoo! MP3 Player
If you think normal is boring, check this out. Yahoo! offer a code generator (Easy Listener) to help you create a Flash based MP3 player that matches your website color theme and layout. Though this Easy Listener MP3 player requires you to pass the address of the web page that contains the MP3 file(s), you can directly pass the MP3 link and it will work just fine. Supports auto play and you can decide where the meta data associated with the MP3 file should be displayed:
3. Yahoo! Media Player
If you maintain an MP3 blog or run a podcast and regularly link to MP3 files, it makes little sense to embed a separate Flash player with every MP3 file. I would therefore recommend using the Yahoo! Media Player that auto-detects links to MP3 files in your web pages and creates an embedded player for each link. All you have to do is insert the following link in your blog template and all MP3 hyperlinks will be converted into inline MP3 players. This also has the shuffle feature and visitors can easily skip to any song in the playlist.
4. Odeo MP3 Player
Odeo offers a pretty impressive MP3 player (see example) that works perfect in web pages as well as RSS readers but a small issue is that Odeo Player requires you to type the exact duration of the song in the embed code. You can skip this step but then the progress bar won’t reflect the true status when you play the song. And there are no volume controls. To use Odeo MP3 player in your website, add the following code replacing MP3_FILE_URL and DURATION with relevant values:
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Out of Office Assistant and External Domains
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Printer Balloon Popups
- Show informational notifications for local printers
- Show informational notifications for network printers
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
GeekNewsCentral Podcast Shoutout
Windows Startup Entries
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Run
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \RunOnce
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Run
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Runonce
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Firefox 3 Hacks
Sunday, June 15, 2008
AVG 8.0 and LinkScanner
- Download the AVG 8.0 Free Edition installation package from our website.
- Run the installation with the parameters /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSurf /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSearch.
- save the AVG Free installation file directly to disk C:\
- open menu Start -> Run
- type
- The installation will be started, and AVG will be installed without the LinkScanner component.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Internet Explorer Content Advisor Password
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Outlook 2003 and a Default Browser
This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.
The problem is, that for some reason Outlook cannot launch the default browser. The solution is actually very simple: reestablish the default browser. I closed Outlook and any browsers and then reopened only Internet Explorer. I made it the default, closed the browser window, and the links in Outlook would launch in IE. Since I would rather have Firefox as my default browser, I just switched back the default browser to Firefox and the links now launch properly.
(Source: http://tinyurl.com/2gt4mz)Thursday, January 31, 2008
Backing Up Outlook Express Message Rules
- Click Start, and then click Run.
- In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
- Locate and click the following registry subkeys (save each key to a different file):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{Identity Number}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0\Rules\Mail
- On the Registry menu, click Export Registry File.
- In the Save In box, change the location to your desktop.
- In the File Name box, type mail rules.reg (for the mail rules key), and then click Save.
- On the Registry menu, click Exit.