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General Software Discussion / Re: Any dialog extenders (like FileBox Extender) for 64-bit Win 7?

« on: February 20, 2010, 10:57 PM »

As far as I know, FileBox Extender doesn't work with 32bit Win7. or am I wrong?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Game-play always beats graphics

« on: February 20, 2010, 10:55 PM »

Game-play always beats graphics

Exactly. Too much attention is given on good looks these days while seriously overlooking game play. I'm a big fan of the Medal of Honor series but Airborne has been a big disappointment. It's been lying on my hard drive for years, yet I go back to play Allied Assault again and again.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How get stream address from this site?

« on: February 18, 2010, 03:01 AM »

I used OrbitDownloader and got this URL

rtmp://61.246.63.85:1935/live?_fcs_vhost=cp73706.live.edgefcs.net&akmfv=1.8&auth=daEdIaNd5cCaEbmdEb1daa3dcbbbQa_dma0-blFqfv-4q-PL6Y7_9nlECqm2FDnjAuyq&aifp=1234&CHANNELID=4474&CPROG=SIDECHANNEL&MARKET=DIGITALCHANNELS&REQUESTOR=IEAG-FL&SERVER_NAME=p2.ieag-fl.ccomrcdn.com&SITE_ID=12259&STATION_ID=_&MNM=2&TYPEOFPLAY=0|live?_fcs_vhost=cp73706.live.edgefcs.net&akmfv=1.8&auth=daEdIaNd5cCaEbmdEb1daa3dcbbbQa_dma0-blFqfv-4q-PL6Y7_9nlECqm2FDnjAuyq&aifp=1234&CHANNELID=4474&CPROG=SIDECHANNEL&MARKET=DIGITALCHANNELS&REQUESTOR=IEAG-FL&SERVER_NAME=p2.ieag-fl.ccomrcdn.com&SITE_ID=12259&STATION_ID=_&MNM=2&TYPEOFPLAY=0|COR_Stripped_OR@s11678?auth=daEdIaNd5cCaEbmdEb1daa3dcbbbQa_dma0-blFqfv-4q-PL6Y7_9nlECqm2FDnjAuyq&aifp=1234&CHANNELID=4474&CPROG=SIDECHANNEL&MARKET=DIGITALCHANNELS&REQUESTOR=IEAG-FL&SERVER_NAME=p2.ieag-fl.ccomrcdn.com&SITE_ID=12259&STATION_ID=_&MNM=2&TYPEOFPLAY=0|http://www.iheartradio.com/mediaplayer/CCB-20100210.swf|http://www.iheartradio.com/mediaplayer/?stream_id=4474&channel_title=Stripped&OBT_fname=COR_Stripped_OR%40s11678%3Fauth%3DdaEdIaNd5cCaEbmdEb1daa3dcbbbQa_dma0-blFqfv-4q-PL6Y7_9nlECqm2FDnjAuyq%26aifp%3D1234%26CHANNELID%3D4474%26CPROG%3DSIDECHANNEL%26MARKET%3DDIGITALCHANNELS%26REQUESTOR%3DIEAG-FL%26SERVER_NAME%3Dp2.ieag-fl.ccomrcdn.com%26SITE_ID%3D12259%26STATION_ID%3D_%26MNM%3D2%26TYPEOFPLAY%3D0.flv

I dunno, maybe you can try decipher it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Media Center Software

« on: February 18, 2010, 02:51 AM »

I say - stick to XMBC. Take some time to configure it, but it will be worth it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Return of the Son of the best *free* Windows Text Editor

« on: February 14, 2010, 12:23 AM »

Notepad++ and nothing else.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for adding subtitles to an AVI, FLV or DVD movies?

« on: February 09, 2010, 10:43 AM »

To create your own subtitle from scratch as well as converting subtitles from one format to another use Subtitle workshop, as mentioned by @jsolisre.

What is the general process for adding subtitles to videos?

Not to be confused with self promotion, I created some tutorials on the subject.

http://www.instantfu...titles-to-video.html
http://www.instantfu...s-to-divx-movie.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any Portable Tool to make a Portable Application.

« on: January 25, 2010, 11:43 PM »

Use Thininstall. It's pricey but creates a single executable file.

http://www.thinstall...ualization_suite.php

And it's tried and tested.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Strategies for using user-data folders in Windows 7?

« on: January 25, 2010, 05:33 AM »

In XP I have My Documents remapped to my secondary drive, and it mostly works well - except for some rare applications where the path location is hard-coded. I've seen such apps, but I couldn't give an example right now, so I guess they're not even on my radar anymore. OTOH, I have never remapped "My music" or "My videos", and prefer to store these types of files where Windows doesn't know. Reason: any media player these days will want to continually scan and index these locations, and I don't want to have three or four or five such indexes on my system. Also, I have seen a media player that, upon first run, not only indexed mp3s, but started pulling online data and **updating tags in my files** with it, all before I had a chance to say no. (I had to restore a lot of files from backup, thanks a lot.) So I keep my media where these applications won't find them until I manually point them to the folders.

-tranglos (January 19, 2010, 06:02 PM)

This is exactly what I did on Win XP. Remapped "My documents" to another partition and never bothered about "My videos" and "My music". And yes there were a few programs that had trouble adapting to the change. One was Windows Live Writer from Microsoft itself. WLW stored drafts at C:\My Documents\My weblog post\ and wouldn't move to the new location. I had to create another folder on C named "My documents" as a workaround even though my actual documents folder was on another partition.

On Win 7 I haven't remapped the Documents folder. Instead I use a custom folder and added it to Libraries. I don't worry about applications using Documents folder to save program settings, as my real data is safe on another partition.