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| How to surf the web using a remote control |
| 2008-05-10 17:50:00 |
I have a home theater PC in my living room for watching movies, listening to music and playing games using my projector and surround sound system. I can do all these using a wireless gamepad and a remote control in order to avoid having my bulky keyboard and a mouse (you also need a surface for that) laying around the living room. The only thing I couldn't do with these two devices was web surfing which is quite important for me. A few days ago I "stumbled" upon stumbleupon which is a social bookmarking service that also suggests web pages for you to visit based on your preferences. It works by comparing your favorite pages history to other people with similar interests and suggests pages they liked and you haven't v...
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| 10 cool uses for your PDA |
| 2008-04-25 07:35:00 |
1. Amateur astronomyHave you always wanted to know more about the night sky and you didn't know where to start? You can stop thinking about buying that pretty expensive big software guided telescope right now. The best way to make your first steps into amateur astronomy is through a PDA and optionally a pair of cheap binoculars. After a few nights out with these and you'll be able to distinguish constellations, stars and maybe even a galaxy with just your naked eyes. Plus you won't ever have to say "I wish I had my pretty expensive big software guided telescope with me right now" whenever you find a clear sky view away from the city lights.Best PDA: Any PDABest software: PocketPC StarMap (free) or AstroNavigator II (commercial)2. DictionaryA PDA with additional software can easily double a...
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| New blog launch |
| 2008-04-15 17:44:00 |
I launched a new blog this week. It's all about babes found in video games. I couldn't find any good site about this.. weird topic so I built one myself. I do all the editing and photoshop (or should I say paintshop) work to fix, resize and optimize them for correct resolutions. If you want to contribute let me know. Here it is: 3d game babes. Hope you enjoy it!
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| DiggBeep 1.10 |
| 2008-04-06 16:03:00 |
The new version of DiggBeep is out! Now "popular" stories will be displayed using a blue background to separate them from the "upcoming" ones and when you double click on a story it will open the story page instead of the external link so you can see the comments. I also fixed a bug that appeared whenever someone undugg your stories and would make diggbeep beep forever!For those of you who haven't tried diggbeep yet, it's a story manager that sits on your traybar and whenever someone diggs or comments your stories it will beep! Find more information about it here.Note: First decompress this and then run it. It won't work if you just run the exe from the zip file. THIS REQUIRES .NET FRAMEWORK 2You can get it here: DiggBeep 1.10
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| VrokSub 1.10 |
| 2008-04-03 10:44:00 |
New version (1.10) of vroksub, the automatic subtitle downloader released. I added a lot of features that have nothing to do with subtitles. It can now download covers and data from imdb and save it to a nfo file along with your movie. It can create folders for your movies, you can change the naming format for both the file renaming and folders. You can set an output path so that each movie with subtitle will be moved there and more.. Check it out here
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| PropellerTray |
| 2008-03-28 07:18:00 |
So now that I have everything set up for diggbeep so it works ok, I thought about releasing a similar program for www.propeller.com. So after 3 hours of copy-pasting code I present you the "copy-paste-replace-etc" release notes:This windows application monitors your recent propeller (www.propeller.com) stories from your traybar. It will show you how many people vote each of your stories and how many people left comments using a simple MSN-like interface. You can also hear a sound when any of your monitored stories gets voted or commented while you do other stuff with your pc (Optional). All you have to do is run propellertray and enter your username.You need the .net 2 framework in order to run this. Get it from microsoft.Recommendations:- Use as long interval as possible because this will...
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| DiggBeep - Hear your stories getting digged! |
| 2008-03-26 20:13:00 |
DiggBeep is my new GUI program. It sits on your traybar and monitors your most recent stories. If you are a digg addict and want to know about your story's appeal you'll love this.DiggBeep will show you how many people digged each of your stories and how many people left comments using a simple MSN-like interface. You can also hear a sound when any of your monitored stories gets digged or commented while you do other stuff with your pc (Optional). All you have to do is run diggbeep and enter your digg.com username.You need the .net 2 framework in order to run this. Get it from microsoft.Recommendations:- Use as long interval as possible because this will consume both yours and the digg's server bandwidth. The default is 60 seconds.- For the same reason be...
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| Change speaker mode using command line (speakersetup) |
| 2008-03-24 14:01:00 |
My new program is yet another command line utility. This time it's about changing speaker settings mode found under control panel. I developed it mainly because I got tired of going to control panel to switch my mode to headphones every time I wanted to play Counterstrike. It's best suited for gamers and htpc addicts to change between speaker modes using shortcuts and remote controls. I myself just created two shortcuts. One for headphones mode ("speakersetup.exe hp") and one for stereo speakers ("speakersetup.exe 2"). I assigned a hotkey to each and now I can just press ctrl-f2 before starting Counterstrike to switch to headphones. You can also use it with AutoHotKey to assing a single hotkey to cycle between speaker modes (go there for an example). So here are the details:Useage:speakers...
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| Gamepe review |
| 2008-03-19 16:47:00 |
Gamepe is a sweet free program that injects an MSN window within your games without having to alt-tab out of them all the time when you hear that annoying "incoming message" sound. You just press the assigned hotkey and the following window becomes visible within the game and you can chat right there!This saves a lot of critical game time like for example when you're on a 40-man raid in world of warcraft and you just hear that MSN sound, you just press "ctrl-d" instead of making 40 people wait for you. It also includes an in-game mp3 player which I don't use since I prefer having global hotkeys for my media player classic.Gamepe is kind of new and has some minor bugs, but these guys are working hard and fixing everything really quick.Download it hereScore: Recommended now - Must have when all bugs are fixed
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| A lookup combobox in flex |
| 2008-03-17 23:37:00 |
If you are used to the LookupComboBox control in delphi or the similar ones in .net and you wish you had something like that for flex well wait no more. Here is a LookupGridColumn component:LookupGridColumn.mxml code:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><mx:DataGridColumnxmlns="*"xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"editorDataField="LookupValue"labelFunction="Lookup"><mx:Script><![CDATA[// LookupGridColumn.mxml// Help here: http://vrokolos.blogspot.com/2008/03/lookup-combobox-in-flex.html //the lookup field of the lookupProvider objects[Bindable]public var lookupField: String;//the description field of the lookupProvider objects[Bindable]public var resultField: String;//the provider for the values of the combobox[Bindable]public var...
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| Desktop Tower Defence Review |
| 2008-03-16 13:58:00 |
In 1998 the mighty Blizzard released my favorite strategy game which is Starcraft. I'm still playing it 10 years after its release and I can't wait for the sequel. There is a Starcraft's custom map/mod called Tower Defense. Your purpose in this mod is to kill all units before they reach the other side of the map. If a unit reaches the destination you lose. Your only way of stopping those units is by building and upgrading different kind of towers. You pay for the towers and the upgrades with the money you earn by killing creatures. There are many flying units, armored units, fast units, bosses that come wave after wave, with each wave getting stronger as time goes by. This sounds simple and silly but it's exactly the opposite. It's an extremely addictive a...
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| Grim Fandango Font Editor |
| 2008-03-15 10:55:00 |
This will allow you to edit fonts for the game Grim Fandago. It works like an icon editor andit was used for converting the game's codepage to greek - translation project forum pageFirst get a codepage ascii character map like this.Check which codes you need to change for the game to support your codepage.Load a laf file, change the fonts for each character code and then save it.Download it: GrimFontEditor
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| Cycle nvidia display outputs using command line and autohotkey |
| 2008-03-14 21:46:00 |
New nvidia graphic cards usually come with a tv output, a vga output and a dvi output. You can use those outputs at the same time or you can switch between them. I prefer the latter. Going to the control panel all the time to switch displays was a pain in the ass. So I made this autohotkey script to cycle between my TV, my Monitor and my Projector using Ctrl-F2:currentMode = 0^F2:: ;Ctrl-F2if (currentMode = 0) {run rundll32.exe NvCpl.dll`,dtcfg setview 0 standard TA,,Hide ;TVcurrentMode = 1} else if (currentMode = 1) {run rundll32.exe NvCpl.dll`,dtcfg setview 0 standard DA,,Hide ;DVIcurrentMode = 2} else if (currentMode = 2) {run rundll32.exe NvCpl.dll`,dtcfg setview 0 standard AA,,Hide ;VGAcurrentMode = 0}return
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| AutoHotKey + Two SoundCards + One Volume Control |
| 2008-03-14 21:36:00 |
I use my audigy 2 for my speakers and my onboard sound card for my headphones so I can switch between them without plugging and unplugging anything.AutoHotKey is a nifty program that helps you assign scripts to keyboard, mouse or remote. It's quite useful for stuff you do often.Using AutoHotKey I managed to synchronize the volume for my two sound cards. It was getting annoying for me to monitor both volumes so I just came up with this script:SC120:: ;Mute Button on Microsoft Multimedia KeyboardSoundSet, +1, , mute, 3SoundSet, +1, , mute, 1returnSC12E:: ;Volume Down ButtonSoundSet, -5, , ,3SoundGet, vol_Master, Master,, 3SoundSet, %vol_Master%, , ,1returnSC130:: ;Volume Up ButtonSoundSet, +5, , , 3SoundGet, vol_Master, Master,, 3SoundSet, %vol_Master%, , ,1returnWhere 1 and 3 are my sound card ids.. Just use 1 and 2 if you only have two sound cards. (I also have a tv tuner with id 2)Now both my sound cards volume levels change simultaneously with the press of a button
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| VrokSub released! |
| 2008-03-14 17:13:00 |
UPDATED VERSION 1.10This command line program will automatically download subtitles for your movies, rename your movies using a customized format, create folders for your movies and download imdb covers and details. You just pass a folder path and a preferred language list and it searches for subtitles using your avi files. It uses opensubtitles for the search and it requires the .net 2 framework runtimes which you probably already have.Useage: vroksub.exe "[Folder Path]" [Language Code Sequence] [Params]Folder Path: The path to the folder that has all your movies. VrokSub will search all subfolders of this path for movies.Language Code Sequence: A sequence of two letter language codes according to your preference separated by coma. You can find the two letter codes here: http://www.loc.go...
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