How to Play a Quicktime Movie That Isn’t Playing in Your Browser
Even though Flash FLV movies have become something of an Internet standard, some sites persist in presenting movies in Quicktime format. Here’s how to view them if you have trouble playing them in your...
View ArticleHow to synchronize audio and video in VLC
Sometimes, a video’s audio isn’t synchronized with video for some reason or another. To sync audio and video on the fly in VLC: In VLC 0.9.4: press Ctrl+k to increase delay, and Ctrl+l to decrease...
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How to Show a MessageBox in Java Swing
VisualBasic and a lot of other languages have a handy function to show a message box to the user. In typical Java fashion, Java’s equivalent has a lot more power, but also complex. To get simple...
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How to Add an E-mail to a Gravatar Account
Your Gravatar account can have more than one e-mail associated with it. Gravatars are so-called “Globally Recognized Avatars” which allow you to show your choice of image (photo, drawing, whatever)...
View ArticleHow to Rename Files as Lowercase in Ubuntu Linux Recursively
Some reasons you might want to lowercase your filenames include: 1. Most webservers are case-sensitive. Because of this, most websites stick to the rule of having all files in a single case, namely...
View ArticleShowing Excerpts Instead of Full Posts on the Home Page in WordPress
Some of my posts have been getting longer and longer, especially how-to’s. It’s hard to scan the front page for articles, and I thought it was time to switch from full posts to excerpts on the home...
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Enabling Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to Kill X in Linux and Ubuntu GNOME
Earlier this year, X.org made a boneheaded move to drop the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace key combination as a default for killing the X Server. Huh? The X Server is the part of a Linux operating environment that...
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How to Claim Your Blog on Technorati
Once you’ve signed up for a Technorati account, you should claim your blog. Claiming your blog allows you to use Technorati tags to drive traffic to your blog from Technorati, which is the biggest blog...
View ArticleHow to Download Movies with BitTorrent Using Miro
I covered installing Miro on Windows the other day. Miro is a free and open source podcast downloader and viewer. You can also download and view torrents in Miro. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer media...
View ArticleHow to Manually Add Hosts in Windows, Linux, and OS/X
Normally when you want to access a server on the Internet, you specify its name, like “www.google.com”. What actually happens behind the scenes is that your computer finds out the “IP address” of where...
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