Category: General

Make VLC remember audio and subtitle tracks

If you’re an avid anime fansub’s watcher like me you may have come across this problem. You enqueued a couple of episodes to watch, audio on Japanese with English subtitles, but as soon as you get to the next episode the audio has reverted back to English and the subtitles are gone. You can fix…

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The big list of cheat sheets

Here is my big collection of cheat sheets that I have collected over the years, around 80± ! In more general usage, a “cheat sheet” is any short (one or two page) reference to terms, commands, or symbols where the user is expected to understand the use of such terms etc but not necessarily to…

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YouTube hidden Snake game

Just discovered this gem on YouTube. Just like the Google Pacman interactive logo that was up a while ago, a person on the YouTube staff implemented this neat easter egg where you can play a game of Snake while watching a movie. To play Snake on YouTube: Pause the movie, then hold the left arrow…

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How to block private number calls

If you are sick of being harassed and spammed by Private Number or Unknown Number calls like me then I have some solutions for you. Handy Blacklist for Symbian OS phones The Handy Blacklist application can be used on any Symbian OS phone like Nokia, Samsung or Sony Ericsson. It’s pretty straightforward. You don’t get…

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Frequently heard movie and tv stock sounds

How many times have you watched a show or a movie and heard a familiar sound, something that has been repeated so much that it is instantly recognizable? AAAEEEAAAEEAAAAAA!!! —Every movie with the Wilhelm Scream in it. It is well known that the “Wilhelm Scream” has been used and reused by sound editors for many…

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