Posts tagged with tips

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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Connection fix batch file

Sometimes when your connection drops a bad DNS entry will be cached and you will need to either flush the DNS cache to get rid of it, or wait up to 24 hours for it to be dropped from the cache automatically. You can run this small batch file I put together every time your…

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Add external email accounts into Gmail

(This tutorial was requested by Hasina) If you’d like a central place to manage and receive all your email from, then Gmail is the perfect solution. Gmail allows you to add up to five other email accounts that you own, as long as they are POP mailboxes. Why use Gmail for your other email accounts?…

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Enhancer for Winamp

And you thought your music can’t sound better … Winamp has always been my favourite music player for Windows due to its simple interface and the ability to integrate with my Windows theme with skins. This obscure DSP/Effect plug-in for Winamp is a great and easy way to enhance your music without spending money on…

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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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