Copying Vinyl records

Who says you cant copy/duplicate vinyl records, sure you cant burn them in your computer vinyl-rw!  but you can still pirate them.

just follow this guide HERE.

Changing File type icon in Windows Vista, 7 and +

After  a long time trying and finally find an easy way to change a file type icon in Windows I will post here to help other in the same situation.

easy as running the app. selecting the file type and changing its properties, changes will be immediately if not press “Refresh”.

*Best of all is portable !

Working on(maybe on more versions):

Windows XP, Vista and 7  ( x32 and x64)

Get it… HERE

Removing all hyperlinks in Word !

As simple as may sound I always forgot how to remove all the hyperlinks from a Word documents, instead of going right-click one by one, this of course is when you have a lot of them. You can use this shortcut or make it more elaborated and make a macro.

Shortcut:

Select all the document(Ctrl-A) or the paragraph you want to remove the hyperlinks from and…press

Ctrl + Shift + F9

Macro

Press [ALT]+[F11] to open the Visual Basic Editor

Go to “Insert” > “Module” and in the pop-up window copy:

Sub RemoveHyperlinks()
Dim oField As Field
For Each oField In ActiveDocument.Fields
If oField.Type = wdFieldHyperlink Then
oField.Unlink
End If
Next
Set oField = Nothing
End Sub

Then click “File” > Close and return to Microsoft Word

You can now run the Macro in Word by going to:

Tools > Macro > Macro and then Run “RemoveAllHyperlinks”

Hide your computer name from the network

Sometimes is good to be anonymous and prevents accidents from others trying to connect to your computer, this is to hide your computer name from others computers in the same network under network in Vista.
to check if is hidden first. open a command prompt or CMD.
type
> net config server
look under Server Hidden if says yes theres nothing more to do is says no you can hide it by typing.
>net config server /hidden:yes
enter and restart.

*this will not take out the ability to browse your computer if you know your computer name. this only hide the name from the network

Browse and view .PSD/.AI thumbnails w/wo Photoshop/Illustrator

If for some reason you have Photoshop .psd files and you dont have Photoshop installed here is a method so you can browser those thumbnails.

Is also a good method for viewing thumbnails of those files in Window explorer instead of the Photoshop icon in some versions of Photoshop.

The same is for Illustrator files all is include in the download.

Instructions

1.Copy both .dll files to  C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell     if this folder doesn’t exist create it.

2. Run both .reg files one is for Illustrator files the other for Photoshop files.

3. Reboot if needed.

Get it here

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Universal Wii Cover Templates

If  you’re looking for the best, most complete cover template for Wii here it’s.

It will let you make your own cover for any Wii games, in case you dont like the original or need a new one.

The file is a Photoshop .psd file because includes layers for: ESRB logos(front and back), PEGI logos, Controller options logos(Wiimote, nunchuck,classic controller, wheel), Game publisher logos and editable UPC space.

The back cover info is in English, Spanish and French.

Why Universal ? -  because includes ratings for USA and UK and the language in the cover are in 3 languages also include a layer to edit the upc space.

Also include another template in case you want to safeguard your games in a dvd wallet like the one below.

Wallet double cover sample

Wallet sample

Useful tools :

Wii games manuals HERE

Wii UPC game search for the cover (upc editable space) HERE

Get the Cover Template Pak. V6 ..Here

Get the Disc Template Pak. V1…………..Here

If you find this post useful or if you use my template please leave a comment !!

Free your iPod from iTunes.. Free!

If you want to free your iPod from iTunes and be able to transfer, remove, backup and organize music, videos and playlists without the fear of get the iPod erased if you connect it to another computer, you can use Sharepod a free a program that does all this and more and its portable and you can even add and/or edit your tracks artwork and its built in media player!!

Version 3.8.7 get it here

more info at here

The iPod need to be connect to use the program.

Its Free.

Its iPhone and iTouch compatible.

Removing U3 Smart Launchpad from SanDisk Cruzer USB drives

Did you ever want to remove the U3 Application partition from SanDisk Cruzer USB drives but fail to even if you format the USB-drive the U3 Smart App. will install itself in the usb-drive after you unplug and insert the usb-drive back.

So the solution is here, just install and run this application, insert your SanDisk Cruzer and fallow on-screen instructions.

SanDisk_Cruzer_format.exe

If you found this or any other post usefull please leave a comment !!!

View .mkv HD videos on the Xbox 360

Since the fall update that gave the 360 support for h264 many users end in disappointment when they find that the 360 doesn’t support the most commonly used HD container Matroska or .mkv video files. The only way to be able to do this is converting the matroska video to WMV HD which of course the xbox support. I read a few guides with a lot of steps, instructions and a lot of software to download, I read the steps and skip a lot of them just testing and testing I find out the the best solution using only 2 programs and 2 maybe 3 steps.

This conversion retain the full resolution of 720p or 1080p and digital sound up to 7.1

Programs needed

* mkvmerge GUI

* TMPGEnc Xpress (cost $99.00)

* TMPGEnc Xpress WMV HD profiles (dont needed but easier if you dont want to make one yourself)

A. Start mkvmerge and open the .mkv file, we are going to extract the video from the .mkv container

(I found that sometimes its better if you extract the audio too, don’t bother with the subtitles because the xbox don’t support it, except if is embed it in the video)

first add the video, second select the track you want to extract I select the video, third set the output file rename the file because it will replace the original I usually add the word video to the file name. for the audio to the same deselect the video track select the audio and rename the output filename to audio.

B.

1. Start TMPGEnc Xpress select Source -> add file and select the video part you extract from the .MKV (you will need to change the filetype to all files so the mkv files appears in the dialog)

2. do the same for the audio part  (if you didn’t extract the audio you can use the original .mkv file in the audio part).

3. check the setting framerate 23.976

4. aspect ratio 1:1 (Squared Pixel)

5. display mode progressive

Press OK

Press Format

if you download the profiles browse and select it accordingly to the source video 720p or 1080p

Press Encode

Start the encoding

* remember that for breaking the 4gb filesize limit on the fat/fat32 external HDD for use on the xbox 360 you will need to format the hard disk to +hfs, for more info and instructions read here

* this post assume you have the necessary codecs

- like Windows media video 9 VCM  here

-Windows media encoder here

- matroska pack codecs here