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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 4th, 2009
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Trout Is A Lightweight Free Music Player

microsoft windowsTrout is a lightweight free music player by Donation coder member Skwire. It was born out of one of the coding challenges and has since then evolved into a music player packed with functionality. It is on the other hand a bare bones music player without a fancy skin and visualizations. Users who do not need these features or want a secondary audio player for certain situations might want to read on.

Trout can be downloaded as a portable version or installer. It supports a wide variety of audio formats including mp3, ogg, wma, flac and others. Music can be loaded by dragging and dropping files or folders into the interface or by using the menu toolbar at the top. All audio files that have been loaded into the player are displayed in the playlist area in the lower half. This area contains not only information about the names of the songs but also information about bitrates, sizes, artist and album tags and more.

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 3rd, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Displays Recently Lauched Computer Software In Windows

microsoft windowsThe Windows operating system offers quite a few option to find out what its users have been doing recently. It starts with all those temporary folders, time stamps of files, history and log files, the index.dat file and ends with settings that are deeply hidden in the Windows Registry. Average users are usually unaware of many of these possibilities.

The so called MUI Cache is a special cache that contains information about recently launched computer software programs in Windows. The cache does contain application names and paths which can be problematic for several reasons. A system administrator or user with sufficient rights could find out that a user launched applications from removable media. It could also mean that the contents of a hidden or encrypted partition become visible because of this.

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 3rd, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Wireless Network Scanner inSSIDer

wireless network scannerThe wireless network scanner inSSIDer can be used to quickly scan the area for wireless networks. The software program works well with Windows Vista and Windows XP (even the 64-bit editions) and can quickly display all wireless networks in the vicinity. A network adapter has to be selected to start the scanning. All discovered wireless networks are then added to a table in the same interface which lists information like their MAC address, SSID, channel, security and network speed.

Graphs are shown below the table that visualize the signal strength of the selected wireless networks over time. It is possible to select some or all of the wireless networks and observe their performance.

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 3rd, 2009
  • Comments: 9

Force Firefox To Open Links In Same Tab

firefoxOne of the great annoyances on the Internet are links that are configured to open in new links or tabs. Outbound links, which means links that point to another domain, are usually prime targets for this method of linking but there are also cases that links on the same domain open up in new tabs or windows. The Firefox web browser comes with a set of options to open links in new tabs or windows but no obvious ones to prevent that from happening.

To open a link in a new window or tab one would simply right-click the link and select the appropriate option from the context menu. Users who like keyboard shortcuts can press the Ctrl key for opening links in new tabs or the Shift key to open them in new windows.

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 3rd, 2009
  • Comments: 2

CD And DVD Printing Software DVD Print

microsoft windowsCD and DVD printing software DVD Print makes it quite easy to create compelling CD and DVD covers. This can come in handy when downloading (free) music or movies from the Internet that come with covers. It can also be interesting for users who backup their CD and DVD collection and want to add a cover to these backups. And yes, P2P users will probably like the application as well.

DVD Print is a small program for the Windows operating system. It is a portable software program that will ask for a registration code upon start. This can be skipped however and there are no information on the website or in the application about the registration process (and what could happen if the registration is skipped continuously).

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 3rd, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Google Update Changes

googleThe Google Update process was the bane for many Internet users as it seemed to come up again even if it was disabled on the computer system. The process googleupdate.exe was running all the time on the computer system trying to connect to Google to see if there were any updates for Google software available. It could even happen that the updating process was still running if no Google software programs were installed on the computer system.

It also did feel strange that Google needed a process to update their programs while other companies like Mozilla did not. Especially if the only software by Google was their web browser Google Chrome.

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Categories: Google

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 3rd, 2009
  • Comments: 1

Exclude Categories From Wordpress Feeds

wordpressI received an email from Matthew a few hours ago who asked if there was a possibility to exclude certain categories from my website from appearing in the RSS feed. I was really busy with a website that I purchased earlier this morning and could not answer immediately. The good news is that it is possible to exclude categories from Wordpress RSS feeds.

The bad news is that it might not work with all Wordpress blogs and that the user who wants to exclude the categories needs to know their category ID. The first problem is easier to solve. Excluding categories from Wordpress feeds works if the Wordpress blog is not using the Feedburner feed redirection plugin or a comparable plugin. The feed redirection plugin redirects all feed requests (no matter if they are category specific or the full feed) to an RSS service like Feedburner. This prevents that users can create individual feeds based on categories, authors or tags. It also prevents the exclusion of categories in the feed.

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Categories: The Web, Tutorials Basic

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