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Comment on How I saved (about) £400 on a new PVR (Personal Video Recorder) by David

David — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:30:00 +0000

I have exactly the same problem, so I have just ordered the replacement capacitors and look forward to fitting one and fixing the problem. In expectation that it will be successful, I thank you very much for your expertise and making it available to the lay public.

Comment on An open letter to Microsoft by Paulgrinberg

Paulgrinberg — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:51:00 +0000

A lot has happened in the Operating System world since your letter. We have an exploding Linux user base as a result of Ubuntu, we have iOS with the iPad and iPhone not to mention Android. Microsoft needs that full MS Office suite to hold people hostage to it’s Operating System. They know that if they released Office for Linux, their OS market share would dry up to 15% especially in the enterprise market who are all using Linux based server systems anyways. MS Office and the huge amount of high quality office type software is the only reason people still use Windows. Companies develop accessory applications for Windows because they know that the MS Office user-base is there in Windows still, if those users jumped to Linux nobody would want to develop Windows apps anymore.

Comment on Making DDClient work with multiple domains on namecheap by Richard Carson

Richard Carson — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:31:00 +0000

Worked wonders. Thanks

Comment on Email, can we live without it? (UPDATE) by TweakFix

TweakFix — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:41:00 +0000

Gawab is back on maintenance.. I hope this will be repaid to the users… if not they not worth anymore to be used.

Comment on Email, can we live without it? (UPDATE) by Francoe

Francoe — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:10:00 +0000

Same history here, even I have the same snapshot. Hahaha. My bad…

Comment on How I saved (about) £400 on a new PVR (Personal Video Recorder) by TTD

TTD — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:45:00 +0000

I realise it’s one year on, but if WizandJohn or anyone else are still trying to figure this out, it’s on Page 41 of the manual, the Partial Delete option, in the menu when you click ‘Option’ on a Direct Navigator item.

Comment on YouTube to iPod Converter by Dave

Dave — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:08:00 +0000

Ooooh, hadn’t noticed that dead link after redesigning my site. The new location is here: http://op-ezy.co.uk/YouTube2iPod/

Cheers

Comment on YouTube to iPod Converter by Oliver @ VPS Hosting

Oliver @ VPS Hosting — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:35:00 +0000

Alright! Thanks, any other download links? The link you have provided isn’t working. It says the page cannot be displayed.

Comment on YouTube to iPod Converter by Dave

Dave — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:20:00 +0000

Cheers, it was programmed in VB.NET. It won’t convert to MP3, as that would require re-encoding the audio, which would degrade the quality further. This application is designed to extract the AAC audio stream out of the file, and pack it in its own file with an M4A extension. Most media players will play them (with the exception of Windows Media Player, unless the appropriate codec is installed), and is the same file type iTunes defualts to when it extracts music from CDs, hence making it ideal for extracting audio for listening to on an iPod.

Comment on How to hack into a friend’s Facebook account… by Dave

Dave — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:09:00 +0000

Ah, you got me. Strangely enough, none of my actual facebook friends wanted their accounts hacked into for the purpose of this article. But the process for hacking any account using unsecured facebook connections on compromised Wi-Fi accounts is essentially the same. Like I said before, public Wi-Fi and WEP encrypted networks are especially at risk, but WPA2 networks aren’t immune if someone knows how to connect.