A Psychoanalysis of the World

New hp QuickPlay Download Keys and Installation Help

Commie B — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:50:01 +0000

Here are the new download keys for hp QuickPlay.

Use the instructions provided on http://www.asifism.com/installing-hp-quickplay-on-your-laptopnotebook-vista-xp/ for installing QuickPlay Direct before posting questions and queries already answered. Please also visit the above link to see HOW TO get the latest QuickPlay Download keys if the keys on this post do not work.

To download QuickPlay, visit http://downloads.asifism.com and use one of the following appropriate keys provided below. Also, DO USE the download of Winrar provided to extract the zipped version of QuickPlay Direct (HPQPDP.rar), otherwise you may get errors while trying to extract it. Please note that keys are renewed every 10 days so if they are expired, be patient.

hp QuickPlay Direct 2.3 for Windows Vista & XP: 4224b1a8029ede32fa4dbbc6e7d87580

To validate your download, please use the MD5 hashes on http://www.asifism.com/hp-quickplay-windows-vista/hp-quickplay-download-md5-hashes/

hp QuickPlay Direct 1.0 (runs on a linux partition)[NRG file, use Daemon Tools to mount]: 32677d465917efe887c5514f9d1c654b

hp QuickPlay for Windows Vista & XP: 8d4c976698cee427c5a340672a03b417

hp QuickPlay TV Play: f802142e29160f4c64662c70bcb24283

Winrar 3.6.2 (please use to extract hpqpdp.rar): fad8826b69a28439c6c1941a4f6b4d37

For those people who get the QuickPlay Enabled or QuickPlay authorized machine only error while installing, please try the following:

Using Notepad, make a file and save as .reg with the following:-

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\QPFlag]
“QPFlag”=dword:00000003
“@=”=””

Then add to the registry by double clicking this file afte you’ved saved it install QuickPlay.

If extraction for QuickPlay Direct fails claiming one of the files is corrupt, always try the file before and after the number that winrar tells you is corrupt. Both the data4.cab and data3.cab files are huge and span over different compressed pieces, winrar isn’t always accurate.

Any questions? Comment them.

Picking the right Smartphone

Commie B — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:08:39 +0000

I’ve been on the smartphone bandwagon for years now. I bought one of the first Palm’s to hit the stores, followed by the Tungsten, followed by various versions of the Treo and I’ve now been running on a Palm Treo 500v for over a year. Over the years, my only non-palm phone has been the Sony Ericsson p990i, which wasn’t all that bad.

One of the reason’s I stuck to Palm was Palm OS, which ofcourse is now history. My biggest frustration with the Treo 500v has been it’s speed and functionality. It works like a clunky windows machine would work in the early days, which means it crashes or freezes and becomes extremely slow at times. The time to open an application is too much time for a mobile device, and of late my Palm has certainly been trying my patience.

I’m thinking about getting a replacement, but alas, there is much choice in the market and not enough experienced information out there to make a decision. The new Palm looks promising. Blackberry has always ruled the business world, but iPhone is fast catching up for both business and leisure.

As a hard-core business user, I need something that can handle all my email, wifi, web browsing and mapping needs without choking or slowing down the device. Blackberry is the unparalelled leader on the email side of things and over the years the one thing that always made me go for a Palm has been the QWERTY keyboard, which is something that Blackberry shares in common with Palm. This is possibly the only department the iPhone is lacking in.

So, the million dollar question (not quite, more like £200-£300) question is which is it, the Blackberry Curve or the iPhone 3G S. Well, both operating systems seem genuinely reliable. Blackberry is also fast developing its applet store to compete with the iPhone. The Blackberry OS also looks to work smoothly and looks great, although it’s not as flashy or as graceful as the Mac. I’d personally prefer a Windows Mobile device, and I had given some serious thought to the Sony Xperia X1, but the lack of speed in windows devices simply turns me off.

With reviews floating around, it seems pretty clear that the iPhone is the device of choice when it comes to browsing the web or using maps, or getting other apps. The only department the iPhone falls short in is the keyboard.

Here, however, is where the iPhone makes up for it. As someone who has to frequently travel on London’s dismal but loved Underground, I very much like the idea of having to carry only ONE device for my music, video and phone needs. That’s a plus, provided the battery can survive me a comfortable 10-12 hours.

I’ve also considered Google Android phones, but their limitation to T-Mobile hasn’t done much for them. The iPhone seems like it’s fast becoming the winner, but somehow that Qwerty keyboard attachment is hard to part with.

Suggestion or advice, anyone?

Latest hp QuickPlay Download Keys and Installation Help

Commie B — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:39:33 +0000

Here are the new download keys for hp QuickPlay.

hp QuickPlay Direct 2.3 for Windows Vista & XP: d6d5ddbeeea1f3662a0839809b26fc41

To validate your download, please use the MD5 hashes on http://www.asifism.com/hp-quickplay-windows-vista/hp-quickplay-download-md5-hashes/

hp QuickPlay Direct 1.0 (runs on a linux partition)[NRG file, use Daemon Tools to mount]: 21726147fbf3d5c97c40f01c62278d99

hp QuickPlay for Windows Vista & XP: 7b5b3523272e25c34bda302be46b3bf9

hp QuickPlay TV Play: 5c5a0833163f46d9cc1c34460370d861

Winrar 3.6.2 (please use to extract hpqpdp.rar): 6dc46a4f7838851374aa0916971560fb

For those people who get the QuickPlay Enabled or QuickPlay authorized machine only error while installing, please try the following:

Using Notepad, make a file and save as .reg with the following:-

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\QPFlag]
“QPFlag”=dword:00000003
“@=”=””

Then add to the registry by double clicking this file afte you’ved saved it install QuickPlay.

Any questions? Comment them.

New hp QuickPlay Download Keys and Installation Guide

Commie B — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:22:05 +0000

Here are the new download keys for hp QuickPlay.

hp QuickPlay Direct 2.3 for Windows Vista & XP: 39e9ad775f4ce7968f6106d96585c155

To validate your download, please use the MD5 hashes on http://www.asifism.com/hp-quickplay-windows-vista/hp-quickplay-download-md5-hashes/

hp QuickPlay Direct 1.0 (runs on a linux partition)[NRG file, use Daemon Tools to mount]: e53186eaee519361b5ea3f368f783aa3

hp QuickPlay for Windows Vista & XP: e3a6bd12d0b40cb3a066ee701915ec32

hp QuickPlay TV Play: 1ef0c4cd51ee8f1a1351c213fd0eaf06

Winrar 3.6.2 (please use to extract hpqpdp.rar): eeb42dad89702e1a87dff288e9946415

For those people who get the QuickPlay Enabled or QuickPlay authorized machine only error while installing, please try the following:

Using Notepad, make a file and save as .reg with the following:-

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\QPFlag]
“QPFlag”=dword:00000003
“@=”=””

Then add to the registry by double clicking this file afte you’ved saved it install QuickPlay.

Any questions? Comment them.

Latest hp Quickplay Download Keys and Installation Instructions

Commie B — Sun, 24 May 2009 12:10:26 +0000

Here are the latest download keys for hp QuickPlay.

hp QuickPlay Direct 2.3 for Windows Vista & XP: cddd6fb424c89cdb247c5ee19668fb43

To validate your download, please use the MD5 hashes on http://www.asifism.com/hp-quickplay-windows-vista/hp-quickplay-download-md5-hashes/

hp QuickPlay Direct 1.0 (runs on a linux partition)[NRG file, use Daemon Tools to mount]: 057770872dc16e3c0d95656c46989f95

hp QuickPlay for Windows Vista & XP: 8f7b00d0acbd8e04cd9875587aeaee5e

hp QuickPlay TV Play: 2c8c340bfe61b03e6a60f36f9cc16253

Winrar 3.6.2 (please use to extract hpqpdp.rar): 4932af94753042d2b065b5f6505086c6

For those people who get the QuickPlay Enabled or QuickPlay authorized machine only error while installing, please try the following:

Using Notepad, make a file and save as .reg with the following:-

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\QPFlag]
“QPFlag”=dword:00000003
“@=”=””

Then add to the registry by double clicking this file afte you’ved saved it install QuickPlay.

Any questions? Comment them.

Investing in Systems and Software

Commie B — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:09:57 +0000

As most businesses start to make the transition from a one man show to becoming a growing enterprise, owners are faced with the difficult but crucial task of identifying information systems and processes, a major part of which today is procuring the right software and hardware. Even all large corporations are consistently faced with this task of improving the systems, redefining processes and procuring the correct hardware and software to either support the growth of the business or deliver efficiency in times of downsizing.

So what really should you consider when investing in systems? There’s a plethora of factors you will need to consider, and most of them will be driven by your organization, its structure, your employees, the culture and above all, your budget. With the technology world making leaps of progress every year and business and corporate strategy evolving with time (especially given the economic crisis of today), it can be difficult for executives and business owners to choose between what is available to them in the current marketplace. Business technology is evolving to bring more flexibility, better functionality and higher return on investment to most businesses, but getting this right means more than just going with a big name brand.

First and foremost is the illusion that businesses have about technology: it will solve their problems. It won’t. What technology will do is make available to you tools which when used properly will solve your business problems. However, the idea that spending money will result in problems going away is simply false. Getting the right technology that supports your business will certainly do this, and such technology does not necessarily need to be expensive or backed by a big-name brand.

When businesses starting thinking about procuring ERP or enterprise class solutions they often turn to the likes of Oracle, JD Edwards (now Oracle), SAP or Microsoft for answers. Whilst this is not a bad thing (given the experience these companies have with developing such software), it’s not the most efficient or effective way of going about getting a comprehensive information system. Since these companies develop solutions that are generic in nature and applicable to all businesses, they need customization that will tailor the solution to your business. What happens when business invest thousands of pounds in such software is that they expect it to start producing results from day one, an error that many major corporations today are guilty of. What you must essentially realize is that buying an off the shelf solution in this category with a powerful brand behind it will cost you an arm and a leg and will require further customization, time and money before it will start doing what it is supposed to do.

Add to this the cost of remote functionality and licensing, and you may very well be paying a lot more than your vendor originally told you it will cost. It’s all part of the game of selling technology solutions: everyone is trying to sell you their product and will undermine any other cost you may incur in getting the entire solution. You can avoid this by planning ahead. So whether you’re a business owner, an IT manager or a CIO, here are some helpful tips.

Do you really need the ‘best’ solution in the market?

Most businesses make technology and information systems decisions based on the intel they get about their competitors. Especially in times like these, many think that if a competitor is doing well it’s most likely because of their technology. That’s not always true. You should never simply invest in or buy a product or service because your competitor uses it. Neither should you make a technology investment because it is the ‘latest and greatest’ in the market.

Each business operates in a unique way with its own culture and model, and each business decision requires thinking along those lines. It is this business model that, along with what the requirements of your particular project are, should drive your technology decision.

Getting the Numbers Right

When calculating costs for a particular technology or information solution, you need to split it up between the 6 phases of the Systems Development Lifecycle. So, in essence, you need to budget the cost of:

Planning – Must use external help for this to get a better view of the situation and your business.
Analysis – External help over here is a must. It will help a third party clearly interpret what you need, thereby making the requirements of the entire project or solution clear.
Design – Contrary to the popular belief that you won’t need this if you buy an off the shelf solution, you will always need this. Software does not design a system or vice versa.
Development – For most complex pieces of software that you procure, the will need some customized development. So don’t forget to budget for this whether you’re costing.
Implementation – You always need a contingency plan. What if implementation does not go right? What can go wrong and how will you tackle the situation. Not planning for this can be very expensive.
Maintenance – You’ve heard that prevention is better than the cure. Well, it’s true of systems and software. Reactive maintenance is very expensive. If you’re proactive and stay on top of this, you’ll save millions in the years to come.

I’m not going to get into the details of each one of these phases, but it is absolutely imperative that businesses seek some external help or consultancy whilst involved in the first 2 phases. The reason for external involvement is necessitated by the fact that an external view to your problem can greatly aid in creating a better solution or coming up with a better proposition for business or particular situation. Planning and Analysis is imperative and this is essentially what will drive the other four phases and, in essence, the cost of the entire product or solution.

I’ll discuss a brief example of the typical defect a service-based company will make in its cost planning for procuring and implementing a new software system. For the sake of simplicity, let’s assume that this business needs a comprehensive financial management system along with project management and CRM functions to get a complete solution which can help manage projects from start to finish.

The options available to such a business are Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, Quickbooks Enterprise or SAP. None of these solutions are cheap. Quickbooks is probably the most low-cost solution here, with annual licensing fees for 10 employees topping US $ 12,000. For each additional user you will end up paying an extra annual. Unfortunately, the same goes for Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle to SAP. Then, you’ll need to customize the interface and processes within each system to suit your business model, hire staff to manage the servers and user licensing and for maintenance. Add to the $12k additional cost for CRM and Project management modules (which may or may not work to your requirements and may or may not be available depending on which solution you choose) and you’re fast looking at an annual bill of US $50,000 a year plus initial costs and fees for deployment and any other updates and upgrades as they become available. Basically, at every point in time, you will need to spend money: whether it’s adding an extra user, adding an update for a bug fix or getting an update.

So, in this example, even though the numbers may not be fully accurate, you’re looking at a cost of around US $50,000 a year with a growing business, not US $12,000. Plus, if you are company that requires its employees to work remotely, you’ll need to pay licensing fees for Citrix or GoToMyPC, which can add up in thousands pretty quickly for multiple users.

Think Web 2.0

The world of systems and software is changing. Leading businesses and technology professionals need to think in innovative ways to bring new solutions into their business that cut cost, increase productivity and make their businesses more competitive.

With the advent of web 2.0, businesses that do smart, intelligent thinking can avoid the cost of paying for a brand name, user licensing, or extensive server management costs. From a business standpoint, it would be great to not be penalized for growing your business by having to pay extra for each license every time you hire a new employee, or drop $10,000 every time you need an additional module or add-on to your software.

If you’ve run through your planning and analysis properly, you could spend your annual licensing and maintenance fee just once (that’s right, ONLY once) and get exactly what you need, with remote access from anywhere at any time, anywhere. You won’t have to customize this. It will be built to specification. It’s also documented and you own it, so you can add as many users you want, make whatever changes you want and get internal staff to help improve or add functions at their regular salary as opposed to paying an Oracle or Microsoft certified consultant over $1,000 per day.

That’s right. When you move into the realm of complex systems and business management enterprise class software, customized web 2.0 solutions can be a cheaper and more effective option for many businesses. They’re better suited to the business model and can save businesses hundreds of thousands of dollars in the years to come. Best of all, open-source web 2.0 technology is scalable and can grow with your business. Server and hosting costs will be minimal in most cases compared to other solutions, simply because, if built right, web 2.0 software should require nothing more than what your browser needs.

That’s right, you could run your entire business from a web browser. It is the way all software is headed, so you need to consider this.

Think Open Source

I work for a firm that’s been a Microsoft Partner for years. Microsoft products are generally very dependable and they offer great support and unparalleled documentation, but they have their place. Open source software is becoming effective and powerful, and with the pool of technological talent out there and investment in open-source technologies by some of the world’s largest private equity firms, it comes as no surprise that open source software can very well support enterprise-class functions today. Whether you are a small or large business and depending on your business model, you can save thousands in licensing fees by simply using OpenOffice and Mozilla Thunderbird. Microsoft Office has its place, its user base and its functionality, but this is a cost many businesses can save with the right consulting and implementation.

Make your Own Decision

With the economy taking a plummet, sales teams across the globe have become far more aggressive than before. Businesses are fudging statistics and some are outright lying to get your business, so there’s all the more reason for you to do your homework, consult a business technology consultant and make your own carefully considered decision as opposed to believing what sales consultants tell you.

However, technology is useful if its timely and effective; so you do need to move fast.

New hp QuickPlay Download Keys and Installation Help

Asif — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:18:36 +0000

Hey folks, here are the latest download keys for hp QuickPlay.

Use the instructions provided on http://www.asifism.com/installing-hp-quickplay-on-your-laptopnotebook-vista-xp/ for installing QuickPlay Direct before posting questions and queries already answered. Please also visit the above link to see HOW TO get the latest QuickPlay Download keys if the keys on this post do not work.

hp QuickPlay Direct 2.3 for Windows Vista & XP: dbf0aa67b9e53dff9c23133a3ec103e6

To validate your download, please use the MD5 hashes on http://www.asifism.com/hp-quickplay-windows-vista/hp-quickplay-download-md5-hashes/

hp QuickPlay Direct 1.0 (runs on a linux partition)[NRG file, use Daemon Tools to mount]: 1add28eb03ce605dfcfc0977e3dd4eb5

hp QuickPlay for Windows Vista & XP: 569f648b5c01e929f5f28858c8c2a8fd

hp QuickPlay TV Play: febf1748b4db103354f08b863e790b68

Winrar 3.6.2 (please use to extract hpqpdp.rar): ffdc8a12fd799abde7ac490e687c7994

For those people who get the QuickPlay Enabled or QuickPlay authorized machine only error while installing, please try the following:

Using Notepad, make a file and save as .reg with the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\QPFlag]
“QPFlag”=dword:00000003
“@=”=””

Then add to the registry by double clicking this file afte you’ved saved it install QuickPlay.

Any questions? Comment them.

The 2 parts of SEO

Commie B — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:01:41 +0000

Here is something that your SEO consultant or marketing firm will never want you to know: there are 2 parts to SEO. And here’s the second part of what your marketing or SEO consultant will really not want you to know at all: most SEO consultants and marketing firms do, respectively, one half each. This is a topic I’ve been meaning to write about for a while, but since I don’t spend a whole lot of time doing SEO for any of my own websites or businesses, well, I haven’t really had the motivation to pen (or in this case, screen) the issue. Now that I’m done sorting out some of the basics that I consider more important than issues like SEO and PPC marketing for a business, I’m coming back into this rather messy affair.

I can name many of my clients who consistently spend hundreds, if not thousands of pounds and dollars every month in trying to get their SEO to work. Let’s get one thing out of the way before we have the marketing folks butt-in: SEO is not the same as PPC, so let us not confuse the two. PPC optimization, although similar in some regards to SEO, is a different line of work. There are no, per se, two parts to it on a macro level, although I think you can break up PPC into two different parts if you want to get a view from the inside out.

So, what really are the two parts of any SEO campaign? Well, let’s see…

The Technological Part

If you have a marketing firm that claims they’ve got SEO down, this is the part they are most likely not doing. I personally know firms who are spending 5 figures of Great British Pounds Sterling every month in an attempt to get their SEO up and running in addition to a GBP 20k+ Pay per Click bill, but SEO is just not working. The content may very well be right because that’s probably what their SEO provider is OKAY at (not brilliant, just OKAY), but the reason that Google or Yahoo don’t give them any importance is simply because their pristine, apparently clear and clean-cut looking design isn’t so clean when you look at the source code. It’s rampant with violations of W3C XHTML and CSS standards, javascript errors, lack or misuse of meta tags, and many more to name a few. What’s worst is that these chaps still haven’t figured out what they’re getting wrong, and it’s not all their fault.

To develop their mammoth online project, they hired a technology consulting giant like Sapient, but got a possibly unqualified employee to manage the relationship. So, in essence, the code produced is not particularly garbage, but it is something most decent developers wouldn’t feel heartache about trashing. Second, the XHTML and CSS interface was developed by an idependent party which, it seems, specializes in developing interfaces that work toward the stern purpose of being non-standard compliant. The SEO company has no clue why their magic doesn’t work and the reason why that’s happening is because they don’t fully understand the business or recognize or realize the techological or technical faults that are holding the company back.

It’s the same old issue: marketing firms become web development and web 2.0 software consulting firms, create garbage product, but sell it hard by throwing money on PPC and Out of Home Advertising (OOH) and all their client seem to think they’re doing a great job, without actually realizing that they could save a huge amount of money spent on PPC every month by simply streamlining some of the technology issues involved in SEO.

I’m not going to go into what it is that you need to do to get the technology right; at least not in this article. What I do want to do is illustrate the benefit of having the technology issue resolved. Let’s be clear on one thing: with the right age and domain length and correct coding, etc. (i.e., fullfilling the techincal requirements of SEO), you’ll certainly land yourself a higher Google PageRank than a website that foscuses solely on cosmetic appearance and writing fancy content but misses the boat on writing Google friendly code. If your competitor has done this part right and you’re relying on your good old marketing man to provide you with SEO services, when somebody does search for your keywords you will end up getting the small corner to the right that google has reserved for AdWords, where as your competitor, even if he doesn’t have the right kind of content on his website (which is valid to a search term), is getting a good 80% of the screen. Who do you reckon your potential customer will click on, someone Google thinks is providing valid content or someone Google says is paying money to ‘appear’ to provide valid content. Maybe not all clients work like that: I sure do.

The Marketing Part

Okay, this is the part where you need to not listen to your SEO consultant, who knows the technical aspects of what Google, Yahoo and MSN like to see, but has no clue about how to sell. Remember, most technical people suck at selling. They like to brief and give information, not make the effort to pretend like they care about your business and sell you their skills. Hence, that’s what you need to use them for.

I can’t stess the importance of getting this part right. As much I bash marketing firms for getting the technology part of SEO wrong, ultimately, selling lies at the heart of every business. No sale means no business, so get this right!

Here is an example of how companies get this wrong: Fix all your tags and content on each page, so that when google does list you organically, people at least land on the correct page. Not landing on the correct page means you’ll never make a conversion from visitor to customer. The first part giving yourself the ability to appear in the 80% portion of the screen of a Search Engine by getting the technical portion right. The second, is to strengthen the credbility of the visitor who trusts the judgment of the search engine to list you in their organic listings by giving the visitor what he or she is really searching for.

Once there, the content needs to be right. Don’t hire a car salesman for this unless you are selling cars. You need a short, sofisticated form of copywriting, not those long sales letters that eBook copiers and MLM scammers have used and misused and abused over the last decade.

Here is the most important thing you need to take away from this article. Don’t believe everyone you see on Google or Yahoo’s first page. Most often than not people will show up and stay there until the next crawl when the search engine realizes that a certain website has cheated. So, look for decent history when picking a provider. Also keep in mind that not all businesses that do SEO spend resources on SEO: they don’t need to. They get their business from other resources like management consulting. In fact, that’s how some of the largest contracts are signed, by consultants know nothing except for how to close a deal.

Lastly, there are very few companies out there who can do SEO and PPC right at the same time and score both on the marketing and technological front. It’s the same reason why marketing guys are horrible at using technology AND the same reason why your IT guys can’t sell for shit. Get your technical SEO person to liaise with your marketing team. That’s how you can results out of your Search Engine Optimization efforts.

Lastly, always remember this simple piece of advice: you get what you pay for and here is why: opinions are free, consultations are NOT. Which one are you looking for?

New hp QuickPlay Download Keys and Installation Help

Commie B — Sat, 02 May 2009 12:02:37 +0000

Hey folks, here are the latest download keys for hp QuickPlay.

Use the instructions provided on http://www.asifism.com/installing-hp-quickplay-on-your-laptopnotebook-vista-xp/ for installing QuickPlay Direct before posting questions and queries already answered. Please also visit the above link to see HOW TO get the latest QuickPlay Download keys if the keys on this post do not work.

hp QuickPlay Direct 2.3 for Windows Vista & XP: 23faf86c6963261150614921fd023656

To validate your download, please use the MD5 hashes on http://www.asifism.com/hp-quickplay-windows-vista/hp-quickplay-download-md5-hashes/

hp QuickPlay Direct 1.0 (runs on a linux partition)[NRG file, use Daemon Tools to mount]: 3e200319bca2384bedcb287212dfe16a

hp QuickPlay for Windows Vista & XP: 4b813f3ecce350109bec9d5322dd7735

hp QuickPlay TV Play: c2a0bf3ac27d76fad9ce37bf30c4204d

Winrar 3.6.2 (please use to extract hpqpdp.rar): 72bb9126158d8ab99b19a9e4549d8f58

For those people who get the QuickPlay Enabled or QuickPlay authorized machine only error while installing, please try the following:

Using Notepad, make a file and save as .reg with the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\QPFlag]
“QPFlag”=dword:00000003
“@=”=””

Then add to the registry by double clicking this file afte you’ved saved it install QuickPlay.

Any questions? Comment them.

The Demon of DMOZ

Commie B — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:10:43 +0000

That’s right, I just called DMOZ, the Open Directory Project (ODP), a demon.

There was a time when I had great respect for projects like the ODP and how effectively they actually were, and although I have recently seen articles from some ODP editors / moderators defending what they do on ODP, well, I think that the DMOZ Directory is fast loosing its charm.

Yes, as per the basics of SEO, backlinks are great and very helpful. Backlinks from sites that have a high PageRank are very valuable, and better yet, in Google’s books, sites that are built with the open source or volunteer framework in mind are even better. However, there is no way that I will believe the argument that, quite frankly, a vast majority of DMOZ editors are, well, infact, rogue.

Despite how seriously some of them take their work to be, I can’t help but think that there are others who simply fob off every request they simply because they can. George Carlin would have called these chaps the likes of George Bush: monkey faced pea brained folk who project their insecurities on other users of the internet.

In all fairness, I haven’t submitted a lot of websites to DMOZ in the past 12 months, but those that I have haven’t gone through. Agreed, maybe I was sloppy with some of my submissions, but I can tell you that some of them weren’t quite as sloppy and were in full compliance with the ODP guidelines. Better yet, I don’t know how the ODP goes by qualifying people who apparently have the right to determine whether or not your website is in violation of copyrights? They’re probably not and take the play it safe approach.

Of course, ODP has other issues: some websites have 30+ listings with some very irrelevant descriptions. As with all volunteer organizations, though, the quality of work and the product diminishes, which is what we are seeing with the ODP. They don’t pay attention to standards compliance or any other criteria, just what they think may or may not comply with their guidelines, most which many of their editors probably don’t understand. I guess that’s the kind of work you get from free volunteers.

But low and behold, this is not all bad news. Back in the day, ODP was vital to get a listing on; it is not anymore. You can try, but I wouldn’t pull my hair out worrying about why some ODP editor cannot read english and figure out the relevance of a particular website to a certain category.

There are hundreds of other directories on the web: granted they are not as effective as DMOZ (and the ones that are charge money), but then you can get links from other high ranked websites too.

Yes, the internet is not fair, and probably neither is Google’s support of DMOZ. But then you’ve got to live with what’s out there, right?

Oh and this site is not listed on DMOZ. I’m not even sure what category to put it in. Anyone have any ideas?

hp QuickPlay Download Keys and Installation Instructions

Commie B — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:38:41 +0000

Hey folks, here are the latest download keys for hp QuickPlay.

Use the instructions provided on http://www.asifism.com/installing-hp-quickplay-on-your-laptopnotebook-vista-xp/ for installing QuickPlay Direct before posting questions and queries already answered. Please also visit the above link to see HOW TO get the latest QuickPlay Download keys if the keys on this post do not work.

hp QuickPlay Direct 2.3 for Windows Vista & XP: 5117def266d19040f87d5a9223077a8e

To validate your download, please use the MD5 hashes on http://www.asifism.com/hp-quickplay-windows-vista/hp-quickplay-download-md5-hashes/

hp QuickPlay Direct 1.0 (runs on a linux partition)[NRG file, use Daemon Tools to mount]: dd88f473f3effe839aa667c6a02a3102

hp QuickPlay for Windows Vista & XP: 949cb329f6d261d75bf116e924fe0924

hp QuickPlay TV Play: b29a2e320717df26100b53af403c692b

Winrar 3.6.2 (please use to extract hpqpdp.rar): 0a192a7da865a5eeb281defcf7364f6f

For those people who get the QuickPlay Enabled or QuickPlay authorized machine only error while installing, please try the following:

Using Notepad, make a file and save as .reg with the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\QPFlag]
“QPFlag”=dword:00000003
“@=”=””

Then add to the registry by double clicking this file afte you’ved saved it install QuickPlay.

Any questions? Post them.

Latest hp QuickPlay Download Keys and Installation Guide

Asif — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:20:11 +0000

Here are the latest download keys for hp QuickPlay.

Please use the instructions provided on http://www.asifism.com/installing-hp-quickplay-on-your-laptopnotebook-vista-xp/ for installing QuickPlay Direct before posting questions and queries already answered. Please also visit the above link to see HOW TO get the latest QuickPlay Download keys if the keys on this post do not work.

hp QuickPlay Direct 2.3 for Windows Vista & XP: 2d2a6f9adc42445a39a2f5ebb80a0ac5

To validate your download, please use the MD5 hashes on http://www.asifism.com/hp-quickplay-windows-vista/hp-quickplay-download-md5-hashes/

hp QuickPlay Direct 1.0 (runs on a linux partition)[NRG file, use Daemon Tools to mount]: 873c827a60edc3fdda1df30697a6def0

hp QuickPlay for Windows Vista & XP: 841b0973c3a02d7a7a3ea1cbe99b283f

hp QuickPlay TV Play: 313cad94043817524aadcc6a040ffc8e

Winrar 3.6.2 (please use to extract hpqpdp.rar): 04f3e84e8d0b1375ce7d13064d062c2b

For those people who get the QuickPlay Enabled or QuickPlay authorized machine only error while installing, please try the following:

Using Notepad, make a file and save as .reg with the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\QPFlag]
“QPFlag”=dword:00000003
“@=”=””

Then add to the registry by double clicking this file afte you’ved saved it install QuickPlay.

Any questions? post them.