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All HP Pavilion dv6753ca XP Drivers

September 29th, 2010 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | No Comments | Filed in Tech

When I first got my HP Pavilion DV6753ca computer, it had Vista installed on it!  This was back in 2008.

I felt like downgrading to XP, because I liked the experience on XP better, and one of my favorite applications wouldn’t run on Vista, but would only work on XP.  So I downgraded, but I soon realized that HP, the manufacturer, didn’t really provide any XP drivers for this laptop!  I was really thrown for a loop!

After HOURS and HOURS of endless searching, I’ve managed to compile an almost complete list of all the drivers you need, and I’ve included downloads also, so you can get them all of this one page!  BOOKMARK IT!  Some of these drivers are out of date, like the nVidia drivers, but they work just fine, and I don’t think there are any newer version available for XP, so if you really want XP you’ll have to put up with that.

Otherwise, you could go with Windows 7 .  What’s handy about installing Windows 7 on this particular laptop is that you don’t have to really manually install any drivers at all!  Once you’ve installed windows, it automatically installs all the drivers for you, including your video drivers!

The DRIVERS:

nVidia Graphics Driver

SM56 Modem Driver

Realtek HD Audio Driver

Realtek PCI-E Ethernet Driver

Intel Chipset Driver

Lightscribe Driver

Synaptics Touchpad Driver

Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN

I hope that all of your driver installations run smoothly!  Please comment here if this works for you, or comment if you have a problem.

Thanks!

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MSN Messenger Now Playing Plugin for Foobar2000 v1.1

September 26th, 2010 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 8 Comments | Filed in Apps, Music

After much searching, this is a plugin that works with MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, but also works with the latest version of Foobar2000 (v1.1 at the time of writing)!  None of the other plugins I tested would work because they were out of date.

Enjoy!  Let me know it works for you!

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Components_0.9/WLM_Notifier_%28foo_wlm%29

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How to Convert AVCHD to other video formats

September 22nd, 2010 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | No Comments | Filed in Apps, How Tos

My Daily Tech RECOMMENDED APPLICATIONS!

If you are looking to convert an AVCHD movie to another  format so that you can use it in your project, then you should definitely check out a piece of software called TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress.

It accepts AVCHD and just about any video format as an input, so that you can convert it to the most popular video formats.  Unfortunately it doesn’t support AVCHD as an output.

There ARE free ways of doing this too, I should mention that a free program called Avidemux that can do this too, so if you are technically inclined (Avidemux is harder to use) you may want to go that way instead of spending money on TMPGEnc (but of course TMPGEnc supports more formats etc).

Also, if you are looking for video editing software that is simple and support AVCHD input and output, check out Sony Vegas 9.0.  It is excellent and it supports many plugins and addons that make it really expandable.  It also has an amazing feature that makes recompression not necessary on certain AVCHD files (ones that you don’t edit), and that really speeds up the time that it takes to render videos.

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Blackra1n: The 30-second jailbreak!

September 2nd, 2010 by Severin Kempf | 1 Comment | Filed in Music, Tech

OK, in my last jailbreak article I taught you how to use redsn0w to jailbreak your iPod Touch or iPhone.

In this article I will be showing you a whole new way to jailbreak your iDevice… OK here are some things you need to do:

  • Update iTunes to it’s latest version.
  • Update your device to firmware 3.1.2
  • WARNING: DO NOT, I REPEAT NOT UPGRADE TO FIRMWARE 3.1.3 IT IS A FIRMWARE THAT DOES NOTHING AND STOPS BLACKRA1N FROM WORKING.
  • Download Blackra1n from here either for MS Windows or Mac OS sorry – Linux not supported.

and your ready to jailbreak.

  1. Open iTunes and make sure your devices firmware is 3.1.2 not 3.1.3
  2. Quit iTunes and launch blackra1n.
  3. Hit “make it ra1n”
  4. Wait
  5. Your device will reboot.
  6. A window will pop-up asking you to donate if this was the fastest jailbreak you ever had.
  7. On your Device go to the second page and look for the Blackra1n app.
  8. Launch it
  9. From here you can install Cydia, or rock, (I like rock) or blacksn0w to unlock your iPhone (use it with other carriers)
  10. Click uninstall blackrain. NO IT WILL NOT DELETE THE JAILBREAK, JUST THE INSTALL APP.
  11. Now go into rock, create a RockID and download away!

EASY AS PIE!

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