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Cracked LegitLibM.dll for Windows Media Player 11

February 3rd, 2009 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 56 Comments | Filed in How Tos, Offline, Online, Tech

Still having trouble downloading Windows Media Player??  Here’s how to download and install it easily.

Download Windows Media Player 11 here without any WGA validation requests.

After doing that, you have your Windows Media Player Installer.  Install a program like WinRAR and then right click on the WMP installer and click on ‘Extract To’.

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Now open the new wmp11 folder that appears, not the original .exe.

The folder will look like this (the important files are circled):

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You need to replace LegitLibM.dll with the cracked one.  Download the cracked LegitLibM.dll and then drag it into the directory.  Windows will ask you if you really want to replace the file – replace it.

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Click yes to replace it, and then go into the folder and launch setup_wm.exe as you saw in the above folder picture.

Enjoy Windows Media Player 11!

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How to fix the Calibration on the Digitizer of Palms

January 14th, 2009 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | No Comments | Filed in How Tos, Offline, Tech

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As you’ve had your Palm for a while, you may find that you start having problems with your touchscreen. A few other things may break down too, like the power button, but that’s a different problem.

On your Palm, there is an LCD and a Digitizer. The digitizer is on top of the LCD and it senses pressure on the screen from your taps. The digitizer can break and visually you may not notice much.

My digitizer on my Palm seems to be breaking – as many times as I went to the calibration section of the “Prefs” app, whenever I used the touch screen, the point that showed on the LCD was WAY off calibration. I’m still not sure why this happens, but still, the way to fix it is to get a program called PowerDigi. You can download a trial here.

If you have Preference Remover and remove preference ID #49529 then your 14-day trial will not expire.

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XP drivers for NVidia GeForce 8400M GS

December 12th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 2 Comments | Filed in Offline, Tech

Get the drivers here:

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/nvidia/180series/18070.exe

After much searching this is the one that works!

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Windows Setup freeze

December 12th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | No Comments | Filed in How Tos, Offline, Tech

Having trouble with windows setup not starting, and just freezing on “Setup is inspecting your computers hardware configuration”?

Here’s a couple handy suggestions:

  • If you happen to have one plugged in, try unplugging your external hard drive

    Note: This also works for regular Windows XP installs, when they hang on startup and it just shows a blank screen until you unplug the drive.

  • if the above one didn’t work, try creating an NTFS partition that is smaller than the whole drive (you can do this using a linux live cd like Ubuntu).
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    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Book Review

    December 7th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | No Comments | Filed in Non-Tech, Offline, Reviews

    Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    This book is quite an interesting read, yet still disappointingly short. It could have been developed into a very satisfying novel, because the story idea is quite captivating.

    The story is humorous because it’s completely different and unusual compared to real life, because people don’t age backwards.  When Mr. Button went into the hospital and was asking people about his baby, it was funny because everyone he asked about his child had a terrified look on their faces, and each next person he talked to made him more and more anxious about his baby.  What was funnier, when he eventually got to see his baby, it turned out to be an old man.

    Another thing I found funny was the fact that Roger Button was so in denial of the fact that his ‘child’ was not a baby, even to the point of asking a store clerk whether “the paint would come off the pink duck if the baby put it in his mouth”.

    What was also ironic about Benjamin marrying a younger woman was that in actuality they were both the same age yet it looked like he was 50.

    What was also funny was how the story showed how short people’s memories are – it’s ironic because, at first people were sad for the girl being married to a man of 50.  But as Benjamin’s age “decreased”, people were then sad for him being married to a woman of 50 (although in actuality they were the same age)!  They couldn’t even remember that a while ago, they were saying the exact opposite thing!

    Also, as Benjamin got “younger” he didn’t like his wife Hildegard anymore because she got older, and as she got older Benjamin didn’t find her beautiful anymore.  Benjamin married Hildegard for her good looks, and Hildegard married Benjamin for his stability, and what happened was that Hildegard lost her good looks and Benjamin lost his stability, so their relationship didn’t work anymore.  Basically, as he got younger, she got older.

    Read the book online here (just to let you know, there’s a few typos).

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    How to bypass webpages through Firewall using Proxies!

    December 4th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 9 Comments | Filed in How Tos, Offline, Online, Tech

    Having trouble viewing your favorite website or posting on a forum
    at school when you get a page like this?

    Here’s how to bypass it.

    Firstly, go to this website – Proxy Server Website.  Choose a server that is near you.  Look in the host:port column, and copy (highlight and press Ctrl+C) one of the servers in that column.  Then use the following steps.

    In Firefox

    Go to the Tools menu, and click on Options.  Click on the Advanced section (the one with the Gear), and then go to the Network tab.  Under Connection, click on Settings, and in the new window that comes up, click on the Manual Proxy Configuration radio button.

    Paste (Ctrl+V) the proxy server address you copied earlier into the “HTTP Proxy” box (or you can just type the one I used).  Also, as you can see in the picture above, you should check the “Use this proxy server for all protocols” box.  Once you’ve pasted it, the last 4 numbers (called the Port Number) you need to copy and then paste into the “Port” box, and when you are done that, delete the colon that is left so it should look like this:

    All set?  Great!  Hit OK and keep on browsing!

    Internet Explorer

    Go to the Start Menu, then click on Control Panel (on older computers it may be in the settings menu), and then set it to classic view and click on Internet Options (you can also do this inside MSIE by going to the Tools menu and clicking on Internet Options).

    In Internet Options, click on the Connections tab.  Then, click on Lan Settings (a button near the bottom).  In the dialog box, check “Use a Proxy Server for your LAN”.  Check “Bypass Proxy Server for Local Addresses”. As described in Firefox above, paste the address of the Proxy Server that you copied earlier into the box.  Then copy the last four numbers into the port box to the right of it.

    It should look like this when you’re done:

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    How to use old interface in Vuze

    November 23rd, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 10 Comments | Filed in How Tos, Offline, Tech

    Are you sick of the new interface in Vuze as many people are?  Here’s how to use the familiar old interface that Azureus had.

     

    1. Open Vuze
      (Right now it will still be in the Vuze interface as shown)
    2. Go to the Tools menu
    3. Click on Options
    4. A new window will appear
    5. Look in the item list on the left for “Interface” and click on the plus arrow beside it
    6. Click on “Start” in the list that appeared
    7. Click on the “Show” button beside “Display Vuze UI Chooser”
       
    8. The window that will come up has the option for “Classic Interface”, so just click on that and click OK.
    9. Click on restart, and you’re all set!
       
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    Western Digital My Book Review

    November 18th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 2 Comments | Filed in Offline, Reviews, Tech
    Front View

    Front View of Drive

    The My Book is Western Digital’s flagship harddrive for desktop use.

    It looks like a book, hence the name. It is a nice little drive, and the “morse code holes” as advertised on the website, do a good job of keeping the thing cool.

    If you have a recent OS, like Windows XP or Vista, the drivers will install automatically (same goes for Mac OS X and Linux – just plug the thing in and it’s detected).

    Inside the package there is a power brick, the drive, and 1 USB cable and 1 FireWire Cable.

    Performance Specifications
    Serial Transfer Rate
    eSATA
    Serial Bus Transfer Rate (eSATA) 3 Gb/s (Max)
    FireWire 400
    Serial Bus Transfer Rate (1394a) 400 Mbits/s (Max)
    USB 2.0
    Serial Bus Transfer Rate (USB 2.0) 480 Mbits/s (Max)
    Physical Specifications
    Capacity 500 GB
    Interface Triple Interface
    Physical Dimensions
    English
    Height 6.5 Inches (Max)
    Length 5.4 Inches (Max)
    Width 2.1 Inches
    Weight 2.5 Pounds
    Metric
    Height 166 mm (Max)
    Length 137 mm (Max)
    Width 54 mm
    Weight 1.15 kg
    Environmental Specifications
    Temperature (English)
    Operating 41° F to 95° F
    Non-operating -4° F to 149° F
    Temperature (Metric)
    Operating 5° C to 35° C
    Non-operating -20° C to 65° C
    Electrical Specifications
    Current Requirements
    Power Dissipation
    AC Input Voltage 100-240 VAC
    AC Input Frequency 47-63

    One thing I found was that the USB and FireWire cables were a bit short if you have your drive on the ground. You might need to buy longer ones. Also, the drive is a bit heavy.

    It is a good drive and will not crash on you, it is also so simple to use and the “amount of space left” meters are excellent! Just plug it into the wall and you’re set to go.

    It’s a sturdy drive and I recommend it. The pricing is right too! It’s only around 100-150 dollars at Costco in Canada (the prices are changing all the time).

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    How to run Spore on Linux

    November 15th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 15 Comments | Filed in How Tos, Offline, Tech
    Spore on Linux

    Spore on Linux

    Before we install, we need to be sure your system can really handle this kind of graphics.  You should have a decent graphics card, and you should have the drivers installed.  If not, check out this post.

    The first step to installing Spore on linux is to download Wine.  Obviously Spore is not a windows program so you’re going to have to emulate windows which is what wine does.  If you’re on Ubuntu just go to the terminal and type in the following commands in this order:

    sudo apt-get install wine alsa-oss

    On other operating systems you can do likewise using your various package managers.

    Then, after Wine is done installing, then you can pop your Spore CD into your CD drive and then it should install (if you’ve already installed spore on the same computer but in windows and you’re in a dual boot, at this point you can just browse to the folder where you already installed it in windows and run SporeApp.exe since wine is installed with all the other required packages).

    After installing, get the no-cd crack from gamecopyworld here, install that into the program folder, and you’re all set!

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    How to get ASIO drivers for any Sound Card

    November 12th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 2 Comments | Filed in How Tos, Offline, Tech

    I recently installed Guitar Rig onto my computer and when I plugged in my guitar, I couldn’t really hear anything but a whole bunch of crackling. I adjusted the settings and I could hear my guitar but there was a lot of latency (time between when I hit the string and when I could actually hear it on the computer). There was still a lot of crackling when I was playing, and the latency was really bad, so I did a bit of research and I found out that in order to get rid of the crackling when you play (and the huge latency issue) you need to use ASIO drivers with your sound card.

    Guitar Rig 3 with ASIO

    If you click on the file menu, and then go to audio setup, then you should get this dialog box (or do the equivalent in whatever software you are using). Here, in the interface menu on the soundcard tab, you probably won’t have the option for ASIO (if you’re having these problems). If you do have it, select it as the Interface. If you don’t then go to ASIO4ALL, download it, and install it, and then voila, problem solved! (Don’t forget to go back and change the interface to AISO).

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