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Gmail Phone Call: Call failed due to an error [Code: 3 Remote: true]

October 5th, 2010 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 27 Comments | Filed in Online

If you get an error on Gmail while attemping to make a free call to an actual phone, that says this:

Call failed due to an error [Code: 3 Remote: true]

That error code (as far as I know), means that the person you are calling is on the phone already, or that Gmail is getting a busy signal while trying to call your buddy!

One of our readers (Wave Cool00) just commented that this error can also happen when trying to chat (audio or video) from the same PC but from different Gmail accounts.  Thanks for the feedback!

If you have something to say to the contrary, let me know in the comments section!

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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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How To Remove Windows Explorer / MSIE Browsing Click

September 11th, 2009 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 1 Comment | Filed in How Tos

It can be quite irritating. There seems to be this clicking sound everytime you browse to a new folder in Windows Explorer or follow a hyperlink in either Internet Explorer. Wondering how to remove it? It’s quite simple.

Remove Browsing Click:

  1. Go to the Control Panel
  2. Open the Sounds and Audio Devices Control Panel App
  3. Go to the Sounds tab
  4. Find the “Start Navigation” Program Event
  5. Select “(None)” as the sound.
  6. Press OK, and you’re all set!  Enjoy.
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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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