WordPress, can’t upload .exe files

WordPress only accepts general images, video and document formats, If you try to upload any other file type you will get security warning Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons.

To quickly allow, add this to your  wp-config.php

define(‘ALLOW_UNFILTERED_UPLOADS’, true);

CLEver.exe, command line tool to control playback of Winamp

Needed to automate winamp, forward a track every 30 minutes, becuase it was playing from a playlist of radio streams, used a batch file with this command line tool to do it CLEveR

command line eg,
clever next

How to extract a drop down menu list from a webpage using Chrome

At times i’ve needed to extract data from a webpages dropdown menus and lists, instead of rummaging thru html I found this excellent addon for chrome that extracts it called Export HTML List Options https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/export-html-list-options/amoeofpgnollolnonakakmiehlanaocl?hl=en

Samsung NP-NC10 HSDPA modem drivers

Reinstalled XP on a Samsung NC10 with a HSDPA modem for which I couldn’t find a download for the drivers, however I found that if you install the Samsung Connection Manager the drivers get installed also.

http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/model/NP-NC10-HAF1FR-downloads

Has your keyboard just stopped working?

If you find yourself with your keyboard suddenly stopped working but your touchpad and buttons working just fine then check you haven’t accidentally activated “Filter Keys” by pressing both shift keys at the same time for 8 seconds.

Once you do that, keyboard operations will go back to normal.

filter keys

Windows Filter Keys ignores keyboard input unless the key is held down for a significant period of time, designed as a windows accessibility feature,  you may have accidentally activated this.

 

How to access blocked torrent websites

The infamous torrent website The Pirate Bay has released an all in one TOR/Firefox installation that allows you to access blocked normal domains and also internal .onion servers hosting secondary access to the most popular torrent sites, download from http://piratebrowser.com


Do not use it to access any personal information, email etc, using the TOR network technically makes you more anonymous but if you send any unencrypted traffic everyone can see it.

How to convert jpg images to a movie file using Mplayer’s MEncoder

Here’s a command line to convert a folder with jpg’s into a mp4 using MEncoder

mencoder mf://*.jpg -mf fps=25 -o output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4

MEncoder is part of MPlayer, download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayer-win32/

How to download music from Youtube as mp3’s

I’ve fixed many the computer infected to the brim with viruses just because the kids tried to “download a song from internet”.

Over the years things have changed, many music file sharing programs have come and gone, torrents is the most popular way currently but several ISP block torrent sites and browsing your most likely to bump into pornographic advertising, unsavory content for the kids, so how can you get your favorite tunes and avoid all the crap?

It’s most likely the song you want is on Youtube and all you have to do copy and paste the Youtube address of the video you want as an mp3 into this website http://offliberty.com and click on the OFF button.

offliberty 

It will it then in a few seconds give you the option to save the file as mp3 or even as a mp4 video file. All you have to do is right click and “Save file as” on the link.

No filesharing software used, no funny downloads from websites or untrustworthy addons installed in your browser, neat 🙂

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