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Lock full screen video with dual monitors

March 3, 2010 – 16:41
You can never have enough screen space, especially when you are a multi-tasking addict like me. I have been using dual screen setups for years now and i'm not alone. A lot of  people use two, three or even more monitors  at work and at home. Thing is, in all those years using multiple screens I  find support for it in all kinds of software is minimal. I don't know of any games that take real advantage of multiple screens, most software doesn't have genuine supprt for multiple screens and what bothers me most, no video player has decent dual screen features. I like to 'watch' video will i'm working or surfing the internet. My major problem is when I start a video and enable full screen as soon as I click in the other monitor the video player resizes to default resolution. All web video players do this. It doesn´t ...

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How to play video on your TomTom navigation device

January 18, 2010 – 20:44
After my good old TomTom Go 700 passed away I got a new TomTom Go 740 Live and soon found out it's really easy to play video on a TomTom navigation device. This way you can use your navigation as an in-car entertainment centre. With TomPlayer you are able to watch full screen video's in AVI (divx or xvid) or MPEG video and listen to mp3 or ogg audio files. The documentation on tomplayer.net can be a bit confusing and installation is not the same for all TomTom models. In this post I will explain how to install and configure TomPlayer on an external MicroSD memory card. This method will work for models Go 740/750/930 Live and will probably work for a lot of other models. At the end I will explain another configuration which might work for your model. [ad#ad-2] Installation Insert SD-card into TomTom slot Download the Tomplayer zip archive and extract it Connect TomTom ...

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2000-2009 Decade Mashup Mix

January 7, 2010 – 22:25
The best hits from the last decade in a three hour mashup mix! Dutch master of mashups Martin Pieters mixed this masterpiece for 538 radio and it's truly great. Enjoy! [ad#ad-2] Radio 538 Decademix(2000 t/m 2009) mixed by DJ Martin Pieters 1. End of Decennium 538 intro by Rob van Hees 2. Lenny Kravits-I’ll be there 3. Jordin Sparks-No air 4. Jason Mraz-I’m yours 5. Live-Overcome 6. Justin Timberlake-Cry me a River 7. Eminem-Cleaning out my closet 8. James Morrison-Undiscovered 9. Jordin Sparks-Tattoo 10. Beyonce-Halo 11. Dido-Here with me 12. Melanie C-Never be the same again 13. Jay Z & Alicia Keys-Empire state of mind 14. 50 Cent-In da club 15. Ne Yo-Miss Independent 16. Beyonce-Irreplacable 17. Outlandish-Aicha 18. Justin Timberlake-What goes around … comes around 19. Nickelback-How you remind me 20. Kane-My best wasn’t good enough 21. Dido-White flag 22. Toni Braxton-He wasn’t man enough for me 23. Kellis-Bossy 24. Nicole Scherzinger ft. Will.I.am-Baby love 25. Counting Crows & Vanessa Carlton—Big yellow taxi 26. Destiny’s Child-Jumpin’ jumpin’ 27. Tizianno Ferro & Kelly Rowland-Breath gentle 28. Simon Webbe-No worries 29. Beyonce & Sean Paul-Baby boy 30. Fat Joe & Ashanti-What’s luv 31. Gwen Stefani-4 in the morning 32. Snoop Dogg & Pharell-Drop it like its hot 33. Avril Lavigne-Complicated 34. No Doubt-Hey baby 35. Alicia Keys-No one 36. Beyonce & Shakira-Beautiful liar 37. Sean ...

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Easy embedding: Wordpress oEmbed plugin

December 21, 2009 – 20:39
oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly. Embedding made easy. More information about oEmbed can be found on the oEmbed website. Thanks to Jan-Willem Eshuis oEmbed is now available for Wordpress! The oEmbedder plugin makes it easy to use oEmbed services from websites like Flickr, Youtube, Qik, Revision3 and Vimeo into your weblog. I've tested the WP-oEmbed plugin on this blog and we will probably use it for the NOS weblogs soon. [ad#ad-2] How to install? Installation is very easy, just download the zip file and install this into your Wordpress plugins directory or auto-install via Wordpress plugins browser (search for: oembed). Howto use the plugin The plugin will automatically replace special uri’s you provide to ...

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Modern Warfare 2 console enabler

November 29, 2009 – 08:49
Only one week after "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" went on sale, some PC players appear to have found a workaround solution to their dissatisfaction with Infinity Ward's new IWNet system. When Infinity Ward announced that it would forgo dedicated servers for the new matchmaking setup similar to what console players experience, a large number of gamers signed a petition expressing their discontent. Now, some of those code-savvy complainers have reportedly recreated a dedicated server experience by unlocking the game's developer console. Well, you can’t keep a good PC gamer down. Certain cracks already allow some online play, and now the console has been enabled, allowing players to kick, change POV and FOV, and presumably do most of the stuff Infinity Ward decided had to stay in the cookie jar. DOWNLOAD LINK for the MW2 Unleahsed console enabler tool (use at your own risk) (USENET) [ad#ad-2] Of course, the darker side to all ...

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Yikes! The ieframe.dll dns error and how to solve it

October 29, 2009 – 15:22
Recently two seperate users mailed me about not being able to visit my website. They both reported blank screens or browser windows automatically closing.  One of them was able to tell me he was prompted with the following errors: DUTCH ENGLISH Rick says (5:53 PM): "De website kan niet worden geopend" Rick says (5:54 PM): "de bewerking is afgebroken" Rick says (5:55 PM): onderin staat: wachten op res//ieframe.dll/dnserror.htm Rick says (5:53 PM): "This page can not be viewed" Rick says (5:54 PM): "process stopped" Rick says (5:55 PM): in the bottom bar it says: waiting for res//ieframe.dll/dnserror.htm [ad#ad-2] This is not an error generated by kaisersblog.com or any other website! These problems occur on the client (your local machine) side. Ieframe.dll errors are fairly varied and really depend on the cause of the problem. A few of the more common ieframe.dll related errors are shown here: "Res://ieframe.dll/dnserror.htm#" "File Not Found C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\IEFRAME.DLL" Most ieframe.dll "not found" or "missing" type of errors occur when using Internet Explorer 7 or while ...

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DSB Fail, how to log in without waiting

October 12, 2009 – 09:45
Dutch Bank DSB is desperately looking for ways to prevent customers from transferring their money to other bank accounts since bad publicity began two weeks ago. Their latest attempt in doing so is creating large queues for online banking log in requests. Customers who do try to log in are prompted the following message: For my foreign readers, this message tells customers there is a queue for logging in. It shows the number of minutes you have to wait and the number of the Helpdesk. [ad#ad-2] But now it seems the waiting queue a big hoax, it isn't that busy on the server. They probably just want you to call their expensive helpdesk. Hackblog decided to take a look at the source code of this waiting queue page. They found out it appears that every 10 seconds is the server checks if your turn is up. When starting multiple sessions we get variable ...

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War on Embedding

October 9, 2009 – 14:19
It has been all over  the news; the Dutch news, at least: you have to pay to embed video in your website. Righto........ The BUMA/STEMRA (abbreviated BS, which is by coincidence also the abbreviation for bullshit) announced some new rules yesterday during their press conference for embedding videos from online media streamer sites (youtube, dailymotion, whatever). starting from 2010, EVERYBODY must pay 30 euros per year for EVERY clip that you embed from youtube; if the embedded video falls under the copyright list of bullshit/stemshit (to be known: 17k musicus in the Netherlands and 1,2 mil worldwide –source: SP!TS). [ad#ad-2] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Here’s a screenshot of today’s SP!TS Newspaper where this news is covered."][/caption] The idea is that the BS will (if not already) develop a script/robot/crawler to go, multiply and overpopulate the internet with one mission: to index where on internet (copyrighted) videos are being embedded. Those bots will call home. For ...

Posted in Video, Web, music | 3 Comments »

Working on my social repository

October 6, 2009 – 15:58
Unlike a few years ago I don't bother registering for websites or social services. Over these years I have registered for numerous social media websites, applications and services. The problem is I only use a very small percentage of them. I really like my Youtube and Flickr accounts but normally I find it to much trouble to keep track of all my social media profiles and updates. Therefore I wanted to do something about this problem, not only do I want my social networks to grow I also want to use them more actively. So I had to automate some stuff, for me as a user and for you as a follower. [ad#ad-2] First the ' easy updating'  part. I found a great service that does all the hard work for me, Pixelpipe. This great service allows you to upload messages and multimedia to a lot of services. More than 120 ...

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Picture Quality on BBC HD: a response

September 21, 2009 – 17:32
On the 5th of August BBC's new transmission encoders were taken into operation. After some questions from viewers they have decided to respond on their Internet blog. The blogpost is actually a response from BBC's head of BBC HD Danielle Nagler to an anonymous author. In my opinion this article gives a very interesting insight in the kitchen of world's biggest high definition br0adcaster: Hello Everyone I thought that you might like to see the detailed response which I have sent to someone who contacted me regarding the picture quality issues which are under discussion here: "...Your complaint refers to the introduction of the new transmission encoders for BBC HD which were introduced into operations on Wednesday 5th August. There was an extensive process of assessment in advance of the selection of new encoders for the BBC HD service, using both objective and subjective criteria. The encoders which were chosen then went through ...

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IE7 CSS fixes, The most common css solutions for Internet Explorer 7

September 4, 2009 – 17:43
The <!--[if IE]> Tag Problem: Various sizes, margins and padding attributes can display differently in Internet Explorer, this coded snippet can help you sort out these problems. Add this code with your required settings underneith your pages <style> or external style link: <!--[if IE]> <style> .item { margin: 5px; padding: 10px; } </style> <![EndIf]--> These setting will now only be loaded when your page is viewed in Internet Explorer. I often use this setting to tweak areas of my layout that do not quite display the same as in other browsers. Margin Auto Centering Problem: When centering div tags via either the margin-left: auto; or margin-right: auto; settings, this will not work in Internet explorer unless you add the following to your style sheet for the html body: html, body { text-align: center; } Don't forget to now add this to your paragraphs and headings as the above setting will now cause these to also center. p {text-align: left;} [ad#ad-2] Minimum height bug Problem: When trying to create a ...

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