In my previous post I give a quick and dirty overview of mobile web site design today and it really is a challenge to put together a strategy because there are so many mobile devices out there with so many different capabilities. 1and1 offers both access to Adobe Dreamweaver and its own Mobile Web …
Differences between “Regular” and Mobile Web Design You will need to know the latest HTML (HTML5) and CSS. Some references sources are: HTML (HTML5 is the current standard) tags: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/, http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/html_cheatsheet/ CSS reference: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/ W3C has an HTML tutorial at http://www.w3schools.com/html/ W3C also has a CSS tutorial at http://www.w3schools.com/css/ The W3C has a Mobile Web …
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My Blu-ray player plays every DVD, Blu-ray, and even every streaming Netflix movie as smooth as can be. Not so much for my Windows 7 HTPC (home theater PC). I have found several issues that affect how smoothly video and even audio play at times in various places. The term is jitter. Jitter simply means …
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Thanks to DynamicGaming1060 for this fix. He put a Youtube video here showing this fix in much greater detail. The codec that is supposed to enable Sony Movie Studio to play .mp4 files doesn’t work. DynamicGaming1060 says to replace compound.dll (I found mine in C:\Program Files\Sony\Movie Studio Platinum 12.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\compoundplug\) with qt7plug.dll. (You can do …
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There are numerous ways to find the devices on your network from brute force DOS commands to utilities on your router to specialized freeware apps that do a handy job. Brute Force: Hardest At each computer, you can use: ipconfig /all to get the IP information at each computer and compile your own table. Alternately, …
To use remote desktop, you must have it enabled in the system you want to connect to. In Control Panel, in System, on the Remote tab is the checkbox to enable remote connections. To connect to another computer, the Remote Connection tool is in the Communications folder which is in the Accessories folder which is …
My good old FIOS DVR let you change the Skip and Replay Intervals in the setup of the DVR. Windows MCE isn’t that sophisticated. But it is available to change if you are up to changing the registry. As always, registry editing is done at your own risk. Changing the wrong value in the registry …
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I am using an Harmony 200 remote with one of my extenders and it has worked great. Today, however, it wouldn’t work and the three device buttons were flashing. I checked the batteries and they were low. Replacing the batteries didn’t correct the problem, however. I tried to find a manual, but evidently none is …
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Sony Movie Studio Platinum 12 program is a wonderful and powerful program that works, in my humble opinion, better than any other consumer oriented video editing program on the market. Perhaps I feel this way because it renders with the least problems. (Notice I didn’t say without any problems, just the least that I have …
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Windows Media Center (WMC) advertises they can work with wireless networks. WMC extenders come with big antennas. Is it really feasible to plan on having a whole house WMC feeding multiple extenders? The answer is no. The problems are bandwidth and freedom from interference. Using a Silicondust HDHR3 device provides two streams of encoded HD …