Author Archives: Dan

Winamp crashes Gtalk when “Show current music track” is enabled

By Dan | Published: 04/07/2009
If you use Gtalk and you have set the status option  to “Show current music track” and use Winamp 5.xxx you will see that Gtalk has a hard time getting the information from Winamp. In order to solve this you will need to create a blank “winamp.m3u” using any kind of player that understands that [...]
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Streamripper for Winamp on Vista enable & disable annoyance

By Dan | Published: 04/03/2009
If you are using the well-known Streamripper with Winamp for ripping your favorite streams on Vista you might experience a problem when disabling Streamripper. I for one, don’t need Streamripper all the time so I disable it and re-enable it only when I go for a “tunes hunt”. The user credentials stuff will give you [...]
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Logitech Cordless Desktop Wave Kit + Foobar2000

By Dan | Published: 02/01/2009
For those of you who found themselves having problems configuring the media keys for the keyboard, don’t worry. The solution exists and you don’t need to think of changing your favorite player because of this issue. If you own this cool wireless set and you are a fan of Foobar2000 player you will proably want [...]
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Sorry for downtime

By Dan | Published: 01/26/2009
Eleven days ago the server on which this blog is hosted went down. The server’s OS (RHEL 5) went into kernel panic. Reason is unknown and probably will remain that way unfortunately. For the last eleven days, I spent most of my time recovering what I could from the server. MySQL databases have been fully [...]
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Woork Handbook – a great resource for web designers

By Dan | Published: 01/04/2009
Antonio’s Handbook is like a present for all web designers out there. The Woork Handbook is a free eBook about CSS, HTML, Ajax, web programming, Mootools, Scriptaculous and other topics about web design… directly from Woork! I strongly suggest you download (it’s free !) his book and have a look. It’s a great piece of reference. In case [...]
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