This winamp easter egg will cause your skin to change transparency level with each beat. It's a cool little trick to show your friends.Winamp is famous for their easter eggs. This one is probably the most useful one I have seen. These keystrokes will cause the winamp skin to pulse in transparency with each beat. Here's how you do it. 1. Open winamp 2. Select any modern skin 3. Make sure you on the front of the skin (where the play, stop, etc buttons are) 4. Hold down CTRL+ALT+Shift and type in nullsoft 5. Play a music file and the changes should be obvious Easy, huh? Holding down CTRL+ALT+Shift while typing in NULLSOFT will give you this little fun trick.... Read More

 Since the iPod tends to have excessive space in most cases, why not use a tiny bit of that space to Rip more music?I've read about the many things that are supposedly possible with an iPod, and if Linux can be installed on it, why not any other software? **This probably voids your warranty, so do this at your own risk! If the computer has iTunes, you will need to switch to disk mode: Open iTunes edit\prefrences click on iPod tab and select the Check the box for disk use you will be warned about manual ejecting.. blah, blah.. click yes or OK, Under the same menu select the second raio button option Automatically update selected playlists only , and do not select any lists. If the computer does not have iTunes, then it will automatically be in disk mode. First you need a cd ripper. There are many rippers, i suggest any that are free, small and can connect to the CDDB (Compact Disc Database) to save you time, in putting in the track names and numbers, etc. The whole trick to this is insta... Read More

 If not careful when reducing the dimensions of a digital image, the resulting image may suffer from aliasing, a type of distortion seen in all types of digital media. A few tips can help prevent aliasing.Aliasing occurs when breaking a continuous signal into discrete pieces such as when a digital camera assembles an array of individual points or pixels from a scene. Once in a digital format, one must be cautious when altering the size. There are various techniques that graphic design applications may use to reduce image dimensions, although most involve an average of the original pictures. Imagine a simple image 100 pixels wide and high. If this image is reduced in size by half to 50x50 pixels, each resulting pixel represents 2x2 or 4 pixels of the original image. This reduction is optimal and will yield a true representation of the original image. If the original 100x100 pixel image is reduced 10% to a 90x90 pixel image, then each resulting pixel is not a simple average of neighboring... Read More

 Another of my Sony PSP guides taken from seamonkey420.tech-recipes.com lil brother site. This explains how to create custom eboot.pbp files for v1.50 sony psps. Sick of the kxploit icon and backgrounds? Lets get started!Note, taken from my site, why re-invent the wheel eh? and i'm lazy today too!.. http://seamonkey420.tech-recipes.com/psp/eboot.html Overview: This guide will explain how to create custom eboot.pbp files using your own graphics or the original emulator/homebrew graphics (replaces the KXPloit ones) This will ONLY work on Sony PSPs w/firmware verison 1.50, NOT 1.51 or 1.52!!! Required Programs: -KXPloit v1.50 -PBP Unpacker -Photo/paint editor for making custom graphics (ie photoshop) Step 1. Install the above two programs. Step 2. Download the homebrew/emulator you want to run on your PSP. Step 3. Depending on the author, the emulator might be KXploit ready (ie created w/two folders, a % folder and normal folder, ie SNES9X\ and SNES9X%\ ) If you only see one folder, then y... Read More

 Are you tired of starting up your iPod and starting your playlist to find the same song playing over and over caused by duplicate files in your Itunes library or in windows media player? Here are a few tips to help.If the only problem is duplicate *tracks* in iTunes (not duplicate files on the hard drive), the solution is easy - use iTunes built-in "Find Duplicates" feature to find and remove the duplicate tracks. There are also scripts on Doug Adam's iTunes Scripts website to perform this. I synchronize my Libraries all the time (between Mac OS X and Windows, actually) and run into this a lot. However, if the *files* (on the hard drive) are duplicated (because of different folder/file names), then the solution is tedious and requires lots of temp disk space. Manual Solution: 1. Use iTunes built-in "Find Duplicates" feature to find and remove the duplicate tracks in iTunes - this doesn't affect your drive yet). 2. Highlight every track in your iTunes Library (still in iTunes, not on yo... Read More

 A common problem after a new installation of acid is that the program fails soon after the splash screen shows "Scanning for VST Instruments..." This describes how to work around this problem.Being a music guy, I play with different audio programs frequently. Recently I installed the trial of Sony Acid 6.0 and ran into this problem. The splash screen would tell me that Sony was looking for my VST instruments, and then the splash screen would just disappear. No error message or anything. This is typically caused by an incompatible VST instrument. You can test this by renaming your VSTPlugin Folder to something else and restarting ACID. Typically the VSTPlugin folder lives in this folder or something similar: C:\Program Files\Steinberg If acid loads with this work-around, just paste your plugins back into the original VSTPlugin folder one at a time until you figure out which plugin or plugins are giving you the problem.... Read More

 Stupid TWC support did not know the answer to this question. The installer did not either. In case anybody is wondering... this is how I got audio through HDMI on my SA 8300 DVR box.No audio through your HDMI connection? Here is how to fix it. Of course, this is with Time Warner Cable's software. Your cable company may be using different software within this box. 1. Turn on your cable box 2. Push Settings button on the remote 3. Push A for More Settings 4. Scroll down with the arrow keys to Audio Digital Out 5. Press Select 6. Pick HDMI and press Select again 7. Press Exit to finish.... Read More

 This is just a quickie on how to fix any WSOD or Blank screen w/blinking IRDA problems for a Sony Ericsson K800i.You will need to purchase a credits to fix your phone however the update will not use it so you have a credit in case you ever need to update firmware or run EROM update again; the problem from what i've read around the forums seems to point to a problem w/K800i and its EROM. It seems when poweroff the device, you can corrupt the EROM and that in turns causing your phone to not power on or just power on to a white screen. Wotanserver's client can fix the EROM by updating it before it tries to flash the phone. Normally, you have to hold the C button prior to connect to put your phone into a firmware update mode, however when you get the WSOD or no screen; the C does nothing. You will actually have to hold the numbers 2 and 5 to enter the update mode. I will give a quickie run through on doing this (sure beats sending your phone back to sony for like a month and then having it... Read More

 Repetitive motion injury is a term that is thrown around a lot these days. Typing at the keyboard or using the mouse for hours and hours upon end just seems like it has to be horrible for your joints, right? Never in the time of man has anybody used a single set of joints as much as we do now, right? Well, not so fast...Carpal tunnel is big money--medications, doctor's views, braces, surgery, books, disability claims, missed work, etc. Forty percent of work place injuries are attributed to carpal tunnel syndrome. We should sue computer makers and mouse makers! Make these horrible input devices illegal! Right? Well, maybe not. What's the current medical research regarding carpal tunnel? "...computer use does not pose a severe occupational hazard for developing symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome." --JAMA. 2003; 289:2963-2969. One study (J Occup Med 1991 May;33(5):627-31) compared median nerve sensory and motor tests in a working population with significant repetitive hand usage to a norm... Read More