Awolnation, Sail (Shawna)

Daniel Lanois, Fire

Google App Engine

Run your web apps on Google's infrastructure
Easy to build, easy to maintain, easy to scale

Links

nata2.org/2010/08/17/jekyl-for-the-win
nata2.org/2011/01/26/how-to-use-app-engine-to-host-static-sites-for-free

Heroku

cloud application platform
deploy and scale powerful apps

Links

devcenter.heroku.com/articles/keys
fabianosoriani.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/leaving-google-appengine-for-rails-and-going-heroku
github.com/markpundsack/jekyll-heroku
rubyinside.com/deploy-blog-with-toto-and-heroku-2962.html

Windows 7 Control Panel

Action Center

• Change Action Center settings
• Windows Update = off
• Network firewall = off
• Virus protection = off
• Windows Backup = off
   
• Change User Account Control settings
• Choose when to be notified about changes to your computer = Never notify

AutoPlay

• Use AutoPlay for all media and devices = no

Display

• Set custom text size (DPI)
• Scale to this percentage of normal size = 125%

Ease of Access Center

• Always read this section aloud = no 
• Always scan this section = no 
• Make the keyboard easier to use
• Set up Filter Keys 
• Turn on Filter Keys when right SHIFT is pressed for 8 seconds = no

Folder Options

• View
• Apply to Folders
• Hide extensions for known file types = off
• Hide protected operating system files = off

Indexing Options
D:
C:\Dropbox
C:\GitHub

Personalization

• Change desktop icons
• Computer
   
• Desktop Background
• Picture position = Fill
   
• Screen Saver
• 3 minutes

Power Options

• Balanced
• Change plan settings
• Turn off the display = 30 minutes  
• Put the computer to sleep = 3 hours

Programs and Features

• Turn Windows features on or off
• Media Features 
• Windows DVD Maker = off
• Windows Media Center = off

Region and Language

• Short date = yyyy-MM-dd

System

• Advanced system settings
• Performance 
• Settings
• Show shadows under mouse pointer
• Show thumbnails instead of icons
• Smooth edges of screen fonts
• Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop
• Use visual styles on windows and buttons
  
  
• Startup and Recovery
• Settings
• System failure
• Automatically restart = no

Taskbar and Start Menu

• Taskbar
• Taskbar buttons = Combine when taskbar is full
   
• Start Menu
• Customize
• Default Programs = off
• Devices and Printers = off
• Games = Don't display this item
• Help = off
• Open submenus when I pause on them with the mouse pointer = no 
• Videos = Display as a link
• Number of recent programs to display = 10
   
• Privacy
• Store and display recently opened items = off

Windows Firewall

• Turn Windows Firewall on or off
• Home network settings = Turn off
• Public network settings = Turn off

Windows Update

• Only do important updates
  
• Change settings
• Important updates = Never check for updates

M83, Midnight City

Nightmares on Wax, Les Nuits

MP3 Diags

In a few words, MP3 Diags is a GUI-based application that allows end-users to identify issues with their MP3 files, fix some of the issues and make other changes, like adding track information. It also lets you "look inside" an MP3 file.
Unlike some programs that are designed to deal with a single topic (like fixing VBR headers or adding cover art), MP3 Diags is a one stop solution that identifies more than 50 different issues in MP3 files and provides the means to fix many of them

Links

mp3diags.sourceforge.net

Links Library

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Save this to %appdata%/microsoft/windows/libraries/Links.library-ms -->
<librarydescription xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windows/2009/library">
<iconreference>c:/dropbox/pictures/ico/7-link.ico</iconReference>
</libraryDescription>

Links

sevenforums.com/tutorials/196982-links-library-create.html
sevenforums.com/tutorials/3011-libraries-icons-change.html

RtmpDump, win64

Install MinGW
sf.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated MinGW Installer/mingw-get

It is important that you download mingw-get and not mingw-get-inst. mingw-get-inst installs x86 GCC

Build RtmpDump

:: for Windows
:: Install MSYS
mingw-get install msys-base
mingw-get install msys-wget
mingw-get install msys-unzip
mkdir c:/mingw64
sh mount c:/mingw64 /mingw64

:: Install GCC core
wget "sf.net/projects/tdm-gcc/files/TDM-GCC 4.6 series/4.6.1-tdm64-1/gcc-4.6.1-tdm64-1-core.tar.lzma"
tar xfC "gcc-4.6.1-tdm64-1-core.tar.lzma" /mingw64

:: Install GNU binutils
wget "sf.net/projects/tdm-gcc/files/GNU binutils/binutils-2.21.53-20110731-tdm64-1.tar.lzma"
tar xfC "binutils-2.21.53-20110731-tdm64-1.tar.lzma" /mingw64

:: Install mingw64 runtime
wget "sf.net/projects/tdm-gcc/files/MinGW-w64 runtime/GCC 4.6 series/mingw64-runtime-tdm64-gcc46-svn4483.tar.lzma"
tar xfC "mingw64-runtime-tdm64-gcc46-svn4483.tar.lzma" /mingw64

:: Install zlib
wget "sf.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/External binary packages (Win64 hosted)/Binaries (64-bit)/zlib-1.2.5-bin-x64.zip"
unzip "zlib-1.2.5-bin-x64.zip"
cd "zlib"
cp -r * /mingw64

:: Install PolarSSL
wget "polarssl.org/code/releases/polarssl-1.0.0-gpl.tgz"
tar xf "polarssl-1.0.0-gpl.tgz"
cd "polarssl-1.0.0"
make CC=gcc APPS=
make DESTDIR=/mingw64 install

:: Build RtmpDump
wget "repo.or.cz/w/rtmpdump.git/snapshot/60218d0.tar.gz"
tar xf "60218d0.tar.gz"
cd "rtmpdump"
make SHARED= SYS=mingw CRYPTO=POLARSSL LIBZ="-lz -static" VERSION="2.4-git-60218d0-20110930"

:: Optional, build librtmp.dll
make SYS=mingw CRYPTO=POLARSSL LIBZ="-lz -static"

Links

ariejan.net/2009/10/26/how-to-create-and-apply-a-patch-with-git
mcuee.blogspot.com/2010/08/mingw-win32-installation-to-build.html
old.nabble.com/Problems-with-nsis.make-td31498592.html
repo.or.cz/w/msysgit.git/blob/HEAD:/src/mingw-w64/patch/zlib-config.patch
sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mingw-w64/wiki/GeneralUsageInstructions

Custom Windows 7 Taskbar

Programs
UxStyle
HxD
Resource Hacker I use 64-bit

Change taskbar button font color
the default is white i wanted to change it to black
1. go to C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\Aero

2. make a copy of aero.msstyles, that way you can work with the copy

3. open aero.msstyles in hex editor

4. go to hex address 35840 and change the color from FF FF FF to color of your choice, i did black which is 00 00 00

Change taskbar date/time font color
1. go to hex address 39D78 and change the color from FF FF FF to color of your choice

2. save and close

Change taskbar color
the color of the taskbar is determined by a PNG file located inside of the aero.msstyles file. before you can edit the file you need to extract the file from aero.msstyles

1. open aero.msstyles in Resource Hacker

2. go to IMAGE\841\1033

3. Action > Save [IMAGE : 841 : 1033]

4. the file should only be 3 pixels height by 1 pixel wide, its only the bottom pixel that needs to be changed (i changed the color to silver C0C0C0)

5. after editing the picture right click on the original resource inside of resource hacker and choose "Replace Resource..."

6. Resource Type is "IMAGE", Resource Name is "841", you can leave Resource Language blank, then hit "Replace"

Apply the Custom Theme
1. rename C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\Aero\aero.msstyles to aero-old.msstyles

2. rename new file to aero.msstyles

3. log off and back on

4. right click on desktop and choose "Personalize"

5. choose "Windows 7 Basic" under "Basic and High Contrast Themes"

Links

sevenforums.com/customization/24620-change-taskbars-font-color.html
sevenforums.com/tutorials/4315-taskbar-customize-skin.html
windows7center.com/forums/useful-guides/1878-how-change-colour-windows-7-basic-2.html
winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?/topic/14250-tutorial-hex-editing-vista-visual-styles

Katy Perry, Last Friday Light

Tears for Fears, Everybody Want to Rule the World

Blogger Authorship, Google Search

Dashboard > Design > Page Elements > Add a Gadget > HTML/JavaScript

Title
Authorship

Content

Links

google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1229920
google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1408986

attrib

:: for Windows
:: Recursively remove hidden and system attributes
:: on files and folders
cd "%localappdata%/microsoft/windows"

attrib -s -h /s /d

Links

nerdfortress.com/2009/12/18/recursively-remove-the-hidden-attribute-on-windows-files
ss64.com/nt/attrib.html

Amon Tobin, Deo

AtomicParsley

# Cross platform
# Print tags
atomicparsley video.mp4 --textdata

# Remove all metadata
atomicparsley video.mp4 --metaEnema --overWrite

# Set thumbnail
atomicparsley video.mp4 --artwork frame.png --overWrite

# Remove thumbnail
atomicparsley video.mp4 --artwork REMOVE_ALL --overWrite

Links

atomicparsley.sourceforge.net
bitbucket.org/jonhedgerows/atomicparsley

FFmpeg, Join video files

Links

ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1564791

Multi Links

Multi Links lets you open, copy or bookmark multiple links at the same time rather than having to do them all individually.

Website
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-links

Links

ghacks.net/2011/10/15/selection-links-open-download-multiple-firefox-link-targets

Blogger Custom Navbar

This all started when I decided to change the URL of my blog. The problem comes with searching the blog. I know these methods to search a Blogger blog:

1. using the Navbar
2. using Search Box Gadget
3. using Google Custom Search
4. Google Search Form

Navbar
google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=0225b59807fc566e

When you change the URL of your blog, older posts are no longer searchable. Some have said that only the last 26 posts are searchable. I have found that any existing posts or Imported posts with date earlier than the URL change are not searchable by the Navbar. A workaround is to go to each post and change the date to Automatic, but this is not feasible for large blogs.

Search box gadget
This is similar to the Navbar, but allows for some customization. It suffers from same search problem as the Navbar.

Google Custom Search Engine
This is similar to the Navbar, but allows for some customization. It suffers from search problems as well.

Google Search Form
go to
Design > Add a Gadget > HTML/JavaScript
and add the custom Navbar

Links

bloggerguide.lk/2008/02/howto-add-custom-css-class-to-blogger.html
darrenhoyt.com/2007/09/15/build-a-simpler-google-search-form
howtoinblogger.com/blogger-tutorials/how-to-remove-blogger-navbar-using-gadget

Google Homepage Background

google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=180720

Make your Google homepage feel more like, well, home! Choose your own image or photo to appear as the background to your Google homepage. You can choose an image from your Picasa Web photos, your computer or a Google public gallery.

DVD Authoring

Encode video

ffmpeg -i short.mp4 -b 6000k -bufsize 1835008 -g 18 -maxrate 9000k -minrate 1500k -r 30000/1001 -vf scale=720:854/a,pad=720:480:0:(480-ih)/2 -acodec ac3 -ab 448k -f dvd NTSC.mpg

Author DVD

dvdauthor -o VTSBASE --title NTSC.mpg
dvdauthor -o VTSBASE --toc

Create ISO

mkisofs -dvd-video -o output.iso VTSBASE

Links

darkness.codefu.org/wordpress/2009/12/burning-avis-to-dvds-under-linux
forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=154588
git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob;f=ffmpeg.c
imgburn.com
lamolabs.org/blog/4582/one-liner-how-to-burn-an-m4v-or-mp4-file-to-a-dvd-under-linux-fedora-centos-rhel-debian-ubuntu
linuxcommand.org/man_pages/mkisofs8.html
permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/120908
sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27271447
sourceforge.net/projects/win32dvd

Stardust, Music Sounds Better With You (Eat More Cake remix)

Shout it from the rooftops!

FFmpeg, Extract a frame