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µTorrent in Windows 7 & Other Links

Fix For uTorrent In Windows 7 – There are reports in various forums that uTorrent exceeds memory limit and shoots up to 100% in other cases some downloads will stop at 99.9%. In few cases uTorrent shows false reports and works oddly. – Here is how to fix those nagging problems.

The Master List of New Windows 7 Shortcuts – Lifehacker’s list of useful Windows 7 shortcuts.

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Media Open Source Solutions

Mplayer without Text

I upgraded my desktop to Kubuntu Karmic 9.10 yesterday and realized an unique problem. There was no text displayed in the OSD(On Screen Display).

Mplayer without Text

If you open the file in command prompt mode you will see the following message:

subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.

The reason for was basically that Mplayer could not find the required font file to display the text. To solve the problem you need to open the .mplayer directory in your home directory. And do one of the two following things:

  1. Copy any font file of your choice to that directory and rename it subfont.ttf (You will find fonts at /usr/share/fonts)
  2. Open the config file in the .mplayer directory and add the following lines:
    font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Times_New_Roman.ttf
    subfont-text-scale=2.5

Ps: You can replace the link to your favourite font after the font= command.  Also using Method 2 will let you even set the size of the font

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Device Open Source Solutions

Downloading Garmin GPS Data in Ubuntu

One of the simplest ways to download Track, Waypoint and Route information from your Garmin GPS in Ubuntu is using gpsbabel.

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Install gpsbabel via apt-get

sudo apt-get install gpsbabel

Connect the gps via the cable provided to the serial port of the computer or via a serial to USB converter to the USB port on your desktop/notebook.  To extract the infrormation all you need to do is, execute the following command:

gpsbabel -r -t -w -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o gpx -F data.gpx

The above command copies Routes(-r), Tracks(-t) and Waypoints(-w) from a garmin device (-i garmin) located at Serial-USB interface (-f /dev/ttyUSB0) and saves the info (-o) in the standard gps format (gpx) in the file data.gpx. You can omit the information you dont require and even choose other fromats like kml for google earth:

gpsbabel -r -t -w -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o kml -F data.kml

You should now have a file “data.gpx” which can be used to retrive or map your gps data.

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XBMC – No Cast Info from IMDB

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If you have been using the latest release of XBMC you might have noticed that XBMC does not seem to pick up the cast information of a movie from IMDB.  The problem here is that Imdb recently made minor changes to its api  and the infomation we are looking for is not available in the same location.

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The Fix

You just need to open the imdb.xml file in “/usr/share/xbmc/system/scrapers/video/” directory in linux systems(you will need to open the file as the superuser: sudo nano/usr/share/xbmc/system/scrapers/video/imdb.xml ) and “system/scrapers/video/” directory under your Xbmc installation directory in Windows.

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Organizing Media With XBMC

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If you didnt know, I happen to have a huge media collection. Everybody has Giga bytes of music and maybe a few episodes of their favorite tv shows. I have that and about 80 unwatched movies on my comp at any given time 😛

For me one of the biggest problem was to decide which movie to watch next. Normally what happens is that, I read a review of a movie or someone recommends one to me… I get my hands on the movie and forget about it. Months later I browse thru the names and wont recognize the movie… I am too lazy to lookup IMDB each time so that basically means I wont watch it for the next few months as well.

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