Festive Greetings

Merry Christmas to all, and a happy new year ! (Now bring on the presents)

Telnet on Vista

By default, Vista doesn’t install the Telnet client. The client is for text-based communication with remote systems. You can install it by following these steps:

1. Click Start then select Control Panel.

2. Select Programs and Features.

3. Select Turn Windows features on or off.

4. Select the Telnet Client option.

5. Click OK.

6. A dialog box will appear to confirm installation. The telnet command should now be available.

Firefox + Clear (part of your) history

Firefox allows you the wonderful ability to delete a limited part of your history… We wont ask too many questions on why this is a hidden feature of this daily used app !

CTRL+SHIFT+DEL

Change default Media Center Recorded TV file names

Here’s how to change the name / title WMC labels your tv recordings with.

In Regedit.exe Navigate To:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Service\Recording

Add or edit the String Value – ‘filenaming’

  • %Ch – Channel Number
  • %Cn – Station Name
  • %T – Title of show
  • %Et – Episode Title
  • %Dt – Date and Time

For example – %T_%Et_%Cn

Megavideo, Remove Time Limitation

I suspect that most of you use or have used Megavideo, an excellent video [sharing] service, however as most of [you] would know it does have an annoying time-limit on its videos to force payment out of you.

So the first thing you could use is this site http://megastreaming.org/ all you need to do is type in the URL of your video in the provided space and it will generate a link without the time limit.

Illitmux is a handy Firefox plug-in that does the same thing as the previous website, basically what they have is a load of gold accounts and when [you] press the button they just stream you the video via the gold account. Here is the link Illitmux