Is Your Simplifymedia For Winamp Broken On A 64 Bit Windows 7? Here's How To Fix It
SimplifyMedia is an extremely useful program, which allows super easy song and playlist sharing via streaming between multiple computers. It also works as a Winamp plugin, so the shared songs simply show up inside Winamp's own media library – each computer sharing music appears under the special "Shared" tab. And the beauty is – there is no need to muck around with network settings, open ports, or even…
Updated: April 10th, 2009
Recently I read an article on the Six Revisions blog that discussed 10 seemingly simple improvements to the twitter interface. They included such things as nick autocomplete, mentions, groups, and more.
You could only dream about such twitter improvements… that is until you use the Troys Twitter script. Just perform the following steps and you will have the features I describe in this article. Here we…
Quick Perl Snippet: Finding If A File Has A Media Extension Using Regex
Updated: May 1st, 2008
Sometimes in my line of work, I need to figure out if a url or filename point to a media file by checking for the file extension. If it's a url, however, it may be followed by various parameters. Not to overcomplicate things, I came up with the following Perl code:
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $name = "some_file.flv"; |
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