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How to Set Winamp Skins on VLC Media Players ?

VLC media player is obviously a superb multimedia player, due to its capability and features, but its default skin/theme doesn’t look much better as its features do.

So here is a solution from which one can easily use winamp classic skin onto the VLC media player:

Launch the VLC Player and go to Settings > Switch Interface > Skins 2, as displayed in the below picture

How to Apply Winamp Skins on VLC Media Player

This skin looks a little modern.

How to Apply Winamp Skins on VLC Media Player

Choose Select Skin (by right clicking on to the empty space in the player window), and hit on Open Skin.

How to Apply Winamp Skins on VLC Media Player

Now go to to the location-folder where the winamp classic themes are placed on your PC, and select an appropriate skin

How to Apply Winamp Skins on VLC Media PlayerNow the VLC Media Player will have a brand new look. You can adopt the same procedure to select different skins.

How to Apply Winamp Skins on VLC Media Player

However, the new VLC skin will remain until the player is restarted, if you do so, the newly set skin will reset to default one. So to keep the settings permanent, you will have to follow below steps:

  1. Launch the VLC Media Player
  2. Visit Settings > Preferences. (In older versions visit Menu > Tools > Preferences)
  3. In the Preferences section, click onto the Main Interface > Skins button
  4. Click on Advanced Options
  5. Save all settings

How to Apply Winamp Skins on VLC Media Player

PS: To search the winamp classic skins,

  1. Visit classic.winamp.com/skins website
  2. Look up for your desired skin there
  3. Moreover, hit onto the Classic Skins (While performing the search) How to Apply Winamp Skins on VLC Media Player
  4. Then Select and download the desired skin and enjoy using it,
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How to easily reach a directory in windows using command prompt

Most of the times it looks annoying when we want to reach to some folder directly (in windows) by using the Windows Command Prompt, and writing CD Folder, again and again.

Open Command Prompt at a Particular Folder Directly from the Folders Context Menu

I have got a very simple solution for it.

For doing so, you will have to paste the below lines as it is, into the notepad, and save it as cmd.reg on the desktop preferably.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryshellCommand]
@=”Open with Command Prompt”
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryshellCommandcommand]
@=”cmd.exe \”%1\””

After saving it, launch the saved file (by double clicking on it), so that the settings written in the file could be sent to the registry file. Now when you perform a right click onto any directory, it will show an extra option by the name Open With Command Prompt.

Enjoy!

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How to Fix “Cannot modify header information – headers already sent” error in WordPress

A most frequent question comes while wordpress troubleshooting is, after adding some code to functions.php or after replacing / modifying any file by using the FTP, we get an error like below,

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /your/site/path/public_html/index.php:724) in /your/site/path/public_html/blog/somefile.php on line 98

It means that there is anything came before the headers part of the PHP. For example text or the spaces have same before or after (Start Tag) <?php or ?> (ending tag).

Tip : You can get the error information, by visiting to Home of your FTP Server and look for the file named error_log, just download and view it.

Now open that errorfile.php either by downloading it from FTP or open it directly from your File Manager, and look at the starting portion, and remove all extra content like spaces, but if you get something HTML tags like  <div id=”TipsRing”> then don’t delete them.

How to Fix Cannot modify header information - headers already sent error in WordPress

How to Fix Cannot modify header information headers already sent error in WordPress

Now go to the end of that error generating file and delete all blank spaces after the ?> sign.

How to Fix Cannot modify header information headers already sent error in WordPress

You can replace that file with your new one (edited) either by using the FTP or in the File Manager itself. But remember to backup your old files first.

Enjoy!

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A Beginners Guide to Firefox Profiles

Firefox profile are almost like using different browsers (each profile acts as a different browser). The profiles can have their own bookmarks , addons, extensions, themes and so on, means one profile could be totally different from the rest profiles.

What’s their use?

  • You can create different profiles for different folks like 1 for you, 1 for your brother and so on, on the same PC.
  • You can create a separate video profiles including all of the add-ons
  • Your home, and office profiles could differ from each other. Let’s say, If you are using your firefox for the development then obviously there wouldn’t be anything to deal with Gmail, and if using Gmail, your browser will be dead slow.
  • You can also create a separate profile to perform a research on the new addons or themes.

Here is the way to create a separate profile in the Mozilla FIrefox,

1. Just launch the command prompt (go to Run, write cmd and hit the Enter button), and launch the mozilla firefox with its end as –profilemanager, as shown below.

A Beginners Guide to Firefox Profiles

2. This will launch the the Profile Manager of Mozilla Firefox,

Now first of all you need to uncheck the Don’t ask at startup option, so that whenever Mozilla Firefox gets started, it will ask which profile is to use.

A Beginners Guide to Firefox Profiles

So, now you can create multiple profiles by using the Create Profile Button. and similar to this, you can also delete or rename any of the available Mozilla Firefox Profiles.

How to use Different Mozilla Firefox Profiles at the same time ?

Well, you will not be able to run more than 1 Mozilla Firefox profile simultaneously, by default.
But if you want to use different profiles at the same time, then first of all you need to make a shortcut for Mozilla Firefox. The simplest mehtod to this is, visit the Firefox installation directory (usually C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox), right click on the file firefox.exe and click on create a shortcut and copy-paste it to the desktop, or click on the send to desktop link.

A Beginners Guide to Firefox Profiles

Then visit to the desktop and perform a right click on that newly created shortcut, then go to properties, and append -no-remote in the end of that text, as shown below.

A Beginners Guide to Firefox Profiles

Here you go, now you can use it to launch several Mozilla Firefox at the same time. Just launch the Mozilla Firefox by using this shortcut.

Enjoy. 🙂

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How To Change Screensaver Timeout Value in Windows Operating System

You might be knowing that, screensavers are the moving pattern which helps in protecting the computer monitor screen from burn-in due to the static text or image residing on it’s screen for longtime.

On the Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7, one can configure the timings for the screensaver to come in, which is set to 5 minutes by default.

So, to change that default timeout, perform a right click anywhere on your desktop and hit the Personalize option. Then click onto the Screen Saver, and change that default value present in the wait text field and hit OK at last.

Here you go, you just set the screensaver timeout value.

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Top 5 Reasons for not Buying an iPad

If you have bought and iPad, then this article is not for you, but if you haven’t yet and planning to but it in the nearer future, then go through this article.

Why to go for an old one?

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  • In this modern generation, when hundreds of technological devices are launched every month, why should go for an old iPad? iPad is going to be outdated, and iPad 2 is coming.
  • In the nearer future, iPad-2 is about to come which would be having a lot of advanced features like USB Port, HDMI Port, Dual Core Display, Retina Graphics and 2 cameras (1 for video calling), while in the current version of iPad, it doesn’t consist of a single camera even.
  • iPad-2 could be announced in the beginning of next month (March 2011), in such case buying an old version won’t be a fair deal.
  • While coming onto the price band, iPad-2 could be considered of having less price as compared to the current iPad, due to high competition in the Tablet PC Market.

Galaxy Tab New Version will shine more

  • The main features of iPad consists of its User-Interface, Operating System and the Application storage.
  • Samsung Galaxy had given a strong competition to the iPad in the same market. However some people don’t prefer going android instead of iPad OS, but Samsung is ready to announce a new version of Galaxy Tab in this month itself. It is assumed that it would be having Android 3.0 which will take user experience to a new level.
  • Screen size would be same around 7 inch, and would be having Gorilla Display for the Scratch Resistant Screen.
  • Moreover, the new Galaxy Tab would be having Dual Core Processor, 8 Mega-pixel and 3 Mega-Pixel Cameras, 64 GB internal memory along with 1 GB RAM.
  • If you’re a fan of Android, and want some tablet PC like who would be the Daddy of iPad, then this is a smarter choice for you.

Do you want it really?

  • The solid reason to procrastinate buying an iPad is a simple question: Do you really need an iPad?
  • Will you be happy by taking a 10 inch screen along with you all the times, when it has several limitations like no USB port, no camera, and nothing except the Touch-Screen !
  • There are several 4 inch smart-phones are out in the market and feature wise, they are more superior than the iPad.
  • If you can think that the Smart-Phones (which can come into your Pocket) and the Netbook (Which can come into your bag) are appropriate, then why should go to waste your money?

Cheaper Tablets

  • The cheapest iPad will cost you about of Rs. 28000, with just Wi-fi equipped in it.
  • There are several Tablet Devices out in the market, which cost your almost half of it and will come along with the additional features like 3G Connectivity, Android Operating System and so on.