Fix flicker and screen offset with a DVI to HDMI cable

When I bought a new High Definition LCDTV this boxing day, I noticed that there was a VGA input.  Naturally, I found an old VGA cable and hooked up [...] Continue Reading…

Sunday, February 24th, 2008Filed in Hardware | Comment now »

CD Art Display

CD Art Display is a great program.  If you failed at the tutorial I posted on how to change your MSN picture to your currently playing album artwork, this [...] Continue Reading…

Thursday, February 21st, 2008Filed in Music | Comment now »

iTunes Guitar Tab Downloader Released

Today I wrote a quick program that will automatically search for tabs of the selected tracks in iTunes. The tabs are saved as text files in a specified folder.

[Download [...] Continue Reading…

Thursday, February 21st, 2008Filed in Programming | Comment now »

How to change your MSN Display Picture to iTunes’ Current Playing Album Art

Update: If you’d rather just download a program instead of writing your own to do this for you, take a look at CD Art Display.  It’s free to download, [...] Continue Reading…

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Filed in Music, Programming | 13 Comments »

Top 5 Firefox Extensions

Tweaks and extensions go hand-in-hand, so here are my favourite extensions:

1. Adblock Plus:

This extension does what it says: it blocks ads. However, instead of using a centralized list [...] Continue Reading…

Friday, February 8th, 2008Filed in internet | Comment now »

Top 3 firefox tweaks

So after a clean windows install having finished my new computer build, I have finally fixed up my firefox with 3 key tweaks.

Top 3 about:config tweaks:

Just type “about:config” in [...] Continue Reading…

Friday, February 8th, 2008Filed in internet | Comment now »

How to add bpm information to your tracks

Adding bpm (beats per minute) info can be beneficial to a variety of users.  Perhaps you’re an aspiring DJ, or like to jog with your ipod, or maybe you [...] Continue Reading…

Friday, February 8th, 2008Filed in tech | Comment now »

iTunes Last.FM Tagger with Automatic Mode

I just finished adding an automatic option for the itunes tagger. This means that the program will no longer overwrite any existing data unless the “Only check for [...] Continue Reading…

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Filed in Programming | Comment now »

iTunes Tagger (now with Last.FM tags!)

Turns out that the fingerprinting software from Musicip.com was a bit more restricted than I thought. So I completely redesigned my tagging program to work with a more [...] Continue Reading…

Friday, February 1st, 2008Filed in Programming | 8 Comments »

iTunes Album Art Feature

So I decided to finally cave in and sign up for an iTunes account, if only to enable the album art search feature. The first thing I noticed [...] Continue Reading…

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008Filed in Programming | Comment now »