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Playing DVD Video in Windows Media Player

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Windows Media Player can not play DVD videos by default. You have to purchase other softwares for playing DVDs or Blue Ray Disks in your PC or Laptop.

But, there’s another free Multimedia Player available which can play anything you through at it with a little help from codecs like FFDShow. That is VLC Media Player from VideoLAN. Thats another story, we are here to discuss playing DVDs in Windows Media Player.

After some time waste and research, I found a working and free way of playing DVD’s in Windows Media Player. It’s a codec called WECP (Windows Essential Codec Pack), though it contains lots of unessential codecs to dump your PC. Download it here or from the link below the post. I am gonna give you a step by step guide to install it without unnecessary codecs.

Double Click on the installer package and then Click Next > I Agree. Remove check on Auto Update Service and Media Player Classic. Expand the Video Codecs by clicking on the + sign. Now uncheck the FFDshow, Cinepack and MPV Decoder. Now click on Next > Install > Finish. Reboot your PC.

Now insert a DVD in the drive and choose Play DVD in Windows Media Player from autorun option. You can also play it manually. Its a old version of the codec pack and Cyberlink DVD decoder is built in. Its removed in latest versions as Cyberlink made it paid, so, disabling auto update is mandatory.

You can now install the latest version of FFDShow to play other types of media such as DivX, AVI, FLV.

Download the WECP 1.0 Here.

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See Beyond The Asterisks

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Forget your password but it is saved on Firefox? Or just saw a password stored in Firefox in a public computer?
You can see it now. Actually, theres two ways to do that.
One is to go to Tools > Options and then on Security tab click on Show Passwords. Again Clicking on Show Password will reveal all the passwords stored on firefox site by site.

But, there is another exciting way to do that. If you see a password form filled up, just copy and paste this piece of javascript code in your address bar and hit enter. A Popup will then come up showing the passwords.

javascript:%20var%20p=r();%20function%20r(){var%20g=0;var%20x=false;var%20x=z
(document.forms);g=g+1;var%20w=window.frames;for(var%20k=0;k<w.length;
k++)%20{var%20x%20=%20((x)%20||%20(z(w[k].document.forms)));g=g+1;}if
%20(!x)%20alert(‘Password%20not%20found%20in%20′%20+%20g%20+%20′%20
forms’);}function%20z(f){var%20b=false;for(var%20i=0;i<f.length;i++)%20{var
%20e=f[i].elements;for(var%20j=0;j<e.length;j++)%20{if%20(h(e[j]))%20{b=true}
}}return%20b;}function%20h(ej){var%20s=”;if%20(ej.type==’password’){s=ej.value;
if%20(s!=”){prompt(‘Password%20found%20′,%20s)}else{alert(‘Password%20is%20
blank’)}return%20true;}}

Check it and let us know here what you found :)

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Mouseless Browsing

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In these days of Laptops, people may find it very difficult to control the cursor by touchpad specially when you are migrated from a desktop. Look at me! it took me about 6 months to get used to the touchpad and still I have some problems.

I was looking for some way where I don’t have to use the touchpad while browsing the internet. As I use Mozilla Firefox 3 (I don’t hate IE :p) for all of my browsing needs, I was looking for some solutions like an addon or plugin.

I found this on the official mozilla plugin site and find it really interesting. I though I should give it a try and installed it. It really a wonderful plugin if you get used to it (I hope, as I am still trying to learn the basic functions). What it do is fragment the entire webpage into small boxes with a unique id to each of them. If you want to navigate, you just have to type the id of the corresponding link you want to navigate and hit enter. Nice Tool, indeed.

But, it doesn’t cover the basic needs of the browser like opeing a new tab or navigate through tabs, open a new window etc. So, I was again looking for help and find some keyboard shorcuts for FireFox 3. Here are some of them which comes handy while surfing.

  1. Ctrl+N : Opens up a new Window
  2. Ctrl+T : Opens up a new Tab
  3. Alt+Tab : Navigates trough the Opened Windows
  4. Ctrl+Tab : Navigates through the Tabs in a Window
  5. Alt+D : To go to the location/address bar
  6. Ctrl+K : To go to the default search bar after opeing a new window or tab
  7. Ctrl+F : To bring out the Inpage Search box to quickly find something in the opened webpage
  8. Ctrl+D : To Bookmark a webpage
  9. F5 : To reload a page (Ctrl+F5 : To reload a page overriding the cache)

These shotcuts are really helpful for quick browsing without using mouse ot touchpad.

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