Without Stereo Mix? Couldn't record the sound output from Sound Blaster?

可用  Audacity Loopback feature
Select Windows WASAP
Toggle off Software Playthrough

battery drainage ... check this out

battery drainage ... check this out

Excel Old syntax @SUM will invoke [mailto:@...] url translation inside Excel; USE [=SUM(....)] instead of [@SUM(....)]

Excel Old syntax @SUM will invoke [mailto:@] url translation inside Excel

(1) Either turn off URL translation in autoformatting before working on a new worksheet;

(2) OR after finishing a worksheet, removing hyperlinks before doing pasting to other applications.

Tips: For word, to apply "remove all hyperlinks" in one go, you must "Select All" first and then apply CTRL+SHIFT+F9 (area selection or table cell selection won't work with CTRL+SHIFT+F9). To toggle hyperlink code reveal, also you must "Select All" first and then apply SHIFT+F9.

usb network or wifi Hotspot / Access Point 分享上網

USB cable 共享3G上網

wifi Hotspot / Access Point 3G上網

How to Boot an Ubuntu ISO from Your Hard Drive or Load Ubuntu Live CD ISO Contents from Hard Drive without a Live CD via EasyBCD (no Neogrub, grub or grub2)

The process is simple.
Just install EasyBCD.
No need to install NeoGrub.
No need to edit menu.1st
No more script.

- point to a ubuntu iso file on the hard drive;
- select "load from memory" ("run from drive" might work also probably);
- IMPORTANT! extract the contents of the iso to a hard disc partition for the iso entry to work. (don't ask why contents of the iso have to be extracted onto the hard drive. Just do it!)
- "add entry" to add the iso entry to windows bootloader. Done!
Enjoy booting into Ubuntu from a LiveCD on hard drive and you can select "try Ubuntu" or "install Ubuntu" as usual.

Firefox 20 or above displays pages with garbage characters

check this out (at least it works for me)

How to print screen of a single monitor only in a dual monitor environment?

no third party software is needed.

you just need to change windows presentation mode via keyboard shortcut, that is, winkey+P

How to Pin Any File to the Start Screen in Windows 8

How to Pin Any File to the Start Screen in Windows 8

ShadowDefender for windows 8 is out

Version 1.2.0.346 - November 26, 2012 ShadowDefender

Shadow Defender not work on Windows 8

Shadow Defender



message from the developer of Shadow Defender

Interesting ... have windows boot to hibernation (save state)

ToolWiz BHORM

dvbviewer vs. windows media centre recording streaming digital TV programmes

dvbviewer official page

兩者都能全方位錄播數碼電視，用家在播放錄影節目時能隨意選擇節目語言和字幕，但 windows media centre 只能錄成自家 wtv 格式，而且必須用 windows media centre 或 windows movie maker 才能播放，同時很難找到工具轉換 wtv 到其它格式，如用 windows movie maker 將其轉換成 wmv，字幕便會消失。dvbviewer 就較大路，可錄做 ts 格式，方便轉換格式，並保留字幕。



dvbviewer 價錢只賣 HK$百多元，認真抵用，有畫中畫功能、timeshift、one tuner 兩台同時錄影等。dvbviewer 同時是個多媒體播放器，播放一般 ts 錄影檔當然沒問題，並附簡單剪片軟件 tsplayer。




如需轉換 dvbviewer ts 錄影檔到其它格式，並保留字幕，可用 xmedia recode 或 freemake video converter。關於 xmedia recode 字幕走位問題，可參考這篇。

dvbviewer 教學請參考下面這兩篇。
http://www.hkepc.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=954196
http://www.tvrobbs.com/showthread.php?s=5cd004c211c015d49e0b4b931a909570&threadid=7825&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

關於將 wtv 字幕硬壓到其它影片格式，可用下列方法：

you need the help of videoredo tv suite h264

you also need another tool: freemake video converter

freemake is capable of hardcoding subtitle stream but it can't seem able to read native wtv correctly.

the workaround is to convert wtv to "ts" file with videoredo.

then open that ts file in freemake and you will find all audio and subtitle streams are kept intact.

now you can proceed to convert that ts file to video of other formats with freemake and the subtitle stream you chose will be hardcoded into. (soft subtitles to hard subtitles)

(you might check out the freeware MC-TV Converter to see if its ts output contains subtitle streams or not.)

Android App: Screenslider

use screenslider to mirror windows 7 desktop on an android phone or tablet via wifi;

touching android phone screen to remotely control the windows 7 host pc via wifi ...



Screenslider at Google Market

Get Screenslider host application for windows 7

GOM Player won't play rmvb files

CHECK OUT THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: workaround



or you might want to copy all codec files (*.ax and *.dll) in the \GomPlayer\codecs\ to the root directory \GomPlayer\.

now your GOM player will find the necessary realmedia codec {RealMediaSplitter.ax} and its dlls to play rmvb files.

How to Backup & Restore Your Windows Phone 7

How to Backup & Restore Your Windows Phone 7

Google 自家出品：Youtube 字幕下載利器

Download Google2SRT

Bluestacks Android App Player for PC

download

Click "Get More Apps" and you should see the page to login with facebook OR BlueStacks Channels account. You should be able to sign up for new user account now and associate that with BlueStacks.

To sync apps on an android phone to the BlueStacks app player on a PC, download BlueStacks Cloud Connect download

If "Get More Apps" doesn't work, try to install apps (apk setup files) from local harddrive (PC) into BlueStacks. Follow this:
1) go to c:\program files\bluestacks\
2) right click on HD-ApkHandler.exe and create shortcut;
3) then place the shortcut on the desktop or into the "SendTo" folder (C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo\);
4) drag a local apk file to that desktop shortcut or into the SendTo folder;
5) that apk will install into the bluestacks appPlayer right away;
6) that app is now available in the appPlayer.

it works for me though it might not work for some apps apks.
(please rename apk file names to English for better compatibility.)

a mahjong android game now runs on my PC ... here we are ...


android hangman on my PC ...

Android Off-screen Clock

download

an actual off-screen clock (not a lock-screen clock or something screensaver clock) resemble that of the Nokia N8. (you will notice that the screen actually goes off/black out and then a dim clock pops up; and all backlight are off.)

[[[advantage]]]
users can avoid pressing the power button to turn the screen on; with Off-Clock is on and active, users can use the HOME button to turn the screen on.

[[[one serious drawback]]]
for motorola milestone 3, whenever the screen goes off/black out, unanswered incoming calls will invoke a small green light at the upper right corner. This functionality is inactive whenever Off-Clock is on. I guess the reason is that the author disables all lighting functionalities to save battery.

Facebook Timeline 一個有趣用法

回到過去新增發文！假如不按時鈡，就不知道貼文是在今天發的，只會看見2011年11月9日，但連結的報導其實是來自今天27號的蘋果日報。

為你的Windows 7更換不同的語言介面

(http://www.hkepc.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=1690061&extra=page%3D1%26amp%3Borderby%3Ddateline%26amp%3Bfilter%3D2592000)

轉換語言介面的方法，是使用微軟自家的 DISM 指令。

微軟官方語言包下載(只適用於 Windows 7 SP1)︰
download

所下載之語言包，均為 exe 檔案。而所需要到的是 lp.cab。Double click 個 exe檔，係相同目錄下會短暫出現一個 lp.cab 嘅檔案，抄走呢個檔案用就得。

以管理員的身份，打開「命令提示字元」，然後輸入"dism /online /add-package /packagepath:(語言包所放的位置)"；

假設你的 lp.cab 是放在 C:盤下，則輸入"dism /online /add-package /packagepath:C:\"(不包含引號)或直接打出其路徑︰"dism /online /add-package /packagepath:C:\lp.cab"(不包含引號)。

待命令執行完畢後，輸入"bcdedit /set {current} locale zh-hk"(假若是改為簡體中文，則把zh-hk改為zh-cn)；接著便是更改開機語系介面，輸入"bcdboot %WinDir% /l zh-hk"(情況同上)



待執行完畢，變更「登錄」，跳轉到 "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MUI\UILanguages"下，只保留需要的語言。如︰圖中，由英文版轉為中文版，把 en-US 刪除。



最後，請自行判斷上述方法是否有侵犯版權的嫌疑。按微軟的資料 Get languages for Windows 7 and Windows Vista，似乎未有指示額外語言檔必須要安裝在 Ultimate or Enterprise 版本上，只是微軟不為其它版本提供便捷的語言檔新增程式，用戶需要用其它的方法，當然這裡不鼓勵用戶用 Vistalizator 那類 third-party 軟件。有興趣討論這個課題，可以到：Discussion。