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Organize Digital Video Library (Movies and TV Shows): Part-2 Scrape

November 21, 2015May 5, 2022 No Comments

I’m sorry for taking too long to finish the second part of this series. I realize now that a lot of the media renamer tools from the previous post are obsolete or there are better alternatives. Also, some of them are not compatible across all OS. In this post, I will show you how to […]

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Organize Digital Video Library (Movies and TV Shows): Part-1 Rename

July 31, 2013March 16, 2022 3 Comments

Do you want your digital video library to look as good as this? Do you want to scrape your media for metadata (download metadata and artwork of TV shows and Movies) locally so that it is compatible with most media players and media center softwares such as Plex Media Center, XBMC, Windows Media Center, etc.?

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Track your emails without asking the receiver to send read receipt

May 30, 2013March 16, 2022 5 Comments

I  have come across two wonderful services which lets you track emails you send and be notified when, where (city/country) and how (desktop/mobile) the email was read. 1. SpyPig Spypig notification Spypig service comes in handy if you want to track your email and want to know exactly when your email was read. It can […]

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Why you should use Download Manager

March 27, 2013April 3, 2022 3 Comments

Have you ever observed that you are not getting full speed while downloading something. Well, the reason is when you start a download from a browser, your browser usually opens a single stream to download the file. So even if you have 10Mbps connection, but the file server has limited the speed to 1Mbps per […]

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Why 3D movies are a waste of money

February 5, 2013March 16, 2022 No Comments

Quoted from CNET article on the same topic: Conservatism hurts the films : The problem: studios have been too conservative, and have been reluctant to go too deep with the 3D, resulting in a 3D movie that doesn’t satisfy anyone. Steve Schklair, CEO of 3ality, said that 3D films can use about 4 percent of the […]

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Play or Stream MKV videos on Xbox 360

December 31, 2012February 16, 2022 12 Comments

First of all, let me tell you, I was as disappointed as you might be when I found out that my Xbox 360 won’t play mkv file only because it chooses not to. (maybe because of licensing issues). So, without much hope, I tried to google for some workaround to make it play the mkv files, […]

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