Category Archives: Cool Stuff
Hide media files from Android media scanners
A simple way to prevent Android from automatically indexing unwanted media files into the media player and gallery Continue reading
Running Starcraft + Brood War on Windows 7
A simple say to get the original Starcraft and it’s BroodWar expansion pack running on Windows 7 (tested on 64bit). Should work with any of the original battlecraft games (Warcraft 1,2 etc….) Continue reading
How to run Still Life under Windows 7/Vista Ultimate
Still Life is a pretty decent, if not a slightly dark, adventure game from 2005. As all games it runs fine on XP and like most games it fails to run on Vista (but…who cares?) and Windows 7. NOTE: I’m running Win7 64bit. With any luck this will not matter for 32bit users (apparently it does not). Googling around will … Continue reading
Disable Avira splash screen and Nag on Windows 7 64bit
On Windows 7 64bit disabling the splash is same as for vista, but the location of avgnt in the registry has changed to: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Continue reading
Track numbers with leading zeros in MediaMonkey
First: You can autosort files by using track#:2 instead of plain old track#. This will make all track numbers 2 digits (adding a leading zero to single digit track numbers accordingly). You can replace 2 with any number you like.
But you might also want to fix this in the DB itself. So….
Second: A cool script by Bex http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14822
This script is awesome in that it’s not just for fixing the leading zero problem, but it can correct cases and all kinds of other cool stuff. You can apply it on a selection of tracks via right-click or if you open the script options you have a nice big button to fix all tracks in the library 
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