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Adventure reviews
I have decided to start a new category here. When I was six years old and we got our first computer, I began playing adventure games almost immediately. Since then, other genres have rarely had a chance with me. But there’s one kind of adventure games that I like the most, namely those with fairly…
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Windows Aero: remove glass effect (diagonal lines)
Usually I always post my tricky little discoveries right away – not least to be able to look them up here again at any time, in case I forget them. But as for this subject, I thought some time ago that I could remember it anyway and that nobody else would be interested in it…
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Firefox & Windows Media Player: plugin not working
It has long bothered me that I couldn’t watch any embedded Windows Media streams in Firefox. Instead of a video I always just saw a gray box and the message: “Additional plugins are required (…)” There is a plugin alright, and I’ve installed it, too. But even after installation Firefox is still complaining that the…
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VLC player: “Building font cache” on every start
Some users of the (otherwise excellent) VLC media player experience a small problem that I’ve suffered from, too, until recently: At every start of the player, a pop-up window appears with the message “Building font cache” and the information that this process can take up to a minute. Normally, this message should only appear very…
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A happy new year …
… the best of luck and success, and, above all, health! All this and more we wish for ourselves and our fellow men (but mostly for ourselves) at the beginning of each year. As if we didn’t know better. 2011 will, too, be a year full of flops, bad luck and mishaps, of failure and disease,…
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Windows 7: Video library takes ages to load?
Libraries are one of the many (and rather superfluous) new features in Windows 7. Are there really people who spread their image, music, and video files in various locations all over the hard drive? I am personally very orderly and always keep my files centrally stored in the designated folders “My Pictures”, “My Music”, and “My…