Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

How to fix Flash Player 9 for Internet Explorer

Adobe Flash Player icon

   I tried to install Flash Player Version 11 over Flash 9 and I got error about something related to Active. So, I installed again Flash Player 9, but Flash Player didn't work, the installation was not correct. Then, I realized that when installing an application you can always upgrade but you cannot "downgrade" without having uninstalled the app. What did I do to fix it?

   Things you should do before anything:

1. Keep a copy of the plugins of Flash Player you have in your browsers: Flash9f.ocx (optional) (in IE, C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MACROMED\FLASH ), NPSWF32.dll (in other browsers. It can be found in the plugins folder of the browser app or in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MACROMED\FLASH). Anyway, you can find easily the plugin making a search in C:\ windows
    In order to view the plugins don't forget to check view all files: On the windows 98 main bar: view --> folders options --> view files --> Show all files

2. You should have the installation file of Flash Player 9 or the version compatible with your OS. As we are trying to fix the plugin for Internet Explorer, it must be the Active X version: "Install Flash Player 9 AX"
    * In order to view the plugins don't forget to check view all files: On the windows 98 main bar: view --> folders options --> view files --> Show all files

   STEPS TO INSTALL FLASH PLAYER 9 AX FOR IE:

1. Execute the Flash Player unistallation tool You could find it in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MACROMED\FLASH.
2. Delete the windows registry keys of Flah Player. You have to be very careful doing this, and remember that if you modify anything in the registry it's your responsability. Here I'm just explaining the steps that worked fine for me.
   Search "Regedit" in C:\WINDOWS and open it. Now click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, then click Software, here click Macromedia: now right-click on Flash Player (keys for browsers which are not IE) or Flash Player Active (key for IE) and choose delete. Now you will have deleted the register keys Flash Player plugins for all the browsers in the computer, how I myself did, or only for IE, depending on what you deleted.
  3. And now we can install Flash Player AX. The files, probably, will be installed inside: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MACROMED\FLASH 

   Now just open Internet Explorer and check a YouTube video for example. If you can see the video Flash Player has been installed correctly!

   Is it all? Noooo! You must check that Flash Player in all your other browsers are working well too! If not... Just place manually a copy of NPSWF32.dll inside the Plugins folder of every browser. If you don't have this plugin in your computer you can find it in internet: search

   This is just a personal experience that I share in case it can be useful for anyone.

  * Location of files and plugins can vary according to your version of Windows (Use Windows "Search" to locate them).

 

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Portable Apps, so useful as they are

   Did you know that many apps have their portable versions to use with a USB memory stick? The advantage is they do not require any kind of formal installation onto a computer and the temporary files are stored in the USB drive.

   You can find a big list on the Wikipedia.

   Some browsers like Firefox (Firefox Portable), Opera (Opera@USB), Google Chrome... have their portable versions too, that's quite useful when surfing the net in a computer is not of your own, such as places like universities, cybercafés... In that way cookies, cache and history remain in your USB drive or are deleted after closing the browser, keeping your surfing data private (don't get confused with anonymous surfing)

   Respect to FF Portable you may need to install Flash and Shockwave plugins:

- Locate the plugins in your PC (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\)
- Copy the plugin you need from there to your FirefoxPortable\Data\plugins directory (For Flash, copy "NPSWF32.dll"... for Shockwave, copy "np32dsw.dll")



Monday, March 21, 2011

Good tips for Opera Browser

1. BITTORRENT IN OPERA BROWSER

* To disable Opera's BitTorrent client:
- Type on your Opera URL bar -->
opera:config#BitTorrent
- Press "Enter", and
uncheck "Enable", click "Save", and BitTorrent is disabled.

* In order to use a third-party BitTorrent client, instead of Opera's BitTorrent client:
- Go to Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Downloads
- Uncheck "Hide file types opened with Opera"
- Type "torrent" in the Quick find box
- Double-click the line that looks like this: application/x-bittorrent torrent (you can select to either use your system's default BitTorrent client -Open with default application- or define a preferred client -Open with other application-)
- This will not disable Opera's BitTorrent client, but it will associate Torrent files with your preferred BitTorrent client.

2. INCREASE THE NUMBER OF SPEED DIAL SPOTS

- Look for "speeddial.ini" file in C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Opera\OPERA\profile
- Before editing it: Close Opera! (very important). And keep a copy of speeddial.ini before making any change.
- Open speeddial.ini and type on the bottom of the page:

[Size]
Rows=3
Columns=5
You can choose the number of rows and columns at your ease!
- Click save to keep the changes.
- Now you can open Opera.

3. HOW TO REMOVE THE SPEED DIAL SEARCH BOX


- Type on your Opera URL bar -->
opera:config#Speed%20Dial
- Press "Enter" and where it says "Speed Dial Search Type" set to 0

4. HOW TO REMOVE OR HIDE THE SPEED DIAL

It's quite easy!, just click "Hide Speed Dial" (on the right bottom of Speed Dial)

5. HOW TO RESUME A MISSING TRANSFER FROM THE TRANSFER TAB


- Start download again and save with another name.
- Stop transfer after few seconds.
- Delete new download file.
- Rename old download file with new name.
- Resume transfer.

6. HOW TO USE ADOBE ACROBAT READER WITH OPERA


- Look for "nppdf32.dll" in your PC (it's hidden in the Acrobat Reader Plugins folder)
- Copy it to Opera's Plugins folder (C:\Program Files\Opera\Program\Plugins).

- Now Opera will launch the Acrobat Reader when you use Opera to view .pdf files.

You can change the way Opera opens the PDF documents in Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Downloads. Edit the MIME type assosiated with pdf files to either "Use plug-in" or "Open with default application".

7. HOW TO VIEW OPERA SAVED PASSWORDS

- Bookmark link of any good View Passwords Bookmarklet for Opera as the one you can find here or here.
- Open the login page with username and password (you can see yellow fields, if you really saved the password before), press "Wand button" on Opera toolbar or "Ctrl + Enter", and then "Esc" very quickly.
- Now click View Passwords bookmarklet on your Bookmarks.

There are free apps which do this work too, like "OperaPassView".

8. HOW TO INSTALL OPERA EXTENSIONS MANUALLY

If you don't have the .ocx file, download it first by right-clicking and "save linked content as". Once you have the .ocx on your desktop, just drag it over Opera browser and accept the installation. Done!

More info on Opera Help and Tamil's blog

* TRADUCCIÓN EN ESPAÑOL by Google. "Buenos consejos para el navegador Opera"



Monday, May 17, 2010

Ways to download a video from YouTube - Maneras de bajar un vídeo de YouTube

  When you have a slow connection as a dial-up 56 kbps, the best option you have to see a video from YouTube or any other flash video is by downloading. Last weekend I needed to download a video and I came across that my flash downloader widget didn't work for YouTube videos, the reason was they hadn't fixed it after the latest YouTube update, so I started my research in the internet and I reached the following conclusions.

1. Using an online tool or browser widget like Flash Downloader (the best), it works with many other sites like RTVE.

2. Using a Bookmarklet supported by your browser, this is a good one: Right click on the next link and "Bookmark link" or "Add to Favorites--->  PwnYouTube

When you are viewing the youtube video page, click the bookmark or favorite and like magic a yellow stripe will be opened on the top page with links to download.

3. Just add pwn to the video URL, like this: http://www.pwnyoutube.com/watch...

4. HandyCraft: The most complicated and slower.

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3zamD5Bw-0  (this the ID)

a) Search in the source code of the video page:  "rv.6.id"  On the left of that, it appears a code like this: "vjVQa1PpcFNezWwUOcdmmS3r_4obvXkBsqL9X_MSRE0=" (this code varies according to the video) 

b) Now we make an URL with the ID of the video (in green) and the code in pink found in the source code of the video page (do not forget the rest of the symbols in blue below)

c) Paste URL in your browser bar and Enter:

 http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=A3zamD5Bw-0&t= vjVQa1PpcFNezWwUOcdmmS3r_4obvXkBsqL9X_MSRE0=

d) Do not forget to rename the file before downloading, adding the extension .flv 

5. Another way, let the video reaches the end (when buffered completed), distressing if your connection is very slow. Then go to the cache folder of your browser and find the file that corresponds to the video, rename it with .flv (The best way is to clear the cache before watching the video, and then sort files by size, perhaps the one of the video corresponds to the heaviest file.

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  Cuando se tiene una conexión lenta como un dial-up de 56 kbps, la mejor opción que tienes para ver un vídeo de YouTube o cualquier otro video flash es bajándolo. El pasado fin de semana necesitaba descargar un video y me encontré que mi widget de flashdownloader no funcionaba con los vídeos de YouTube, la razón era que no había sido arreglado tras la última actualización de YouTube, así que empecé mi investigación en Internet y he llegado a las conclusiones siguientes.

1. Usando una herramienta on line o una extensión para el navegador como Flash Downloader (el mejor), que funciona con muchos otros sitios como RTVE. 

2. El uso de un bookmarklet compatible con tu navegador, éste está muy bien: Hacer clic derecho sobre el siguiente enlace y  "Añadir a Bookmarks" o "Agregar a Favoritos ---> PwnYouTube

Cuando estés viendo la página del vídeo de YouTube, haz clic en el marcador o favorito y, por arte de magia, se abrirá una franja amarilla  en lo alto de la página con enlaces para descargar. 

3. Simplemente añade pwn en la URL del video, de esta manera: http://www.pwnyoutube.com/watch ... 

4. Artesanal: La más complicada y lenta. 

Ejemplo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3zamD5Bw-0 (es la ID del video) 

a) Búsqueda en el código fuente de la página de vídeos:
"rv.6.id" A la izquierda de ésto, hay un código como éste: "vjVQa1PpcFNezWwUOcdmmS3r_4obvXkBsqL9X_MSRE0 =" (el código varía según el video) 

b) Ahora hacemos una URL con la ID del vídeo (en verde) y el código de color de rosa del el código fuente de la página de vídeo (no olvides el resto de los símbolos en azul de a continuación) 

c) Pega la URL en la barra de navegador y Enter: 

http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=A3zamD5Bw-0&t= vjVQa1PpcFNezWwUOcdmmS3r_4obvXkBsqL9X_MSRE0=

d) No olvides cambiar el nombre del archivo antes de descargar, añadiendo la extensión .flv 

5. Otra forma: dejar que el video llegue hasta el final (cuando termine el buffer), desesperante si tu conexión es muy lenta. Luego ve a la carpeta de caché de tu navegador y busca el archivo que se corresponde con el vídeo, y renombrar con .flv antes de abrir con el reproductor (Lo mejor es borrar el caché antes de ver el vídeo, y luego clasificar los archivos por tamaño, tal vez el del vídeo se corresponda con el archivo más pesado)

* References - Referencias:

http://www.techsupportguides.com/what-is-a-bookmarklet/

http://deturl.com

* To warch flv files I recommend VLC player - Para ver archivos flv recomiendo vlc player