Entries from September 2006

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Control VLC with a Two Button Remote

 EDIT: I’ve noticed a lot of people coming across this post with the search term ‘vlc osd’. The on screen display appears when you press Shift+Left/Right, Ctrl+Up/Down/Left/Right.
Recently I noticed a presentation tool which incorporates two buttons which can control a Powerpoint presentation, pdf, slideshow, or anything that uses PgUp and PgDn buttons.
It is available for [...]

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

Discover Your Learning Style

Discover your learning style by taking a short quiz. The quiz told me that I was a ‘visual learner’ which probably explains why the mindmap concept appeals to me.

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

Mind and Subject Mapping with Freemind

I have recently discovered a tool called Freemind which allows anyone to map out anything. I am currently experimenting with using it for study.
Basically you can create a tree of words, icons, and images, which you can then expand on in any direction you like.
By creating a map for each subject, I can outline all [...]

Sunday, September 10th, 2006

Search Prank

Here’s a small AutoHotKey script I wrote to play a prank on someone.
Basically you run it on the victim’s computer, and it simply waits until they open google in any web browser. As soon as google is opened, anything you specify in the script is searched before the victim realises.
Loop
{
WinGetActiveTitle ActWin
if Instr(ActWin, “Google”) > [...]