The different instant messaging worlds just came a bit closer to each other as recently, as new compatibility features were included in both, ICQ and Skype:
The ICQ Team finally released ICQ 7.6 Beta and Skype its Windows client in version 5.5 final. Now you wonder why the final and why not blogging earlier when the beta was out? Because the beta caused so much CPU load that it was bareably usuable!
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Then this “preety geeky project” is your thing! Impress your friends, scare your family.
So here is what I used:
A Terratec Grabster AV 350. (Having problem getting it to work in Windows Vista or Windows 7? email me I will help 🙂 ). The video grabber is connected to your DVD player, PS2, XBOX or any other DVD playing device.
(Note, it won’t work with blu-ray due to the HDCP contect protection!).
One of the best grabbers out there I think! 🙂
Another thing I used is a cheap USB soundcard because I needed some microphone connector as my PC’s internal soundcard’s micrphone output is already used by something else, also this allows you easy access in case you want to change something.
The sound source is also important. As everything is connected to my Logitech 5.1 sound system I have choosen this as my source. But you may also use your TV’s headphone connector or a separated audio cable coming from your DVD player, etc.
Just as you please.
Other things needed:
2 computers for you and the watcher. Why? Because otherwise you cannot hear each other while you watch the movie together!
So what you do:
1) In Skype, instead of your webcam, choose the grabster video grabber for your webcam picture.
And select the micrphone jack of your PC/USB soundcard as micrphone so your friend can hear the sound of the movie!
Etablish a video call with your friend. Your friend can put the webcam pic on full screen.
2) Launch Skype with your account on a 2nd PC. Ask your friend to create a new skype account and run it on another computer just for being able to skype with him during your watching session.
Since Skype is not server based but peer-to-peer you can call as many people at the same kind from your account as you like, but since you cannot call your friend a 2nd time since you are already in a call, your friend needs a second account you can call instead!
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Regular readers of my blog probably wonder why the “Forum” button has been broken for so long.
Problem is that I always relied on free services of friends. Unfortunately such kinds that don’t make backups or suddenly switch off their service/servers.
In fact The buttons used are still hosted and managed by my blogger friend Mr. Dew who is in touch with me since 6 years now.
And in the years 2006-2010 Opera and Blogger had some issues that would automatically insert garbage when editing some template code. Thanks to Nebulous who is kind of a celebrity in the German video gaming scene, the code got repaired!
But regarding the forum I always missed somebody 100% reliable so here you go Facebook, thanks to its pages and Discussions App, I found a way to connect it to my blog’s Forum feature. I hope you will use it and find it useful.
Infact I often receive emails with advertisement offers or emails from people who ran into similar issues I reported on my blog and ask me for helping them.
One of the coolest was probably an email from a Brazilian university professor who told me he refers to my blog during IT seminars to his technical students.
That’s pretty cool, especially if you consider that my blog was created just for fun without any aim or destination, and I still don’t go over my written text and correct any grammar or spelling errors because it’s “Crap Blog”, so let it be!
Thanks for your continued support over the past years and I will try to stay available for you!
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So I have finally managed tp connect all my game consoles to a video grabber and upload my first two official YouTube videos! Click on the headline of this blogpost to visit my channel.
Below is the 1st of the 2 videos I have uploaded today! More will follow soon!
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Due to being so famous lately and it’s running over me on AllExperts:
Having the problem lately that you can’t login to your beloved ICQ account?
“Oops, something went wrong.”?
But you are sure your password is correct because you have enabled auto-login?
Yeo, but still, it won’t!
First question: “Have I been hacked?”
Answer: “No, you haven’t”.
Solution: Cancel the automatic login process and re-enter your passwird and then click “login” again and voilla, there we go!
Happy ICQing!
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This is the first part of the new loose series of posts called “Help yourself”.
Being a professional account user and member with “gold status” (lol, yes, I did so much with Skype over the years, so it’s all my fault!), I have the lovely accesss to real time Skype Support.
Granted, their support is great and they have helped me a lot of times with things I couldn’t fix by myself.
One of those cases were when I deleted somebody a year ago but she was not on my block list neither noted down anywhere and Skype directory search resulted in over 255 results.
Skype support could only check the recent 6 months so I was a bit lost here.
Some side note: I am a Skype user since client version number 1 and so I probably have more files and folders in my Skype application folder than most of you. So don’t wonder please
So here is what you see in the Skype application folder for example:
Forget Windows’s internal “find” function, it won’t help you here!
Instead we use a nifty freeware tool called “Agent Ransack“.
Since the default settings won’t result in anything, we will change them accordingly.
And you can use the AND operator if you remember just ports of the person’s skype name.
On the right side you can see the SKype name you have been searching for in clear text.
Have fun with your new old friend and see you in the next episode of “help yourself”.
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as written back then, the new Skype for mobile competitor is very good in terms of features, customer support, call rates and call quality, however it had serious performance issues on iPhone3Gs.
They recently released a version that fixes all the performance issues!
So now I can recommend it without any minutes! Go ahead and feel free to . The versions for Android and Blackberry are out now as well!
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Hard to believe but the ICQ Team finally did it, first promised in 2006, and then rejected shortly afterwards, all by ICQ workers in the ICQ forums, finally they did it and released an Official ICQ client for Mac and Linux is released now!!!
They only mention it as ICQ for Mac but since they based it on the Adobe Air client, it works perfectly well on Linux and even Windows, too!
So now we can be all equally happy 🙂
Message History and Facebook Chat compatibility found its way into the new client too, of course!
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Thew new ICQ version, ICQ 7.4 was released recently. A new 7 version with some small changes.
All new featues can be read here, which are as follows:
-Messaging History Tool
Means you get the history displayed in a window like a database.
-New Message Window
Also the way the buttons are aligned and placed in the message window is different.
-Email Notifications
The new email notifications also allow notification of new emails in a Mail.ru account now, next to Yahoo and Gmail, of course.
-Visibility Lists
Now you can select the exact status of you while being invisible.
-Advanced Search
Now even the possibility to search friends of friends is there and you can now see the profile photos of people you are searching.
-Take a Picture
Now you can take a photo of yourself in the webcam and use it as your profile picture.
So this time they didn’t do a whole lot changes and new features in the new version but it’s nice to see they introduced and changed a few things for better usability 🙂
It can be downloaded from the ICQ Download Page.
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Do you own a netbook or something similar and it only came with a Windows 7 starter license?
Don’t want to spend the bucks for upgrading for a customized look & feel of your Windows 7 installation?
Did you use some tools and they do not work anymore after updating to the Service Pack 1 final?
Then this blog post is for you and you read on!
As we all know Aero isn’t there in the STARTER edition of Windows 7 but we still want a customizable Windows 7 but we are cheap and don’t want to spend any buck!
I have spent hours installing and uninstalling many tools (as some are not intended for Windows 7 or simply got broken in Service Pack 1).
Changing Windows logon screen (source: intowindows blog).
I was tired of being welcomed by the Acer background everytime!
No problem! Just use the Tweaks.com Logon Changer! It works lovely, you can even restore it to the default wallpaper it should usually have!
Flip 3D (Task switching with thumbnails) (source: dailymobile.se blog).
Nothing easier than that! Use the tool WinFlip for that! It works perfect! Just one little disadvantage: The autostart function doesn’t work so be sure to create a shortcut in the Windows startup folder by yourself! Also set the hotkey for the flip 3d function to Windows & TAB so it will override the one coming with Windows 7 starter!
Changing Desktop background / taskbar skin (source: instructables.com blog).
In contrast to most tools who only allow you to change the desktop wallpaper, Stardock MyColors’s theme manager also changes the taskbar’s look! (But you can also use it to let the taskbar remain by its default and only change the desktop wallpaper). On the same page you get the Diamond Theme for it (free!) to make it look more to how Windows 7 usually looks.
Thumbnail previews in taskbar!!!
I found this hint nowhere. I found this possibility by pure accident when fooling around with different dock applications for Windows.
Use Stardock’s ObjectDock 2.0 FREE for this!
You have to set it up this way:
right click on the the ObjectDock –> View –> Show minimized windows. If you minimize an open application widndows then, a screenshot is made and put as thumbnail in the stardock!!!
We learn from this that most cosmetic functions and features they have ripped off, can be put back in using freeware tools!
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