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Johnny’s wife appears to have been a bit too helpful:

I was wondering if you knew of any kind of program that would give the extensions of video files. I was in the process of backing up all my dvd’s onto my home server and the wife thought the files would be prettier with out extensions and instead of hiding the extensions she went ahead and deleted them.. problem is that although a majority were .avi’s not all were and I dont know what they were.. so I was wondering if there was a program that would go through and read the headers and tell me what extension should follow the name. Thanks for any help at all.

Johnny

Well, Johnny, there may be a quick answer to your problem. The GSpot codec information appliance (don’t look at me, I didn’t name it) is an excellent tool to determine a whole pile of things about your video files. Simply download the latest version of the application, extract the zipped file and run the executable file.  Then, open the video files in question using GSpot and the information that you are looking for is in the Container box on the left side.

As you can see from the screen shot above, this is a DivX encoded file in an AVI container.  So the extension would be AVI.

Hope this helps, Johnny.

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I grew up watching James Bond movies.  While I loved the car chases and the shootouts (not to mention the Bond women), my favorite part of the show was always when Q would give Bond his new gadgets.

Well, here is your chance to make your own Bond invisible printer!  It is a relatively simple process that will work with the majority of inkjet printers.

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We’ve all heard these sounds a million times before but it took some real talent to turn them into music!

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In my previous post, a user commented that it would be cool to be able to launch a web page from an autorun.inf file.  So, I took it upon myself to do just that.  I wrote a little program that will do just that!

Download WebLaunch and save it on the root of your USB drive.  Then, create an autorun.inf file on the root of your drive with the following contents:

[autorun]
open=WebLaunch http://www.dailycupoftech.com
action=Open Website

You can set the http://www.dailycupoftech.com portion to any website you want and you can tweak the autorun.inf file to be as funky as you wish.

There you go, Shoban!

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