When you go to download/upgrade your Adobe Flash Player, which you would ordinarily download from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/, this installs a download manager which some of you (myself included) find quite irritating to deal with. There is a way to download a standalone installer that does not use the download manager. It is available...

Foobar2000 is something that’s actually been around a very long time (since 2002!), but for whatever reason I never heard about it until very recently. The foobar2000 program is an audio player for Windows. Just audio, meaning no video. And that’s just fine because there are some of us out there that appreciate dedicated audio player programs, yours...

Everybody knows that I love (sarcasm..) Flash. The current Flash player version is 10, however there is a 10.1 Beta 3 release out at the time of this writing, so I decided to give it a go to see how it performs. The first thing to note is how it’s installed. This is on the download page:In Windows, this is a five step process.Close all web browsers...

A filename extension is a suffix to a filename. There’s the name of the file itself, then a period, then the extension. When you see Document.pdf, the ".pdf" is the extension. The filename extension is one of those things that’s a necessary evil in computing to differentiate one type of file from another. Some UNIX/Linux environments...

For those wondering, I am running the 32-bit edition of Windows 7. I did this primarily for application compatibility above all else. The first response from those who are familiar with 64-bit environments are quick to say, "But you can run 32-bit apps in a 64-bit environment easily." That’s not always the case. Running certain 32-bit apps in...

I discovered this on a goof. On my laptop I had installed the latest version of WinAMP to listen to MP3s and so on and it had associated itself with FLV extensions (I just did a standard install that auto-associates instead of a custom which it why it happened). I downloaded a few FLVs as backups from my YouTube channel and double-clicked one to view it –...

Since the release of Mozilla Firefox 3 there have been issues with the Adobe Flash player (currently at release 9), particularly with Flash video. What happens is that you’ll attempt to watch a video (say on YouTube) and the first 2 seconds will play and then stop. And you’re left with no choice but to restart the browser and sometimes that...

There are a few keyboard and mouse shortcuts in Windows Media Player 11 that are handy to know just in case you ever need to use them. Switching between skinned and non-skinned mode Non-skinned: CTRL+1 Skinned: CTRL+2 If you have a kid that sometimes "messes with" the media player and it has this weird skin on it (such as the way it looks at the top...