The Core Pocket Media Player, TCPMP, for short, is a program for Windows PocketPC, Windows Mobile and PalmOS that allows you play music and video files. With this free program on your PDA, it will play videos just like an iPod or Zune. And on PDAs with the right type of screen, it will even switch to wide screen mode, which is a feature that iPod did not have until the iPhone and the iPod Touch debuted.
One of the advantages of TCPMP over an iPod is that supports multiple video formats like DivX and Windows Media Video. Although the free version of TCPMP is no longer under development as open source software, it can still be downloaded. The developers have taken the software commercial under the name CorePlayer and added support for more media types and added support for mobile devices like Symbian OS.
Encoding Video
These applications should install into your PDA through Microsoft’s ActiveSync like any other program. After the player is installed, you need to feed it some content. TCPMP or CorePlayer will play audio files like MP3, but most people are interested in video. If you have enough storage, you could drag almost any video file to your PDA and they would play, but that would be a waste of battery power and flash drive space. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for January, 2008
I found this article on Associated Content that describes several open source firewalls and compares them to commercially available firewalls. It makes a solid argument for free firewalls in most places except large enterprise. Take a look at Build your own firewall.
[tags]IPcop, Monowall, Pfsense, linux, Smoothwal, firewall, web filtering[/tags]
Time Machine is a great utility, but it asks if you want to make every external disk that you inert a backup disk, which can be a little, well, a pain. Here is how to disable Leopard from asking. After entering this command in Terminal, you would have to go to the Time Machine control panel if you want to set up a disk for use by Time Machine.
defaults write com.apple.TimeMachine DoNotOfferNewDisksForBackup -bool YES
[tags]Mac OS X, Leapard, Time Machine, Backup[/tags]
SCP or secure file copy is a great way to copy files through an encrypted tunnel, but it will take up all of the bandwidth available to it, but there is a flag to limit the bandwidth used. Try this:
scp -l 125 /Users/Myaccount/testfile remotehost:
the -l option is measured in bits rather than bytes, so adjust accordingly.
[tags]SCP, MacOSX, Bandwidth, Linux[/tags]
