Tutorials for Everything

Have an iPod but don’t like using iTunes or just want to use Windows Media Player to transfer your music, movies, and so on? Well now you can! And this tutorial will show you how.

Software Required

• MGTEK dopisp (Free to try)

Step 1

Download and install MGTEK dopisp (provided in the link above). This will enable Windows Media Player to recognize your iPod.

Connect your iPod to your PC and open up Windows Media Player.

Click the Sync tab at the top.

(If it doesn’t show up you may have to refresh devices)

Step 2

Your iPod should now be connected! All you have to do is drag and drop the music you want on it and then hit Start Sync.

uTorrent is one of the best bittorrent clients out there, but many don’t know that uTorrent has a built-in IP Filtering tool! This tool is very hand for many reasons. In this tutorial I will show you how to enable it and add lists.

Programs Required

• uTorrent

Step 1

Open up uTorrent and go to Options – Preferences (or alternatively press CTRL+P).

On the left toolbar click Advanced.

A long list will appear. Scroll down until you find ipfilter.enable and set it to True

Now that the IP Filter has been turned on, close uTorrent.

Step 2

All that is left to do is to locate a Blocklist (a list of IP’s which you want Filtered). The best place on the web to get them is at Bluetack.

Click Here for the Lists

Through that link you will find a list of lists (lol), you want either the “nipfilter.dat.gz” (recommended) or the “pipfilter.dat.gz”. The nipfilter stands for “Normal IP Filter”, and the pipfilter of course stands for “Paranoid IP Filter”.

Once you selected your desired list and have downloaded it, extract (uncompress) it to a temporary folder. You can extract it with WinRAR if you’re not sure what to use.

The resulting file should be called “ipfilter” or “ipfilter.dat” if you have extensions viewable. Right click and Cut this file.

Now browse to this location on your hard drive:

C:\Documents and Settings\Usernamee\Application Data\uTorrent

(Replace the red characters with the appropriate ones)

You want to paste the file in that folder (/uTorrent). Overwrite if prompted.

To ensure that everything worked, open uTorrent and click on the Logger tab. It should read “Loaded ipfilter.dat (xxx entries).

If so then everything worked!

Remember to keep you list up to date for optimal protection.

VSO Convert-X-to-DVD, A Quick and Easy Guide for .AVI to DVD

How To Create a DVD out of .avi Files using VSO

Software Required

• VSO Convert-X-to-DVD (Free to Try)

Step 1:
Start up VSO, Start New Project if needed, then go to “Add Video File”

Browse for the files that you want to make into a DVD, it can be more then one.

Step 2:
Now that you have your video files go to “Settings – General”
Go to the “Chapters” tab. Here you can set when you want the chapters to be made (example, every 5 Minutes)

Now go to the Encoding Tab. For smaller DVD’s I choose High under Encoding Quality, with larger ones I go with normal. Target size should be DVD-5 for standard Blank DVD+/-Rs. I leave conversion priority at normal aswell.

Now go to the Burning Tab. Choose your DVD Burner (if needed). I set mine to burn at 4x (which I also reccomend for a non-skip result).

Step 3:
Now you’re ready to add a Title and Menu Image.
Click the expand arrow to see a list of options on the main screen.
To change the title click the arrow next to it and Type in Desired Name.
Click on the arrow next to Background to change picture.
To View the picture, look to the right and you’ll see a little TV, click that.

You can Also change the video’s titles as well and change the fonts used on the titles.

Step 4:
Now that you got everthing as you want it, hit CONVERT and let it go. You will be prompted to put in a DVD, if you haven’t already, when converting is done. Or you may choose to Just save the result .VOB’s and burn them later with VSO or your favorite Burning Software.