WordPress Comment Spam and Disqus

Delete wp-comments-post.php from the base directory of your WordPress installation when using the Disqus plugin.

Sadly, this will need to be done each time WordPress is upgraded or reinstalled.

This script should be disabled by default and automatically when any other comment system is being using in WordPress. I guess the is a feature request.

http://beta.beantin.se/wordpress-comment-spam-disqus/

Thanks James!

Handbrake Retain/Keep Interlaced Video h.264/x.264 for Encoding

Interlaced handbrake 0.9.8 support:
1) set to dvd preset
2) add :tff OR :bff in the advanced tab, put at end (append).
3) turn off all filters: set to off, set fps to same as source and constant.
Use mediainfo and set to sheet to find if tff or bff
4) feel free to set resolution, etc

This will allow your TV or device to perform the de-interlacing which is far superior than removing half the motion resolution as 98% people and/or software encoders do by default.

Inspired by:
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/audio-video-editing-encoding/218040-encoding-interlaced-source-into-interlaced-x264-format.html

Slingbox Remote Files for Popbox 3D

Here are the files you will need to add a custom remote to your Slingbox/Slingplayer so that you can control your Popbox 3D remotely :)

http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/dload.php?action=file&file_id=9810

As discussed here:

http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=98070#98070

Install the files with these directions:

Here.

Cross posted from: http://forum.popbox.com/showthread.php?tid=1336

Instructions for PBXes.org, Google Voice, and Sipdroid with a Google Apps Account

This was driving me crazy!

ATTN GOOGLE APPS CUSTOMERS: You need to manually add a temporary gmail account to your android phone (This would be under settings -> “Accounts & sync”, “Add account” -> “Google” -> “Next” -> “Create” -> etc…). Once that happens, you will see the button on the home screen of sipdroid to configure your PBXes account.

Use your temporary gmail account username and password. You will ALSO need to select a username for PBXes.org.

Once this process completes, you will now be able to use outbound calling ONLY since your temp account will NOT have a Google voice number, but who cares, keep reading…

Log into PBXes.org with your username you selected on registration an the password from your temp gmail account, re-read that twice.

Once you are in, select “trunks” from the left menu and click on “GTALK/tempgamail@gmail.com. From there, change your username and password from the temp gmail account to your Google apps account. Click “Submit Changes”.

From there you may have to reload Sipdroid, but outgoing and incoming calls should work fine. Be certain that Google Chat (your google apps mail address) is selected/enabled as a forwarded phone (inside Google Voice web portal) in order for inbound calling to work on Sipdroid.

Feel free to delete your temporary gmail account from Google’s site AND remove the account from your android phone as a sync account. This would be under settings -> “Accounts & sync”, select the temp gmail account, and touch “Remove account”. Cheers.

Info from here:
http://androidforums.com/android-applications/252222-free-voip-calling-using-google-voice-sipdroid.html#post2152875 Thanks grimlock
and
http://code.google.com/p/sipdroid/issues/detail?id=753#c8
and
http://androidforums.com/android-applications/252222-free-voip-calling-using-google-voice-sipdroid-4.html#post2447641

Roku XDS Component Cable

Thanks to a Roku forum user for this one:

Part number CRE-ZVM-AV-STR sold from ITDirec ships for less than $4.00.

It’s a Creative Zen video cable, but the pin out is the same as the pricey component cable sold from Roku.

The original post is here.

You will need to plug the cables in according to this chart:

The RED RCA jack goes to Y or GREEN RCA input
The WHITE RCA jack goes to Pb or BLUE RCA input
The YELLOW RCA jack goes to Pr or RED RCA input

The above chart and cable are just for component video. You will also need to use either the RCA stereo audio cables that came with your XDS or connect to your TV or receiver with your own digital audio cable.

Pinout information here is:
1 = Ground, 2 = Red, 3 = Blue, 4 = Green. Also verified that it is the same as the component cable supplied with the WD TV Live and Live+ units. For reference, pin 1 being closest to the jacket and pin 4 being the tip of the jack.

See picture and more information on the pin out here: