April 2010

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Two Good 3Ds Max Video Tutorials

April 3, 2010 in Applications | No comments

I recently installed 3Ds Max 2010 (3D Studio Max) and I have started to watch some video tutorials. I found two good 3ds Max video tutorial series that I want to recommend.

This first series is made by Digital Arts Guild and is only 4 episodes long, but it shows you how the very basics of 3Ds Max works. Here you can find it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSnHDQSz4Tg

The second series have I actually not finished watching. It starts like the first one with describing the very basics, but this tutorial is 22 episodes long! And therefore it got a lot more content than the first series and teaches you more advance stuff later on. Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A12BF2F8CC489A50

Have fun in 3Ds Max!

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Turn Off Windows 7 Network Password

April 2, 2010 in Windows | 2 comments

I had problem some days ago with accessing my Windows 7 machine from another computer in our home network. When I tried to access my shared folders I was prompted to type in an username and a password, but I didn’t know either of them and therefore I looked up a way to disable the password protection. If you want to disable the network password protection to your Windows 7 machine (and maybe Vista?), follow these steps:

Start-button > Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center > Change advanced sharing settings > Scroll down and check “Turn off password protected sharing” > Press the “Save changes”-button

Now you should be able to access your shared folders without being prompted for a password.

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How to Watch Restricted YouTube Videos

April 2, 2010 in Internet | 2 comments

Yesterday I wanted to watch an age restricted video on YouTube, but I got the following well-known message:

This video or group may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, as flagged by YouTube’s user community.
Sorry, you must be 18 or over to view this video or group.

So I googled the problem and found a website that described how to bypass this restriction. For an example, if I want to watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW17DpaJz40, I will get the restriction message. But if I use the URL that the embed code uses, it will work perfectly. Because if I watch an embedded video on someone else’s website, YouTube will not be able to check if I am logged on, and therefore are the embedded videos always watchable that way.

Instead of typing the URL that I wrote earlier, type http://www.youtube.com/v/IW17DpaJz40, with /v/ instead of /watch?v= in the address type http://www.youtube.com/embed/IW17DpaJz40, with /embed/ instead of /watch?v= in the adress. Whoila, it works!

EDIT (May 15, 2011): Youtube has changed the way you embed videos since I wrote this post, and therefore did not the method above work any longer. However, the post has been updated with new, working instructions.

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