More reasons why to use RTF

A while back I posted about why to use RTF. Here’s another article (mainly geared towards writers but still pretty good):

Save It!

Two funny Civilization IV screenshots.

Both from my own games, Beyond the Sword expansion, no mods. I cropped out most of the screenshot to the funny parts.

Nice fortifications for the Great Wall (look at the buildings embedded)

Hey, mining the Colosseum? Great idea!

Add Programs to the “Open With…” List (Vista)

Can you believe I had to ask to figure this out??

So, you have a file that the Open With submenu has several programs. You want to add another.

What you do is click Choose Default Program. Browse for the program you want, and DE-SELECT “Always use the selected program to open this kind of file.” And it should appear.

Fun with YouTube Content ID

Obviously somebody has a bit of time on their hands.

Fun with YouTube’s Audio Content ID System

Lolcat Generator

Just ’cause it’s easier than using a graphic editor.

Lolcat Generator: Can haz posters?

XML Notepad 2007

The easiest-to-use XML editor I’ve found. Microsoft product.

XML Notepad 2007

Another DVD authoring tool.

Although Avi2Dvd is still a bit buggy, I found it an easy-to-use app to create DVDs.

explorer.exe has stopped working? I found something out.

Recently, I tried opening a folder with a few videos on it. explorer.exe stopped working. Luckily, it started right back up again. But when I tried to open the folder again… oops. explorer.exe has stopped working. Again.

So, I remembered back on my XP machine, sometimes it would crash if there was a corrupted video file in there. I knew it wasn’t any video, because the “Videos” folder opened up just fine.

So all I would have to do is delete the videos. (They weren’t of much importance anyways.) But how can you do that if explorer.exe won’t let you in?

Well, I thought for a bit. I knew VLC had a different open dialog, it didn’t use the standard Windows one. So maybe I could use that? So I opened up VLC, Media>Open File. Browsed to the offending folder. Yay, it didn’t crash! So I right-clicked and deleted all the videos.

Then I went to open up the folder again — no crashes. Hooray! (And the recycle bin? Right click, Empty Recycle Bin. No need to even open it.)

I imagine any program that doesn’t use the standard Windows dialog could do the same thing.

Tech Quotes from Civ IV

Recently thought one of them would be useful, but was too lazy to start up Sid Meier’s Civilization IV. Luckily I wasn’t too lazy to google them, so here they are.

I got a Commodore VIC-20!

Commodore VIC-20

Found it at a yard sale (along with a bunch of manuals and data cassettes) for only $5.

I scanned the label on the bottom, it came out a little blurry but still readable:

As well, there were a bunch of letters and order forms for some VIC-20 software. One of them was dated May 2, 1983. I wonder what would happen if I mailed it in?