programs configuration
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. Emulators Extensions . Free Download Manager . Miranda IM
. foobar2000 . Kerio Personal Firewall . Samurize

 

Emulators Extensions

.gb : GameBoy
.gba : GameBoy Advance
.rom : NeoGeo
.smc : SNES
.smd : Megadrive
.sms : Master System

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foobar2000
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Configuration files
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Quick Tag
Screenshot
 
This file adds many genres, removing of underscores, and the default ratings from 1 to 5.
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WWW services
Screenshot
 
This file adds many shortcuts to covers sites, discogs site search (these shortcuts are taken from the hydrogenaudio foobar forum), and sites already in default www services configuration.
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Formatting strings for foobar (with ColumnsUI)
All these strings add useful informations, readable colors and formats, so don't hesitate to try them.
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Title Formatting/System Tray

Displays artist, title, if artist and title are present, otherwise filename, then length.

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Title Formatting/Copy Command

Copies artist, title, album, date, length.

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Title Formatting/Playlist

Displays filename, and filename in red if file contains INCOMPLETE~, the time elapsed and length.

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Title Formatting/Status Bar

Displays album, track number, date, genre, comment, rating, ReplayGain and additional informations.

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Title Formatting/Main Window Title

Displays path and filename, foobar version, then an animation with a cat.

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Sort/Sort by

This string will sort files in playlist by path and filename, then artist, album, tracknumber and title.

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Formatting Strings for Plugins
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Database Search

Display

This will display the filename, without extension

 

Sorting

This will sort results by complete path.

 

Status Bar

This will display extension, bitrate, filesize in MB, playlist name, number in playlist, then complete path.

 

Format Presets

- All your favorite tags

This will search for artist, album, title, filename, genre and date values.

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Diskwriter

This will create a filename when extracting with artist, album, track number and title if the artist and title are present, otherwise it will use the original filename.

Output filename formatting

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On-Screen Display

Displays next track, 2 previous directories then filename, extension, bitrate, ReplayGain informations, album, track number, date, genre, artist, title, time elapsed, length.
I recommend to use a font with size at at least 13 points (I use Verdana), bold, with a clear background (white is perfect) to tick Outline, and the top value set to 4.

Format

 

Next track

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Text Writer

This string can be used for example with Samurize and the Text File function, to add informations about the current song in a Samurize window. It write, with each information on a new line, artist, title, filename, time elapsed, length, album, track number, extension, bitrate, paused, stopped, playlist information states. Link the output file to a Samurize text meter to display these informations.

Playing

 

Stopped

 

On quit

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Track info panel

Displays title, artist, tracknumber, album, date, genre, comment, extension, bitrate, samplerate, channel, time elapsed/total time, filesize in MB.

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Restrict file types in database

This is a list of most common music file types, to put in Preferences/Database/Restrict file types, in order to put in database only these extensions :

For game music formats, add this line:

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Free Download Manager
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Anti-Virus Checking

To analyse downloaded files automatically, go in Options/Download options/All downloads/Perform virus check, and in the Virus Scanner box put the path to ashQuick.exe (the fast scanner of Avast, by default in C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashQuick.exe).

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Clipboard Monitoring

To add more file extensions recognized in clipboard monitoring, go to Options/Download options/Monitoring, and paste this line :

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Download Categories

To add more download categories and file extensions in them, go in Options/Files/Categorized download, and add these informations:

Document: DOC HLP PDF PS RTF2 RTF TXT XLS

Image: ANI BMP CUR EMF GIF ICL ICO JPG JPEG PNG PSP TIF TIFF WMF

Movie: ASF ASX AVI MOV MPEG MPG QT RM SUB WM WMV

Music: AIF AIFF IT M3U MED MOD MP3 OGG PLS RA S3M STM VOC VQF WAV WMA XM

Software: ACE ARJ BH BIN CAB CPK DLL EXE GZ GZIP JAR LZH MSI PKG RAR SIT TAR TGZ WSZ XPI ZIP

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Integration in Firefox
Close Firefox, copy npfdm.dll from the Free Download Manager folder to Firefox's plugins folder, restart Firefox.
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Kerio Personal Firewall
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Configuration for Instant Messaging Protocols
ICQ
Rule
Protocol
Adresses
Distant Ports
Client Connection Out 1
TCP
64.12.24.0-64.12.200.255
5190
Client Connection Out 2
TCP
64.12.24.0-64.12.200.255
5190
Client Connection Out 3
TCP
205.188.9.0-205.188.179.255
5190
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IRC
Rule
Protocol
Adresses
Distant Ports
AUTH connection
TCP
Any
113
Connection
TCP
Any
6660-6670
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MSN
Rule
Protocol
Adresses
Distant Ports
Connection Out 1
TCP
207.46.104.20
1863
Connection Out 2
TCP
207.46.104.0-207.46.108.255
1863
MSN v8 https Auth
TCP
65.54.225.228-65.54.231.255
443
File transfer Out/In
TCP
Any (non Microsoft)
6891-6900
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Yahoo
Rule
Protocol
Adresses
Distant Ports
Client Connection Out 1
TCP
66.163.169.128-66.163.169.255
5050
Client Connection Out 2
TCP
66.163.172.0-66.163.173.255
5050
Client Connection Out 3
TCP
216.136.173.128-216.136.173.255
5050
Client Connection Out 4
TCP
216.136.224.228-216.136.227.127
5050
Client Connection Out 5
TCP
216.136.233.228-216.136.233.255
5050
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Miranda IM
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Advices

- To create or delete profiles, press "Ctrl" when loading Miranda. It will launch the profile menu.

- To install a plugin, download the .zip file, and unzip it in the .../Miranda IM/Plugins folder. Then restart Miranda, and it's installed. To remove it, search for its *.dll file in the Plugins folder, and delete it, or use the Plugin uninstaller plugin.

- Always make a backup of the Miranda database(s) before trying a new plugin, to restore it if you don't like the plugin, and prevent database filling with unuseful informations.

- If you have problems connecting to ICQ or MSN, verify that the proxies options aren't checked, in Options/Network, and that "Resolve names by proxy" is unchecked.
. If you have problems loging into MSN, go in Internet Options/Advanced/Security and verify that "Check for certificates revocation (restart needed)" is unchecked.
. If it doesn't solve your problem, for MSN, tick the "Use IE proxy settings", then close miranda, untick it, go to proxies settings in Miranda, remove all proxy settings for MSN, apply, and restart Miranda.

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Plugins Configuration
mTooltip

To configure mTooltip go to Main Menu/Options/mTooltip/Advance/<Default> Options and copy-paste the string.

Default

This string shows the user name, gender, age, city, status, logon time, idle time, client, id, ip, phone number(s), last message, status message and more.

 

IRC

This string shows the user name, channel, network, hostmask, if it's logged, the mode, number of users, the topic, the last message time and the last message.

Weather

This string displays weather place, update time, temperature, feels like temperature, condition, low, high, wind, wind direction, humidity, pressure, visibility, sunrise and sunset.

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Weather Protocol

To configure weather protocol options, go to Main Menu/Options/Plugins/Weather Text and copy-paste the strings.

Contact List

This string displays in the contact list the name of the city and current feels like temperature.

 

Brief Info Title

This string displays the time of the forecast.

 

Brief Info

This string displays in the brief info window the weather location, downloaded info date, time, the current temperature, feels like temperature, condition, wind, wind direction, dew point, pressure, visibility, sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, moon phase and day and night forecasts for the 5 next days.

 

External Log

This string copies to log the weather loction, current day, temperature, feels like temperature, condition, low, high, wind, wind direction, dew point, pressure, visibility, sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset and moon phase.

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Samurize
Meters

CPU

CPU load : Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time
Number of running processes : System/Processus
Processor frequency : ProcessorPerfomance/ProcessorFrequency

Hard Disk

Disk reads : LogicalDisc/DiscRead
Disk writes : LogicalDisc/DiscWrite

Memory

Available memory : Memory/AvailableBytes
Free memory : Logical Disc/Free Megabytes
Max swap : Memory\Dedicated memory limit
Paging file used : Memory\Bytes of pagin file
Swap file used: Memory\Bytes dedicated
Used memory : Memory/CommittedBytes

Network

Bytes recieved : NetworkInterface/Bytes Recieved
Bytes sent : NetworkInterface/Bytes Sent
Number of established connections : TCP/ConnectionEstablished

If you want to monitor UL/DL speeds of a DSL (via PPPoE) you must select the RAS-port Performance Object in perfmon and then number of Bytes/sec instead of selecting the NetworkInterface Performance Object - even though the DSL connection is on a NIC.

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