Hello. I am using Windows Live Messenger 2009 on Windows 7. I am using a 3G modem (ZTE Propietary USB Modem)
I connect to the Internet using a software my ISP provided me. In last three days, my Messenger started to disconnect.
Here is what I observed and tried to do:
1- I can browse web, can do FTP transfer etc. and obiviously have a valid IP.
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I developed a Single player game in Flash (Tic Tac Toe) and in the Multiplayer mode i will be able to do both player playing on the same system with out network.
I would like to extend it and make it enable to play the Multiplayer game for two player playing it online.
How i can be made give me some ideas , How test the Multiplayer game playing…
First of, let me apologize for this getting a bit technical. Several weeks ago, I found that while using NPR's mediaplayer (e.g. click on 'Listen to the Show' - this is what I've been using as a test) the stream would suddenly halt after a minute or three. I could not get the stream to restart without reloading the page. Now, I assumed this…
If you are an IT Professional, a new education tool introduced by Microsoft is the MS Desktop Player. Today we take a look at what it has to offer, from Webcasts, White Papers, Training Videos, and more.
Microsoft Desktop Player
You can run the player from the website (shown here) or download the application for use on your local machine (link…
Keeping your computer and software up to date is very important in keeping everything running smooth and secure. It’s also important to keep your geeky gadgets updated as well. Here we take a look at updating a Zune HD.
Note: In this example we’re updating a Zune HD out of the box which hasn’t been updated yet.
The first thing you’ll need to…
Finally after weeks of hard work the World Cup Silverlight player is ready to watch the spanish team in action. This Silverlight Player use Smooth Streaming technology, enables adaptive streaming of media to Silverlight and other clients over HTTP. Smooth Streaming provides a high-quality viewing experience that scales massively on…
I am creating a game using Box2D (Javascript implementation) - and I added the ability to have a static platform, that is moved along an axis as a function of a sine.
My problem is when the player lands on the platform, as the platform moves along the X axis - the player is not moved along with it, as you visually would expect.
The…
I am having some problems with collision detection, I have 2 types of objects excluding the player. Tiles and what I call MapObjects. The tiles are all 16x16, where the MapObjects can be any size, but in my case they are all 16x16. When my player runs along the mapobjects or tiles, it get verry jaggy. The player is unable to move…
Earlier this week, some folks over on the XDA developers forum got their hands on a leaked test build of a revamped Android music player that could possibly be shipping with Android’s next OS upgrade, Honeycomb. This evening the footage was spotted by Engadget, and now the word is spreading like wildfire: Android is going to get…
I am making a Pacman game using XNA. The game is tile based, with each tile being 32 pixels. As the player moves, I need to know whenever it is perfectly on a tile (ie position of 32, 64, etc...) so that I can check to see if the next tile is free. I am using the following logic to test this.
if (position.X % 32 == 0 &&…
I am battling to install Windows MediaPlayer 11 on Wine. I have tried the following:
Open a Terminal (Applications, Accessories, Terminal) and type "sudo apt-get install wine." This installs Wine Windows Emulator, a free application that allows you to run many Windows programs within Linux.
Download Windows MediaPlayer 11…
I want to access and play media files on machine S (Windows XP) from machine C (Windows XP). Using Windows File Sharing ("share this folder" stuff), if it works, I would share the folder containing media files on machine S, and I would be able to play media files, sitting in front of C, using any mediaplayer I want. Windows…
Chrome: If you’re a frequent Pandora, Grooveshark, or other popular streaming music station listener, Unity Player puts play control and song info on the Chrome Toolbar. Rather than sending you digging through your tabs to find the window with Pandora–or Google Music, Grooveshark, 8Tracks, Hypemachine, or any of the other…
I have just implemented a 2D player camera for my game, everything works properly except the player on the screen jitters when it moves between tiles. What I mean by jitter, is that if the player is moving the camera updates the tileset to be drawn and if the player steps to the right, the camera snaps that way. The…
I am trying to update the location of the rigid body for a player class, as my player moves around I would like the collision body to also move with the player object (currently represented as a cube). Below is my current update method for when I want to update the xyz coords, but I am pretty sure I am not able to…
Windows MediaPlayer Vulnerability Targeted by Drive-by-download Attack Security firm Trend Micro recently released details on malware that has been targeting the MIDI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability found in Microsoft's Windows MediaPlayer. A post on Trend Micro's Malware Blog offered further insight into…
I'm developing a 2D shooter using AndEngine. At the moment I'm trying to make the camera follow the player. As I've understood the common approach is to use the SmoothCamera zooming it and setting the chased entity. The problem is that the camera follows the player WITH background moving also…
Our site currently is going to require our users to download a player to view videos they will want to view on our site. The videos get uploaded by users from various sources (smartphones in 3gp format for example).
However most people have Flash on their machines. I am trying to 'make a…
Our site currently is going to require our users to download a player to view videos they will want to view on our site. The videos get uploaded by users from various sources (smartphones in 3gp format for example).
However most people have Flash on their machines. I am trying to 'make a…