Techno, Trance - Top 12 ~Part 1~ [VIDEO]

Here are some of my favorite Techno, Trance songs. Help decide the greatest Techno / Trance by casting your vote!

Track List:
(0:10) Comiccon - Komodo (Dda remix edit)
(1:08) Pakito - You Wanna Rock
(1:56) Discotronic - Tricky Disco (A1 Original Mix)
(2:40) DJ Panda - It's a Dream '98 (radio cut)
(3:35) Earthbound - One nation - Trance nation
(4:16) Rocco - Everybody 2006
(5:16) 666 - Supadupafly
(6:11) Greg City - Make Some Noise (DJ Neros remix edit)
(7:11) Cosmic Gate - Exploration of Space
(8:12) East Clubbers - Happy
(9:10) Tube Tonic & DJ Shandar - Brainstorm (Original Mix)
(10:04) DJ Phil - Ich Vermisse Dich

How to: Build an iPod Charger for your Car

Here is a very quick and easy way to charge your iPod, or any other generic USB device on the go, and save money too.

Materials you will need,

1. An adapter for your car's 12 Volt DC socket. I’m using a car charger from an old LG phone. Any type will do, just make sure the output voltage is about 5 volts, plus or minus at most 0.25 volts (4.75 - 5.25).
2. A Female type USB adapter, mine is cut off from a USB Cable Extender. If you don't a USB Cable Extender, you can still make a charger but will have to sacrifice an iPod Cable.
   
3. An iPod USB Cable
4. Wire Strippers
   
5. Duct Tape, Zip Ties, Shrink Wrap, or whatever you have that can hold wires together.
6. (Optional) A volt meter to see how much juice you are getting out of the finished product.

This process should only take about 10 minutes. Here we go.

Using whatever car charger you found, cut the proprietary end off. This being the end that doesn't get plugged into the car.

Next, use wire strippers remove the insulation and expose the red and black wires. There might white and green wires too, but they are not necessary for charging and can be cut off.

Do the same with the male USB end of either your estension cable, or iPod wire. This is the end that you would plug into your computer. Both wires should look like the picture above.

Now, remove the insulation from both sets of red and black wires. When the insides are exposed, twist red to red and black to black, connecting the USB cable to the car adapter.

In order to prevent a short circuit, wrap tape separately around both twisted pairs. There should be two spereate sets of connected wires, your red pair, and black pair.

Leaving exposed wires to touch could damage not only the Mp3 player, but the cars’ battery as well.

To secure the connection, use a zip tie, rubber band, piece of tape, or anything you like to fasten the wires together.

Now, plug the iPod or other device's cable into your adapter and go test it in the car!

One thing to note:

• Don't use an adapter that is under or over powered. This will most likely damage the device. Use the volt meter to make sure your cable is in the acceptable range.
  

Enjoy your tunes!

How to: Record ANY Audio Passed Through Your Sound Card

In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to capture any sound/audio that is played through your computer's speakers. Yes, this theoretically means you could record songs from music websites such as last.fm, purevolume.com, or rhapsody.com, but I am not advocating that!

Hah, ok let's begin!

Things you will need:
Any working sound card with the drivers installed,
And a free program called Audacity.

The first thing you will need to do is download Audacity and install it on your computer. I am using version 1.2.6.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Once you have Audacity installed and running, click the drop down bar in the top right corner and select “Stereo Mix”. Then crank the volume up to full, 1.0. This will set your sound card to capture audio directly as it is played, and record it in real time. The resulting sound is much better than an input from a microphone or other line in device would be, as it is grabbing the raw waves.

Now that Audacity is set to intercept audio streams, you will probably want it to record in Stereo instead of the default, Mono. To enable dual channel recording, click “Edit” on the top menu, and then the “Preferences” item. On the “Audio I/O” tab, select “2 (Stereo)” as the channel setting.

If you want to export the audio as an MP3 track, you will need to download and locate the “LAME MP3 Codec” It can be found here, and when unzipped, the “lame_enc.dll” file should be placed in the “Audacity/Plug-ins” folder. Then just click find library on the “File Formats” tab and navigate to the Plug-Ins directory. 128 Kbps is the preferred bit rate for audio quality vs. file size.

Now you are all set up to hijack some audio. Just click the record button and Audacity will start doing its thing! Any audio played in the background will be captured by Audacity and graphed as separate left and right channels below.

When you are done recording, you can select the beginning and end of the track with the cursor tool, and press delete to remove the silent areas. Also feel free to play around with some of audio effects and other goodies.

To save your work, go to File, “Export as MP3”

Have fun!

COD4 / COD5: Stats Program

A while ago, I started writing a program that would give you a whole bunch of averages and info based upon your Call of Duty 4 Online stats. A friend started tossing ideas my way, and we ended up with something like this.

Now with the release of Call of Duty 5, a new version needed to be made and is finally done!

It's pretty self explanatory, just enter your stats and click "Calculate", that's it! You will receive a multitude of info I guarantee you didn't know before! Feel free to post comments with bugs or suggestions, and enjoy!

UPDATE: March 13th, 2010
Modern Warfare 2 Support
Version 2.4
https://sites.google.com/site/codstatscalc/

COD4: Escape Ambush, Escape Backlot, and Escape Crossfire

How to Get out of Ambush...

1. Get a buddy to go prone in that corner over there.
2. Start from the side and jump onto his head. This might take a few tries.
3. Start jumping as your buddy stands up.
4. Don't stop hitting jump and holding the forward until you are over the wall.

That's it enjoy!

To get out of Backlot...

1. Get a friend to jump onto the railing, then up onto the ledge.
2. As he crouches, jump from about 1/2 of the way up the railing onto his head. This will probably take a few tries, don't stop hitting jump or holding forward until you are up onto the next ledge.
3. Now, go prone and keep wiggling towards the right until you zoop through the invisible wall. This can get kind of frustrating, keep at it you will make it.
4. Stand up and carefully step forward until you are able to reenter the building on the left.

That's all there is to it, Enjoy!

Scraping the Sky in Crossfire...

1. Make sure you have RPG's and go up to the 2nd floor of that building.
2. Jump onto the peak of the chair, and then around of the corner of the wall snaking back onto the bricks shown.
3. Adjust your position until you can jump onto the pieces of sheet rock with the exposed re-bar.
4. Now, goto the top left corner of the rock and jump to make sure you aren't under the higher level. Equip the RPG's and aim the launcher at the small wall down on the ground level.
5. Fire, and as soon as you zoom in, jump upwards and hold back on the stick.

If all goes well you will be on top of the building, and be free to explore! Note that this glitch is very hard to do. Try not to get frustrated, although I really couldn't help it haha, Enjoy!