5 posts tagged “how to”
Although I have posted in the past my disdain for Twitter, that did not keep me from signing up for an account and even enabling the ability to post to Twitter from my address bar. Once I watched the video below, I finally "got" it. Maybe I will turn into a Twitter Bug now. I am uber busy, and keeping people posted in this manner really can work. Now I just need some friends who really care about whether I just drank coffee or cleaned the toilet. ; P
Here is a foolproof "how to" guide to getting ALL the content of YouTube (not just the very limited content of YouTube Mobile, which still doesn't run on all Windows Smartphones) to run on your Motorola Q, but can be adapted for other Windows Smartphones. This is culled from wading through many forums and trial and error, as not all of the posted methods work, especially on a Verizon Moto Q, as Verizon tends to keep their phones more locked than some other carriers.
I've put everything in one place, including the files needed for download, as wading through the various methods and hundreds of posts is time consuming and finding everything in one place is like finding a needle in a haystack. Thanks to the good peeps at the Everything Q forums for sharing this information, and thanks to those who developed the files/work around, as Windows doesn't handle java or Flash natively, as do other platforms, so when you try to open YouTube on your Moto Q, you get a Windows Media file handling error. So, without further ado, here is the distilled and easy (please comment or email me if you have any questions, or still don't understand how to do this) version of getting YouTube to run on a Moto Q:
Download YouTube Mobile Tools for Windows Smartphone using the link below:
YouTube Tools for Windows Smartphone & Motorola Q - Download
How To Install:
2. There will be 2 folders there, the CAB and the DLL.
3. You will upload the .cab file on your Q (or other smartphone) using ActiveSync, place it anywhere on your Q but I prefer to place it on your Storage Card for future use.
4. After you placed the .CAB file on your Q, locate it via File Manager, install it like the way you install any .cab files before.
5. It should be successful before proceeding to the next step.
6. See it there's a new icon on your Q that says "Streaming Media", if its visible then you successfully installed the cab file.
7. Do not run yet the Streaming Media application.
8. Next, go back to your desktop where you extracted the YouTube Tools, go to the DLL folder that contains some .dll binary files that we need to placed on your Q.
9. Select all the DLLs on your Windows Explorer, Ctrl+C to copy all files on the clipboard.
10. On your Q, browse to \Windows directory.
11. Ctrl+V from there to copy the files from the clipboard.
12. If the system asks you if you like to override existing file. Please select NO
13. That's it, go to http://m.youtube.com and select a sample video to play.
14. The selected video will AUTOMATICALLY be played on Streaming Media application that you installed on step #4.
A gift for those who have everything else, male or female:
A new take on the famous Indian pleasure principles: "Karmasheetra". LOL
A few weeks ago, I went into a well known chain of office supply stores to pick up some printer ink and some odds and ends since I have a business account, and happened to see a "special" clearance item that caught my eye. I usually don't shop at office supply chains for the best price or for anything for my computer, but again, having business account there means is a convenience and it's not directly coming out of my pocket. Anyway, they were practically giving away a discontinued or to me a "throw away" external USB [Lite-On who rebadges for many companies, including SONY] DVD-RW with Dual Layer recording technology (I happened to want an external drive with LightScribe, but the price was right on this one) for $39, including tax, so I figured, "What the heck?" and went for it. I really only need it to burn an occasional DVD and to back up larger files from my back up drive (yeah, I'm paranoid, my good stuff goes in a fire safe box) and to archive older material for which a CD is too small. (Who would have thought an external DVD-RW would be cheaper than dirt, literally, a couple years ago?)
Well I unpacked it, hooked up the power and the USB cord. Then I fired it up and XP automatically assigned drivers and we were all good, right? Launched Nero and got ready to burn baby burn. No burned disc, but I was burning. Yeah, el cheapo drive-o couldn't work that easily or flawlessly, right? Right. So due to Murphy's Law, I kept getting error messages saying the drive couldn't handle the media, even though the media was correct and other such nonsense. It wasn't the price of the drive though, it was the fact that sometimes XP has problems with external USB drives when it assigns drive letters.
I had Alcohol 120% on my machine at one point, which had assigned several virtual drives, which may not have been recovered on removing it. I don't know if XP assigned/mapped it to one of those old drives, but the drive wasn't showing up anywhere except when I went into Control Panel>System>Device Manager>DVD/CD-ROM Drives. The only way to hopefully rectify the situation was to go into XP's Disk Management by typing diskmgmt.msc at the run command prompt. If the drive shows up there, as mine did, the fix is to rename it. Mine was originally drive L. I right clicked the drive letter and highlighted "change drive letter or path". From the drop down box of available drive letters, I took the easy road and chose Z, knowing for sure it had never been used. Then I right clicked "properties" and ticked the hardware tab. I highlighted the Lite On drive and right clicked "properties" once again and then went under the "Volumes" tab and clicked the "Populate" button. After saving out of all that, I was good to go. My drive was now showing up in Explorer. I dragged and dropped the drive shortcut onto my desktop (being a USB device, it doesn't show up under "My Computer") and this time, my throw away external drive worked "like butta" and I'm still in the process of slashin' and burning the excess fat from my internal hard drives...and except that I don't have my light scribe, I'm happy as a clam.
