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July 4

File-sharing

I think I asked a similar question about a year ago, but I believe that the answers to it change regularly. What are the current leading file-sharing sites? I think now a lot of file-sharing is cloud-based. How have things changed? Do kids share music and videos in a new way now?--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:18, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Editing web page

Is there a tool or reliable software available to edit web page on any of the major browsers? Hamish 84Hamish84 (talk) 10:48, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

That depends:

1) What is the format of those web pages ? Browsers are more likely to have HTML source editors built in than something more complicated.

2) What do you mean by "edit". A simple text editor is one thing, but an editor that will do things like test, debug, and optimize the code will be harder to come by. StuRat (talk) 14:22, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

And of course, we assume that the website is yours that you are developing on your computer. You can't edit a web page that is out on the www (unless it is something like a wiki which is explicitly setup so to do). ((For my own web site, I use a plain text editor - PFE)) -- SGBailey (talk) 16:15, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

apple [pod 120 gb

i think my volume.is locked how do i ulock it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:A000:EA00:F800:97F:5172:5890:C052 (talk) 14:11, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

If it's locked from going above a certain volume you can go into the settings menu and change the 'Volume Limit' (and if you want to assign a pin-code to prevent it being changed by others). Here's a little guide to the menu system on an iPod http://support.apple.com/kb/TA38528?viewlocate=en_US

Media Player Classic

I'm on a Windows 7 (Home Basic) laptop. For the past several years, I've been using Windows Media Player Classic as my preferred video player. It's been the best so far. I update it regularly. I have it installed on all of my machines - either the normal Media Player Classic version, or the one that comes in the K-Lite Media Player Pack. Whichever it is, all of these get updated regularly. The problem that I've been facing for the past few months is this (and I'm guessing it's because the two - regular MPC and the one that comes with KLM Pack - have been updated separately by the people who roll out the updates... or somethine... basically, there happens to be discrepancies between the two): MPC (regular) has the arrow keys as a shortcut - I can use the right/left arrows to jump forward/backward in about 5 second jumps (highly useful), as well as the up arrows for volume control. When I use these shortcuts, I can see a small grey display on the upper left corner of the screen with the timestamp in case of jumps, or the volume level percentage in case of volume adjustment. However, when I use the KLM Pack version, the right/left arrow keys make the video jump only one frame at a time, frustratingly. I found a workaround for this by installing both the regular MPC and the KLM pack and then manually copy-pasting the MPC.exe file in the installation folder into that of the KLM Pack folder (and renaming it into the way the original KLM media player was named, then deleting the original .exe file in that folder). This seems to work, and I can jump in 5 second increments now, but I still can't see the timestamp/volume level display on the upper left of the screen. Can someone tell me how to fix this? Many thanks. La Alquimista 18:42, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

There should be a setting in the MPC options that allow you to redefine your keys. Look for something similar to (I'm not home right now) "Jump forward (small)", "Jump forward (medium)", and "Jump forward (large)", and redefine your keys to those based off your preferences. The key bind that causes it to jump frames should be labeled "Jump forward (frame)". -- 140.202.10.134 (talk) 19:11, 9 July 2014 (UTC)