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I found this trick and it worked like a charm for fixing my QuickTime errors- the key is make sure you log in as administrator- even if your user logins are as admin- idiotic VISTA doesn’t recognize that unless you specifically tell it to run as admin. You can look at my screen shot below- make sure you click on the run as administrator when you open the command prompt module and this fix will work like a charm!
Fix for quicktime Error 46: Could not find or load activex control
After installing quicktime latest version in windows vista it didn’t start.It may give you an error message saying
Error 46: Could not find or load activex control
The Solution
There is an old NT utility called SubInAcl.exe that can be used to reset permissions in Windows XP and also in Vista.
Step 1: Download subinacl.msi from here and install it.
Step 2: Download modified version of reset.cmd from here and save the file in
C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools
Step 3: Open Command Prompt and type the following (hit Enter):
cd c:\program files\windows resource kits\tools
Step 4: Now type reset.cmd and hit Enter (You need to make sure you are logged in as administartor)
You will see the Command Line Tool running for some seconds. The issue should have been fixed and Quicktime should run again.
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1st recommendation- I found a nice FREE webhost that can handle Coppermine! Great for retired shows where you don’t have tons of pics, or for hosting fan art. You get 350 MB free space plus the databases and software installed automatically for you. NO ADS on the site- you can customize things nicely.
http://supernatural66.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/free-gallery-hosting-coppermine-for-dummies/
2nd recommendation- Magnify! My favorite video boards- you can customize your channels to match your website and have control over what is posted. Their new video player has a nice looking viewer when you embed videos. If your content is bigger than the 50 MB limit- try converting files to flv before loading- usually you can shrink them to fit. If they are still too big you can always load to Megavideo or Youtube or whatever else and import the links to your channel.
An example of one of my Magnify channels is my humongous Smallville and Supernatural clip library
http://tvpromosntrailers.magnify.net/
3rd recommendation Choosing a blog
If you are not a programmer and are not keen on learning a lot of coding, then Blogger or WordPress.com are for you. Blogger is part of Google, WordPress.com is a separate site, both blog set ups have some nice templates you can choose and you can either name your blog with a domain you have purchased or you can choose a name for your blog that is a sub-domain of the blog service.
My two Smallville blogs are both on WordPress.com and that is how I got comfortable using their system so that when I wanted to launch a fully customizable site I already knew the ins and outs of how to post things and how to set things up.
The OSCK Smallville Blog http://osck.wordpress.com/
I have also worked with blogger as a contributor to SpoilerTV. SpoilerTV is hosted by blogger but with a lot of extras to pay for their space needs and the ability to link in several separte blogs into one interface.
http://spoilertv.blogspot.com/
When I chose to do my own hosted website- I chose WordPress for my blog because I like the flexibility. It is not perfect though- all blogging software requires PHP and a MSQL database and the scripts which make the calls to the database tend to hog a lot of server resources . I ran into an issue with my first hosting company because they couldn’t handle the scripts even though they advertised that they could. This is one nice thing about Blogger or WordPress.com- you get unlimited bandwidth and nobody hassles you about these types of things because you can only customize so much- the coding is pretty well fixed. Best bet for a casual fan? Go with a free site , pick a template and work on customizing your header and don’t worry about the rest!
If you want to work on the coding and are planning a blog to just showcase a few things a month- maybe for your fanfic or fan art- my free website guys at 000webhost are pretty good at that too. You can install a fully customizable blog and manage it using standard webhosting tools. If you run out of space or bandwidth it is pretty easy to move a WordPress blog to another site ( back everything up once a week and make a copy of your backups on your hard drive!) or you can upgrade your hosting with them pretty reasonably.
What now?
You have a gallery, a video channel and a blog site. How do you tie this all together? How do you cross promote your sites?
If you know how to code in css you can easily add links to your channels into your blog coding. If you are not a CSS person ( I AM NOT) then you can cheat and use links and widgets!
Coppermine allows you to enter your home page url in this box in the theme set up menu entitled “custom menu link name” enter the name of your site in this field and then input your site URL in the next box. That is it! Now you have a link on your Coppermine gallery with the name of your site pointing it to your site.
Magnify allows you to link to any home page you like in the user/channel menu settings. Additionally you can add links and banners for your site as I have using simple HTML coding in the headers and footers on your site.
WordPress.com and Blogger allow you to add links using html and their widgets - I have a number of them in the sidebars on my OSCK blog. This is done with VERY simple html coding entered into a text widget box. I load a photo to my photo host ( I use imageshack- also free!) , it gives me linking code for the photo,I add a little text and the correct code to add the link to the photo pointing people to the site I want them to visit and VOILA! Linked pages.
I will post more recommendations in this category. Feel free to add your own awesome free/easy to use tools too!
Check it out Here: http://www.000webhost.com/57809.html
I put together two FREE Coppermine galleries this week- using 000webhost- a great FREE full featured webhosting site.
Operation Save Clark Kent Fan Art Gallery
Charmed HQ Photo Gallery
For fun Coppermine templates- go to the demo thread
http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg14x/
on the Coppermine support site and scroll through available templates. Once you find something you like , go to the downloads area and download the file to your hard drive.
This is what you need to post your art/ photos in your own gallery:
1) Image resizing software that will allow you to optimize your photos/art for posting. I recomment VSO resizer. You want Coppermine wallpapers to be no more than 1200 x 1024 size and jpg format works best
I recommend the free program VSO Image Resizer
2) Thumbnail generation program- you will want to make your own thumbs offline to minimize server loading and your bandwidth use on free sites. Easy thumbs is a powerful program and FREE
When you go to make your thumbs you can set the prefix to thumb_
this will automatically generate thumbs with the right name to load right into Coppermine
3) 000webhost which I list above is SUPER easy to use. You can pick your own sub-domain name for free- I used OSCK for our gallery with their suffix added to it. Once your account is active, go into the autoinstaller area in the user panel online and install Coppermine. This takes about 5 minutes or so. If your site is going to be your gallery- don’t mess with a sub-domain name let it install right into your root directory- ie your site that you have just set up. This will be done for you automatically. The installer is installing Coppermine and a MSQL database which will house, store and index your images.
4) Your gallery is installed- open your webpage. You should have a generic Coppermine gallery that appears. Good- now you can customize it! You can pick one of the themes that comes with the software, or like I did for OSCK you can find a theme online if like me you don’t want to mess with coding a skin for the site. I did go in and change my header image - this is pretty easy to do and just requires figuring out which file in your template images folder is the header image and swapping it out for your own.
5) If you are adding a new skin- you will need a FTP client to load it as well as your images. I cannot emphasize how nice using the FTP client is–especially with a decent number of photos.
- Open your FTP client plugging in your logins.
- Go to the public HTML folder
- You will load your new theme into the content/ themes folder
- Add your images in folders in the albums folder. Make sure you name your folders and organize them so you will be able to know what is where with ease. Once you have loaded things into coppermine these folders cannot be changed around.
6) Open your cpanel if you have added a new theme, go into your public html and extract the new theme ( it will be zipped) into the theme folder. Exit the cpanel. If you want to do things even faster- extract the files on your pc and then load the folder with the theme into your themes folder in coppermine through your ftp client
7) Go to Coppermine, pick your theme in the config menu.
8)Build your categories for your gallery and then albums to go in each category. You can’t add pictures if there is no album to put them in.
9) Add your photos- you can use the batch add tool to add photos in folders to albums in your gallery.
- If you get a message that you need to change permissions on your folders- go back to your FTP tool, open your database and go to the albums folder where you have loaded everything. Right click on the albums folder and go to file properties- change the number from 755 to 777 and select to have this cascade to all files beneath the main folder.
- Now shut down your ftp tool and click batch add again.
- Since you have used the thumbnail generator to make your own thumbs and they are in the folder with their originals Coppermine will only add the big photos to your album, automatically knowing that files with the prefix thumb_ are thumbnails. Loads are blazing fast when you do this too!
That is it! You now have a free gallery for your artwork, scans- whatever to share with friends and the world!
Dean reviews the New Mummy movie previews
Dean Winchester’s take on the new Mummy movie preview ….remember the Mummy films are supposed to be in the 1930s at the latest? The abominable snowmen as pop figures came about with the children’s special Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer in the 1960s! The Mummy 3- written by Smallville’s former producers Miles Millar and Al Gough.
Smallville/Supernatural - Crossover Trailer
This is an amazing Supernatural crossover video from my friend Matt- enjoy!
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