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Reviewing the GNUSim8085 (v1.3.7)

phoxis — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:31:13 +0000

This article reviews the GNUSim8085 (v1.3.7) a graphical simulator, assembler and debugger for the Intel 8085 microprocessor. The Intel 8085 is an 8-bit microprocessor that was launched by Intel in 1977 and hence is something that we have never seen … Continue reading →

Configure Samsung ML-1666 in Fedora

brainbarshan — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 04:26:52 +0000

I recently had a problem with my Samsung ML-1666 Monochrome laser printer: I could not configure it in Fedora. Simply downloading the driver from Samsung website and installing seemed easy, but actually did nothing. Googling for hours did not solve … Continue reading →

WordPress.com Stats API

phoxis — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 05:03:06 +0000

WordPress.com has a very nice stat plugin showing the overall post views data and also post by post, but it would be always great if there was more. A lot of people talk about introducing Google Analytics. A lot of … Continue reading →

Rockbox in iPod Video 5G

phoxis — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:17:12 +0000

For a long time i am using the Rockbox OS in my Apple iPod Nano 1G as the primary OS, which also has iPodlinux and ofcourse the Apple OS installed. You can find the step-by-step guide how i made this … Continue reading →

See what is behind the shortened URLs

phoxis — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:14:42 +0000

A firefox plugin LongURL Mobile Expander, and the webservice LongURL to see what is behind the shortened URLs. Continue reading →

WordPress.com IRC Channel

phoxis — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 05:11:19 +0000

Support is one of the best features in wordpress.com . The official documentation, the email support and the mainly volunteer driven forums make a very strong and fast support system. Except these three there is another support system in wordpress.com … Continue reading →

Do Really ALL of us want to Reblog ?

phoxis — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:09:38 +0000

The new feature Reblogging in wordpress.com . There is are two groups who this it is good and who think it is a very bad feature. This is a post discussing this topic. Continue reading →

WordPress.com Top 10 Features

phoxis — Thu, 27 May 2010 06:27:08 +0000

Talking about the the Top-10 Features of Wordpress.com Continue reading →

Re-Enable WordPress.com random blog surfing

phoxis — Wed, 26 May 2010 09:48:02 +0000

Wordpress.com blogs you have Tag and subscribed Blog surfing features with which you can surf your subscribed blogs, and get the update information from the blogs. You can also have the list of Blog of The Day in here http://botd.wordpress.com/ … Continue reading →

What are ID3 Tags all about?

phoxis — Sat, 08 May 2010 09:49:37 +0000

When you play a music file in your favorite music player, or in your portable media player the track name, album, artist, lyrics gets displayed. You can search the songs with artists, album names. Even some of the tracks come with album art too, but there is no image file anywhere. The question generally arises, where does these information come from? The answer is straight forward; this metadata about the audio track is stored inside the audio file itself. The different audio files need different codecs. Different audio format files also have different such metadata systems. For example The Vorbis comments, APE tag, ID3 tags etc.

The most common and popular audio media (although not the best) is the mp3 . Mp3 audio format stores this metadata inside the music file, either at the beginning or at the end or at both locations. The music metadata system used with mp3 is called an ID3 Tag. We will rip off the ID3 tag and check out what's inside it in this article. We will discuss about ID3v1.x and ID3v2.x tags.

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