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2012-07-23
2012-07-07
webapps and language
hello socializing people,
i was just playing around with a social integration chain of youtube -> twitter -> facebook which works pretty neat now. There was just one problem: Since youtube is displayed in german by default since I life in germany, so are the automated posts that say i liked / favorited / whatevered a video that get sent to twitter and from there to facebook. But I have some friends who don't speak german and I generally like to use english anyways when it's public. The trick was to tell youtube to display itself in english, which claims to only affect the interface but as I guessed right: It also affects the text that's auto posted :)
i was just playing around with a social integration chain of youtube -> twitter -> facebook which works pretty neat now. There was just one problem: Since youtube is displayed in german by default since I life in germany, so are the automated posts that say i liked / favorited / whatevered a video that get sent to twitter and from there to facebook. But I have some friends who don't speak german and I generally like to use english anyways when it's public. The trick was to tell youtube to display itself in english, which claims to only affect the interface but as I guessed right: It also affects the text that's auto posted :)
2012-07-05
getting Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (Steam) to start up
Hello gamers,
yesterday I bought C&C: Red Alert 3 on steam sale. After downloading though it wouldn't start. It just sat there with its fancy splash screen, occupied 25% of my cpu (conquer alright!) but didn't start up. At first I thought it may be a problem with the steam version, but there were only problem reports about multiplayer and mods. Someone with Windows 7, 64bit version also claimed to have it running, so that couldn't be it either. *But* the game was build for Windows XP / Vista (32bit only!) which gave me the idea to screw around a little with the compatibility settings.
SOLUTION:
Start as Administrator / Set it to do so every time:
go to your steam folder, then to RA3, i.e.:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Command and Conquer Red Alert 3\RA3.exe
right click -> properties -> compatibility -> run as an administrator
then you can just start it right from steam
yesterday I bought C&C: Red Alert 3 on steam sale. After downloading though it wouldn't start. It just sat there with its fancy splash screen, occupied 25% of my cpu (conquer alright!) but didn't start up. At first I thought it may be a problem with the steam version, but there were only problem reports about multiplayer and mods. Someone with Windows 7, 64bit version also claimed to have it running, so that couldn't be it either. *But* the game was build for Windows XP / Vista (32bit only!) which gave me the idea to screw around a little with the compatibility settings.
SOLUTION:
Start as Administrator / Set it to do so every time:
go to your steam folder, then to RA3, i.e.:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Command and Conquer Red Alert 3\RA3.exe
right click -> properties -> compatibility -> run as an administrator
then you can just start it right from steam
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