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Human vs. Google Translator

As anyone who has had to work with different languages is probably aware, a translation is far more than just converting the words from one language to another. Just the construction of a sentence alone is different from one to the next.

Hide your personal activity in torrents

TorrentPrivacy.com offer modified pre-configured uTorrent client, which uses SSH protocol with 128 bit encryption, so nobody can see what are you really downloading, and also helps against P2P traffic shaping.

Putdrive.com to download Torrents

Putdrive.com is a new online cloud storage and download service that allows you to download files from torrents, video sharing sites, and over 80 different file hosters! It’s a combo solution worth trying out.

How to use Drag and Drop search

One of the new neat feature is getting exact subtitles for your movies without installing any program. Just take your movie file and drag & drop it into green search bar on www.opensubtitles.org

Learn English with fleex.tv

The guys over at fleex have just announced the release of a new video player which is using OpenSubtitles.org subtitles service. Not just any video player though, as you’ll see: one with an English-learning twist, that makes the process of learning the language suddenly a lot more appealing.

Try new QVIVO Social Media Center

QVIVO is a pre-release multimedia player software so it’s a little raw, but expect big things in the coming months including cloud based backup and streaming to any device running a QVIVO app.

Add subtitles to DVD

Here is small guide how to add subtitles to DVD using ConvertXtoDVD – you got some movie file (divx, avi, mov, mpg…), you got some subtitles (sub, srt,…), and you want burn this movie and subtitles to DVD.

Upgrade: PHP5 and other stuff

Today we’ve upgraded PHP4 to PHP5. It is caused by bad communication with web server 2 and db server, so we redirect traffic from web2 to other servers.

Packet lost solved

240 packets transmitted, 240 packets received, 0.0% packet loss Yes, it seems so, we solved this problem, big thanks to DanGer. No more 500 errors.

500 Internal Server Error

Solution is pretty simple, every 2 minutes is running script, which check if 500, and if yes, it restarts server.

Movie FPS, sub format, upgrade

On internet exists some funky Polish subtitle formats like TMPlayer (tmp) and MPL2 (mpl), so I’ve added them – now our Polish friends should be possible upload subs in these formats too.

Page should load faster

After some talk with lighttpd guru at irc, we together optimized its configuration. I also removed some ugly SQL querries, some of them are cached in memcache, thumbnails should be loaded faster, sphinx is doing its job…

Improvements for hearing impaired

Now, when searching, you can select, if you want subtitles for Hearing Impaired in advanced settings. Search results and subtitle details are marked with small icon.

New fulltext search

I decided to bring online new fulltext search engine – sphinx. After some days of work, debugging and so on, we can say – it works. I hope now website will be a little faster.

More statistics available

Last time, chatting with Majky, he asked, if he should see some stats about using his Oscar – I said no problem. So I created some more stats.