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Download Warcraft III Version Switcher/Patcher for Version 1.21, 1.22, 1.22a, 1.23, 1.24, 1.24b, 1.24c, 1.24d, 1.24e, 1.25b, 1.26

Updated on 17 March 2010 for version 1.24e

As the name said, Warcraft version switcher will let you to switch between different version of Warcraft III. 

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Download Warcraft III Version Switcher

Download version 1.21, 1.22, 1.22a, 1.23, 1.24 and 1.24b
NOTE: Version 1.24c, 1.24d and 1.24e ARE NOT INCLUDED in this download. You need to download them separately instead.

Use 7-zip to extract the content.

Download part 1: Warcraft III Version Switcher.7z.001

Size: 90 MB

MD5: 0C3CC7FD53B4F06D65398C028A5534F6

Download part 2: Warcraft III Version Switcher.7z.002

Size: 86.8 MB

MD5: 97C4873D37BBEB6E1AEB238191749B08

You can download each version separately.

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Google Analytics Alternative With Real Time Visitor Tracking: Piwik

Visitors statistic is a crucial information for webmasters. I’m sure almost all webmaster know about Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a free service by Google that provides you with detailed statistics about visitors of a website. Google Analytics is being used widely by webmasters and it is one of the most popular visitor tracking service. If you somehow don’t like to use Google Analytics and you are looking for its alternative, you can use Piwik.

What is Piwik? Piwik is a web analytics software written in PHP. If you have your own web space and your server has a minimum PHP 5.1.3 and MySQL 4.1, you can install and use Piwik. Piwik can provides you with a detailed real time reports about your website visitors. Piwik is written by the developers of phpMyVisites after the last stable release of phpMyVisites 2.3. Some features of Piwik according to the developers:

  1. Piwik’s features are based on plugins so you can easily add new features or remove the ones that you don’t need. You can build your own plugins too.
  2. The statistics data is owned by you because Piwik is installed on your server. The data can be accessed using Piwik’s open APIs.
  3. The interface of Piwik is fully customizable.

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µTorrent (uTorrent) bt.transp_disposition Values Explained

µTP (uTP) or micro Transport Protocol is a protocol used by bittorrent client. This protocol aims to reduce latency and maximize bandwidth when the latency is not excessive. While normal bittorrent traffic uses Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) to transfer data, bittorrent client that supports uTP is able to transfer data between clients using User Datagram Protocol (UDP). uTP is supposed to improve bittorrent traffic (uTP can possibly avoid traffic shaping) and you should see improvements in your bittorrent download/upload speed when most of the peers use uTP. So far uTP is used by uTorrent and official bittorrent client.

The bt.transp_disposition value will let you control how uTorrent uses normal TCP or uTP for data transportation. The bt.transp_disposition value is interpreted as a bit field and you probably need to learn binary to understand it. As this post is written, the latest uTorrent 2.0 beta build 16666 accepts these values:

  • 1 – allows uTorrent to attempt outgoing TCP connections
  • 2 – allows uTorrent to attempt outgoing uTP connections
  • 4 – allows uTorrent to accept incoming TCP connections
  • 8 – allows uTorrent to accept incoming uTP connections
  • 16 – tells uTorrent to use the new uTP header. This is an improved communication header, but is not backwards compatible with clients that do not understand it.

Basically, these values can be added together in order to enable the options.

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Guide: How to Properly Burn CD/DVD Image (ISO) to CD/DVD

Recently, 3 of my friends asked me how to burn a DVD image (the ISO file) to a DVD. Basically, a CD/DVD image (ISO) file is a archive file just like 7z, RAR or ZIP. Unlike normal archive file, a CD/DVD image file sometime contains boot code and it is usually a complete sector-by-sector copy of a CD/DVD.

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In this post, you will find out how to properly burn a CD/DVD image. I will use the Ubuntu 9.04 CD image as the example. Latest disk burning software should support ISO burning to disk. The keywords to burn ISO file to disk usually sounds like ‘Write image file to disk’, ‘Burn ISO image’ or ‘Burn image’. You can use your favourite CD/DVD burning application as long as it supports burning from CD/DVD image. In this post, I will use CDBurnerXP, a free CD/DVD burning application for Windows.

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Quick Tip: Turn Off Avira Antivir Audio Alert When Virus Is Detected

Quick tip. Avira Antivir Personal is one of the best popular free antivirus. As this post is written, Avira Antivir Personal ranked #2 on Download.com most popular download. I’m pretty sure most of Avira Antivir users found that the ‘beeping’ audio alert when a virus is detected is quite annoying, especially when you can’t turn down the volume because it uses your motherboard’s buzzer. You can actually turn off the audio alert easily.

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How to Turn Off Avira Antivir Audio ‘Beep’ Alert

1. Open Avira Antivir main window. Go to ‘Extras’ > ‘Configuration(1).

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2. Click ‘Expert Mode(2) and go to ‘General’ > ‘Acoustic Alert(3). Select ‘No warning(4) to disable Avira Antivir audio alert. Click ‘OK(5) to store the configuration.

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Avira Antivir Personal is free for personal use.

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Download Latest DotA AI Map: DotA Allstars 6.64 AI 0.213

The latest DotA AI map, DotA Allstars 6.64 AI 0.213 had been released by BuffMePlz on 25th October 2009.

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Release notes for DotA Allstars 6.64 AI 0.213:

Changelog:

-First update to 6.64

-Changed the default AI behaviour of creeps and towers to be the same as in the official map

-Fixed the fade on Circles of Protection belonging to other players

-Fixed some numerical errors on Bristleback’s abilities

-Added some additional AI ability functionality (Black Hole, Fissure, Epicenter)

[Download: DotA Allstars 6.64 AI 0.213]

[BuffMePlz’s blog] [PlayDotA Forum] [DotA-Allstars Forum]

Release notes for DotA Allstars v6.63b AI 0.212:

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-First update to 6.63b

-Fixed an issue that was causing AI bots to learn their abilities out of order

-Fixed another issue that was still causing the game to crash when a player leaves the game early

-Added some additional AI ability functionality (Crystal Nova, Storm Bolt, Mana Burn)

Original post:

First release, updated to 6.62 and 1.24b compliant.

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How to Easily Download Video From YouTube and Instantly Convert to 3GP, AVI, MP4, MPG, WMV, MP3

For those who love to download videos from YouTube, xVideoServiceThief (or xVST) is a handy software to help you to easily steal, I mean
download your favourite videos. xVideoServiceThief is simple, easy to use and just works. xVideoServiceThief has lots of features and it
is not like any other YouTube downloader.

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Other than YouTube, xVideoServiceThief also supports downloading from a lot of other video websites (currently 73 as
this post is written) such as Bebo, Blip, CollegeHumor, Dailymotion, Google Video, LiveLeak, Metacafe, Video MySpace and many more, in
fact, er.. well.. some adult websites too.

xVideoServiceThief can covert downloaded videos instantly after being downloaded to popular format such as 3GP, AVI, MP4, MPG, WMV and
MP3. This will save you the time to convert the videos that you’ve downloaded without the need to launch any external application.

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xVideoServiceThief also provides you with a video search ability.

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Make Windows XP/Vista Taskbar Look Like Windows 7

Windows 7 was released to manufaturing by Microsoft on 22nd July 2009 and retail available by the end of October 2009. Microsoft
introduced a new design for Windows 7 taskbar. If you do not plan to upgrade to Windows 7 and at the same time you want to have the nice
Windows 7 taskbar on your Windows XP/Vista, you can use this small application to make Windows XP/Vista taskbar look like the Windows 7
taskbar.

ViGlance – Windows 7 SuperBar for XP is a small application that allows you to have a Windows 7 taskbar look on Windows XP and Vista.
Using ViGlance enables you to get almost all of Windows 7 taskbar features such as pinning application shortcut to taskbar, reordering
taskbar icons and window thumbnails. The start button will be replaced with Windows 7 Start Orb.

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To install ViGlance, download ViGlance zip file and extract it to a new folder. Then, run ‘ViGlance OneStep.exe‘. ViGlance will run on your system tray.

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Download Latest DotA AI Map: DotA Allstars 6.62b AI 0.211

Updated on 18th September 2009 for DotA Allstars 6.62b AI 0.211.

BuffMePlz had recently released the latest version of DotA AI map (DotA Allstars 6.62b AI 0.211). This latest version introduces bug
fixes.

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Release notes for DotA Allstars 6.62b AI 0.211:

Mostly just addressing bugs, will try to address some AI issues for next release.

Changelog:

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-Temporarily removed managed group system to remove critical error bugs until I get a chance to clean up group usage in the AI script

-Rewrote Liquid Fire to prevent conflict with the AI script

-Fixed a bug with Weave

-Fixed a bug with Spirit Bear losing items when the ability is levelled

-Fixed a bug with the game crashing when a human player leaves the game early

-Fixed a bug with Cold Snap not working after the first hit

-Fixed a bug with -ma

Release notes for DotA Allstars 6.62 AI 0.21:

First release, updated to 6.62 and 1.24 compliant. Note that this is v0.21, and there will be bugs.

Some abilities are not working for bots yet (they learn them but don't use them), and this is expected and will be addressed in
future versions.

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How to Batch Resize or Convert Multiple Images Easily

Uploading big photos taken with digital camera to the Internet sometimes will take forever, especially when you are uploading 30 or 40 5MB photos. If you don’t really need to upload the very high resolution photos to your Facebook, you can actually resize the images to make it a little bit smaller. Fotosizer – a freeware batch image resizer / converter tool will help you to easily resize or convert multiple images in just 3 easy steps.
The main feature of Fotosizer is its batch photo resizing capability. You can choose to resize your photos by percentage of width and height or set custom size for the photos. There are various options that you can choose when you are resizing or converting photos with Fotosizer:
- Batch image rotation
- Photo effects such as “Sepia”, “Black & White” and “Negative”
- Preset list of photo resize sizes for iPod, iPhone, and Sony PSP screen sizes.
How to Resize Images Using Fotosizer
1. Run Fotosizer. Select, click and drag (1) the images that you want to resize to the gray area in Fotosizer.

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