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Hack LG 47LD450 to play video from USB

Posted by Brad | Posted in Tips | Posted on 10-03-2011

Are you also the lucky owner of an LG 47LD450 and want to have it play DivX movies directly from your massive external hard drive?. It’s super easy to do and costs either nothing or very little to do.

Here’s how I did it.
Get a universal remote control from ebay, eBay item #180494866735 One For All URC3920 Slim Design 2 in 1 Universal Remote

  • Put some batteries in the remote, and set it up for TV use as follows
  • Press TV, then hold the magic button until it flashes twice, then lazily use the search mode to get the right code for the TV by pressing channel + repeatedly
  • Once the TV turns off you have the code, so press magic again to store it

Your new remote is now hooked up to talk to your TV,  to finish

  • Turn on the TV and point the universal remote at it then press magic once
  • Enter 00018, then use the password 0413 to enter the service menu
  • Goto menu 3 (third one down)
  • Change USB from 0 to 1, then turn the TV off and on again to enable

Now when you goto media on the options screen you will see Movies, Images, and Music! enjoy

    Quick demo of thinking “outside the box”

    Posted by Brad | Posted in Tips | Posted on 15-11-2010

    If you find yourself hearing the phrase think outside the box, then wonder what that might mean, I think this might kick start your thought process.
    tumblr lb60yye1uR1qbj9bf Quick demo of thinking outside the box

    Another productivity tip for people who are computer literate

    Posted by Brad | Posted in Tips | Posted on 16-10-2009

    2472060408 acb16a4d6d m Another productivity tip for people who are computer literateDo you use a program that requires you to push the same seemingly pointless “are you sure you want to do this?” type buttons?, wouldn’t it be nice if they were pressed automatically so you could save your fingers and do something else?

    Some computer programs pester you with their endless dialog boxes repeating the same questions. Would you like to do X? Are you sure you mean to do Y? If you know what you want and are tired of telling your PC the same things over and over, use PTFB (short for “Push the Freakin’ Button”), a button-pressing utility I have been using since 2005 and has saved me tens of thousands of pointless clicks.

    When a dialog box asks the PC equivalent of “are we there yet?”, in a few seconds you can tell PTFB which button it should press, and the program will take care of that specific confirmation button forever afterwards. You can set the program to press the same button in similar dialogs as well as it’s quite flexible if you need it to be.

    You can download the free version here, or buy the pro version so the guy can make some money for his great software – the free version has been all I need for this sort of stuff for the past 4 years though.

    Give it a try, keep away the RSI. No those are no my fingers in the image, make sure they are not yours either.

    Quick tip you may not know about windows

    Posted by Brad | Posted in Tips | Posted on 16-10-2009

    Might start throwing tips into this blog from time to time, here’s a quicky…

    In programs such as a web browser where you type something into a textbox and it lists all the things you have typed before, if you are like me and actually use those to save you typing what you are looking for in full this is for you.

    To remove stored entries in almost any of them just highlight them using the arrow keys and press the delete key to remove them from the history of that individual textbox so you have less crap to scroll through as you use your computer efficiently.

    This probably works on mac and linux computers too, logically it would but I only have time to use one PC OS.

    Get paid for stuff for free with these google queries

    Posted by Brad | Posted in Tips | Posted on 08-10-2009

    It’s important when you are selling something online to secure the page where the customer gets the goods so that search engines dont index the page, many webmasters make this slip-up, heres a couple of quick queries you can tell your friends about – or just send them to this page where I will add more as in time…

    http://www.google.com/search?q=%22CLICKBANK%2FKEYNETICS+will+appear%22&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1

    http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=inurl%3A%22cbreceipt%22+&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_en___GB215

    If you understand the principle – you are looking for pages indexed in google that confirm someone has paid for something and are now offering the links to the goods, you can start playing…. here are some queries to get you started:

    Your credit card or bank statement will show a charge from CLKBANK*com
    A charge from CLKBANK
    A Charge from paypal
    Paypal payment or paypal payment confirmed
    Paypal Statement
    CLKBANK save as
    CLKBANK Download instructions
    CLKBANK*com
    cbreceipt or cbreceipt click
    CLKBANK right click or CLKBANK click
    Download the latest version of adobe acrobat reader
    right click save target as
    right click save
    right click save file as
    Click here to download
    Save target as
    Save file as
    recieve future updates
    username is password is
    username: password:
    Members or Members area
    Thank you for your order
    Thank you for your purchase
    Thanks for your order
    Thanks for your purchase
    Thanks for purchasing……
    Order Confirmation
    Order Confirmed