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How To Make Your Own Anaglyph 3D Glasses

30/12/2012 by Toji Ali 1 Comment

I know that anaglyph technology is old but people like me who do not have a 3DTV set at home still use this.

I have downloaded a free Side-By-Side 3D clip from the internet for testing purpose and will watch it using Stereoscopic Player using my home made anaglyph 3D glasses.

So, to make the glasses, what we need are, a piece of red colored plastic sheet, a piece of blue colored plastic sheet and optionally but preferably, a glasses frame. Or you can make your own glasses frame using cardboard.

Homemade anaglyph 3d glasses — Things that you need

Cut both plastic sheets to make them fit into glasses frame and place the red at your left eye frame and the blue at your right eye frame.

homemade anaglyph 3d glasses-02 — Cut the sheets according to the frame shape

So, below is how the anaglyph 3D glasses looks like.

homemade anaglyph 3d glasses-03 — The DIY anaglyph 3D glasses is done

Fire up Stereoscopic Player and load a 3D video. Then set the viewing method on Stereoscopic player as Color Anaglyph Red – Cyan. And you ready to watch 3D movies.

Note: If 3D effect not occur, please change viewing method to Color Anaglyph Cyan – Red.

To watch 3D using mirror, click here.

How To Clear Real Player History on Symbian Phones

09/06/2011 by Toji Ali Leave a Comment

How to clear Real Player History on Symbian Phones? If you ever wonder how to clear six recently played videos in Real Player, so this tutorial is for you.

One way to erase those histories is by going to directory:
c:/system/data for S60v1 and S60v2 devices or
c:/Private/10005A3E for s60v3 and S60v5 devices and you need to capsoff your phone first.

Then locate mediaplay.dat file in the directory and delete it.

You need to use third party file manager such as X-plore by Lonely Cat Games to access to system folder.
And for s60v3v5 phone, you need to hack your phone before can get access to system folder

For newer s60v3v5 phones, this method is not necessary anymore because you can just simply erase histories by;
open Real Player, >> Recently Played >> Options >> Clear List >> Yes

The history now successfully erased. Do this every time you want to erase the history.

How To Make Your Own LRC Lyrics

09/06/2011 by Toji Ali Leave a Comment

Today I want to show you how to make your own lrc lyrics file. LRC file is a lyrics file that have timing and lyrics on each lines. If you open the file using any text editor such as notepad, you can see as below:

LRC Maker — There will be timing and lyrics on each line

What you really need is this software. As you can see, there are a lot of conversion options provided, this is a very easy-to-use tool to do subtitles file conversion process. I actually want to convert .srt file to .lrc and then found this tool very useful to generate .lrc file.
Okay then, let straight to our tutorial. Run the software, although it is trial version, but you don’t have to register to do this. Click on “LRC Maker”.

After that, you need to prepare a plain lyrics .txt like below:

Press “From TXT File” on the software (1), after choosing the txt file, the text will appear in the box (2), press “Next” (3).

Press “Open Audio” and the open the audio file.

After the song have loaded, press start, at this time, the song will be played, when you hear the first line of the song is playing immediately press “Next Line” button, when the second line of the song is playing immediately press “Next Line” button again and so on. Repeat this step until all lines finish.

After you have done the final line, a pop-up will appear, saying “lines ended, press next”, something like that. Then, press Next.

Just press “Finish”, if you do not want to add the optional details.

Just like subtitle file for a movie, same goes to lrc, you need to ensure that the song file and lrc file are in same folder and same file name. E.g. if the song file is “abc.mp3”, the lrc file must be “abc.lrc”.

How to play lrc file?

You can use Minilyrics to view lrc on your PC, or for Symbian phones, you can use software like LCG Jukebox and TTpod to view lrc and even latest phones come with default music player that can play LRC files.