Strong 8345CI remote control for SlingBox
Question: I have a SlingBox Pro HD. I bought a Strong 3845 CI satellite and DVB-T receiver in Vienna I want to control and watch remotely from the States. So I opened the Setup Assistant and went through the device options and when I get to ‘Who Manufactured your Satelite Receiver’ I could not find my Strong receiver. I tried all kinds of options and still can not get it done. I heard that I needed a programmer who could create remote control codes in a binary file for the SlingBox. I have a home network with WiFi DSL router and a laptop. Read more
Disable Adobe Updater in Windows 7 & OS X
Question: In the past few days every time I start Adobe Acrobat Pro 9, Adobe Flash CS4 or Photoshop CS4 the Acrobat Reader (!) updater pops up and tries to download updates. It slows down my Internet connection too. This time the Adobe Updater wants to download more than 300MB from the Internet. I want to get rid of it completely. How can I disable it in Windows 7?
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Disable HP solution update in Windows 7
Question: Thank you for your HP2840 tips. I have another question. I am frequently, exactly once a week, getting a UAC (User Account Control) dialog box that asks for permission to run hprbupdate.exe on Windows 7. This popup even made sometimes a full-screen game or Windows Media Center crashes. I always deny access for this popup since I don’t know if it’s safe. What is it and how to get rid of it?
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Adobe Acrobat JavaScript action to launch external media player
Filed under: Adobe, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Flash, JavaScript
Question: I have to create an Adobe Acrobat 9 document full of forms with value validations and buttons. Some buttons must launch an external media player to download and play our video files. These files will be uploaded to our website later. Can a PDF doc launch another app or process or file?

