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It’s easy to find subtitles for your favorite movies that you downloaded from torrents. Simply Google search using the EXACT torrent name like “Tropic.Thunder[2008]DvDrip-aXXo” and add a “.srt”. For example:

Tropic.Thunder[2008]DvDrip-aXXo.srt

Google will return results from any or all of the following sites:

• www.opensubtitles.org
• www.subscene.com
• www.subtitlesource.org
• www.sub-titles.net
• www.anysubs.com

These sites could display one or more subtitles for different torrent uploaders. You should download the subtitle which has the exact file name as your movie or one that has indicated the name of the torrent uploader of your movie such as “aXXo”, “FXG”, “FxM”, etc…

Once downloaded, copy or extract (if zipped) the subtitle file into the same folder where your movie is located and that’s it. Make sure that the movie and the subtitle (.srt) file has the same exact file name to be sure.

A movie with a subtitle file

To see if your subtitle is working, simply play the movie and see if the subtitle is correctly synchronized with the audio.

In some cases, if you can’t find the subtitle for your movie with respect to the torrent uploader, you could try other subtitles. Sometimes their subtitles are correctly sychronized with your movie.

Windows registry is a directory which stores settings and options for your Windows operating system. When you install programs on your computer, they add a lot of entries on your Windows registry. If you later decide to uninstall them, some registry entries are left behind. As these entries build-up, they tend to slow things down on your machine. You should remove them using RegCleaner.

RegCleaner screen shot

RegCleaner is a FREE tool which allows you to view the author and the name of the software. Simply find the name of the uninstalled program, select them and click “Remove Selected”. It’s that simple.

In addition, RegCleaner also has an automatic registry cleaner (under the Tools->Registry Cleanup menu) which would remove invalid registry entries from your system. Invalid entries are one of the major causes of system crashes. By cleaning up your registry, your system should not only be more stable but it will also help improve your system performance.

RegCleaner has the following key features:

• Remove file types
• Remove entries of old software
• Uninstall and remove Software from the Add/Remove list
• Remove unused DLL files
• Remove unused Shared DLLs (Automatically detected)
• Automatic backup feature

Download RegCleaner from this page (541 KB)

A stoner walks into a gas station and asks the dude at the counter, “Got any weed?” The man politely replied, “Um, no sir. We do not sell marijuana here.” So he left.

The same guy comes back the next day and says, “Got any weed?” The man behind the counter, although slightly annoyed, patiently replied, “No sir. We don’t sell marijuana.” So the man went home.

He goes once again to the gas station. And again, he says to the guy working there, “Got any weed?” By this time the other dude was pissed. He yells, “You freakin’ refer-lovin’, pot-head burn-out! I told you, we don’t sell that crap here! If you ever come back in here asking for that filthy crap again, I’ll nail your freaking feet to the floor. Got it? Now beat it before I call the cops.” So the stoner left.

The next day he went back to the same old place with a dopey smile on his face. He went to the cashier and said, “Got any nails?” The man hesitated, then replied, “um, no. . . sir, we don’t sell nails here.” The stoner grinned. “Got any weed?”

I found this weird news on the internet about this woman who was so addicted to surgery that she even injected cooking oil in her face when she ran out of silicone.

Hang Mioku before her surgery

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The following are keyboard shortcuts for the Open, Insert Picture, and Save As dialog boxes in Microsoft Office. Only few people know that these keyboard shortcuts exist.

• Alt+1 - Go to the previous folder
• Alt+2 - Up One Level button: open the folder up one level above the open folder
• Alt+3 - Search the Web button: close the dialog box and open your Web search page
• Alt+4 - Delete button: delete the selected folder or file
• Alt+5 - Create New Folder button: create a new folder
• Alt+6 - Views button: switch among available folder views
• Alt+7 or Alt+L - Tools button: show the Tools menu
• Shift+F10 - Display a shortcut menu for a selected item such as a folder or file
• Tab - Move between options or areas in the dialog box
• F4 or Alt+I - Open the Look in list
• F5 - Refresh the file list

Keyboard shortcuts for MS Office dialog boxes