Poker must be one of the biggest underground crazes on the internet, with millions of people playing for fun and also to try and make a quick buck.  I haven’t learnt how to play Texas Hold Em, but I was pretty good at standard poker at uni and made a bit of cash, until my friends worked out I could count cards!

If you want to see how the pros do it, then tune in tomorrow from 8PM GMT when 888.com have asked me to let you know that they will be broadcasting live the final of the World Poker Crown. If you’ve been living on another planet for the last couple of years and don’t know who 888.com are, then they are one of the biggest online gambling companies out there.

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Until I started having to cope with High def file formats like h.264 and mkv I was perfectly happy installing one of the many codec packs to allow me to play my media files. The problem however with the latest file formats, is that they can be very CPU intensive, so if you don’t have a very modern PC you will struggle to play certain media files unless you have very good codecs installed. I was also having problems outputting digital audio to my amp.

By mainly trial and error I have managed to find the perfect mix of codecs that will allow you to play all media files, even if you have a older CPU. If you also have your PC connected to a digital amp, then this guide will help you output digital audio vai your SPDIF or coaxial cable.
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Connected Internet was three years old a few months ago. I totally missed the anniversary and I hadn’t realised I’d been blogging for that long, and I still find it funny that something that I started to test blogging platforms to potentially launch a blogging service for the ISP I was working for at the time, turned very quickly into a serious ‘hobby’.

To start the birthday celebrations, I’m starting a new series ‘Connected Internet Vault’. This comment reminded me of one of my favourite posts which I’d totally forgotten I’d written, and made me realise that a lot of users didn’t even know existed. So, in the Vault series I’m going to trawl though my archives one month at a time to highlight older posts that I think users might still find useful or interesting to read.

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What a great picture!  Thanks haha

I recently installed the Anti-Leech WordPress plugin. It worked fine on two of my other sites, but messed up the main feed on this site. I have turned it off until I work out why - apologies to anyone who’s been more gibberish than usual over the last two days!

Thanks to Ashish for the screenshot.