Krahne

Javascript amazes me sometimes. you can do so much with it.

http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/04/super-mario-in-14kb-javascript.html

Not too bad for light photo editing - It works as expected.  No errors to note.

Sign up was easy but it did not connect to my other adobe login.  Not sure if this is good or bad but I'll call it bad given that i don't need yet another duplicate e-mail from the same company.

For free I can't complain too much.

I love downloading and trying out programs as I've written here before - however I generally don't take the time to really sit down and conduct a formal review. I find what I like and I use it or I try something I don't like and I remove it.
When I want to find something that I really need I go here first -
http://www.freewaregenius.com

I don't know this guy from Adam but I trust the objective reviews and have generally been in complete agreement - you should check it out.

I stuggled with this today so I thought I'd share the information here -

I kept getting an error in WPUT when my file names had spaces in them (I'm using VBA in Access to ftp /upload photos to a particular site).  So, I tried to enclose the name in a single quote but that didn't work either.  I finally tried using chr(34) to enclose the file directory and file name string and had success  - here is a snippit.

http://www.roscripts.com/Top_list_of_Ruby_on_Rails_resources-126.html

I really should learn about this...

interesting idea - predicting winners based on busy signals across the country. I guess the statistical significance of the results would be based on the number of people who actually use the software for dialing and measuring the results. 

"

• DialIdol is free & safe software you can use to speed dial votes for your favorite contestants.
   
• DialIdol measures the busy signal to predict who will be voted off.
   
  • DialIdol was 87% accurate for season 5 of American Idol.
     
  • DialIdol has accurately predicted the winner of every show it has covered.
     
• DialIdol works with many major shows that allow phone voting.

http://www.dialidol.com/

Walt Stanchfield

Drawing class notes from the drawing instructor for Walt Disney Studios. Here are the first 65 handouts.

from www.animationmeat.com

other great resources at this site .

http://www.goldshell.com/flashforge/main.htm

used to be shareware but is now free.

simple secure screen sharing.

CrossLoop Screenshot
CrossLoop – Simple Secure Screen Sharing
# Connect Any Two PCs on Earth
# Simple, Easy-To-Use Interface
# Available in 21 LanguagesNew!
# Works through Firewalls and NAT

from waxy.org...

Jason Scott, who runs a massive document archive himself, comments on the ethics of Scribd   [Waxy.org Links]

Windows only: Synchronize Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook with gSyncit.

This Outlook plug-in supports one-way or two-way synchronization (you can go Google-to-Outlook, Outlook-to-Google or both) and works manually or automatically. After installing the program, look for a new two-button toolbar in Outlook; click the Settings button to access gSyncit's surprisingly robust configuration options.

gSyncit limits you to syncing 365 days in the past and 365 days in the future, which might be a deal-breaker for some users. Even so, this is a really effective way to connect Outlook and Google Calendar. (If you'd rather sync Google Calendar with your cell phone, check out GooSync.) gSyncit requires Windows 2000/XP and Outlook 2003 or later. It's a freebie. Thanks, Travis! — Rick Broida

gSyncit [daveswebsite.com]

http://www.tipstrs.com/

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Zooming in (way in) on Google Maps

Posted Mar 8th 2007 12:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Web services, Google

How often have you wished that you could look in your own bedroom window using Google Maps, only to realize that you just can't zoom in far enough to see any detail? Well, it turns out that maybe you can.

1. ...

Optimus Prime Papercraft
Download the pdf and have some fun.

should be complete by 1/10/07

I understand that there have been more issues with yahoo. Try this script. Must be renamed to "yahoo.script" in order for it to work.

As before, there's no guarantee of any sort.
update... found a bug... removing for now.
update... fixed the bug...

UPDATE ON 4/22/07 - This script no longer appears to work.
will have to look at this and update.

For those who reviewed the concept of the software, thank you.

interesting freeware that lets you subscribe to video podcasts. requires internet explorer.
Get it here

Technorati Tags: tvtonic, video, podcasts, freeware

Page no longer on site.

Wow - what a sense of accomplishment.

I was very very frustrated with the instructions in the install.txt file that came along with Drupal 4.7x.  The instructions seemed simple enough but I just couldn't get the multi-site functions to work properly until today.

Maybe this is totally obvious but for some reason, I struggled getting it to work and by the looks of the forums on the Drupal.org site, others have run in to the same situation.

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So, first off I knew that one set of code and one database could run multiple Drupal sites and the install.txt file tells you how to configure the directory structure for your settings.php file. 

I had a site structure like the following -

www.sample.com - ran a Drupal site

and I wanted abc.sample.com

and xyz.sample.com to run their own Drupal sites too.

Rather than go through a long explanation on what I did WRONG I'll tell you how I did it right.

What you really want is for all the sites to point to the same index.php.

So in godaddy you set up 2 subdomains (abc, xyz in this case) but point them to the root of the website.  You don't have to create abc or xyz directories off the root. 

All the domains and subdomains default to the index.php in the root of the web directory or www.sample.com/index.php.

You also have to set up your sites directory to point to these sub domains and I ended up with a file structure like this:

• sites/default/settings.php
• sites/abc.sample.com/settings.php
• sites/xyz.sample.com/settings.php

I can't tell you how many things I tried before realizing that I could just do this.  

Today we'll take a look at "youripper" from Remlap Software.

Here is a brief description from their site

YouRipper is a small, easy to use utility which enables the end-user to download videos from the YouTube and Google Video websites.

I downloaded it and gave it a shot.

The install was pretty straight forward but the interface is - interesting.

In Firefox there a appears a small icon in the upper left corner of the screen (you can move it) and if you click on it you get a 'you ripper' tool bar of sorts.  It stays in your header bar on your web browser.

Here is a picture of the tool bar

If you click the little filmstrip icon and paste in a url for a youtube video - you select a location for the saved file and the following progress bar shows up...

I highly recommend the RIVA FLV encoder (http://www.rivavx.com/index.php?encoder&L=3) for converting video to FLV files.  It works well enough plus it's freeware and in combination with FlowPlayer (http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net/) you can basically make your own youtube type site. 

OK, it's not perfect but it's close for the small blogger or someone just sharing short family videos with family and friends.

Basic steps -

1.  get a video of some sort

2.  load it in to the encoder and select your output options. 

i find that the quality is best at about the 320x240 range for my videos shot with my digital camera.

3. encode!

4. ftp that file to you site (you'll need a ftp program) -

I use one of 2, Filezilla or the firefox extension FireFTP

5.  Post your HTML Post.

crafting the html for flowplayer may be the most tricky part of this deal but basically you have to set the parameters of your html entry in your post to point to the right files on your server.  I'm not going to go in to all that here because it's relatively straigiforward and explained in the files that come with flowplayer.

That is about it.

The program I mentioned the other day has another beta version out and this time it provides Google Video searching functionality.

I must admit that I really do like Microsoft's Windows Live Writer software.  I'm using it now to compose this blog post and while it doesn't do everything I might like, it does some things a lot better than other tools.

I think the biggest thing that it does - that makes it stand out from the rest is handle images and image posting.  Being a very visually oriented person, my preference generally is to illustrate what it is that I'm talking about so the handling of images is important.  Plus I really don't want to depend on 3rd party tools most of the time (I want to host my own images not post them on Flickr or photobucket et al).

Windows Live Writer makes it very easy to drag and drop photos from explorer in to the interface - it creates a thumbnail and adds borders and formatting.  Very easy to use and very intuitive.

http://downldtrailers.sourceforge.net/

a neat little alpha version software program that will download youtube videos.  looks like there are plans to interface with google and others too.

Works pretty well.

Here are a couple screen shots.

a couple of the menus expanded

popular videos

after doubleclicking on a video, the program will download to your hard drive

http://www.webyog.com/en/

if i had a local mysql database, this software would probably be a pretty solid choice. unfortunately i need the advanced options and am not ready to pay the 47 for the pro edition.
bummer.

An attempt to fix the issue with the download of yahoo mail.
Use (and/or follow these directions) at your own risk. Be sure to back up your old yahoo.script file before you attempt to use this one. It has been working for me but I cannot guarantee results.

To use:
1. you'll have to download this file (attached here yahoo.script.txt). Right click and do a "save as" in windows.
2. I'd recommend backing up your old yahoo.script file in your mrpostman directory. (copy it to yahoo.script.old or something like that)
3. rename the downloaded file from yahoo.script.txt to yahoo.script
4. copy to your mrpostman directory
5. I'm not sure if you have to restart mrpostman or not but I did. So, restart.
6. download your mail as you used to before the format changed.

7... please let me know if it worked for you. (using comments)

update on 11/20/06 - please see new file for fixes.
removed file from this post.

By downloading you agree that this is totally at your own risk whether that be with yahoo's TOS or with any computer you use to download or run it on.

this thing appears to do it all.
http://famster.com/

DesktopTwo

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