Volleynerd Knowledge Base

I finally finished my Firefox extension (called Unwrap Text), and have it posted on the Mozilla dev addons site.

It was a bit of a struggle to get it approved; first the description wasn't detailed enough, then they denied me because my link to the updates.rdf file was at my volleynerd web site. Apparently you can only host updates.rdf on their server - no external links.

Now I'm having a bit of trouble making the "quick description" look good. I enter it with paragraph breaks, and it comes out correct on the pages of newest FF extensions. But when you get to the details page for the extension, the description text is all jammed together.

BTW - I entered bug #315996 at Bugzilla about the "newest extensions" link on their main page starting you at the 2nd page.

OK, so I'm "approved" at the mozdev.org site (UnwrapText project), but now have to learn CVS to put my source code up there. Found this page for noobs like me.

(update 11/26/05)
My college buddy Dave pointed me to TortoiseCVS for a decent Windows CVS client. Tried that a bit last night, and looks pretty decent. Coming from the Visual Source Safe (VSS) world, there are some different paradigms to transition to in the CVS world. Tortoise extends Windows Explorer with context menus and status icons, so there really is no GUI for it. Adding new directories is a little strange, and apparently per their CVS setup, you can't delete directories, just the contents within them (and those contents end up in the "attic").

Anyway - got my first label of code up there in CVS.

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MSN site that will post URL for tickets to XBox 360 Zero Hour event.

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Kind of a hack, have to run multiple instances with /nomutex option to get it to work, but might come in handy for our BF2 gaming.

info here

keywords: google talk gt conference 3way 3 way

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To verify connectivity for ReplayTV show sharing, use this site.

It does a quick test from the internet side to see if it can contact your ReplayTV based on it's unique ID.

Thanks to poopli.com, the show sharing site, for this link.

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On a recent biz trip, my boss brought a TomTom to navigate us around Seattle. It's a portable GPS / navigation system that gives directions, finds restaurants, etc.

Garmin has some too.

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For nerds only - binary countdown to launch of xbox 360.

101101000

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10 myths about HDTV
HD Beat

keywords: hidef high definition HD

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Pretty cool site that shows live (?) shot of the earth from above with weather, and day/night shadows.

World Sunlight Map

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TV episode blogs - just found these guys through an iPod article talking about the Lost episode now available on iTunes.

TV Squad

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First few of many links to all things about the new Apple Video iPod.

"First Looks" with many pictures and a run through of the features.

Here's a quick blog post with some links to converting video. Unfortunately it has a slant coming from Mac OS X
Boing Boing: Apple's new thing? Video iPod. But more crap-o copy-blocking.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Thanks to Engadget for a tutorial on how to get video from a DVD to iPod compatible video (on Windows). However, read the comments - the gurus are pointing out that the double re-encode is going to give crap output. I'm sure there are going to be many other paths through the video encoding maze... Maybe watch AVSFORUM.

Here's a HOW-TO from Engadget that shows how to convert video from Tivo to iPod. Although I have the superior ReplayTV :) instead of Tivo, once I have the MPEG2 on my PC (thanks to DVArchive), then I can follow along with this flow.

Another from Engadget - shows length of encoding, quality, etc.

TVHarmony has a product that will move vids from Tivo to iPod, PSP, AVI, MPEG. Haven't looked at it extensively, but can probably be adapted to work on MPEGs from my ReplayTV.

Here is another article from Engadget showing Videora iPod Converter (apparently a command line front-end for ffmpeg), all free tools. The Videora tool uses BitTorrent and RSS to grab shows as they become available.

Sweet looking wireless headphones for iPod. See how the iPod sits on the side?

Here come the iPod speicific torrent sites!
This article talks about Podtropolis

PodGuide.tv -- A guide of links to sites that produce video specific iPod video-casts.

Classic - the "proprietary" Apple A/V cable to output on TV only switches a couple of the leads. Check this out.
Basically, from iPod, Red is video, white/yellow are audio.
iPod red/yellow/white go to TV yellow/white/red

So far, the best iPod docking station: s-video out, remote control, wireless hotspot, internet radio. only $99 Griffin TuneCenter

iPod killers for summer 2006. An article with all the competitors, with their related +/-

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A team from Stanford won the DARPA challenge - a 175 mile course run by robotic cars.

$2 Million to the winning car - "Stanley"

Grand Challenge Home

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While at PDC a couple weeks ago, I saw some demos where they were showing config files, source code, etc. with a text editor that *looked* like Notepad, but had syntax highlighting, etc. The title bar gave it away - "Notepad2".

A quick google search turns up Notepad2 here.

...and there are a bunch of blogs talking about it, with some interesting ideas on how to use it as a replacement to the standard Windows Notepad. (apparently the Windows OS will "repair" your system and put back the old Notepad if you just replace notepad.exe with a renamed notepad2.exe)

A couple links:
Fritz Onion

from a comment to Fritz's post:
To get it to be a complete replacement of Notepad.exe (removing Windows desire to "repair" your "broken" Notepad)

copy notepad2.exe c:\windows\servicepackfiles\i386\notepad.exe
copy notepad2.exe c:\windows\system32\dllcache\notepad.exe
copy notepad2.exe c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe
copy notepad2.exe c:\windows\notepad.exe

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Top 100 blogs from all different categories.

CNET News.com's Blog 100

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The X05 conference was held recently, so there's a bunch of new info / videos / etc about the launch.

My Stanford Volleyball buddy Shane Kim is shown on one of the videos talking about the launch titles. It's only a quick clip of him, so pay attention! :)

Here's the first video (Call of Duty), then you wait and it will load the next one about X05 big annoucements

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One of my college buddies was asking me about IE support for transparent PNGs. I'm not a graphics guy, so I barely know the status on that.

We poked around a bit, and found some interesting blogs, with some cool info on PNG. At least just go to the first site and see what a transparent PNG looks like when dragged around the web page.

PNG in Windows IE

Here is a blog from a dev on the IE "layout and display" team at MS. Lots of links to sites he consulted when working with PNG support.

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Decent starting point for all devices using Windows Mobile OS.

Pocket PC Central - Latest Pocket PC Hardware Software Accessories News Reviews Updates & More

PocketTV - MPEG player for Pocket PC / Windows Mobile

Pocket DIVX Encoder

AVS Forum post on all things involving Windows Media Encoder 9

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SnakeOil Labs ? Top 10 Windows Freeware tools for 2005

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After seeing the i-Mate JasJar at PDC, and not getting to use it as a phone since I have Verizon service, I've wondered what other devices will come close to that same JasJar functionality.

This one has a pull-out keyboard, and Windows Mobile 5.0
Unfortunately, it's not Verizon either...

Sprint Business - PPC-6700

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I haven't yet taken the iPod plunge. I've been thinking about it lately, but now am getting greedy and might get a player that supports video.

I don't think there are many options (rumors of a video iPod coming maybe before the end of the year), but here is one from Archos.

The Archos Gmini 402 here
And here is a review of it.
Now that the video iPod was announced, I'm looking at alternatives to see what I'd be missing. Apparently there's a full line of Archos video players. Bigger screen, windows media player compatible, etc.
Archos 420 is in buy.com add in Wired this week (11/29) for 349 (20GB)
Archos Mobile DVR AV 500 ($700) writeup - 100GB in Wired (can record from, and output to tv)

Another choice is the Dell Axim

PocketDish av700e looks sweet. But can't find much for pricing and availability.

The Creative Zen Portable Media Center looks good. My buddy Kral at MS said they can get a deal on this one.

Also in the MS welcome center, they had a Samsung Yepp YH-999 on display. Looked like a nice form factor.

RCA RD2780 20GB Lyra Personal Digital Multi-Media Player

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My buddy Kral successfully made it through the MS interview process. He's starting a job up there in Redmond next week.

It got us talking about all the legendary MS interview questions. Here's some dude's blog entry with LOTS of sample questions (some logic, some programming)

2004Discussions: interview Questions - Microsoft

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Want to check out this HDTV and Home Theater podcast. Probably a bit dry to talk about this stuff over audio only, but worth a listen.

http://htguys.com/archive/2005/September192005.html

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Decent article about the corporate culture at MS. Mostly framed around Steve Ballmer and his view on the company.

First part here

Second part here

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I've always wondered when building a computer, how to calculate how big of a power supply to get.

Here's a decent calculator to help out.

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My buddy Intern Joe and I tried to hookup tonight for an online Battlefield 2 session.

The title says it all - why is it so hard to find friends, find a server, connect, and get a game going in PC games? I had this same problem with Ghost Recon back when I tried that on the PC as well. With BF2, you can't even remember favorite servers, keep a friends list, etc. I remember it being a little better in the GameSpy software, so I'll have to try that next.

It's SO EASY with XBox:

push power button
play game

Intern summed up our sweet online session last night beautifully:

4:40 gt [Google Talk] call placed.
4:41 session begins
4:42 begin looking for room
4:48 still looking for room
4:49 realize need to patch game to most recent version
4:54 finished patching game. system freezes.
4:59 back in room
5:05 found room
5:07 in room.
5:09 cruising around map as gunner with v-nerd as driver.
5:13 lost, confused, no idea where the battle is. fire shots in the air.
5:15 must exit game, time to feed sara session ends. never saw an enemy soldier.
AWESOME game.

classic...

Update:
Two days later, intern and I figured, we've already been through all this ramp-up cost, so let's fire up a game, should only take a few minutes, right?

8:12 gt call placed
8:14 after quick "how-doin's", fire up BF2
8:16 begin looking for room
8:19 realize that Dan is on a different machine than before, and this machine is not patched
8:20 Dan starts download of patch
8:20 Intern starts in a game
8:24 Dan starts patch process
8:30 (long ass process - what the hell is this thing doing?) path process done
8:32 Dan back in lobby looking for intern
8:35 connect by IP to same game where intern is
8:38 finally in the game, trying to figure out where intern is
8:40 about to meet up with intern, game is over, MEC wins (38-0)

sweet! love this game...

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XHTML Character Entity Reference

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As seen on AOTS, Video Search

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Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta

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Getting involved (and crushed) in Battlefield 2 lately. Here's a decent community site with info, maps, forums, newbie guide, etc.

newbie guide

Total Battlefield 2

Server Remote Administrator

Video tips from CNET

Start game NOT in fullscreen mode. Allows to see chat, etc. behind, and minimize the game.
Basically, change the shortcut to have "+fullscreen 0" ... instead of "1"

Tweaks to make for optimal game performance. Tweak Guides

Stats

BF2Tracker
BF2S (mostly same data as bf2tracker, but with some "last played info")
another stats site (more up to date for now since the Special Forces exp pack is screwing with the feed for bf2tracker and bf2s)
BF2Stats.nsvr.info - one page of high level stats, and live sig

Mods

Multiplayer cooperative, 32 bots on a map sized for 64, additional control points, vehicles, many airports opened up

ahh - supposdely cooperative play is unsupported by EA games. However, a single player game can be joined by IP address. Will have to try this out on my LAN...

Yep, works. Just have to open some ports if your buddies are coming in from outside the firewall. from memory, verify these: 16567, 29999, 4711 (this last one is new as of patch 3)

The guys at Rising Conflicts are coming up with the uber mod. Not done yet (as of 12/20/05), but screenshots look great.

VOIP
Intern and I were in a game last night with a dude that was using the built-in VOIP. We usually just hookup over Google Talk, so we've been oblivious to the VOIP in the game. It's very cool actually, and automatically talks to your squad, and lowers volume of surrounding sounds. This thread talks about configuration, and the facts about who can talk to who.

I haven't confirmed mine is working yet, but apparently have to press "B" to talk? Wish it was just voice activated...

Lastly, we were struggling on how to CHAT with someone while in-game. Turns out, you just use one of J,K,L to chat with ALL, TEAM, SQUAD. [see options / audio] (I was trying a bunch of obsolete commands inthe command console (~), with no luck.

Having more trouble with in game VOIP. Some saying since patch 1.0.3, but now we're up to 1.1.2 I think (compatible with special forces exp pack). Anyway - Ventrillo is apparently yet another voip client. Have to look into it - not sure if it requires server software support, or P2P like Skype, etc.

How the kit unlocking system works.

Here is a list of the ranks, and points needed to acquire each. (I've got a LOT of work ahead of me)

Server Groups

Global Conflict has organized games modeled around a map of Europe. Will have to look into this.

Live Sig

Check out my BF2tracker sig (is this live? does the global score still say 183?):
Nope - I'm up to 212 now, and no update on the pic -- looks like it's a static snapshot. Bummer.

Update 10/18/05 - well NOW it shows 219, so I guess the data IS live. bf2tracker was down a few times the past couple days, so maybe that was the cause...

...and here's another one, this one from bf2s.com, actually comes in 4 different pieces
(this one is only as up to date as how often I hit the site - he only refreshes stats data when we hit the site)

All Awards (minus stars and purple heart)

And here is yet another sig, from bf2stats.nsvr.info

Special Forces Expansion Pack

Looks like this is old news (from July), but there's already talk of the expansion pack for BF2. Apparently this one has all special ops dudes. I'll never get good at the original BF2 before it's already time to buy the expansion.

Update 11/09/05 - sure enough, the Special Forces expansion pack is now available for purchase on the EA site. Apparently you can buy, and download the bits now, but can't play until 11/22. Sweet, this will give me something to do instead of Xbox 360 (they come out the same day) -- while I wait for my company to fulfill their promise to buy us each a 360.

Classic chopper pilot story from my buddy Intern Joe"

so funny, i jumped in and instantly, 6 dudes were in there with me and i was the pilot. after a shaky start, someone asks "count, you know how to fly this thing?" i dont know how to answer and landed in the middle of the battlefield, with everyone alive, but it was funny as hell

Other Links

Clan strategy planning tools. Supposedly real-time drawing on map, icons, arrows, etc.

Killer panorama pics / views of BF2 and other games - check it out.

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Just an addicting time wasting game. Didn't give it much time, but could only get past the first level.

game is here

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In a nutshell, you can add +whatever to your existing email addr and GMail will send that email to your normal address, but in a folder named whatever!!

example:
joe@gmail.com
joe+temp1@gmail.com goes to temp1 folder in gmail

original post here

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Hacking Google Earth - talked about on TWIT.

Google Earth Hacks - Lots of downloads, information and hacks for Google Earth.

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Steve Gibson mentioned this on TWIT 15

Drive Snapshot - Disk Image Backup for Windows NT/2000/XP

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Of course everybody knows that Google Talk was released yesterday. So far, it's looking pretty THIN on features to me. I still have to try the voice calling PC to PC.

Here is a page from Google about interfacing to Talk from other IM clients! Talk about "open" !!! Unforutnately for now, Trillian Pro is needed to interface, since you need Jabber/XMPP protocol.

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Well Intern Joe has been getting me fired up on Flickr lately. At first glance, I saw it as just another photo posting site. Still not completely convinced that I'll use the "community" portion of the site, with the tags, and finding others photos, etc.

There are a couple very cool things about it though:

Once you add friends, you are notified automagically when they add new photos.
Uploading software. Bummer it's an install to your machine, but once you do it, then have shell extension "send toFlickr". Will resize on the way up if desired.
Uses EXIF data to show info about each picture. Date/time taken, camera used, etc. (see below for more on that data)

In doing some early experiments, I have started to learn more about the EXIF data that accompanies the JPG pictures. It has info about the camera used to take the photo, along with date/time taken, exposure settings, etc.

2 issues so far:

Apparently when using the Windows XP power toy to resize pictures, you lose the EXIF data ??? I haven't completely confirmed this, but after resizing manually with XP, then uploading, all my pictures had a "date taken" equal to the "date uploaded" - a pretty good clue that the date taken data had been lost. So I tried again, this time using the original pics, and using the Flickr Uploadr tool - this time it looks like the date taken had survived.
It looks like sorting pics in a stream is automatically based on the date taken. Trying to confirm this. Once you've added pics to the stream, then you adjust the date taken, not sure if the pics are then reordered.

Anyway - in searching around for help on date sorting, and EXIF, Flickr help had this article.
Flickr: Forums: FlickrHelp: exif and filename mass-manipulation software [info] Intern Joe can probably use this since he's lost all the EXIF data in all the file moves (burn to CD, move to HD, backup, compress, etc)

Here are plenty of other people wondering the same thing. Random order, or reverse order of pics in a set is lame.

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Great stuff - embed any kind of data (document, another picture, data, etc) inside a file (usually image, jpg). This guy walks you through the process using a Linux tool, but can do it for Windows too.

So for example, use Flickr or PutFile to store docs or transfer large files.

Steganography with Flickr - The Digital Photography Weblog - digitalphotography.weblogsinc.com _

keywords: hide embed document image jpg jpeg gif

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Hundreds of tips and tricks for Windows XP

Windows XP Tips and Tricks

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All CSS Properties Listed Alphabetically

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Found this guy's blog when looking around for nsIXMLHttpRequest (writing my Firefox extension). Seems that he's pretty into (and knowledgeable about) .NET Passport.

Fear is the mind killer

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Someday, when I'm ready to make the switch to gmail, here are some quick notes on the transition.

I've had a gmail account for a long time, just can't quite find the need to make the switch...yet... (the growing disk space quota is a possible future reason)

It's short, and pretty self-explanatory actually, export/import really. But has some links to a couple SourceForge projects that can potentially grab all your mail as well.

There are also some tips on Yahoo vacation response setup, so mail coming to Yahoo after the switch will be notified.

How to Switch from Yahoo Mail to Gmail - wikiHow

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So it turns out they'll have TWO versions of the Xbox 360 at launch.

$299 - "core system"

console
wired controller
detachable faceplate
xbox live silver membership (I *think* this upgrades to gold on weekends?)
standard AV cables

$399 - "full" ? system (offers backwards compatibility with xbox v1 games)

console
20 GB detachable hard drive
wireless controller
wireless xbox live headset
high def AV cables
ethernet cable
xbox 360 media remote control (limited time - not sure if that means only during launch?)
detachable faceplate
xbox live silver membership

Prices for accessories are listed too. The 20 GB HD is $100 just by itself, so the full system will be worth the extra cost.
Wireless controller: $50, Headset $20, and what is a "play and charge kit"?

Now the big remaining question: which titles will be available at launch. There have been many rumors and lists, but per this article, none have absolutely committed.

More details here

Team Xbox writeup here

BTW, the headset looks NICE (packaging pic here). Finally it's something that is hopefully comfortable to wear for many, many hours. :)

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A bit busy and hard to read since most of the content is actually a *picture*, but nonetheless, all JavaScript objects, methods, properties on the single page.

JavaScript Reference

Here is a more manageable one with links to drill down into objects, methods, properties.

And here is a reference that's dedicated to regular expressions in JavaScript.

And one more here that combines regular expressions as they relate to String.Replace and String.Match

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Wow! This site combines Google Maps, MSN Virtual Earth (with and without labels) all on the same page. It's actually flash, so very responsive.

It really shows where one or the other is lacking in image quality, detail, etc.

Flash Earth

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An ex-Dell employee gives some insight on how to get good deals at Dell. Basically it's all about buying from a rep on the phone, never from the website. The reps want to fill their quotas, and will almost always give you 20-30% less than what's on the web.

MobileRead Networks - Shopping for major discounts at Dell (how-to): "Dell 42” Plasma W4200 – MSRP $2999, Online $2699, 20% Rep Discount $2159.20"

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Ha ha - for the wardriving in all of us, a huge list of default passwords for all kinds of routers.

Default Password List

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Someday if I ever get Photoshop, here are 21 free video tutorials.

Lombergar.com - Free Photoshop video tutorials

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Wikipedia reference information about Leet (1337), a spelling convention for typed words.

"characterized by the use of non-alphabetic characters to stand for letters which bear superficial resemblance, as well as by a number of spelling changes such as the substitution of "z" for "s" at the end of a plural word and "x" for "(c)k(s)".

Leet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Tons of technical manuals here, in PDF format.

Some of what I saw there:

Assembly language
Multithreaded programming
HTML reference
Operating systems
Cryptography tutorial
Digital signatures
DES, RC5, Blowfish (in plain english, heh), Twofish
Networking
Bluetooth

Food for Thought

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Putfile - Upload Video and Upload Images

Here is another host - free video hosting. Beware, there is some R and worse rated stuff here...

FileFront is another choice - only limit is 1 GB file size

Store and stream video files at YouTube (avi, mov, mpg, and 100 MB size limit)

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This site is VERY busy with flash stuff, but maybe that's because they're giving away free flash tutorials.

Can't tell yet whether all of them are free, or only the first few. Just wanted to blog this site in the meantime (will report back with more after I try a couple)

FreeFlashTutorials.com Presented By CartoonSmart.com

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Pretty good searchable listing of public wireless hotspots.

From their site:
Stop into your local free hotspot, buy a mocha, and let them know how much you appreciate the free wi-fi!

Free wi-fi cafes & other wireless hotspots | MetroFreeFi.com

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Video Cast that might be worth checking out. Along the lines of Systm? (found it on Digg.com)

THE.SCENE

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This site organizes the many different search options on Google into easy forms you can fill out.

Soople; easy search in Google.

...and here is a "cheat sheet" that the GoogleGuide folks created. (They have also created PDFs of various categories of searching information, available from their home page.)

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Just some dude's list of currently available freely downloadable tech shows.

Of course Diggnation, Systm, and The Broken are all listed.

Tech Shows

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Where have I been? I guess just following the IE non-compliant train...

I came across the first non-conforming piece of DHTML today when trying to update the innerText of an element. As I've been doing for my whole life with IE, I was trying

someElement.innerText = 'whatever';

That doesn't do anything in Firefox. So I tried to narrow it down. When you alert( someElement ), it works, gives you back an HTMLSpanElement, but what to do from there is the trick.

Thanks to Google Groups, some dudes were talking about w3c compliant firstChild DOM property ...

So here's the Firefox (and IE) compatible code:

someElement.firstChild.data = 'whatever';

Here's the formal reference for the Node interface in the object model.

Follow-up note: if the SPAN element starts off empty, the firstChild property will be null.

In other words, an element only has children if there is text (or other elements) below it in the DOM hierarchy.

Quick fix for now, I started the SPAN tag with a space. (IE will ignore a true space, so use   )

If you want to do this the RIGHT way...look for child node, if not there, add it, otherwise, alter the existing node. Like so:

if ( dan.firstChild == null )
{
  node = document.createTextNode( 'added it' );
  dan.appendChild( node );
}
else
  dan.firstChild.data = 'replaced it';

See reference above for info on the createTextNode and createElement methods.

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My son Connor is very into paper airplanes since I made one the other day. Someday I'll have to try to make this one for him.

Paper airplane - The best paper airplane in the world!

Thanks to Dvorak, here's another one with instructions.

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(updated 11/09/05)
Finally got my Firefox extension approved!! Unwrap Text

While poking around trying to get the description formatting correct, found these forms at mozillazine.org

(updated 7/30/05)
Someday, I want to write a "URL unwrapper" extension. Looks pretty easy...

(Use CopyPlainText as an example, since it works based on the current selection. Then use SuperDragNGo as another example since it opens another tab.)

How to write Firefox extensions

(Looks like that URL has moved, so here's a direct link to another one I found, I think from the same author)

roachfiend.com ? How to create Firefox extensions

... and here's a follow-up article by the same guy that tells about the auto-update check mechanism for extensions

References
MozillaZine (menu setup, enable/disable)

Building an Extension Walkthrough -- from Mozilla DEV

JavaScript reference from Mozilla.

DOM Inspector -- look for IDs, CSS styles, etc

Debugger - set breakpoints and inspect call stacks

Summary of some good extension developer tools, including Web Developer Extension, Greasemonkey, ColorZilla, Platypus

Mozilla Dev docs on what's changed in Firefox 1.5

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Most of us nerds struggle with all the services that run in Windows. Here, David Solomon actually gets Windows to work without ANY services!

beware: highly technical article -- good for a day reading at poolside. :)

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Top 100 Global Brands

BusinessWeek Online: Top 100 Global Brands

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I have used Konfabulator before -- now Yahoo! owns the product and has put a new face on it. More than 1,000 widgets available...

Yahoo! Widgets

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Stats site shows the breakdown of users on the internet, and their screen resolutions.

Most popular is 1024 x 768, with 57% users.

OneStat.com - About Us - Press Box

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MSN Virtual Earth is here. Currently in "beta" version, but then again, Google keeps the BETA tag on their stuff for quite a while. (Hell, Google Groups is still in beta and I've been using it for years)

Here is some info about Virtual Earth APIs, creating applications using Virtual Earth.
thoughts on who's already using Virtual Earth for their mapping solutions, etc.

Check out Channel9 video here.

Virtual Earth team blogs.

Apparently "Eagle Eye", which will show 45 degree tilt view of map/buildings/etc is due in the Fall release.

Posted 8:50 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Someday I want to look into the Google maps API - people are starting to come up with some cool ideas on how to use the technology.

Here's one where you can make your own map with various points of interest.
GoogleMania::MapBuilder::Home

Transparencies. Very cool - overlays a transparent satellite image over the top of the map view, or vice versa.

This guy uses the Google Maps APIs to interact with the mapping, and track your walking / running route. Draws it on the google map while you plot, and calculates the total distance.
google maps pedometer

(Thanks to "LifeHacker" for the link to this.)

Space shuttle tracking. Here

Cell tower locator here

Here is a summary of top 10 uses of Google Maps

Here's a decent video of how to use the Google Maps API. He integrates it with his classic ASP pages.

Plot zip codes in the USA against Google Maps

Posted 8:47 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Things continue to heat up in the mapping world.

Google maps recently added their "hybrid" view, where you get the satellite view, with streets labeled on the photos. MSN Virtual Earth (see other related posts) already has this as their "default" satellite view.

Posted 10:06 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

I definitely don't follow all of this, but it's cool to watch. Tunnel through SSH / SSL by exploiting FrontPage extension to get access to machine.

Whoppix and WHAX demos from whoppix.net and iwhax.net

Posted 9:19 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

My buddy Mark has told me a bit about hiding programs from detection, etc. He blogged this article that walks you through the entire process, including using Alternative Data Streams (ADS) to stuff your code into an existing EXE. I don't mean to inject the DLL, but physically store your code in another EXE, so you can't see it, even from explorer!

Only bummer - ADS only works in NTFS.

Anyway - here's the article. I'll leave it up to Marchello to implement :)

CodeGuru: Keyboard Spy: Implementation and Counter Measures

Posted 5:17 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Thanks to the TWIT gang for this link.

Open source tool to decrypt the AAC / .m4p files you get from iTunes.

Since we don't have an iPod to download to directly from iTunes, we have a hellish process to go through.

Burn CD from iTunes (which won't work on the desktop PC for some reason [unknown error], so we do this on the laptop)
Turn around and rip from the CD to mp3.
Finally, use the TDK player software to move the mp3 files to the player.

ugh...

hymn -- decrypt iTunes and iPod music / unprotect AAC files (m4p --> m4a)

Caution (from Leo): When this hymn decrypter is running, it apparently registers as an "authorized" computer for iTunes to let it read / "play" the m4p file. When it's done with whatever music files you asked it to work on, it "unauthorizes" the software. Basically, the software is acting like an authorized computer for the life of the decryption. If you do this all the time, there will be all these auth / unauth calls for your account. Wonder if Apple will start to be suspicious???

Thanks TWIT !!

Posted 10:19 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Thanks to Attack of the Show -- all kinds of info about XBox 360. Pictures of some kid with the unit, playing Halo 2. "First Xbox 360 seen in the wild"

360hacker.net » Xbox 360 hacker hacking mods modding modchip games news blog forums

Posted 9:29 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Saw this on Attack of the Show the other day.

You can add your own search engines to the search control in Firefox. Here's how:

Some popular engines here, pretty cool, added via a JavaScript call?

Quick summary: you put a .src file in the searchengines Firefox folder, along with optional icon (16x16 GIF or PNG). That's it, you're searching.

AotS notes on this and below is the SRC file for a google site search.


<search
version="7.1"
name="Your Site's Title"
description="Search www.yoursite.com"
action="http://www.google.com/search"
searchForm="http://www.google.com"
method="GET"
>

<input name="sourceid" value="Mozilla-search">
<input name="sitesearch" value="www.yoursite.com">
<input name="q" user="">
</search>

Posted 10:31 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Just another PC-based VOIP client. This one claims to be free for many-many countries, for both PC-to-PC calls, as well as PC-to-LandLine calls.

The VoipBuster!

Posted 7:07 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Crazy - my buddy Mark's software Visage has been written up by Symantec. Here's the page of info.

Posted 9:19 AM | 0 comments | Permalink

At least some reports are showing that there are reasons not to offshore all your work.

Dell sets up camp in the USA

Survey results

Posted 12:41 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Great for cheating on geocaching :) you can enter latitude / longitude in google maps. MIN DEC (minute decimal) format seems to be OK with google.

You can literally copy/paste the coordinates into google maps from geocaching.com.

example: N 33° 04.422 W 117° 16.382

(Also helpful, use geocode.com to convert from street address to latitude / longitude coordinates. Then geocaching.com can search nearby that location.)

updated 8/8/05
Here's an example of how to direct URL link into Google Maps. You can see this from the "link to this page" link on the top right.

This is with lat/long coords:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.1051+-117.30523

This is with street address:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=6464+pyrus+pl,+92009 (this will use default zoom settings)

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=6464+pyrus+pl,+92009&ll=33.125188,-117.289696&spn=0.094100,0.158512&hl=en
(this will have the exact zoom/location settings you had when you copied the link)

Posted 10:22 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

See these all over the place, but here's a reference as to one good way to do it.

Basically two images, one with the whole navbar unselected, then one with it selected. The "hover" state for each block defines a specific section of the background image to use.

Also used here, LI elements with no margin/border/etc.

Probably breaks in Firefox :)

Posted 1:48 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Highly geeky, I realize, but here's a decent quick reference on the ISO character set. Mostly used in XSLT files (and sometimes HTML) where you use the code instead of the character itself.

Most often used are:
  (non-breaking space)  
© (copyright) ©
... and others ...

keywords: iso ascii code chart

Posted 1:10 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

...and the next in the series of mapping/sattelite viewing apps...

Google combines the Keyhole desktop/broadband application with google maps to make Google Earth

Free download, then pay versions with more functionality. Can search by exact Lat/Long, so great for geocaching.

Posted 8:23 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Yet another specific type search from Google.

Google video search

Posted 9:24 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Well this turns out ok...a little garbled, but good enough to remember thoughts from the road...

Posted 7:47 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Wow - this is pretty cool. Was playing around with some updates to my blogger pages, decided to see what's new.

Audioblogging -- the ability to call from a phone, record your thoughts, and their posted to your blog as an MP3 file!! Way cool. Best of all - it's FREE, and hooks into your existing blogger.com blogs.

Audioblogger phone number: 1-415-856-0205

Posted 7:35 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

When I posted a new topic today on DotNetNerd, I noticed that the text of the first post was starting below the bottom of the archives list, leaving tons of white space at the top of the page.

Not sure when this started, only in the past couple days, but it looks like it's affecting many people.

View source, and you see an empty <div> tag just before the $BlogItemBody$ section (from the template). The style on this DIV is clear:both which means don't allow this text to go alongside any floating elements. Well, the archives list "menu" to the right of the page is exactly that - float: right.

Anyway - here are some links where people suggest workarounds. I briefly tried one of them (put my own DIV surrounding the BlogItemBody), but it didn't work (at least in preview mode). Hopefully Blogger.com will fix this soon...

Surprisingly, this was the first hit on google for "blogger template clear both".

...which linked to this

...which linked to this

Posted 6:57 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Notes from TWIT 6 show - things to look at

Google
Craigslist meets apartment listings
also check out real-time taxi/limo locations in Google labs.

Yahoo umlimited music

Posted 2:18 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Marchello pointed me to this task manager extension. I haven't tried it, but judging from the screenshots, it's pretty decent.

Not sure if it's better than Process Explorer from SysInternals, which is .NET aware, and shows pretty much the same stuff as the above. (maybe not as much about the security of each handle, etc)

keywords: taskman task manager process explorer

Posted 11:50 AM | 0 comments | Permalink

DHTML Lemmings™ by crisp - Menu

Thanks to Chris Anderson for the link to this.

DHTML Lemmings

Posted 10:04 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Mark B showed me this a long time ago, back when Windows Media Player would not rip to mp3.

CDex-- free, sourceforge project. Uses LAME codec (another sourceforge project), which is also free.

keywords: cd rip copy mp3

Posted 9:51 AM | 0 comments | Permalink

Here's the FareAlert site that alerts you of amazing deals on airline fares, hotel rates, etc.

Most of the time, these deals are from a mistake on the web site, etc. but many times, they have to be honored anyway.

Posted 4:23 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

I guess I'm blogging for Mark B now (hi Mark!) :). He found this on CodeGuru. Delete an exe from within the exe?

Article is here

Posted 9:59 AM | 0 comments | Permalink

On TWITcast, Leo and friends talk about Yahoo Unlimited, where supposedly you can get unlimited music downloads for $4.99/mo if you sign up for a year.

One of many articles about it are here.

Yahoo Unlimited is here.

Some gotchas:
-- downloaded music is limited to ONE computer (and I think a portable)
-- portable player is not iPod, but rather Creative? (see site for details I guess)

Posted 5:20 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Thanks to Miles for this link.

Parser for event logs, IIS logs, etc. Can even export to SQL.

Posted 10:47 AM | 0 comments | Permalink

Way back at RedDotNet, my buddy Chris showed me ICQ. Since then, I can NEVER rememeber my icq number. Obviously, all the popular IM clients have come along since then and use the now more standard email address as the unique id.

Anyway - here it is, once and for all, my ICQ # so I can look it up whenever I need it again (glad ICQ.com has a lookup/directory feature where I could find it this last time)

102709903

Posted 9:56 AM | 0 comments | Permalink

Listened to some of Mark Russinovich's TechEd talk today about spyware, malware, viruses, etc.

He points to a couple things during the talk.

AutoRuns, better than any other tool that shows you what's configured to run at startup.

Running as non-Admin. Aaron Margosis has a good site/blog about this topic, as does Keith Brown, who's been a leader in this charge for some time now.

Two tools for non-admin:
RunAs
MakeMeAdmin

Posted 3:15 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

I was watching the video webcast of this morning's TechEd 2005 Keynote, where Ballmer was speaking. My wife asked "who is that kook?"

I did a quick search for his (in)famous speech intros. Here's a good summary page.

That Funny Steve Ballmer Video Thing

Posted 9:35 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Leo mentions Drupal on twit.tv blogs as what he's hosting the TWIT site on. It's an open source content management platform for blogging, collaborative authoring, forums, newsletters, etc.

The cool thing Leo mentions is that Drupal automatically throttles away the high-bandwidth content when many users are hitting the site. (In his case, comments are not shown, big images, etc)

drupal.org | Community plumbing

Posted 10:20 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Not sure I'd ever want to show where I live in my blog, but an interesting idea anyway.

Shows your location, along with "nearby" bloggers.

feedmap .net (BETA) : Where Blogs Meet Maps

Linked to this from Chandu Thota's blog, works at MS on MapPoint, speaker at TechEd 2005.

Posted 9:24 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

From channel9, here's a snippet on MSN's Virtual Earth, the answer to Google Maps

Some responses to this point to the other class of mapping software are downloadable installs, such as:

KeyHole, by Google (free 7 day trial, then purchase)
NASA World Wind (free I think)
Google Earth (added 05/28/05, free desktop/broadband app)

Here's a dude from MS MapPoint team that talks about Virtual Earth a bit. He's talking about it at TechEd 2005, and here's his blog entry introducing Virtual Earth.

keywords: mapping map msn microsoft virtual earth google maps keyhole world wind nasa

Posted 8:10 AM | 0 comments | Permalink

Just some links and pointers on Podcasting stuff

Podnova top 40 -- podcasts ranked by popularity

So far I'm liking iPodder client the best for Windows. Can manually download any previous posts, as well as setup schedule, etc.

Doppler was another choice, but don't like how you can't easily manually download previous posts.

Some recommendations from the GrokTalks site:

DrizzleCast uses MS BITS to download podcasts using available idle bandwidth
FeedDemon looks like a really killer news aggregator + podcast (enclosures) scheduled download support, etc. Unfortunately, they want $30 for it. :(

Posted 9:21 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Still screwing around with my new Dell Inspiron laptop. Apparently the PC restore functionality is crushed if/when you repartition, reinstall Windows, etc. where it wipes out the master boot record (MBR).

Inside the Dell PC Restore Partition

This guy has a site that has incredible details about the MBR that comes on the system from Dell, and how he hacked around to get it back. A bit too gnarly for me to try...so I guess I'll never have my factory installed OS again... :(

Posted 10:21 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

I'm screwing around with the partitions on my new Dell Inspiron laptop. Apparently when I reinstalled Windows XP, it nukes the factory master boot record, so you lose ability to use Dell PC restore (where it restores from the hidden partition)

I'm tempted to try to boot into that partition by tweaking boot.ini, but not sure what directory to point it to. ... and worse, screwing up boot.ini bad enough so it won't boot Windows.

Here are some thoughts on boot.ini.

Posted 9:53 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

I was uploading something to MS yesterday at work, and was looking at their HTML upload progress page.

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2,progressbar.aspx?ProgressID=85244142">

I didn't know there can be more to the content attribute than just the interval (2 seconds here). It seems that the rest of the data is just the URL.

It's fairly obvious what they're doing, just hitting a URL that will lookup the "progress" for a given ID.

(wonder *how* they find progress -- looking at the uploading file on disk, and seeing how much of the file they have, or the code that's doing the transfering is updating DB or other state somewhere...)

Posted 8:49 AM | 0 comments | Permalink

Funny URL name... Saw this guy's blog while poking around on another developer site.

Cheat Sheets - ILoveJackDaniels.com

The two cheat sheets I like the most:
CSS - cascading style sheet syntax

RGB Hex Color Chart
Color list / Color Wheel for HTML pages

MSDN article about "The Wheel of Color"

updated 08/01/05, with a few more cheat sheets

JavaScript
XMLHttpRequest
JavaScript in HTML
Regular Expressions
Event Handlers

Posted 9:51 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Another game companion communication software product.

GameComm.com

Posted 12:07 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Discussed on Leo's TWIT.tv, another choice for VoIP communications via computer.

Ventrilo - Scalable Voice Communication Software

Posted 12:01 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Thanks to Stace for the link -- remote access / control for free. XP has this built in with Remote Desktop, but wonder if this has remote control where the local user is not blocked from seeing what's happening?

LogMeIn - Remote Access Software and Remote Control Software

Posted 9:23 PM | 3 comments | Permalink

From MSDN's new Coding4Fun section, just a good place to get feet wet with game dev. Gomez already knows all this, so I need to read up on it to talk the same language as him.

Coding4Fun: Beginning Game Development

Posted 10:34 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

OpenOffice is the open source project for office type products (word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, soon to be DB app). Free!!

Definitely worth a look as MS Office replacement.

OpenOffice.org: Home

Posted 8:49 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

The DotNetRocks guys have this "video" talking about using Azureus BitTorrent client to download their mp3 podcasting feeds.

They've decided that they will only offer their feeds via BitTorrent, so they walk you through what you have to do...

How to install / use Azureus

Here is the actual video download page.

keywords: torrent bittorrent download

Some places to start:

Torrent Scrape combines TorrentSpy, IsoHunt, PirateBay, and MiniNova

Posted 11:08 AM | 0 comments | Permalink

Pretty extensive help on port forwarding for all kinds of home routers. Complete with screenshots, etc.

PortForward.com - Free Help Setting up Your Router or Firewall

Posted 11:06 AM | 0 comments | Permalink

Another link from Leo. SDP can record streams from internet radio, complete with "VCR" mode, where you can setup a time to record.

I *think* this is freeware / shareware.

SDP to record audio

Posted 10:24 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

More good links from Leo for Windows System Boot Disks. Still looking to make a good combination of bootable CD with USB drivers to see my USB external HD. (Ghost from there will be SWEET!)

Leo Laporte: The Tech Guy on KFI - Main.MustHaveSystemBootDisks

Posted 10:22 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

GMail invites are here. Got this from Leo

isnoop.net gmail invite spooler

Posted 10:11 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Keyhole is pretty sweet, but wish it was more detail when zoom in to max. And they reduced it down to 7 day trial (from 30).

Here's another alternative, although not much coverage of various cities.
NASA World Wind

Posted 8:22 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

How cool is this ??? With either of these fingerprint readers, you'll never manually log into a web site again!!

Under The Hood - Matt Pietrek : My new toy

Posted 12:57 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Have long wondered when somebody will come out with "DVR" for radio. Here's one, a link from Leo's site

Replay Radio - Internet Radio Recorder

Decent functionality and channel list for only $30. Will have to try out the free demo first.

Posted 8:33 AM | 0 comments | Permalink

Two sites from Kevin Rose (aka Dark Tipper from The Screen Savers) to keep an eye on. Per Revenge of the Bleep from Leo, Kevin, Patrick, etc.

Systm

The Broken

Posted 7:34 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Chris showed me this link that his Motorola buddy got him fired up on.
All you ever wanted to know about PDB files, etc.

Debug Help Library

Posted 4:29 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Decent blog with a geek / nerd slant. XBox, Yahoo 360, Avalon / XAML, Dell laptop savings, etc.

Forever Geek ? Nerds Are For Dorks

Posted 10:29 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Didn't know this either. Apparently latest MSN IM client has an XBox tab that shows your online friends.

The ADO Guy

Posted 10:06 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Geeking out on airplane info, flying details, ATC info, maps, etc. since my golf trip to Mesquite. (Got to ride in the co-pilot seat in the cockpit on the way home to Carlsbad)

Some killer airline photos here.

Posted 9:33 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Yahoo! recently bought Flickr -- check this out for yet another possibility of where to store/share online photos...

Welcome to Flickr - Photo Sharing

Posted 12:46 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Just got back from our Men's golf club charter flight to Mesquite for overnight golf boondoggle. Got to sit in the cockpit of the King Air 200 aircraft on the way back to Palomar Airport, so it renewed my interest in flying, flight sims, maps, VORs, ILS, etc.

Nerdy stuff I know, but a quick google of "palomar airport approach plate" turned up this site. Lots of maps, news, events, etc.

What is ZLA ?

Los Angeles ARTCC on VATSIM - Editorial Content

Posted 9:42 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Wow -- $250 and you can "sling" your tv programming to any internet-connected pc.

Sling Media - Products

Thanks to sis-in-law Erin for this tip.

Posted 9:02 AM | 0 comments | Permalink

Decent quick high level view of Plasma TVs vs LCD. Not sure how long this page will live on the VOOM site, but here it is anyway...

VOOM : HD Resource Center : Beyond HDTV Newsletters : Which is better, plasma or LCD?

Posted 7:59 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Thanks to buddy Marchello for showing me this site. Oh...but I'm not doing Win32 programming any longer - it's all .NET baby !! :)

SmidgeonSoft - Home Of Quality Utilities That Are Free!

Posted 2:39 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Pretty cool script (I think using WMI query syntax) to enumerate processes.

For Each Process in
GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!//rogue").ExecQuery
("select * from Win32_Process where Name='notepad.exe' ")
Process.Shutdown (0)
Next

Google Groups : microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support

Posted 2:48 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Look through here for some decent hacks...

how-to: ‘usb battery’ v2 - hack a day - www.hackaday.com

Posted 8:08 AM | 0 comments | Permalink

Some early info on XBox 2 from Game Developers Conference (GDC)

GDC goodness

Posted 8:17 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Chris Sells shows us how to add custom project items to the "Add New Item" dialog.

keywords: wizard vswizard CSharpProjectItems IDTWizard

Posted 9:21 AM | 0 comments | Permalink

Thanks to Miles and DanCo at work for these pointers.

DVD Shrink

Some discussion of the Arccos copy protection scheme from Sony, including list of known DVDs using this, along with DVD95Copy info which gets around the issue.

Posted 6:49 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Shows number of lines in use for countries in the world, graphical display.

Also, bandwidth simulator, showing how a page would load through a given connection speed.

ICTP Digital Divide Simulator

Posted 6:17 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Once in a great while, when I'm hacking on some DHTML code, I wonder how all the various coordinate values for objects are inter-related. This link below is the MSDN help page that shows the coordinate values in a graphical way.

Example: Show/hide DIV block with absolute positioning, and want it to show up near the user click. You have to take into account if the page is scrolled up a bit.

clientY will tell you where you are in the window, but doesn't account for scrolling.

HINT: use body.scrollTop to add to the clientY where the event was. But only if you have a reference to the BODY element - easiest way is obviously to give BODY an ID.

Measuring Element Dimension and Location (Internet Explorer - DHTML)

keywords: style visibility visible DHTML scrolling Internet Explorer IE

Posted 10:38 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Manual is online here.
Sony Online Support - STR-DA333ES

Posted 9:07 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Microsoft Photo Story 3. Tell a story with pictures, creates a movie (in WMV format me thinks).

Sounds like it's a picture organizer, like Google's Picasa, but then additionally creates movies, automatic red-eye, etc.

Demo of it on Channel9 MSDN here.

Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows: make show-n-tell cool again

Posted 5:03 PM | 0 comments | Permalink

Finally getting up and running with the Adelphia HiDef (HD) DVR. It's Motorolla hardware running Moxi software. I probably have other pages here on the blog with Moxi links, so I have to consolidate, but here's a guy that has decent tips.

Also is a ReplayTV owner like myself, so comes from the same point of view.

Jim's Tips | Gmail Tips | Moxi Tips

(Remote control codes for TVs and Receivers here >>>>) Installation guide for techs coming to your house. (This is for Charter cable with Moxi, but still has good info about the Moxi box, system / service menus, etc)

(Code that works for my Onkyo receiver is 3135)
Quick tip: Moxi + OK buttons, hold them down for a few seconds.
Get 2 blinks of Power light on remote.
Enter 4 digit code, see 2 blinks on light that it's accepted.
Try device.

(Brought over this text from previous topic, combining here.)

Awaiting my Adelphia DVR install in January. In the meantime, here's some info about the Motorola box that they're installing.

Apparently it's setup (ethernet, built-in cable modem, USB ports, much of which is currently disabled) to be upgraded in the future to a full-fledged media center on the home network.

Motorola BMC9012 HD DVR

The Moxio UI that runs on the Motorola box comes from a company called Digeo, one of Paul Allen's companies. Supposedly the UI one a technology emmy for user interface. We'll have to see...

A dude posted this FAQ at htdv.forsandieg.com. Fairly comprehensive doc on all things Moxi, Digeo, etc.

Posted 11:09 AM | 0 comments | Permalink