Archive for July, 2007:
8BitBoy – Andre Michelle
Karsten Obarski invented 1987 – twenty years ago – the MOD format for his Ultimate Tracker running on Amiga computers. Since then, countless songs are created, especially for the demoscene.
MODs have special attributes. All samples are stored in 8bits and the number of voices is limited to four. To have something similarly to chords, the three notes of it are repeated very fast. This makes MODs sound so freaky.
Finally 8BitBoy brings those songs back online.
Neural Interface – Controlling objects
Pretty sick. The applications are endless!
Helping the handicap and assisting astronauts is cool and all, but what about as a TV remote? Just think, you’d never have to waste your precious energy pushing those remote control buttons any more. If the consequence of sloth is only a pit full of snakes, bring it on.
Installing Apache, PHP and MySQL on Vista
I was expecting the worst, but got everything up and running in about 30 minutes due to some damn easy to follow tutorials. I guess I probably could have figured it out myself, but it’s nice to just get it done.
Installing Apache on Vista
Installing PHP on Vista
Installing MySQL is a no-brainer. Hell, even I could do it.
Saffron UML in AIR
Saffron is a pretty slick looking and powerfull UML modeling tool built on the AIR platform. Can’t wait to see the final release!
Top features:
- Wireframe editor allows both developers and/or designers to create wireframes for their projects
- Allows for Actionscript 2, Actionscript 3, PHP4 and Java Code generation directly from the app.
- Sports an entirely customizable UI which contains several dock-able panels that can be placed anywhere by the user.
- Enterprise level capability having the ability to support models with hundreds of classes without performance degradation
- Beautiful UI
- Integrated Version Control
- Sophisticated printing options give you complete control over how your diagram is printed
- Cross Platform on both OS X and Windows
- Full round trip support for both AS2 and AS3 (Java will soon follow), always keeping your model and code in synch every step of the way.
Habanero Pepper – It’s just food. What could go wrong?
That’s 200,000 – 300,000 scoville units of mouth burning fun!
iPhone hacked?
Security researchers claim they have found a hack to get confidential data from the iPhone.
By creating a malicious html page, and then pointing the phone’s Safari web browser at it, the hackers were able to access all sorts of private information from the phone. Not good news for private individuals – but even worse for organizations when you consider that recent research estimates that more than 50 percent of staff regularly copy files from the corporate network to their personal storage devices.
Read the full article here
(from watchyourend.com)
Ajax Plug-ins for Wordpress
Pete Cashmore has posted a list of 30+ Ajax plugins for Wordpress that he considers good.
Here’s a sample:
- AjaxWP – Adds AJAX to all aspects of your WordPress site speeding up the load times.
- Alexa Rank – Display your Alexa rank with pride.
- Ajax Comment Preview – Allows readers to preview their comment before submitting.
- asTunes – Retrieves data from your Audioscrobbler/last.fm profile and posts it as a list on your blog.
- Codebox – Side scrolling box for displaying code snippets.
- Crossroads – Adds thumbnails and comments from your Flickr account.
- FireStats – Full featured statistics including referrers and popular pages.
- Google PageRank – Allows you to display your Google Page rank on your blog.
- Hardened-Trackback – Generates a single use trackback to help fight trackback spam.
- imgViewJX – Refreshes an image on your main page from a selected directory.
- Live Spell Checker – Adds a spell checker to the admin area to check your posts with.
- Plug ‘n’ Play Google Map – Adds any post you make with longitude and latitude to a Google Map on a separate page. Very useful for blogs writing restaurant reviews or about events.
- Wordpress Mailing List – Have a mailing list? Let readers subscribe and unsubscribe simply from the front page of your site.
- WP e-Commerce – Adds a shopping cart to your WordPress powered site.
- WP-Polls – Adds fully customizable polls for your readers to take.
- WP-Post Ratings – Allows readers to rate your posts.
- Zorpia That’s Hot Box – Allows visitors to send posts they like Zorpia.com and vote on their favorite articles.
Uniform Event Model: Making IE think W3C
Tavs Dokkedahl has written a small script that makes IE conform to the W3C DOM3 Event recommendation (at least the part that FF supports).
The Uniform Event Model adds support for the capture, atTarget and bubbling phases and provide most of the EventListener interface including among others the addEventListener, removeEventListener, createEvent, initEvent and dispactEvent methods. All handlers are passed an event object with almost complete information according to standards. See the list of features for detailed information on event flow, methods and properties.
(from ajaxian)
Wicked Pissah Games
Check out Bit-101’s new project Wiked Pissah Games. There’s only one game so far, but I expect good things to come.
Onslaught 2
This game is a total time suck! Prepare to get nothing done today 
Robot Replay: Watch your users via Ajax
Ever wonder how exactly your users are interacting with your site? Robot Replay is a Rails application what allows you to record user events as they interact with your site and then play them back later.
Just include some JavaScript in your site and events are compiled and set back to the server. Once the user is done with their session, you can play it back right in your own browser.
Watch an example of mouse gestures and forms.
iPhone, Will it Blend?
iPhone advertisement remix
Bringing the Browser to the Server
Bringing JavaScript server side raises some interesting possibilities for automated testing, screen scraping and Web application development. Check it out.
Great advertisement for wind energy
Protoload: Ajax Loading
Andreas Kalsch has written a simple library, Protoload, that handles the Ajax loading events that are common place as a way to show users that something is happening on the server, in a particular location.
Driver’s License as Ableton Live MIDI Controller
BotVoice.A – Your system files have been deleted. Sorry.
Panda Labs has detected a new trojan named BotVoice.A Trojan. Users who get infected will hear the phrase, “You have been infected. I repeat, you have been infected and your system files have been deleted. Sorry. Have a nice day and bye bye.”
The virus deletes systems files, modifies the registry to block attempts to undo the damage and takes control of Windows text reader. It is spread through peer-to-peer networks, external storage devices and malicious Web sites.
You can read more about the virus from their Web site and you can hear a sample of the voice here.
Steve Wozniak interview
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was interviewed by RU Sirius this week about being a prankster and ethical hacking.
From excerpts of the interview posted on 10 Zen Monkeys:
I have these professionally printed stickers that I’ve had made. They’re done with this sort of foil-type stuff in the exact OSHA style and the OSHA colors. And it says, “Danger: Do Not Flush Over Cities.” And I put ‘em in the bathrooms on airplanes…They’re red with a black-shadowed airplane picture. The bathroom has a little seat fold-down. I fold that up and there’s a sign in the middle of it saying, “Don’t throw trash here.” And I put my two little stickers behind it, so the stewardesses won’t notice it right away. If they notice it right away they might realize that somebody put that there. But after a while, if they slowly get used to it, they’ll stay on for years…
Hahaha. Go Steve.
RSS to JSON Convertor
Very cool little script for converting an RSS (or Atom) feed into a valid JSON object. Check it out here