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processing.js

OMG holy fucking shit! http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/ this is great. though i’m glad i invested in a dual-core laptop, will be needing it to run a web browser. :/

Javascript Drama

Some people are not happy about my muxtape downloader script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24382

collecting e-dust

this thing needs updates…maybe? does anyone even read it?

Customize your YouTube video

So how did I get this crap image as the first frame of a YouTube video? Well I will show you so you can do the same thing! Find a video you want to embed. For this example I will use http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0FAaah8jgY Note and copy its “video_id”, which in this case is “U0FAaah8jgY” from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0FAaah8jgY [...]

Facebook doesn’t like my script :(

UPDATE: Since I no longer use Facebook and deleted my account with them, I put the code back up. Get it here: http://www.nemik.net/code/facebook-rss.zip and let me know if you like it. Facebook decided it did not like my script for RSSing the ‘News Feed’ feature. I guess the lawyers are still on a leash to [...]

Facebook News Feed RSS

What up everyone? The new Facebook feature of showing all the minor details of everyone on their home page got me thinking. This is exactly the type of info that one might want in something like say…and RSS feed? So the past few hours I’ve spent coding up a little PHP script that will log [...]

Tesseract: Google re-releases HP’s OCR tool

You can check it out here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tesseract-ocr Tesseract is a tool HP released a while ago for recognizing text within images. I just compiled and ran it. Seems cool but only works with tiff files and so far I’ve only gotten it working with their sample included file. Using Ubuntu and with the standard GCC [...]

Don’t leave traces

Many of you probably know about the leaked aol searches that happened a while ago. Besides being completely hilarious they also made people aware of the fact that search engines store all your search results, being logged in to the services makes it all the easier for them too. So to alleviate that at least [...]

Letmeparty.com now supports MySpace Blogs!

So I finally learned cURL well enough to make Letmeparty.com decent at posting MySpace blog entries through the SMS system. It is free as always but not extensively tested, so any and all feedback is of course appreciated! I hope you enjoy it.

Easy (IMO) way to mass-backup all your TextAmerica pictures

As many of you may be aware, TextAmerica.com plans to shut down its free service accounts and wants to hold your pictures hostage. Starting July 1st, you will have to sign up by paying $99/year and they provided no way to retrieve your pictures if you decide to cancel the account. So being a nice [...]