Nemik's Blog

SMS Post

nemik — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:17:25 +0000

Listening to some KMFDM. The beatings will continue until morale improves. This is a long message to test some thing that i think should be working. So it will be long and pointless but what the fuck.

SMS Post

nemik — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:55:34 +0000

Is twitter IRC 2.0?

safaris

nemik — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:30:28 +0000

i want to go on them.

processing.js

nemik — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:28:08 +0000

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

nemik — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:48:55 +0000

Some people are not happy about my muxtape downloader script:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24382

collecting e-dust

nemik — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:40:57 +0000

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

Customize your YouTube video

nemik — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:51:36 +0000

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
Get the video’s “t-code”. This can be done by doing a view source of the video page and looking for the code between “&t=” and the next “&” in a section that has this. In our example, this “t-code” would be “OEgsToPDskJXsoy4CQ56hZR-A204DL4a” from id=U0FAaah8jgY&l=209&t=OEgsToPDskJXsoy4CQ56hZR-A204DL4a&s=21556AB
Now create the image you want to use and upload it to your site or an image hosting site. I would recommend using a JPG with dimensions of 425 x 325. Anything with a proportion that is away from that will look stretched out and not so nice. Copy the URL for your image.
You are now ready to produce the code. In the following piece of code, replace with your video_id from step 2, with your t-code from step 3, and with your image from step 4. Note that your image URL should NOT have the http:// in there.

&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//&t=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350">
Finished! Now simply copy your new code from above into the HTML of your site and you have a YouTube video with a custom first frame. Enjoy!

Facebook doesn’t like my script :(

nemik — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 06:21:56 +0000

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 keep from ripping me to shreds.

I decided not escalate the issue further knowing that their lawyers probably could rip me to shreds and I’m not currently interested in testing their abilities in doing so.

Facebook’s e-mail:

“Hey Nemanja,

I’m an engineer at Facebook and I’m writing to ask you to please discontinue
using and providing for download your RSS script (for scraping News Feed).
We applaud your efforts at extending the use of Facebook, but unfortunately
we cannot allow automated scripts to access our site for any reason. If you
review the Terms of Service (located at http://facebook.com/terms.php) you
will see the following sentence beneath Member Conduct:“Additionally, you agree not to use automated scripts to collect information
from the Service or the Web site or for any other purpose.”We’ve disabled your account for now, but if you’ll get back to me when
you’ve removed the script (and discontinued using it) I will be happy to
re-enable your account.

We’d obviously like to resolve this without getting the lawyers involved if
possible, so please get back to me as soon as possible so our legal
department doesn’t get all fired up about this.

Thanks,

Chris Putnam
Facebook Engineer
http://facebook.com/p.php?id=13&l=7f32d95924”

So the script is no longer being hosted on my site. Thanks to all who commented on it and helped perhaps improve it.

Facebook News Feed RSS

nemik — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:30:29 +0000

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 in to Facebook for you, get that whole feed thing, and put it in crude, simple RSS 2.0 feed.

It was developed using PHP 5 but I think should also work with 4.3.x so long as the ‘dom’ module, curl and libcurl with SSL are installed. I think most webhosts these days have that.

So the script, just put in your Facebook email and password into the facebook-rss.php script in the correct variables. ($login_email and $login_password). Then just hit that page with an RSS reader and it should then tell your all those details you’d see only in RSS format. Perhaps would made a nice google.com/ig module?
Not sure how useful this will be to anyone but it was fun for me to write it. It is also released under the MIT license so that anyone can view, edit, do whatever they want with the source.

So without further ado: FACEBOOK RECENTLY CLOSED MY ACCOUNT AND THREATENED TO BRING ON THEIR LAWYERS IF I DO NOT REMOVE THE SCRIPT. I HAVE DECIDED MY CURRENT LAWSUIT-FREE LIFESTYLE IS NOT WORTH THE SCRIPT. JUST KIDDING

Be sure to let me know what you think and how terribly coded it is. I ran out of beer.

Tesseract: Google re-releases HP’s OCR tool

nemik — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:55:07 +0000

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 compiler stuff on there it compiles no problem.

Just do ‘./configure’ then ‘make’. ‘Make install’ does not seem to be supported yet, and the executable gets created within the ccmain directory.

I tried taking some PNG’s with plain text on a white background and using the ‘convert’ tool to convert it to a tiff. A tiff is created but the OCR cannot read it. Oh well.

Anyone else using this? Getting interesting results?