Wednesday, September 6, 2006
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.
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
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?
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 a little bit, I have written a little Greasemonkey extention that routes the searches you would normally make on Google, Yahoo!, or MSN through a secure search proxy over at http://www.blackboxsearch.com.
Just install Greasemonkey, install the script from here (http://www.nemik.net/blackboxsearch.user.js) and visit your Google, personalized googe.com/ig, Yahoo, or MSN page as normally. But whenever you do a search it will go through the anonymous proxy so that Google and others cannot keep track of your searches. 
Let me know what you think of it. Also be sure to check out a much cooler aim at screwing up Google’s and other search engines’ datamining methods: http://www.lostinthecrowd.org.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
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.
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 guy, I’ve made a way for you to do that. Check it out here: http://ta.nemik.net
I just made a small site during my spring break that allows people to post to their blogs via SMS text messaging. You add your blogs to the site along with your phone number and when you send an SMS to the special number, it posts that message to all your blogs!
Check it out and let me know what you think: http://www.letmeparty.com
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After much frustration and headbanging, our university’s LUG (Linux Users Group) got our university’s wifi working on Linux!
For a long time, we were able to authenticate our accounts in its Radius server using wpa_supplicant but just could not get the DHCP to release an IP to either dhclient or dhcpcd.
Well finally Roberto tried some instructions to update the ipw2200 drivers we use and the IEEE8021x drivers, as well as the firmware for our Centrino IPW2200 chipset.
Low and behold, I am typing this from my university’s wifi! This is so cool! Now we will just properly document the steps and all and perhaps modify the python GT-Wifi script we use in Ubuntu to support loading in through wpa_supplicant.
Either way, this kicks ass and just made my weekend.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
I just recently put together a little script that will check an email address for incoming MMS (picture messages) and post them to a vBulletin thread. It is based off the work of a great script by Adrian Heydecker (http://wavestyle.ch) that h
e made for the WordPress blog.
I hacked it up for vBulletin. It is VERY primitive since I did not have enough time to make the MMS posts go through VB’s proper posting/replying procedure. So it does just a plain old mysql_query() that does and “INSERT” into the vb table that contains posts! Hah!
So please if someone knows the internal workings of VB (I don’t have time to look through the code) then please update this script to make it proper.
As a result, post-count and all that good stuff will not increase from MMS-posting; sorry!
Well I hope you enjoy anyway! The source can be found here: http://blog.nemik.net/wp-filez/mms-mail.phps
It is licensed under the GPL and I’m not responsible if it breaks your forum/site!
Enjoy!