29
Feb 08

Cocke Zero ad from W+K amsterdam

Although I think these are somewhat funny and well produced,
I have to say this to my friends at W+K:

It DOESN’T taste like Coke.
come on…
it tastes like Coke Light… just slightly different.

watch the ads at Passion’s site
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29
Feb 08

Great iPhone/iTouch theme for SummerBoard

I really dig this now.
maybe because it’s fresh out :)

ChalkWork on MezzoBlue

please note that in the install instructions you have something to correct for the theme to be visible.
where it says to install in

/var/root/Library/SummerBoard/Themes

this only works on older os revisions

on 1.1.3 (and think 1.1.2 as well) the themes are in

/var/mobile/Library/SummerBoard/Themes

of course being /var a symlink to another directory, the full system path is

/private/var/mobile/Library/SummerBoard/Themes

but you don’t need to know this.

enjoy my screenshots :)

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27
Feb 08

MacBook(pro) right ALT key: not just on new models

At yesterday’s announcement of the new MacBook Pro, I had a “finally!” moment when I read that the right Enter key was deprecated in favor of another Option (ALT) key on the right side of the keyboard.
If you’re a keyboard freak as I am, you have probably cursed Apple for this missing feature.
Well… it seems that you’re now able to shell some cash out and get a new laptop and throw away the one you bought 9 days ago.
Just Kidding.
Mine is from last august and this is just a tease to whoever bought one last week :D

A bit happy for the newcomers and a bit disappointed for myself, I started wondering whether there’s some utility out there that can do the same.
Well… I stubled upon this great japanese dude who programmed one for his own usage (Emacs etc) and made it available to the public.

Greet KeyRemap4Macbook, everyone.

The utility is confirmed to work on MacBook/MacBook Pro and Mac Mini (not sure which) and is Universal Binary.
I can confirm it works on my MBP 2.4

Personal usage scenario:
having Spaces remapped to ALT rather than CTRL, having a right ALT key makes me super happy (and will soon give me RSI)

below a screenshot of the configuration I used.
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25
Feb 08

Post YouTube videos to your blog

Since I started IdontNeedYouTube.com, I had to face a little annoying detail of posting from the “share” link on YouTube.
The way the post is formatted is not cleanly parsed by xmlrpc.php on WordPress.

Basically the title is not recognized and is instead part of the post body.

the way I solved it:

  • duplicate xmlrpc.php
  • call it xmlrpc_custom.php (the main reason is preventing overwriting when you update WordPress… which is lately happening very often)
  • look for the function blogger_newPost

at about line 844 you can find $post_author
paste this snippet of code

$htVar=html_entity_decode($content);
if($stIndx=strpos($htVar,">")+1){
$enIndx=strpos($htVar,"");
$post_title=(substr($htVar,$stIndx,$enIndx-3));
$content=substr($content,$enIndx+5,strlen($htVar)-1);
}

right after

$post_title = xmlrpc_getposttitle($content);

now you just have to change the script URL in your YouTube blog settings.

I’m quite sure this could be done easily with RegExp, but I really never had time to learn all that complicated stuff.

enjoy

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21
Feb 08

show and hide the windows taskbar

While working on some project for a client, we had the need to remove the taskbar from windows machines, in order to use it as a kiosk running a not full-screen application on a 42″ display.

While part of our past framework applications did this, the current set did not include the functionality.
I had to ask Saver to program these 2 quick apps for me so I could launch them at system startup.

Feel free to use them, just let us know how/when you do.

[twodotone]

downloadtaskbar_controller.zip

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08
Feb 08

Nokia+Mac: N95-8GB iSync plugin

I got an N958GB phone…
It stayed pretty unused in the backpack as I’m a loyal E61i user,
but today I ran off of battery on that, and the N95 was fully charged.
Placed my SIM card in it and am using it.
Only problem is that I never synced it.
I’m in london with no internet connection, and jumped into the Apple Store on Regent st.
One of the guys was so polite to let me plug my charger (MBP out of juice as well) and let me stay here.

N958GB has a different ID, so it didn’t work with Nokia’s iSync plugin.
A quick google search brought up Jussi Edlund’s custom iSync plugin.
The usual hack of course, and it works.

see the post HERE, and enjoy your N958GB.

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