WordPress for Android

May 28, 2010 at 3:23 pm (Applications, Gadgets, Internet)

I just downloaded WordPress on my myTouch 3G, hopefully I will start posting more again!

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X-Chat Aqua: Aha! UTF-8!

October 12, 2009 at 3:37 pm (Annoying, Applications, Computers, Internet, Mac OS X, Solutions)
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Wow that was annoying to me, not being able to use any non-ASCII characters in chat. Turns out you need to set, in the server settings, the encoding to UTF-8 (see this here screenshot)

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PHP & Snow Leopard

September 21, 2009 at 9:17 pm (Annoying, Applications, Coding, Computers, Internet, Mac OS X, Solutions)
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Wat? PHP sends as plain text in Snow Leopard? Reinstall PHP: http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/

Now apache doesn’t work? Edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, uncomment #LoadModule php5_module        libexec/apache2/libphp5.so (make it just LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so). Now go into System Preferences->Sharing, uncheck then recheck Web Sharing

Now it should work. For some reason, that line being commented out causes a segfault when you request anything besides a directory listing.

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AIM bot

September 13, 2009 at 7:25 pm (Annoying, Coding, Computers, Internet)
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Last night I wrote this fun little AIM bot in Perl. It will link 2 user names together and then relay messages back and forth. Very similar to TheGreatHatsby.

Source code is here (requires Net::OSCAR from CPAN). Configure the username and password, run the script and send it something like ‘.init SomeUserName “Some Other Username”  initiating message’. That will link SomeUserName to Some Other Username and relay all their messages, after sending SomeUserName “initiating message”, and replacing nicknames in messages accordingly. The script will print all messages received to stdout.

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Safari doesn’t focus on the newest window when first opened in Snow Leopard (in 32-bit)

September 12, 2009 at 10:35 pm (Annoying, Applications, Computers, Internet, Mac OS X, Solutions)
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That’s annoying, huh? And no one say “hurr durr use firefox” because it does the same thing

Here is my solution to that problem:

Set Safari to open at login, but “hidden”. Then assign command+Q to “Close All Windows” (in System Preferences->Keyboard->Keyboard Shortcuts->Application Shortcuts->Safari) rather than quit

Safari will then stay open and new windows will be focused on automatically. Handy!

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Snow Leopard

September 4, 2009 at 12:49 am (Computers, Mac OS X)
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Edit: Maybe I should have looked around a bit more… it turns out Cooliris and MultiClutch do work, you just have to run Safari in 32-bit mode (see this article)

Snow Leopard… installed!

Well, I don’t think a lot has changed with Snow Leopard. A few small things which are nice though.

Good things:

  1. Mail has greatly improved
  2. A lot of things in Finder and core processes have gotten better
  3. I do notice that things run smoother and faster since installing
  4. Minor GUI improvements

Downsides:

  1. Cooliris doesn’t work anymore
  2. MultiClutch doesn’t work for Safari anymore
  3. Startup time seems to take longer than before

All in all, it’s pretty okay. I don’t think I will go back to 10.5 unless I start to get really annoyed by MultiClutch not working on Safari, my main complaint

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what-time-is-it.in

August 26, 2009 at 5:58 am (Coding, Computers, Internet)

Ever wondered what time it was in someone else’s city, to decide whether or not to call them?

Just go to http://what-time-is-it.in/City/Name and it will return to you the time there

what-time-is-it.in

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is-it-sunny.in

August 26, 2009 at 12:54 am (Coding, Computers, Internet)

is-it-sunny.in: new website, by me, written in Perl

You can check if it is sunny somewhere with a simple tool. For example, I would go to http://is-it-sunny.in/Lawrence/Kansas? or http://is-it-sunny.in/66044?

There are some more examples on http://is-it-sunny.in

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Airport Express

August 25, 2009 at 12:05 am (Computers, eBay, Gadgets, Internet, Mac OS X)
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I just got my Airport Express in the mail today, and it’s pretty cool

I have a network printer connected to it, and it’s now hooked up in my room, so I can get faster WiFi

Anyway, yeah, it’s pretty handy

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Dock item hiding

August 24, 2009 at 3:45 am (Annoying, Applications, Computers, Mac OS X, Solutions)
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I’m sure this has happened to you before: you have some 3rd party application that doesn’t have much to display, like maybe a toolbar icon, or some kind of server. It works great, until you realize that you can only have it running if that stupid icon is in the dock!

This happened to me when I installed the Gmote server and it really bugged me. So I found a nice and easy way to fix it:

Find the application where ever you installed it (usually in /Applications)

Right click, or control+click on it for those of you with a one-button mouse, and click Show Package Contents

Open Contents, then open Info.plist with your favorite plain-text editor (TextWrangler for me)

Search for “LSUIElement” (without quotes). If it comes up with nothing, add

<key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>

Somewhere between <dict> and </dict> (not in the middle of something else though)

If it comes up with a match and it looks like this:

<key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>0</string>

Change that 0 to a 1

Now save the file, relaunch the application, and it should run without a dock icon! Yay!

Oh btw, I found that solution here

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