Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Fixed BoxOver js library

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Hi there, my dear java-damned-script fans!

boxoverToday I used to find an strange bug in pretty little fine-looking-hints library, called BoxOver from here. As you know, for the chars ", [ and ] with this library you must use ", [[ and ]] to display… It works, but only once for brackets.

So, I tried to find a fix… None found. At the forum some guy gave an ugly fix with &rbr; and so on…

Shame on you guys, did you ever heard of regexp syntax? ;)

Here’s the BoxOver library with fixed [ and ] brackets display:

Download BoxOver 2.1a javascript library (28th May 2008)

BTW, when I tried to register on forum to post my fix – I can’t – because of captcha insult, and that’s why I posted it here.

Popularity: 85% [?]

FireFox 2 silently crashes (shit)

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

I’m not happy with FireFox last two or three months. It crases eventually (but often, yeah) and silently. Front end just disappears, but process remains – and actively eats memory.

Most recent case is: clear cache then open some "heavy" site with some flash elements.

Maybe FF itself is innocent but plugins (for ex. Firebug)

firefox

Popularity: 19% [?]

User agent switcher

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Helpful thing (for web developer)

Firefox plugin User Agent Switcher 

But check out Safari 3.1 for Windows. Preferences => Advanced tab, enable Develop menu and – voila! – you have all you want and many more things. Actually it remembered me FireBug extension for FireFox.

Enjoy ;)

Popularity: 18% [?]

Disable Autorun Once And For All

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Auto Run Today I wanted to disable Autorun feature in Windows XP box. And I found, that all that Microsoft can bring is funky right-click-on-drive menu with lot of disk types…

That’s not my way. After 2 minutes Autorun feature has been disabled system-wide. And for you it will take less time – because I’ll take care of this.

All you need is to fetch a .reg file below (right click th link, choose “Save target as”), doubleclick it and say “yes”, than reboot.

Disable Autorun (Windows XP)

All the trick is to set
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom\AutoRun to 0

If you wanna do vice-versa trick, you need to fetch and run next file (right click th link, choose “Save target as”), doubleclick it, say ‘yes’, and reboot. If not helps, check those funky right-click-on-drive menu.

Enable Autorun (Windows XP)

That’s all, folks!

Popularity: 86% [?]

Wanna buy a PLIGG?

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

pligg-com-sale Pligg is now for sale. Do you wanna buy it? Sale includes the pligg.com domain along with all web content created for the site including graphic design work, blog and forum administrator accounts, rights to the Sourceforge.net account. You can buy it here.

Shit.

Popularity: 59% [?]

Mozilla is alive! Mammon is… Who?

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

firefox-vs-ie One of the freaky cheats in FireFox browser.

I posted all of them today.

Just type in address line “about:Mozilla” and press enter.

What the hell is that?

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

Ok, guys, Mammon is… Aaaa…. Hmmm…. This is Mammon:
( I don’t know why he hasn’t a face of Bill Gates nowdays? )

mammon-euro-dollar

But why a great bird? If they do mean a Mozilla ThunderBird – now it dead again. If they meant FireFox – it’s not a bird. And if they meant Mozilla itself – I surprised it was bird.

Guys! What the hell was that?

Popularity: 41% [?]

Hidden FireFox’s resources

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Type in address line one of a following:

  • about:
  • about:buildconfig
  • about:cache
  • about:config
  • about:plugins
  • about:credits
  • about:Mozilla

Funny ;)

And I’m glad to introduce to you: The new FireFox Logo!

New FireFox Logo

Popularity: 42% [?]

Put on Fire in the Fox’s ass!

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Make sure that you have this browser:

Speed Up Firefox

Do you know FireFox well?

And how about advanced settings page? And how about direct access to it? OK, just type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Just like this:

Firefox's advanced settings address

Now, what do you see?

It’s your advanced settings, basically you can’t reach most of them in other way…

How To Speed Up Your FireFox

Look for the following entries:
network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

They looked just like this:
firefox-network-settings

Now,
Set network.http.pipelining to true
Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true
Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 10 (or 15)
Right-click, select New->Integer, name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay, set value to 0
Restart Firefox.

What we’ve done?

We allowed to make up to 10 (15) connections at once. Make sure not to set it higher than 20.
Also we allowed to act with received information with zero waiting time.

Popularity: 35% [?]

Mozilla is alive! Mammon is… Who?

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

firefox-vs-ie One of the freaky cheats in FireFox browser.

I posted all of them today.

Just type in address line “about:Mozilla” and press enter.

What the hell is that?

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

Ok, guys, Mammon is… Aaaa…. Hmmm…. This is Mammon:
( I don’t know, by why he hasn’t a face of Bill Gates nowdays? )

mammon-euro-dollar

But why a great bird? If they do mean a Mozilla ThunderBird – now it dead again. If they meant FireFox – it’s not a bird. And if they meant Mozilla itself – I surprised it was bird.

Guys! What the hell was that?

Popularity: 29% [?]

3D cover design in two clicks

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Look at this:

3D cover design in two clicks 3D cover design in two clicks 3D cover design in two clicks 3D cover design in two clicks

It’s all virtual. And this is not a professional’s work. Those beautiful product boxes, books, and even DVDs – just in two clicks from you.

This is all a Box Shot 3D software, and it’ll cost a fifty if you want to remove watermarks from shareware version.

Some blah-blahs from official site:

Box Shot 3D is a virtual cover renderer based on ray tracing algorithms. What does this mean? Simply put, the box shots you create will look very realistic. This attractive display is often the deciding factor for purchasing products.

Because of high rendering technology, Box Shot 3D’s rendering is so life-like, customers may think they are seeing the actual product photo. Visit here for more details.

Please look at our product comparison here and judge for yourself the best, most economical and efficient method of creating your perfect product box shot.

This program worth a fifty. Of course you can spent this fifty it for a couple of good 3D design books, and then you can find a good freeware 3D editor, and learn how to use it, and then you’ll be able to render your product box shots! Or, as another way, you can pay a fifty to professional. He’ll do a work for you. One time.

Resume: try it, buy it, use it! My mark: 10 of 10 possible!

Popularity: 56% [?]

Sendmail for Windows Freeware

Monday, August 6th, 2007

I was looking for a windows (I mean win32) command-line send mail utility, something like Unix’s SendMail. And again – all I find worth $$. But when I look harder – I found two little utilities. They’re almost perfect.

1. Blat

Product that may cover most of your needs. Not a sendmail itself, but this is what most people mean when said “sendmail, windows, freeware”. Send your messages from command line, from batch files, from scripts etc. Authorisation and all the stuff is onboard. Opensource. C++. SourceForge based management. Active development.

What is Blat (and what does it do)? Blat is a small, efficent SMTP command line mailer for Windows. It is the SMTP *sending* part of an eMail User Agent (MUA) or eMail client. As such, Blat sends eMail via SMTP (or internet eMail) from the command line, or CGI, …

What is Blat not? Blat is NOT a drop in replacement for the Unix SENDMAIL, MAIL, MAILX utilities (or for that matter, any other eMail tool you can think of). A Perl script written to use these, for example, will not work without some tweaking.

You can download fresh Blat (sorta freeware sendmail for windows) from here: Blat’s download page.

2. Free SendMail Utility for Windows

Simplier one freeware sendmail utility – from John Wood, and it’s in v0.1 Beta state, and seems like author will not support it anymore ever (he called it a 10 minuter in 2005), and it’s written in C# (i.e. if you don’t have dotnetfx installed – so now you have to), but: a) it works; b) it’s simplier than blat; c) it small; d) it’s opensource.

The thing is, .Net gives you everything you need to send email, in an SmtpMail class. To send mail from the command line, I just had to expose this class – and how difficult could that be?! It had to be another 10 minuter.

So once again I did it myself. To save others the hassle of searching through google, or paying cash, I’ve compiled it into a simple command-line utility and put it up on my website.

Sure it’s nothing fancy, but it appears to get the job done from the limited testing I’ve run.

You can download Free SendMail Utility for Windows (a simple freeware sendmail for windows) from here: Free SendMail’s download page.

As for me – the first one is the best.

Hope I helped you to find what you want ;)

Popularity: 60% [?]

BlogJet

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

BlogJet is a commercial blog client for Windows. And I made this and previous posts using this software. Hmmm. BlogJet is much better than BlogDesk one…. But I still need to edit the post after posting is done. Where are papagraph styles? Where are h1 h2 h3 h4 etc… ?? Where is real WYSIWYG editor? Where is image properties editing after I inserted it? Where human-readable image naming (check this out – in previous post image on my HDD named arch-enemy-2007-rise-of-the-tyrant-promo.jpg became some kind of non-seo non-human non-anyone set of letters)?

Author may talk about money, work to be done, “how he make controls that were snatched by microsoft”, and some mental shit, but I must say one thing. BlogJet is crap. Just like BlogDesk. Please note that BlogDesk is free to use, when BlogJet’s author wants $39.95. I’ll put them both in one place – and it will be /dev/null.

The official site says

BlogJet 2.0

Blog editor on steroids.
Now better than ever.

1. Remember, kids, steroids are bad. And this piece of binary crap proves it.
2. If this is better than ever – what’s bad?
3. Why 2.0? Did you anything for it? NO! It must be 1.99 – and so on – 1.100, 1.101.

Popularity: 36% [?]