So I got a Helio Ocean on Friday…

Decided to create a “Mobile” Category. It will generally be completely unrelated to anything on the site… just plan on posting photos and whatever else i feel like from my phone.

Dunno how much Ill use it but we shall see. I used to have another “moblog” but didn’t use it much because it was generally a pain in the ass… and potentially expensive to send lots of media from my old phone(s).

Anyway… perhaps it will be interesting… perhaps not… but I expect I will have some fun with it.

So today I found a rockin blog… Daily Cup Of Tech.

This Tim guy rocks… add his blog you your RSS reader… I did.

Anyway, his posts on USB drive autorun tools inspired me… read his posts Here and Here

I made a tool based off his code that has a number of cool features… all configured from a single inf file… and using a text file for the message to make sure mac and/or linux users could still get the message…

Heres the scenario… you drop your precious USB drive somewhere and some other dude finds it… he has no idea who’s it is or anything… youre never gonna see it again right? welll lets hope thats not the case…

Lets hope the guy is foolish enough to stick a foreign USB drive in his pc and let it run (well most people are so foolish) … he will see a nice little splash screen and then get a message from you asking him to contact you and return the drive

you can even set it to open up his email client and start to compose the email for him.

the thing can be configured to just show the splash… just the message… etc…
it could even just show the splash and run some usb based software of your choosing and just ignor the whole “I lost my drive” scenario… Hell… let it show you a porno pic and run your cryptography software… whatever you want…

click HERE to download v1.0
Everything you need is included… even the source code if ya wanna tweak it and recompile it… etc…

Read on for the info file and whatnot:

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Hi all…

Sorry I missed responding to so many comments over the past while. Have been extremely busy with new work, freelance, learning new stuff and generally living outside my text editor

More updates will be coming I think. as I have more free time anyway…

Been doing a lot of development in Second Life… prolly gonna start a sub section of this blog just to go over all the LSL (”Linden Scripting Language” is the SL scripting language for in-world interactions and whatnot. Its kinda like C# for those who have never tried it) stuff Ive been doing and XML/RPC stuff as it applies to Second Life and integrating in-world objects with the Real World websites.

so… Ill do my best to reply to a lot of the comments I missed. Maybe finish the newest version of some of my scripts/plugins and then move onto the LSL subsection.

coo

I installed the code for my collapsible sidebar on here… perhaps a bit prematurely… I dunno…

I havent fully tested it yet, but the sidebar seems to work right… evrything with a handle can still be dragged to reorder the sidebar… but now you should be able to collapse each item as well… the contents should drop out and go away on the first click… then fade back in on the second click… blind up and down when you click the little toggle switch to the right of the handle.

the page should then remember both the position that item was in… and if the box was collapsed or not.

 test it out and let me know if it works please.

Made a new theme today…

I wanted something cleaner… less busy… easier to read… etc.

This is what I came up with. A side effect is that I had to re-organize my code for the draggable sidebar with memory… that makes it one step closer to being a plugin. Only thing left to do is finish the collapse script. Once thats done I’ll start “pluginizing” it.

 Anyway, please comment if you find a bug or if something doesnt look/work right in the new theme. or you could just comment to let me know if you like it.

Ok.

Lots of people are aware of… and annoyed by the ActiveX issues surrounding embedded flash (and other things) in IE. I personally have only been effected by the flash issues though so for now Im ignoring the rest.

My friend Dan pointed me towards SWFObject… a javascript by Geoff Stearns (visit him at blog.deconcept.com) which can be used to embed flash without any issues.

The invocation code is a little much for sites that are flash heavy… or people who just like to write as little code as possible. Dan had written a nifty little php script to insert all the javascript more easily… even his simplified code was too much for me though so I made my own.

Read on for examples, explanations and all kinds of stuff that will make your life easier if you care about this whole ActiveX problem…

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v0.2 Upgrade makes plugin work with titles containing ampersands and works better for people who are not using mod_rewrite for their urls. Also fixes IE ActiveX lawsuit problems with embed.

Heres the sIFR plugin I promised… It shouldnt be too confusing to install… the only potentially tricky parts are if people really wanna change the flash file…

Ive included the source FLA to make editing it really easy… Please read the comments in the FLA though… there a few really important points.

Anyway… for those of you who dont know what sIFR is… check out the original post I made: Flash Titles Like This One

For those of you who want the plugin and source files…

Downloads:

• v0.1 Is available HERE
• v0.2 is now available. I reccomend you upgrade. Download HERE

Please comment if you like… post a link to where you are using it so I can check it out… and if you have any problems that you think may be a bug… post a comment about it.

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“Fleshh It” detects links coming in from Fleshh.com to your blog posts and displays links back to Fleshh so people can vote for you. If there is no link detected, the link will be “Submit to Fleshh” - Fleshh.com is NSFW!

Current Version is v0.5
Prettymuch the same as 0.4 but added a new option… Can now “Submit to Fleshh” if no existing fleshh post is detected.

Major changes were in v0.4

If you have an earlier version installed then download this one and read the whole readme before you install the new version… You should prolly uninstall the old completely and then install this one.

All problems are fixed and it works great! 

Downloads:

• Download it HERE
• v0.2 Actually Works! Download it HERE see the readme for what I fixed.
• v0.4 Sweet! Download it here! Read Readme before installing or upgrading.
• v0.5 Download it here! New Feature! Read Readme before installing or upgrading.

Usage details are now in the readme. They are important so check it out.

Read a little old info on this plugin… Ive removed most of it though and put it in the readme. Check out the comments for updates… please post bugs there if you find em.

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