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Third attempt at switching to the magic mouse

Posted on Monday, August 23rd, 2010 at 4:29 pm View Comments

I’ve had my Magic Mouse for some time now. I got it as a gift for Christmas, and so far, it’s been kind of a love hate relationship. I love the idea of it of the mouse, its basically one giant multitouch device, and coupled with MagicPrefs

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Some Everquest 2 pointer locations and offsets (updated)

Posted on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 at 6:11 am View Comments

Updated for the June 21st client.

As stated in my previous post, I’ve begun work on an Everquest 2 bot. This requires access to many values that we need to know where and how to access in memory. I would like to share what I have so far.

All…

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The beginnings of an Everquest 2 bot

Posted on Sunday, June 20th, 2010 at 11:26 pm View Comments

I’ve noticed that there are no good free bots that really exist for Everquest 2, so I decided to make my own. Being inspired by the Angelbot and AionMemory projects for Aion, I wanted to create something similar but for Everquest…

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First it was the Farmville spam, now it’s the “like” spam.

Posted on Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 at 1:33 am View Comments

Facebook announced many new features to their API which would open up many new doors and methods of interacting with the social network. Though all the new stuff hasn’t gone without criticism, especially about privacy, but I think there is something that has been overlooked. There is a new kind…

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Transcode to MPEG2 TS with ffmpeg

Posted on Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 at 11:58 pm View Comments

The IPTV industry has standardized on either mpeg2 or h264 transport streams, and I often need multiple videos to test with, demo, etc. Since the internet seems to have standardized on either xvid or mkv containers using mpeg4 or h264, I need to make my own videos.

This can be…

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Dead simple web server in Ruby using Mongrel

Posted on Friday, May 7th, 2010 at 9:09 pm View Comments

There are often instances where I need to serve some static files to another host on a network. Rather than installing a full blown web server, which would be rather clunky and just plain overkill. Thanks to the very popular Mongrel plugin, we can make a web server in…

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It was time for a change

Posted on Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 at 5:12 pm View Comments

My site has gone through a major overhaul in regards to the look and feel of it. I went from a hacked up version of a free wordpress theme, to something a little nicer. So far I am pretty happy with the results. I have…

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Historly – Centralized history tracking

Posted on Friday, April 9th, 2010 at 10:00 am View Comments

I use more than one computer on a regular basis, and being the habitual social news site reader I am, I’m reading either reddit, digg, or hacker news on whatever computer I may be on. Views the same sites on multiple computer brings up the problem of click on…

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Speeding up the Friend Dashboard

Posted on Sunday, March 28th, 2010 at 2:53 am View Comments

The Facebook API is slow, horribly slow. Requests from Facebook can take anywhere from 500ms to 30 seconds. This could really be noticed when hovering over your friend’s names on Friend Dashboard. Hovering over the person’s name…

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Facebook iframe ajax with IE

Posted on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 at 4:29 pm View Comments

During my journey in creating Friend Dashboard, this was a major problem I ran into, and it seems to be a pretty common one. Internet Explorer seems to have issues with ajax requests in an iframe Facebook application. The problem I was seeing was that there seemed…

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