Archive for February, 2008
‘Make3D’ does what Fotowoosh promised a year ago
Via Techcrunch, Make3D is an awesome service that can create 3D images from standard 2D photos. Still very much in beta mode, and currently hosted on Stanford University’s servers, the service does what a Flash file on Fotowoosh has been tantalising beta testers with for a year.
It works best on pictures of landscapes, and with [...]
Wordpress Auto-Installer
I’ve written a Wordpress auto-installer that takes all of the labour out of setting up a new Wordpress v2.3.3 installation if you’re running cPanel 10 on a Linux server. All you have to do is:
Install the required Perl modules (see below)
Place the folder ‘wordpress’ in the same folder as the script
Run the script via the [...]
Stop Javascript from disabling window resizing
One of the all time most irritating Javascript functions has to be the ‘resizable = 0‘ property that’s used within the ‘window.open()‘ function. This often results in content that doesn’t quite fit the windows that pop up - grrr.
Anyway, Firefox has an option that disables some window resizing, but not most of it - this [...]
Optimise your coffee consumption
Via Lifehacker, the ‘Developing Intelligence’ blog offers some tips on how to optimise your coffee consumption throughout the day.
Topics include the “speed-accuracy tradeoff” that caffeine offers over your memory; it increases the accuracy of your memory recall, but at a slower speed than pre-caffeine consumption…
Fetching all ‘From’ email addresses from an IMAP email account
If you want to back-up certain elements of your email account, this is not always very easy to do. For example you may not use your address book much (or never), but want to keep a backup of all of the email addresses that have sent messages to you.
Thanks to Mail::IMAPClient, this is pretty easy [...]
Microsoft Celebrity Search is cool
Never been a huge fan of Microsoft’s search services, but I have to say that a new beta product they’ve rolled out is totally awesome.
It’s called ‘xRank’ (which sounds like some kind of porn search engine), and it ranks celebrities according to their current ‘level of fame’, based on the number of searches for their [...]
Scraping through Tor
If, for whatever reason, you want to scrape a website through a proxy, this is pretty easy in Perl, using WWW::Mechanize and Vidalia / Tor:
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