From Orisinal: Morning Sunshine: wget http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/carrot.swf emerge -av swftools swfextract -s 31 carrot.swf -o carrot.mp3 mplayer -loop 0 carrot.mp3 Or replace with any other Orisinal song :) Note: -s 31 depends on the sound index number, which may be different – do swfextract foo.swf to check.
Blog posting has been slow lately. This is mostly due to real life and connectivity issues, but despite this I have had some time to dabble in the various public projects I juggle. The pace is not rapid enough to be able to keep up a alternate-day post like I used to, but is suitable [...]
No doubt anybody with a domain name online has heard of the infamous GoDaddy. Whilst I’ve been dutifully spending time away from the computer this holiday, I’ve kept a close eye on the SOPA act as well as registrars’ reactions towards it. GoDaddy already has horrible customer service, horrible products, horrible interface, horrible advertising … [...]
A while back I sold Failnation.com to the Cheezburger Inc Network of sites. I recently checked it and found it had been rerouted to a subsection of FAILBlog – currently housing “classic” fails. An appropriate new function, I think. The humour isn’t quite my cup of tea, but this is the Internet, after all.
As you might’ve guessed from the title of this post, I am now in Shanghai and I have been for almost a month now. Apart from socialising with relatives, most of my time is spent on my job, with the free time I have soaked up by learning how to speak Mandarin. This has effectively [...]
This post is mostly just a reminder to myself, but it may be useful to others. I was recently asked to convert a .ppt, or Powerpoint slideshow document, into a three slides per page, horizontally centered, one on top of another, with frames around each slide. Powerpoint itself offers several printing options, including a 2n [...]
I haven’t done a tech tip in a while, but here’s a nice, simple one which I am finding very useful. Pastebins are a really useful way to share snippets of text. However it’s sometimes a bit cumbersome to have to open a browser window, type in the URL, paste it in, click submit, then [...]
For the impatient, here is a link to the new page, and for those who missed the last post, here is a link to the GetKDE.org homepage. Finally, here is a screenshot of the newly added Explore page: The homepage of GetKDE is essentially a hub with a teaser. The site structure itself is split [...]
WIPUP.org is an open-source web application built for one reason: to show the world what you’re working on. If you’re impatient, click here to check out the fresh WIPUP.org. I’m very happy to announce version 11.11.11 being released today. It’s the first non-alpha/beta release, which means that I’m confident that it does what it’s meant [...]
It’s been a while since I last posted about KDE.org, aka the KDE-www war series. It talked about the current KDE.org design, and how to improve it. The series started with target audiences and conversion goals, picked apart and restructured the sitemap, revealed an initial design proposal with clear-cut priorities, and finally analysed the effectiveness [...]
I was quite amused when my parents asked me how do you get all this stuff done? I was even more amused (and actually initially disregarded it as a joke) when they asked me to write a short document explaining my methods. Apparently there’s secret to how I juggle my activities, and people want to hear [...]
A cute story which happened a short while back truly begins a couple years ago when I bought the domain failnation.com. The objective was to use it to host mini-tutorials on correct grammar and netiquette in IRC chatrooms. Whenever somebody was unfamiliar with the social protocol (no pun intended- well no, I kid- pun definitely intended), [...]
Today I wanted to talk a bit about the birth and objectives of WIPUP – a subject I haven’t really revealed before. WIPUP, for those who aren’t already familiar with it – is an open-source web application I created which allows people to document, share, track, and critique their works-in-progresses, or in short, WIPs. The [...]
During the past few months, I have been doing my fair share of web development work. Although I cannot share most of my projects, I did recently build a system for a friend at the London School of Economics to help students exchange textbooks and other scholastic items for dirt cheap (see: free). It’s wittingly [...]
Today I was reminded about the lack of activity on my blog and on WIPUP, so tonight amidst my other projects I have sat down and I’m here writing. The last post was back near the end of my first semester, first year in architecture at the University of Sydney. Since then I’ve spent a [...]
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