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View of My Sites Traffic

Daniel — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:14:54 +0000

This is the view of this countries that visit this site. It’s cool to see all of the different people that find information useful to them on here.

Here are the top two most requested pages:
WokFi – Wifi Signal Strainer
Third Eye Blind – Jumper – Chords

Hooray for internet!

TikiWiki – Tracker Email Subject Improvement-Modification

Daniel — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:05:11 +0000

The template for the Tracker email is here:
\tikiwiki\templates\mail\tracker_changed_notification_subject.tpl

I changed it to this so that it would improve the way it looks in emails:
{$mail_trackerName}{tr} - #{/tr}{$mail_itemId}{tr} modified.{/tr}

WordTwitt is the best Wordpress Twitter App

Daniel — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:49:43 +0000

My friend Dallas Edwards showed me this application called WordTwitt. It’s basically the bomb explosive when it comes to tweeting your blog posts.

All the other plugins seem to suck in comparison to this open source, free, magical piece of code.

I suggest everyone with wordpress install the plugin immediately, or face unending torment.

Thanks,
Daniel

Rotating Circular Periodic Table – Javascript

Daniel — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:52:39 +0000

I just saw an article on this site about the merits of a circular periodic table by Mohd Abubakr Design

I thought it would be nice to have one that rotates. So I used the jQuery and jQuery-Rotate library on it to make it spin.

I hope this will be help someone and I hope to make additions to it in the future.
[[View Rotating Circular Periodic Table]]

DanFolkes FLVPlayer – Create your own FLVPlayer (like jw-flv-player) with no branding

Daniel — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:17:21 +0000

Using Flash CS4:

Open
File New
Import Video
Setup Video:
- Import -> Import Video – >
- Already Deployed… -> Put in some random text.
- Select the overlay you like.
- Finish
Name the instance of FLVPlayback in the “Properties” window.
Click on the white space in the background and go to the Actions frame.

Paste this code:

1	vid.load("/Videos/" + LoaderInfo(this.root.loaderInfo).parameters.one);

In your HTML do this:

	<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
        codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0"
        width="550"
        height="400"
        align="middle"
        id="main">
    <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
    <param name="movie" value="PlayVid.swf" />
    <param name="quality" value="high" />
    <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
    <param name="FlashVars" value="one=FLVVideoFileName.flv" />
    <embed src="PlayVid.swf"
           width="550"
           height="400"
           autostart="false"
           quality="high"
           bgcolor="#ffffff"
           FlashVars="one=FLVVideoFileName.flv"
           name="main"
           align="middle"
           allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"
           type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
           pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

Notice the FlashVars parameters (2 places). That is where we will be passing in the FLV name

Download the DanFolkesFLVPlayer and PlayVid.

Started to work on a Simple Photo Slideshow.

Daniel — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:45:25 +0000

It’s going to be a lot like:
http://www.evrium.com/store/fg2p_details.php
But much cheaper.

Hubble Image RSS Feed

Daniel — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:19:38 +0000

I have used Google Reader to mash two image rss feeds together for Hubble.

Here is the HTML page for it:
https://www.google.com/reader/shared/user%2F15478232717259537591%2Flabel%2FHubble

Here is the RSS Feed:
http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user%2F15478232717259537591%2Flabel%2FHubble

Based off of:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newscenter_rss.php
and
http://www.spacetelescope.org/rss/feed.xml

Enjoy space nerds.

IP Locator Webservice – PHP – Ipmap – Command Line

Daniel — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:32:04 +0000

This is similar to my Python script here:
http://danfolkes.com/index.php/2009/04/29/ipmapcom-python/

It uses this sites service to pull the location of each user:
http://www.ipmap.com/

It outputs in XML, Plain Text, and HTML.
Fields:

ip
hostname
ipreverse
country
region
city
blacklist
gmaps

HERE IS THE LINK TO THE WEB SERVICE SITE:
http://www.danfolkes.com/ipmaps/

IPMap Python Ip Address Locator Command Line Script

Daniel — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:08:25 +0000

This program uses this site IpMap to get peoples location based off of their IP address.

It’s written in python. Enjoy.

Download Source – GPLv3 Code. Give back.
Usage:
python ipmap.py 74.125.45.100 all
python ipmap.py 74.125.45.100
python ipmap.py (This will get you the help screen)

Args:
all = Prints all details
nomap = Gets All, no map
loc = Gets: Country, Region, City

import urllib2
import sys
 
i = 0
help = """
        Made by Daniel Folkes
==============================
        Usage:
                python ipmap.py 74.125.45.100 all
        Args:
                all =   Prints all details
                nomap = Gets All, no map
                loc =   Gets: Country, Region, City
"""
alen = len(sys.argv)
argz = sys.argv
 
if alen<=1 or alen>3:
        print help
        quit()
 
elif alen == 2:
        ip = argz[1]
        comm = "all"
elif alen == 3:
        ip = argz[1]
        comm = argz[2]; #ahrd
 
req = urllib2.Request("http://www.ipmap.com/"+ip)
response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
pg = response.read()
 
pg = pg[pg.find('):pg.find(')]
 
 
st = pg.find('

') st2 = pg.find(' ') ed = pg.find(') info0 = pg[st+4:st2] pg = pg[ed+4:] st = pg.find('

') st2 = pg.find(' ') ed = pg.find(') info1 = pg[st+4:st2] pg = pg[ed+4:] st = pg.find('

') st = pg.find('

') st2 = pg.find(' ') ed = pg.find(') info2 = pg[st+4:st2] pg = pg[ed+4:] st = pg.find('

') st2 = pg.find(' ') ed = pg.find(') info3 = pg[st+4:st2] pg = pg[ed+4:] st = pg.find('

') st2 = pg.find(' ') ed = pg.find(') info4 = pg[st+4:st2] pg = pg[ed+4:] st = pg.find('

') st2 = pg.find(' ') ed = pg.find(') info5 = pg[st+4:st2] pg = pg[ed+4:] st = pg.find('

') st2 = pg.find(' ') ed = pg.find(') info6 = pg[st+4:st2] pg = pg[ed+4:] st = pg.find(') st2 = pg.find('"/>') #ed = pg.find('') info7 = pg[st:st2+3] retval = "" sep = "," if comm == "nomap": retval += info0 retval += sep retval += info1 retval += sep retval += info1 retval += sep retval += info2 retval += sep retval += info3 retval += sep retval += info4 retval += sep retval += info5 retval += sep retval += info6 elif comm == "loc": retval += info3 retval += sep retval += info4 retval += sep retval += info5 else: retval += info0 retval += sep retval += info1 retval += sep retval += info2 retval += sep retval += info3 retval += sep retval += info4 retval += sep retval += info5 retval += sep retval += info6 retval += sep retval += info7 print retval

CWS – Chord Web Service

Daniel — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:56:20 +0000

I am creating a web service for musicians that will allow them to reference an abundance of musical references on the fly using AJAX.

Firstly, it will deliver chords and fingerings of chords for guitars to the users websites (think Google Maps).

My goal is to enhance the web.

Here is the site: http://cws.danfolkes.com

It’s still in development, but it’s getting close to launch.

Let me know what you think (only if it’s nice)

Python – Cell Phone Number Pad Input V2

Daniel — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:11:49 +0000

This is a rewrite of my original post. This rewrite was made by Rami Davis [ramidavis at y a h o o .c o m] XDA Dev Forums.

It would go perfect with this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/svofski/3383950702/in/pool-make

#!/usr/bin/python3
#using python3
 
import time
 
#Cellphone keyboard imitation
cell_keyboard = {
    "0" : (" "),
    "1" : ("!","@","#","$","%","^","&","*","(",")"),
    "2" : ("a","b","c","A","B","C"),
    "3" : ("d","e","f","D","E","F"),
    "4" : ("g","h","i","G","H","I"),
    "5" : ("j","k","l","J","K","K"),
    "6" : ("m","n","o","M","N","O"),
    "7" : ("p","q","r","s","P","Q","R","S"),
    "8" : ("t","u","v","T","U","V"),
    "9" : ("w","x","y","z","W","X","Y","Z"),
    "#" : (" "), #add something here
    "*" : (" ") 
}
 
THRESHOLD = 1.0         # Constant: Seconds before resetting the keyboard
user_input = ""         # Current user input
last_key = ["", 0]         # Last key and repetitions.
 
print("Valid characters: 0-9 # * and q to quit")
 
while not user_input == "q":
    try:
        #Measure the time it takes to respond.
        response_time = time.time()
        user_input = input(">>")[0]
        response_time = time.time() - response_time
    except IndexError:
        user_input = ""
 
    #Check if it's valid
    if user_input in cell_keyboard:
 
        #If it matches the last key
        if user_input == last_key[0]:
 
            # And it was within threshold
            if response_time < THRESHOLD:
                last_key[1] += 1
            else:
                last_key[1] = 0
        else:
            # Assign the new key and 0 repetitions
            last_key[0] = user_input
            last_key[1] = 0
 
        #Now request the element on the keyboard.
        try:
            print(cell_keyboard[last_key[0]][last_key[1]])
        except IndexError:
            last_key[1] = 0
            print(cell_keyboard[last_key[0]][last_key[1]])
 
    else:
        print("Not a valid key.")

Thanks Rami!

HOWTO: Setup an Aggregated RSS feed for your Friends using Google Reader

Daniel — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:26:58 +0000

HOWTO: Setup an Aggregated RSS feed for your Friends using Google Reader

Lets say you have three friends, and you don’t really want to check all of there twitter, blogs, rss feeds all day long.

RSS Feeds:
http://danfolkes.com/index.php/feed/
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/17508497.rss
http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot

What you do is open Google Reader (Part of a Google account.)
Add all of the feeds to it by selecting “Add a Subscription”

Go into the “Manage Subscriptions” page (link in lower left)
Now, click “Add to Folder” and Create New Folder for the item

Now add the rest of the feeds to that folder in the same fashion.
Now to refresh, Click “« Back to Google Reader” then “Manage Subscriptions”
Goto the “Folders and Tags” Tab (near Manage Subscriptions)
Select your new folder, and select Public from the “Change Sharing…” drop down list.

You should now have “View Public Page” button.
That page contains a nice looking aggregate HTML view and a rss feed related to the page that you can add to any feed reader.
Here are my links: HTML and RSS

I hope this helps someone! Leave comments if it did.

Started Using Git SCM For my Darkness is Spreading

Daniel — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:35:17 +0000

So, I setup my own Git repo tonight. This is the exact order of my evening:

First,
I watched Linus Torvald rip all the other SCM’s a new one here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

Then I watched,
Emerging Tech Talk #24 – Learning Git, Part 1 – Introduction to Version
Emerging Tech Talk #25 – Learning Git, Part Two – Getting started with
24: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLLkJ2rngk0
25: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDJOb2wGLjY&NR=1

Then, I went to http://github.com/ and setup my own public git repository.
(you can make it private, if you pay. but who would want to do that? viva la open source!)

Then I setup a clone of my Darkness is Spreading Game (dis-game):
Public Clone URL: git://github.com/danfolkes/dis-game.git
Github Home Page: http://github.com/danfolkes/dis-game/tree/master

I want to thank github for making things so awesome and easy to setup. They seem to really know a lot about helping n00bs.

Taken from their homepage:

Not only is Git the new hotness, it’s a fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for the collaborative development of software.

GitHub is the easiest (and prettiest) way to participate in that collaboration: fork projects, send pull requests, monitor development, all with ease.

The Best iPhone Gin Rummy Card Game

Daniel — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:52:37 +0000

gin rummy iphone ipod touch game itunes apple

I have found this great new Gin Rummy App on the Apple ITunes Store for the iPhone or iPod Touch.

It has really good graphics and has some really good game functions. In the next few versions, it might even have multiplayer.

Link to the App on ITMS:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=304497413&mt=8

Made by: http://neuroticnerd.com/blog/

AspDotNetStorefront – Changing Max File Upload Size

Daniel — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:40:21 +0000

In Asp.Net StoreFront – You can change it by editing the file here:

/RadControls/Editor/ConfigFile.xml
Properties:
MaxImageSize
MaxFlashSize
MaxMediaSize
MaxDocumentSize
MaxTemplateSize

Who wants 2K images anyway!

Set them to a higher or lower value depending on what you need to happen.

Hamachi Install for Starcraft

Daniel — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:40:45 +0000

Download Hamachi by clicking this link:
hamachisetup-1015-en

This is an old version of Hamachi, it’s important to use the old version.

Click NEXT until the “Basic vs Premium” Screen – Choose “Use Hamachi Basic”

Keep Installing.

–

Open Hamachi
Click the “Power” in the lower left corner.
Create a username that is unique.

Click the Triangle Looking button in the near right corner.
=Select “Join Network”

Join network: ASKME
and use the password I tell you.

Clickonce – Unable to Sign Application

Daniel — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:56:15 +0000

I get this error when I try and publish the Click-Once project in .Net:

Cannot publish because a project failed to build.
SignTool reported an error ‘Failed to sign bin\Debug

Here is the Fix:

Go to the properties of the project.
Go to “Signing”
“Create Test Certificate”
Dont bother with a password
Save
Re-Publish

-Do this to all the projects in the solution.

This should fix the error and get you ClickOnce Publishing again.

Darkness is Spreading – Backstory – Game – How to Play

Daniel — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:36:36 +0000

BACK STORY

In the year 2920, the Golden Age of Psionics is unlocking worlds of
possibilities for humankind. The psionically gifted are recruited at
a young age to participate in the Planetary Defense Force’s psi-ops
program, where their talents are honed through
cybernetically-interactive mind games. These games can reprogram the
trainees’ subconscious minds for optimal psionic output, all in
parallel with the conscious effort toward solving the puzzle.

DARKNESS IS SPREADING

The popular puzzle game coined “Darkness Is Spreading” is a
user-friendly version of a standard P.D.F. training exercise. It has
been repackaged into a geometric format which can be understood by
normal humans, but it also contains metasensory ’shortcuts’,
accessible through the game’s cybernetic interface, which only the
psionically gifted will be able to detect.

The P.D.F. has now made this unique game available to the public, in
an effort to more effectively scout out talented individuals. The
game can in fact be solved consistently in less than twice as many
moves as there are colors on the grid, no matter what the grid’s size.
Those who are capable of this feat are solicited for recruitment into
the P.D.F., where they will use the quantum-formatted version of the
game in the training of their psi abilities.

HOW TO PLAY

The goal of the game is to cover the grid with black tiles. The
player starts with several black tiles scattered throughout the
initial grid. Clicking a colored tile adjacent to a black tile will
eliminate it, along with any other tiles of the same color which are
connected to it. In fact, any tile connected to the black area by the
same color will be eliminated, causing the black to spread in multiple
directions.

As players carve a path through the grid, the black areas will grow,
and more colored tiles may be removed at a time. Aiming for long
chains of a single color can open up the grid at a faster pace. If
you have the ‘gift’ — along with the necessary brain implants to plug
in to the cybernetic interface, of course — you will notice even more
ways to cut your move count down… but even if you cannot compete
with the psionically adept, you can still try to beat your personal
best scores with repeated play. No two games are the same!

Prepare yourself for a challenge which may unlock talents you never
dreamed you had. Prepare to spread the Darkness.

~ by Grant Rose

CoreLaborate – Document Elaboration on the Core Formats

Daniel — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:34:40 +0000

Document Elaboration on the Core Formats

A site I created so that collaborating on Photoshop, Illustrator, GIMP, SVG files would be easier. All of those binary formats that are complicated to share and elaborate on.

I hope this is helpful to many people. Especially in the Open Source world.

Supports: PSD,AI,PDF,XCF,SVG.

Thanks,
Daniel Folkes

DiS – Darkness is Spreading Version 08.1218

Daniel — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:58:06 +0000

A new version of DiS – Darkness is Spreading Version is out. Version 08.1218

I have added a whole host of features. I wish I had a list, but I don’t!

Here’s a picture:

DiS - Darkness is Spreading Version 08.1218

Here is the page on sourceforge:
http://dis-game.sourceforge.net/

Here is the Play page on sourceforge:
http://dis-game.sourceforge.net/play.php