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Resize and Crop to a specific width x height with a crop suggestion point.
I really don’t have a shorter description for this. I was working on a personal project the other day and realized that this might be a nifty function. Basically, you know all those snippets to make cropped thumbnails (squares and the like), and how most of them either center or crop to the top of [...]
Rythmbox Sync to USB Device
I have a sizable collection of music, so sizable in fact that I can’t store the full collection on any portal media. Since I only use Windows to play video games, I use Rhythmbox to manage my music and found myself in need of a way to sync to a USB thumbdrive. Now, the issue [...]
Bad sectors on your hard drive? Don’t throw it out yet.
This week I was working on a computer that was having problems with it’s hard drive. I could get it to start once, and then it would fail to start up again. As you can imagine, the drive had some bad sectors, but the people I was fixing this for could not afford another $60 [...]
Greasemonkey vs. Website
I made a pretty normal trip to jlist (an online shop selling all manner of things Japanese) and for some reason thought: I bet I could change this store layout with Greasemonkey! With a couple of hours of fiddling, I had managed to create a script that took their HTML and mangled it to my [...]
SVG to online coloring-sheet SWF
You can do quite a bit of unorthodox stuff with PHP. If you head over to epbsoft.com, you’ll find several flash coloring sheets I made with PHP, not Flash. (Sort of anyway.) I make them by first creating specially formatted SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) files and feeding them to a PHP script that writes ActionScript [...]
MongoDB looks Interesting
I might take a look at installing MongoDB on my server. I like the idea of a document-driven, NoSQL database, especially after working with relational SQL databases for years, and MongoDB looks interesting. You can read more about it in Developing scalable PHP Applications using Mongo DB. What caught my interest is how flexible using [...]
Mounting a VHD in Linux
Let’s say you have a VHD file you’d like to access while in Linux without attaching it to a Virtual Machine. There are many reasons you might like to do this, but it’s not immediately obvious how to do so with Linux. There are two ways I know of: You can use vmware-mount provided by [...]
Deepest Sender
Typing this from Deepest Sender (while listening to a remixes of Septette for the Dead Princess) It’s kinda nice and exactly what I was looking for – An extension for Firefox that allows you to post directly to your blog. (Of course you need XML RPC turned on to do so.) I note that it [...]
Installing Danbooru
I noticed a couple of searches for ‘running danbooru’ in my search phrases for this site, so I decided to post a little bit more about that. I assume someone searching for this was actually searching for help with installing danbooru. Admittedly, I had some difficulty with it. For one thing, I’d never used psql [...]