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Rediscovered hypem.com

I recently rediscovered hypem.com and it’s been great. If you want to know how to download all the awesome music from hypem you can do so pretty easily with firebug.

Steps to download from hypem.com for free:

1. Always use Firefox.
2. Install Firebug
3. Go to hypem.com, and enable firebug by clicking on the roach in the corner
4. Enable net logging (click on the “Net tab”, it should tell you how to do it if you can’t figure it out)
5. Play a song on hypem.com
6. Find the url that ends in .mp3 near the bottom (it should be the one that takes a long time to download)
7. Right click on the url and copy the link.
8. Download with whatever system you prefer, I’ve been using “curl”, you can use wget or maybe even downthemall!
9. If you’re using windows, learn to use a real OS.

Tags: download, free, hypem, music

Alt+click window movement in Mac OS X Leopard [Update: X11 Crashes]

Hello all, I have managed to get option-click window (use the apple key, see below) dragging working in Mac OS X Leopard using an APE extension called windowdragon! W00t! The key is that you need to compile from source with xcode using the APE SDK.

I was pointed to a great project in a thread here on apple discussions:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1934542

Here are the steps to get this functionality:
1) Install XCode (you can download this from apple)
2) Install APE SDK & APE:
http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/ape/sdk
http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/ape
3) Open a terminal and cd to an appropriate directory, then, download the latest SVN checkout of dragonwindow from SF:

svn co https://windowdragon.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/windowdragon windowdragon

(you need to have svn installed)
4) Open “trunk/WindowDragon.xcodeproj” in XCode and expand “Targets”. Next, right click on APE module and select ‘Build “APE Module”‘ this will create a directory called WindowDragon.ape in another dir called “build”.
5) Open System Preferences>Application Enhancer
6) Add in the APE preference pane, set the key combination, and restart your machine.

Caveat: If you use the primary mouse button and “option” (aka alt), due to Mac OSX having a key combination to hide the previous open window when you option click a new one, this will hide your previous window. I suggest using the apple key.

DragonWindow is made by a fellow with the name of Tim Conkling, thanks Tim!

Update: WindowDragon will make X11 crash. Even if you add X11.app to the exclude list, you still need to disable the WindowDragon APE extension in order to make X11 _not_ crash.

Some UK pictures up!

Click to see here:

UK Photo Set

Latest News From Beyond The Looking glass!

Hello all, I’m currently in London, enjoying the Queen’s weather and gardens. I visited Buckingham the other day and saw a wonderful amount of statues of famous dead people and lions and unicorns and dragons (oh my!).

I’m starting to get the hang of the UK, it’s almost exactly the same as North America, except there are a lot of people and it’s fairly crowded. It’s sort of like stepping through the looking glass, where people speak a little bit differently, they act a little bit differently, they drive on the opposite side of the road and even the crows are just a little bit different. I guess they call them rooks here? They seem super intelligent. Been taking lots of pictures with my new Camera (Nikon D60) so I’ll be sure to show everyone when I get back.

Jaunty is out!

W00t!

Get  Ubuntu 9.04 here:

http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969/

I’m torrenting now as we speak

Ideas for i18n in linux

Well, I’ve read through planet gnome that there is still a long ways to go for i18n (internationalisation) and it got me thinking on how the process could be made better.  I don’t know how it works currently, but as far as I can tell you have a team of translators and users, and they interact with a set script on a website somewhere.

Why not cut out the middle man, i.e. the website? Why not just have the users use the system, then when something doesn’t look right, click on an icon to suggest a better translation. This could be sort of like a “debug” mode for translations on the desktop.  There is a large user base that doesn’t contribute because they simply don’t have the time to contribute, however, if we make it easier for them (click on an icon in the taskbar > click on the phrase > suggest a new translation…) the i18n efforts would become a lot easier.