Category Archives: Technology

Twitter For Your Blog

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A very common theme out there at the moment.  Getting Twitter to look correctly on your blog.  It would seem to me, that a web/time based application, should be relatively easy to port over to any blog to show updates directly there.  I’ve been spinning my wheels over this for awhile now.  Well, I am happy to welcome my own retardation now.  It is very, very simple.  So simple, Midnight can do it!  Ok, not really.  Haha, but darn it I sure had ya on that one.  At this point, most people have now left my website thinking, ‘damn that fucker for posting something to his blog to get indexed.’  Deal with it.  I’m passing information on here, I can do so however I please.

Right then.

*coughs and clears throat*

Step 1:   Open your browser.

Step 2:   Head on over to http://twitter.com/badges

Step 3:   Follow the on screen instructions, of your blog is supported, you are Golden!

Ok, now if your blog isn’t supported.  Not to worry.  It gets easier.  They give you a simple output based on a range, 3 tweets, 5 tweets, however many updates you want to show.  Then you take that code and slap it into your site.  easy right?  Well, sort of.  I wanted to make something with my Twitter data that didn’t comprise of a widget that looked like it came from Web –2.0.  Yes, that is a negative there.  Don’t ask, it was a very messy intarweb at the time.  Also, if I could, I wanted to find someone how to tell me to do so, in WordPress.  An unsupported format by Twitter.

*shakes fist @twitter*

Right, so the hunt began.  And, of course like always, I found something online that was a pretty decent tutorial on how to do just that!  Go figure?  So, in not reinventing the wheel, installing some stupid plugin or something else that may require blood, glass, urine and toenail clippings.  Finally, I was able to get my frakin tweets onto my blog!  Well shit me running!  Shat me running? That doesn’t really work.

It does still need some work, as the right border cuts off – simple image edit, but other then that, it looks fucking GREAT!

Oh right, ‘just give me the link already’.’  Fine, fine.

http://blog.pinkandyellow.com/css/create-a-twitter-box-in-your-sidebar-20081106/

Fuckin people, I swear <insert ellipsis here>.  He does include other ways to add Twitter to WordPress and actually overall appears to be onto the idea of how to help others in ‘blinging’ their site up.  Fuck, if I ever get a local pingback from me saying bling on here, outside of those two time, please shoot me?

Ok, time to tend to my tumors and lesions.

Peace

Flock 2.0

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wtfomgFlock

Ok, so, I might have been gravely mistaken about this browser when I initially checked this out.  But like a good dog, I went back to check it out again. I think I just shat myself….

One sec.  BRB.

Oops, wrong IM.

Shit, how did that end up on this blog if.  Nevermind. 

So, in my search for a cross-platform client I ran into this browser again.  Since this whole Web 4.0 push, er 3.0 was it?

Fuck I forget.

Since, the new intarweb I’ve been wanting to find something I can easily access just about everything.  My current config has allowed me to use Digsby and Chrome/Firefox to pretty much do anything I wanted, then use Windows Live Writer to post anything I want to the intarweb.  Pretty simple right?

Wrong fluxers!  Gravely mistaken.  Well, ok, not entirely.  I’m still really liking Windows Live Writer, but Flock does offer me a halfway decent client to connect and post to the site as well as manage pretty much everything else all from a single portal that is local.  It appears to be based on Mozilla backend, so, it can’t be all bad.

Something worth mentioning and worth checking out.  Enjoy.

Flux out.

Flock 2.0 Adobe Flash Plugin on Ubuntu

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I ran into an issue getting Flash working with Flock browser.  Being a tinkerer, I found out that you can just copy the link for flash from /usr/lib/firefox/plugins and paste it into the plugins folder of Flock(/home/user/Documents/flock/plugins in my case).

So, hopefully this helps in the adoption of using Flock/Flash.  Quite a quick fix as well.

Peace.

Update:

Since a lot of traffic seems to come looking for flash fixes for ubuntu, I figure I should expand on this entry some.  The file you are looking for is typically called libflashplayer.so and it isn’t always in the above location.  It can also be found in /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/ as well.

Another option you have, if you used apt-get to install the adobe-flashplugin package, you will find this same libflashplayer.so file in /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin and can copy this file over to flock/plugins/ directory as well.

 Further questions/help feel free to reply here or email me, oz@inverseflux.com.

Peace

Thank You WordPress!

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I figured I should take a moment to thank the people who wrote this software, it gets more and more diverse as I delve into it.  Talk about taking the idea of a personal blog to the next level!

With that accomplished, maybe I’ll actually continue to use this thing?

Guess we shall see!  Stay tuned!

Fucking intarweb…lol

Zune 3.0

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Ok, now, I’ve been a supporter of the Microsoft Zune device since the introduction of the 30GB device, but I was not an early adopter and picked up my device as a pre-order when the 80GB released.  I did encourage a friend of mine to look into a Zune if they were considering getting a portable media player.  Needless to say, they’ve been happy.  Though, 2.0 confused them.  That being said, in the 2.0 era of the device’s required software, initially made me way to tear my eyes out.  Bugs, bloated feature less crap.  I looked up Zune hacks and thought about converting the device to be a portable hard drive.  Ok, so it wasn’t that bad, but it was not that great either.  I mean really, I could see where it was trying to go and supported it, but it wasn’t all that I wanted.  At least I didn’t feel like I was subscribing to the iPod generation style and mentality with regards to thought and ‘upgrade’ now philosophy, but it still was not all it could be and I wasn’t sure it would considering how Microsoft can be in regards to software.  ‘Our way or the highway’ seems to be the usual, but after delving a little more into Zune and what its all about, I was very wrong.  Very very wrong.

With the launch of 3.0, almost everything that pissed me off about 2.0 was gone, and features were overloaded.  I could describe it to be similar to my first orgasm, but, honestly it wasn’t that great.  Don’t get me wrong, I still needed a towel, but not quite orgasmic.  Everything from correcting existing ID3 data via an easy search function to what is called ‘mixview’ where I can look up new music and other related content.  It also allows me to find other people into the same shit.  Pretty sick.  They manage to pack quite the Zune software’s features into something half the size of iTunes, which I’ve always fucking despised even within Mac OS X.  Bloated proprietary bullshit, Thanks Apple, you suck.  I suppose the same complaint can apply to Microsoft with Zune software, but they manage to do more with half the size.  Motion of the ocean?  Sure why not.

There is literally, one thing… ONE THING, left that is driving me absolutely fucking nuts about this device that the fucking iPod can do.  The Zune, for whatever reason, still does not allow you to play music off the device without syncing the music locally to the drive.  Epic fucking fail.  I can’t imagine its a hardware limitation, since it all appears to be USB 2.0 hardware.  I could be way off my rocker, since I’ve not broken the thing open to examine it, but for all intensive purposes its so close to a fucking deal breaker.  The idea is that I can sync my music to the device, and leave it there.  No need for a copy on my drive.  I’ve not collected an insane library of music over time or anything, I delete when I stop listening.  No need to keep shit I don’t listen to anymore.  I’ve sent an email over to the address advertised in the Zune Insider Podcast, and have not heard anything.  They are slammed, not even close to complaining about not hearing anything yet.  Just, waiting…lol

Please God, let me be allowed to play music from my Zune on a PC.  Please.

Uh oh, I said God again, time to go do something hedonistic.  Right, man, being a nerd can suck sometimes.