August 30th, 2006 by Jake
Ever wish you could persuade family and friends to stop using IE6? Ever wanted to give them a gentle but firm nudge in the right direction? Well now you can.
A web developer posted an exploit on his blog which immediately crashes the IE6 (or 5.5, or 5.0, etc.) engine to the ground. And by crash, I mean Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Sound familiar? It’s the dreaded “Guess what? Your app crashed! Now you get to start all over again!” message Windows displays.
The exploit comes when trying to list all properties in JavaScript of document.write. FireFox renders the code perfectly, and IE7 ignores the error (nothing is displayed, but it doesn’t crash), but IE6 and below crash. So, just add this one line of code to any web page, and when their browser crashes, sound confused and helpful… “Oh, that’s strange, the website works fine for me. why don’t you try a different browser, a better browser.” Catch my drift?
Here’s the code… 61 bytes of IE-crashing goodness.
<script>for (x in document.write) { document.write(x);}</script>
August 9th, 2006 by Jake
I coded a quickurl system last night. It’s not much, but I figured it would be useful since my domain is fairly short. Try it out! Add your URL here, and get the low numbers while you still can!
August 2nd, 2006 by Jake
That’s actually not an easy question when you think about it. There are limitless opportunities. If I had to choose, though, I’d probably pay to have a personal chef cook me whatever I wanted whenever I wanted it. That would be really nice to have, especially late at night when it’s harder to cook things yourself. I’d probably also pay someone to do my homework for me, but that isn’t very ethical, now is it, because then I wouldn’t learn anything. The last thing I’d pay to have someone do for me is perform, specifically a comedian of my choice. I don’t know who I’d choose, but I’d love to pay to have them perform for me and a select group of people, that would be very fun.
I Get Paid For Blogging. What would YOU pay someone to do? Leave a comment!
August 2nd, 2006 by Jake
I stumbled across this little app while looking for itunes Plugins (which I later found out only works with Mac…stupid Apple…). It goes through your entire iTunes Library (or a playlist), searches either Amazon or Google and finds album art for each song. It’s supposed to be $10 shareware, but I haven’t found any restrictions yet. It utilizes track name, album name, and title. There’s even an automatic mode, so you can just let it run (it makes sure the song is in the album before assigning the art to it). I manually went through a playlist I have, and it seemed like it would have about 90% accuracy if I had let it run on its own (Certain art I changed because of preference, i.e. from a “Greatest Hits” album to the original). I’m going to let it loose on my library tonight and see what it comes up with (After it’s done it shows you % success), I’ll edit this post and let you know the outcome.
Download iArt Now! (And pay the guy $10 if you like his app!)
Edit: So there is a limit. I think you can do about 50 album arts before it stops working, which is reasonable. So I forked out the money and let it run last night, and my lirary was full of art this morning. It wasn’t always successful, and if I didn’t have an album there it would choose one for me and add the art (and fix the tags). I might delete all my album data and let it run again, just so that it can do everything all at once and have all the right data from Amazon. It is a really nice tool, especially if you do it manually.
