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!
May 14th, 2006 by Jake
I’ve constantly used my old LinkGen script on shift-one.net for flash videos and other miscellany things that browsers only let you view and not save. The problem is, though, that I required myself to login before accessing that script, which is a pain in the ass.
So, I decided to rewrite it. It was originally going to be AJAX, but I decided that it was too simple for AJAX, so I just did it in JavaScript. It turned out much better than I thought, really, and I learned quite a bit about JavaScript (that I’ll definately be using on sites I develop in the future). It dynamically creates the link, there’s no button to generate it, it’s done on-the-fly, and it even warns you if your link doesn’t start with http:// or ftp://. I was leaning more towards Web 2.0 when I wrote this (no page reloads, everything’s done dynamically).
The main use I’ve gotten from this is downloading flash videos from websites like eBaum’s World and GPrine.net. To do this, simply visit a page with a flash video on it, view the page source, find the embed src tag and grab the URL to the video (Flash videos usually end in .swf), visit the LinkGen site (link below), right-click, and hit Save Target As. If you want to watch it, open the .swf in your favorite web browser. Voila! Your favorite flash videos and games at your disposal with no load times.
You can find my nicely redone dynamic LinkGen script here: http://lg.spikex.net/ (LinkGen.SpikeX.net)
April 10th, 2006 by Jake
Add lightsaber effects to your home movies with this handwritten tutorial that explains in-depth and step-by-step how to do it with the latest Adobe software.
