A Smartass Education

Firefox 3, Not a beta anymore

2008-07-25T17:06:43Z

Woot, Firefox 3 is out, and not just a shitty beta anymore.

Seems to work quite well and most of the extensions I use still work. Well, the ones that didn’t I “forced” to work with “Mr. Tech’s Local Install” which has a “make compatible” option that removes the version number of the extension and makes everything work.

Well, I will be making a “Pimp Your Firefox” article on here sometime and will go over all the best extensions, but for now just download FF3 and Ad-Block.

Good Times,

How To > Install Shit on Your iPhone

2008-07-20T19:12:38Z

You know I like my tutorials to be short… embarrassingly short in fact. Well this one will take the cake.

To install shit on your iPhone the easy way install newest firmware 1.1.1 at the time of this writing and then go to: http://jailbreakme.com phone.

THAT’S IT. Ok technically you have to click a link at the bottom of the page when you get there, but that’s IT!!!~!!!

Doing this will install an application called Installer on your phone, which will let you install a TON of other applications. I recommend “Sketches” and “Labyrinth” highly.

Explains > British English to Americans

2008-02-11T12:13:11Z

So I was work and had reason to reference some British words… I thought it would be worth posting them to the site because I enjoyed it.

ACCOMMODATION in the sense of lodging is singular in English
and plural in American English

ADMIRALTY in Britain is the Navy Department in the U.S.

AGRICULTURAL SHOW is a State or County Fair.

AIRY-FAIRY means superficial in a disparaging sense and
is roughly "fanciful"

ALLOTMENT is a small rented area for growing vegetables
or flowers away from you home.

ANORAK is an Eskimo word for a windbreaker or parka.

ANTI-CLOCKWISE is counter clockwise.

ARTICULATED LORRY is a trailer truck.

ASSISTANT - short for shop assistant - would be a salesclerk.

AU PAIR is a foreign girl who lives as one of the family in return for helping with the children. Enables "foreign" girls to learn English in a family environment.

AUBERGINE is an EGGPLANT

BACKBENCHERS is a Member of the House of Commons who is
not the Minister.

BAD PATCH means a rough time

BAGS OF is slang and means piles of - usually referring
to money.

BALACLAVA is a woolen helmet named after the site of a
battle in the Crimean War

BANGER is slang for a sausage

BANK HOLIDAY is a LEGAL HOLIDAY in the U.S. Apart
from Xmas they are all different in Britain

BARGE POLE is a colloquialism for a ten-foot-pole

BARRACK is to demonstrate noisily in public e.g. as in
‘boo’

BARRISTER is a TRIAL LAWYER

BASH is to hit as in ‘bang’

BATH in Britain becomes BATHTUB in the US

BATH OLIVER is a dry biscuit eaten with cheese

BBC the British Broadcasting Corporation

BEARSKIN is a high, black fur hat worn by Guardsmen

BELT UP is slang for shut up

BILL is what one asks the waiter for and in the US becomes
CHECK

BIRD is slang for ‘girl’ although in the US DAME would
be closer

BIRO is a ball-point pen

BISCUIT is a CRACKER or a COOKIE

BIT used where Americans would say "part"

BITTER is a type of beer

BLACK TIE is Mess dress or tuxedo

BLOCK OF FLATS is an apartment building or high-rise tower
block, or a large house converted to flats

BLOKE slang for man

BOBBY is a police officer

BOG toilet

BOG-ROLL toilet roll

BOILER is the furnace

BOLLARDS are barrels

BONNET is HOOD when referring to your car

BOOK as a verb to reserve rooms or theater seats

BOOT is the TRUNK of your car

BOOT SALE is a flea market or yard sale

BOX television

BOXING DAY is the first week-day after Christmas

BRACES are SUSPENDERS which as an English word means
GARTERS

BRASS PLATE is the equivalent of a SHINGLE

BUBBLES & SQUEAK is cooked cabbage and potatoes combined
and fried

BUILDING SOCIETY is a savings and loan

BUMBAG is the same as our fanny pack

BUNGALOW is a single story house detached house

BUREAU is a writing desk with drawers and a lift-down flap

CAB-RANK is a taxi-stand

CALL-BOX is a telephone booth

CAMIKNICKERS are teddies

CAMP BED is a COT which in Britain is used for a
baby’s CRIB

CANDYFLOSS is cotton candy

CARAVAN is a trailer

CAR PARK is a parking lot

CASHIER is a TELLER

CALICO is muslin

CALOR GAS is bottled gas

CASTOR SUGAR is finer than granulated sugar but not as
fine as icing-sugar

CATS EYES are surface road reflectors

CHAR is slang for tea - the drink

CHAT UP is slang for handling someone a line especially
to get to know a girl

CHEERS thanks; also used as a toast before drinking; also,
"see you later"

CHEMIST is a DRUG-STORE

CHESTERFIELD is a sofa

CHIPS are FRENCH FRIES

CLINGFILM is Saran wrap

CLOAKROOM is a half bath

COACHES are buses

COFFEE, WHITE, WITHOUT is coffee, cream, no sugar

COLLEAGUE is a co-worker

CONVENIENCE is a REST ROOM

CONVEYANCING is buying or selling properties

COOKER is a stove

CORNFLOUR is cornstarch

COSTUME is a swimsuit

COURGETTE is a ZUCCHINI

COT is a small child’s bed or crib

COTTAGE traditionally a pretty, quaint house in the country,
perhaps with a thatched roof (although the name is stretched nowadays
to encompass almost anything except a flat), may be detached or
terraced

COVER NOTE is an Insurance binder

CRACKING great ("What a cracking bird!")

CRICKET is a ball game to which Americans have no equal

CRISPS are potato chips

CUPBOARD in Britain is CLOSET in the US

CURRENT ACCOUNT at a bank is a CHECKING ACCOUNT

C.V. (CURRICULUM VITAE) is a resume

DAME in Britain refers to a lady who has been knighted

DAY-RETURN means a ROUND-TRIP ticket usually on
the railway

DEMERAEA sugar is the brown sugar usually on the tables
in pubs, not at all like our baking brown sugar

DETACHED is a house that stands alone, usually with its
own garden

DEVIATION is a detour

DIARY is our calendar/date or appointment book

DINNER JACKET is a TUXEDO

DORMITORY is a multiple bedroom usually found in boarding
schools and is NOT a barracks

DRAUGHTS is the game of CHECKERS

DRESS CIRCLE in the theater is the FIRST BALCONY

DRESSING TABLE is the equivalent of the American DRESSER

DRESSING GOWN is a ROBE or bathrobe

DUAL CARRIAGEWAY is a DIVIDED HIGHWAY

DUMMY is a pacifier

DUSTBIN is a GARBAGE CAN

DUSTMAN is a garbage collector

DUVET is a eiderdown quilt

EARLY-CLOSING is an infuriating custom of shops closing
one afternoon a week

EARTH as a verb and as an electrical term equals to GROUND a wire

ELASTOPLAST is BAND-AID

ELEVEN is a FOOTBALL or CRICKET TEAM (from
the number of players)

ENGAGED is what the operator says when the telephone line
is BUSY

ERNIE is ‘electronic random number indicator equipment’
and selects Premium Bond winners

ESTATE AGENT is a REAL-ESTATE BROKER

ESTATE CAR is a STATION WAGON

EX-DIRECTORY is a UNLISTED TELEPHONE NUMBER

EX-SERVICE MAN is a VETERAN

FAG is a cigarette

FANCY DRESS is costumes

FANCY DRESS PARTY is a costumes party

FEN is swampland or marsh

FIRST FLOOR in a building is SECOND-FLOOR in the
US

FISH-FINGERS are FISH-STICKS

FITTED applied to carpets means WALL-TO-WALL

FIZZY DRINK is pop/soda

FLAN is an open sponge or pastry case with a fruit or sweet
filling

FLANNEL is a face-cloth

FLAT is an APARTMENT usually one floor

FLEET STREET is a colloquialism for the PRESS

FLEX is an electric cord

FLY-OVER is an over-pass

FOOTBALL is rugby, not American football

FORTNIGHT means two weeks or fourteen nights

FREE HOUSE associated with a Pub means it can sell any
brand of beer it wishes, it is not linked to any specific brewery

FRINGE (HAIR) is BANGS

FULL STOP is the black dot at the end of a sentence called
in the US a period

GAMMON is ham

GARDEN is the property outside a house which in the US is a YARD

GATEAU is a type of layer cake

GEARBOX is TRANSMISSION

GEAR-LEVER is GEARSHIFT

GEORDIE (pronounced JORDY) is a native of Tyneside and
also the dialect he speaks

GEYSER (GEEZER) is a water heater

GIVE-WAY as a road sign means YIELD

GLASS is CRYSTAL

GONGS are slang for military medals

GOVERNMENT means administration and refers to the people
currently running the country

GENERAL PRACTITIONER (GP) is a internist or doctor

GREASPROOF PAPER is wax paper

GREEN BELT is a no-building zone around a town or city

GREENGROCER is a fruit/vegetable store

GRILL as a verb is to BROIL

GUILLOTINE is a paper-cutter

GUMBOOTS are rubber boots

GUMSHIELD is the same as a mouthgaurd

GYMKHANA is a local Horse Show

GYM SHOES are SNEAKERS

HABERDASHERY is pins, needles, ribbons, thread etc. : and
is what you ask for in a shop

HAGGIS a traditional Scottish dish made from a sheep’s
inside

HAIRDRESSER is a man or women’s ‘barber shop’ or ‘beauty
shop’

HAIRSLIDE is a barrette

"HALF" when addressed to a bar-tender means a
half-pint of beer

HALF-TERM is a mid-term vacation of short duration

HARD CHEESE is tough luck

HAT TRICK is a cricket term for taking three wickets by
three successive balls but it is often to any triple triumph

HAVE-A-BASH means give it a try

HAVE NO TIME FOR means to have a low opinion

HESSIAN is burlap

HIGH STREET preceded by ‘the’, is the American Main Street

HIGH TEA served late in the afternoon usually contains
a cooked item such as eggs or sausages - this is not to be confused
with ‘tea’ or ‘afternoon tea’ which is merely a cup of tea with
a cake or very small sandwich

HIRE PURCHASE is to buy on an installment plan

HOB is an installed gas, electric range top

HOLIDAY is a vacation although the university still uses
vacation for the time after term finishes

HOMELY is simple or unpretentious and not the ‘ugly’ meant
in America

HOOD of a car is known as ‘BONNET’ in England but
of a cloak or coat is still the same

HOUSEMAN in a hospital is a doctor or ‘intern’ in America

HOOVER is to vacuum

HUNDREDWEIGHT is 112 pounds and 20 Hundredweight are in
1 ton

HUNT an Englishman hunts fox or deer but shoots game birds
or rabbits

ICE on menus means ice-cream

ICING SUGAR is similar to our powdered sugar

IMMERSION TANK is a hot water heater in a house

INTERVAL is an intermission

IN TRAIN means coming along as in ‘the work is progressing’

IRONMONGER is a hardware shop

JAB is a shot or immunization

JAM is what Americans would call jelly

JELLY is what they call Jell-O

JERSEY is a sweater

JOINT (of meat) as in Sunday Joint is a piece of roast
meat

JUMBLE SALE is a rummage sale

JUMPER is a sweater (or woolly, or jersey), the American
‘jumper’ is a pinafore dress

JUNCTION is an interchange on motorway

KEDGEREE is a dish of fish, rice and eggs and often served
at breakfast

KETTLE (FOR HOB) is a tea kettle

KIOSK can be a news-stand or a telephone box

KIP sleep ("I could do with a kip" or "He’s
kipping on the sofa.")

KITCHEN PAPER is paper towels

KNAVE is a jack in playing cards

KNICKERS underwear for women

KNOCK BACK DOUGH is to punch down dough

KNICKERS are ladies’ underpants

‘L’ plates are large red ‘L’s which a person learning to
drive must put on his car

LACQUER is hair-spray

LADDER in a stocking is a ‘run’ in America

LADYBIRD is a lady bug

LAGER is beer

LANDLORD in a pub is the inn-keeper

LARDER is a pantry

LAY A TABLE is to set the table

LAY-BY is a roadside parking area at the side of the road

LEADER can be a newspaper editorial, the leading counsel
of a team of lawyers or the first violinist in an orchestra but
NOT the conductor as is popular in America

LEMONADE is Sprite, 7UP

LETTER-BOX is a mail-box

LEVEL-CROSSING is a grade crossing

LIFE GUARD is a member of a regiment of the Royal Household
Cavalry

LIFT is an elevator

LINE on a railway means track

LOO can be an 18th century card game or a lavatory or bathroom
or whatever you wish to say

LORRY is a truck

LOUNGE SUIT is a business and NOT clothes for lounging
in

MAC is an abbreviation for macintosh or raincoat

MAKING CONTACTS is networking

MAGISTRATE is very close to a justice of the peace

MAINS is an electric circuit box

MAISONETTE is an apartment on 2 or more floors

MAJORITY as a voting term this equals a ‘plurality’ in
American terms

MANCUNIAN is someone from Manchester

MANGETOUT are snow peas

MARKET many towns have a weekly market day with wares on
stalls (booths) in the open air - the right to do so goes back
hundreds of years & the AA book lists them all - so does a
list available from my office

MARROW is a very large zucchini

MARTINI is vermouth - if you want a Dry Martini ash for
a Gin & French

MASH is mashed potatoes

MATCH is what two sides play on a sports field and is equal
to an American game

MEAN is tight-fisted or stingy as opposed to the American
‘cruel’ or ill-tempered

MEWS HOUSE is a hose that’s converted from old stables
or servants’ lodging (usually 17th or 19th century) and is the
town equivalent of a genuine cottage

MINCE or MINCED MEAT from the butcher is chopped meat of
hamburger however MINCEMEAT is chopped apples, raisins etc. Which
goes into a mince pie

MOOR is open land often with heather

MOTORWAY is a Freeway

MORNING TEA is often served in your hotel room before you
go down to breakfast

MUFFIN is a small, spongy cake served toasted and buttered
- do NOT confuse with the American ‘English Muffin’ which does
not exist in England.

MUSLIN is cheesecloth in America but American ‘muslin’
is calico in England

NAFF tacky

NANNY is a child’s nurse

NAPPY, a corruption of napkin, is a diaper

NETS are sheer curtains

NEWSAGENT shop selling newspapers

NOTECASE is a billfold

NO ENTRY is wrong way (traffic sign)

NO OVERTAKING is no passing

NOTICEBOARD is a bulletin board

NUMBER PLATE is a license plate

OFF HIS ROCKER is out to lunch

OFF LICENSE is a shop which can sell alcohol all day but
it must be taken away or consumed ‘off’ the premises

OFF-THE-PEG refers to ‘ready-to-wear’ clothes

OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN test eyesight, prescribe glasses, and
diagnose eye diseases

OPHTHALMIC MEDICAL PRACTITIONER treats eye diseases, test
eyesight, prescribes lenses

OUT OF BOUNDS is equivalent to the American term ‘off-limits’

OVERLEAF is the reverse side of a page as is P.T.O. (please
turn over)

OVERTAKE is a driving term meaning to pass another car

OXBRIDGE is a portmanteau word for the ancient universities
of Oxford and Cambridge

P45 is a pink slip

PANDA CAR is a small police car

PANTOMINE has no American equivalent and is an English
Christmas entertainment based on a fairy-tale with a lot of modern
singing, dancing and humor - it is not mime

PANTS are underpants in American - the English equivalent
of American pants is trousers

PARAFFIN is kerosene - American ‘paraffin’ is paraffin
wax or white wax

PASTRY CASE is a pie crust

PASTY is an individual pie as in Cornish Pasty

PAVEMENT is sidewalk

PERAMBULATOR shortened usually to ‘pram’ is a baby-carriage

PETROL is gasoline

PILLAR BOX or POST BOX is a mail-box and its painted
red not blue

PLAIT is a braid when applied to girls’ hair

PLASTER is a band-aid

PLIMSOLLS are shoes such as American deckshoes

PLONK (SLANG) is wine

PORRIDGE is oatmeal

POLYFILLA is spackle compound

POPPERS are snaps

PUDDINGS (the term) can be used to group all desserts whether
it is cake, pie, ice-cream, custards. British puddings are not
like our custard type "Jell-O" pudding

PRANG (in a car) is a fender bender

PREMIUM BOND is a Government Lottery Bond which has no
interest

PROVISION is accrual

PUB is a public house which is a bar with an English atmosphere
which cannot be defined in this small space - go an see one

PUB WITH ROOMS - is similar to an inn

PUSH-CHAIR is a child’s stroller

PYLON is a high tension tower

QUEUE as a verb it means to stand in line - and woe betide
you if you cut in

QUID (slang) is a one pound note

RED INDIAN means an American Indian - ‘Indian’ alone means
a native of India

REDUNDANT is to be released from a job

REEL is a spool

REFUSE COLLECTOR is a garbage man

REGISTER OFFICE is a marriage clerk’s office

REMEMBRANCE DAY is November 11 or the nearest Sunday and
is Veteran Day in America

RESIDENT is the name for a person registered at a hotel

RETURN TICKET is a round-trip ticket on a train or bus

RING ROAD is a circular route around a town

RING UP is to telephone

ROAD WORKERS is road construction or road repair

ROUNDABOUT is a traffic control or a merry-go-round

RUBBISH is garbage

RUCKSACK is a backpack

RUNNER BEANS are string beans

SACK is to be fired from a job

SCONE is an American soda biscuit and its eaten with butter
and often jam and cream

SCOTCH EGG is a hard-boiled egg in sausage meat

SELLOTAPE is scotchtape

SEMI-DETACHED is a duplex or two-family house

SEND DOWN means to expel from University although it may
indicate only a temporary absence

SERVIETTE is a napkin

SHANDY is a drink made from beer and lemonade

SHEPHERD’S PIE is a dish made from minced beef and potatoes

SILENCER of a car is the muffler

SISTER in a hospital is the head nurse of a ward

SLAP-UP four-star, excellent-refers to food

SLATE is to express a harsh criticism

SLIPROAD onto a motorway is a ramp

SOLICITOR is an attorney

SPONGE BAG is a toilet kit

SPONGE FINGER is a long, soft, sweet cake or ‘lady-finger’

SPROUTS is Brussels sprouts

SQUASH is a fruit drink

STALL in a market is a ‘booth’ but in a theater is an orchestra
seat

STARTER is an appetizer

STONE referring to weight is 14 pounds

SUBWAY is a pedestrian underpass

SUMMERTIME is when daylight saving time is in effect

SUPER means ‘terrific’ i.e. splendid

SURGICAL SPIRIT is rubbing alcohol

SURGERY is a doctor’s office

SUSPENDERS are garters

SWEETS are candy

SWISS ROLL is a jelly roll

TA informal thank you

TABLE the verb means to submit for discussion (the reverse
of its American meaning)

TAILBACK is a line of traffic

TAKEAWAY is carryout

TALLBOY is a highboy

TAP is faucet

TARMAC is pavement

TATTY is shabby

TEAT is a nipple for baby’s bottle

TERM is one of the three educational parts of the year
- roughly like a semester

TERRACE HOUSES is a row of 3 or more usually 2 or 3 stories
high

THEATRE in a hospital is the operating room

THIRD PARTY INSURANCE is liability insurance

TIGHTS are pantyhose

TIN as a food container is a can

TOAD-IN-A-HOLE is a dish of sausage ‘bangers’ in batter

TO PINCH is to steal

TORCH flashlight

TORY is a member of the Conservative party

TRAINERS are sneakers

TROUSERS are slacks

TUBE in the subway

TWEE is arty

UNDERDONE referring to meat is rare

VACUUM FLASK is a thermos bottle

VAN is a small truck

VAT is Value-Added Tax. Similar to sales tax in the states

VERGE (OF ROAD) is the shoulder

VEST is an undershirt in Britain not the American meaning
of a ‘waistcoat’

VILLAGE is a small town without a mayor and usually with
under 3,000 people. In the UK can be a handful of houses with
a church and a pub, or a larger settlement with shops and community
center

WASHING UP LIQUID is dishwashing liquid

WASHING UP POWDER is laundry soap

WC stands for "water closet", in other words,
the toilet

WELLINGTONS are rubber boots named after the Duke of Wellington

WHISKY is Scotch

WHISKEY is Irish

WHITEHALL is a collective word referring to the government
because so many government offices are located around the road

WHITE SPIRIT is alcohol

WINDSCREEN is a windshield

WING of a car is the fender

WIRELESS is the original term for radio and is often used
by older people

WOOLLY is a sweater

WRITTEN OFF (CAR) is "totalled"

ZEBRA CROSSING is a striped pedestrian crossing

ZED is the letter ‘z’ (or "zee" as pronounced in American English)

How To > Fix COX Internet’s Routing Fuckups

2007-08-16T02:36:48Z

Everyday that you call Cox High Speed Internet, you hear a message that was re-recorded that day saying “as of today [insert day] many customer in Arizona are currently experiencing difficulty getting to many large website, we are aware of the error and our technicians are blah blah blah”. I’m sure it’s in more than AZ that they are recording this message but don’t know how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Now I was pissed at them for a few days because they lied to me and said they hooked up my internet when they really didn’t… when they finally fixed it I was good to go to be able to see all the websites, while my neighbor who is screwed into the same exact cable splitter can’t get to most sites.

So I went and figured out why I am better than everybody else.

I use different DNS. Yep, though I start on their server I jump to different DNS servers than everybody gets when they connect to Cox. I have 2 very different alternates in fact. So all you need to do is hardset your Internet Connection’s DNS to what I use and your problems should be solved.

Primary DNS: 208.67.222.222 (this is from opendns.com you could also use 208.67.220.220)
Alternate DNS: 4.2.2.1 (this and 4.2.2.2 have worked FOREVER)

If you don’t know how to do this then you simply need to open the Network Connections Folder > Right Click on your Network Connection > choose Properties > Highlight (TCP/IP) and choose Properties > Click ‘Use the Following DNS Server Entries’ and enter the numbers.

How To > Create XHTML DivX, QuickTime & Flash Players

2007-07-30T02:19:34Z

Look. I am sick of every people making something, and then making a really sloppy way to use it. If you go to youtube or googlevideo they give you this “embed” code. The Embed tag DOES NOT VALIDATE. I write my code by hand and don’t want it to be sloppy. So when I wrote Rip-Off Theater I didn’t want to have all my players using some clunky Embed crap when there are perfectly good ways to do it using Object instead.

I made the DivX code based on a Quicktime hack I did. Basically I am putting 2 objects on. One for IE and another one for Firefox etc.. To make IE not be stupid you need to use some css to tell it to not display both objects.

I figure If you are reading an article on XHTML I figure you need me to tutor you through the process. You just want the bloody code:

<style type="text/css"><br/>/* hides the second object from all versions of IE */<br/>* html object.mov {display: none;}<br/>/* displays the second object in all versions of IE apart from 5 on PC */<br/>* html object.mov/**/ {display: inline;}<br/>/* hides the second object from all versions of IE >= 5.5 */<br/>* html object.mov {display/**/: none;}<br/></style>   <object classid="clsid:67DABFBF-D0AB-41fa-9C46-CC0F21721616" codebase="http://go.divx.com/plugin/DivXBrowserPlugin.cab" height="" width=""> <param name="src" value=""> <param name="custommode" value="Stage6"> <object type="video/divx" data="inserturl" class="stupidie" height="" width=""> <param name="src" value=""> <param name="custommode" value="Stage6"> No video? Get the DivX Web Player for <a href="http://download.divx.com/player/DivXWebPlayerInstaller.exe">Windows</a> or <a href="http://download.divx.com/player/DivXWebPlayer.dmg">Mac</a> </object>   <object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" height="" width=""> <param name="src" value="inserturl"> <param name="controller" value="true"> <param name="autoplay" value="true"> <param name="scale" value="tofit"> <object type="video/quicktime" data="inserturl" class="stupidie" height="" width=""> <param name="autoplay" value="true"> <param name="scale" value="tofit"> <param name="controller" value="true"> Sorry, shit happens... download quicktime from apple.com/quicktime </object> </object>   <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="inserturl" height="" width=""> <param name="movie" value="inserturl"><param name="FlashVars" value="playerMode=embedded"> </object>   </object>

UPDATE: 7/29 - Fixed this post. It wasn’t displaying the code and was messing up the rest of the blog. Seems wordpress is stupid and doesn’t by default recognize the “<code>” atribute

How To > Watch iPod Video On TV Without a Dock

2007-07-28T17:15:23Z

So, I have lots of gadgets, but sometimes I can’t rationalize ones that seem like they will go unused. One of these examples would be the video dock for the iPod. Now I was fairly sure I could convert my car player to be able to output to my TV with little effort. In researching this I discovered that all you need to output the video was a CHEAP 1/8″-to-RCA Cable. You can get one of these at Radio Shack or some other electronics store for only a few bucks. I as it tends to be, had one laying around.

Now there is a trick to this. Apple thought they would be all unique and switch the wires around (just like they put their quicktime movies in their images directory and their images in their movies directory…. ). So make sure you plug the wires in exactly like this:

RED Cable - YELLOW Hole
YELLOW Cable - WHITE Hole
WHITE Cable - RED Hole

I didn’t have any trouble with mine, but I have heard that a couple people had to switch their output to PAL to get it to work even on NTSC TV’s. That seems crazy to me, but in case it happens to you try that.

Good Times

How To > Have a Remote Desktop on the iPhone

2007-07-16T02:15:56Z

Ok, this is just damn cool so I needed to share. You can go to: LogMeIn.com and make an account which when configured properly lets you use your iPhone to connect to your home PC! I mean DAMN is it cool.

Simply download/install LogMeIn. Right click system tray icon and open the software. Go to the Preferences > click on Remote Control Settings > Set the default display type to HTML. If you don’t set it to HTML you won’t be able to use on the iPhone since it doesn’t support Java Applets yet.

The advantage of using LogMeIn instead of say VNC (which also works BTW) is that LogMeIn will let you it from any place without install. Where as VNC would only work on your local network.

Currently I am on the full trial which lets you print (honestly, why bother), and also has 256bit SSL which is nice… I will eventually cheap out and use free version. Still very bloody cool.. .and if i am patient enough I could actually browse my own site through my remote desktop since the iPhone doesn’t seem to like my scripts…

NOTE: From fixing computers for so long I can tell you that LogMeIn and any other similar software WILL show up as Spyware on all the popular scans. It does this so that you know somebody has remote access to your PC. If you read the descriptions it will tell you this, however some people freak out when they see it on a spyware list, so just realize that this is NOT spyware. Just be careful who you let have access to it since if you use some crappy password for that site and somebody knows your crappy passwords and then gets in they can control your PC. Common sense is the best weapon.

How To > Get a Direct URL to YouTube’s FLV Files!

2007-07-13T20:19:42Z

Ok so I have had my own method of getting YouTube FLV files before today, but thanks to Google and their wonderful archiving of all things there is now an easier way! A way that could be automated (hint hint). Flash videos are not only sexy, but they come without the ugly YouTube players so you can use your own. It’s so easy you can probably remember how to do it without looking it up!

FLV link for YouTube videos! - http://cache.googlevideo.com/get_video?video_id=

Example YouTube Address - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0kz8MCxq6A

Becomes - http://cache.googlevideo.com/get_video?video_id=t0kz8MCxq6A

What’s the point you ask? Go to Rip-Off Theater > Click Flash > Click *Will it Blend.

Looks about a million times better fullscreen on my site (requires flash 9.028 or higher for fullscreen) than trying to watch all 50+ videos on YouTube’s slow ugly pages, in their little ugly player!