It's as easy as this to use:

<img src='minecraft.php?u={username}&s={size}' />

What the script does is grabs their skin from the Minecraft server, copies the face and facial accessories only and merges them into an 8 x 8 image, then resizes to the specified size. If the username does not exist, then it uses the default skin, which is stored in a base64 encoded variable to save an extra cURL request.

Check out the code on Github

Another photo I was really happy with, is of the River Yar in Bembridge, taken just before dusk. I managed to get this great shot in between lots of bursts of rain which occurred throughout the week.

If you would like to see more photos from the Isle of Wight, please view my Flickr Photo Set.

Today I spent a little bit of time creating a tiny XBOX widget. It's a shame the XBOX Community Developer Program has taken so long for me to gain access to, so instead all the data is scraped from http://gamercard.xbox.com/en-US/rentedsmile.card.

Usually I don't tend to rely on scraping to get my data, but since I have no access to their API I had no choice really. Also, the gamercard has so much hidden information, it's almost as if they expect you to scrape it.

Please feel free to check out my other photos of the bengals on Flickr

It uses the built-in autocomplete method in jQuery UI, and queries my PHP script which grabs the search results from the Rotten Tomatoes API, strips out all the unnecessary data, and outputs the JSON.

Speed is a bit of an issue, and I would have it query the API directly instead of having to use a Intermediary script, but the API requires a key that's unique to me and needs to remain hidden, so sadly there's no room for improvement there.

Extracting data from IMDB would be perfect but sadly, the IMDB API is out of reach for me with the annual membership cost in the low tens of thousands of dollars. However, lately I've discovered and been playing around with a mixture of the unofficial IMDB API, Rotten Tomatoes API and TMBd API, all of which are very simple, have high usage allowances, and are completely free.

Rotten Tomatoes is by far looking the most stable, informative, and simple with movie look-ups as easy as this:

http://api.rottentomatoes.com/api/public/v1.0/movies.json?apikey={API_KEY}&q=I+Saw+The+Devil&page_limit=1

At the moment, I'm still in the 'playing around' stage, which will be quickly followed by the 'do I actually have enough free time to build it' stage. Maybe in the near future you may see some Dribbble shots of what I'm working on.

If you want to read up more on any of the API's mentioned, follow the links below:

• IMDB Interfaces
• Unofficial IMDB API
• Rotten Tomatoes API Documentation
• The Movie DB API Documentation

Here is my favourite from the day - It shows one of the snow leopards stretching after just waking from a little nap.

If you would like to see my other photos from my outing to the zoo, please check out the Photo Set on Flickr

If you need it more secure, you can edit the character list in the str variable, and edit the length of the password via the for loop. In this version, I've stripped out characters that look alike as it's annoying when can't tell exactly what the character is.

javascript: (function () {    var tmp = '';    var str = '23456789abcdefghjkmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHJKMNPQRSTUVWXYZ';    var len = str.length;    for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {        tmp += str[Math.floor(Math.random() * len)];    }    prompt('Your randomly generated password is:', tmp);})()

To use it, simply drag the link below onto your browser toolbar, and then click it when you want to create a random password.

Generate Password

This is my favorite shot from the day, it just so happens to be the rally winner David Bogie in his Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX.

If you fancy viewing the rest of the photos from the rally, check out my photo set on Flickr

javascript: (function () {    var a = location.host;    if (a.indexOf('flickr') > 0) {        var a = document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0].innerHTML;        var b = a.match('http://flic.kr/p/([_a-zA-Z0-9]*)');        if (b) prompt('The flic.kr URL is:', b[0]);    }    if (a.indexOf('youtube') > 0) {        var a = document.getElementsByTagName('link');        for (var i in a) {            var b = a[i];            if (b.getAttribute('rel') == 'shortlink') prompt('The youtu.be URL is:', b.getAttribute('href'));        }    }})()

To use it, simply drag the link below onto your browser toolbar, and then click it when viewing a video or photo.

Grab Short URL