Me and my Mac

More plugin happyness: CustomQuery

I’m on a roll lately, 3 new plugin in as much days…

This time around i made a plugin for upgrading stuff via database queries. This effectively takes out the PhpMyAdmin approach for most people making it way easier to update database tables to something else when required.

It goes without saying that this plugin requires some common sense in use and if used wrongly (E.g. faulty queries) your website may be damaged.

More information:
http://meandmymac.net/plugins/customquery/

Download:
CustomQuery v0.1

Vista for games?

I am wondering about something. At the moment it’s just a thought…
Lately i bought an iMac 2.4Ghz with 4GB ram and i have a PC AMD 4200, dual core, with 3GB ram.

I am wondering, purely out of a gamers perspective. Is Vista better than XP?
I know all about the bad things Vista can do. I also know XP isn’t optimal on faster Computers. Currently i run XP pro SP2 on both computers for games. But i’m not comfortable with installing Vista only to discover it doesn’t work right.

I don’t want replies bitching on Vista for all it’s suckyness… I know it sucks mainly. but if it runs it runs and it will be PURELY used for games, the PC is for when i have a friend over to play games with and the iMac has OSX for everything else except games. So the ONLY thing that counts is game performance and OS performance while running games.

My main game being Civilization 4, some Steam games like HL2/TF2 and such…

For instance, would Civ4, which is sluggish on bigger games, work better on vista? Or can i put the world reflection on HL2 which are causing some slowdowns sometimes on the PC to “reflect all” instead of “reflect world”. Or can i put “Motion Blur” to high (HDR) in Vista?

Any experiences, tips, hints, ideas or whatever welcome…

And another one: HiddenMedia

I noticed a missing feature in Wordpress. The ability to hide images from the excerpt or main page. Well that’s over now… HiddenMedia to the rescue! I kind of announced it yesterday… The flash thing on there is not shown on the index loop. Check it out… Also its embedded using a object provided by the plugin. Neat!

This plugin allows you to insert an image or flash animation into a post and with the use of Wordpress shortcodes you can hide the item from the index loop but show it just fine on the single post view. It’s really easy, flexible and cool.

More information:
http://meandmymac.net/plugins/hiddenmedia/

Download:
http://meandmymac.net/wp-content/uploads/hiddenmedia10.zip

A new plugin emerges from the deep: Worthless Plugin

That’s right… There are over 2000 plugins registered at wordpress.org repositories. And all of them have a purpose. Do something useful or are otherwise not-worthless.

This plugin is different and therefor unique from all of them; It is not useful to use this plugin. It doesn’t do anything interesting (which is kinda interesting in itself) and does not enrich your site with new features or functions.

So what DOES it do? Upon activation it sets the goal at a default of 300 and generates a random number out of that. Then it starts counting… When it reaches the random set number, something happens (non-violent or destructive, honestly. It’s all about the fun!) and the random number is reset to another random value and starts counting again… FRIGGEN USELESS!! yay! Amazing isn’t it?

The only option this plugin offers is the goal you set. Default is 300. But depending on your sites visits you need to set that to a higher or lower value. It’s all up to you…

More information:
http://meandmymac.net/plugins/worthless-plugin/

Download:
http://meandmymac.net/wp-content/uploads/worthlessplugin101.zip

While cleaning some stuff…

I have this closet, it’s full of computer stuff, tools, materials, pens, cables and other computer/electronics related stuff. Today things started to fall out when i opened the door. So i decided to clean some stuff, throw away some things…

I found some things i thought i didn’t have them anymore or simply can’t remember i still had it…
Also some things that should have put to work or i’m not using anymore.

I found:

• A brand new Sony Ericsson W850i Mobile phone
• A EdiMax SoHo Print server for USB printers
• A Speedtouch Home DSL Modem from the time when 256Kbit DSL was lightning fast
• A Siemens SX551 DSL Home gateway
• 4x 3Com 10/100 Network cards
• A Guillemot Maxi Gamer 32MB TNT2 Video card
• A Voodoo 3 2000 16MB Video card From 3DFX
• A set of Floppy disks labelled “Windows 3.11 for Workgroups”
• A 32 speed CD-Rom drive
• A Floppy drive
• A Newstar NS211micro KVM Switch
• A Harddisk platter (without the rest)
• 2x 4MB EDO ram sticks
• 4x 1MB EDO ram sticks
• 2x 8MB EDO ram sticks
• 3x 1MB of just ram… EDOs predecessor i think…
• 12x 256KB (?) of another undefinable type of ram
• 6x 16MB/32MB 66Mhz SD-ram (some are labelled 16MB some others are 32MB and some look exactly like the labelled ones but have no label)
• Maybe a million sorts of cables/connectors/plugs/couplers/converters for audio, video, phone, peripherals, power, networking and whatever else cables can be used for
• Screws, hundreds of them
• An ECS K7S5A Mainboard with CPU still on it. Its a AMD Duron 1500 i think
• Jabra Stereo Bluetooth headset for mobile phones or Bt enabled A2DP devices
• 2 harddrives, a 2GB SCSI drive and a 525MB IDE ATA-33/66 disk
• A bunch of keys from various security systems, ethernet closets (the cases which hold 19″ panels and switches)

And a bunch of power adapters and other rubbish…

And some images:

Bots are dumb…

Thus reproductive features must not be activated. This one has none what-so-ever.

Vincent: SHRIKEE: Error: "fucking" is not a valid command.
jinsgirl4eva: rofl
danhm: haha
SHRIKEE: LOL
nutelLA: haha
Trevpotle: hahaa
Kadaj: hahahhaa
bit: hahahhaha
SHRIKEE: he cannot fornicate
SHRIKEE: OWNED
* jinsgirl4eva high fives vincent

Which is good. Since it’s quite stupid

It’s fricken epic!

lol

Found it on some site… And i never uploaded something flash to my website and wanted to see how that went… It was an epic adventure to find out! I now realize i need a flash-embedding-thing if i want to do it again!

I also wanted the noisy flash not to show in the index listing…
And so i went into #wordpress and talked a bit to to simonwheatley_. He suggested to use ‘Shortcodes‘. I had no clue what that was, but it seems it’s a new feature in Wordpress 2.5 and up. Allowing people to use things like [somerandomfunction] in posts and have it do amazing things.

He put together a tiny example. With that and the API i mocked up a quick plugin to get flash embedded yarrr!!
Usage will be a snap:

[hiddenmedia width="384" height="288" url="http://meandmymac.net/wp-content/uploads/its_frickin_epic.swf" loop="true" autoplay="true" urltitle="More after the jump!"]

Is the code for the flash used in this post for example… And most variables will be optional, too. To make it even easier.

I’ll release a version soon i think. Stay tuned.

Minor buggery stuff!

Events user Beth has uncovered a small bug in the parsing of the Archive and Today’s listing of events.
This is fixed as of now. Please if you have trouble parsing %link% redownload the plugin and overwrite wp-events-functions.php with the new file.

No new version has been issued.

Thanks Beth!

oooh shiny!

Following the MobileMe update for Mac OSX yesterday i noticed a new icon in Finder today. It looked a bit weird. Further research showed me that this is the new iDisk icon…

Look and see:

It’s a bit pink isn’t it? Not really my choice of an icon color… But i can think of one person who wants MobileMe now… Heh!

Events v1.3

A big/huge/large update today! Including many feature requests and some changes as well as some bugfixes (minor ones)

And here is the changelog:
[change] Widget now integrated into the plugin, this should fix future version mismatches
[change] Updated options panel for widget
[new] Link to add event on manage page
[new] Locations for events
[new] All day events
[fix] Minor bugfixes in the parsing of events on archives
[fix] Titles of links are now better parsed
[new] In management, events now can be sorted by location
[change] Events description field is enlarged a fair bit
[change] All options are now split up in 3 groups (options/templates/languages) You might need to reset all options!
[fix] If HH:MM are 00:00 it is filtered out from the timestamp %date%

Not so much not so much at all! ha!

Take note that with this new version the whole ’settings’ setting is overhauled and thus might require you to configure Events from the ground up. So don’t be surprised if your template or language is gone.

Oh and before upgrading read the damn upgrade instructions, they have real purpose and are very important! Especially with this upgrade!

More information:
http://meandmymac.net/plugins/events/

Download:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-events.1.3.zip