Jeffrey Veen shows a simple usage of the wget command that’ll retrieve media from remote sites. If you’ve used wget at all you’ll be familiar with the options he uses.
What’s more interesting is the wget-curl blog that lists recipies for downloading images and audio. Good news for all you hungry media consumers out there!
I found 3hive.com via Jeffrey’s post above. I’m enjoying a few tunes by The Hold Steady right now. Go listen!
Much Later… And this page will be very handy for ripping mp3s from web pages!
Author Archives: Donncha
So much to do, so much to read, consume, take in, absorb
I’m hopeless, I’m utterly behind in my reading. There’s a copy of the Sunday Times at home that’s hardly touched, I bought the National Geographic 2 weeks ago and it lies unread in a paper bag, books take longer to read now it seems. So much to do. I mentioned last month that The Digital Journalist would have a tribute to Ronald Reagan in their next issue. It’s out now, go read! I’ll eventually get around to reading it, sometime.
I won’t be reading it tonight however, Jacinta got 2 tickets to go see Julian Marley & The Uprising in the Cork Opera House. Looks like a good gig!
Developing Photos That "Pop"
This is the first part of a tutorial that’ll show you how to improve “muddy” overcase photos. I’ve only scanned through it, it looks a little complicated but I’ve messed up exposure settings so many times this technique will be useful!
Ads Suck, Internet Sucks Bandwidth
Using hosts file you can stop most of the banner adverts out there in one fell swoop. I’m installing this at home. Browsing via a 56K modem is painful enough…
Most Popular Posts
I’ve just added a new plugin to the site that lists the most popular posts on your blog.
The command is {popularposts} which creates an array, $pposts, containing the list of posts. Unfortunately it’ll only work if you use the newer $blogid/archives/p/1/ type url, not the old $blogid/archives/m/200407/#1
Thank you Nargler for the MySQL substring_index code. Helped a lot!
Here’s an example usage:
{popularposts}
{if $pposts != ''}
<b>Most Popular Posts</b><br />
{foreach from=$pposts key=key item=hits}
<nobr><a href="{$siteurl}/archives/p/{$hits.postID}/c/1/more/1" title='{$hits.title}'>{$hits.title|truncate:30:"..."}</a>: {$key}</nobr><br />
{/foreach}
{/if}
Synthetic Lighting for Photography
This is a technique that’ll make your photos that little bit more extra-ordinary!
Rules Du Jour – Stop the Spam!
The Spamassassin Rules Du Jour is an invaluable bash script that’ll update commonly used SA rules from various sites. Put it in /etc/cron.daily/ to have it run once a day!
I have SA fairly well trained already so it didn’t make much difference to my setup but it’s well worth installing especially as new classes of spam appear!
Fred's new EP – available online!
I missed it the other night but Fred played in the Lobby on Friday night to promote their new single.
The good news is that the single is available from their homepage to download and Fred will be the featured “rising band” on Tom Dunne’s show on Today FM.
Damn, wish I had known they played in Galway too, although it was last night.. Could I have driven down to Cork and gone to work this morning? hehe.
Mozilla Remote Exploit
Looks like a remotely exploitable hole has been found in Mozilla and Firefox. ‘Course, given the percentage of these browsers in the browser population one might be forgiven for not looking at this advisory with the attention it deserves. I bet a large minority of the visitors here and to linux.ie use the Mozilla family of browsers however.
Still, it’s been fixed in Moz 1.7 and FF 0.9, so upgrade, there’s no reason not to!
Wha's new is old, and what's changed is real
In this Sunday Morning Photographer article, Mike Johnston talks about the manipulation and distortion of photographs by post-processing them in some way.
Anyway, poor Fred, not a nice experience for him!