Archive for the ‘Geekdom’ Category


Homesite on mac? is it possible?

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

So this is one thing ive always wanted. As a web developer I code mostly everything by hand, and sorry to say but im to damn lazy to have several different programs to create a website. Well my wait is over. I found a program called Coda. Super awesome to use. Check it out!

How to print screen on a mac laptop

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

This is sorta a simple tip, but nonetheless something i didnt know how to do till a few seconds ago

1. Press ⌘ + Shift + 3

hopefully now you’ll get a Picture x.png in your desktop folder

Jason

Super nintendo(snes) on your phone, a how to guide!!!

Friday, July 18th, 2008

super_nintendo_entertainment_system.jpgSo I knew it was possible for a while, but ive never actually done it. I gotta say it was worth the couple hours of frustration to get it working. I had trouble tho getting a couple games to work. Most notably i wanted to play Lufia 2, alas i couldnt :( . Oh well. I ended up putting final fantasy 3 and 4 and zelda on it for now. You might be wondering why? well its something to do while goin to the bathroom…… Also the phone i did this on is a Motorola Q. Anyways this is how i did it.

Step 1: Install tgetfile.dll. Do to that go here. This allows you to execute stuff outside your my documents folder on your phone(or something like that). I downloaded the tgfdllsp50e.zip. If you scroll down a little its down there under a smartphone row. Basically to install this, sync your phone with ur pc and run the setup.exe from your pc. During the installation look at your phone, it might ask if ur sure you want to install the file. Respond with yes or ok.

Step 2: I went to this thread and downloaded PocketSNES153.rar. You can try the other one, but i couldn’t get it working. Your gonna have to make an account to download, but no worries it doesnt cost money. If the thread ever goes down ill post the emulator here. (i just dont want to piss the creator off by doing that).
Update: To get the regular nintendo emulator, use this one thread.

Step 3: This is I what did, but u can do what you want. I used the explorer from pc to browse through my phone and went to “Program Files” then created a folder called “SNES”. Then i copied the PocketSNES.exe in there.

Step 4: Download some roms. I would use the romnation if at all possible. The other when you download a rom gives u a ton of versions, so if you do just pick one of the roms from each download. It’ll make more sense if you try it. Also i only couldn’t get one game to work, so dont get discourage if a rom fails just try another one.

http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/snes.html

http://www.shadyroms.com/index.php?letter=L&platform=SuperNintendo

Step 5: Play the game. On you phone go to “File Manager” then search through to “Program Files/SNES” then click the “PocketSNES.exe” then click “File/Open rom”.

NOTE 1: Heres the catch. I noticed that if I only have one rom in that folder I couldn’t scroll down to select it. So download at least 2 games. The other thing I noticed is that when you go to load a game if there arent more then one save state again u can’t scroll down to select. That last bit is actually what tripped me up the most.

NOTE 2: Your gonna need to go in and map ur keys before you play.

NOTE 3: I had to turn off Transparency effect. Not sure why but somethings where showing up black on the sreen, and when I turned this off, it fixed it.

NOTE 4:* I had to turn on Auto Frame Skip. Otherwise the game runs so rediculously fast you cant play.

Enjoy

Author: Jason Rogers

Is your mac widget not working?

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

icon.pngSo i started writing my first mac widget. A super simple concept. It kinda goes hand in hand with my previous post about my new job. Basically im not really getting any projects that can show my skills, so one of my friends suggested a mac widget of the phone directory. Super simple to do except there is no feed on there website. All said and done i basically used ajax to pull the php page based on a first name and last name you type in the widget. Then i strip out all the html and display it.

So i got all the code done, and when i went to install it there was an error. “The file ‘name.wdgt’ is not a valid widget and you cannot install it.”

Pain in the butt. It took me a while to figure it out. You have to make a background image of the entire widget and name it Default.png. When a widget first loads it shows this image until the widget is fully loaded. Its easier on the eyes, but if you dont have this image you cant install.

Just thought id share this since it really pissed me off.

Jason Rogers

Is there a good website editor for mac?

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Essentially ive started using a mac a lot lately and the one thing i still cant find is a editor for websites. Currently i use homesite for windows. Its super lightweight and easy to use. Simply retarded that i even have to ask about this, but does anyone know of a good editor?

Update:
So I was referred to the software Taco as a software solution to what i want. However and the huge downfall with this software(unless I’m just being lame and cant find it) is that it doesn’t have a built in ftp to automatically upload to a live website. On a better note i dig the interface and ease of use. Definitely a software i will use on projects.

jason

Another couple cool sites

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

This was a site my friend kevin let me in on. Check it out, kinda cool list of sites. All of the sites listed or those of the top web 2.0 sites out there. Maybe sometime soon ill have a site worthy of putting up there

http://www.go2web20.net/

Jason Rogers

Cant decide what colors to pick for you design?

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

So, im not the greatest designer out there. Actually im by far really bad at it. So one of the things i have a major problem is with picking out colors for my design. Here are two sites i find very invaluable to my daily designing needs.

http://www.colourlovers.com/
http://www.colorschemer.com/

Hope that helps a tad

Jason Rogers

My Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Review

Monday, February 25th, 2008

51td5rq1wvl.jpgWell i bought Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare about 4-5 days ago for a whopping $64 total. After getting home and popping it into my Ps3 I was pretty dissapointed. Actaully to the fact that i turned it off, and proceeded to complain and whine. My biggest mistake was going into believing it was going to be super tactical, something like Ghost Recon or Rainbow Six. So i cant really take it back so sunday i turned it back on. This time however i realised i just hated the first few levels.

The game is remarkable realistic. From the start picking up grenades and throwing them back at people sounds simple, but actually doing it in a game is uber. One of my only complaints is that in the PC version you can lean around a corner, however the Ps3 cannot do this. It’s pretty upsetting, but i can see why the developers didn’t do this….becuase there aren’t enough buttons on the controller. Another up is the sniping, pretty well done. If you click the left stick and hold it down your character will take a deep breath and the gun will steady until he cant hold it any more. The game is not just realistic visually, but story wise also. I wont give anything away, but they dramatisize several aspects of the story. Kinda hard to stomach some of the things they do. Reminds of a old war movie that makes you want to cringe at some of the things they do to people.

Im not sure of the value of reply however. After beating it i went back and tried to play certain missions again, and found myself bored. However im ready to try the online gameplay. We’ll see how that goes next week.

All and all the game was pretty good had some difficulty getting into it, but thats probably just me being retarded. I give it a 8.5/10. Oh yeah when you finish it, wait till the end of the credits.

Author: Jason Rogers

Oops! I accidentally did a rm -rf * in root

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Well i didnt do it accidentally. So ive always wanted to try this. If your wondering what this is then ill enlighten you. ‘rm’ is for remove, and ‘-r’ is to recursive remove from current directory, and ‘f’ is to force shutdown the process so it can be removed. No say your did this in the root of the linux server. Would it actually remove the kernel? Now onto the story. We had a web server being put out of commission. I took 3 screenshots as i did it.

So the first screenshot here is me just typing it.

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This next one i kept typing ‘ls’ and eventually the ‘rm’ deleted the command ‘ls’.
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Then when the commands were deleted i had nothing else to do but shut it down.
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As im sure you know, it was very much fun to be destructive.

Jason Rogers

I have redone the site look.

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Well i finally did it. I took the time to update the look to more current standards. Heres the old and new, let me know what you think. Criticism welcome.

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