Posts Tagged ‘tutorial’
Saturday, January 24th, 2009
After reading multiple articles, on how people had managed to catch crooks who had stolen their laptops, and reading xkcd. I thought i might as well try creating my own solution.
Before I go any further, this solution is a Mac OSX solution, and requires, that you have some webspace, with FTP access.
I will explain what I wanted the software to do, and how it accomplishes these aims.
- Firstly I wanted the software to recognise if the laptop has been stolen.
- If the laptop is stolen, take photos of the user, and upload them to my webspace,
- As well as uploadinging photos of the user, record their ip, and upload a copy to my webspace.
The above 3 points were the basics of the app. However after reading xkcd, i thought it would be cool to get the application to announce to the world (via its speakers) that it is stolen property, at full volume.
Now i have told you what i wanted the app to be able to do I will explain, how it actually does it. (more…)
Tags: bash, catch, crook, software, speech, stolen, terminal, thief, tutorial, web development, webcam
Posted in Other Random Stuff, Tutorials, projects | 2 Comments »
Monday, July 28th, 2008
First of all what are SEF URLs? SEF stands for Search Engine Friendly and URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator (this is what you type into your browser to find a web site e.g. http://www.google.com/.
Examples of SEF URLs
An example of a SEF URL would something like the example below:
http://www.myshop.com/products/books/frankenstein.html
Whilst an unSEF URL would be something like:
http://www.myshop.com/products.php?type=45&itemid=4234
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Tags: Introduction, ReWrite, ReWriting, Search Engine Friendly, Search Engine Optimisation, SEF, tutorial, URLs
Posted in Search Engine Optimisation, Tutorials, Web Development | No Comments »
Monday, May 26th, 2008
I recently wrote an e-mail for a couple of guys that I know from Square Tab. It was a list of links that i have found usefull over the last few months, so I thought i would share these links to the rest of the internet. I’ve split the links into categories depending on the technologies they use.
CSS
The first link i sent over was about the user of media queries in CSS3. Basically media queries allow you to display different implementations of CSS depending on what device the page is being viewed on. E.g. you can say if your screen is 800px wide, display this otherwise display this. Its got some more advance stuff, but that was just a simple example. Anyway heres the link:
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Tags: apache, CSS, Design, developer, framework, frameworks, grid, hosting, jquery, linux, media queries, mysql, nginx, php, regular expressions, RoR, screen casts, sIFR, slicehost, tutorial, web, web design, web development
Posted in Design, Tutorials, Web Development | No Comments »