Tech
Clearing VLC’s Album Art Cache
VLC is a free, open source, cross-platform multimedia player that can play almost any multimedia file you throw at it. It’s become my multimedia player of choice because it free, light weight and versatile. But it’s not without it’s quirks. One problem I’ve had with it is that sometimes it will show incorrect album art. […]
Turning Off Extraneous Emails from Twitter
Twitter introduced new email options this week that send emails every time you are mentioned (or replied to) and when your tweets are retweeted or marked as a favorite. I can see where newcomers to Twitter would find these settings useful but many veterans are already getting these notifications elsewhere. Many Twitter clients (I use […]
Quick And Easy RSS Parsing With PHP
When I wrote about creating a Twitter bot with PHP, etc. last week I had in mind to continue developing the idea. To this end I’ve created a bot that replaces the formulaic type of URL for an ‘of the day’ type page (for example http://www.dilbert.com/strips/”.date(“Y”).”-“.date(“m”).”-“.date(“d”).”/”) with an RSS parser so the bot will retweet […]
Create a Twitter Bot With PHP, YOURLs and Cron
Ever since I’ve been on Twitter I’ve been fascinated by Twitter bots. You know, automated Twitter posting robots. There are all sorts of Twitter bots. Most of them are Twitter accounts with a single purpose that are run by some sort of programming. Most often they monitor Twitter’s RSS feed for specific keywords and either […]
Facebook’s Secure Browsing (HTTPS) Setting, Its Problems And A Solution
Facebook recently introduced the ability to browse their website using https instead of standard http. This allows it’s users to use their website more securely. To turn it on use the following steps: Click the Account menu in the top right corner and select Account Settings. Next to the Account Security heading click the Change […]