http://shrimpworks.za.net Why am I so n00b? Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:43:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Soo, a year since I last posted anything, so I guess it's about time I did something a little more constructive with this space than leaving it sitting here gathering comment spam. Everything's happily upgraded to the latest Wordpress version, complete with reCAPTCHA spam protection. I'll begin updating things more frequently now, ... http://shrimpworks.za.net/2008/08/15/revival/ Sup. Since there are certain people about how hosting a website on unreliable home ADSL is a generally bad idea, I've decided to move it to a more stable, permanent home on my little Linode. Also, since my last post, a number of things have happened in my life in general. Firstly, ... http://shrimpworks.za.net/2007/08/26/site-moved-i-moved-bought-car-etc/ Sooo, I received a query about wether it would be possible to have a DynaBar plugin show information from a ShoutCast server. A bit of investigation on the issue revealed it is indeed quite easy to query a ShoutCast server. As a result, a new DynaBar popped into existence: Just dump it ... http://shrimpworks.za.net/2007/04/14/shoutcast-dynabar-plugin/ A long time ago, in a galaxy not far away, I created a very small application named SaveScreen. Today I'm rather pleased to release a much-improved SaveScreen 2. A couple of anti-virus applications complained that the .dll file distributed with SaveScreen which enabled detecting when "Print Screen" was pressed, was a ... http://shrimpworks.za.net/2007/04/08/save-screen-2/ Just for random phun, if you have an AniDB profile, you can now show your stats off in a DynaBar dynamic userbar. Something like these (output is completely customisable): http://shrimpworks.za.net/2006/11/13/anidb-dynabar-plugin/ Heh, I guess there are already plenty of tools out there which do this sort of thing already (never seen them personally, but then I've never looked either, heh), but this only took me half an evening to throw together anyway. Basically, it's a Python (uses youtube-dl) and PHP-powered web-based YouTube ... http://shrimpworks.za.net/2006/10/27/mytube-web-based-youtube-downloader/ Since the XBox Live "GamerCards" are so nicely exposed, there's really no reason not to have a DynaBar plugin for it, now is there. I've noticed a few GamerCards claiming to be in "userbar" format, however they do not follow userbar standards in layout, dimensions, or fonts. So, soon you too ... http://shrimpworks.za.net/2006/10/25/gamerscore-dynabar-plugin/ I'm only posting now, since I finally managed to drag myself away for long enough to actually do some useful stuff for a change. I could probably rave on for hours about how awesome the thing is, but then, you've probably read a million other reviews already. Launch day I was up ... http://shrimpworks.za.net/2006/10/04/me-and-my-xbox-360/ Well, despite around 10 years of pure PlayStation fanboyism, I've caved in and decided to get an XBox 360. With the South African launch happening officially at midnight on Friday the 29th, I now find myself counting the hours, and thinking XBox and games every waking moment. I don't know ... http://shrimpworks.za.net/2006/09/28/excitment-builds/ After the release of the "Dumb Image Browser", (which worked/works very well for what it's supposed to do), I thought of prettying it up a bit, and adding some extra features. The result is the Nice Image Browser. It's vastly improved in terms of visuals, as well as offering features like ... http://shrimpworks.za.net/2006/09/21/nice-image-browser-was-dumb-image-browser/