scraping your pc for mp3 files

January 19th, 2009 § 0

The following is a simple dos trick to create a playlist of all your mp3’s.

  1. go to the start menu
  2. click run
  3. enter cmd  => this opens a black dos window
  4. type dir /b/s *.mp3 > c:\mp3list.m3u

When this command finishes, a file will be created under c: with a list of all your mp3 files.
The m3u file is a plain text file with links to all your music. Some audio applications us this format for playlists.

Travian.nl

January 14th, 2009 § 0

Some tools to help play Travian

http://asite.110mb.com/cropfinder.php
Graandorpen zoeken

http://www.travianmap.nl/
http://travian.drvdijk.nl/
http://traviantool2.ww7.be/ mensen die niet actief zijn
http://www.traviantoolbox.com/combat_simulator
http://travian.ws/analyser.pl Speler analiseren
http://traviantoolbox.com/index.php

travian FAQ:http://help.travian.nl/index.php?type=start&mod=100
wiki travian(Eng):http://dhost.info/travian2005/Wiki/index.php/Main_Page
travian wiki v3 (Eng): http://travianwiki.uni.cc/index.php?title=Main_Page
Travian guide: http://tg.dutchtraviantools.nl/
DutchTravianTools: http://dutchtraviantools.nl/
help: http://help.travian.nl/
gebouwen stamboom: http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/7140/gebouwenenunitsv37zo.jpg

troepen vergelijker: http://n00bz.biz/travianstuff/troops.html

travian troepen tabel: http://forum.travian.nl/showthread.php?t=14297

scraping the web

January 7th, 2009 § 3

I’ve been working on a tool to scrape urls. The idea is to have a tool that checks my sites for invalid code, urls and images.

Below some tools and ideas that I might consider using

  • Wget can be used to spider a website (list url’s, not download) with the following command: wget -r –spider -o logfile.txt http://www.myurl.com
  • ruby: open-uri & hapricot.
  • php is not a good idea since scripts can only run for a certain time. (php on commandline is ok)
  • put the results in a mysql database so I can link it with other data

check for:

  • Valid html
  • 404
  • sitespeed
  • image compression (jpegsnoop for photoshop compression, Smush it)
  • readability
  • pagerank
  • internal links (links on my domain to pages on my domain)
  • external links (links on my domain to external domains)
  • received links (who links to me and what alt text is used, page rank)
  • keywords

Try to :

curl into Google analytics and import the results in mysql

[update]should read[/update]

Juxtapoz giveaways!!

December 27th, 2008 § 0

Juxtapoz is giving away four free posters. The lucky owners will be selected from people who sign up for the newsletter “this” weekend. More info

juxtapoz poster

Best wishes to ye all!

December 25th, 2008 § 0


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Tony Sandoval

December 25th, 2008 § 0

Tony Sandoval's Last weekend I bought “Le cadavre et le sofa”. “A small book by Mexican illustrator Tony Sandoval.

Background info

The book started out as a collection of drawings for a film script. Pierre Paquet had asked Tony to do a personal comic for the Discover comic serie. At that time Tony had been working on a little film project. He had made some drawings as a storyboard. The story was still far from finished, but the editors encouraged him him to send it in as a rough for the comic book.

Sandoval wanted to make it look like a kids book, but with an adult story. He got inspired  by Peter Jackson’s : The Feebles (puppets telling a story of drugs and violence) and Patrick Süskind’s “The Story of Mr. Sommer”.
P. Paquet liked it and the result was “Le cadavre et le sofa”.

The story

Chrisitian, a local boy has gone missing. As a result, none of the kids dare to come out and play. Except for Polo. He enjoys exploring the local countryside. On one of his solo trips, he encounters Sophie. Together they get plunged into the mystery surrounding Christian’s death.

When they find the boy’s body, they decide to check his decomposition at regular intervals. Together the spend the summer in a sofa that they pulled to the scene of the crime. Slowly the tragic story around Crhristian unfolds.

Tony Sandoval uses a rather childish drawing style combined with watercolour. Which results in a rather sharp contrast with the storyline.

Enjoy reading

More info @ : DeviantArtTony Sandoval’s Blog

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Mysql: find wrong emailadres

December 11th, 2008 § 0

SELECT  Email FROM Emails where Email not REGEXP ‘^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+.[A-Z]{2,4}$’ and Email != “”

Deryk Thomas art for sale

December 10th, 2008 § 0

Deryk Thomas
Typeditions has a nice new set of Deryk’s artwork. Some of you might remember his paintings from albums by Michael Gira’s band “The Swans”. Beside reproductions of his paintings, Typedions also has a limited portfolio for sale called “Debosch Portfolio“.


Five years in the making. One hundred amazing and intricate drawings. This limited edition portfolio is presented in a giant archive box (25.5 x 21 x 3” deep)

All one hundred pages are individually printed on archive paper and each edition includes an original and unique drawing by Deryk. The edition is signed and numbered and features a beautiful colour plate insert on the box lid.

PHPMyAdmin: Table specific privileges

November 14th, 2008 § 0

If you like to grant a user special privileges, like for example, only run select queries on a table, then PHPMyAdmin is your friend.

1. Go to the user settings
2. leave the global settings blank
3. under database specific, choose your database.
4. in the table specific, opt for the table you wish to add.
5. in the select column, select all fields that can be used for select queries.
6. check show_view and Create_view

That’s all :)

Most wanted Ajax stuff

November 4th, 2008 § 0

Today Noupe posted an overview of the most wanted ajax techniques. A list of over 50 solutions for common javascript problems. Librarys used include JQuery, Prototype and Mootools. It’s a good checklist if you need something special, done quick. I especially like wTag and Starbox. Thanx Noupe.

wTag