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The Power of the Firecracker

webmaster@roundobia.com — 2006-08-14T09:07:18-06:00

just recently, my friend and i decided it would be cool to blow up lego buildings with firecrackers. We were right, and it was cool. Here are some videos we took of various times. They are in quicktime playable AVI Format. All of these videos were taken on my $100 ATC-1000 (Listen to episode 10 of PWNN for more info.) The download is in ZIP Archive. Download, and unarchive.

Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
Video 4
Video 5
All Videos

Chat On multiple platforms in one Application

webmaster@roundobia.com — 2006-08-07T19:33:35-06:00

A new application that I found, called Adium can support contacts on a variety of platforms including
MSN
Yahoo
ICQ
AIM
.mac
And others. And it is a free application.
Runs on almost any Mac OS 10.4 Machine.

Adium Home Page

Nihilist Code Grid

webmaster@roundobia.com — 2006-08-07T13:40:49-06:00

I recently read a book oh Nihilist Concealed linguistics. But the most intriguing part of the code, was its decoding, and encoding method. Its a grid with numbers. So for instance, the code 2324 would mean "hi." and the code 2315313134 would mean hello. How cryptic you might say, but no. Not hard at all. Here is a grid that i made. The original code, would be written in a normal cursive, but every few letters would end with a little piece of the letter pointing up, and that would mean 1-5 depending on how many letters were skipped. This way you could write a innocent looking letter, and have a secret message coded in it. But i just like it without the cursive. If you found a piece of paper on the ground that said 2315313134 on it, would you try and investigate the meaning? Not really. So this is just a fun language to learn and communicate with. And it can be send over the internet, and the grid can be easily changed for extra security. when a space is needed, if possible just leave a space, or if not possible, put 00, because that does not represent a letter. I am also developing a php application that will code and decode the codes for you.

Direct Image

ai_code_grid.ai (Make your own grid style)

New PWNN Album artwork

webmaster@roundobia.com — 2006-08-06T16:07:44-06:00

This new artwork, is now part of all the shows. Here is the album artwork.

PWNN Coming again this month

webmaster@roundobia.com — 2006-08-04T10:21:16-06:00

We are fine tuning the podcast for full production, and we are going to tone the episode release rate down to about 1 or 2 every week, instead of one a day. We would love to do one podcast per day, but that is almost 4 hours of work a week. So plan on the next PWNN Next week or 2 weeks from now. By the way, we need some cover art. If you would like to submit some cover art for the podcast, please send me and email.

No PWNN This week

webmaster@roundobia.com — 2006-07-23T20:06:43-06:00

This week will be a week off, because of a week long "vacation" to Wind Rivers Wyoming.
If you don't have anything to listen to, I will recommend some other podcasts.

This Week in Tech

The Maccast

Both Very good podcasts.

New podcast is launched

webmaster@roundobia.com — 2006-07-21T20:55:23-06:00

A new podcast was launched at roundobia.com a few days ago, and the name is PWNN That is the Podcast With No Name.

Home page

Apple Camp Podcast

webmaster@roundobia.com — 2006-07-18T13:18:05-06:00

This is a podcast of me and 3 other kids who did a podcast. I am the person at the start and end of the podcast. I also did most of the editing. There is a lot of empty space at the end of the podcast. (My fault)

Apple camp podcast (size 2.8 MB) MP3

Mini Player

DashCode OS X

webmaster@roundobia.com — 2006-05-24T17:20:22-06:00

DashCode
I discovered this application bundled with my MACBOOK PRO. Yes they are shipping them with the pro.

Many people ask why apple cant just RELEASE something. This is why. It crashes about one every 2 minutes.

LINKS

Download

Taking hold of a OS X Application

webmaster@roundobia.com — 2006-04-25T19:04:24-06:00

Ever lost that serial number you just entered into an application?
Ever wondered how a OS X Application works? Ever wonder how an application stores your preferences? Here is an article on how to find the preference file, launch list editor.

Required applications:
⁃ Appzapper
⁃ OS X
⁃ (update) OSX DEVELOPER INSTALL
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⁃ Open Appzapper. You do not need to even zap anything. You just have to use it to find the preference file.
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⁃ Once open, drag your desired application to it. It should find a file like:
⁃ com.website.application.plist
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⁃ Now, press the magnifying glass to reveal the file. If you double click in my system, it opens "Property List Editor" (Comes with developer install)
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⁃ Now you can change any preference.
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⁃ Note: Before editing the Plist file, it is a good idea to make a full copy of the file before editing it.

Roundbase 3.0 nears release

webmaster@roundobia.com — 2006-04-24T20:11:17-06:00

roundbase 3 nears release. It is still quite beta, but it is getting there

Apple Joins Roundobia

webmaster@roundobia.com — 2006-04-18T15:57:25-06:00

Here is the JPG Picture:

Apple Boot Camp

webmaster@roundobia.com — 2006-03-31T20:07:45-07:00

No, This isn't a real boot camp, its a program. Its a new program That lets you run XP On your mac. "I don't know why you would want to do that", Steve jobs said at the first public beta of Boot Camp. All you need is a Intel-mac and your own copy of Microsoft Windows © XP. But its there if you want it.
Apple Boot Camp application

Site redesign finished

webmaster@roundobia.com — 2006-03-25T08:59:47-07:00

The site has been redesigned. If you see any problems just click the contact link at the top of the page, and send me your thoughts through the comments, or the email form.

site redesign

acela (amtrak) website blunder

webmaster@roundobia.com — 2006-03-25T08:16:39-07:00

If you go to http://acela.com you can find a small script that says “hello world!”
now try going to http://www.acela.com
it shows up as amtrak. How funny is that.

Get Superbowl ads VIA Podcast

webmaster@roundobia.com — 2006-03-25T08:16:04-07:00

here is the feed URL For all the Superbowl Commercials. 
 Devlib Superbowl Pocast url

Kill OS X Crash Dialouge

webmaster@roundobia.com — 2006-03-25T08:14:40-07:00

A few days ago, I downloaded the apple SDK, (somthing develeper kit). And in the utilities, i found a program called CrashReporterPrefs. I opened it out of Curiosity, and there are three simple radio buttions.  Regular, Which is the regular crash dialouge Developer, Which shows the last strings the application ran Server, This completley disables the crash Dialouges.   To get the CrashReporterPrefs, you have to download the xcode 2.2 package. This is a 800MB file, and requires about 1.5 GB of free space. But for someone who allready has it, go and check it out.