Interesting Recent Doings

by admin on April 2, 2012

Hey guys, sorry it has taken me so long to make another post or update anything, but its getting close to the end of the school year so I have been fairly busy. Anyways, I figured I needed to give you guys some info on what I’ve been doing lately, or some of the stuff that I have been involved in.

Recently (for a while actually), I have been working with a company called ‘Kanyon‘, and they do (mostly) java software development. I found them through their (java) autotyper, and we hit it off. The java autotyper isn’t open source, but it is free  and it has an almost completely different feature set from my autotyper. We are also working three other projects at Kanyon. If just for the autotyper that can run on any pc with java, you should go check them out.

I have also been working on a project with another guy online (we started it ourselves) called IntrepidZ. Basically it is a Open Source zombie survival game based on the project OctaForge. We have been getting our story for it all set up and have been working on some basic map work for it. If you are any sort of game designer (mapping, graphics design, audiophile, etc) then we would love to have you.

So that’s it. go check out Kanyon and see what you think of the autotyper, and if you can come and help us out with IntrepidZ.

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Linux Autotyper 1.1 Released

by admin on January 9, 2012

Alrighty guys! I have finished the latest and greatest version of my Linux autotyper! Some of the main changes are to the menus, and to the OSD. The OSD now has more info for you, and i made the menus a little better. I also added a suffix / prefix form. All the info is in the readme.

I added a countdown for the OSD, and you can now stop / pause / play the text sending with it. (This removes the need for start/stop function keys.)

As for the suffix / prefix form, It lets you add some text to the end and beginning of the text you send. Some games require you to press enter to type the text, and then enter again to send it. This form (Window?) allows you to do that easily.

Anyway, here is the download link:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/rsautosayer/files/Linux/1.1/

There is also a detailed install file with instructions for installing the Linux autotyper.

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Installing / Running The Linux Autotyper

by admin on December 18, 2011

It was recently brought to my attention that I do not have clear instructions for installing the linux autotyper. Well, this post fixes that. So without further adieu, the instructions.

 

1: First, you need gambas2 installed. I may have a script fixing this later, but not right now. To install gambas2:

1a: Open the terminal by pressing “ctrl” and “Shift” and “t” on your keyboard at the same time.

2: Enter this code in the terminal (command prompt for you new-to-linux people)
“sudo apt-get install gambas2”

You may or may not have to press ‘y’ to confirm that you want to have gambas2 on your system.

3: Download the latest version of the linux autotyper by clicking this link:
“Download here.“

4: Extract the downloaded zip file to your desktop.
5: Browse to the extracted folder on your desktop, and open it.
6: Open the folder called “Executable”

7: there are two files, DaGeek247s_Autotyper,gambas, and readme.txt.
Make DaGeek247s_Autotyper.gambas executable.

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WordPress Update

by admin on December 18, 2011

Today, I decided to update to the newest WordPress installation. Thank goodness for backups.

Basically, I clicked “Update Now”, and it didn’t work. I had to download the new installation of WordPress, and restore all my changed settings, and do the backup. That’s why my site was down for the most part of an afternoon.

I also was notified about my not having proper instructions on setting up my Linux autotyper. Oops! I will have that fixed fairly soon. Until then, go backup your site! 🙂

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Extensions Every Chrome User Should Have

by admin on November 28, 2011

I find more often than not that those who have the chrome (chromium or google chrome) browser have no idea how to even use extensions, much less see what they can do. This is upsetting because i cant stand when people want it to ‘just work’ and are content when its not.

Anyways, I have compiled a list of extensions that every chrome user needs, or should definitely have.

First off, is Chrome Ad Block. Ever been to a site that has great content, but has so many ads that it kills whatever is there? This nifty extension removes those ads, and makes it look the ad was never supposed to be there anyways. This extension, out of all the other extensions is my favorite. It doesnt download the ads, then remove them from the page, it removes them from the page and then downloads the page. for you non-techie people it means faster load times, and better all-around performance upgrade. If you get nothing else, this one is the one to get.

Next, is Vanilla Cookie Manager. I love this one because i love to hate tracking cookies. You know, the things that are used to let others see your browsing history. It works by deleting cookies off ALL the sites you haven’t allowed. This way, you don’t have cookies that are from unknown sites. If you set it to delete unwanted cookies every thirty minutes, and have the chrome ad blocker i mentioned, it keeps the super cookies in check too.

That’s it! With these extensions, you can be assured that you wont be tracked by anyone, and your browser will be all-around faster.

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20x.cc Asks for money from the dead

by admin on November 24, 2011

Awhile back, and it must be around two months, 20x.cc disappeared off of the internet. This meant that my site, (and a host 😀 of others) disappeared also. Well, i just got an email from them saying that i should renew the account, because it has to few visitors.

This email caused me to be really excited because, hey! i might get all my old data back. No such luck, it was the service they used for paid accounts emailing me. This really upsets me, because 20x.cc gave no warning, and its now just opening old wounds. Next time you have a site, back it up regularly, so you don’t lose your data.

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Windows and Linux Autotypers

by admin on November 17, 2011

I have good news, and bad news. I’ll start with the bad news. Quite frankly, development of the windows autotyper has stopped for one reason: windows is a pain in the butt. I recently got Windows 7, the latest and greatest. I tried installing VB6 (The language i use for the windows autotyper) and it failed miserably due to issues beyond my abilities to fix. I got the newest Visual Studio (2010) and it ran so slow it wasn’t worth it. It could not import my autotyper’s source, so it wasn’t worth the effort of remaking it.

For now, the windows autotyper development is stopped. I cannot develop it right now. If you want to help out,  and start development again, email me at imageek247@gmail.com, and we can work something out. For now, there is only the old version of the windows autotyper.

 

Alrighty guys! Here’s the good news. I finally got around to finishing the newest version of the Linux autotyper; 1.0. This one has some major updates;

New OSD  that shows a preview of the next text

You could already save/open a text file into the autotyper. Now you can choose the method with which it divides the text. Suppose you felt like ‘reading’ a book you got of the internet to RuneScape. You would import the text file, and choose a period “.” as the divider, instead of the default enter “\n” key.

Runescape Effects are now fully supported (that one took awhile)

Finally, You have three different ways of timing the sent text. You can use one speed for all the texts, just like always, or you can have it send the text randomly between two texts. And the newest one, you can have its sending speed go according to the number of characters in the text. For example, by building off of you reading a book to runescape, you could use this speed setting to make it look like you typed it yourself, at an average typing speed.

You can get the newest version of the autotyper,  at this link:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/rsautosayer/files/Linux/1.0/?

and you can check out its new screenshot on my website at this link:

http://dageek247.tk/wordpress/?page_id=32

enjoy!

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Fedora 16 Rant

by admin on November 14, 2011

I love Linux, and I love fedora and Ubuntu. they are my favorite distros. Lately, however, they haven’t been doing as good as they can. In a previous post i talked about Ubuntu 11.10 and unity. Unity didn’t turn out as well as it could, but after some research, i found i was able to simply impermanently hide the side bar and use docky instead.

This time, my rant is not about fedora itself, but my computer and its limitations along with Fedora’s hardware needs. The default gnome3 fedora spin is not able to install on my computer, and its because i need 256MB more RAM. Normally, linux is supposed to be less resource intensive, but this is not the case with F16. It takes 756MB ram to install the fedora 16 gnome spin, and I only have 512MB. However, I was able to look at the desktop on the livecd, and see, how promising it looks, for computers that could handle it. Maybe when I get more RAM, it will get better.

In any case, I hope everyone who can run fedora 16 enjoys it.  Have fun with Linux!

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Ubuntu Templates

by admin on October 18, 2011

Ubuntu templates, the one thing they always forget to add in the release. Sure you can add your own, but that’s always a pain to do yourself. But first, an explanation for the newer ubuntu users.

Whenever you right click on a folder or the desktop in ubuntu, you are given the option to to create a file. If its a new install, it will almost certainly tell you how it doesn’t have any templates installed. The simple fix is to go to the ~/randomuser335/Templates folder and make some files, and most of us do.

However, doing that with every new release is a pain, so i spent about thirty minutes setting up a whole bunch of files and adding them to a file to share with everyone else. Now, you just need to come here and get my file, and copy its contents to your own templates folder.

Last thing, and i’ll give you the templates link. Every folder in the templates folder is a new sub-menu in the ‘create file’ menu. every file you put in the templates folder is just copied when you use the create new file menu. So here is an exemple of the sub-menus;
Finally, here is the link to my templates. Just extract the files to the ~/username/Templates/ folder and you can use them instantly. http://dageek247.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Templates.tar.gz

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Ubuntu 11.10 IS OUT!!!

by admin on October 14, 2011

And I had, to my absolute delight, the chance to install it on an asus netbook, and try it out. I also had, to my tentative enjoyment, to test it out on my desktop.

Let me explain, the new ubuntu 11.10 now uses unity as its default interface. why is that bad and good? It was originally made for netbooks, and as such it looked great on the netbook. But, its new sidebar was terrible on the desktop. Worse, the sidebar can’t be moved according to this, and my messing around with it failed to change that. Other than that, the new default unity interface is great, and ubuntu 11.10 is great also.

When i installed it on the netbook and looked around, i was thrilled everywhere i went. The new interface, (i always used the main ubuntu for the netbook, even though there is a netbook version) has me feeling right at home. If you have a 16:3 desktop screen, 11.10 will only make you happy. If you have a 4:3 desktop screen (like me) Unity will annoy, but it won’t hurt you, and its always fun to mess with a new OS.

So, I recommend everyone to go check it out. (Try to use the torrent if you can to alleviate some of the load on the servers)

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