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billy wrote a new post, Evening Depress, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Following in the steps of the Pish & Churnal and Empty News scripts, I offer today’s Evening Depress…

The download link below should ask to install it in chrome, if you’re using Firefox you’ll need <a […]
billy wrote a new post, Add Blog Bookmarklet, on the site billythekid's blogshares blog 1 month ago

The old add blog bookmarklet was broken with the changeover for a couple of reasons, so here’s a new one. I had to do some slight tinkering in the back-end at BS to get this to work, something that we wouldn’t […]
billy wrote a new post, Rotate elements jQuery bookmarklet, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 1 month, 1 week ago

Ever seen when someone’s uploaded an image or a video shot on their iPhone or uploaded badly so that it’s displaying sideways or upside-down online? Yeah I have too. It’s annoying trying to crick your neck just to […]
billy wrote a new post, Search for incoming links bookmarklet, on the site billythekid's blogshares blog 1 month, 3 weeks ago

It makes financial sense when trying to get those rare ideas to create a drop yourself, rather than buying expensive bonds. However in order for a blog in an industry to drop it needs to have incoming links. For […]
billy wrote a new post, Back to top bookmarklet(s), on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 2 months, 2 weeks ago

How annoying is it when a page induces an infinite scroll technique or is just long and they don’t provide you with a mechanism to get back to the top of the page? (that’s rhetorical but the answer is […]
billy posted an update 3 months, 1 week ago

Ignore all the order of posts after this, these haven’t just been written but the site-tracker has noticed they’ve been saved recently. I ran a broken link checker and altered some links…

An edited post isn’t the same as a new post
billy wrote a new post, Ooops…, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 3 months, 1 week ago

…small update to yesterdays published WP MP3 Player. I accidentally put in a bug with the modified updater. It was opening even in the event you had the most recent version installed. This is fixed now, version […]
billy wrote a new post, Twitter @Anywhere PHP server-side validation, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 3 months, 1 week ago

I’ve been working on a little twitter thing for blogshares. I was going to just use the regular API from twitter as I do for many other projects. However there’s one issue. Blogshares runs squid and it has issues […]
billy wrote a new post, Firefox Keylogger Extension, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 3 months, 1 week ago

I’ve written a simple firefox extension to log keystrokes on websites. It’ll log all keypresses for each page visited.

You can see what keys were logged by right-clicking in the page and selecting “View BTK […]
billy wrote a new post, Yes I Can, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 3 months, 1 week ago

…make it easier for you that is.

I ended my last post with the question

“Couldn’t make it easier than that could I?”

Well after some productive typing I’ve created another form which will handle conversion to […]
billy wrote a new post, Seven Things You Don't Know About Me, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 3 months, 1 week ago

I’ve been tagged by Stuart Brown of OU fame and this brilliant blog for a seven things you (possibly) don’t know about me meme (pronounce this as meem not meemee, I made that error in the company of geeks once, […]
billy wrote a new post, WP Stripper, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 3 months, 1 week ago

I’ve put the long elusive WP Stripper online, after hunting it down from Archive.org as I’d lost it on my own machine too!!!

btk
billy wrote a new post, TV Licensing – Gotcha By The Balls, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 3 months, 1 week ago

This isn’t particularly techy or geeky but since I closed my personal blog I’ll put it here as it’s ‘just’ internetty enough!

According to the TV licensing site you need a license if you watch TV ‘as its being […]
billy wrote a new post, How To Clean Your Twitter Followers, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 3 months, 1 week ago

I’ve been using twitter for a couple of years now and recently there has been a huge jump in users from the UK, thanks mostly to the publicity from @schofe, @stephenfry and @wossy and it’s a good thing. However […]
billy wrote a new post, Downloading New Youtube Videos, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 3 months, 1 week ago

Recently YouTube made this announcement. In relation to this new ‘service’ they started blocking most algorithms for downloading from them for nothing.

This meant that most popular browser plugins just stopped […]
billy wrote a new post, How To Make JPG = PHP, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 3 months, 1 week ago

Recently over on Blogshares we’ve been having a bit of a brainstorm about how to make things better. One of the suggestions to which I quickly replied, “I could do that easy, tonight!” was to alter the image […]
billy wrote a new post, Can't Type Keywords Into Firefox Address Bar, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 3 months, 1 week ago

I reported this on launchpad but fixed it myself.

Whenever I typed a keyword into the address bar it would give me an error as follows:

The file […]
billy wrote a new post, iTeddy Video Converter (Update), on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 3 months, 1 week ago

Try this updated post instead… AMV files in Linux – revisited

!STOP PRESS!
I’ve also created an online version of this conversion script that handles YouTube URLs as well as files uploaded from your […]
billy wrote a new post, How To Send An Online SMS Text Message To Your UK Vodafone Mobile, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 3 months, 1 week ago

If you’ve been trying to get this to work you’ve undoubtedly found it’s a right pain in the ascii, however it CAN be done in a workaround way. This is the method I’ve used to get this to work. You should note that […]
billy wrote a new post, iTeddy Video (.avi – .amv) Converter for Linux, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 3 months, 1 week ago

Try this updated post instead… AMV files in Linux – revisited

Please also read this update, thanks.

***If you just want conversion software without the story click Linux avi-amv Converter to get to the […]
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