Display fire bug in any browser

Sean Bluett says..... if, like me,  half your life is spent trying to make Internet Explorer behave you should check this out. I use fire bug on firefox but had no real debugger for IE as microsoft script debugger kept crashing.
But you can use firbug in any browser !!  Just add a script tag with teh source below

script type='text/javascript'
src='http://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/1.2/firebug-lite-compressed.js'
script

Or open this link here

Google Fast Flip

Sean Bluett says.....Is this feckin'  cool or what ....

http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/

  You can read more about it on cnet

I must ask what will they think of next........

Getting around Eircom and into Pirate Bay

Sean Bluett says.....

If you are a file sharer, and I'm not saying I am. It may be illegal or somethign like that, so do it at your own risk.

We all know Eircom, nazis that they are, have blocked pirate bay but others around the world believe in personal freedom and have provided a way around them. You can use a proxy server.

There is even a few web sites that will let you use theirs ... http://www.freeproxyserver.net/# for example.

Word of warning.. be careful about entering sensitive information though these web sites as they can be read by the provider.

The Other Side of life

Sean Bluett says.....
Here's view of the other side of life. I live in pampered middle class ireland, here are some real red necks !!

The above picture is part of this year's winning entry for the Ian Parry Award by Maisie Crow, who is a graduate of the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University and currently an intern at the Boston Globe.
Take a look at her winning entry, a real eye opener and be sure to read the captions

Mother nature better watch out !!

Sean

Bluett says.....
Denture wearers take note: Science is one step closer to growing replacement teeth "from seed." .........Read the full scoop

Think I'd prefer to be gummy than have a mouse grow my teeth !

Wireless power system shown off

Sean Bluett says.....

Groovy !

A system that can deliver power to devices without the need for wires has been shown off at a hi-tech conference.

The technique exploits simple physics and can be used to charge a range of electronic devices.

Eric Giler, chief executive of US firm Witricity, showed mobile phones and televisions charging wirelessly at the TED Global conference in Oxford.

He said the system could replace the miles of expensive power cables and billions of disposable batteries. Read the full article on BBC

Google Latitude

Sean Bluett says.....


http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/latitude/intro.html

There's no where to hide now !

Using this app you can track where in the world your friends or employees are, assuming they have a web enabled phone.

Mother of god, privacy is dead !

OH MY GOD ! Some People are so Thick !

Sean Bluett says..... I stumbled accross this by accident. CNET buzz report mentioned it as a clogging the tubes site.
You just gotta see this ... http://thereifixedit.com/tag/unsafe/

Google are to put out an OS

Sean Bluett says.....
I'd say it'll be in beta for 20 years but google are bring out an operating system.
Read the full HURAH on the google blog

Apparently will be open source. A load of buzz about it but no dates yet for release etc.

Bluett Stuff

Sean Bluett says.....Here's few links for Bluett related stuff

http://bluett.com/ [This is a site for people with the surname Bluett and its variations.]

Bluett page on face book [A group for Bluetts, or those that wanna be Bluetts]

I don't maintain any of these pages!

RTE I-player

Sean Bluett says..... Catch up on the news and stuff.

The new flash player is fast and the website's easy to navigate.

Well done RTE!
http://www.rte.ie/player/

Not bad for a free editor

Sean Bluett says..... having progreesed away from dreamweaver, I now work on Eclipse almost entirley. but I am lazy and like to have a WYSIWYG handy.

KompoZer is a groovy open source editor that does all the fiddly stuff you need a HTML editor to do.
Read more at http://kompozer.net/features.php

It has a handy "Remove All Text Styles" on the right click context menu if you are doing some copy and pasting form other docs.

The Ultimate Media Player

Sean Bluett says.....If you watch movies on your computer you need this media player. I plays everything and you don't need to keep downloading codecs and and updates that make windows media player such a headwrecker.

VLC media player just download it and enjoy it's freeware

The Best Banjo Album -EVER !

Sean Bluett says..... I found the best banjo playing ever

This is not a windup - I swear. On amazon see
Or for down load a on pirate bay

I cam across this while looking through amazon today.

If you like banjo music you gotta hear this.............

apparently he started playing banjo at an early age here'a abit from bilboard magazine

Google Wave

If are sick of microsoft apps ....

I know google are leaving things in beta for an eternity and they are secretly in legue with the US military but that WAVE rocks!
It will be interesting to see how it scales though. If you watch the video it updates on all viewers almost character by character as they type! I'm sure the guys in black hats will like having a go at that.

Reading Google Documents with PHP

At work recently I had to accomplish this and thought it might be good to spread it around. Zend provide a PHP library for reading google documents that is easy pezzy to use.

The Zend library is here
The API is here
this is some further reading at code.google.com

Here's a real basic exampl on how to read a spredsheet.......

function googleLogin($sEmail, $sPassword, $service )
{
    global $objLog;
    $objClient = null;
    // predefined service name for Google Documents
    try
    {
        $objClient = Zend_Gdata_ClientLogin::getHttpClient($sEmail, $sPassword, $service);
    } catch (Exception  $cre)
    {

        $sMessage =  'URL of CAPTCHA image: ' . $cre->getMessage() . "\n";
        $objLog->logMessage($sMessage, 1);
    }
    return $objClient;
}


$service = Zend_Gdata_Spreadsheets::AUTH_SERVICE_NAME;
$objClient = googleLogin($sEmail, $sPassword, $service);
$spreadsheetService = new Zend_Gdata_Spreadsheets($objClient);
$query = new Zend_Gdata_Spreadsheets_DocumentQuery();
$query->setSpreadsheetKey($sIdent);
$feed = $spreadsheetService->getWorksheetFeed($query);
// get the first sheet
$objWorksheet = $feed[0];
$arySpreadSheetRows = $objWorksheet->getContentsAsRows();
// get rid of the first three rows
$arySpreadSheetRows = removeHeaders($arySpreadSheetRows);
if(count($arySpreadSheetRows) == 0 )
{
    $sMessage = 'no worksheet data found for '. $objWorksheet->getTitle() ;
    error_log($sMessage ,1 ); exit;
}

// now we need to extract the xml data from the sheet#
$aryXmlData = getXmlDataFromFeed($arySpreadSheetRows);
// this array can then be used as you see fit

Sea Steads - What are they

Well they may be the homes of the future if global warming continues......
http://seasteading.org/design-contest-winners#overall

See some more flickr photos about this.... here

Inspirational photos

http://picasaweb.google.com/seanbluett/Inspiration?feat=directlink

some funny ones

Laura's Communion

We are a bunch of fatties!

New Google Search Options

Now that is cool

But will most people use it?
People are lazy .... but check out the wonder wheel

View the full low down

God Save Us!

Oh my god ! they are out there.. be careful

Sayings

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.
- Evan Esar

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
- Elizabeth Taylor

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
- Nikita Khrushchev