How long will it be until botnet operators start up a similar service? Or am I out of date and they have already done this?
Anyway kudos to Sun for offering this service.
You mean keys that work when iTunes isn't the frontmost app?
I didn't know that was even possible. That explains why I didn't understand what was going on.
Is it common for applications to have this?
Well, I don't know if it's common, but WinAmp has this. Once you get used to it, it's very hard to go back. If I'm listening to music and coding when the phone rings, it is much easier to press WIN + 3 instead of switching to iTunes/WinAmp/whatever and pressing pause.
What is this "no shortcut keys" thing people say". I can use both ctrl-key shortcut and alt-key shortcuts (and command-key shortcuts on Mac). What am I missing?
I run iTunes on Windows and I don't see any global shortcut keys that I can use without giving iTunes keyboard focus. If they do exist, could you please point out to me where to find them?
The one feature that prevented me from using iTunes instead of Winamp was the lack of keyboard shortcuts. I eventually bit the bullet, downloaded the sdk from apple, and coded up a fairly simple app. I can now change tracks, fast forward, rewind, pause and change the volume without needing to give iTunes the focus. Huzzah!
hey I just had an idea, what if you deliberately virtualised your machine in a hidden manner, so a vm rootkit trying to virtualise your os would actually be virtualising between the good VM and the OS, and the godd VM could detect and report on the bad VM:) (long way to go about it).
Sounds like the fight between Curious Yellow and Curious Blue.
The Hi-Fi is a bit of a stretch. It's basically a big box with little iPod jutting out of the top. It would look much better if the iPod sat between the speakers.
2. Bomberman - Maybe the multiplayer Bomberman phenomenon wasn't as widespread as i had thought.
I have many fond memories of playing 5 player bomberman on the amiga. Although it was very crowded trying to fit all of us so we could see the screen comfortably. I'm still kicking myself for not buying bomberman on the gamecube when I had the chance. I'd love to relive some multiplayer bomberman action.
When I find a Flashblock extension for Opera I'll give 'er another shot. Until then, it's basically useless.
I'm not familiar with the Flashblock extension, but is this what you want?
Improved content blocker Cosmetic surgery for Web pages. Just right click on a page and select block content. Any content not greyed out can be blocked with a click. Select done and see the page the way you want.
There are conventions in media we become perfectly used to, despite their having no place in reality. If we watch a movie, and someone is given CPR in the street, on the beach or dangling on a rope from a hot air balloon, we know they'll come back to life. Nevermind that CPR merely sustains things until proper medical equipment arrives - we know, and accept, that with a couple of compressions and a few puffs in the mouth, they'll be up and about and back to shooting zombies in a couple of minutes.
All romantic comedies will end in life-lasting true love, and all soap operas will have a 100% relationship failure rate. All cops will announce, "There's no time for back up!" when they arrive at the scene of a crime, before being asked to hand in their gun and badge to the furious captain (what with the governor being in town) on a weekly basis. All aliens are bipedal, and of all the languages spoken on Earth, choose English. Shopping bags always contain a long stick of French bread. And if you bump into someone of the opposite sex carrying a large stack of files, you will fall in love while picking them up. These are truths.
Conventions require time. Videogames have finally reached an age where such imaginary stalwarts are becoming firmly established, most especially within roleplaying games.
The distinguishing feature of such behaviors is we don't stop to question them until they're starkly pointed out. We accept them, unconsciously suspending our disbelief, only noticing when some smart-ass comes along and says, "Why is it when men disguise themselves as women, they suddenly gain super-strength?" So tell me, why is it in every RPG I've ever played, complete strangers are perfectly happy to walk up to me and entrust their very most intimate and important needs to my charge?
Arriving in a new town for the very first time, dressed in a confused mishmash of brown leggings, a priestly robe, chain mail jerkin, leather gloves, three magic rings, a large amulet necklace and a pointed wizard's hat, any number of distraught mothers will approach me and beg that I find their missing children/husbands/swords. Perhaps, I might be walking around naked but for the scrap of cloth protecting my decency and a fine pair of kobold-hide boots, but this won't prevent the local baker from requesting that I take a magic cake to his colleague in a neighbouring town, or the grumpy old codger from barking at me that I should clear his basement of vampiric rats.
What are they thinking? Do they ask just anyone who walks past, and I'm the only one daft enough to stop and listen? And when, exactly, was the last time someone accosted you in the street and asked you to complete a quest for them?
I decided to put this to the test.
The plan: To take to the streets, dressed as a wizard, with a quest for the good peoples of Bath, England. Would they really help out a stranger with a strange beard? Would they even stop to listen? Is there any truth to this convention we've otherwise entirely accepted?
First of all, I should immediately get this out of the way: No one, at any point, approached me to ask for a quest. Short of suspending a yellow exclamation mark above my head, I'm not sure what more I could have done to attract the attention of any passing adventurers braving the cold thoroughfare through the centre of the town. If anything, people did their very best to avoid me, refusing eye contact, moving far away from my pleading face. It was already concerning.
I should explain the scenario. I, the brave wizard, had transferred through a portal into this dimension, but could not leave the spot on which I stood. It was imperative to the survival of the universe that the magic spell I held (a rolled up scroll of paper, engagingly tied with a purple ribbon) be given to the girl in the red cloak and hood, waiting outside what you humans call "the shoe shop," 300 yards down the road. Upon completion of this vital task, a bag of gold coins would
every, yes, every function should have a keyboard combination interface.... But none of this is possible if the programmers don't put a keypress combination for every function of the program.
In WinAmp hit "Ctrl + P" for the preferences menu. Go to Global Hotkeys in the General Preferences menu, and add whatever keypress combinations you feel like. This is for WinAmp 5 btw, I don't know if it's used in earlier versions.
There was an article about it in new scientist a little while ago. The first part of the article can be found here. A pdf of the full article can be found here.
Cheers,
ZzzzSleep.
I figure it's Opera's fault if they're not standard compliant and their market share doesn't justify much effort on my part.
Sometimes though websites will block Opera users because they are not using one of the "big two", even if Opera can render the page without any problems.
A game I'd love a sequel for is Ghost Master... I picked this game up a couple of months ago for my PC as a budget title and really enjoyed it. It's kind of a cross between Dungeon Keeper and The Sims. Oh yeah... I wouldn't mind another Dungeon Keeper game either...
Kid: Your beard's not real.
Willie: It was real, but I got sick and all the hair fell out.
Kid: How come?
Willie: I loved a woman who wasn't clean.
Kid: Mrs. Claus?
Willie: Actually it was her sister.
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ZzzzSleep
How long will it be until botnet operators start up a similar service? Or am I out of date and they have already done this? Anyway kudos to Sun for offering this service.
ZzzzSleep
Rest in Peace...
That's all that needs to be said really.
The one feature that prevented me from using iTunes instead of Winamp was the lack of keyboard shortcuts. I eventually bit the bullet, downloaded the sdk from apple, and coded up a fairly simple app. I can now change tracks, fast forward, rewind, pause and change the volume without needing to give iTunes the focus. Huzzah!
ZzzzSleep
ZzzzSleep
From http://labs.opera.com/news/2006/02/07/2/
And damn you slashdot for getting my hopes up that Opera 9 was out!
Here's the article in it's full splendor then...
There are conventions in media we become perfectly used to, despite their having no place in reality. If we watch a movie, and someone is given CPR in the street, on the beach or dangling on a rope from a hot air balloon, we know they'll come back to life. Nevermind that CPR merely sustains things until proper medical equipment arrives - we know, and accept, that with a couple of compressions and a few puffs in the mouth, they'll be up and about and back to shooting zombies in a couple of minutes.
All romantic comedies will end in life-lasting true love, and all soap operas will have a 100% relationship failure rate. All cops will announce, "There's no time for back up!" when they arrive at the scene of a crime, before being asked to hand in their gun and badge to the furious captain (what with the governor being in town) on a weekly basis. All aliens are bipedal, and of all the languages spoken on Earth, choose English. Shopping bags always contain a long stick of French bread. And if you bump into someone of the opposite sex carrying a large stack of files, you will fall in love while picking them up. These are truths.
Conventions require time. Videogames have finally reached an age where such imaginary stalwarts are becoming firmly established, most especially within roleplaying games.
The distinguishing feature of such behaviors is we don't stop to question them until they're starkly pointed out. We accept them, unconsciously suspending our disbelief, only noticing when some smart-ass comes along and says, "Why is it when men disguise themselves as women, they suddenly gain super-strength?" So tell me, why is it in every RPG I've ever played, complete strangers are perfectly happy to walk up to me and entrust their very most intimate and important needs to my charge?
Arriving in a new town for the very first time, dressed in a confused mishmash of brown leggings, a priestly robe, chain mail jerkin, leather gloves, three magic rings, a large amulet necklace and a pointed wizard's hat, any number of distraught mothers will approach me and beg that I find their missing children/husbands/swords. Perhaps, I might be walking around naked but for the scrap of cloth protecting my decency and a fine pair of kobold-hide boots, but this won't prevent the local baker from requesting that I take a magic cake to his colleague in a neighbouring town, or the grumpy old codger from barking at me that I should clear his basement of vampiric rats.
What are they thinking? Do they ask just anyone who walks past, and I'm the only one daft enough to stop and listen? And when, exactly, was the last time someone accosted you in the street and asked you to complete a quest for them?
I decided to put this to the test.
The plan: To take to the streets, dressed as a wizard, with a quest for the good peoples of Bath, England. Would they really help out a stranger with a strange beard? Would they even stop to listen? Is there any truth to this convention we've otherwise entirely accepted?
First of all, I should immediately get this out of the way: No one, at any point, approached me to ask for a quest. Short of suspending a yellow exclamation mark above my head, I'm not sure what more I could have done to attract the attention of any passing adventurers braving the cold thoroughfare through the centre of the town. If anything, people did their very best to avoid me, refusing eye contact, moving far away from my pleading face. It was already concerning.
I should explain the scenario. I, the brave wizard, had transferred through a portal into this dimension, but could not leave the spot on which I stood. It was imperative to the survival of the universe that the magic spell I held (a rolled up scroll of paper, engagingly tied with a purple ribbon) be given to the girl in the red cloak and hood, waiting outside what you humans call "the shoe shop," 300 yards down the road. Upon completion of this vital task, a bag of gold coins would
Zzzz
Cheers,
ZzzzSleep.
A game I'd love a sequel for is Ghost Master... I picked this game up a couple of months ago for my PC as a budget title and really enjoyed it. It's kind of a cross between Dungeon Keeper and The Sims. Oh yeah... I wouldn't mind another Dungeon Keeper game either...
I'd hate to disillusion you but...
That was such a disturbing movie...
Kid: Your beard's not real.
Willie: It was real, but I got sick and all the hair fell out.
Kid: How come?
Willie: I loved a woman who wasn't clean.
Kid: Mrs. Claus?
Willie: Actually it was her sister.