Owner: Divide by Zero - a blog by Kamran Ayub URL:http://kamranayub.com/ Join Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:43:12 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: A personal blog covering anything from technology, how to articles, reviews, games, and my life. Site statistics:Click here
Import an Audiobook From CDs Painlessly Using iTunes [Tips & Tricks] 2008-08-14 18:35:48 I just discovered this feature. If you want to import a CD that is an Audiobook
, like I bought Stephen Colbert’s “I Am America and So Can You,” you can easily do so using iTunes
. If you ever have tried importing an audiobook, you know there’s many tracks. iTunes has a neat feature that can join them all together and import them as one track per CD. Useful! Insert CD. Open iTunes. Read more:Import
Today’s Woot: 32” Westinghouse LCD TV - $400 2008-08-14 13:43:16 Grab it while you can. My girlfriend just bought a 22” LCD for $375, we should have waited to see what Woot had to offer, now I feel stupid. Also on Sellout.Woot there’s a Sharp 37” 720p LCD TV for a mere $700. If it was 1080p I’d get it, but right now I have my sights set on a Toshiba 37”.
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10 Tips for Speeding Up Your Web Designing [Tips & Tricks] 2008-08-12 22:55:19 Recently on Digg an article was posted on some tips for saving time with your web design. Although it’s just a personal list, I thought that some tips could have been better and so I offer my own little list. I won’t bother rehashing the good tips the author posted, just adding to it. This list isn’t comprehensive nor is it a detailed breakdown of each idea. It’s meant to be an overview Read more:Designing
, Speeding
One Sentence Review: Old Boy [Movie] 2008-08-12 21:37:11 Title: Old Boy Type: Movie Blurb: Crazy Korean dude wants revenge on a man who locked him up for 15 years. Review: Good movie, questionable plot, highly enjoyable, and thus recommended. Grade: B+
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Braid, Flogging Molly, Football, and so on… [Fun Weekends] 2008-08-12 01:03:37 I was introduced to Braid through a friend of mine, who said it was “an amazing concept for a game.” I had heard mention of this beast in Penny Arcade’s news post, but only fleetingly. So Saturday I sat down and played the Trial Demo. I instantly liked it. I bought it and I’m still working on it. I’m on World 5 now, and damn it’s getting tough. Basically the whole mechanic Bra Read more:Football
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Links for 2008-08-11 [Digg] 2008-08-12 00:00:00
Orson Scott Card is a Way Bigger Dumbass Than You'd Expect
The Mormon guy who wrote all those books about the innocence of a child winning out over war and hatred wants us to raise arms against any queers who feel like expressing their love legally.
Team Fortress 2 Fiesta
A classic TF2 video.
Huge Propane Tank Explosion and Shockwave
A propane facility in Toronto catches fire and causes a huge ex Read more:Digg
How To: Integrate Google Picasa Onto Your Own Website Using PHP 2008-08-08 01:19:11 I mentioned when I posted about finishing a website that I had made some custom scripts, and this was one of them. This assumes you have all the Google
PHP scripts ready on your site, comments have been made at appropriate areas. The HTML included is meant to be styled and is just the structure I used to make it. You can see the implementation right over yonder. Features: Show all Picasa
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I Guess I Am Now a BAM Board Member [More Work] 2008-08-08 00:10:22 I met with the president, VP of operations, and the now retired webmaster of BAM, the student group who’s website I recently subjected to Extreme Makeover. They asked if I wanted to be the new webmaster since it really only made sense… not only is BAM a group I can be a part of, I already know a lot of members in it and I created the tools to administer the site. So I accepted, another duty a Read more:Board
, Guess
, Member
Links for 2008-08-06 [Digg] 2008-08-07 00:00:00
Rockstar: GTA IV For PC in November
"The rumors have been circulating for months, but today Rockstar officially confirmed that Grand Theft Auto IV will be hitting the PC on Nov. 18 in North America and Nov. 21 in Europe."
E-Passports Can Be Hacked and Cloned in Minutes
A computer researcher proved it by cloning the chips in two British passports and then implanting digital images of Osa Read more:Digg
Links for 2008-08-05 [Digg] 2008-08-06 00:00:00
Deus Ex 3 first artwork revealed (High res pic)
The first artwork of Deus Ex 3 has been revealed by the lead artist.
Internet Censorship is On it's Way. The i-Patriot Act
Amazing revelations have emerged concerning already existing government plans to overhaul the way the internet functions in order to apply much greater restrictions and control over the web.
Temp Fortress 2
The RED characters of Read more:Digg
Links for 2008-08-04 [Digg] 2008-08-05 00:00:00
Ultimate Walk of Shame
When you think about it, the Walk of Shame is pretty much the March of the Penguins with boobs.
NEW Leaked Red Alert 3 Beta Footage
A few minutes of gameplay for the new highly anticipated Command and Conquer game. It looks at least as good as Starcraft 2!
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How To: Use PHP to Grab Event Date from Google Calendar RSS [Tips & Tricks] 2008-08-04 20:52:20 Recently I finished a site that required me to use GoogleCalendar
to manage events. I thought that it would be nice to show what events are up and coming, so I used SimplePie to grab and show their calendar feed. However, the RSS date was the date the event was added, not the date that the event happens. This makes sense but makes it a bit harder to be useful in the website. I used some simpl Read more:Google Calendar
New Website Release – Business Association for Multicultural Students [Web Design] 2008-08-04 20:24:57 As I just posted on my company blog, I’ve just finished another website. The site is for the Business
Association of Multicultural Students, of which I will be a member of soon. I met with some officers of the group last Tuesday. That was when I started developing the site and in less than a week and 30 hours later I was finished and met the budget. How’s that for turnover? Here are som Read more:ndash
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Bands To Watch For [Reminder] 2008-08-03 02:04:43 Note to self: Watch these bands for potential album/song buying. Firewind Heard these guys off the Century Media Summer Sampler. I liked “Head Up High” from The Premonition. Bullet for My Valentine Usually I’d kind of pass this off as metalcore, and maybe it is, but it’s really metalcore. It has lots of elements of good metal… with maybe the exception of the singer’s voice, b Read more:Bands
, Reminder
Links for 2008-08-02 [Digg] 2008-08-03 00:00:00
College Teacher Shows Students How To Be Hackers
In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age. Grant Joy runs a program that surreptitiously records every keystroke on his machine, including user names, passwords, and credit-card numbers.
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Impressions: Soul Calibur IV 2008-08-02 02:14:55 Yes, they are mostly good. I spent about 6-7 hours today with the game, with a friend. It’s not naturally a co-op game but it worked out beautifully taking turns, creating our own characters, and unlocking content. The Good The character customization saves this from being “just another Soul Calibur.” It seriously is awesome. Graphics are fantastic and colorful. Great in the world Read more:Impressions
Links for 2008-09-03 [Digg] 2008-09-04 00:00:00
If Google Were Everything in Your Life... [COMIC]
What would Google do?
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RIP D-Link Gamer Lounge [Just My Luck] 2008-09-01 23:35:11 Isn't it fitting for my router to die the day before classes? I mean, it's not a HUGE deal but we can only use two computers, so no Xbox Live, wired printer, or development box until maybe Friday. I just ordered a WRT54GL considering I can just install Tomato or DD-WRT on it to get extra features. I'm just sad because my D-Link was awesome, a D-Link DGL-4300, for the last two years and now it ju Read more:Gamer
Moving In [Busy] 2008-08-31 19:55:16 Wow, I've been pretty busy and haven't had time to add new stuff to the blog. I will have pictures soon, after my roommate gets his desk in here. It's pretty packed. Everything else is set up, though.
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Links for 2008-08-28 [Digg] 2008-08-29 00:00:00
Incredible! - McCain's Prickly TIME Interview
Unbelievably Arrogant, Angry and just plain RUDE !
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B.C. Before Crysis: Thief III Deadly Shadows [Look Back] 2008-08-26 01:42:19 Back when I was a sophomore in high school, I was fervently following the Half-Life 2 mania like everyone else. I used to frequent the forums a lot, it’s kind of sad. Well, IGN had a sweepstakes going on that they’d draw a random member and they got to pick their top 5 games and IGN would send them for free. On one cold night I was that winner. Out of the 5 games I got, 3 were some of the bes Read more:Crysis
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Impressions: Red Alert 3 Beta [Better than C&C3] 2008-08-24 21:08:55 Updated: I updated this to be less unfair to the game. The original was written when I was in a bad mood. I usually form an impression of a game within the first 30 minutes. C&C Red Alert
: Awesome C&C Tiberian Sun: Extra awesome C&C Red Alert 2: Super awesome C&C Red Alert 2 YR: Epic awesome C&C Generals: Fail C&C Generals ZH: Less fail C&C Read more:Impressions
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