Sagacious Himself — now with humility - brevity in circumlocution

March 19, 2008

portable internet video converter - video convert to FLV

Filed under: DARPA, SoftWare — Tags: , — Sagacious Himself @ 1:21 pm

http://ivcsoft.free.fr/index.php?2007/10/01/29–download-ivc-150-english-version-telecharger-ivc-150-version-francaise-portable-usb-key-cle-usb-u3-usb-key-cle-usb

download without popup hassles

http://ivcsoft.free.fr/download/internet_video_converter_1.50_en.zip

March 3, 2008

stuffit expander for windows - no spam signup required

Filed under: SoftWare — Sagacious Himself @ 12:59 am

March 2, 2008

Mmm+ tray 200k of ram? yes. Also 1.5 megs virtual memory

Filed under: Sagacious Himself, SoftWare, overview — Sagacious Himself @ 1:23 pm

February 29, 2008

fontforge in windows xp - forget cygwin use ubuntu in VMware

Filed under: SoftWare — Sagacious Himself @ 6:13 pm

problem solved

PDF font extraction fun here I come!

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February 19, 2008

How to create a Painter Image Hose nozzle

Filed under: DIY, How To, Knowledge, Painter X, SoftWare — Sagacious Himself @ 6:23 pm

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=95131

1. In the Canvas menu, choose Grid > Grid Options and set the grid spacing to the width and height that will hold the largest element in your Nozzle.

2. Open a new white Canvas large enough to contain two or three rows of Nozzle elements, depending on how many you plan to include.

3. Create a new Layer containing one of your Nozzle elements and using the Layer Adjuster tool, move that element into the first grid square on the left end of the top row.

4. Create another new Layer containing another of your Nozzle elements and using the Layer Adjuster tool, move that element into the second grid square from the left, on the top row.

5. Continue until you have your Nozzle elements each on a different Layer and placed in different grid squares. If you have, for instance, eight Nozzle elements, you’d have two grid rows each containing four Nozzle elements.

6. Hold down the Shift key, and in the Layers palette, highlight all of the Nozzle element Layers, then use Ctrl/Command+G to Group them.

7. In the Nozzle Selector menu, choose Make Nozzle from Group.

8. Save the resulting image in RIFF format.

To use the Nozzle:

1. In the Nozzle Selector menu, choose Load Nozzle, navigate to the folder where you saved the RIFF file and click the Open button.

2. In the Brush Selector menu, choose the Image Hose brush category.

3. Paint on the Canvas to see how your Nozzle works and if you don’t like the result, choose another Image Hose variant and try again.

more: http://conceptart.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=23

see also: http://kurtz-fernhout.com/PlantStudio/help/plantstudioMaking_a_Painter_Image_Hose_Nozz.html

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December 26, 2007

Red Drive File Transfer Extension - freeware download

Filed under: CIO, DARPA, Download, Sagacious Himself, SoftWare — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Sagacious Himself @ 12:22 am

http://s3.massmirror.com/760f4fd29a1c051b089e1754ce3d36dc.html

available from http://www.jscape.com/reddrive/

free client that supports FTP/S, SFTP and WebDAV protocols as a Windows Explorer shell extension: maps those services to a drive letter

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February 4, 2007

convert FLV to anything or convert anything to FLV — almost anything — convert FLV to avi, convert FLV to mpg, for FREE

Filed under: DARPA, Download, Geeky goodness, I am bored, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself, SoftWare — Sagacious Himself @ 12:22 am

requires XP or recent windoze OS

Three simple options:

(1) WinFF
(2) MeWIG
(3) meGUI

For option 1 download this, unpack it somewhere, run WinFF, add media files (in batch) select output format, click start

http://rapidshare.com/files/14825881/winFF_build7760.rar.html

wait for completion, close command window, done.  rejoice.

For option 2 the process is similar but requires toggling more switches and settings.  Option 3 provides far more tweaking options than option 2.

If this can play the FLV you can convert it:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph…965#post839965

After converting removing the intro- or outro junk with  AviDemuX

October 29, 2006

bm 1029

Filed under: Sagacious, Sagacious Himself, SoftWare — Sagacious Himself @ 1:42 am

Flopper is a bootable-disk emulator

Filed under: Sagacious, Sagacious Himself, SoftWare — Sagacious Himself @ 1:10 am

http://www.oldskool.org/pc/flopper

it reads a diskette image file (a file that
contains all the sectors of a floppy disk) and boots it. This way, you
can boot (and run) a bootable diskette off of your hard drive. It also
can take screenshots (pictures of the screen) and perform speed throttling
(slow the CPU down to simulate the speed of an older PC).

Flopper was created to run older bootable games (and other boot-only
programs) from the early era of IBM PC software.

August 25, 2006

Community Intrusion Prevention System — collaborative malware thwarting

Filed under: CIO, Geeky goodness, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself, SoftWare — Sagacious Himself @ 11:58 am

Digg: http://digg.com/software/Community_Intrusion_Prevention_System_collaborative_malware_thwarting

spam : DCC :: malware : prevx

Unlike DCC, prevx is easy enough for the slightly above average user to use.

http://prevx.com/

August 15, 2006

ShortShip Pro — first NAGWARE firefox extension ever!

http://shortship.com/

Until hacked it requires the user to activate it: click their affiliate link once every seven days or the extension will cease to function correctly. Extensions don’t have the power to disable themselves, so it will just cease to show the shipping charges on ebay search results.

Since the source contains this entertaining message:

shortship.jar\shortship.js

AD REMOVAL - screw ebay ads, we already pay them 15% to use their service, and we value our desk space they shouldnt care, theres already a plethora of adblock type extensions available.

I’m sure ShortShip won’t mind having their activation removed. screw nagware.

“and is affililate supported. Both are completely free for you to use, and both are free of nag screens, pop ups, pop unders, or any other annoying things that I hate in software and would not expect users to have to put up with.” — oscar

And if it were OPT-in supported:

- shortship firefox “plugin” wouldn’t have to be nagware
- only one version would need to be released
- simply installing a product is NOT sufficient for an OPT-in model
- short ship pro stealing toolbar space IS ANNOYING

Do NOT try this at home as it will annoy the nagware author:

download the extension
append .zip to the filename
extract the contents and directory structure
find and unpack the JAR file in the chrome subdirectory
using a real text editor (neither notepad nor wordpad) open [filename].js
search for [stuff] change the second and third instance of false to true
save the file
open the extension as zip, navigate to the chrome directory, open the jar, drag [filename].js into WinRAR, close winrar, when prompted update the xpi.zip, close the first instance of winrar, remove the .zip (so the extension is only xpi)
drag the xpi into firefox to install the hacked shortship pro extension

there, now its no longer nagware. IF you enjoy the extension donate to the author

again do NOT perform the steps in this thought experiment

thought experiment temporarily munged as I wrote it from memory and do not recal the particulars of the ONE file needing modification or the search point for the nagware timer. There are many entertaining ways to do this. When the author makes his extension comply with the spirit of mozilla by making the payment system OPT-in this hack will no longer be necessary. Sure you could comply with his wishes… but whose to say that what he wants should trump what you want? Espcially if you’re not re-distributing his extension

oh no, shortship pro guy, other people are onto you, too

August 3, 2006

download microsoft live mail desktop beta

Filed under: Download, Geeky goodness, News and Announcements, Piracy, Review, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself, SoftWare — Sagacious Himself @ 7:06 pm

http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/OELive

you might need to be logged into passport and might additionally need a live mail account

Having not used it I can only speculate about the offline mail management and HOPE they’re no longer using icky POP3… or annoying exchange… and have instead used flexible, powerful IMAP  :)

2 gigs of mail storage, and ZERO google-creepiness. I won’t be bouncing MS live mail at the MTA… unlike gmail :P

on the downside
http://morethanmail.spaces.live.com/
it does use IE to render content, and DOES have ads so you really should pre filter with prioxy or proxomitron.. unless you like malware

August 1, 2006

Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for mp3 players — see how badly iPod firmware sucks

Filed under: CIO, Geeky goodness, Hacking, HardWare, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself, SoftWare, Software Review — Sagacious Himself @ 4:26 am

http://rockbox.org/
http://rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/FeatureComparison#Apple

if you must buy an iPod you REALLY MUST use rockbox firmware…. otherwise you’re a TOTAL cretin.

get the FLAC support you deserve!

July 16, 2006

linux and tinfoil hat? stay healthy and keep tinfoil or aluminum foil deflector beanie people away

Filed under: Geeky goodness, Hacking, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself, SoftWare, Word Coined by Himself — Sagacious Himself @ 4:14 am

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6738/logoqh0.jpg

for the good kind of suspicion oft mislabeled as paranoia by the mentally crippled

http://tinfoilhat.shmoo.com/

June 17, 2006

motorola e815 firmware versions nightmare for game developers

Filed under: Geeky goodness, Motorola e815, Review, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself, SoftWare, e815 — Sagacious Himself @ 9:14 pm

http://brewforums.qualcomm.com/showthread.php?t=9249&goto=nextnewest

It turns out that the BREW API call: IBITMAP_NativeToRGB(IBitmap *pIBitmap, NativeColor clr) does not work properly.

any game that went through the extra effort of trying to stay device
independent (using this call) would become broken with the latest
firmware

The native calls that we use are IFONT_DrawText and IBITMAP_FillRect, along with IBITMAP_RGBtoNative.

d’oh

Startup Problem Motorola E815

Sound Issue In E816

Sound problem on Motorola E815

Application Loading for MOT E815

problem in sending UDP packet

IPOSDET_SetGPSConfig

e816 Specifications

Basic How To: E815???

Moto E815: Text Field Title Overlapping

Motorola E815 EvDO

** E815 Silent ringer problem

Motorola E815 USB drivers?

Motorola E815 Platform ID

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