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site updates

Andy — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:50:35 +0000

Good news! I’ve been working a lot on my site features recently. Today I’ve included an update that adds 47 languages to the entire site. To select a different language, scroll to the bottom and click the appropriate flag (this will probably move to the top). Site page translation is an ongoing process so it may be slow at first. Page requests also include Google translator for instant page translation.

Oh, heads up!

I’m in the process of starting a new web hosting solution for my friends, family, and colleagues. The service is dedicated to providing quick customer support response times and easy to use web hosting tools (this alleviates headaches of most hosting providers). Starting out, I will be the sole person managing the servers, applications, and support. Your questions, comments and concerns will go straight to me. The best part about this service is that I can now offer you any web related service (ruby on rails, postgresql, ad serving, social network integration, endless etc.). If you would like some solid, secure, and highly customizable hosting on my managed dedicated servers then please contact me at fantomstranger.net. Keep an eye out here for web hosting discounts by subscribing to the fantom-stranger.com facebook fanpage.

digital guitar

Andy — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:20:32 +0000

I found a digital guitar creates electronic music and runs Gentoo linux on Hack a day. It looks really fun and I approve of this.

Don’t think “acoustic” or “electric” but “electronic”.

[misa digital]

lemme borrow that botnet

Andy — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:46:41 +0000

A group of researchers stole the ‘torpig’ bot-net for 10 days. Encryption madness ensued….

Here’s the google techtalk about what they did to take over the botnet and analyze it (get ready its long and boring (an hour and 15 minutes) but crazy):

Protect your passwords and your intertubes!

[Reference]

How iPhone OS “SHOULD” work

Andy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:49:36 +0000

Wow, some developers have figured out how the iPhone should multitask, and enhanced it 7 fold*!itimes\*.. It’s pretty and it should already be here, but all the iPhone users are caught in apple’s iPhone stranglehold.

[Source: thank you justanotheriphoneblog and iphondownloadblog and Gizmodo]

Time-travel capable crysis mod

Andy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:37:55 +0000

Plug your micheal j. flux-capacitor in to the Nano Suit, we need to get 1.21 gigawatts out of your fack to the buture. Apparently my spell checker doesn’t know that gigawatt is a word.. is it?

YouTube Doubler

A developer has created a fully functioning flux-capacitor-equipped DeLorean, that does go back in time but you can’t change anything in the past. A lot of blogs have been posting about this mod, so I thought I would give it some love.

delorean wheels development screenshot

New Review: Borderlands

zeonic — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:43:29 +0000

My review for Borderlands is up, take a look. Whether you just want to shoot some bitches in the face, or satisfy your loot cravings that would put an MMO to shame, this game has something for everyone. And while the gameplay is crazy, the graphics are crazy, and more than a couple of the characters are crazy, you can be certain you’re going to enjoy yourself.

Borderland review, by Z

site syndication replication automation

Andy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:30:15 +0000

Waaahhbam! Highhhhyaaaah! fantom-stranger.com is now setup to use any form of syndication you can think of. I’ve finished twitter and facebook integration so you can get site updates directly on your facebook home screen or twitter page, INSTANTLY.

Ya want email updates? Got it. Ya want RSS? Wow, of course we’ve got it… we’ve got RSS to the max with feedburner. If you haven’t tried yet, you should try and subscribe. RSS is really simple to setup and delivers instant updates of what you want to know about, at all times, from WHO you want. The technology is so old, yet a lot of people have no idea what it’s even for. You find something you like, locate their RSS feed url, add to your feed reader (google, firefox, or Internet Explorer), and consume.

Oh and the last update, I’ve sped up the homepage considerably. I added some more caching and implemented cron automation to the RSS generated content. Nothing should lag on your first view anymore. It’s just tight like that.

fantom-stranger.com twitter
fantom-stranger.com facebook
fantom-stranger.com feedburner

couple more feetsha’z

Andy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:11:52 +0000

The feature isn’t really so much of a feature as a welcome message to my newest contributor Kacie. Her humor might not be your style, but I don’t care, cause it’s my style. So, welcome to my site Kacie!

chickenfoot is great

Andy — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:06:33 +0000

This is an amazing end user scripting tool.

pick(new XPath("/HTML[1]/BODY[1]/DIV[4]/DIV[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[2]/DIV[1]/DIV[2]/DIV[15]/TABLE[1]/TBODY[1]/TR[1]/TD[1]/TABLE[1]/TBODY[1]/TR[2]/TD[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[3]/FORM[1]/SELECT[1]"), "100")
click(new XPath("/HTML[1]/BODY[1]/DIV[4]/DIV[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[2]/DIV[1]/DIV[2]/DIV[15]/TABLE[1]/TBODY[1]/TR[1]/TD[1]/TABLE[1]/TBODY[1]/TR[2]/TD[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[3]/FORM[1]/INPUT[16]"))

Wow. Wow I thought my cat was eating chips.

wow browsershots!

Andy — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:38:47 +0000

Tired of waiting for browsershots.org to fill up your shot queue? Well wtf, why are you tired because of that? Just use a greasemonkey script. You won’t ever have to run into any scenario like this-> after 30 minutes you’ve clicking extend twice and your pee bag needs emptyment, so run to the urination station. When you get back to your computer you find out that your browsershots.org session has timed out before the shot you needed arrived.

heres thaz script to happy your extended woahs.