raygun 4play interview video
I remember seeing this ridiculous interview for a band called Raygun on Graham Linehan’s blog a few months. I went looking for it again and noticed Sony had forced most copies to be taken down! But I...
View Articlephp curl debugging – seeing the exact http request headers sent by curl
In my many of years of php/curl use, I’ve hammered my head off my table countless times trying to debug scripts that weren’t emulating the browser like it was supposed to. This was pretty hard without...
View Articlecharles web proxy review
As I said in my last post, I’ve written many a scraper using php with curl or fsockopen in my time, trying to write automated tools and scraping data. I’ve tried many tools to help me sniff the HTTP...
View Articleryanair leaving money on the table with no customer registration
I’ve booked loads of Ryanair flights and every time they ask you for your name, address, mobile and when you check in online, they ask for your passport number and date of birth. Why do you have to do...
View Articlebypass the eircom thepiratebay.org block
The Irish ISP eircom blocked thepiratebay.org about 2 years ago but it’s pretty easy to bypass using a proxy. But I was sick of slow proxies with loads of ads so I uploaded my own. Click below to use...
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Azealia Banks – 212 Video
Azealia Banks is a 19 year-old rapper from Harlem and ’212′ is her latest and greatest single with a class video that seems hard to find on the net so here it is.
View ArticleAutomatically generate Android boilerplate code from Layout XML
Java has a bit of a reputation for being too verbose which is a common stick for haters to beat it with. But as Bjarne Stroustrup says “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain...
View ArticleMediaMonkey Setlist.fm Playlist Creator Script
I’m going to the Forbidden Fruit music festival this weekend and for all gigs I like to do ‘homework’ on the bands and what sets they’re likely to play. That sounds like working to have fun but...
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Tulsi Ennis & Golden Mill Ennis Menus
Right, bit of a random post but there’s two good takeaways in Ennis, County Clare that don’t have their menu anywhere on the Intertubes. I tried uploading a photo of the takeaway menus to Yelp but the...
View ArticleiMessage is a handy way to show people you’ve the money for an iPhone
When someone text me & my bubble don’t turn blue I instantly pity them lol — Ju$t (@justcobain) November 30, 2012 I get soo excited when I text someone and see my messages turn blue!!! Such an...
View ArticleHow to use Overplay and other VPNs as a cURL proxy
Proxies are like hard drive space, you can never have enough. Or enough IPs to be more accurate as Facebook, Google and other services are getting better at flagging the IPs of popular HTTP/SOCKS5...
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How to disable Clickberry appearing on your Youtube videos
Like me, have you suddenly started seeing a ‘tag’ feature on your Youtube videos, that when clicked show a ‘Share moment’ and ‘Share object’ option and a little icon of a berry appears on your Youtube...
View ArticleHow to serve files with a simple and quick PHP BitTorrent tracker
I needed to share some raw video files with a friend lately so I uploaded 17GB of data to my webserver and sent them the HTTP link. Problem was the video files were scattered over several directories...
View ArticleForbes announce Ireland as best country for business – But it didn’t make the...
There’s nothing Irish people like more than being told how great they are by outsiders and sure aren’t we the greatest little country on Earth to be sure. So the press release yesterday that Ireland...
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Ross Ulbricht, alleged Silk Road founder, StoryCorps Interview with René...
Just got a copyright strike on my Youtube account from the ‘Ross Ulbricht Legal Defense Fund LLC’ for an interview he did with a friend that I reuploaded to my account. Now I’ve a copyright strike and...
View ArticleAndroid chown recursively
Stock Android chown in /system/bin/chown doesn’t support the recursive switch which I discovered when I was trying to manually change owners and groups on an app folder. chown -R u0_a160:u0_a160...
View ArticleInserting keylogger code in Android SwiftKey using apktool
Piracy on Android is a very big problem but I wonder do users realise how easy it is to inadvertently download apps with malware. Cracked copies of PC and iPhone apps can have malware as well of course...
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Ticketmaster Ticketfast Barcode Format
If you’ve ever bought tickets to a big sporting or music event, you’ve probably had to deal with TicketMaster and their extortionate handling fees. They charge it even if you’re using the print-at-home...
View ArticleHow to record Youtube live streams on a Linux server
Coachella streams a load of their sets every year on Youtube and nobody seems to record them all. So I had to volunteer starting in 2015. Some rips you find are one-off screen recordings using some...
View ArticleIs Glide RecyclerView caching worth it?
If you’re coding an Android app and using the fantastic Glide library to load images in a RecyclerView, you’ll probably Google [glide recyclerview] to see if there is any gotchas like potential memory...
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