Photo from adcurtin This tip came in from the comments: Here’s my mod from back in the day before GH3 for x360 (I preferred the sg to the xplorer): He goes on: I hate the X-plorer with a passion, mostly the fret buttons, but the whammy bar and the part that gets in the way […]
TJ says that the best place for info on modding game controllers is ScoreHero’s forums. I poked around a bit and dug up some interesting stuff. Here is one for jamming a Strat into an Explorer. So I imported Rock Band recently, and while the drums are ace the Stratocaster is sub-par. Sticky nasty frets, […]
If you’ve ever needed to download video that’s distributed in a Flash application, you may have encountered a scenario where the video is being streamed via RTMP instead of progressively downloaded over HTTP. Luckily, there’s application called rtmpdump which, as its name suggests, is able to dump an RTMP stream as if you had downloaded […]
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about Pieter Michels’ Flash bridge for Facebook Connect that allows you to access Facebook Connect services from within a Flash application. This week, Adobe and Facebook decided to release an official version of an AS3 Facebook API, so now there’s an officially supported, feature complete way to access Facebook […]
It’s a common problem we’ve all faced. Sometimes 140 just isn’t enough. What do you do when your carefully crafted Tweet is too profound to fit in the infernal 140 character limit? What if nothing short of 141 characters will do? You upgrade your browser to enable advanced Twitter compression, that’s what. var trep = […]
If you’ve been curious about Hadoop, the open source cloud computing software, there’s a really great set of introductory lectures being provided by Cloudera. In addition to building and supporting Hadoop clusters for commercial applications, the Cloudera folks have also been providing a wealth of information on installing and optimizing Hadoop on your own hardware, […]
As far as downloaded files are concerned, the latest version of OS X seems to have taken a cue or two from Redmond. Eric Meyer figured out a fix for this that will allow you to selectively disable the downloaded file warnings for certain file types. Here’s his take on the problem: One of the […]
