28 Apr
Posted by RodneyS as Computers, Future Tech, General, Internet, News For Geeks, Programming
Previously I posted on how to update twitter from the command line. Now I am going to build upon that and show you how to do it with twitter and facebook. To make it easier we are going to make a shell script.
#!/bin/sh
user=”Your twitter username”
pass=”Your twitter password”
curl=”/usr/bin/curl”
$curl –basic –user “$user:$pass” –data-ascii \
“status=`echo $@ [...]
26 Mar
Posted by RodneyS as General, Internet, News For Geeks, Programming, Tech, Web2.0
Twitter has become very popular recently and some people seem to want to be able to tweet all day long. If you are at work it is kind of hard to go to twitter or open your favorite twitter program and not get in trouble. So today we are going to look at a way [...]
14 Jan
Posted by RodneyS as Apple, Computers, Gadgets, General, Programming, Rants, Tech
I have had an iPhone 3G for quite sometime now and I really enjoy it, but when i look at the new apps coming out I am very disappointed. I see things like isteam, iBoob, and ifart. Come on these seem like something a 15 y/o would make as his first program, not something that [...]
Wall-E, if you haven’t seen it yet do yourself a favor and go this weekend. I’ve been a huge Pixar fan since the days of Toy Story. I’ve seen all of the Pixar films, and have liked each one. It looks like the guys at Pixar are upgrading their operating system, along with their rendering [...]
Most “computer-minded” individuals have a certain knack for programming. For some it may be websites, for others networking applications, for others yet, microprocessors. I’ll admit, my passions are web applications and to a lesser degree stand alone desktop applications. But each end goal has it’s own means of [...]
04 Oct
Posted by RodneyS as News For Geeks, Programming, Tech
I am sure that there are other people out there like myself that like to dig into the internals of what “makes things tick”. Have you ever taken the time to try to figure out MP3 compression? I mean it is something that, dare I say, all of us have at least heard [...]