Awesome Interactive Photo Game On YouTube
Just came across this on BoingBoing. It’s an interactive YouTube game using images of Oscar movies. After you press play you will see two of the same image, but with one difference. The screen on the right is divided into 9 sections. You simply click on the section that has whatever is different between the two images. Pretty much the same as any of those games you see at bars, but just on YouTube.
There are 30 levels to it. How far can you get?
More Passionate Inspiration From Gary Vaynerchuk
I’m a huge fan of Gary Vaynerchuk. I posted a video a while ago here that is one of my favorite inspirational videos ever, even though it’s not really an ‘inspirational’ video by definition. Well, Gary recently spoke at the Future Of Web Apps in Miami and he was once again, amazing. Here are the two videos of him and below are some quotes from the videos that I love.
Part 1
Part 2
We live in a ‘brand’ world
Content is King. Marketing and branding are Queen…and you know who runs the household
Before you worry about the community, make sure it’s in your heart
You have to love your community more than you love yourself
Communities know everything. They spread. But they also care
The Cobbler’s Kid Finally Gets New Shoes
I’ve finally gotten around to redesigning Randy Jensen Online. The last time I redesigned it was probably around 4 years ago and it was a rush job for a job interview. I feel much better about this design. Leave a comment and let me know what you think!
The only ‘major’ issue currently is with rendering of the typeface.js I’m using to render the text in Opera. For some reason Opera doesn’t display it at all. Luckily, such a small percentage of my traffic uses Opera that I decided to just launch and get it fixed as soon as I can.
The blog redesign is next on the list, but one big project at a time 
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Mount ISO Files Virtually On Windows
I recently needed to run an ISO file on Windows Vista. I could have burned the file to a CD/DVD and run it from there, but since I only needed to run it once, it’s far easier to mount it virtually. Here’s how to do it.
Installing Virtual CloneDrive
- Install Virtual CloneDrive from SlySoft. The download link is the last one on the list or here’s a direct link Virtual CloneDrive
- I left all the settings as their defaults. You may want to take some time to decide which files you want CloneDrive to associate itself with.
Opening/Mounting .iso Files Virtually
- After CloneDrive is installed, it’s incredibly easy to mount an ISO file. If you left CloneDrive as the default program for managing .iso files, you can simply double click it.
cForms Plugin Gets Removed From WordPress.org
I woke up this morning to find I had a plugin that needed to be updated. Not a big deal. It was the cForms plugin which is constantly being updated. This time, however, it came with a special note:
In light of special circumstances, cforms will not continue to be available on wordpress.org. Future updates may only be available on http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin.
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That’s odd. This is one of the best plugins the WordPress community has to offer. Why would WordPress.org being pulling it down? Clicking further took me to the official cForms plugin site with another ’special’ note:
cforms has been removed from wordpress.org as a result to this post. Future updates may be released on the main cforms home page, chances are that support and further development will end with version 10.2
In light of the circumstances, the forum is currently closed (read-only), until further notice.
Adding a Right-Click ‘Open With Adobe Photoshop’ Command In Ubuntu
Thought I’d create a quick video to show you how to add ‘Open With Adobe Photoshop CS2′ command to your right-click menu in Ubuntu. It’s my first video tutorial and the quality seriously sucks. If people like these, I’ll start doing more and spend more time on the QA side of things. Until then, here ya go…
Why Marketing Still Works…Because You’re So Damn Predictable
If the opportunity presents itself, will you cheat? …Probably.
In one of the experiments, he has several groups of students take a test. The first group (the control group) must take the test and then hand it in to the proctor. The second group was asked to recall 10 books they read in high school and then take the test. Once they are done, they checks their answers with the correct answers. They then shred the test and tell the proctor how many they got right. The final group is asked to write down as many of the Ten Commandments as they can and then are asked to take the test. Once they’re done with the test, they do the same thing as the second group of students.
Using Desktop Flickr Organizer To Manage Your Flickr Account In Ubuntu
Being a pretty avid Flickr user, one of the first things I looked for when I switched to Ubuntu was a good Flickr Desktop app. I looked everywhere and ended up settling on an app conveniently named ‘Flickr Uploader’. Although this app only did one thing, it did it quite poorly. The upload button didn’t work, but the upload option in the drop down menu worked fine. The app overall was clunky and poorly designed.
For some reason I decided to look around again and stumbled upon something much nicer and more robust. It’s called ‘Desktop Flickr Organizer’. I will mention that this is more than just an ‘uploader’, it really is a way to manage your entire Flickr account from the desktop. With this added functionality, comes the added complexity. It took me a bit to find my way around the app, but once I did, everything made sense for the most part.
Update ClamTK Virus Definitions
If you’ve decided to run antivirus software on your Ubuntu machine, it’s more than likely ClamAV aka ClamTK (the GUI frontend for ClamAV). I went to update the definitions just for the fun of it the other day and I got this…
Luckily this problem is easily remedied. Open a terminal and type…
sudo clamtk
You should now see a green ball next to the Update Signatures field, letting you know that you are currently running as root, and able to use this option.
That’s about it. However, this does raise an issue that I will be covering in much more depth in a later article: Why Linux Is Still a Hobbyists’ Operating System. Flame on.
SSH Host Verification Failed Error Fix
A couple weeks ago I showed you how to share files between two Ubuntu computers. Well yesterday I decided to install Windows 7 Beta on my secondary machine, that was running Ubuntu and had the share I created in that post. Since the computer is pretty old, I decided to just wipe the drive and install Win7 natively, rather than in a VM.
After I was done with some testing, I threw Ubuntu back on the machine and setup my shared folder again with the exact same name. Then I reconnected my main machine to the share with SSH, but was greeted with this error
