Feel like hacking someone’s Twitter page and post messages as them all day? Apparently, all you need is their phone number.
Feel free to hack mine and make me look like I’m a guy that tells dead baby jokes over Twitter. Oh wait, I already do that.
Notes: How to fix a lack of flash video sound in OS X
Today, all of a sudden the audio for flash video died in all browsers on my G5 iMac at home. Restarted. No go. Call the computer and “fucking piece of shit” while clicking on everything but changing nothing in my system preferences. No go. Restarted again. No go. Then I found this:
Every once in a while though, on Mac OS X it can happen that these Flash video players don’t have sound anymore.
It is pretty hard to figure out why, and the solution is quite random, but on macosxhints I found a comment mentioning that it could be a sampling rate problem:
1. open /Applications/Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup
2. check the properties for Built In Output.
3. It might be set to 96KHz. Change it to 44KHz and audio in Flash will return immediately.Now, I don’t know what software it is messing up that setting, but I am glad it can be fixed.
Odd. But it worked. The issue I’m having is what do I set it too if it happens again?
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You Too Can Get the Famed Beta Yahoo! Mail
I just caught a posting on Digg that links to quick and easy way to get access to the Yahoo! Mail Beta that has been the talk around the Web 2.0 water cooler for sometime. They worked great for me…check it:
How to change your content preference:
* log in to Yahoo Mail
* click Options
* select Account information from the left panel
* go to Member Information, General Preferences, Preferred Content
* select, for example, Yahoo UK
* click Finished
* go to Yahoo Mail
* you’ll see a page that says “It’s the New Yahoo! Mail Beta… and you’re invited.”
* click on “Try Beta Now”.
* Editor’s note: The above steps forget to tell you that after you have the beta, you can go back and switch the content back to US or whatever other country you are from…Unless you are embarrassed because you are from France, then you can just leave it set at the UK.
UPDATE: Don’t worry about the steps, just click here
Ok, so I have it…now what? Well first off let me fire the first bitch bullet at Yahoo! for not supporting Safari! I understand Safari has some issues with alignment, particularly absolute alignment (I’m currently working on a AJAXed web 2.0 app at work and I ran in to some Safari problems.) But you aren’t a web development department of one, you are freakin’ Yahoo! You can’t figure out some measly Safari problem? Come on.
What else? Honestly the only other problem I have with it is that I have a Yahoo! mail account to simply try out the beta. None of my mail has come through this Yahoo! account in many many years. Which causes two problems: I won’t be able to get solid use out of this great interface daily, and I won’t get a chance to see how it runs full of emails. Those issues aside, I love what I have seen so far from Yahoo! Mail Beta. I’m sure this is where everything else is headed and with the exception of a little OS racism by making OS X users start up Firefox to get a look at it, it is a fantastic mail client. By far and away the best webmail client out there.
*Editor’s Note #2: I know my review is pretty glowing, but don’t get too caught up in it and lose your head. Use discretion when using Yahoo! Mail, because if the shit goes down Yahoo! will dime you out in a heartbeat.
Sources: Digg – Google Operating System blog
How To Download iTunes Music Videos For Free
How’s about three “How To” posts in a row? Ok, great idea! Here’s another one:
Derek at Uneasy Silence has written a little PHP script that translates the iTunes links to regular links so that one could download videos from their servers.
Let me explain. The iTunes Music Store has music videos that you can play, for free, through the iTunes program (Which is really just a specialized web browser.) Well, Derek found the way to translate the links that are used in the store to links that you can access with any broswer (like Firefox)
So if you want to download any of the music videos on iTunes, just right click on the “Small” or “Large” links and copy them. Then head on over to his translator and paste in the link. It will then hand you back a regular link to download that Kelly Clarkson video you’ve had your eye on! Right? …Just me? Ok then, download whatever you want, but your missing out!