Archive for April, 2010

PHP: GIF animation splitter (Split any GIF animiations – frame by frame properly!)

I have been looking for a GIF animation splitting script for quite awhile, but have not found any luck with any basic ones. There has been a couple but they do not process GIF animations properly anymore, because GIFs now are optimized etc You will end up getting frames that aren’t ‘complete’ frames because they [...]
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Opera pages loading very slow compared to other browsers such as Firefox/Chrome? Then look here for a fix!

After installing a bunch of ‘extensions/plugins’ for Chrome, I found my Opera running super slow. It was loading pages very slowly compared to other browsers if I was using more then one window. The weird thing is, it was working fine just yesterday. After about half a day, I started to get pretty frustrated. If [...]
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Opera and Youtube (Google) video playback issue (As of April 14th) – Fix

I do use Opera. For the most case, you love or hate the browser, but I’ve gotten to enjoy Opera for a bit now, specially the new Opera 10. Just yesterday, YouTube released a patch to attempt to prevent people from using adblockers and other tools that remove there ads/edit there content. The problem is, [...]
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Stellar Frontier 2.0 Alpha – In the works

Brent and I have released a alpha version of Stellar Frontier 2.0. Though there is still ALOT of work to do, it is a vast improvement over Stellar Frontier as is. We are now using DirectX for the graphic engine, and Raknet for the network coding. There is still some tweaks we need to do, [...]
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Star Trek Online Review (PC)

I got this game a couple months back just before they released it to try out the game, at first, I was impressed… But as I progressed, I got more bored with the game, especially when theres is not much to do. First of all, graphic wise, the game is pretty stunning in that retrospect. [...]
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PHP: Multiple submit button choices in a single FORM

This one is just posted mainly for a friend. He did not understand how to process data differently depending on the submit button clicked, only using ONE HTML FORM. Many people would end up making multiple forms on one or many pages to solve this, which can get rather messy or annoying. There is a [...]
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PHP: Randomizing a text file using PHP + MYSQL, quickly & efficient

I had one person approach me recently about my previous blog entry, stating that you cannot process randomization quickly in MYSQL because SELECT * FROM tablename ORDER BY RAND()"; would take horribly long to process when you have a large amount of records stored in a database. This is very true! RAND() is very slow [...]
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