5 August 2008 – 16:00
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I know this tip has been known for ages, but I wanted not only to explain how to do it, but also how and why it works.
This little search query will return you servers with mp3 files :
`-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” mp3`
Let’s analyse this query:
- -inurl:htm -inurl:html => will not return results with “htm” or “html” in the url (no html page)
- intitle:”index of” => will look for “index of” in the title tag of the page.
- “Last modified” => will look for that string in the resulting page, this is due to the fact that most webserver software will display this when displaying a directory listing
- mp3 => just because you are looking for mp3 files
So if you want to extend this query, you can replace mp3 by anything (let’s say pdf for example) and even add a title or group, or album in the search, for example by adding : “Placebo”.
For example if you want to download ebooks, you can replace mp3 by “pdf ebooks“.
Of course, downloading stuff you don’t own legally if strictly forbidden !
By Anthony
4 August 2008 – 10:36
in Me, Myself and I —
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Last saturday, while hanging around in Toulouse with our two daughters, I finally took the decision to buy myself a MP3 player. Yes, not a new one, just buy one, this just means I didn’t own one before last saturday.
I found that I would be likely to go to work with music on my ears walking, instead of driving to work. Indeed, I work at 900 meters from home, and therefore I could spend less on gas by walking.
This new player is a Sony NWZ-S616F RED with 4Gb memory. For now, it also enables me to work with music on my ears :D
At this very moment, I’m writing this post with “The Beach OST” which is to me one of the most meditating music I’ve heard, not talking of the movie that I liked a lot !
So let’s talk about the player:
- 4Gb memory
- FM Tuner
- Video player (MPEG-4, M4V)
- Music player, of course (AAC, MP3, PCM, WMA, Protected WMA)
- JPEG photo player
The screen is very clear and even if I will probably never watch a movie on it, the colors are great and it’s very feasible to watch a movie.
To me, it’s probably the best choice I could have done, it has great autonomy (around 33 hours while playing music) and great sound, and all this under 50 grams
By Anthony
31 July 2008 – 16:58
in Plugins, Wordpress —
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After publishing my lastest plugin, I saw that some blogs are pulling posts directly from the RSS feed to publish it on their “splogs” (spam blogs). In order to avoid duplicate content, I decided to create a new plugin that will enable you to add anything you want inside your feed’s posts.
This addition is only limited to the feeds. For example, you will see that at the bottom of this posts nothing special appears on the site, but a copyright will be displayed inside the RSS version of it.
This can also be used to add any HTML code you want, it can be added on top of the post or at the bottom of it.
You will also note that I removed the related content plugin, I didn’t find relevant the correlation made between posts and related content.
Here is a Question to the readers, would you like to see the plugin published ?
[Image credits : eJk]
By Anthony
29 July 2008 – 17:49
in Plugins, Wordpress —
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Due to some requests and feedback I received on my Wordpress plugin ZdMultilang, a new version has been published on wordpress.org.
This version is numbered 1.1.0 because of the number of improvements I made to the plugin. But before to talk about what I’ve changed, I’d like to thank all those who gave me their ideas and feedback on the plugin :
- Impulse for his help on solving a very annoying bug (two flags instead of one)
- Jeremy Clarke for his suggestion on displaying only translated posts
- Eduardo and Ferlo for their view of the SEO against the plugin
- Teneke for the bug due to UTF-8 character encoding
- Emmanuel Georjon for his comments on dashboard integration and other tips.
Read More…
By Anthony
29 July 2008 – 14:34
in OpenSource, Software —
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I already talked about Magento Commerce some times ago, and the latest version is out. Magento is one of the best Open Source eCommerce software I’ve ever seen and latest version adds some very usefull features such as bundles and Virtual products. Virtual products will enable you to skip the delivery options.
Personalized products are also available and will allow you to sell products with specific options.
Magento 1.1 features a new Webservices API that enables you to integrate with third parts applications.
I’m happy to see that magento is very well accepted because the software has already been downloaded more than 400.000 times and they recently received the Best New Open Source project award as the 2008 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards
By Anthony
