Author: TheEpicChocobo

So you may or may not have heard of WiiBrew but if you have a Wii you should have. For me it’s been the best app ever for the Wii. It will let you run free Homebrew games and run apps like an FTP server, website manager, emulators for SNES, NES, Sega, PSX, even run Linux on your Wii.

I think I wrote an article similar to this before but no doubt the downloads don’t work. Since there is new apps and info about WiiBrew I figure it’d need a new post. So below are a list of links for how to get it all setup. I’ve done this with all the links provided and it all worked good. The only application you really need at first from WiiBrew.org is the Homebrew Browser. It’ll allow you to navigate through a huge list of Homebrew apps and games right on your Wii.

What is WiiBrew: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Main_Page

How to setup WiiBrew: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_setup

Recommended application: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Browser

Other PC Tools you will need: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Browser

Setup Wii to Run Backup games: http://gwht.wikidot.com/usb-loader

In a world where the past has met the future, or maybe it’s the future that met the past… Anyway in a world where stuff is meeting something, get prepared to take a travel in time. Back to a time where good men and women were looked down upon for being different and wanting to be free and independent from their evil overlords. Back when men’s teeth were made out of not just their own teeth but also other people’s teeth along with gold, lead and hippo tusks. You can now join this Independent movement by signing the Declaration of Independence yourself. That’s right the government actually did do something cool over at Archives.gov they have actually made a flash application that will let people put their name on there. Now don’t worry, this is not an evil plot by the government to get everyone’s IP addresses that actually want freedom and independence to hunt them down… at least I’m pretty sure it’s not…

I guess they’re loading the archive from 1995?

Apparently your signature is in High Definition!

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_join_the_signers.html

So recently one of our System Administrators had been tasked with updating all of our users to a new domain that we bought. He then though, “How do I add a new domain to all email addresses in Active Directory using PowerShell?” This is when he though, who better to help me do some scripting but, [queue heroic music] ‘FreedomChicken’! The ever friendly developer who with his powers of Debugging and Google Searching can single handily defeat evil Bugs and Hang-ups in applications and scripts. Now with Freedom chicken on the job the two were able to defeat this evil foe in a quick and timely manner. The result of this victory will be as follows.

PowerShell Script:

get-mailbox %username% | foreach {

[string]$smtpaddress = Get-mailbox $_ | select primarysmtpaddress

$addressarray = $smtpaddress.split(“@”)

$addressarray1 = $addressarray[1].split(“=”)

[string]$newmail=$addressarray1[1]+=”@NEWDOMAIN.com”

$_.EmailAddresses+=$newmail

$_

} |Set-Mailbox

According to Pivotal, setting up Pivotal 6 on SharePoint 2007 Standard should work out of the box. Well I guess if by out of the box you mean having to go into your SharePoint server and run a script and edit some XML files. Then yes out of the box. Well we are currently working on setting up our new Pivtoal 6 environment so we can FINALLY get rid of IE6!!! That will be one of the best days of my life when we can finally get rid of that virus magnet they call a browser. But that’s besides the point. This post is a quick how-to fix an issue when you’re attempting to create a new pivotal site in SharePoint 2007.

If you are running into this error when attempting to create a new Pivotal Site collection on SharePoint:

Feature ‘2510d73f-7109-4ccc-8a1c-314894deeb3a’ is not installed in this farm, and can not be added to this scope.

The fix is as follows:

1. To register the ReportListTemplate feature on the SharePoint server. Runn the following in the command prompt

pushd %programfiles%\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\bin

stsadm -o installfeature -filename ReportListTemplate\feature.xml -force
stsadm -o activatefeature -filename ReportListTemplate\feature.xml -url TheURLofYourAdminSite

pause

2. Comment out the following lines from the onet.xml files

<!–<Feature ID=”D250636F-0A26-4019-8425-A5232D592C09″ />
<Feature ID=”00BFEA71-DBD7-4F72-B8CB-DA7AC0440130″ />
<Feature ID=”065C78BE-5231-477e-A972-14177CC5B3C7″ />—>

Which can be located at the following two locations:
“C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\SiteTemplates\PivotalSmartClientPortalBlankSite2\xml\”

and

“C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12″\TEMPLATE\SiteTemplates\PivotalSmartClientPortalTeamSite2\xml”

This way now the Pivotal sites will not try to load features that are not installed in the standard version.

By FreedomChicken

So I have been looking around for a good Intellisense app for jQuery that is a lot lighter than Eclipse or Visual Studio. Sure either of those work but I have so many apps running on my work pc that I wanted something light. I’ve been using Notepad++ and that works good but was getting tired of having to reference jQuery for odd parts of projects and I’ve been trying my best to get the same effects out of jQuery that people wanted in flash. Only reason is that I think flash is like spawn of hellfire on the internet. Then after some searching I found Aptana. Looked pretty sweet, so I installed it and added the jQuery support plugin. I went to go check out the jQuery intellisense and didn’t see any support for it.

I looked all over the internet and heard in their forums that people were having intermittent problems with it but they could not reproduce the issue. So I finally decided to just poke around the app and figure it out myself. In doing so I realized that there is a Global References section. In that section the jQuery support was not checked by default after the install of the plugin and creating a new project.

Here are a few images and how-to, to fix this issue and get the full extent of the Aptana software.

After creating your web project and checking the box for the jQuery support open the jquery_sample.js file and delete the “.ready(function(){” on the third line after $(document)

Then put a . at the end of what you just deleted and if it looks like this, then you need to continue:

Now click on References at the top left next to File on your side bar:

Now click on Global References:

If jQuery is unchecked(or any others you want to have the intellisense for) simply check it:

Now go back to your file on the right side and remove and re-add the . after $(document) and you should see the list of jQuery supported intellisense:

So say you need to get the latitude and longitude from a Google map to post in some app or what not. Sure there apps or you can read though the url query string and look for the ll= section but i found that putting this little javascript code in the url makes it just a lot easier to find it.

Now if you have Firefox installed and have a tab plugin that puts urls entered in the address bar to open in a new window this will not work, so just use another browser and it should work fine.

This can be useful for Geocaching, which according to Wikipedia is, “an outdoor activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (called "geocaches" or "caches") anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container (usually a tupperware or ammo box) containing a logbook. Larger containers can also contain items for trading, usually toys or trinkets of little value. Geocaching is most often described as a "game of high-tech hide and seek", sharing many aspects with orienteering, treasure-hunting, and waymarking.”

You could hide a cache, then using Google Maps and the javascript below, pinpoint the latitude and longitude of the cache. Kind of a neat trick right?

 

Paste into URL:

javascript:alert(window.gApplication.getMap().getCenter());

Know of any other cool Google Maps tricks? Let us know in the comments.

By FreedomChicken

I can personally say that one of the hardest most annoying thing for a simple developer is getting cool icons for your apps. Well IconsPedia solves that. They have tons of icons with all types of terms of use. Mostly all free for commercial and personal use, but it says very simply how you can use each pack when you click on them.

They have Animals, Computers, Food/Drink, Holidays, Internet, Nature, ect… so that means all sorts of icons for your website, blog, application, desktop, whatever you want to use them for. They have a really nice set of Social Media icons on there too by Umar123.

Some of the types of icons they carry are:

• Animal Icons
• Art Icons
• Brands Icons
• Cartoon Icons
• Computer Icons
• Food & Drink Icons
• Games Icons
• Holiday Icons
• Internet Icons
• Media Icons
• Movies & TV Icons
• Nature Icons
• Objects Icons
• Phone Icons
• Sport Icons
• Vehicle Icons

Here is a picture of some of their random icons:

Where do you go for your free icons? Let us know in the comments!

By FreedomChicken

This is a very small article but hopefully will save some hassle for some people. I found to use OpenType fonts on a Windows server in IIS you actually have to add .otf as a MIME type in IIS 6.0. To do that Open IIS –> Right click on “Web Sites” –> Click on Properties –> HTTP Headers Tab –> MIME Types (at the bottom of the window) –> New. For the extension type .otf and for the MIME type put “font/otf” without the quotes. It should look like the image below.

 

 

Then you just set the CSS like

@font-face {
  font-family: CoolFont;
  src: url(/Fonts/CoolFont.otf) format("opentype");
}

this works in basically everything from IE6-8, Firefox 3.5+, Safari 3.1+, Opera and Google Chrome (but only svg fonts)

By FreedomChicken

The error “There has been an I/O error: Error #2038” I seem get almost every time I update my Umbraco instance on our web server. Every time I always forget what I did to get rid of it and search for at least 20-30 min to figure it out again. So this time I’m documenting it here at Bauer-Power for your benefit as well as mine.

I pulled resources from a couple different places including Codeplex and the Umbraco Forums and will just use direct links to the download fix at the end of this article. But according to a few people in the Umbraco forums it looks like it’s really just an issue with Firefox now. So really the fix is just updating the source code.

When installing the fix just download the file below and replace the files on your server in the corresponding directories. Now remember not to replace the entire directories or you’ll have some major issues, so it’s just the files in each directory.

Download Fix

Brought to you by FreedomChicken

I’m talking about CloudMade Maps It’s actually pretty awesome. I’m going to try to use them for the next dozen times or so and make sure their directions to more odd places are good. But it did give me good directions from Tijuana to Coronado Island.

They use OpenStreetMap.org info for all their data which makes it nice for Businesses because Google will want to charge you like 10k or so to add data to their often out of date maps. With CloudMade Maps you can also stylize your maps too. So you can make the whole world look like it’s in post apocalyptic times. Like below!!

This is one awesome example of why we as adults still need Legos. Sure the steering isn’t 100% great but what else are you going to do while you’re at work with your Legos? Work? ha, I think not. Do you guys have any other awesome time waster Lego app videos or ideas? If so hit us up on twitter or leave a comment here. If we get enough of them from you guys maybe we’ll setup a Lego App montage.

 

By FreedomChicken

Yep you heard that right. From our Friends that are bringing us Star Trek Online you can now Tweet in Klingon. Now if you’ve been following me on Twitter (Yeah I changed my name again. You should all be used to it by now) you’ll have seen some random tweets here and there in Klingon. What better to do with twitter than geek out make yourself look even cooler, like you took the time to actually learn Klingon.

This also happens to work out nicely as a Klingon translator also. Then when you’re at work and need to “encrypt” some emails, simply send them in Klingon. The only time that wouldn’t work is if your HR staff are a bunch of Trekkies too. But seriously, it’s HR not like they’ll know, and your IT buddies hopefully will play along with not knowing.

Here’s some examples of what others are tweeting in Klingon:

Klingon: maH laH muv tay’ Daqjey Federal chaw’!
English: We can join together to defeat the Federal Reserve!

Klingon: ‘oH ghaH QaQ jaj DaqjaH
English: It is a good day to tweet

By FreedomChicken

Important news!!! TenToneHammer.com is giving away the Open beta Keys for Star Trek Online. Supplies are limited. You don’t have to be a premium member or an existing member or anything. I just signed up with a new account there and got my beta key instantly.

“Boldly go into open beta with a key from Ten Ton Hammer!

Be part of the Star Trek Online’s open beta with a key from Ten Ton Hammer! Help test the game from January 12th (at 10am PST) to the 26th. Key quantities are limited so act fast! Login then click here for instructions, then click here to check out the latest Star Trek Online articles and guides from Ten Ton Hammer!”

http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/79119

Remember though that you need to go to the Star Trek Online Open Beta page and activate your key and create an account to login and play the game. The section to paste your key into will look just like below for those of you that need some visual help.

http://www.startrekonline.com/openbeta