Here is how it looks.
7/3/10
GLogoChanger Safari Extension
I made a safari extension for fun, what it does is it changes the logo on Google.com to a custom one, or a random one picked from a database of Google Logos. You can download it at http://mrgeckosmedia.com/GLogoChanger.safariextz. I will be updating the database as new logos are released. I also wrote in my web language, that I talked about before on this blog, a logo generator that you can generate a Google like logo. Please take note that I wrote this for fun and that the Google logo is a trademark of Google. You can play with it at http://mrgeckosmedia.com/logogenerator.mgm.
Here is how it looks.
Here is how it looks.
6/10/10
YouView Updates
So here are some updates to YouView Beta.
1 Safari Extension found at http://mrgeckosmedia.com/YouView.safariextz. I recommend that you use this instead of the plugin, as the plugin is using some hacks that may not work on some computers.
2 Chrome Extension found at http://mrgeckosmedia.com/YouViewChrome.crx.
3 We have a new Player with custom controls and ability to skip to a part of the video which hasn't been loaded on Snow Leopard.
4 You can play video that has not been converted to MP4 meaning that video that just was uploaded will work. I do require that you download Perian, but I think everyone should have that anyway.
5 1080p is available and all of HD doesn't need a donation anymore.
6 A new layout plus effects I hope you enjoy.
7 It's better at loading images to where it doesn't crash when you try and search a lot of times.
8 Multiple searches.
9 Ability to open the video in a new window or in the window that you were searching in.
10 Looping of videos.
11 Search history.
12 Apple Remote support for 10.6.
13 A better system for finding the video w.hich will try a bunch of things to be sure that it can play the video.
14 A lot of bug fixes and memory management fixes.
15 A donation can now be $1.99 instead of $4.99, but I still recommend you donate $4.99 for all my work.
16 Session restoring.
17 View all new subscriptions.
18 GeckoReporter, a new open source project I started that allows people to submit bugs, submit crash reports if YouView crashed, and contact you with feed back about the website. If you would like to add this into your own application, go to https://opensource.mrgeckosmedia.com/ where I have more open source projects and I'll be posting more over time.
Things to come.
1 Playlists.
2 Add author as friend.
3 Video uploading.
4 More settings for exporting.
5 Maybe a plugin for safari that will play videos directly in safari instead of having you go to the application.
6 Delete favorite video.
7 Maybe growl support for when a video finished downloading/converting.
8 I'll try and make it more accessible for people with disabilities.
9 Global volume so once you change the volume for one video, all new videos will open with that volume.
10 A way to see related videos and more videos from the author inside the video.
11 A close button inside the video as some people would prefer to click that instead of the window close or escape button.
12 New comments layout.
If you have ideas, please submit them to support@mrgeckosmedia.com or use the Contact Mr. Gecko from the Help menu.
Here are some screenshots of the current YouView.
1 Safari Extension found at http://mrgeckosmedia.com/YouView.safariextz. I recommend that you use this instead of the plugin, as the plugin is using some hacks that may not work on some computers.
2 Chrome Extension found at http://mrgeckosmedia.com/YouViewChrome.crx.
3 We have a new Player with custom controls and ability to skip to a part of the video which hasn't been loaded on Snow Leopard.
4 You can play video that has not been converted to MP4 meaning that video that just was uploaded will work. I do require that you download Perian, but I think everyone should have that anyway.
5 1080p is available and all of HD doesn't need a donation anymore.
6 A new layout plus effects I hope you enjoy.
7 It's better at loading images to where it doesn't crash when you try and search a lot of times.
8 Multiple searches.
9 Ability to open the video in a new window or in the window that you were searching in.
10 Looping of videos.
11 Search history.
12 Apple Remote support for 10.6.
13 A better system for finding the video w.hich will try a bunch of things to be sure that it can play the video.
14 A lot of bug fixes and memory management fixes.
15 A donation can now be $1.99 instead of $4.99, but I still recommend you donate $4.99 for all my work.
16 Session restoring.
17 View all new subscriptions.
18 GeckoReporter, a new open source project I started that allows people to submit bugs, submit crash reports if YouView crashed, and contact you with feed back about the website. If you would like to add this into your own application, go to https://opensource.mrgeckosmedia.com/ where I have more open source projects and I'll be posting more over time.
Things to come.
1 Playlists.
2 Add author as friend.
3 Video uploading.
4 More settings for exporting.
5 Maybe a plugin for safari that will play videos directly in safari instead of having you go to the application.
6 Delete favorite video.
7 Maybe growl support for when a video finished downloading/converting.
8 I'll try and make it more accessible for people with disabilities.
9 Global volume so once you change the volume for one video, all new videos will open with that volume.
10 A way to see related videos and more videos from the author inside the video.
11 A close button inside the video as some people would prefer to click that instead of the window close or escape button.
12 New comments layout.
If you have ideas, please submit them to support@mrgeckosmedia.com or use the Contact Mr. Gecko from the Help menu.
Here are some screenshots of the current YouView.
I do recommend YouView Beta to every user of YouView as it's way better than the current one. I do not want to post it on the site until it's out of beta because I don't want some prerelease software up on MacUpdate and other download sites. The reason I haven't had an update in a long time is because I have been busy with school and life. The next thing for me to do is write a new user system which I'll be using in all of my applications including Voice Mac.
You can download YouView beta at http://mrgeckosmedia.com/YouView.zip.
To keep up to date with YouView, you would probably want to follow me on one of the social networks where I am posting updates as I update them. Twitter, Twitter (Personal), FaceBook, FriendFeed, and Buzz.
12/11/09
Install Leopard on G4s under 867Mhz
Hello, this is a guide to installing leopard on under spec G4's, 400Mhz or later.
Before you start backup any important data on the under spec G4.
Now there are many ways to install leopard on an under spec G4, three of which I will show you how.
The first one is good if you meet the requirements listed below.
1. You have a computer that has leopard on it with an firewire port on it.
2. A firewire cable.
3. The under spec G4 does not have more than one hard drive.
4. A firewire port on the under spec G4.
5. You don't mind moving the computers close enough so you can plug them together with a firewire cable.
If you meet these requirements, then this is the best way for you.
1. Connect the computers together with the firewire cable.
2. Turn on the under spec G4 while holding down the T key, which will bring it into target disk mode.
3. When you see the hard drive on your leopard computer, insert the Leopard Install DVD.
Now there are two ways you can install leopard after you have done the above steps.
1. Reboot the leopard computer and install from the DVD
2. Open the Leopard Install DVD in the finder, press command-shift-g, enter System/Installation/Packages, open OSInstall.mpkg, and install with installer. After installed, you can either test with the leopard computer or you can eject the under spec G4 from the leopard computer, turn off the under spec G4, unplug the firewire cable, and boot. If it works, you are done.
The second way to do it, is to fake the Leopard Install DVD by changing the property for the processor's frequency (speed). (NOTE: This is not over clocking and your computer will return back to normal after a reboot. This is just telling your computer that it is 867Mhz so that leopard will install.)
And of course there is a requirement for this and that is a DVD drive.
If you do have a DVD drive than you can continue.
1. Insert your Leopard Install DVD.
2. Reboot the computer while holding down command-option-o-f. (This will put you into a terminal like area called Open Firmware.)
3. Enter exactly as shown. (It might be better if you print this out, unless you have another computer to read as you type.)
For single processor.
dev /cpus/PowerPC,G4@0
d# 867000000 encode-int " clock-frequency" property
boot cd:,\\:tbxi
For dual processors.
dev /cpus/PowerPC,G4@0
d# 867000000 encode-int " clock-frequency" property
dev /cpus/PowerPC,G4@1
d# 867000000 encode-int " clock-frequency" property
boot cd:,\\:tbxi
4. Press return and your computer will boot the install cd. After it boots the cd, install leopard normally.
The last way is a little bit harder and requires more time and that is changing the OSInstall.pkg file so that it supports under spec G4's. I have already built a preedited version because you can't really edit it with out leopard in the first place.
Requirements are.Before you start backup any important data on the under spec G4.
Now there are many ways to install leopard on an under spec G4, three of which I will show you how.
The first one is good if you meet the requirements listed below.
1. You have a computer that has leopard on it with an firewire port on it.
2. A firewire cable.
3. The under spec G4 does not have more than one hard drive.
4. A firewire port on the under spec G4.
5. You don't mind moving the computers close enough so you can plug them together with a firewire cable.
If you meet these requirements, then this is the best way for you.
1. Connect the computers together with the firewire cable.
2. Turn on the under spec G4 while holding down the T key, which will bring it into target disk mode.
3. When you see the hard drive on your leopard computer, insert the Leopard Install DVD.
Now there are two ways you can install leopard after you have done the above steps.
1. Reboot the leopard computer and install from the DVD
2. Open the Leopard Install DVD in the finder, press command-shift-g, enter System/Installation/Packages, open OSInstall.mpkg, and install with installer. After installed, you can either test with the leopard computer or you can eject the under spec G4 from the leopard computer, turn off the under spec G4, unplug the firewire cable, and boot. If it works, you are done.
The second way to do it, is to fake the Leopard Install DVD by changing the property for the processor's frequency (speed). (NOTE: This is not over clocking and your computer will return back to normal after a reboot. This is just telling your computer that it is 867Mhz so that leopard will install.)
And of course there is a requirement for this and that is a DVD drive.
If you do have a DVD drive than you can continue.
1. Insert your Leopard Install DVD.
2. Reboot the computer while holding down command-option-o-f. (This will put you into a terminal like area called Open Firmware.)
3. Enter exactly as shown. (It might be better if you print this out, unless you have another computer to read as you type.)
For single processor.
dev /cpus/PowerPC,G4@0
d# 867000000 encode-int " clock-frequency" property
boot cd:,\\:tbxi
For dual processors.
dev /cpus/PowerPC,G4@0
d# 867000000 encode-int " clock-frequency" property
dev /cpus/PowerPC,G4@1
d# 867000000 encode-int " clock-frequency" property
boot cd:,\\:tbxi
4. Press return and your computer will boot the install cd. After it boots the cd, install leopard normally.
The last way is a little bit harder and requires more time and that is changing the OSInstall.pkg file so that it supports under spec G4's. I have already built a preedited version because you can't really edit it with out leopard in the first place.
1. A copy of the Leopard Install DVD.
2. A second hard drive, second partition, or a firewire drive. the drive needs to be at lest 8GB big.
3. A DVD drive or a DMG of the Leopard Install DVD which you can use a computer with a DVD drive to make.
Now to begin.
1. You need to get the Leopard Install DVD source ready. (DMG or DVD)
2. Open Disk Utilities, this can be found in /Applications/Utilities if you did not move it.
3. Click on the hard disk you are going to copy to.
4. Click on Restore. Now this is where all of the magic is done. If you try and copy the DVD using the finder all of the permissions and stuff won't be right and it won't boot.
5. Drag the hard disk that you are going to put the Leopard Install DVD on to the destination field.
6. Drag the Leopard Install DVD to the source field.
7. If you would like to erase all of the data off the destination disk, you can. If you don't it would just replace items that are on the disk that are also on the Leopard Install DVD.
8. Click restore and wait 30-90 minutes.
9. After that is done, download osinstallmpkg.zip
10. Open the hard disk with the Leopard Install DVD copy in the finder, Press command-shift-g, type in System/Installation, and press go.
11. Copy the downloaded OSInstall.mpkg to the Packages folder, enter your admin password if it ask for it and replace.
12. Set the startup disk to the Leopard Install DVD hard disk and reboot. When it boots you can install Leopard just like it is from the DVD but faster and you have a copy on your hard drive just incase you need to reinstall.
9. After that is done, download osinstallmpkg.zip
10. Open the hard disk with the Leopard Install DVD copy in the finder, Press command-shift-g, type in System/Installation, and press go.
11. Copy the downloaded OSInstall.mpkg to the Packages folder, enter your admin password if it ask for it and replace.
12. Set the startup disk to the Leopard Install DVD hard disk and reboot. When it boots you can install Leopard just like it is from the DVD but faster and you have a copy on your hard drive just incase you need to reinstall.
11/28/09
Cocoa for the Web
Working on a project that will allow you to write websites in cocoa using xcode and frameworks to make it easier to talk to Apache. So far I got a cocoa language proxy with cgi and apache that will run the cocoa programs and will tell your cocoa programs information like if it's a post and so on.
11/24/09
First Blog Post
One thing, when you make a blog, the first post must be a test, so this is a test/introductory for my blog. On this blog I'll be posting news on what I'm working on and updates for my applications I'm making, I may post some posts on tips for using computers and other things, and I may have friends help with posting stuff on here so you never get bored, don't want to annoy you ether.
Hope you enjoy this blog,
Mr. Gecko
Hope you enjoy this blog,
Mr. Gecko
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