Boing Boing: Horrified B-movie victim action figures

Posted by on under shock awe, b movie, action figures, high heels, array, fear |

Baron Bob sells this set of Horrified B-Movie Victims. The set features nine victims ( 2.5" - 3" tall) in "an array of horrified poses.. shock, awe, fear, and of course the female slipping in high heels." The set sells for $14.95 but the green bear doesn't seem to be included. Horrified B-Movie Victims...

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Engadget: VIA teams with Microsoft to drive low-cost netbooks in global markets

Posted by on under global mobile computing, vivienne tam, netbooks, tier vendors, global mobility, mini 1000, netbook, life cycles, compas, global markets, emerging markets, price tag, related news, clutch, denial, laptops, atom, intel, array, hp |

Filed under: Laptops


Here in the US of A, most netbooks come stocked with a predictable array of hardware: a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 80GB HDD, 1GB of RAM and a price tag ranging from $399 to $699. Elsewhere on the planet, things are a bit different, and if VIA has anything to say about it, it will be the name people think of when hearing "netbook" in Asia and beyond. Said outfit has just cranked up a Global Mobility Bazaar program to "drive [global] mobile computing adoption," and it has already managed to pull 15 companies (including Microsoft, for a little thing called WinXP) onboard. In essence, the program will enable second-tier vendors to get in the netbook game and offer products with shorter life cycles and lower prices -- both of which are mighty useful in emerging markets. In somewhat related news, we're also hearing a sketchy report that HP has chosen the Intel route for its future netbooks, and considering that the Vivienne Tam Digital Clutch has already selected Intel, we suppose the forthcoming Mini 1000 will likely be the real confirmation / denial.

[Via Liliputing]

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Installer 4.0b6 and New Updated Repository Code

Posted by on under repository code, versis, custom html, test zip, zip archives, search server, repositories, opti, t test, copy paste, cfig, pear, goodness, parameters, peoe, array, exec, circumstances, beta, search engine |

Hi!

Proudly presenting you the new beta of Installer - 4.0b6.

New and changed:
  • Search. It searches among packages from the repositories you have added, and, if you let it sit for 5 seconds, will query our server and return packages that are available from repositories you don't have added (that we know about) with an option to automatically add and install. Repository owners, upgrade to the latest version of the repo code (below) to have your repository added to the search engine.
  • Uninstall now works correctly.
  • Fixed a lot of locking issues especially with custom HTML info pages.
  • Updated the Categories and Tasks icons so they are less ugly.
  • Fixed a bug with multiple copies of Installer appearing in Installed Packages under some circumstances.
  • Installer will now correctly check and prompt for an update of itself.

Also, to accompany the Installer release, a new edition of the Repository code is up. Grab it here: repo-r1114.zip

What's new in the repo code?
  • Added an option to ping the Installer search server so it reindexes your repository. The ping occurs during regenerate.php run.
  • Much better handling of ZIP archives, since this is what most people had troubles with. It now attempts to determine which way to use to unzip your files (PEAR::ZipArchive, zip_open or shell_exec("unzip")). Please note that we didn't test zip_open piece of the code as we don't have a server with that plugin compiled in PHP.
  • DOMDocument::load() should work under PHP4. We hope.
  • Slightly better handling of the multiple versions of the same package.
How to upgrade? Simply replace regenerate.php with the new one, and add new configuration parameters from config.inc.default.php to your config.inc.php. There are two: REPOSITORY_URL, that should have a full path to your repo (with a trailing slash), and ZIP_CMDLINE_PATH (only add this if needed). Refer to config.inc.default.php for the descriptions and copy-paste goodness.

Don't forget to regenerate your repositories once upgraded, and also don't forget to put 2.0.2 into POSSIBLE_FIRMWARE_VERSIONS array so people on the new firmware can see your packages!

Thanks. :)

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Return iPhone owners name

Posted by on under iphe, iphone, itunes, aar, array, alexander |

You can use NSHost.
you can return name(string) or names(array)

so if you return the array of names, what mine does is return 3 values.
1. "iPhone"
2. "Aaron Alexander's iPhone"
3. "localhost"

you prob want #2, which seems to be what the name is in itunes for your iphone.

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Funny Face

Posted by on under funny face, hair styles, necklaces, array, photos, photo |

Version 1.0 Add a lot of objects and modify them to fit your photos. Add silly items to an existing photo! The options range from an array of eyewear, hair styles, necklaces and more. Quite cute and fun for kids of any age. You can take a photo through the app, select a [...]
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