University of Sydney Timetable Exporter (Sync with iPhone, Google Calendar)

Posted: Sunday, 8 March 2015

Link to Web App: https://www.extramaster.net/USyd/timetableExporter/

If you're ever lost and don't know when your next lecture, practical, lab, or tutorial will be in, or in fact where it even is, then this web application will help simply the process of managing your time at the University of Sydney.

iOS supports this web application natively through Safari, and so you can add your timetable automatically with two taps of a finger after you've submitted your credentials to login.

The instructions for iOS assume that you're using iOS Safari, however, if you're on a PC/Mac, and want to sync your timetable with your iPhone, then you can send the generated ics file via email to your iPhone, and you're all set!

With Google Calendar, you can sync this calendar with your Android device. So, by extension, this web application supports Android devices as well (although it hasn't been tested)!

Outlook (tested with Outlook 2013) works, but to a degree. Your timetable will be imported but your times will be off by an hour, due to timezone/daylight savings issues. iOS and Google Calendar do not have this daylight savings issue.

Link to Web App: https://www.extramaster.net/USyd/timetableExporter/

North Korea's Red Star OS Mega.co.nz Download

Posted: Friday, 13 February 2015

If you're a little cautious about peer-to-peer downloading, even if it's legal, or dislike the reliance on other slow peers, then here's a download straight off mega.co.nz!

Red Star OS is North Korea's attempt in replicating Apple's Mac OS X operating system, acting as a artificial façade on top of Linux. There's a few security-conscious details that have been added in a delusional attempt to thwart outside security "threats".

So, without further adieu:
redstar_desktop3.0_sign.iso - https://mega.co.nz/#!0dUiAYjC!lils17twxjFjsDBCyPC95OK_Kev_G_8FrZMCDIwislM
MD5: ACF53D2B50ECB1391044B343502BECF5
SHA256: 895AD0E01AE0D35A65E9AC42DD34D0A1D685D6DFA331CE5B4F24BBC753439BE3

Mega.co.nz
Red Star OS
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Operating System Download

Universal Internet Video Downloader without Plugins or Extensions

Posted: Sunday, 1 February 2015

Video downloader sites such as KeepVid.com often feature an "online downloader", which is merely a Java or Adobe Flash application masquerading as a webpage. Typically embedded into the landing page and seamlessly integrated.

This doesn't turn out so well if you're a web developer, or someone who disables Flash and Java because it eats up all of your laptop battery, or because you use an iOS device (an iPad, iPhone, iPod, for example).

In those scenarios, browser plugins are really horrific and tends to break the site. Java isn't supported on Safari iPhone, so if you try to download a low quality .mp4 to your file manager app to conserve bandwidth, you may be shocked to discover that you can't do so because your phone doesn't support Java.

That said, the link for the "Universal Video Downloader" is as follows: https://www.extramaster.net/tools/videoDownloader/
Simply enter the video link in the textfield indicated, and click on the "Download button" to the far right of the screen.

Andromeda Galaxy 4K, Dual Monitor Wallpapers

Posted: Saturday, 24 January 2015

NASA and the ESA recently published its latest image of the Andromeda Galaxy, an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and compiled by a source of 7,398 images. [1]
The resulting image is a mind-boggling 4,637MB, with a resolution of 69,536 in width and 22,230 in height, totalling 1,545,785,280 pixels. That's 1.5 Gigapixels! [2]

CHM file isn't working on Windows

Posted: Monday, 1 December 2014

If you've ever dealt with CHM files, then you would already know that those letters are short for "Compiled HTML", which are typically used as a resource to HELP or guide users through a particular set of problems.

Bridging wlan0 to eth0 (wifi to lan) with a Raspberry Pi

Posted: Friday, 7 November 2014

Edit:

As mentioned by +Gareth Williams, this guide will result in routing the Raspberry Pi's Internet connection, not bridging it.

Click here to skip to the actual guide.

I've had a Raspberry Pi for a few months now, and although I'm not impressed about its performance, I am however, impressed by its versatility.

Anti-Gamergategate - The 3 important FACTs on Gaming Journalism

Posted: Wednesday, 15 October 2014

IN online terminology, a troll is defined as "One who posts a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message board with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument".
This definition has stood the testimony of the modernism of the platform of the internet, as the definition of "trolls" extends now to the blogs of "reputable" journalists.
Pandering to a strict demographic always does wonders to an ignorant mindset. The propagation of "clickbait" and other "dark pattern" campaigns draw crucial cues of the declining quality of reputable journalism and the field of news all together.