Mapping Sydney Universities

As a current university student, I've always had second thoughts about the university that I'm in. Of course, this is all natural for a first year indecisive undergrad, however even if I do decide to stay, it wouldn't hurt to go exploring other university campuses.

But where are all the universities hidden away in Sydney?

The University of Sydney (USyd)

Strategy Guide: Beating Agar.io

Table of Contents

• Strategy
• Conclusion
• Comments

Agar.io is an amateur clone of the popular game "Spore", featuring an online, real-time multi-player gameplay, where instead of facing off against the computer, you face off with real competitors from across the world.

Like with Spore, Agar.io is a dog eat dog world, yet with Agar.io - even the usernames of other players will be disgusting, containing the occasional cuss, self-promotion, and obnoxious Internet memes (such as a single Swastika). There will be players constantly and opportunistically stalking you, and players that will attempt to destroy you even if it means that they will be destroyed themselves.

In Agar.io, you start off as a small cell, collecting pickups and eating smaller creatures with a goal of growing larger and larger until you make it to the leaderboards. From the leaderboards, it's matter of trying to survive for as long as possible.

So how do you beat this game and get to the top of the leaderboard of your current "room"?

Strategy

Fixing Proxy/Loading Issues with the Windows 8 App Store

This is the Windows Store app. Or, at least it would be if it worked. For now, it's just a splash screen...

Well, if would still be a splash screen if it wasn't for the fact that after a long wait, an error message appears.

The one I got first was:

We weren't able to connect to the Store. This might have happened because of a server problem or the network connection might have timed out. Please wait a few minutes and try again. (0x80072ee2)

The next attempt in opening the store app resulted in another error:

We weren't able to connect to the Store. This might have happened because of a server problem or the network connection might have timed out. Please wait a few minutes and try again. (0x80190190)

Note how, in both cases, the error code was different...

So if you're currently encountering an error message with the same error codes, then you're in luck, since there is a fix! If the error code and problem is similar (but not exactly the same) then in any case just have a read through and see if your problem gets fixed.

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

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

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
North Korea
Operating System Download

Universal Internet Video Downloader without Plugins or Extensions

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

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]