Shiny Hacks
Life hacks and technology solutions for everyday life
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Hideman Service, VPN, WiFi Protection
Friday, September 14, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
New Project: PCGamingWiki
I've been working very hard lately on a new project, which is PCGamingWiki.
It's a wiki designed to fix PC gaming and stop forum rage.
Sample of articles with strong relevancy:
I hope to see some of my readers there!
It's a wiki designed to fix PC gaming and stop forum rage.
Our goal is to fix every single PC game, with a single page for all information about:
We are not interested in:
- Performance issues and fixes
- Optimisations, cfgs and hacks
- Save game locations and syncing
- Bugs, workarounds and community patches
- Alt-tab and fullscreen windowed mode
- Cutscene and video skipping
- Getting the most out of PC gaming
- Synopsis of a game
- Game content or reviews
- Illegally acquiring DLC or bypassing DRM
Sample of articles with strong relevancy:
I hope to see some of my readers there!
Sunday, January 22, 2012
How To Make Your Own Automatic Baby Rocker From A Baby Bjorn Bouncer And A Maxi-Cosi Car Seat
There are no decent automatic baby rockers on the market. For example, the Robopax Baby Rocker that we tried out is functional in principle, but in practice, did not deliver enough of a rocking motion to soothe our 2-month old baby Benjamin.
The Baby Bjorn Balance Bouncer was sold to us as a way for a baby to self soothe themselves. It requires tiny amounts of force to create a large bouncing motion which babies love. However, young babies tend not to be able to propel themselves and so young baby Benjamin always seems to need an extra push. Unfortunately for me, it's meant that for many sleepless nights, I've been reduced to a glorified baby rocker, gently nudging the Baby Bjorn Bouncer and rocking him at all hours of the night whilst slowly losing my sanity. (Other sleep depriving attachment parenting techniques include holding him in a sling and sleeping on my tummy).
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Blogger Mobile Theme and IntenseDebate Integration
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| The new Blogger mobile theme does a much better job formatting content onto mobile devices |
In 2011, Blogger implemented a fantastic new mobile theme template. However, this new theme does not provide support for third party comment systems. Blogger's own native commenting system is really poor as it does not allow very basic comment features such as threading or Facebook login. Most serious Blogger users will turn to the two most popular third party comment systems, Disqus and IntenseDebate, for these additional features. However, under the default Blogger mobile theme setting, the mobile theme will not display the Disqus or IntenseDebate; only native comments will show up.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
North London Dim Sum Interactive Map And Reviews
View North London Dim Sum in a larger map
The aim of the follow list is to create a comprehensive list of dim sum restaurants in the north London area, between zone 2 and Hemel Hempstead.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Play HD MKV 720p Smoothly on iPhone and iPad (iOS) Natively Using XBMC
Playing high quality video on your iPhone/iPad like MKVs in 720p format has never been possible using standard App Store apps. This is because Apple have not allowed App Store apps to access hardware acceleration on their devices unless the video being played is in an MP4 format. This is despite the fact that most MKV files these days simply contain muxed MP4 files. Apps with decent performance like AVPlayer can only produce a slideshow with desynced audio, something I've written about in a previous article.
However, the fact remains that high quality videos are most commonly shared through the internet in the MKV format, especially high definition video. However, a solution has come through Jailbreaking the iPhone/iPad, which allows video playing applications like XBMC to access hardware acceleration. XBMC on the iPhone/iPad plays high bit-rate MKVs in 720p perfectly smoothly. Not only this, but there is an elegant solution to load files onto the iPhone/iPad through iTunes which does NOT require the fiddly operation of OpenSSH.
Video is of an iPad 1 running 720p MKV files on both AVPlayerHD and XBMC.
Jailbreak is required for this hack, here is a a way of searching for the latest guide to Jailbreaking.
