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dmb

January 27, 2012 / / 0 Comments

One of the websites I run is dmb – Dual Monitor Backgrounds.
For a while now I’ve been working on a major update to the website and it’s ready now (I hope) for beta testing.

With the current, non-beta version of dmb it’s quite a simple website, I manually add all the images. When people want me to add their images to the site they email them to me.
With the new, beta version people can add their own wallpapers, which are then added to their profile. Profiles are what categories used to be.

This will allow the amount of images to grow much faster than before and I hope it will be more satisfying for people to control their own images rather than have me put them up on their behalf. There is of course rating, commenting and all that good stuff.

I ask that you go onto the website and test it, and if you have suggestions or find bugs please let me know. It is a fairly high-traffic website and I want to get those things ironed out before putting it fully online.

You can see the beta at beta.dualmonitorbackgrounds.com

AutoLinks 1.7

January 27, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Today I released an update for the Vanilla 1 extension AutoLinks, to 1.7 from 1.6.
It mainly contains changes to the YouTube embedding code. It improves privacy, enables HTML5 and allows the videos to scale to lower resolutions.

With regards to the privacy improvements, normally when you visit a page that has a YouTube video on it, YouTube (Google) sets cookies to gain what some people consider to be personal information. It’s nothing serious but I don’t think it’s good default behaviour when the person hasn’t even viewed the video.
So if you update to the new AutoLinks, YouTube will not use cookies unless the user actually plays the video.

Amazon4All 2.0

January 9, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Introduction:

This is an update for a script called Amazon4All by Jaap. The original website is here.
I made updates to it recently for a client and thought I might as well release it since the original project hasn’t been updated since 2009.
All credit goes to the original developers, I’m just keeping it up to date with the latest APIs and cleaning up a bit.

Basically it is a PHP script that interacts with the Amazon API to allow developers to integrate Amazon stuff on their own websites.

Changelog:

2012-01-09 – 2.0

  • Added support for Spanish and Italian results
  • Updated API version to 2011-08-01 from 2009-03-31
  • Removed a lot of unused/private code
  • Fixed PHP warnings
  • Formatting
  • Doctype is declared for better HTML rendering

Below this line is Jaap’s changelog, above it is SubJunk’s.

2009-11-29

  • Added Italian language

2009-11-05

  • Separated the AWS requesting part to aws.php

2009-08-27

  • Removed a lot of old outdated messages from this list
  • Added the $tab variable in all echo statements so all HTML is indented properly
  • Added printing a simple HTML-header to have utf8 rendered correctly

2009-08-26

  • Got simplexml object printing working
  • Script will now create cache directory itself

2009-08-16

  • Always use signed request, started adding better time measurement

2009-08-12

  • Added the comments for 20090804 and 20090812 and tested the caching and I am going to try to put the script online

2009-08-04

  • Rewrote the scripts to make the new version (with signing) more like the old version so that the caching would work again but didn’t test it yet, this also made show_url work again
  • Refixed the do/du problem for used products (which had gone after going back to an old version) and added the (server) locale functionality to the signed version

2009-06-23

  • Added the signing that Amazon requires from 20090815

2006-03-09

  • Did put English first in the $Alanguage array again and added the comment
  • Added the Portuguese translation

2004-11-14

  • Norwegian translations by Bjoern Boerresen added

2004-09-20

  • Thanks to Dr. Jan-Hendrik Doerner for correcting some of the German translations

2004-07-20

  • Removed the slashes after the server URLs so the slash can be used within a string

2004-07-15

  • Added some things that Wim Roffel suggested

2004-04-08

  • UK modes added
  • Japanese locale enabled
  • More search types added

2002-08-16

  • Initial release

My new personal blog

January 1, 2012 / / 2 Comments

Since Spirton has become a blog that is mostly used for program releases and other related things, I thought it was time I started a separate blog for personal things.
So I registered klausburton.com.

That’s where all my personal posts will be done from now on, while the program stuff (PS3MS, InterFrame, MPlayer, etc.) will still happen here like before.

Happy new year, too 🙂

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