What's That Song??

Yes.com is a website that lets you enter your zipcode and choose a radio station. Then, it will tell you exactly what songs played when. Pretty cool! Digg This!

Posted by PU on Monday, July 31, 2006 at 9:58 PM Comments (3)

My Political Views

I consider myself half-heartedly Republican, but EVERY political test I have taken pegs me right smack in the middle. According to the website, my political views resemble those of Donald Trump, and I probably would have voted Republican (although the chart pegs me in the middle):

You are a Social Liberal (65% permissive) and an... Economic Conservative (83% permissive) You are best described as a: Libertarian Link: The Politics Test on OkCupid Free Online Dating Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

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Posted by PU on Saturday, July 29, 2006 at 9:03 PM Comments (0)

Top 5 Firefox Extensions

5) Greasemonkey adds DHTML to a page, letting users create their own scripts. After you download Greasemonkey, search the web for useful scripts. One script I found allows me to download YouTube videos, another one manages my blog links.

4) The del.icio.us extension adds great functionality to the del.icio.us service. The extension simply adds two nice looking buttons to your broswer; one button to tag items, and another button to view your tagged items.

3) BugMeNot is a great website, and now an extension as well. Sometimes, I will want to read a full article without creating an account, or I will want to AIM someone from an anonymous, throwaway account. I would visit bugmenot.com to get a username and password, entered into the database by everyday users. But this extension allows me to right-click in the username and password box, automatically acquire a username and password, and login without leaving the page. Nice!

2) DownThemAll is an extension that lets you download multiple things from a webpage at one time. For example, yesterday I was used this to download all the PDFs of old math contests here. Rather than download them individually, I opened DTA and set the filter to PDF. Voila! All the PDFs downloaded into one folder t the touch of a button!

1) All-in-One Gestures is my favorite extension, and I couldn't live without it. This extension lets you hold down the right-click button, and drag it along. Certain patterns do certain things. For example, if you "draw" an L on a page, it will close that tab. These gestures are easier to memorize than they might seem, and they save SO MUCH TIME.

Anyway, that's my top 5 (I couldn't think of 10), and I strongly suggest you try out all of them. If you know of any other good ones, post 'em in the comments section. Digg This!

Posted by PU on Monday, July 24, 2006 at 8:24 PM Comments (3)

How to: Bridge Halo 2

Bridging in Halo 2 on XBOX Live is the act of giving a friend host by manipulating the system. It can be hard to learn, but with a proper tutorial, it will become easy. There are two ways to bridge. The one I will discuss here is bridging through a router. You can also bridge through a crossover cable, but this is harder, and takes more equiptment. When I learned how to bridge, I didn't understand the technical terms, so this tutorial is all in layman's terms. Here it goes:

Is Your Setup Right?:
Internet comes out of a hole in the wall. From the hole in the wall, a wire goes into a box. From the box, more wires go out. One wire goes to your computer. Another wire goes to your XBOX. This is the proper setup. If you don't have this setup, you can't bridge through a router. But if you do, you can proceed to the next step.

Acquiring & Installing Software:
Bridging requires two pieces of software. They are called Cain & Abel and Zone Alarm Pro. Cain is free, but Zone Alarm Pro (or ZAP, for short) costs money, assuming you obtain it legally. First, install ZAP. Follow on-screen instructions, and it's self explanatory. You will have to restart your computer. Next, install Cain & Abel. If it asks, you DO need to install the packet driver. Now you have all the software. Proceed to the next step.


Setting Up Software:
ZAP is self-explanatory, but Cain is harder. To set up Cain, for our purposes, is a detailed proccess. I will guide you through the steps:
1) Sign into XBOX Live.
2) Open up Cain.
3) Press the "Sniffer" tab at the top.
4) Press the "Enable Sniffer" button. It is the button directly to the left of the yellow "Poison" button.
5) Press the blue cross button.
6) A box should appear. Check "All hosts in my subnet" and push "OK".
7) Press the "APR" subtab at the bottom of the screen.
8) Click anywhere in the top white box. This will cause the blue plus button to be available.
9) Click the blue plus button. A box will pop up.
10) Select the top IP address on the left side. More IP addresses will pop up on the right side.
11) Highlight all IP addresses on the right side, then click "OK."
12) IP addresses should appear, and they should be "Idle."
13) Highlight all IP addresses that appear, and click the yellow "Poison" button in the top left corner.
14) Status shoud change from "Idle" to "Poisoning." Then, IP addresses should slowly start popping up in the bottom window.
15) If all you followed the above steps, you are ready to start bridging.

Bridging Host:
1) Find the person who you want to bridge host. Have him go create a party by himself. This is VERY IMPORTANT.
2) Join his party.
3) Go to Zone Alarm Pro and click the "Firewall" tab on the left.
4) Click the "Zones" tab at the top right.
5) Click the "Add" button at the bottom right, and select "IP address."
6) Add Bungie's IP address. It should show up in Cain, and it is currently 65.59.234.161. Put it in your trusted zone and name it "Bungie". Always keep this in your trusted zone, and you will only have to do this step once.
7) Now find the IP address of the person you are giving host. Use Cain, and ask him to go to www.ipmonkey.com if you are not sure which IP is his. When you find out his IP, add it to your trusted zone the same way you added Bungie's IP in step 6.
8) Click "Apply" in the bottom right hand corner.
9) Go to the "Main" tab at the top right, and then set your "Internet" firewall to "High" and your "Trusted" to "Medium."
10) Have your friend start the game. He will get host, automatically! If you did everything right, you will get empty boxes in the MatchMaking screen at Step 2, and you will never join someone else's game, you will create your own and wait for other "yellow quares" to join it. Digg This!

Posted by PU on Thursday, July 20, 2006 at 11:12 PM Comments (801)

IB Stuff

All this IB stuff is confusing. Flora gave me a bunch of crap that tells you nothing about IB, and what courses you need to take, and all that. It just talks about "cultural enrichment" and stuff. Wow. Digg This!

How to Steal A Bike in NYC

This is a hilarious tutorial on how to steal a bike in New York City. It is a serious tutorial, in its own way, but it cracked me up. Go watch it! (Link in title) Digg This!

Posted by PU on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 at 10:53 PM Comments (0)

Emurse Resume Creator

This is a great website that creates a resume for you, then lets you do all kinds of cool stuff with it. It's definitely the best site of its kind, and worth checking out. It's highly customizable, and lets you track where your resume is going, and who you have sent it to. Great tool, go check it out! Digg This!