So I’m starting to learning PHP, but as a student whose’s bag is already crammed with (uselessly oversized) textbooks, I want to store the eBook/PDF of a PHP book I bought online, on my iPhone. Imagine all the PDF’s you’ve ever downloaded or torrented right on your iDevice (iPad would be savage for this)! Its extremely fastand easy to do! What we need is:

• iDevice: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad (obviously)
• Mac (more obviously)
• eBook or PDF file (more more obliviously)
• WiFi network that both iDevice and Mac are on

If you’re stuck for a wireless network, you can create one on the Mac and let the iDevice join it.

Right lets rock(paper)(scissors)…

First off we want the iDevice to be able to access the eBook/PDF on your Mac. Open the ‘System Preferences‘ application and click on ‘Sharing‘.

In ‘Sharing‘ click on ‘Web Sharing‘ in the left column.

Now click on the checkbox of ‘Web Sharing‘ so it turns blue and has a tick in it. You’ll see the green light is now on and its says “Web Sharing: On“, you will also see a web address in blue, make note of it as we’ll be going to it on the iDevice. In my case it said “http://192.168.1.4/~jw”, it could also say the computer name, like “http://spartan.local/~jw”.

Next, in Finder, goto your home folder (mine is ‘jw’) and then into the ‘Sites‘ folder. Basically anything you put in here you can access on your iDevice (or computer) by going to the web address we took note of earlier. So in this ‘Sites‘ folder, copy/place/drag the desired PDF/eBook into.

Now on the iDevice, first get the iBooks app from the AppStore (if you hav’nt already), now in the Safari app goto the web address we took note of earlier, in my case it was http://192.168.1.4/~jw.

You’ll see a list of files, touch/click on the PDF/eBook you put in. It will open and on the top right, you’ll see an option “Open in iBooks”

Press that option and it’ll open in iBooks and will be saved

Well done! You’ve done it, the eBook/PDF is now in iBooks Library

You can do this to add all your eBooks and PDFs into the iBooks app so you can enjoy them on the go!

Note: When you enable ‘Web Sharing’ everyone can access what you have in your ‘Sites’ folder, now its mega-super-highely unlikely that some will know where or go into your ‘Sites’ folder while you’re doing this, but if you’re adding some explicit content, I’d just removed the evidence from your ‘Sites’ folder when your done. Also in every case, for piece of mind, just turn off ‘Web Sharing’ in ‘System Preferences’ when you’re done.

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Man, so recently I’ve gotten addicted it to Smallville, but most of the sites that you watch it on use MegaVideo, now MegaVideo has a good service, but it’s 72 minute hourly limit sucks. Theres a few ways to bypass, but I found this way the easiest!

Simply goto http://bypassmegavideo.info/ and enter the URL of the video on megavideo you wanna watch, like http://www.megavideo.com/?v=4TF267S5 or something and click that button to the right of the field and off you go!

Just a heads up, when you get on the next page with the video player, and if theres green circle with a play button within, it’ll tell you to click said play button, doing this opens a ad in a new window or redirects the page to an ad, just hit the back button and the video will start playing and btw pause and leave the video load up for around a minute or so, that way it’ll play without it stopping on occasion to load

Fr Teh Geeks: On the technical side of things, it appears the php file finds the core flash video file and then outputs in the sites own flash video player, the video player aspect itself of megavideo’s videos controls time limitation and whatnot!

Right, so in my previous post I embedded the vid of my first backflip via twitvid.com, however what would I do if I wanted to download that? Heres a guide on how to download vids from twitvid!

1.

Goto the page of the video you wanna download, see the URL bit up top, well in this case its ” http://www.twitvid.com/A7C51 “, well just ” player/” after the “twitvid.com”, so it’d be “http://www.twitvid.com/player/A7C51″, hit enter an go it.

2.

righto, so you’ll be brought to this page, its basically a big screen flash player of the vid, the url will now be something ridonkcolously, pick out the http://www.twitvid.com/playVideo_A7C51/token_87c55b1e07b6647e6e7bf172b6585ef0

copy and paste it into the url bar and go to it!

3.

Right, so this is the movie file playing in your browser, its a .mp4 (MPEG4) file, so you can right click the page and save as, or goto the ‘edit’ tab and save page as, or what ever!

Now you can download and do whatever the hell you want!

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Since I’ve mounted a whiteboard to my office wall, I’ve needed to hold the markers and eraser in something, not have them all over the gaf, so I spotted a couple of old foppy disks and decided to throw this together…

What you’re gonna need is 5 Floppy Disks and something to hold them together (I used super glue, but duck/sticky tape or ‘BluTac’ or any ‘Tac’ of any colour would also work!) and about 10-25 minutes depending if you get your hand stuck to the work surface…

So its pretty simple right, use 4 Floppys as sides and 1 as the base, just stick them together and you’re ready to rock! When sticking them together, make sure that they’re properly perpendicular using a Floppy Disk or a triangular ruler to make sure the angle is 90 degrees.

Anyway I gotta fix a webpage coz Internet Explorer does’nt “Like” a clients webpage, what a joke…. use Firefox, Chrome or Safari please.