Facebook ‘Like’ (Previously Fan) Pages: Annoying
Posted by Brandon Harley Mcleod-Miller in Updates on July 2nd, 2010
So when I’m using Facebook, like any other Facebooker i like to ‘Like’ pages that amuse me or seem interesting, however I want to be the person deciding what i ‘Like’ and ignore on Facebook, however i find it extremely annoying when there is a fan page with an interesting name which peaks my curiosity, however to see this page i would have to ‘Like’ it first, then be redirected to some 3rd party website and to top it off, have some full page nag popup telling me i have to do a survey to get access or whatever.
This means that what should take me 10 seconds (click, look, acknowledge and laugh if applicable) takes me a fair few minutes instead, and on top of that i have also lost the power to control what i ‘Like’ because it becomes mandatory to view content.
Anyways, upon searching the internet a few weeks ago i stumbled across some useful Browser Bookmarks that can help with the whole problem, they are:
Bypass mandatory ‘Like’ on Facebook – Simulates ‘Like’ on a “‘Like’ to view content” type page.
Full page advert overlay remover – Removes the annoying “do a survey” nag screens.
To use these links, simply save them as Bookmarks / Favorites, then when on a Facebook fan page that requires you to like it to view content, simply click on the bookmark to run the code to show the hidden content.
If a page give you a link to view an image or something at a 3rd party site after you click ‘Like’, and that 3rd party site gives you the “Do a Survey” popup, you can click the Full page advert overlay remover to get to the real page which is obstructed by the “Do a Survey”.
Halo CE 1.09: Dedicated Server Patcher
Posted by BrandiniMP in Updates on January 12th, 2010
Due to popular demand, i have written a new patcher, this supports Halo CE 1.09, 1.08, 1.07 and 1.00 and can convert between those versions (1.09 exe -> 1.00 compat).
Download:
File: HCEPatcher.zip
Size: 216 KB
Tool: Windows Live Messenger Now Playing Forcer
Posted by BrandiniMP in Computing, Hacking, Patches, Windows on November 26th, 2009
When using Windows Live Messenger, if you don’t have Windows Media Player installed, and try to tick “Show what I’m listening to”, you will receive a message saying “This feature requires Windows Media Player 9 or later. To install the latest version of Windows Media Player, click Ok”, for those of you like me, who dislike Windows Media Player, will understand why i would not use it, however i am using Windows 7, and Windows Media Player causes havoc with the file associations when setting them for a 3rd party media player, the best way to do it is remove WMP altogether.
Upon removing it, i ran into the problem above, and i know its only an aesthetic feature in WLM, but i like to have it enabled, so i started looking for a way to re enable it, i actually started looking at the Assembly of WLM, but alot of files are loaded, so i couldn’t find the energy to look, but then it dawned on me to use the registry for it, so i did, and i found a solution and wrote a little tool to enable Now Playing.
A download to my tool can be downloaded below, its totally clean, literally compiled it 5 minutes ago.
File: WLM_NowPlaying_Enabler.exe
Size: 211 KB
Internet speed, Common Misconception
Posted by BrandiniMP in Computing, Networking on August 1st, 2009
When we pay for our internet connection, we pay for a specific speed of connection, however many people have a misconception about what your connection speed is.
Okay usually when we look at our connection speeds we see (for example) 8Mb, with the unit it is calculated in being Mb, now people seem to assume that Mb stands for MegaByte, wheras really Mb stands for MegaBit, which is 1/8th of a MegaByte (MB = Megabyte, Mb = MegaBit), so in reality when you pay for 8Mb (MegaBit) connection speed you’re really getting a 1MB (MegaByte) connection speed.
Additionally, when people talk about Internet (Data) Speeds, they refer to/look upon it as a literal speed, or the time taken to get from Point A to Point B, really this is not true, when you look at data speed in a unit of data you are really looking at the amount of data that can be sent simultaneously, (usually) per second, the time that data takes to get from Point A to Point B is called Latency (or Ping time), and yes it is true, that Fiber Optic connections are faster, not because it can send more data per second, but because it lowers latency, which generally can improve your internet speed, however bare in mind, that when using the internet, you’re both sending and receiving data, so if the sender has poor latency, or a limited connection speed (Mb/s) you too will feel the decrease in performance.
Update – Socialite removed.
Posted by BrandiniMP in Updates on August 1st, 2009
Socialite was annoying me, so i uninstalled it, and installed a new plugin called Socialize This, which supports automatic Twitter updates, i have also set twitter to automatically update my Facebook.
Updates: Blog
Posted by BrandiniMP in Updates on June 11th, 2009
Right, so this morning i have updated the WordPress script to 2.8 Stable, fixed a couple of bugs in some plugins, added Facebook connect and done a bit of tweaking, not a bad job if i do say so myself 
Blog to Facebook: Socialite
Posted by BrandiniMP in Updates on June 11th, 2009
Okay, well i just installed the WordPress plugin, Socialite, which will now publish my posts on Facebook.
This is a test of that, if you will.
Windows Reinstall
Posted by BrandiniMP in Computing, Updates, Windows on June 10th, 2009
Well ive finally finished setting up my new Windows installation, i had a few problems on the way, but atleast i know how to fix them now.
When doing some system tasks such as saving my display settings or running some programs, my mouse would lag out (cursor would slow down and jump about a bit), its not really a big issue, but it was annoying, now before my reinstall i never had this problem, so i couldnt figure out why, so i added every possible Windows tweak i could, but nothing seemed to work.
Then today i was playing some games, completely unrelated, and i had just installed Unreal Tournament 3, but whenever i ran it, it would crash after the splash video, so i did some googling and eventually installed “AMD Dual-Core Optimizer Version 1.1.4″ as i have an AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200 processor, this made the game work, and it fixed my mouse lag problem, sod’s law eh?
Anyways my current system specs are:
Operating system: Windows XP Professional SP3 (32-bit)
Graphics card: nVidia 9800 GT+ 1GB (with most recent BETA drivers)
Motherboard: ECS GeForce6100PM-M2 (V2.0) (with most recent nVidia chipset BETA drivers)
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200 @ 2.44GHz (overclocked)
DirectX: 10.00
Here is a little tour video because i like making videos : Show
Gain Elevated Administrator Privileges
Posted by BrandiniMP in Computing, Exploits, Hacking, Windows on June 10th, 2009
Below is a video showing you how to gain full access to a passworded computer and then return it to the way it was prior to you doing anything.
Video: Show
Hack.Bat: Show
Offline Registry Editor: http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/
A Blog
Posted by BrandiniMP in Updates on June 9th, 2009
Right, i finally decided to make use of BrandiniMP.com which i have had for years, so here it is, a blog.
I have also filled my About page, i got a bit carried away when writing, but oh well
Certifications
