I wanted to make something that would just straight prevent people from registering to my site with special characters in their username. I was playing around with all types of complicated crap, but then I came up with this little doozy that works perfectly. Small, quick, and unobtrusive. Obviously, if you really don’t want them in a submitted text field, you have to back it up with server-side processing.
.: Adam
For some reason, I wasn’t able to figure this simple little process out on my own with the help of Google. Everything I found was way over complicated. This is short, sweet, and works =)
Public Shared Sub SendMail(ByVal fromaddress As String, ByVal toaddress As String, ByVal body As String, ByVal subject As String)
Dim mailServer As String = "smtp.mailserver.com"
Dim message As MailMessage = New MailMessage(fromaddress, toaddress, subject, body)
Dim mailClient As SmtpClient = New SmtpClient
message.IsBodyHtml = True
mailClient.Host = mailServer
mailClient.Send(message)
message.Dispose()
End Sub
BAM! Thanks Joe!
.: Adam
The photobooth app is pretty cool, and handy. But there’s 3 things that bother me about it. The first is I like to control my lighting. When the “flash” kicks off, it washes everything out, and looks like crap. The second is waiting for the count down… just take it! The third is that everything is mirrored. Has a tendency to get irritating when taking photos with text involved.
Well, thankfully there’s a way to solve the first two (from Tekzilla):
Hold down the shift key when you press the take picture button and your picture will be taken without using the flash. If you hold down the option key when you press the take picture button your picture will be taken without using the count-down delay. If you hold down both the shift and options keys, your picture will be taken immediately and without the flash.
As for the mirroring, I still have to resort to Photoshop.
.: Adam
This was just too funny to pass up on =)
I picked up LEGO: Indian Jones today at lunch with high hope that it would be as fun as the LEGO: Star Wars game was.
I’m pleased to say that it’s a hit. It’s a ton of fun, and has the exact same game play as the star wars game. The graphics are “amazing”, and the story deviates from the movies a bit, but overall, it’s fun!
I only have about 3 hours into the game, but I’m already addicted. There’s so many little things that you can work on throughout all the levels. And of course all the characters to unlock and go back through with to unlock even more. I have a feeling that this game will tide me over for a while =)
.: Adam
Twitter tools is a Wordpress plugin that allows you to crate blog posts from your Twitter posts, and send Tweets every time you post a new blog message. So far, it’s pretty cool. I like the daily wrap-up’s. I’ve turned off the posting for each tweet, because it’s posting all my replies too. I don’t think that’s necessary, and it just creates clutter. I’ll learn a little PHP to mod it up and then I’ll enable it =)