-= Safari for Windows =-

well i'm writing this post from Apple's Safari browser Beta 3 for Windows. I've been using it now all day and I have to say I'll be switiching back to FireFox tomorrow.

The Good Points:

 - It's great for development use. ie I can now check a website displays properly on a mac without having to use one.

 - It's clean and pretty and the font smoothing is really nice.

 - It's fast.

The Bad Points:

 - Ad blocking is a little sporadic

 - The scrolling is too slow

 - Its completely un-customisable

 - The RSS is not as good as LiveLinks in FireFox

 - Theres no home button on the Beta

 - There's no drop down menu on the back button

 - There's no drop down menu on the address bar

All in all I will keep it to test websites I make, but it won't be my default browser. 

If you look at the videos on the apple site, they haven't even got safari as their default browser... and I wonder why?

-=Selection Sort=-

This is a nice easy quadratic sorting algorithm similar to BubbleSort. Think of this one like arranging cards in your hand. You take the first card and note down its number (4) then you look along the cards and find one smaller (3), you note down where the smaller card is located and then you carry on trying to find smaller than that. Once you've found the smallest, you swap the first card with the smallest. Then you repeat starting from the second card. Easy!

view the php demostration here

and the source code here

-=bouj=-

-=Bubble Sort=-

i've been extra busy with exams and my project report (18,000 words) over the past few weeks.
as part of my algorithms revision i have been implementing the basic algorithms in php to help me remember them.

Bubble sort is whereby you pass through the array n times, where n = (array_length -1).
Each time you pass through you compare the 1st cell of the array with the 2nd, if the first is higher then you can swap them. repeat with the 2nd and 3rd cells etc...
This method pushes the largest number in the array to the end, and in the 2nd pass pushes the 2nd largest to the penultimate cell etc.

you can see the php running here (note that on each iteration the array has been printed to show workings)

and the php code can be found here

-=b0uj=-

-=Live Maps=-

i hate microsoft. Vista is the worst modern OS i have ever seen. I would sooner run marathons than be forced to use it day to day.
And what's more I love Google. i want to work there, i love their ethos, and i use their products.

But. Microsoft, aware of their main rivals fantastic Google Earth application, have developed Live Maps, which has been sourced from images taken by a plane with 5 camera's, each 11mega pixel. One is top down and the others point north south etc.

Looking over my house in top down mode is highly disappointing, worse than Google i would say. But when I swapped to 3D mode, i was amazed. From 4 angles you can clearly see my old car sitting on the drive. My mum's fiesta parked outside, and the Log Cabin she has had built in the garden.

Somewhat voyeuristic, but I love it.
Sadly though my london home has much worse resolution shots, and only has east and top down views. So my beloved Rover is lost in action, but i can see that it's not parked outside my home.

So this bears the question, where is my Rover? its British Racing green and has white viper stripes, and if any one finds it there is a reward.

It could be anywhere in London though, or most of England come to think of it.

nice one microsoft! (something i thought i would never say.....)

unlucky for windows, number 13

well i've found new love for wine this week,
I've learned that all windows programs should be tried using wine, and if it works you're a winner. I'm already using utorrent under wine, and i have used internet explorer under wine in the past, but today i tried to install coverXP the easy way to produce perfectly proportioned cd/dvd covers. After receiving Casino Royale in the post this week, the cover was ripped by the postman, so time to give her a new dvd case and cover.
Simply download coverXP and run. It installed fine and runs and prints a dream, the only thing not working is the drag and drop from the internet, but that could be firefox and not coverXP.

So far, nothing I can't do, and i can do it all at once without having a slow computer.

get drunk on wine.

reasons 12, 13, and 14

reason 12 why ubuntu is great: my cd's came today, they posted 10 mixed; 3 mac, 3 64bit and 4 pc versions. Nice! they paid to send me 10 brand new pressed cd's with their OS on.

reason 13: when you create a new folder and don't name it, its deleted. So no more New Folder(78) syndrome.

reason 14: Beryl Desktop Cube. - Imagine you have 4 desktops and they are all faces on a cube, and switching between them looks extra sexy, and it runs on a medium spec laptop. see for yourself:


you know you need ubuntu.

the 11th reason

ok so i've been back with ubuntu for a over a week now, and here's how it all stands.
We had a piece of coursework due for Mathematical Moddeling and i vowed to use Ubuntu. In the assignment we were required to use an excel add-on called Solver, whilst this proved difficult to install and use on both windows and mac, i was already 2 weeks ahead by using a copy of solver that someone made in perl for OpenOffice Calc (linux's answer to office excel) whilst installing it was 2 clicks, and it was an exact clone, it was only beta, and crashed quite a bit, but. openoffice recovered all my files good as new.
adding screenshots was easier than ever in ubuntu, using Alt+print screen it only captures the focused window, so i didnt need to crop all the images to hide the start bar (and more importantly the time and date, being fat too close to the deadline).
Once I had completed my report, i simply clicked the pdf button, and i had a pdf ready to submit. sexy times indeed.

back in the real world of work i tried to install panorama maker ( a windows program), It installed fine, but would not run, so i looked for linux versions. I found one called huggin, but it was far too hard to use and very boring.... so my new task is to install xp ontop of ubuntu so i can use windows programs on occasions.

vmware now offer vmware server free, so long as you give them some details in return. Installation was easy, i just left everything as default. at the moment its installing XP on the virtual machine, the only issue is that i scratched the bottom of my laptop so i cant read one of the characters of my legit serial sticker (my laptop is also on ubuntu) hence a keygen.... but hopefully i can get that sorted? or maybe not....

XP on ubuntu, the 11th reason why Ubuntu is better for you.

10 reasons why ubuntu is better than windows

dont get me wrong, i loved windows, i still do, but as usual its around that infamous 3 month mark when my windows machine slows to a stop and stuff stops working. right now my hard drive is sitting on my couch, all because explorer crashed everytime i opened a folder with a video in it. I tried every fix, restore, scan disk.... and nothing fixed it, and after a week i decided it was too annoying, so i'm back with ubuntu, and this time with a vengeance.

It installed in about 15 minutes and everything works this time including my TV card, although I have got a hauppauge one this time. I only had to go into the xorf.conf to fix the resolution on my 19" widescreen. but hey its not difficult. Following ubuntuguide.org I decided to give beryl a shot, its a window manager that adds loads of effects, it was really easy to install and its simply amazing! as you can see from the shots above, windows bend and wobble when you move them, and they feel much more lifelike, at first I thought it was just eye candy, but i just used my windows laptop and everything is so square, rigid and harsh. Beryl actually feels real, its soft with cool focus effects, Alt+Tabbing is easier and it makes my ubuntu box stand out, its no longer for number crunching java geeks, and the pretentious who wouldn't pirate xp. Its a real alternative to XP and Vista.

Right now my housemate has vista and we must annoy the hell out of him, because all his shared stuff is inaccessible, one minute I'm watching hero's the next i'm on msn asking him why i'm denied again, whats more now im on linux it looks like i'll never be able to access his shared folders, sounds bad but its touch and go on the other xp machines in the house.

you need to venture out into linux, its the same as XP, but guess what? no spyware, no viruses, you can try that crack in wine with no fear of a new homepage on IE for the rest of your life,

you have picassa, songbird, flashplayer 9, ipod support, utorrent, dvdshrink, they are all for linux now.
office xp works using crossover.

and whats more i'm not breaking laws, i can actually look john law in the eyes.

UBUNTU! (6.10)

Well since this site has been featured on wikipedia due to it's sexy mini-apps and open source approach, I have been inundated with readers. It used to be a mere few in England, a couple in France and a couple in Japan who would look at boujois.net.
Thanks to google analytics (www.google.com/analytics) I now have to say thank you to the 55 individuals across the United States, the 24 in the United Kingdom the 10 in Canada, and all those in;
Australia,
Denmark,
Finland,
Greece,
Netherlands,
Brazil,
Spain,
Germany,
India,
Indonesia,
Israel,
Singapore,
Turkey,
France,
Taiwan,
Estonia,
Poland,
Egypt,
Philippines,
Sweden,
Hong Kong,
Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Belgium,
Korea,
Vietnam,
South Africa,
Austria,
Hungary,
New Zealand,
Chile,
Russian Federation,
Yugoslavia,
Thailand,
Saudi Arabia,
Slovenia,
Portugal,
Croatia,
and Italy.

Thanks.

(figures by google analytics).

-= ascii to ascii code tool =-


this is very similar to the ascii to binary conversion i made earlier, this one is good for use with arrays to count characters in a file and see which one is most frequent etc...
you'll need this tool to get the ascii code for letters.
also you could just use it to send cryptic codes, it's up to you?

use it here
source code here

-=b0uj3m0ng=-
work now featured on wikipedia

-= flash keyboard =-

i needed an on screen touch (or click) keyboard for my 3rd year project, having spent a few too many hours on google trying to find one, all i found out is that it's impossible.

well to me nothing is impossible (except waking up and cleaning my room, definately impossible... oh an listening to music on cheap headphones... thats a nicht nicht.)

so a few hours later, here we have it, now you can use it, but you cant have the code right now, because i need it for my project and i don't want anyone stealing it just yet.

Use it here

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