Archive for August, 2006

HOW TO: Hide music in your pictures

This page lets you hide small samples of MP3s in GIF files. The GIF format allows for an "application extension block" - an arbitrary section for applications that isn’t checked by the GIF parser. Meanwhile, Winamp and other MP3 players ignore all data in the file that isn’t marked as an MP3 block. The result: […]

HOW TO: Write Your First Firefox Extension

when you use Firefox’s coolest features, like All-In-One Sidebar or MeasureIt, you’re actually looking at glossy, beautiful extensions. Firefox’s extensions add specific functions, things the creators never intended, neatly integrated into the browser. The range of possibilities is boundless — making an extension is more or less like building a new application to do whatever […]

HOW TO: Creating a Who is Online script with PHP

In this tutorial I will show you how to create your own "Who’s Online" script, which is often found on message boards and other community scripts. We will first create a really simple script, and after that add a few more features like the location of each visitor. But first, let me explain how our […]