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OS X: Unzip Protected Zip

Monday, March 17th, 2008

This weekend I went to the local Botball workshop at UMUC where they gave our team the lego kits and an instructional CD. I head home and pop in the CD only to find that I can't unzip the included Zip file. I suspect that the file is protected (with ...

Automatically Backup Your Flash Drive on Windows

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Yesterday I made an automatic backup script for external drives on the Mac. A few of my friends have wanted a Windows version, so here it is: Step 1: Create a file called backup.bat in the root of your flash drive. Use Notepad, or any other editor. Copy and paste this ...

Using “DSW” to Automatically Backup You Flash Drive

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

OS X.5 came with a cool new feature called Timemachine which automatically backs-up your internal Mac harddrive. People like me live off their flash drive, and losing it would mean disaster, and you can never remember to manually back it up. When I learned that Time Machine didn't backup external ...

The Better Way to Watch DVR-MS Files on a Mac

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

A while ago I posted about MPlayer, the Mac media player that plays DVR-MS files. There were a few problems with it:First of all, it's skip feature was not so great. Another problem was that it didnt play many file types. Every once and a while I would get a ...

Visit my new Website!

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

http://code.fiyocom.com Its a place to upload small, simple java programs made using Rails (the irony!). I made it for an end of the year computer science projects titled "Passing on the torch." The idea was to make learning easier for incoming CS students, and what better way to learn than by ...

Radio Station Helps Students Review for AP Government Test

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

Today at 8 pm EST (6 pm CST) Beyond the Beltway will have their first nationally broadcasted AP review program. The “2Regular Guys” will have their review on Chicago-based WLS-AM 890. Students can also listen to the review streamed form online. \>Click

Introducing Community Quran (Beta)

Monday, April 9th, 2007

The Qur’an belongs to us all, not just to scholars. What does this mean? This means that you can now search Allah’s words yourself. But I don’t understand Arabic…? That’s okay, because communityquran.com gives 5 different translations for each verse of the Qur’an, so you can ...

Yet another great quote

Monday, October 30th, 2006

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often. - Stanislaw J. Lec

Firefox 2 Out!

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Firefox 2 is out officially today! New features include; Spell check Faster browsing Close tab buttons Phishing filter Resume browser from previous state Reopen closed tabs And its faster! \>Click

Sansa e260 MP3 Player

Monday, October 16th, 2006

About a month ago I bought a SanDisk Sansa e260 MP3 player. It looks like this; Its a 4gb player that plays music, video, has an FM radio, a voice recorder, and expanable memory. This is a great MP3 player. Like the old 1st generation iPod it has a scroll wheel ...