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Irish Blog Awards 2010 – Shortlisted Badges
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Graphics, Personal on March 11, 2010
Following a request from http://twitter.com/irishblogawards asking “Anyone want to make Shortlisted badges?” I have re-edited the original “Nominated Badges” from I Am Steph to “Shortlisted Badges”
Feel free to download the ZIP here – black, blue and red versions in JPEG and PNG formats.
Best of luck to all at the Irish Blog Awards 2010
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Mick Flannery – Goodbye – Live at St. Mary’s Collegiate Church, Youghal
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Editing, Personal, Videos, YouTube on February 22, 2010
Recently I had the pleasure of filming Mick Flannery live at St. Mary’s Collegiate Church in Youghal, Co. Cork. This was part of the www.sacred-root.com youth project. I adjusted the levels from the original footage and also tweaked the colour using Adobe Premiere Pro’s 3 way colour corrector. I was pleased with the final result and look forward to filming the rest of the upcoming gigs. Here is the final output on YouTube.
Mick Flannery – Goodbye
Lyrics
I lay in your arms
In the room where you had borne the scars.
It was late at night,
And the city lay asleep outside.
And the moon was in your hair,
And it all was so unfair, or was it, dear?
I said I’m leaving soon.
I must go and do what I must do.
You said you’d understand.
But I really don’t see how you can.
When I said Id make the time
And tomorrow Id call by, that was a lie.
I’m no ladies man,
And I never will be one of them.
I didn’t steal from you.
And what happened here was nothing new.
Not to make it all sound vain,
You lay the man, you lay his name, but lay no claim.
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Faster Grooveshark Search Add-on for Firefox (auto-suggest feature)
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Bits Of Code, Firefox, MP3, Music, Personal on September 12, 2009
I coded this firefox add-on to query the Grooveshark search site much quicker than their standard search tool add-on.
Grooveshark currently provide a useful search add-on, it installs Grooveshark search to your current list of search engines within Firefox. By searching for an artist or song you are directed to the Grooveshark website and results are displayed.
I re-coded their XML install file to include a live suggest feature pulling related words as you type from Yahoo to speed up your search query.
Examples:
1. The below image shows the default Grooveshark add-on, you have to type in the artist and song title and then click on the magnify button to complete a search: Read the rest of this entry »
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“Installation Failed” Fix for WordPress 2.8 Upgrade
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Bits Of Code, Oddities, Personal, Software on June 11, 2009
Great news today that WordPress 2.8 “Baker” is available to upgrade for my blog. I am running a few Wordpress blogs that were currently at version 2.7 so took the plunge to upgrade and noticed a few problems along the way. The following is summary of the problems I faced and the work around I used to fix it.
Please note this fix worked for me on 2 upgrades but does not promise a fix for your own problem, these tips may help you but do so at your own risk! Before proceeding with any of the following please back up your site and database!
The Problem
On previous occasions I used the easy”upgrade automatically” button option with no problem but this time around I kept getting this error in the below image:
I then de-activated all plugins and re-tried the auto upgrade but still got the same error as the above image, this was not making any sense to me so I searched through the Wordpress Forum querying terms such as: Installation Failed, Could not copy file, upgrade failed etc. There was one interesting reply on this thread http://wordpress.org/support/topic/277858?replies=10 that suggested accessing your database using phpMyAdmin and repair your tables.
The Fix
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Backup, Backup, Backup!
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Humour, Oddities, Personal, Rants on May 21, 2009
My Dell Inspiron 1720 Laptop recently was me giving trouble where by it started to hang for no apparent reason. One minute I’d be working away contently with very few applications running, next “Bang!” it would freeze with a constant (Vista) spinning icon and a screen that turned opaque white. Nothing I could do to rectify it only to wait… and wait… and wait… by running Windows Task Manager I noticed the CPU Usage was running at a near constant 90% all the time which was pretty high. I tried all sorts of tips from registry defrag to killing unnecessary startup processes even being suspect of Firefox sucking up resources but no luck to be had.
It finally ground to a halt and would not boot up so with the laptop still in warranty I called Dell to arrange a repair, strangely enough they sent out a repair tech a few days later who discovered the problem was a screwed up motherboard which was replaced. It was also recommended that I format my hard drive and re-install Windows (Bloody) Vista. At this point I decided to back up my laptop data to an external hard drive via USB. I left it transferring all files overnight and presumed all was ok with no error messages that anything went wrong with the transfer, having backed up I was happy to prepare for formatting the drive and re-installing.
Dell arranged a phone call and a talk through of the reinstall. All went well and at last the laptop is back to peak performance so tonight it was time to hook up my external drive and transfer my stuff back . BUMP! nothing there! yes there was a c: drive backed up with full windows directory etc. but no “My Music” – “My Videos” and worst of all no “My Pictures” aaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!!
No pictures!!! over a years worth of photos… nowhere to be found. Family snaps, birthdays, events, creative pics… all gone… thank f**k I had uploaded a few of those pics to my flickr account…. and all for the sake of a couple of backup DVD’s!
Lesson learned? shit happens… (note to self) from now on always check an test your Back Up, Back Up, Back Up!
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