Jomsocial and Joomla! Templates

When you encounter problems with the facebook connect functionality, there are a couple of things to do.

• Update Jomsocial to the latest version.
• Update the template to the latest version.
• Go to the file manager of your host and rename templates/your_template/html/com_community to com_community_off or something

Short and Sweet and Wrong: Facebook Video Download Take 2

1. Go to the page of the video.  The URL should look something like http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=012345678901
2. View the source.  In the case of Firefox 3.6.3, Menu > View > Page Source or just punch Ctrl+U.  This should bring up another Firefox Window with a whole bunch of HTML code.
3. Search the source by punching Ctrl+F or from Menu > Edit > Find.  Search for the following: video.ak
4. Copy the URL encoded with escape characters.  Example
   
   

   http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.ak.fbcdn.net%2Fcfs-ak-ash2%2F48416%2F41%2F1015025843320577_63415.mp4

5. Open another browser tab, and search for a url decoder.  Or use http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/ 
6. Decode the URL from step 4.
7. Go to http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/index.php and "download":decoded.url.you.got.from.step.6
8. Convert Text to HTML
9. Right mouse click download and save file as ...
10. The browser should show you a download dialog box.  The file being offered for download is the video.

Let's see if this stands a short test of time.

How to download video from facebook

Let's keep this short and sweet.

1. Go to the page of the video.  The URL should look something like http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=012345678901
2. View the source.  In the case of Firefox 3.6.3, Menu > View > Page Source or just punch Ctrl+U.  This should bring up another Firefox Window with a whole bunch of HTML code.
3. Search the source by punching Ctrl+F or from Menu > Edit > Find.  Search for the following: highqual_src.
4. Copy the URL encoded with escape characters.
5. Open another browser tab, and search for a url decoder.  Decode the URL from step 4.
6. Use the decoded URL from step 5 on the address bar.  It should look something like http://video.ak.facebook.com/cfs-ak-ash1/27669/000/81/378521993911_63525.mp4?h=0921ad82bd8c88ae4f3907c4d38a6ad7&r=3315
7. The browser should show you a download dialog box.  The file being offered for download is the video.
8. Repeat 3-7 if you want to download the lowqual_src.

NA add images
NA upload on video for this tutorial ;)

Need File Converters? Try Copy Paste and gmail

PDF to Text

Recently, I had to convert PDF to Text.  I've been happy using PDFzilla but when I had to convert tabulated race results the resulting text file was useless.  Results from each column was found on one line. Needless to say it would be tedious ridiculous to match rows and columns.  Failing to find a converter that was either free or had a trial period, I checked online converters.  No dice.

The solution that worked was copy paste.

Reviewing The Use of Command Line For Drupal or Joomla updates

No doubt wget from ssh is the way to get updates for my Joomla! and Drupal installs.  7MB files are transferred at a 750kBps or faster clip.

So its ssh into my domain using a terminal in linux or putty in windows.  Then: