Coachella streams a load of their sets every year on Youtube and nobody seems to record them all. So I had to volunteer starting in 2015. Some rips you find are one-off screen recordings using some software like Camtasia, which nearly always drop frames and are kinda shit. You have to record directly from the […]
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Ticketmaster Ticketfast Barcode Format
If you’ve ever bought tickets to a big sporting or music event, you’ve probably had to deal with TicketMaster and their extortionate handling fees. They charge it even if you’re using the print-at-home eTicket format called TicketFast. These tickets have a 16 digit number and barcode that is scanned at the gate against a database […]
How to serve files with a simple and quick PHP BitTorrent tracker
I needed to share some raw video files with a friend lately so I uploaded 17GB of data to my webserver and sent them the HTTP link. Problem was the video files were scattered over several directories and the directory structure was important so the end user would have had to download each one individually […]
How to disable Clickberry appearing on your Youtube videos
Like me, have you suddenly started seeing a ‘tag’ feature on your Youtube videos, that when clicked show a ‘Share moment’ and ‘Share object’ option and a little icon of a berry appears on your Youtube play bar? And when you click this berry icon, it brings you to clickberry.tv? Looks like this: I thought […]
How to use Overplay and other VPNs as a cURL proxy
UPDATE May 2015 When I posted this tutorial two years ago, I gradually got comments that the OpenVPN interface was setup successfully but curl traffic through the interface timed out. I tried to help but responded with the cliched ‘works on my machine’, with my machine being Debian Squeeze and kernel version 2.6. Recently I […]
iMessage is a handy way to show people you’ve the money for an iPhone
When someone text me & my bubble don’t turn blue I instantly pity them lol — Ju$t (@justcobain) November 30, 2012 I get soo excited when I text someone and see my messages turn blue!!! Such an upgrade on life!!! — Cherish Williams (@Cherish_this) December 3, 2012 I judge people when I text them for […]
bypass the eircom thepiratebay.org block
The Irish ISP eircom blocked thepiratebay.org about 2 years ago but it’s pretty easy to bypass using a proxy. But I was sick of slow proxies with loads of ads so I uploaded my own. Click below to use it: eircom thepiratebay.org proxy http://www.georgiecasey.com/eircom-thepiratebay-proxy/
ryanair leaving money on the table with no customer registration
I’ve booked loads of Ryanair flights and every time they ask you for your name, address, mobile and when you check in online, they ask for your passport number and date of birth. Why do you have to do this everytime? Why can’t you register an account on the ryanair website and have all this […]
charles web proxy review
As I said in my last post, I’ve written many a scraper using php with curl or fsockopen in my time, trying to write automated tools and scraping data. I’ve tried many tools to help me sniff the HTTP traffic so I could emulate it in PHP as quick as possible. I started off using […]
php curl debugging – seeing the exact http request headers sent by curl
In my many of years of php/curl use, I’ve hammered my head off my table countless times trying to debug scripts that weren’t emulating the browser like it was supposed to. This was pretty hard without seeing the exact HTTP request header sent by cURL each session, but this is possible now from PHP 5.1.3 […]