Ph3rny's Blog

Another update on my themes...

2006-05-21T20:23:00.000-04:00

Now my emoticon themes don't make google talk lag when there are long conversations.

It does still take a while to bring up a window that has a long history in it... I don't really know if I can fix that.

New Yahoo! Homepage

2006-05-16T17:15:00.000-04:00

It looks like Yahoo! is following suit after MSN remodeled their homepage.

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My Google Talk Theme News

2006-05-16T16:01:00.000-04:00

First:

Today I broke 2000 downloads!!!

Second:

All of my themes are now available with emoticons or without.

Here are my Google Talk Themes.

Google Talk Theme With Emoticons

2006-05-10T15:41:00.000-04:00

This is a theme that replaces the ugly blue google emoticons with cute pictures.

Download Here

See more of my themes at http://gtalk.anthonysottile.com

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Google Talk Theme: Lined-Paper

2006-04-30T19:28:00.000-04:00

This is a theme that simulates the look of lined paper.

Download Here

See more of my themes at http://gtalk.anthonysottile.com

Google Talk Theme: Windows XP

2006-04-30T19:27:00.000-04:00

This is a theme to simulate the windows of Windows XP.

Download Here

See more of my themes at http://gtalk.anthonysottile.com

Google Talk Theme: PHP

2006-04-30T19:26:00.000-04:00

This is a theme to simulate the syntax of PHP

Download Here

See more of my themes at http://gtalk.anthonysottile.com

Google Talk Theme: Windows 9x

2006-04-30T19:25:00.000-04:00

This is a theme simulating the windows of Windows 9x.

Download Here

See more of my themes at http://gtalk.anthonysottile.com

Google Talk Theme: Star Wars

2006-04-30T19:24:00.000-04:00

This was a theme inspired by star wars.

Download Here

See more of my themes at http://gtalk.anthonysottile.com

Google Talk Theme: Digg

2006-04-30T19:22:00.000-04:00

This was made to look like Digg.com

Download Here

See more of my themes at http://gtalk.anthonysottile.com

Google Talk Theme: BSOD

2006-04-30T19:21:00.000-04:00

This is a theme I made to simulate the windows blue screen of death.

Download Here

See more of my themes at http://gtalk.anthonysottile.com

Google Talk Theme: My First Theme

2006-04-30T19:19:00.000-04:00

This is the first google talk theme that I made.

Download Here

See more of my themes at http://gtalk.anthonysottile.com

My Google Talk Themes

2006-04-21T10:25:00.001-04:00

I have moved all of my themes to here:

Google Talk Themes

New Google Talk uses Internet Explorer Browser Plugin to Display Messages

2006-04-06T15:22:00.000-04:00

The new google talk uses an internet explorer plugin to display messages.

If you do not have the new google talk you can download it here.

Basically the way I did this was I made my own theme (A guide that I wrote about making/editing themes in google talk is here) and I added in some code into the html file that displays the messages (Outgoing/Content.html) to display an image.

The exact code was this:

<div class='icon'>
<div style='height:1px;filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src="http://www.ipnow.org/images/browspre1.jpg")'>
</div>
</div>

This code referenced an image on one of my other sites IPNow.Org which displayed an image of the current browser based on the useragent.

The image in the screenshot clearly shows that google is using the internet explorer plugin to display their messages.

Themes in the New Google Talk

2006-04-02T15:32:00.000-04:00

You can create themes in google talk.

First of all you will need to download the new version Here.

Themes in google talk are stored in c:/documents and settings/*your user name*/local settings/application data/google/google talk/themes/system/chat
and c:/documents and settings/*your user name*/local settings/application data/google/google talk/themes/user/chat/
IMPORTANT: TO INSURE THAT YOUR THEME WILL REMAIN AFTER AN UPDATE PUT THE THEME IN BOTH FOLDERS

I wrote a sample theme just for the heck of it... It is located at http://gtalk.anthonysottile.com/mytheme.zip

To install this theme you must unzip it and drag the folder named MyBubblePicture (the farthest one in (in the zip I think the folder structure is /mybubblepicture/mybubblepicture/contents...)) to the path that I mentioned earlier.

Here is a screenshot http://static.flickr.com/36/122047787_31f02b0aeb_o.png

Here is a basic tutorial of how I did it:

Basically I went to the folder I mentioned earlier.

I made a copy of /bubblepicture for this test

Basically in /bubblepicture/contents/resources there are a bunch of files and two folders and a css file... All we will be worrying about is the css file

Open up the css file...

Let me give you a rundown of what each of the styles do (I'm guessing on a bunch of them)

BODY - the main section that the instant messages are held in
DIV#content - where everything is that has text
DIV#insert - no clue what this does
DIV.system1st - no clue again
DIV.systemNth - yeah clueless
DIV.b1(through b4) - I am guessing these have something to do with the bottom margins
DIV.chat - this is where the message is... the whole thing including the username and the text and the icon
DIV.chat .icon - Chat icon
DIV.chat DIV.msg - chat message
DIV.chat DIV .Nth - there can be multiple messages before the other user responds... I am guessing this covers them
DIV.chat SPAN.salutation - I think this is where it tells your status when you first open a chat window or when it tells the time
DIV.out - this is where the outgoing message is including the text, username, and icon
DIV.t-o - this is the top section above the username where the top border sort of is in the outgoing message
DIV.b-o - this is the bottom section below the text where the bottom border sort of is in the outgoing message
DIV.out.icon - this is the icon for outgoing messages
DIV.in - this is where the incoming message is including the text, username, and icon
DIV.t-i - this is the top section above the username where the top border sort of is in the incoming message
DIV.b-i - this is the bottom section below the text where the bottom border sort of is in the incoming message
DIV.in.icon - this is the incoming icon
DIV.clear - No clue
DIV.break - No clue

Basically to do mine I had to add in DIV.t-i and DIV.b-i

I had fun with mine

Hope you make some cool themes

If you have any and you want to post them just post a link to them in the comments.

To select a theme after making changes you must go to settings-> appearance and change it to another theme
press ok
then go to settings->appearance and change it to the theme that you just edited

And more questions just post a comment

EDIT:

Here are some user contributed themes:
My Themes are Hosted Here

Dan
- Download
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This guy gave me a laugh.

2006-03-28T16:45:00.000-05:00

Remember a couple weeks ago when I posted that gmail vulnerability.

If you don't just go down a couple stories...

If you do here's the ironic part.

This guy thought I was faking it and decided to fake it himself.

I don't think he will be convincing anyone but he sure gave me a laugh.

If you want proof look in the comments of the original post or in the Digg Story

Made my day.

Easter Egg in Microsoft Word

2006-03-13T20:18:00.000-05:00

Microsoft's evil little characters are giving us the Microsoft Word tip of the day...

"You can hurt yourself if you run with scissors".

Hilarious

Screenshot

This is my brothers computer by the way.

Extraterrestrials in the red rain? You decide...

2006-03-12T19:01:00.000-05:00

Pretty Cool Stuff...

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Digg to CoralCDN - The Digg coralizer - reaches 10,000 coralized links

2006-03-07T22:44:00.000-05:00

Yay!!!

Digg2Coral Link

Help support this project, go download it.

By the way don't be afraid to submit this or that to digg.

Vulnerability in Gmail

2006-03-01T14:19:00.000-05:00

I was recently attempting to mail some javascript code from my yahoo account to my gmail when I came across this vulnerability.

Apparently javascript will run if it is withing the preview of the message.

I only tested this sending from a yahoo account. Sending gmail to gmail appears to filter this out.

This is what the message has to compose of

A short subject to increase the ammount of code to run

A short bit of text in the body so that the code isn't treated as quoted text

And your code

My simple test was : Subject: a Body: asdfasdf<script>alert("asdF");</script>

Here is the screen: NOTE I JUST PUT IT BACK UP! : screenshot

Last time I killed my friends server so I uploaded it to flickr instead.

This vulnerability could be used to gather email addresses. Or even possibly to compromise the account.

digg - Submit Item

2006-02-07T22:22:00.000-05:00

<html><form><input type crash></form></html>

This only works if you don't have a virus scanner. And/or you haven't updated recently.

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Destroy the Digg Effect FOREVER!

2006-01-20T18:11:00.000-05:00

Although it is sorta self promotion I have written an application that runs in the background and caches Digg.Com's newly submitted stories with CoralCDN. I'll write a little more about it in the comments.

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Hacking Scantrons

2006-01-17T20:49:00.000-05:00

Sick of filling in those stupid bubbles?

Want to artificially boost your academics?

Scantron hacks...

Note: the chapstick was just a BS rumor

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Banned XBox 360 Ad

2006-01-16T23:08:00.000-05:00

Hilarious... It's a bunch of people at a mall with a "make-believe" shoot out.

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You saw human brained monkeys... but monkey brained humans???

2006-01-16T22:46:00.000-05:00

No not really, just some crazy guys with an aerobics routine. They probably all have jobs as stunt doubles... Note: its in french so if subtitles make you dizzy this isn't for you.

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