Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on March 28, 2006 by CyberNet.

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This article was written on June 29, 2006 by CyberNet.

Tutorial Thursday

It was just Monday that Digg v3 launched with a new breath of life. However, some people were not too fond of how Digg changed the layout. The most talked about change was the placement of the sidebar on the left-side.

There are several sites (like this, this, and this) that have come up with new CSS code that will overwrite the code that Digg already has in place. So how do you use this CSS code to redesign Digg?

It is actually amazingly simple for Firefox users (I haven’t tried this on other browsers). To make it as simple as possible you could just download the Stylish extension. You just need to copy the CSS code into the extension. You can then enable and disable different CSS styles as you please.

While Stylish makes it really easy I always try to minimize how many extensions I use to prevent memory leaks. So here is how you do it without using an extension:

1. Browse to your Firefox Profile. In Windows XP/2000 it should be located at C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\XXXXXX.default\. Here is some help on locating your Firefox Profile.
2. Open the chrome folder.
3. If you do not have a file called “userContent.css” then copy the file “userContent-example.css” and rename it to userContent.css.
4. Open up the userContent.css file in a text editor like WordPad.
5. Add your CSS code to the end of the file. You will find the code that I used below.
6. Save and close the file.
7. You will have to restart Firefox in order to see the changes on Digg.

That is it! You should now have a customized version of Digg. Feel free to tweak with any of the CSS code until you have it the way you like it. Here is the code that I ended up using:

@-moz-document domain(digg.com), domain(www.digg.com) {
.sub-menu .tool strong { font-size: 11px !important; font-weight: bold !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; background-image: none !important;}
.news-summary { margin-bottom: 12px !important; margin-top: 12px !important; }
.digg-count { margin-top: 3px !important; }
h2 { font-size: 18px !important; }
h3 { font-size: 13px !important; font-weight: bold !important; letter-spacing: normal !important; }
.toggle a, .view-all a, .side-friends a, ul a { font-weight: normal !important; font-size: 11px !important;}
#top_ad, #item_ad, #footer, .copyright, .top_ad_image, .banner_ad, .comments_ad_image {display: none !important;}
.digg-count a strong {font-size: 14px !important; font-weight: bold !important; }
.sub-menu li .toplinep { width: 138px !important; }
.comment {width: 710px !important;}
.news-digg img { padding-top: 4px !important; padding-left: 1px !important; }
h3 a { border: none !important; background: none !important; font-weight: bold !important; font-size: 11px !important; letter-spacing: normal !important; text-decoration: underline !important; padding-left: 3px !important; }
.news-submitted { margin-left: 3px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; }
p { margin: 3px !important; }
#contents, #sidebar { float: left !important; border: none !important; background: none !important; font-size: 11px !important;}
#container {background: none !important; }
#sidebar {padding: 20px 0 1em 35px !important;background-position: 0 0; }
#footer {background: none !important;}
}


So now that you have Digg customized you start to think about how many other sites this technique might work for, right? This technique will work for many sites and userstyles.org already has hundreds of CSS styles that people have developed. These styles will take you to a whole new level of customization!

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This article was written on January 01, 2009 by CyberNet.

So here we sit at the start of the year. We just wrapped up the 2008 CyberNet Awards series that we had been doing for the last few days, and today we want to wish everyone a happy New Year!

For those of you who have missed out on some posts from the previous few days we’ve taken the liberty of assembling this recap. Here were the awards that were handed out:

• Most Useful Forums
  5th Place: Neowin, 4th Place: The Green Button, 3rd Place: [View]
• Best Application Updates & Releases
  5th Place: Songbird, 4th Place: Digsby, 3rd Place: [View]
• Most Used Web Services
  5th Place: Hulu, 4th Place: Google Reader, 3rd Place: [View]
• Biggest Tech Stories of 2008
  5th Place: Macworld with Jobs, 4th Place: T-Mobile G1, 3rd Place: [View]
• Best Time-Saving iPhone Apps that are Free
  5th Place: Google Mobile, 4th Place: Wikipanion, 3rd Place: [View]
• Favorite New Gadgets
  5th Place: Xbox 360, 4th Place: Kodak Digital Frame, 3rd Place: [View]

Here’s wishing a safe and happy New Year to all of the CyberNet readers!

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This article was written on December 05, 2008 by CyberNet.

Wow, time sure does fly, doesn’t it? It flew by so fast that we almost missed our Birthday! Almost… This past Tuesday, December 3rd, was our official 3rd Birthday. We’ve taken some time this week to put together another Birthday Bash full of giveaways, just like last year. Unlike last year, we’re giving you a heads up on when to expect the giveaways so that more of you will be able to enter.

Take note, the giveaways will start on Monday, December 8th. We haven’t decided yet whether to stretch this over two days or three, we just wanted to make sure that everybody knows that come next week, the giveaways will start. If you want to participate, you’ll want to check back Monday morning. Entering will be super simple, but we’ll explain details later.

Lots of changes occurred over the last year that we wanted to make note of. Since our last birthday, our traffic substantially increased, we gained a couple thousand RSS readers as well as two thousand more registered users. Another big change came in August when Ryan and I transitioned from working on CyberNet full time, to working on it as a hobby.

A big THANKS goes out to all of you who have supported us along the way. There’s no way we would have made it to our third birthday without you. Here’s a quick look at our statistics for those of you interested. After three years, we present our stats:

• Over 5,000 registered users
• Over 6,000 posts
• Over 35,000 comments
• Over 3,900 articles CyberMarked
• Over 600,000 pageviews per month
• Over 240,000 pageviews on feed items per month
• Over 8,700 subscribers on our main feed
• Top 3 referring sites over the last year: StumbleUpon, Lifehacker, and Google
• Top 5 browsers from the last 30 days:
  • Firefox: 47.16%
  • Internet Explorer: 40.61%
  • Safari: 4.80%
  • Opera: 3.76%
  • Chrome: 2.78%
• Top 4 operating systems from the last 30 days:
  • Windows: 88.75%
  • Mac: 7.45%
  • Linux: 2.94%
  • iPhone: 0.51%

Come Monday morning, the first of several giveaways will post. We’ll explain all of the rules and important info then. Just know for now that you’ll want to check back Monday morning to get the best chance of winning something! Thanks for celebrating with us!

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This article was written on October 28, 2009 by CyberNet.

Last week I purchased a car interface kit that gives me the ability to hook my iPhone up to the audio system that I have installed in my car. The install went fairly smooth, but I was rather disappointed with the level of control I had over my iPhone using the audio controls on my car. I thought to myself “hey, no biggie… I’ll just control the audio through my iPhone.” Apple, however, didn’t agree with that idea.

When I went to pull up the iPod portion of my phone I received the pretty little icon that you see to the right. It told me that I had an “accessory connected,” and there was basically no way for me to control the audio using the native iPod app. If I used a third party app, such as something that provided streaming Internet radio, there were no issues. So I knew it was possible to control the audio using my iPhone, and then I started to see how many other people had the same complaint.

Apparently there were quite a few users that were just as upset by this, and that’s when I happily came across a Cydia package for my jailbroken iPhone. Just do a search for “NoAccessorySplash” on the ModMyi repository and you’ll be ready to roll. Once installed it will bypass this screen so that you can control your audio through the device connected to the dock port or on the iPhone or iPod Touch itself.

I had found other hacks out there that did something similar, but they require you to SSH into your device, modify a file using a hex editor, and pray that it will actually work. This, however, is a quick 10-second solution (assuming you’ve already jailbroken your device). I’m currently using it on the 3.1.2 firmware, and it works flawlessly. It’s little things like this that make me happy I’ve jailbroken my device.

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