Alex Cooper Blog

Hull City: Eye on the Tigers Football Mashup

Alex Cooper — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:30:56 +0000

Since I support Hull City – it’s only fair that I use them as an experiment with various APIs and web scraping. Eye on the Tigers is a football mashup of various data sources combined together in one convenient place. It reads news feeds, twitter (using the search API) and other sources to bring you [...]

installing OS X:snow leopard on VirtualBox

Alex Cooper — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 11:45:26 +0000

Hurrah! After some fiddling around I’ve got OS X snow leopard to install successfully on Oracle VM VirtualBox. Link to this post!

Installing OS X Snow leopard on Windows using Oracle VM VirtualBox – Attempt 1

Alex Cooper — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:59:11 +0000

Installing OS X Snow leopard on Windows using Oracle VM VirtualBox - Attempt 1 failed.

pan and zoom svg images using JavaScript (JS)

Alex Cooper — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:41:30 +0000

While developing some interactive SVG maps for work, I discovered a little gem on the internet Link to this post!

beached festival 2010 canceled

Alex Cooper — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:45:27 +0000

The 'Beached 2010' event in Scarborough has been canceled for a second year. However, Doves, The Futureheads Newton Faulkner, Detroit, Kassidy are to play at the Scarborough open air theatre instead on August the 7th.

e justice (Electronic Justice) Small Claims court dissertation project

Alex Cooper — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:12:21 +0000

dissertation project to research the idea of electronic justice (e-justice) and develop a web based small claims court using PHP and MySQL, and whether such a system could replace the current court system. E-justice could be defined as an umbrella term for the use of information technology practices within the judiciary system. For this project we are researching the possibility of whether these technologies can be utilised to provide a fully electronic justice system (e-justice), whereby, through the use of computing, justice can be attained.

Facebook Phishing

Alex Cooper — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:42:22 +0000

Going Phishing with Fakebook (Facebook): The art of deceiving students Recently i did (my first go at ) a research poster for Psychology of Internet Behaviour – and since my area of interest is privacy/security on Social Networking sites (such as facebook & myspace) i thought it would be a good idea to do a [...]

Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008 (kb953272) download link removed

Alex Cooper — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:34:11 +0000

Microsoft has Requested me to remove the download of Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008 (kb953272), so rather than face any repocusions, i thought its best if i remove the link entirely. So sorry to anyone who is looking to download it.Other sites such as the green button community may still have it. I suppose the only way to get it now is if you purchase a copy of Windows Vista and hopefully that has it on there. Ive no idea why they are not offering this brilliant update to everyone via windows update - it makes no sense.

Windows 7 Calculator for Vista!

Alex Cooper — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:22:41 +0000

The clever guys over at windowsvistaclub have found a way to get the new and improved calculator for windows 7 to run in Windows Vista!

Windows 7 Blue Badge tool; unlocks all known protected features (download)

Alex Cooper — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:07:25 +0000

download Windows 7 Blue Badge tool unlocks all known protected features such as taskbar, desktop slideshow