Here’s a basic script I made that uses PHP, cURL, and barcoding.com. It reads UPCs from csv files (or just a list) and sends a request to barcoding.com. Barcoding.com then returns an image with the barcode. Keep in mind barcoding.com is a free service and isn’t designed to be used in the way this script [...]

I visited Weather Underground today to find a great, new, redesigned site. I always thought the old one looked cheesy and the new one is a huge improvement in my opinion. Like Lifehacker’s redesign, I was bothered with the extra white space so I used Stylish and Property Inspector in Chrome to widen it up and put the forecast module next to current conditions on the weather page.
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There are still a few oddities when visiting other pages of the site, but this is designed for people who go straight to the weather page and don’t want to bother with scrolling down to find the 5 day. If anyone has some styles to prevent me from having to hide the large ad box, I’m open to suggestions.

Tired of the new, narrow, Lifehacker? Try these new CSS rules.

Runescape offers an interface for fansites to grab hiscores info without having to load the entire hiscores page and use complicated scripts to pull out each piece. You can get the info by visiting this page: http://hiscore.runescape.com/index_lite.ws?player=yourusername

The page will feed back info in line break and comma separated form. Each skill is separated by a line break and rank/level/xp are seperated by commas. In its default form it’s not very usable, you’d need to write some sort of script to format it. I was bored and decided to make a PHP script that converts the page into JSON format, making it very easy to use with a Javascript front-end.

The Graph API give you access to public information. If you need more you have to have an access token. There are a couple of ways of gaining one, but first you need to create an application and get an App ID & App Secret.