I have defected!

It's true, I'm moving to the majesty that is Wordpress. You can find my new blog at Dan.Spot6.net. This page will still be up for... posterity? Nah, laziness is more like it.

My Google Reader Remote

So I decided I'd mentioned in my last post that I'd make one for the Google Reader, and here it is. Not to worry this'll be my last Joy2Key post for a while. (Big Table)

Controller1

(G)Reader Function	Controller Button	(G)reader Key
Disabled	Left	Disabled
Expand Folder	Right	Shift+X
Previous Subscription	Up	Shift+K
Next Subscription	Down	Shift+J
Previous Item	Button 1 (Left)	K
Next Item	Button 2 (Bottom)	J
View Original	Button 3 (Right)	V
Disabled	Button 4 (Top)	Disabled
Open Subscription Or Folder	Button 5 (L1)	Shift+O
Share Item	Button 6 (R1)	Shift+S
Full-Screen Mode	Button 7 (L2)	U
None	Button 8 (R2)	Joy2 Config
Mark Item As Read	Button 9 (Select)	M
Home Folder	Button 10 (Start)	G+H

Controller2

(G)Reader Function	Controller Button	(G)reader Key
Disabled	Left	Mouse 15° Left
Disabled	Right	Mouse 15° Right
Disabled	Up	Mouse 15° Up
Disabled	Down	Mouse 15° Down
Disabled	Button 1 (Left)	Mouse Left-Click
Increase Text Size	Button 2 (Bottom)	Ctrl+ +
Disabled	Button 3 (Right)	Mouse Right-Click
Decrease Text Size	Button 4 (Top)	Ctrl+ -
Open Expanded View Mode	Button 5 (L1)	1
Share Item	Button 6 (R1)	Use Joy3 Config
List View Mode	Button 7 (L2)	2
Disabled	Button 8 (R2)	Holding
Mark All Items As Read	Button 9 (Select)	Shift+A
Refresh Items	Button 10 (Start)	R

Controller 3

(G)Reader Function	Controller Button	(G)reader Key
Disabled	Left	Mouse 30° Left
Disabled	Right	Mouse 30° Right
Disabled	Up	Mouse 30° Up
Disabled	Down	Mouse 30° Down
Disabled	Button 1 (Left)	Mouse Left-Click
Increase Text Size	Button 2 (Bottom)	Ctrl+ +
Disabled	Button 3 (Right)	Mouse Right-Click
Decrease Text Size	Button 4 (Top)	Ctrl+ -
Disabled	Button 5 (L1)	Disabled
Disabled	Button 6 (R1)	Holding
Firefox Full-Screen	Button 7 (L2)	F11
Disabled	Button 8 (R2)	Holding
Disabled	Button 9 (Select)	Disabled
Disabled	Button 10 (Start)	Disabled

My Joost Remote

I've been using Joost a good bit lately and since my monitor is so damn far away to get comfortable I and I have a TV out card I popped the signal out to my ugly ole CRT TV. "Great!" I thought now I can sit on my couch and get comfy and watch some good IPTV (well as close as we can get to IPTV in the states).

But hopping up every little while to change the channels every little bit was completely screwing me mojo. And like many people I don't have an IR Remote, (or an RF either) but I do have an ancient Gravis pad pro. So I dragged out JoyToKey again and built myself a good conf file that looks something like this.

And soon that wasn't enough either, so I added mouse functionality and volume controls by linking the R2 button to another joy file so it goes right back to above when I let go.

But it was too slow so I set the R1 to another joy file as well so that when I held R1 & R2 it goes to this configuration.

Which was considerably faster and made it much easier to go through the 'explore' tab of Joost that was I could browse though channels via genres.

If you want my conf file you can grab it here (at the bottom). And if you need to know the shorcut keys they'll pop up below.

Keyboard assignments

Key	Primary Action(s)
	Escape to Main Screen
or	Play/Pause
	Bring up Controller and Icons, Enter or Play highlighted item
	Mute
/	Volume control
	Help
	Show info
to	Select channel #
/	Scroll through programs (or between channels/programs epg)
+ / +	Skip directly to previous/next program
/	Scroll up/down channels (or list items)
+ / +	Skip directly to previous/next channel
	Menu mode
	Channels mode (left hot edge)
	Community mode (right hot edge)
	Content Owners mode (top hot edge)
+ or	Search
/	Page Up/Down
	Explore
	Add
+	Resize window
+	Power down
+	goto preferences

Note: Keyboard shortcuts don't apply to modal dialogues. Enter/Esc are used to
commit/cancel here. Enter also to dismiss an error message.
Caps Lock on/off is catered for.

Tune of the day is: The Original Onions - Music To Watch Girls By
(Happy belated Thanksgiving)

	The Original Onions - Music To Watch Girls By
	Found at skreemr.com

No idea why you'd want it but here's a link to the svg I used for the controller. (Thank you vector magic)

Save below as Joost.cfg

[General]
FileVersion=37
NumberOfJoysticks=2
Use8Axes=0
UseDiagonalInput=0
UsePOV=0
Threshold=0
KeySendMode=0
[Joystick 1]
Axis1n=1, 25:00:00, 0
Axis1p=1, 27:00:00, 0
Axis2n=1, 26:00:00, 0
Axis2p=1, 28:00:00, 0
Axis3n=0
Axis3p=0
Axis4n=0
Axis4p=0
Axis5n=0
Axis5p=0
Axis6n=0
Axis6p=0
Axis7n=0
Axis7p=0
Axis8n=0
Axis8p=0
POV1-1=0
POV1-2=0
POV1-3=0
POV1-4=0
POV2-1=0
POV2-2=0
POV2-3=0
POV2-4=0
Up-Right=0
Up- Left=0
Dn- Left=0
Dn-Right=0
Button01=1, 43:00:00, 0
Button02=1, 1B:00:00, 0
Button03=1, 10:BE:00, 0
Button04=1, 49:00:00, 0
Button05=1, 11:25:00, 0
Button06=1, 11:27:00, 0
Button07=1, 10:BC:00, 0
Button08=5, 1
Button09=1, 0D:00:00, 0
Button10=1, 20:00:00, 0
Button11=0
Button12=0
Button13=0
Button14=0
Button15=0
Button16=0
Button17=0
Button18=0
Button19=0
Button20=0
Button21=0
Button22=0
Button23=0
Button24=0
Button25=0
Button26=0
Button27=0
Button28=0
Button29=0
Button30=0
Button31=0
Button32=0
[Joystick 2]
Axis1n=0
Axis1p=0
Axis2n=0
Axis2p=0
Axis3n=0
Axis3p=0
Axis4n=0
Axis4p=0
Axis5n=0
Axis5p=0
Axis6n=0
Axis6p=0
Axis7n=0
Axis7p=0
Axis8n=0
Axis8p=0
POV1-1=0
POV1-2=0
POV1-3=0
POV1-4=0
POV2-1=0
POV2-2=0
POV2-3=0
POV2-4=0
Up-Right=0
Up- Left=0
Dn- Left=0
Dn-Right=0
Button01=0
Button02=0
Button03=0
Button04=0
Button05=0
Button06=0
Button07=0
Button08=0
Button09=0
Button10=0
Button11=0
Button12=0
Button13=0
Button14=0
Button15=0
Button16=0
Button17=0
Button18=0
Button19=0
Button20=0
Button21=0
Button22=0
Button23=0
Button24=0
Button25=0
Button26=0
Button27=0
Button28=0
Button29=0
Button30=0
Button31=0
Button32=0

Owwie! It burns!

Yukkas! Sorry, I remember, absolutely loving this song when I was about 13 and kinda felt like it was mine, you know like when stupid kids think that "Crawling" by Linkin Park truly speaks to them and them alone? Well, when I was a stupid kid, (though wheather I still am or not is debatable) this was my "Crawling" and well, it hurts, sniffle sniffle. Have to shake this off and listen to nailbomb or something now.

	Nailbomb - Wasting Away
	Found at skreemr.com

Da Movies

	My Flixster

New Group!

Well, leader actually. Not enough good resources for surf music out there. Hopefully me and a few other cats can make a better one. Swing by if that interests ya.

EEK! Almost here!