Prepopulate Email Address After Form Submit

I imagine this should be pretty quick and easy for anyone that knows anything about PHP.

I would like this as quickly as possible and i will pay immediately. The code must work before payment however.

Here is the end result of what I am looking for.

1. User comes to my website
2. Enters their email into my subscribe form (an aweber form)
3. The email is then passed to the thank you page and then redirected to an affiliate link for an email submit offer with the email address prepopulated in the form.
4. This is current landing page:

http://www.juanwalker.net/Winner/freeappleipad.php

5. This is the current thank you page:

http://www.juanwalker.net/Winner/freeappleipad2.php

6. This is the affiliate link:

http://www.mb01.com/lnk.asp?o=3161&c=41721&a=59116

This Is My Problem:

I have tried coding this myself and it is not working properly. I can get the email to pass through to the thank you page, but I cannot get it to prepopulate on the affiliate link page. Seems somehow it does not get passed properly.

Here’s what I need:

1. Code that would somehow work with the aweber form to get the email that was entered passed to the thank you page, and then forwarded to the affiliate link and prepopulated.
2. Instructions on how to implement the code (I’m not a php programmer but i can copy and paste with the best of them, so a simple “put this here” and “put this there” will be good).

Please let me know if you have any questions.

I NEED THIS ASAP PLEASE!

Online Headstone Design Tool

Hi guys,
I am looking for someone who can develop an online headstone (memorial) tool for our client.
This must be developed in Flex or Ajax (Web2.0)

An example of what we are after and the process used can be found here:
http://www.funeralassist.co.uk/brochure.htm

However, this is very outdated looking and must have a web 2.0 and modern look and feel.
We MUST be able to add new stones and designs easily (though an admin feature) and it has to be able to add the finished article to a cart (we havent chosen one yet).
Also, the client must be able to print out a mockup for their records and the finished design (text and designs) be saved on file.

Any other questions please let me know.

Seas0nPass jailbreak app for Apple TV now available

The folks at fireCore have released Seas0nPass, a jailbreak application for the second generation Apple TV. Seas0nPass is a tethered jailbreak solution that requires you to connect your Apple TV to your computer briefly during boot. Similar to the Pwnage tool app, the jailbreak application lets you load custom IPSW files onto your Apple TV.

While Seas0nPass is new, fireCore is a name that should be familiar to Apple TV owners. This group also released aTV Flash, a software package that adds streaming services like Last.fm, an HTML 5 web browser and more to the Apple TV. The latest version aTV Flash (black) is in beta and is available as a pre-order for $19.95.

Unlike aTV Flash which is available for a nominal fee, Seas0nPass is open source and available for free. The tool was designed for the second generation Apple TV only, so please don’t try this with your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. The current version of Seas0nPass is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 or later. A Windows version is under development and will be available soon.

Interested Apple TV owners can grab the download and pertinent instructions at Seas0nPass.com. The source code is available on here on Github.

Seas0nPass jailbreak app for Apple TV now available originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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TUAW’s Daily App: Corel Paint it! Now

Corel was a big deal back in the days before Photoshop — I remember CorelDRAW as being one of the most premiere art apps out there. It still is, of course, but Corel has fallen to the wayside now that Photoshop and Illustrator have become so popular. However, Corel has made an interesting step onto the App Store with the awkwardly-titled Corel Paint it! Now (free). Not a drawing app, Corel Paint It! Now lets you apply artistic filters to your photos, like oil or pen and ink.

It works well and does its job in an interesting way, as you can watch it “draw” the resulting image, suggesting some sort of drawing engine is at work. You can create some pretty funky pictures, and then you can send them off via email, Facebook or Flickr.

At even 99 cents, I’d question what this app is for, but at the current price of free, it’s probably worth a download just to see it in action. In fact, Corel tells TUAW that the app has seen over 175k downloads already, so you’d be in good company. I wouldn’t depend on it for anything important (the resolution is sadly low), but it’s a nice little trick to spice up some pictures that could use a cool effect on them.

TUAW’s Daily App: Corel Paint it! Now originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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MacTech Boot Camp San Francisco 2011, five days left to save

We attended the MacTech Conference in 2010 and we can tell you: they put on a great conference. The MacTech Boot Camp is designed for a different audience. Instead of the hardcore IT pro, the Boot Camp experience is more for the folks who support small businesses and home users. The event is close to selling out, but you can still take advantage of pre-registration pricing ($100 off) until Monday, January 17. As a bonus, if you’re interested in becoming Apple Certified, there’s a study session and exam the day prior. You can check out more info on the exam and study session here.

MacTech Boot Camp is a one-day program, to be held on January 26 from 9 AM to 6 PM at the Parc55 Hotel in San Francisco. You can check out the registration page here and register now for $395 (it goes up to $495 after Monday). Check out the full schedule here, or the list of topics covered at Boot Camp here. It’ll be a jam-packed day, and we’ll be sure to have some coverage while we’re there. Educational pricing is also available.

See you in San Francisco!

MacTech Boot Camp San Francisco 2011, five days left to save originally appeared on TUAW on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google nixes direct H.264 support in Chrome

In a move likened to converting the US from English to Esperanto, Google has announced that its web browser, Chrome, will be removing support for direct HTML5 playback of H.264 video in the coming months, in favor of Google’s WebM media container (which leverages the VP8 video codec, also supported by Flash Player and used in the new Skype beta’s multiparty video conferencing). This is a blow to the adoption of Apple’s preferred video standard, as well as a hint that the Web may see some continued churn within the video format arena.

The HTML5 spec for video doesn’t require any specific codec, and the tag allows you to include multiple versions of a video, which the browser can flip through to find one that it can play. This just means an extra encoding step for web content creators who had previously been happy just creating an Ogg Theora file (Firefox) and an H.264 mpeg file (most others), or working with JavaScript to detect what the browser can handle and falling back to Flash Player as needed (which can also play H.264 video). Update: As commenters point out, Firefox can already handle VP8-encoded video and Chrome can handle Ogg, so actually content creators could in theory stick with only two encoding standards and still be OK. Both Opera and Chromium (the open-source version of Chrome) also include VP8 codec support, while Safari and IE do not.

For many high-profile sites like Hulu, the question is moot; in order to deliver advertising and secure the videos it delivers for television networks and movie studios, it feels HTML5 isn’t ready for prime time.

While the majority of web video is already encoded as H.264, instead of proprietary formats like Flash, there is a fairly large elephant in the room when it comes to content. If Google’s subsidiary YouTube (and other sites that serve large amounts of video to mobile phones) makes a move to WebM, Apple is going to have to make some tough decisions about the codecs supported in iOS devices. Unfortunately for Apple and most other mobile device manufacturers, H.264 playback is already implemented in hardware (for speed and battery savings); WebM is not yet, even on Android devices.

The debate is, ostensibly, about free versus patent-limited approaches to video (despite Google’s effort to portray this as a move toward openness, there’s been no indication that Chrome will be dropping the included proprietary/closed Flash Player as well). One could also point out that despite Google’s move to open up VP8 and WebM, it’s not at all clear that the codec truly is unencumbered by patents; H.264 is also an ISO standard format, while WebM is not.

With Internet Explorer, Microsoft has chosen to support only H.264 in the latest version of the browser (although, in theory, a downloadable codec would allow it to play WebM as well). No question, the “format war” is still on, but the major players could decide the fate of video codecs pretty quickly. It will be interesting to see how this pans out for Apple’s customers.

[hat tip DF]

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Twisted Pixel chooses not to sue Capcom over iOS ripoff

Capcom Mobile recently released a new game for the iOS App Store called MaXplosion, and soon after, a few fans noticed the game bears a striking similarity to a game by Twisted Pixel for Xbox Live Arcade called ‘Splosion Man. Aside from the names themselves, MaXplosion also allows the player to jump three times by exploding each time, has a similar-looking character also running around a lab space, and it even has a similar soundtrack.

We’ve noted before that intellectual property theft has run rampant on the App Store, and Gameloft has even earned a reputation for “borrowing” game styles from bigger console games. But this one’s pretty flagrant — not only is the ripoff pretty clear, but it’s from Capcom’s European development unit, a traditional gaming company that should know better. There’s one more wrinkle: Twisted Pixel says it even pitched the game to Capcom’s US offices before releasing it themselves on Xbox Live.

Despite the problem, Twisted Pixel has responded by saying it won’t sue. Not only is the battle probably not worth it for the relatively small developer, but as CEO Mike Wilford says wittily, “we owe them one for inventing Mega Man, so we’ll let them slide.” He promises Twisted Pixel will put the extra time saved into a quality mobile game of its own. Fair enough.

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Smule’s Dr. Ge Wang on what’s next for the company and the App Store

Smule is one of the oldest names on the App Store. Ocarina was one of the App Store’s first big successes, and they’ve continued to make music and social-based apps like their most recent app, Magic Fiddle for the iPad. Dr. Ge Wang is not only the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of the company, but he’s also an assistant professor at Stanford. We caught him right after his CES keynote last week and asked him a few questions about what Smule’s been up to lately and what they’re working on next.

Magic Fiddle has done very well, Wang told us, after releasing last year. “The very next day, it was actually our fastest app to reach the number one paid iPad app. We saw off the charts engagement with the app. So it’s been really positive.” Lots of users they’ve heard from are not necessarily violinists or magicians, just people interested in using their iPads to make music.

Read on to hear more from Dr. Wang about why Smule’s apps have gotten more complicated over time, and what the next app from Smule will be like.

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Chinese Apple Stores plan special New Year events

While India’s Krishna Kalyan ate an iPhone 4 cake to celebrate the New Year, Apple’s four retail stores in China have something else in mind to celebrate the Chinese New Year. According to ifoAppleStore, Apple has emailed an invitation to their customers in China to visit the retail stores between January 26 and February 13 for select events such as workshops, One to One training and shopping specials on Apple and third-party products.
Apple currently has stores both in Beijing and Shanghai, but we here at TUAW are partial to the first one to land in Shanghai back in July of last year. With the four stores already under its belt and a growing online presence in China, it seems that Apple heard Lenovo loud and clear when it was declared that Apple hadn’t stepped up efforts in the Far East.

Chinese Apple Stores plan special New Year events originally appeared on TUAW on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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"App" chosen as word of the year by American Dialect Society

Word of the YearDefeating the words “junk” and “WikiLeaks,” the word “app” was picked as the 2010 word of the year by the American Dialect Society. Short for “application,” “app” received 69 votes from the linguists in the society. Speaking to MSNBC, the Dialect Society’s executive secretary said “I think this past year there wasn’t anything clearly dominant. But there’s no question ‘app’ is a very powerful word.”

Other words listed by the group this year could also pertain to Apple users — “fat-finger” meaning to mistype and “-pad” used to combine the form of any tablet computer. Last year’s winner was the word “tweet,” but with “app” winning this year, could it have an effect on Microsoft’s objection to Apple’s “App Store” trademark application? None at all, of course — but it’s fun to contemplate.

[via MSNBC]

“App” chosen as word of the year by American Dialect Society originally appeared on TUAW on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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VoxOx combines all your contacts into one Mac client

Since we’re The Unofficial Apple Weblog, we kept it pretty Apple-oriented during last week’s CES conference. There were plenty of interesting Windows apps and other smartphones and tablets around, but if it wasn’t Apple-centric, we usually walked past it to find something more our style. But VoxOx is a notable exception — it’s an app and a service that runs on both Windows and Mac, and we sat down with a few members of the team to talk about the app and where it’s headed next.

The idea for VoxOx is that it encompasses all of your communication in one app. Phone calls, IRC, instant messages, SMS, social networks and so on, are handed through VoxOx’s client. The big news at CES was that the VoxOx client was updated, and VoxOx told me that the Mac version is being reworked according to feedback to look more like a Mac app, according to the Apple HIG. Once inside the app, it’s quickly apparent that VoxOx is powerful — you can merge contacts from multiple networks and even keep conversations going across protocols. There is a charge to call out (just like Skype), but there’s never a charge for inbound calls, so family and clients can call your computer directly, and/or you can get those calls routed off to any other number. There’s even a translation service now integrated into the client, so you can see real-time translations of chats back and forth to other countries.

Unfortunately, VoxOx’s biggest issue is that it’s not very open — you can’t pull in contacts from another app, and you definitely can’t bring them out of the service easily. The UI looks better than it used to, I’m told, but it’s still not what I’d call a “beautiful” app. Still, if you’re looking for a way to consolidate voice communications, VoxOx seems a compelling option.

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TUAW TV Live: Completely paper-free and now with fewer calories

“Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends…”

TUAW TV Live is back for another hour of discussion, chat, demonstrations and unplanned technical difficulties. Starting at 5 PM ET, I’ll be firing up the cameras and studio lights, putting on my Apple logo’d hat and talking about everything that’s happened in the world of Apple over the last week or two. Not that anything big has happened…

Following that, I’ll be talking about ways that you can reduce the amount of paperwork on your desktop by using a few commonly available software tools and some relatively inexpensive hardware. If you’re fired with enthusiasm to make your workplace (or home office) paper-free after the show, then consider getting a copy of longtime TidBITS blogger and Mac author Joe Kissell’s amazing electronic tome on the topic — Take Control of Your Paperless Office.

Thanks to the wonderful folks at Take Control Books, TUAW readers and TUAW TV Live viewers can get a 30% discount on this e-book. Just use the link above to view the description and purchase the e-book, and you’ll get 30% off of the already bargain price of US$10. You can also manually enter in the coupon code CPN011310112UAW to get the discount.

To watch TUAW TV Live from your Mac or PC, go to the next page by clicking the Read More link at the bottom of this post, and you’ll find a livestream viewer and a chat tool. The chat tool allows you to participate by asking questions or making comments.

If you’re driving somewhere and would like to watch TUAW TV Live while you’re stuck in traffic, please don’t — keep your eyes on the road! However, if someone else is doing the driving, you can watch the show on your iPhone and join the chat by downloading the free Ustream Viewing Application. If you’re on an iPad, you should be able to use the Skyfire Browser to watch the stream, although you will not be able to participate in the chat.

We’ll start at about 5 PM ET, so if you’re seeing a prerecorded show, be sure to refresh your browser until you get the live stream.

(Photo: Flickr CC | Stephen Edmonds)

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New iOS beta released offering new gestures, Xcode updated with AirPlay services for apps (updated)

gestures xcode airplayWell hello there, here’s something new. On Apple’s developer page for iOS 4.3 beta there’s this gem:

“Test Multi-Touch Gestures for iPad
This beta release contains a preview of new Multi-Touch gestures for iPad. You can use four or five fingers to pinch to the Home Screen; swipe up to reveal the multitasking bar; and swipe left or right between apps. We are providing this preview before releasing them to the public to understand how these gestures work with your apps. Test them and give us your feedback on the Apple Developer Forums.”

So we’re getting some new wibbly wobbly gestures? Too bad they won’t change the orientation lock back to the way it used to work. Still, these new gestures make a lot of sense for Apple’s tablet and its touch-centric interface.

A new version of Xcode (Preview 6 beta) was also released to support the beta iOS build and adds Airplay and Apple TV services (not apps on Apple TV — yet) for apps. Specifically:

“AirPlay Video support is now available as an option for developers in the MPMoviePlayerController class. It is also available to web authors via the QuickTime Plug-In or media element.”

Developers, check it out and let us know if you find anything else of note.

Updates: Thanks to our commenters!
Looks like you’ll be able to revert the orientation lock functionality in 4.3 so that you can use it as a mute or orientation lock.
Also, hotspot functionality is there, but it’ll work like tethering on AT&T, likely with those fun-time data caps.
And last but not least … well, iPhone 3G seems to be left in the cold, so maybe it is the least.

Update 2: Some folks are diving into the info.plist file and finding some new camera effects. Neat!

New iOS beta released offering new gestures, Xcode updated with AirPlay services for apps (updated) originally appeared on TUAW on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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