• Rant: Is Sweding a Corporate Plot? - Somebody thinks our torchwood swede is part of a big corporate conspiracy. Hell no!
• "Editing Offline" in Final Cut Pro 4 - I am working on my FCP-fu and want to learn how to work with offline media, that way saving my macbook from a slow death every time I edit something.
• We Were Centurions! - Straight from the centurion liberation front
• Faceball: your face, our balls - Want to p lay faceball? Learnt he rules!
• RockStarProgrammer - The Differences Between Mercurial and Git - Quite an interesting story with the difference between Mercurial and Git. Winner? I won't spoil it….

It’s been a while since I did an Appdate, but here is number 11.

Today’s pick is called NicePlayer and it is as they say themselves “Quite simply, the nicest media player for Mac”. In the backend NicePlayer uses Quicktime and all available components to playback media, but in the frontend there is a major difference.

The frontend look is very fresh and exactly what I needed. First of, the entire app can be made to “float on top” which is a major issue if you like to watch video on your 13-inch MacBook while doing some other work. Quicktime doesn’t support this and that has bugged the hell out of me for years.

But even then, if you manage to get Quicktime to float on top with some third party plugin, you’re still stuck with that bulky Quicktime interface. The NicePlayer interface though, is border-less, buttonless, and therefore only uses the minimal screen estate needed for playback. The look is a lot like those embedabble flash players you find on video sites like Vimeo, but instead it is an actual desktop app.

NicePlayer is open source, free as in beer, and only 2.8mb to download. And with joy I can say that it is my new default media player.

Geek Dinners is going retro!

After some fun during the “Over The Air” conference (some people were playing keynote-bingo) we decided to launch our own IRC channel. Why? Because we can. Plus, it keeps those lengthy discussions between Geek Dinner attendees away from your Twitter feeds.

Where? irc.freenode.net, channel #geekdinner. Everyone is welcome and you are allowed to talk about anything! If you’ve never used IRC before (which means you were probably born after the introduction of the World Wide Web) feel free to ask us over Twitter/MSN/email for instructions.

I decided to make a little screencast to show the use of the little Vimeo/Flickr Photo Set Bookmarklet that I made a few days ago.

[Screencast] “Flickr Set Photos for Vimeo”-bookmarklet from Cristiano Betta on Vimeo.

• The Rasterbator - Following Eelke's lead I might be interested in rasterbating some photos for a future office.
• Fudzilla - Nice tech website.
• The Ultimate getElementsByClassName - A simple JS function to get elements by classname. Needed it to get my bookmarklet to work.
• Bookmarklet Builder - A handly little web-app that makes it easy to convert some javascript code into something that works as a bookmarklet.
• Strung out hackers and BBC beanbags | The Register - A writeup of the Over The Air conference including a link to our Torchwood Swede!
• iPhone has a hidden SATA interface -
• Datawocky: More data usually beats better algorithms - A teacher together with his students made some interesting conclusions about data mining.
• Sneaky peak of MOO’s latest product: The MightyCard - Great april fools joke.
• Lightbox 2 - You see lightboxes everywhere these days, but that doesn't mean I don't love them. This library is helping me out with my new lifestream.
• Find Your Friends « Flickr Blog - Flickr has added friend finding by using Gmail and Yahoo mail api's. Quite useful and very safe as you don't need to give away your gmail password to yahoo.
• The iPhone: finally PWNED - This new tool manages to circumvent all code signing for the iphone, making it way easier to hack future bootloaders and firmwares. Really cool video with it.
• Getting Photos from Lightroom to the iPhone - I was playing with Lightroom again and obviously I thought it necessary to sync my photos with my iPhone.
• BBC iPlayer fix hacked again! - Nifty little Ruby script that I now use to download episodes from the BBC iPlayer before they disappear.
• Top ten obsolete ports - CNET has a nice story on the top 10 obsolete computer ports. I don't really agree with firewire as I still have a couple of FireWire hard drive and will buy even more of them.