Cristiano on Tech/Life » Links http://blog.cristianobetta.com Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:25:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc My Bookmarks For April 14th – August 12th http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2010/08/12/my-bookmarks-for-april-14th-august-12th/ http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2010/08/12/my-bookmarks-for-april-14th-august-12th/#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:00:17 +0000 Cristiano Betta http://blog.cristianobetta.com/?p=1742 Originally posted on Cristiano on Tech/Life - My Bookmarks For April 14th – August 12th

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  • Modernizr – Handy little script that detects a browser’s feature support
  • Ajaxian » Getting Users to Upgrade Their Browsers – Pretty impressive graphs on how users upgrade their browsers

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  • Amberjack: Amazing On-Page Tutorials – Wow, I could use this in the future for some of my work!
  • Building a Mac OS X Server 10.6 – I recently used this tutorial to upgrade my built-in OS X PHP version to the latest build
  • VPN IP Tunneling – VPN UK, USA, Spain, Canada, Germany, France, Netherlands, Switzerland VPN services. – Decided to get myself a decent VPN for when I am on the road. Well worth it as it is so essential to your security.
  • 50 New Free High-Quality Icon Sets (with Easter Icons!) – Smashing Magazine – Might use these one day when I need some in an app
  • Gooey Templates – Templates – Some very nice templates for CMSs that I might use the next time I need to build something like a CMS.
  • Why do some countries drive on the right and others on the left ? – Most of this I already knew but there are some interesting small facts in there.
  • Symfony tutorial: How to make a gallery for admin-module – Handy little tutorial explaining how to add images to an object in the symfony admin generated modules
  • Yes We Catan – Awesome Catan t-shirt, as seen wearing by @jeffcannata in the latest TRS

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  • Creating Bootable Vista / Windows 7 USB Flash Drive – Simplest tutorial I found so far for making a bootable Windows 7 USB installer. No 3rd party software required, and very easy to follow.
  • REYNHOLM INDUSTRIES : Welcome – Awesome IT Crowd related website, not made by the IT Crowd people!
  • A Symfony 1.3 Gem: Open Files Listed in Exceptions with the Editor of your Choice – Very, very useful if you do Symfony development
  • How to setup Snow Leopard on mini 10v with A06 BIOS – I couldn’t manage to downgrade the bios, so I used this tutorial instead. It worked!

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  • 10.5: How to reset Leopard back to the Setup Assistant – I've been reinstalling some laptops recently that are going to family. I wanted to put some apps on it already but couldn't take the "fresh OS X install"-feeling away from them so this little scripts puts a system back to basics while leaving the apps installed.
  • Install memcached PHP extension on OS X Snow Leopard – Much easier than I expected
  • How to configure, build a php extension on macosx snow leopard – Handy little snippet
  • Continuity (Flash Game) – I love it when games challenge your brain instead of bombard you with cutting edge graphics
  • Cryptographic Right Answers –
  • Install XP from USB – How do you install XP on a netbook without a DVD drive?
  • 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

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  • Kill or cure? – What does the Daily mail thinks causes or prevents cancer?
  • Cartographer.js – thematic mapping for Google Maps – Working with Google maps directly can be a bitch (trust me, I tried) so I’m happy to see someone abstracted some cool functions out
  • 10 Useful WordPress Coding Techniques « Smashing Magazine – Thinking of building some of these techniques into my wordpress blog theme
  • Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started « Smashing Magazine – I love Smashing Magazine. I already knew all of the things in this tutorial but I think it’s great for beginners

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  • SpotifiTunes – Get your whole iTunes library in Spotify! Just import the XML and boom, it's there.
  • Install multiple versions of IE on your PC | TredoSoft – Wow, a bit of software that will install IE3 – IE6 on a Windows Install. Using this now since MS buggered up their VPC installs
  • Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices – Handy little survey of font use across some of the sites where fonts (should) mattee
  • U Board – USB powered work space enhancer  – Awesome little laptop stand that would look so good under my MacBook or iMac. And it even has a cup holder!!!!
  • 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

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  • Always Innovating: Introducing the Touch Book – I would almost get this as my NetBook, if it wasn't that "new". Also can't figure out the import tax I'd have to pay if I got one
  • convert .vhd (virtualpc) file to .vdi (virtualbox) format – Handy little tutorial for converting a VirtualPC hard disk image to a VirtualBox harddisk image
  • IE76, IE7, IE8 Disk Images – Handy little disk images containing time limited installs of XP/Vista with IE6/IE7/IE8, etc.
  • Virtual PC 2007 – Best way of getting a free version of IE6 on a Mac is to run VPC2007 in Windows Vista on a VirtualBox VM….. Sigh….
  • HTML5 enabling script – The new HTML5 tags don't really play well in IE6/IE7 unless you run this script on your site.

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  • Viral Coefficient Calculation – Needed this for work. Very clear description. I would have liked if his future prediction formula also took the second derivative of the growth (the 1st derivative of the virality)
  • Integrated Bus Route Maps from WhatBus.com! – Handy little app that shows all the bus routes in London overlayed on a google map.
  • New development techniques using Opera Kestrel (9.5) – Little hack to get rounded corners in Opera!
  • CSS Browser Hacks For Firefox, Opera, Safari & Internet Explorer – Probably the only document I found that was able to tell me how to do Opera browser hacks!
  • Symfony deployment Cheat Sheet –

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  • HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment – Awesome Twitter visualization that only uses Javascript and HTML5
  • Quirkybags – Handbag liner. Quite handy. A bit more expensive than I was looking for as my Crumpler bag that I want to use it for.
  • Helveticons – Great bunch of royalty free icons based on the Helvetica fonttype
  • Project Lombok – Cool little project from Reinier and Roel that tries to make Java way less verbose. I love it!
  • The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real – Anil Dash – Are pushbuttons the future?

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  • ie7.js & ie8.js – I need to look into these libraries to make my next project work 100% in both IE7 and IE6
  • Get MySQLdb Running on Mac Leopard « Bethink – This is the only online tutorial that I managed to be able to setup up MySQLdb successfully with.
  • CitySounds.fm – The music of cities – One of the other hacks from Music Hack Day. Way more awesome than mine if I might say.
  • Ask a Basterd: Can I Answer My Cell at a Movie if It Seems Urgent? – Brilliant photo
  • My Little Django – because magical mascots are awesome! – Haha, I remember Carl giving this talk, but the fact that someone made a My Little Django generator is brilliant!

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  • guardian-twitterfall – Google Code – Handy little tool for tracking Tweets
  • The Amazing World of Version Numbers | Technologizer – Some fun anecdotes regarding version numbers.
  • 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
  • O2 Digital News Centre: Turning on Twitter Texts – O2 is now going to support free direct-to-mobile texts for your Twitter mentions and direct messages. This is awesome, and means I don't have to wait for any of the iPhone twitter clients to integrate push notifications.
  • Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Rsync – Handy little explanation of how to make automated snapshot backups using rsync

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  • Sir Bonar on Intercept Modernisation at Open Tech 09 – The brilliant Sir Bonar Neville Kingdom gives a great speach at #opentech
  • SaveIE6: Help us save the best browser around – IE6 needs our help
  • Download details: IE App Compat VHD – Handy list of Windows VirtualPC images with various browser (IE6, IE7, IE8) that work fine in VirtualBox
  • Cut the bullshit: BarCamps are about technology, and that’s why they are awesome – Tom gives his view on whether or not talks at Barcamp should be technical.
  • wheresthegeeks | Telling Geeks where to meet – The Hodge's new project that involves a calendar of all Geek events across the UK

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  • Lifestream Backup – Handy tool that I need to look into
  • What do you talk about at BarCamp? – Great talk on what makes an awesome Barcamp talk. I think most Barcamp veterans agree.
  • The Usability of Passwords – Wow, I am so going to change my passwords to some more memorable passphrases now.
  • Meet the gadget hackers – It seems a BarcampLondon6 t-shirt made it onto the BBC!
  • Jonathan from Spotify… – I knew it was all his fault.

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  • Thoughts on Opera Unite | FactoryCity – Interesting view from Chris Messina on Opera Unite and why it doesn't deliver.
  • ReMate – Handy little bundle for TextMate that makes it just that bit more usable when working on a SSHFS system
  • What is a browser? – Interesting how everyone seems to think Google is a browser
  • WhatTheFont! « MyFonts – Handy font identifier. I gave it a test and it came up with a whole list of fonts that seemed to match what I was looking for
  • Logout: the other half of the identity equation – Apparently OpenID needs single signout next to single signon, and I kindof agree. I already noticed it's quite annoying when FB logs me back in right after I logged out because I'm logged into my OpenID provider

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  • Tube Time travel – What if the tube map can be defined by travel distance to the other stations?
  • LDDC Completion Booklet – Surrey Docks – Interesting booklet on the development of our living area: Surrey Docks
  • Watercoolr – Gossip for web applications – Pubsub via Webhooks. Sounds really cool and it probably is.
  • is 4a.m. the new midnight? | Video on TED.com – Just rediscovered this little gem of a TED talk today. It was hilarious when I first watched it and it still is.
  • Basic Pizza Dough from Delia Online – This pizza recipe works way better than the recipe I used before from Jamie Oliver. The dough really becomes springy and the middle of the pizza does not become as soggy as it did with the other recipe
  • Shapesifter – C.V. experiment I thought I’d try something… – Awesome resume design

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  • ShouldIBackupMy.com | The Guardian Open Platform | guardian.co.uk – My first guest post on The Guardian Open Platform blog! Wohoo!
  • resty – A better restclient for the command line than Curl –
  • Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You’re a Loser or Old or Something – Awesome list
  • Peacekeeper – The Browser Benchmark from Futuremark Corporation –
  • BadAPI – Another very interesting Open Hack Day project. Bad API let's you simulate certain hickups in APIs and test how your app acts when this happens.

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  • Interview: Yahoo’s David Filo insists he’s open to ideas | Technology | The Guardian – Another review of Yahoo and the Open Hack day, includes a bit on ShouldIBackupMy.com "Strangely enough, the site that ranked the chances of your Yahoo-hosted service closing down didn't make the prizes."
  • ShouldIBacupMy.com on the Tech Weekly podcast – Starts at about 17 minutes, not very long but funny.
  • Dailymotion – Make The Girl Dance "Baby Baby Baby" ( official video ) – a Musique video – Interesting music video. Definitely NSFW even though I'm at work.
  • Why You Probably Shouldn’t Waste $5 More For Digital IMAX | /Film – It seems Digital IMAX is a rip-off. Sticking to the BFI IMAX.
  • Photos: Yahoo’s Open Hack London 2009 – Crave at CNET UK – A nice write-up by Nate Lanxon from CNET on OpenHack 2009

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  • Particletree » PHP Quick Profiler – Really nice looking php profiler
  • Finalists for the “what would you do with 99%” contest – Melinda entered the competition with what I believe is obviously the best entry out there!
  • Jamie Oliver – Recipes – pizza dough – The pizza dough recipe that I'm trying out tonight
  • Garlic Naan – Bread – Interesting recipe for Naan bread. I need to give it a try.
  • HM2K.com » How to search by nearest UK postcode in PHP – Handy bits of code and SQL if you want to calculate the distances between UK postcode centroids.

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  • Are YOU a Meeple Person? – Awesome website that sells anything meeple related and more!
  • Hugh Laurie is British? – CollegeHumor Video – Poor Hugh. They all seem to be stuck in the same 5 questions
  • tweenbots | kacie kinzer – awesome little robots that rely on human intervention to find their way
  • Protovis – JS Data Visualization package that uses the canvas
  • Happy Campers – Very interesting write-up of BCL6 by Jemima Gibbons

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  • YouTube – Pizza Hut "Happy Hour" – Is barcamp going mainstream? Check this commercial (about 8 seconds in)
  • macosxhints.com – Fix backspace/delete when ssh’ing into Linux machines – I needed this for a while. but I had no idea what was the cause. Now I can finally log into a linux box and not have backspaces be interpreted as deletes!
  • A Completely Unscientific (Yet Accurate) Look at Social Sites – Like to see some funny pie charts on social networks? Well, here they are!
  • INCOGNITO Boardgame – A game of secret agents in the Venice Carnival – I played this game a few years back and loved it, so I had a look at how much it would cost me to get it. Over 30 pounds is a bit much for such an old game. I might have to wait a few more years.
  • photograph.miroen.nl – It's always cool when someone re-uses your code or ideas into their ideas. In this case, Photographer Jeroen has integrated my histogram service into his personal photo album, generating nice histograms next to the metadata in his site.

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  • Skittles.com: Chat the rainbow. Taste the Rainbow. – Skittles incorporated Twitter search into their main website. Interesting use of social media.
  • The size of social networks | Primates on Facebook | The Economist – It seems that the size of a human's social network (aka the Dunbar Number) hasn't really grown with he introduction of online social networks.
  • Nodal points video from Reboot 10 –
  • The Curious Case of Forrest Gump – It seems I wasn't the only one that thought these movies were a lot alike.
  • How-To: Connect HUAWEI Modem with Mac OS X – Handy little tutorial that shows me how to setup my 3 (Three) 3G dongle "correctly" under OS X

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  • Is This Your Paper On Single Serving Sites? – A SSS containing paper on SSS. Quite an interesting read actually.
  • More of London from above, at night – The Big Picture – Boston.com – Gorgeous photos from London from above.
  • Listable – Handy list of lists, with code to import into MySQL, JSON, PHP, etc
  • passive-aggressive (and just plain aggressive) notes — no, your mother doesn’t work here – Brilliant site filled with photos of passive aggressive notes. I should write a few of these for my housemates.
  • How I Made a 1,474-Megapixel Photo During President Obama’s Inaugural Address – Awesome photo!

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  • Deep inside the Windows 7 Public Beta: an in-depth tour – Interesting article on thevarious major changes in the Windows 7 UI. I have to agree that most of it is for the better.
  • Apartment Therapy – Interesting blog on apartments and interior design.
  • Alex Payne | How I Use TextMate – Handy little list of bundles for TextMate
  • Kohana TextMate Bundle – I will find this very useful at work!
  • Facebook Makes Its Markup Extensible – ReadWriteWeb – This is really cool!
  • Photoshop Tutorials – Lomography | Photo Effects | Photoshop Tutorials | all-pages – Interesting article on how to make Lomography photos from you digital camera.
  • cowfish » Films for 2009 – Cowfish joined us in our IMDB Top 250 challenge!
  • Cappuccino Web Framework – Build Desktop Class Applications in Objective-J and JavaScript – I really need to have a look at this one day

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  • simonmaddox's codeigniter-twitter – Simon made a nice library to support Twitter under Code Igniter. We use Kohana at work and it also seems to work with that. Great! Thanks Simon!
  • Secret Santa Online Gift Exchange Organizer – I needed this site a few weeks back!
  • Go2Web20.net – The complete Web 2.0 sites directory – Even includes tipit.to!
  • fluffy.jpg 324×462 pixels – The destroyer of worlds
  • Adactio: Journal—Iron Man and me – One of Jeremy Keith's photos was used in the Iron Man movie. Very very cool! Wish any of my photos was ever used like that.

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  • Burn-E, bonus for Wall-E – Pure genius!
  • Businesses warming up to the iPhone – On of my street photography photos has been used in this CNET article. Yey me!
  • What Really Happened – Wonder what really happened yesterday in the US? This happened!
  • The real G1 experience and what the industry can learn – A quick walkthrough of how bad the G1 experience has been for some.
  • @font-face in IE: Making Web Fonts Work — Jon Tan 陳 – Custom fonts in CSS in IE. Interesting!

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  • Typocalypse – What does a font say about you?
  • How To Build A Facebook Application – Handy tutorial by Gareth on how to build your first Facebook App. Takes you through most details that others omit.
  • KavaMovies –
  • PalinAsPresident.com – Hilarious flash page that shows what Palin would do in the white house as the president.
  • In Defense of Piracy – WSJ.com – Lawrence Lessig explains what;s wrong with copyright, and how he can't blame the pirates for everything.

    • Originally posted on Cristiano on Tech/Life - My Bookmarks For October 27th – October 31st

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  • Understanding CSS positioning part 2 • CSS & (X)HTML • Kilian Valkhof – Interesting article by Kilian Valkhof on positioning in CSS
  • Call the expert: A refactoring story – A 5 part story on how to do refractoring, and what to refractor, in an average symfony project.
  • Amplified 08 Network of Networks – Great new meetup for all the networks in London. Still in the works though.
  • Remote TextMate Projects – Want to work directly in textmate with files on a remote server? How about using MacFuse and MacFusion to solve your problems. Actually a good solution for many more problems, but this is definitely one of them.
  • CSS Table – Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong – Interesting little article about CSS tables. Quite interesting as IE8 will be the last and most important browser to support it. Unfortunately still not usable because so many people will stick with the browser they have.

    • Originally posted on Cristiano on Tech/Life - My Bookmarks For October 24th – October 26th

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  • Paul Downey :: On The Vanity of Demanding Attribution – PSD has a nice article on the vanity of demanding attribution for your work. It includes some references to my "problem" with the BBC last week when they published my photos without any proper attribution. I left an interesting comment that sparked some new ideas.
  • BBC NEWS | Technology | Girls geek out over dinner – BBC article about the Girl Geek Dinners. Includes two photos by me! They forgot the attribution though. Hope they fix it soon.
  • Travis Lopes – Website Designer & Developer – Interesting little manual on how to download the CS4 trial from the Adobe website. Password to the page is "msjstw"
  • Apple fires back at Microsoft Windows campaign | 9 to 5 Mac – The new I'm a Mac ad is pretty good.
  • XKCD Cartoon-Off – Great little article by the New Yorker where the author is having a cartoon-off with the creator of the XKCD comic

    • Originally posted on Cristiano on Tech/Life - My Bookmarks For October 18th – October 24th

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  • Special message to BBC Backstage from the Diggnation guys – Only noticed this message from Kevin and Alex today.
  • Downloadable iPlayer comes to all platforms – Unfortunately through Abobe Air, but still better than nothing. Wish there was a AppleTV plugin though!
  • Science News / Seeing In Four Dimensions – Want to be able to think in 4D? Now you can with this video documentary.
  • The eyeballing game – Nice little game to test your visual perception of geometric objects
  • Gearman – queuing for pros

    • Originally posted on Cristiano on Tech/Life - My Bookmarks For October 9th – October 17th

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  • UK Income Tax Calculator – Magical income tax calculator for the UK. Quite handy in my search for a job.
  • Economics and Annoying Smart Guys – great movie of a guy going nuts about the US economy
  • John Resig – Color Profiles in Firefox 3 – Apparently FF does not do proper color profiles by default, making my images look different in Safari than in Firefox! This little trick explains how to turn them on.
  • Shatner Hasselhoff '08 Presidential Election Campaign Blog – Shatner and Hasselhoff for presidency, hell yeah!
  • WordPress › Exclude Pages « WordPress Plugins –

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  • Popular Websites Vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery Attacks | Freedom to Tinker – You would be amazed how little developers know about CSRF attacks and more precisely, how to protect against them.
  • CSS Systems for writing maintainable CSS | Natalie Downe – Nat wrote a great presentation on CSS Systems, a way for writing maintainable CSS
  • Super Mario Rescues The Princess: Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade – Hilarious video of what happens when Super Mario meets the princess.
  • I’m a PC too… touché – Mac's are PCs too, as we can see in this "I'm a PC"-remix
  • DjangoCon 2008 Keynote: Cal Henderson – Ridiculously funny keynote by Cal Henderson at DjangoCon about why he hates Django
  • Terminal Tips: Make extended print dialog show by default – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) – Just something I always wish Mac OS X did by default: show the full print dialog.

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  • Goon City – The biggest pixel art city on earth. I can look at this for hours!
  • Fluke: iFLAC your Mac – I handy little app that helps you import Flac (lossless audio) into itunes.
  • iPhoneModem, Internet for Mac und iPhone – Nice little app that will help you to use your iPhones mobile broadband on your Mac. Not quite flawless yet but with a bit of experience it does seem to do the trick.
  • Tip: scp Resume – My broadband at home sucks big time sometimes, failing SCP transfers, etc. This little tip is a handy thing when you want to resume a SCP transfer.
  • Chrome-fed Googasm bares tech pundit futility | The Register – Very funny post from the Register on the "Orgy of Fail" that happens when incompetent fucks like TechCrunch's Michael Arrington get to describe something remotely technical like Google Chrome
  • Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser –
  • London from above, at night – Gorgeous photo album of London from above, at night.
  • McCain is a Cylon? – Pretty sure now about it. Via DanW.
  • A List Apart: Articles: Paper Prototyping – Another great article by ALA
  • Traffic Shaping –

    • Originally posted on Cristiano on Tech/Life - My Bookmarks For August 21st – September 14th

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  • You Can't Picture This // Current – Even cops are confused about what you are allowed to video/photograph or not in the UK
  • The Blogadilla Ikea Furniture Name Generator – What can I say… it takes your name…. and turns it into an IKEA name
  • MyMuesli.com – A web2.0 online muesli ordering company. You don't make it up.
  • Alexander Martinez – Artists Digital Edition Portfolio – I just found the site of the artist that does most of the murals in our neighbourhood. I hadn't realized home many of them were all his. HAve a look at his work.
  • Avant Game: Memories of a Dead Seer: Werewolf at Foocamp08! – A nice story on Werewolf. Most interestingly it has a nice theory on the optimal strategy for a healer/seer game.

    • Originally posted on Cristiano on Tech/Life - My Bookmarks For August 10th – August 21st

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  • RetouchPRO Tutorials >> Remove Photopaper Texture From Old Photos – I used this tutorial to remove some photo paper texture from an old photo
  • MOO MiniCards and Me : 「晴れ」の話と「貼れる」お話。 – Someone in China (or is it Japan) used my photo of my stickered notebook in a Moo related post
  • 50 stunning HDR Photography — Techypedia – 50 nice hDR photos, including one of mine on #3!
  • Pictures from the No Heroics Screening  – Someone already made a No Heroics fan-site and used my photos in a post
  • Lenses For Hire – Finally found a UK Lens-hire shop. Doesn't stock the lens I want though, and the shipment is quite expensive. Does anyone know one in London?

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  • Yahoo! Design Pattern Library – The design pattern library is fairly useful if you don't want to reinvent the wheel. I've used quite a few things from this already.
  • ruckusing – Google Code – A simple framework to write database migrations. If only it could tie in with Propel.
  • iPhone style icon tutorial « Jotlet Developer Blog – Handy little tutorial on how to make an iPhone icon
  • famfamfam.com: Silk Icons –
  • A List Apart: Articles: Walking the Line When You Work from Home – handy little article on how to work from home. Something I've been looking at because I'm also working from home

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  • Mac users: Disable iPhone backup for faster sync – Getting annoyed with your iphone doing a 60 minute backup. Turn the backups off! Not the best solution but it might be the best for now.
  • A Video A Day: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture – Neil Stephenson on science fiction and culture.
  • You out of your fucking misery yet? – great little 12 minute short about a post apocalyptic zombie world.
  • The Silicon Roundabout – Want to know what the Silicon Valley of London is? Well, it's called the silicon roundabout! Apparently all mayor startups are located near this one place in London.
  • Bedpost – Keep track of what bed you spend time in and what you "did" there.

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  • 16 Actors & Actresses Who Never Saw Their Last Movie – I think the title speaks for itself
  • FindSounds – Search the Web for Sounds – A handy site full of little sounds. useful for video editing.
  • The Periodic Table of Videos – University of Nottingham – Interesting site with the periodic table of elements, explained with little videos. Great education 2.0 stuff.
  • A iPhone Dev-Team member spills his frustrations about Zibri (another iPhone jailbreak developer) –
  • RSA – Sir Ken Robinson – Yet another interesting talk by Sir Ken Robinson on the state of the world, education, and creativity

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  • Is Neil Annoyed By? – Ever wondered what Neil is annoyed by? CHeck it out now!
  • Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos meet "Ginger" – HBS Working Knowledge – interesting piece on how Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos perceive the first pitch of the Segway
  • symfony | Web PHP Framework | Blog | symfony 1.2 roadmap – Symfony 1.1 has only been out for a few weeks, and already is there talk about a 1.2 release. Target us set for October.
  • Tipit Lets You Transfer Money Over Twitter. Sort of. – washingtonpost.com – Tipit got mentioned in its own article, both on TechCrunch and WashingtonPost. Very cool!
  • Redo The Web » Is symfony 1.1 too verbose? – A very good question: is Symfony 1.1 too verbose? It is definitely more verbose than 1.0

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  • Chess boxers slug it out – Who would have thought chess-boxing was a real sport
  • The Machine That Changed the World: Great Brains – Waxy.org occasionally posts old abandoned video's to the web. This time it's time for a legendary documentary of the computer industry. Great watch.
  • Photographing Squirrels – Probably one of the funniest squirrel photo sets ever.
  • Jyri testing the iPhone vs some Nokia phones while I'm drinking beer in the background –
  • Handling Keyboard Shortcuts in JavaScript – A little piece of JS that allows you to create shortcuts. Handy for those instances where you want to access some JS, or pages with long urls in your site with one little keypress.

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  • My Little Underground – The Online Shoppe of Christopher David Ryan / Atmostheory – Posters based on Apple shortcuts
  • Geek And Poke: Two Takes On Data Portability – Very funny comic which today focusses on DP.
  • How To Make a Bookmarklet For Your Web Application – A few more interesting tips on how to make a bookmarklet. Might use this one day if I ever want to make another one again.
  • Software Above the Level of a Single Device – O'Reilly Radar – Tim O'Reilly has written down what I've been explaining to so many people lately: phones should be lightweight clients which can be managed perfectly from heavyweight clients.
  • What is a logo but the brand – Nice list of logos with the wrong brand names associated to them Very interesting.

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  • Kid666 Blog » The Geek affinity with Green – Tom Hughes-Croucher has a nice article up on Geeks being Green. Great inspiration for my BCL4 talk.
  • Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: abstract pointillist – Nice set of powerpoint base-artwork that I can use for future presentations
  • Make a Footer Stick to the Bottom of the Page – Great little piece of code for having a footer stick to the bottom of the page. Not what I used it for but mainly solved some other issues I had.
  • Wired's Geekster Handbook, a Field Guide to the Nerd Underground – Interesting short article on the different type of geeks. Not very true or complete, but funny nevertheless.
  • FeedShaver – MarkNG made an interesting app during the telegraph developer weekend

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  • DAA to ISO Converter for OS X – Nifty little program that converts .daa files into ISO files. Perfect for when you accidentally downloaded a .daa file
  • PHP function for displaying relative dates in a human readable format – Cool little function that gives you these nice web2 date formats like "2 days ago" from a random timestamp
  • UK geek venues – Handy little site with loads of venues that can be used for geek events.
  • How to correctly insert a Flash into XHTML – Sounds simple right? Well, not that much. Good thing this site has written down how to do it properly.
  • Simon Maddox – Simon has started blogging and he already mentioned the geek dinner site twice!

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  • Ooze Risotteria – Just found a very nice italian place through google by searching for "Risotto Restaurant London". They seem to have free wifi so we WILL be checking it out soon.
  • Twitter Twerp Scanner – A nice scanner for twitter that helps you get rid of those twerps with a million following and no followers.
  • Vimeo has some Terms and Conditions issues – I was reading the Forum on Vimeo when I ran into this little issue with the Vimeo Terms and Conditions
  • Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes – A couple of very common typography mistakes that I didn't know about
  • Free Sound Effects, Royalty Free Sound Effects, Nature Sounds – I found some royalty free sound effect files that we might be able to use for the next swedes

    • Originally posted on Cristiano on Tech/Life - My Bookmarks For April 19th – April 23rd

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  • 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….

    • Originally posted on Cristiano on Tech/Life - My Bookmarks For April 13th – April 19th

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  • 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.

    • Originally posted on Cristiano on Tech/Life - My Bookmarks For March 28th – April 13th

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  • Final Fantasy vs. Dead or Alive: Round 2 – Wow, this some very nice piece of fan-fiction. It looks like machinima but it is actually all made from scratch.
  • OOP Concept explained: Polymorphism (Technology) – NSFW explanation of Polymorphism in programming. I think this is how Reinier would explain it if he was in a pissed off mood.
  • ABC 3D – A brilliant ABC-popup book. It's a masterwork.
  • Video: "How to Speak" – Interesting lecture on how to speak. I totally agree with he video.
  • Places near you – WikiNear is a very cool idea that would really fit into my idea for Over The Air.

    • Originally posted on Cristiano on Tech/Life - My Bookmarks For March 24th – March 28th

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  • MyPCTV sound and the Hafler Principle – getting good quality surround sound on a budget. – broadstuff – Interesting article on how you can turn 4 speakers and a cheap stereo amp into a nice surround set. Might do this one day. I like living on a budget.
  • The trouble with Steve – interesting article on Steve Jobs and the danger he poses to investors.
  • Data Portability: Reasonable Goal or Impossible Dream? – Nice article by PC world but I don't like the title because it puts DP in a black/white perspective. I would really like to have people see the DP initiative in a more interesting way and see the potential it has to make things better.
  • Sniff browser history for improved user experience – Use css and javascript to sniff what services a visitor uses in order to show them their favorite openid provider login, social bookmarking button, etc.
  • How To Solve A Rubik's Cube – I always wanted to know how to solve a rubiks cube and now I do. Next step: get a rubiks cube.

    • Originally posted on Cristiano on Tech/Life - My Bookmarks For March 23rd – March 24th

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  • Attention Profiling: APML Beginner's Guide – A good read for when you want to know what APML is.
  • Wax On, Wax Off? – Very funny story that melinda reposted from a different blog. Even I as a guy had to laugh about this.
  • picoformats – Microformats – This stuff is really cool. I feel like wanting to do something cool with Picoformats!
  • Our Bad. Wired Had Some Tips For Apple — We Were Wrong. – Wired admits that they were wrong on some of the tips they gave apple in 1997, when Apple was on their all-time low and about to go bust.
  • Down for everyone or just me? – Want to know if a website is just down for you or also for everyone else? This little site helps you with that.

    • Originally posted on Cristiano on Tech/Life - My Bookmarks For March 19th – March 21st

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  • Barcamp Brighton 2 (Yahoo! Developer Network blog) – Neil Crosby wrote an interesting writeup of BarcampBrighton2. He even mentioned Uncricket!
  • cbetta – Twitter Stats – Did a quick stats of my twitter messages. Nothing particularly interesting.
  • DeliciousSafari –
  • 12 Future Apps For Your iPhone – An interesting article with some interesting ideas, but with some apps I can't see why they would have more reason for success on the iPhone than previous devices. Especially the business cards app.
  • New Principles for a New Economy – Alper has an interesting article up on the Tipit blog about voluntary economics. Will be a major inspiration for my BarcampBrighton2 talk tomorrow.

    • Originally posted on Cristiano on Tech/Life - My Bookmarks For March 15th – March 18th

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  • Quick, Dirty, Cheap API in symfony – Mark NG had a little article up on how to build a quick API on top of existing controllers. Very handy indeed
  • Simon Maddox's Upcoming-to-Flickr script (using Fire Eagle) – I think the title says it all.
  • Portable contact lists and the case against XFN – Messina has a nice article up about the over complexity of XFN and suggests promoting a simpler subset of Contact List Portability instead.
  • Lawrence Lessig's Final Lecture on Free Culture, January 31st 2008, Stanford University – Professor Lawrence Lessig's final lecture on free culture. Very interesting and very encompassing of all he has been talking about all these years.
  • Fire Eagle Launches – I am a bit late but this video of Tom Coates presenting FireEagle is definitely worth watching if you wonder what FireEagle is.
  • Video Presentation: A Software Platform History of Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and into the Future. — RoughlyDrafted Magazine – Daniel Eran Dilger had an interesting talk in Dallas on the history and future of Apple. The video quality is a bit like our Geek Dinner videos, but still worth watching.

    • Originally posted on Cristiano on Tech/Life - My Bookmarks For March 11th – March 12th

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