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Name: Cristiano Gerard Betta

Email: cbetta@gmail.com

Dutch/Italian, London based web developer, geek, student, photographer and blogger.

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Alper Çuğun: You mean the Blackr bookmarklet? http://blackr.net/
Andraz Tori: Creating the best possible ’smart authoring’ tool! Basing monetization on the fact we...
Andraz Tori: Hi, as Jure already said, this is exactly the direction we are working in. However there are...
Jure Cuhalev: That’s actually what next version of Zemanta will support, out in September Seeing this...
Alcides Fonseca: I know it’s not the same thing, but take a look at Jeremy Keith’s machine tags:...
Martijn Bleeker: Nice solution to a familiar problem. I tried doing this through a ssh tunnel. Which has the...
Richard: I would agree with Mchilly, but a very good attempt. Try reducing the opacity or saturatation of the...
http://one-size-fits-one.blogspot.com/: Great comparison of these two brands and what makes them stand out. I...
Mchilly: The clothes looks good but I doubt the face, it was over retouch I think.
Simon Maddox: I have a 60GB drive that you can borrow, if you want!

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My Bookmarks For April 19th - April 23rd

Posted on April 24th, 2008

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

My Bookmarks For April 13th - April 19th

Posted on April 19th, 2008

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….

My Bookmarks For March 28th - April 13th

Posted on April 13th, 2008

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.

My Bookmarks For March 24th - March 28th

Posted on March 28th, 2008

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.

My Bookmarks For March 23rd - March 24th

Posted on March 24th, 2008

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.

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