Posted on June 23rd, 2008
It seems Flickr made some interface changes, which broke my Vimeo bookmarklet. I changed the code and all is fine again. The new bookmarklet can still be found in the old post, but here is the new bookmarklet for those to lazy to click.
Posted on April 30th, 2008
I have recently fallen in love with 1Password to solve loads of my password issues. The product has been out their for a while already, but some things recently changed that make this the perfect product for me. The goal of 1Password is to help you remember your logins for websites under 1 password, including helping you create new accounts on sites by letting you define certain identities (introduction video).
All of this feels a lot like what OpenID providers like to solve, and I honestly still love OpenID when possible, but for me the reason to use 1Password comes from a totally different direction: the iPhone. Entering login forms with your extra secure password on the iPhone can be an pain in the ass, so in comes 1Password that allows you to securely sync your login forms to a bookmarklet on your iPhone. Then, on the iPhone you simply go to a login form, run the bookmarklet, enter your PIN and login with the account you select.
1Password is only $34.95 and definitely worth the money for people who have either an iPhone, or any other reason why they can’t remember their passwords.
Posted on April 19th, 2008
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.
Posted on April 14th, 2008
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.
Posted on April 7th, 2008
Update: It seems that my bookmarklet did not work in every browser, as Flick renders the sets differently in different browsers. I updated the code and it should now work.
As I was playing with Vimeo for the video of the Torchwood Swede, I ran into an issue that needed a bookmarklet to solve it. I have never made a bookmarklet, but now here it is.
The problem was that when you want to add photos to a Vimeo video all it accepts is a comma separated list of either URLs or Flickr Photo IDs. I already had made a set on Flickr of the photos I wanted to add and adding all those 18 URLs by hand was just too much work
So I got thinking: why not make a bookmarklet that gets all the links of the images in the set from the page, and outputs them to the user as a comma separated list? Although I have never done something like this before, it only took me a few minutes to build this and the result is the following link.
Using it is very easy. Just drag the bookmarklet into your bookmarks-bar. Now when you want to add all the photos from a set to your Vimeo photo, go to the phoo set on Flickr and click on the bookmarklet. This will give youa popup with a long code of text. Copy and paste that text into your Vimeo text boxx for photos and submit.
The code has a few small issues. First of it returns URLs, not Flickr Photo IDs. This doesn’t really matter but it would be more human-readable maybe. Secondly it doesn’t catch if it is on a Flickr site at all. I might change that in the future but probably won’t. If you want to make your own edit, you can download the source from here.
To make this bookmarklet I used some code from this site, and this little tool helped me out to compress the code.
