http://blog.cristianobetta.com Wed, 14 May 2008 03:03:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/05/14/my-bookmarks-for-may-5th-may-14th/ A couple of things recently got me thinking about how green I'm living and mainly how green others are living. I don't feel like I'm polluting as much as some others do, but without any real comparison it's fairly hard to determine, right? So I decided to start my own ... http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/05/05/how-green-are-you/ So I got to see Iron Man last friday with a load of movie buffs/comic geeks, and even though I am not that much of a comic geek, which would make this look like yet another comic book adaptation. But, I have to admit: I....LOVED.... IT!!!! Iron Man is a funny, ... http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/05/04/movie-review-iron-man/ 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 ... http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/05/03/my-bookmarks-for-april-25th-may-3rd/ Czeers is a startup by a former house mate David Czap and a friend of his. What do they make? Solarboats! Based on the winning race boat of the 2005 Nuon solar boat challenge, these boats feature a unique design with zero emissions. Oh, yeah, and they are fast (see video ... http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/04/30/czeers-solarboats/ 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 ... http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/04/30/appdate-12-1password/ Melinda just did a "8 Things You Didn't Know About Me" and tagged "anyone who read the article" to feel free to do their own version. Admittedly I do read her blog and so here I am writing my own list of 8 things you probably didn't know about me. ... http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/04/30/8-things-you-didnt-know-about-me-tagging-meme/ So today quite a few people got pissed of at the BarcampLondon4 organizers for royally screwing hem over. What happened? A few weeks ago during the registration for first batch of tickets the ticket registration "accidentally" opened an hour before it was supposed to, greatly disappointing me and a few others who ... http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/04/25/my-2-cents-on-the-barcamplondon4-signup-fiasco/ 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 ... http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/04/24/my-bookmarks-for-april-19th-april-23rd/ 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 ... http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/04/19/my-bookmarks-for-april-13th-april-19th/ 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 ... http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/04/19/appdate-11-niceplayer/ 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 ... http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/04/14/geek-dinner-irc-channel/ 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. Related articles No Video on Flickr Movement Gains More Momentum [via Zemanta] Flickr has video [via Zemanta] Vimeo designer says Flickr ... http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/04/14/screencast-of-the-vimeoflickr-photo-set-bookmarklet/ 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 ... http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/04/13/my-bookmarks-for-march-28th-april-13th/ 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 ... http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/04/07/the-vimeo-flickr-set-photos-for-vimeo-bookmarklet/ Some of you by now might have seen this video I made with some friends by now, but I felt that there might be some need to explain how this video came about. For those who haven't seen the video yet, here is it once more. The "Over The Air" conference ... http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/04/07/the-torchwood-swede-story/ A special "Over The Air" production of Torchwood, by the OTA-sweding crew. http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/04/05/torchwood-sweded/ We "lost" the previous Geek Dinner website (archive.org still has some of it) because we never managed to get our hands on the files and the database after the server went down. So for a while we had a vanilla Wordpress blog which didn't really represent the Geek Dinner heritage. So with ... http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/03/29/geekdinnercouk-redesign/ Time for yet another London Geek Dinner, this time with special guest David Terrar, who will talk about "Creativity". The talk will focus on creativity and how the current education system is broke, designed for a 19th century industrial age, and how web2.0 tools can improve creativity. We haven't found a ... http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/03/29/london-geek-dinner-with-david-terrar-monday-7th-of-april/ Alper and Eelke made a little video, explaining what Tipit.to does, for a competition that might get them some tickets for The Next Web conference in Amsterdam next week. The video is only in Dutch for the moment (English version coming after the weekend) but I couldn't stop myself from ... http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/03/28/255/