Category: Software
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Turn your Mac OS Photos library into a Web photo album
Six years ago, I released iPhoto Disc Export, a tool for exporting an iPhoto library as a standalone website. Now that iPhoto is no longer supported on the newest versions of Mac OS, I was force to update the software to work with Photos. Enter Photos Disc Export. Photos Disc Export is a a PHP…
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Introducing Reenact: an app for reenacting photos
Here’s an idea that I’ve been thinking about for a long time: a camera app for your phone that helps you reenact old photos, like those seen in Ze Frank’s “Young Me Now Me” project. For example, this picture that my wife took with her brother, sister, and childhood friend: Reenacting photographs from your youth,…
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Convert iChat transcripts to (useable) XML
iChat (a.k.a. Messages) doesn’t store its chat logs in a format that can be (easily) parsed outside of iChat, so if you want to use your chat data for anything, you’ll need to convert those logs to something better. (Anything would be better. Even AIM’s <FONT>-ridden HTML 3 is more useful than iChat’s binary plists.)…
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URL Fixer Has Been Acquired
They made me an offer I didn’t refuse.
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7 ways to be a better developer
Over the past few months, I’ve been thinking about ways to become a better software developer, specifically in terms of Firefox extension development. I’m listing the ways that I came up with here; most of it can be generalized to the development of any end-user facing program or application, but I wrote it with extension…
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WAMP! BAM! POW!
This morning, I needed to troubleshoot an error that was occurring in my Feed Statistics plugin when running on a Windows machine as well as under PHP 5. Since I normally do all of my development in *nix environments, I didn’t have such an environment readily available. Having installed Apache, MySQL, and PHP on Windows…
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Netscape Navigator 9.0 Beta Released
The long national nightmare is over: the beta of Netscape Navigator 9.0 has finally been released to the public. Read the official announcement here. Read a more informal introduction to the browser here. Download it here. Read the release notes here. Discuss it here.
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Twits Like Me
Everybody and their mother has written a Twitter-based app, but I haven’t seen any so far that try and help you find other Twitterers that you’d find interesting, so I made one. It’s called “Twits Like Me” – just enter your Twitter screenname in the search box, and the Twits Like Me search engine will…
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New browser extension: AutoAuth
AutoAuth is an extension for Mozilla-based Web browsers that automatically submits HTTP authentication dialogs when you’ve chosen to have the browser save your login information. (If you’ve already told the browser what your username and password are, and you’ve told it to remember that username and password, why not just have it automatically submit it…
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ScribeFire 1.4.0.1 Released
ScribeFire 1.4.0.1 is now available for download from Mozilla Addons. Changes since version 1.4 include: Spanish translation Support for special characters in Blogger passwords (as mentioned here) Added detailed error messages for when adding a Blogger account fails (ScribeFire, previously named “Performancing for Firefox,” is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and…
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ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) Updated
Version 1.4 of Performancing for Firefox has been released, and in the process, it has been rebranded as ScribeFire. The homepage has moved as well, from Performancing.com to ScribeFire.com. Besides the name change, this release includes the following changes: Support for Blogger blogs has been improved (now you can even post with ampersands!) We’ve added…
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Sorry, Austria
Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ I’ve updated URL Fixer to version 1.3.1; new features since 1.3 are a Czech translation and a fix so that it no longer tries to correct www.orf.at (a popular Austrian news site) to www.org.at (not a popular Austrian news site). You can install or…
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Greencode WordPress Theme Update (0.4)
I’ve updated the Greencode WordPress theme (which I’m using on my site) to version 0.4. Since version 0.3, I’ve added a a custom view for the Nintendo Wii (screenshot below), refined the tag cloud, and fixed a few miscellaneous bugs. You can download the newest version from the Greencode homepage.
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ScribeFire Development
FYI: I’ve been hired to continue the development of the Performancing for Firefox extension (soon to be rebranded as ScribeFire), so I’ll be posting about its progress occasionally.
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Feed subscribers
Now that Google Reader is reporting the number of users subscribed to a feed, I can finally tell that there are 35 people using Google Reader to read my feed. I wouldn’t have thought that 35 people *total* subscribed to my feed, but judging by what the other user-agents are reporting, about 50 people use…
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Top 100 Update
I just wanted to post that, despite some, ahem, setbacks, the Digg Top Users list is still being updated daily and is as accurate as ever.