links for 2009-12-26

Parselets.com > Home
The idea: a language & clearinghouse for free, shareable APIs allowing data extraction from sites that don't offer a native API.
(tags: web API web2.0 programming)

Slammer - Designer's Geometry Box
Interesting, inexpensive design tool for Mac OS X - grids, rulers, measurements, magnifier.
(tags: design mac software tools webdesign)

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links for 2009-12-22

RegExr: Online Regular Expression Testing Tool
This RegEx Buddy-like tool looks like it's well thought out and could be quite useful.
(tags: web programming regex tool)

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links for 2009-12-16

OECD Broadband Portal
"Access to a range of broadband-related statistics gathered by the OECD" including penetration, price, botnets, coverage, service offer. Useful
(tags: oecd internet broadband economics)

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links for 2010-02-04

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• DNS Pre-fetch Exposure on Thunderbird and Webmail | Mike Cardwell on the Internet
  Thunderbird, IMP, Roundcube as well as Hotmail and Gmail (when still in http mode) perform a DNS lookup on all hostnames in URLs inside the message - regardless of format or whether image display is on or not. As Justin Mason wrote, this is a very bad idea.
  (tags: web email security spam dns privacy)

chris @ February 5, 2010

links for 2010-02-03

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• DNS Pre-fetch Exposure on Thunderbird and Webmail | Mike Cardwell on the Internet
  Thunderbird, IMP, Roundcube as well as Hotmail and Gmail (when still in http mode) perform a DNS lookup on all hostnames in URLs inside the message - regardless of format or whether image display is on or not. As Justin Mason wrote, this is a very bad idea.
  (tags: web email security spam dns privacy)
• Learning from 10 yrs of Bugzilla data « commonspace
  Diederik van Liere, a postdoctoral researcher, analyzes Bugzilla data (for Firefox and Thunderbird) for patterns concerning community size and bugfixing patterns.
  (tags: programming video opensource software bugs)

chris @ February 4, 2010

links for 2010-02-02

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• jQTouch — jQuery plugin for mobile web development
  jQTouch is a jQuery plugin that simplifies making HTML/CSS/Javascript web applications for the iPhone/iPod Touch.
  (tags: plugin javascript library jquery programming web mobile)
• PhoneGap | Cross platform mobile framework
  PhoneGap is an open-source framework that turns web apps (HTML/CSS/Javascript) into native mobile phone applications (iPhone, Android, Blackberry), giving access to phone features such as accelerometer, geolocation etc.
  (tags: sdk webapp development opensource)

chris @ February 3, 2010

links for 2010-01-03

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• How to Make Stop-Motion Video Shorts with Your Digital Camera | Photojojo
  This was the only article I found about making stop-motion (and therefore time-lapse) videos using Apple's iMovie.
  (tags: tutorial video photography stop-motion timelapse)
• Programmer-art.org | FFmpeg Time Lapse
  Time-lapse photography using ffmpeg - step by step. Very useful.
  (tags: tutorial video timelapse ffmpeg)
• GIVE [dive into mark]
  Mark Pilgrim's "gentle introduction to video encoding". As usual with his stuff, it's excellent. Explains the most common container formats, lossy video and audio codecs, tools, and links to further reference material.
  (tags: video audio codecs tutorial)

chris @ January 4, 2010

links for 2010-01-02

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• 2009, the year in spam
  Good, and not even entirely US-centric, round-up. Some interesting events I had already forgotten.
  (tags: blog spam 2009)
• Martin Setvak:  Time-lapse photography of clouds
  Beautiful collection of high-quality time-lapse videos, mostly taken with Ricoh compact cameras. Tutorial for shooting and video assembly (Windows platform) using free or inexpensive tools. English & Czech.
  (tags: photography video time-lapse tutorial)

chris @ January 3, 2010

links for 2010-01-01

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• dpaste.com
  A particularly nice pastebin. Written in Python/Django.
  (tags: programming tools django web pastebin)

chris @ January 2, 2010

links for 2009-12-28

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• Slips of the Tongue - by Marissa Brostoff > Tablet Magazine - A New Read on Jewish Life
  Good article about an interesting sociolinguistic investigation: What terms and pronunciations do American Jewish people use for various religious and non-religious items and concepts, and how does it correlate with their place on the religious spectrum, age, and other social markers.
  (tags: linguistics sociolinguistics judaism USA)
• Organizing the flow of the workflow - Aperture Users Network
  Tips for workflow organisation with Apple Aperture.
  (tags: Apple Aperture software tips)

chris @ December 29, 2009