Skype includes an option to poll the online status from a username, and that is what I use for the online status display on the sidebar here. Since I want the plain text version (and not all caps like the one Skype offers), I used this code in a k2 php module: PLAIN TEXT PHP: $status = file_get_contents("http://mystatus.skype.com/lindsve.num"); switch($status) [...]
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It appears that Google has a launch frenzy for Mac OS X these days. Last week they released Google Video Player, a video player for watching videos downloaded from Google Video. I can't say I have found the great usefulness of this app yet, but maybe it will come to me later. Yesterday, they released [...]
The publishing platform which I use for this site, WordPress, have now been updated to v2.0.3. This is a bug fix and security release, and is recommended for all WordPress users. They’ve also backported a number of security enhancements from 2.1 to further enhance and protect sites using the engine, including small performance enhancements. Mark Jaquith [...]
Allan Odegaard, the developer of TextMate, has put up a great post about the advantages of Unicode. I must say that this is mandatory reading for those who are producing text files (especially html), and still are unaware of the benefits from using Unicode. You can read the full post here. Technorati Tags: unicode, textmate, [...]
[Extreme] MacZot giving away free copies of SubEthaEdit (hopefully)
Published April 25th, 2006 in Personal and Web. 0 CommentsLast month I had a post about MacZOT and their BlogZot offer to AppZapper. Today they are doing it again with BlogZot 2.0, and this time it's the collaborative text editor SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys which is in the cheap stakes. Together MacZot and CodingMonkeys will award a total of $105,000 (!) in software licenses. That is [...]
