Tag Archive for 'Web'

Skype – Online status

Published on August 12, 2006. 0 Comments Tags: , .

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:
  1. $status = file_get_contents("http://mystatus.skype.com/lindsve.num");
  2. switch($status) {
  3.     case 0:
  4.         $message = "Unknown";
  5.         break;
  6.     case 1:
  7.       $message = "Offline";
  8.       break;
  9.     case 2:
  10.         $message = "Online";
  11.         break;
  12.     case 3:
  13.         $message = "Away";
  14.         break;
  15.     case 4:
  16.         $message = "Not Available";
  17.         break;
  18.     case 5:
  19.         $message = "Do Not Disturb";
  20.         break;
  21.     case 6:
  22.         $message = "Invisible";
  23.         break;
  24.     case 7:
  25.         $message = "Skype Me";
  26.         break;
  27. }
  28. echo "<p>$message</p>";

If you know of any easier way, please drop a line in the comments!

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So…is Google SketchUp free?

Published on June 13, 2006. 0 Comments Tags: .

It appears that [Google](http://www.google.com) has a launch frenzy for Mac OS X these days. Last week they released [Google Video Player](http://video.google.com/playerdownload), a video player for watching videos downloaded from [Google Video](http://video.google.com/). 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 a couple of other goodies, including an update to [Google Earth](http://earth.google.com/) for Mac and [Google SketchUp](http://sketchup.google.com/) for Mac. The latest release of Google Earth features integration with SketchUp (which Google purchased a while ago, and this is the first Google branded version of this app since the purchase), and as such I decided to download that too and try it out.

I must say though, is it really necessary to emphasize _(Free)_ as much as they do during installation? Take a look at the screenshot below, and see how many times they actually state that it is free...

![Google SketchUp](http://www.lindsve.net/uploads/2006/06/sketchup.png)

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WordPress updated

Published on June 2, 2006. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

The publishing platform which I use for this site, [WordPress](http://www.wordpress.org), 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 has [posted a zip-file](http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/wordpress-203-upgrade-changed-files-zip-changes-diff-changed-files-list/) with changed files only, so that the update process is a lot faster. I have now updated this site, and it took me only a few seconds.

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Why use Unicode?

Published on May 27, 2006. 2 Comments Tags: .

Allan Odegaard, the developer of [TextMate](http://macromates.com), has put up a great post about the advantages of [Unicode](http://www.unicode.org/). 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](http://macromates.com/blog/archives/2005/09/18/handling-encodings-utf-8/).

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[Extreme] MacZot giving away free copies of SubEthaEdit (hopefully)

Published on April 25, 2006. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Last month I had a [post][mypost] about [MacZOT](http://maczot.com) and their BlogZot offer to [AppZapper](http://appzapper.com/). Today they are doing it again with [BlogZot 2.0][bz], and this time it's the collaborative text editor [SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys][sub] which is in the cheap stakes.

[mypost]: http://www.lindsve.net/2006/04/03/appzapper-offer-at-maczotcom/
[bz]: http://maczot.com/
[sub]: http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/

Together MacZot and CodingMonkeys will award a total of $105,000 (!) in software licenses. That is huge, and I would recommend all of you Mac users to go to their sites and check out this great offer.

I have occasionally used this editor, and although I find it to be a good text editor it is the collaborative features which I find most appealing when it comes to this peace of software. To be able to do live collaborative editing together with your friends/colleagues is a definitely winner!

So what's the catch? Nothing basically, all it takes is that enough bloggers out there blogs about this great promotion. So if you're a blogger, I advise you to immediately check it out at and participate!

Update: I did get a free license for SubEthaEdit for this post. Whohoo! ;-)

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