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The Notes field in Delicious bookmarks: what you see is what everybody gets

Nicola D'Agostino — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:43:35 +0000

Since the beginning of March 2010 Delicious honors text formatting in the description of bookmarks and shows the content to everybody exactly how the creator intended. This is the result of the informal poll which took place on Delicious’ forums around the end of January and which I mentioned in “Honoring the formatting of ‘Notes’ [...]

Hack Friendfeed feeds with Yahoo! Pipes

Nicola D'Agostino — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:15:31 +0000

The problem: obtaining a feed of a search in Friendfeed user posts, devoid of the “Name (nick):” prefix before each and every item. The solution: using Yahoo! Pipes to remove the unnecessary words. Items used are: The Fetch Feed element, available under “Sources”. Here’s where you paste the feed of your Friendfeed search result feed which looks like http://friendfeed.com/search?q=term&from=username If the [...]

Hack Delicious feeds with Yahoo! Pipes

Nicola D'Agostino — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:12:50 +0000

The problem: obtaining a combined Delicious network feed devoid of the “[username]” prefix before each and every bookmark. The solution: using Yahoo! Pipes to remove the unnecessary words. Items used are: The Fetch Feed element, available under “Sources”. Here’s where you paste the feed of your Delicious network feed which looks like http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/network/networkuser/ If it’s of one of your tags it [...]

Stories of Apple – Larry, John, Steve, and Bruce

Nicola D'Agostino — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:34:15 +0000

These were the names of the four main developers of the System 6 Finder. But who were these people? And what else did they do at Apple?

Hack Flickr feeds with Yahoo! Pipes

Nicola D'Agostino — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:53:53 +0000

The problem: obtaining a feed from Flickr devoid of the “username has posted a photo:” and with bigger images. The solution: using Yahoo! Pipes to manipulate and tweak the image parameters and remove the unnecessary words. Items used are: The Fetch Feed element (available under “Sources”. Here’s where you paste the feed of your Flickr photostream feed which looks [...]

Share Google Chrome feedback – make your OS choice…

Nicola D'Agostino — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:06:40 +0000

...as long as it's some flavor of Windows.
Chrome correctly notices and fills the version field but there's a major mishap with the operating system choice: looks like Google forgot that it also has Linux and Macintosh versions of its browser.

A new low: the CollabPress plugin

Nicola D'Agostino — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:50:49 +0000

The description of the CollabPress plugin for WordPress boldly states that it “adds project and task management functionality to WordPress! Easily create projects and tasks for each project.” But there’s more. Its features include: Unlimited project and task creation Email notifications when new tasks are created Assigning due dates to tasks Using built-in WordPress user accounts After installing it and trying it out [...]

Honoring the formatting of ‘Notes’ on Delicious or not: what’s you choice?

Nicola D'Agostino — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:55:39 +0000

On the Support Forum Delicious’ Simon Davis writes (the added emphasis is mine): “[Lately] we made a change to the Notes field of your Bookmarks that allows you to see the formatting of your notes exactly as you wrote them. However, because of concerns that some jokers might create notes with one character per line and [...]

Notes on annotating a video on YouTube

Nicola D'Agostino — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:58:17 +0000

In the last months I have been working on and off on a piece for MusicBlob about musicians using a pedal sampler in their live performances. A substantial part of my work was not just writing the text but thinking about and then providing and preparing a clear visual example of the mentioned techniques. I’ve [...]

The evolution of Chrome/Chromium on Macintosh

Nicola D'Agostino — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:08:21 +0000

» With Mac Chromium 4.0.222.7 (28915) released on the 13th November 2009 it becomes possible to print web pages. » Chromium 4.0.224.3 (29991), released on 23rd October 2009 allows the user to add links by drag n’ drop into the Bookmarks Bar area. » Chromium 4.0.260.0 (33362), released on 30th November 2009 at 15:26, enables [...]