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"Upload photos as your normally would, but mark them as private, and tag them with "flickrqueue". Wait until midnight EST. Every night."

flickr queue uploading api tools via:couch
november 2011 by blech

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New JavaScript HTML5 Report Format | GitHub

Interesting tool: it'll take any JSON and convert it to a report (including making a nice sortable table for a list). You can try it out online, too: http://ajaxstack.com/jsonreport/

web javascript json tools from delicious
may 2011 by blech

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Social Media Insights Engine | ThinkUp

"ThinkUp captures your posts, replies, retweets, friends, followers, and links on social networks like Twitter and Facebook." Like TweetNest, but more social? Also: built on PHP/MySQL, like TweetNest, unlike Diaspora.

twitter archive socialarchive socialgraph opensource tools php via:anildash from delicious
january 2011 by blech

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Tweet Nest

I should probably install this and have a look at it. It'd be interesting to see if I can transform my own JSON backups to it, for example.

twitter archive php personalarchive tools from delicious
december 2010 by blech

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Convert and Download Videos to iTunes | Evom

"Convert your movies and download flash videos from the internet." Earlier this year I had a huge pile of unwatched video URLs which would have been great to have on the iPhone, Instapaper-style. Luckily, it seems as if waiting long enough is enough to make products happen.

video youtube iphone offline instatelly tools software application macosx from delicious
october 2010 by blech

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indiemapper makes thematic mapping easy | FlowingData

"Indiemapper is kind of like an Adobe Illustrator for maps online. Load your data, pick the features of focus, and then map it."

maps tools visualisation gis review via:mattb from delicious
august 2010 by blech

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Flash CS5 will export to HTML5 Canvas | 9 to 5 Mac

Well, this is interesting. I doubt it'll be that good at launch, but there's potential there, and this is maybe more interesting than whether or not Flash can be compiled to the App Store.

flash adobe canvas svg fxg format tools via:simonwillison via:danhon from delicious
april 2010 by blech

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Hone | Twitter RSS Links

"Twitter RSS Links allows you to generate a (RSS|ATOM|JSON|XML) feed from your friend's tweets that contains HTTP links." Does what it says, with OAuth (so it works for private folks). I really should do a delicious-network style un-shortening UI on top of the JSON, mind you.

twitter rss links socialnetwork tools json feeds via:pfig
august 2009 by blech

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Twitter friends' favorites feeds as OPML | 0xDECAFBAD

This isn't exactly terribly friendly, but until Twitter do something to expose favourites more visibly or someone writes a nice GUI app (hard, because it requires n*following calls), this'll do for me. (I imported it into Google Reader, which I don't use otherwise.) Source on Github, naturally.

twitter tools lmorchard opml rss
may 2009 by blech

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LookUP | Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics

Like Where On Earth, but for space: put in an object and it'll return RA/dec (and a bunch of sources for images of that part of the sky).

astronomy tools geowanking via:straup
march 2009 by blech

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Is a Firehose of Snowflakes a Nor’easter? | Laughing Meme

"We’re building streams of photos in real time. Examining the huge stream of data events that happen on Flickr, the social activity, the searching, the meta-data creation, and fishing from that stream to build 3 real time streams. We’re then exposing those streams via a near real time polling based API."

flickr api panda tools interestingness
march 2009 by blech

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the open source Spotify client | despotify

"C implementation based on F/OSS code; Proof of Concept multi-OS client with curses (text-based) UI; Proof of Concept gateway to the Spotify service (text-based protocol, for supporting REST)" It compiles cleanly on Mac OS X and the gateway looks handy for exposing playlists (and lists of what's available) to people who haven't signed up.

music software tools ogg oggvorbis cli internet stream via:tomtaylor
february 2009 by blech

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JSON in Firefox | τεχνοσοφια

"JSONovich is a Firefox extension that pretty-prints and colorizes JSON content (of types application/json and text/x-json). It uses json.org's json2.js to parse and indent JSON data, unless there is a native JSON parser as in Firefox 3.1, and google-code-prettify's parser and stylesheet to colorize it."

firefox json debugging api tools via:simonwistow
february 2009 by blech

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Tagging | Tags

$29 utility for Mac OS X for easily setting tags on files, photos and the like. Uses Spotlight. Might be nicer than the iPhoto interface (did it get any better in the new version?)

macosx metadata tagging tools
january 2009 by blech

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advice to a new journalist: learn to code | Charles Arthur

"You’d be able to knock up something like the Guardian BNP map without a second thought." I'd argue that you don't necessarily need to be able to code, but you do need to be able to use good tools; Excel and DabbleDB spring to mind (but aren't mentioned in the comments). (Note megp asking for Dopplr CSV exports so she can do her own visualisations.) Still, interesting thoughts.

journalism programming development code tools
january 2009 by blech

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Console | Amazon Web Services

This looks like it could come in very handy indeed.

amazon aws console tools ec2
january 2009 by blech

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Fast, Nimble PDF Generation For Ruby | Prawn

"If you've ever needed to produce PDF documents before, in Ruby or another language, you probably know how much it can suck. Prawn takes the pain out of generating beautiful printable documents" If Tom and mattb recommend this, I think I can trust it to work.

pdf ruby development tools printing software papernet via:jerakeen
january 2009 by blech

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Realtime Collaborative Text Editing | EtherPad

"The perfect way to collaborate on a text document and keep everyone literally on the same page." New 'SubEthaEdit for the web' from the people behind AppJet. (In fact, it's very very similar to the AppJet in-browser IDE.)

etherpad sharing javascript application development tools writing
november 2008 by blech

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osx-trash | Dave Dribin

"osx-trash manipulates the Mac OS X trash from the command line, just like the Finder does." One to remember to install, and then to remember to use.

scripting scriptingbridge ruby cli macosx tools
july 2008 by blech

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What is *jour and why they are killer apps | Dr Nic

A bunch of Bonjour services to enable offline group development. It's all pretty cool, but not much use if you have Internet access and don't have a lot of local developers. Also, *jour looks a bit like Flame.

ruby versioncontrol bonjour development tools git macosx gui cli application via:zimpenfish
june 2008 by blech

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tms | fernLightning

tms "allows basic cvs style operations on local (not yet Time Capsule) Time Machine volumes" "

macosx backup timemachine cli tools versioncontrol via:ffg via:deusx
may 2008 by blech

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Google App Engine ported to Amazon's EC2 | Waxy.org

"AppDrop is simply a remote installation of the App Engine SDK, with the user authentication and identification modified to use a local silo instead of Google Accounts" On github. So much for lockin?

google appengine amazon infrastructure portability tools saas python git
april 2008 by blech

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Follow Twitter Conversations | Quotably

Twitter has really awful tools for following conversations, so Quotably tries to fix it. Unfortunately, unlike Jaiku, Twitter itself doesn't retain enough metadata: just look at Gruber. Oh, doesn't work with private twitterers either. Meh.

twitter tools jaiku via:psd
march 2008 by blech

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Massive (500) Internal Server | Amazon Web Services

Forum post on the fact that S3's down, as you can tell by the lack of user pictures on Twitter, and the lack of pretty much anything on tumblr, slideshare and (presumably) other web 2.0 sites.

amazon s3 tools web development storage saas
february 2008 by blech

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Canon EOS 450D brief hands-on | DPReview

"The standard 450D kit will include a redesigned, image stabilized version of Canon's 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 lens" Saw that coming when they announced the IS last year. Also good: live view, ISO visibility. Ambivalent on the CF/SD switch.

canon camera preview dpreview slr photography tools tobuy
january 2008 by blech

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Edit your photos! On Flickr! | Flickr Blog

Picnik integration into Flickr. Short review: more capable than Preloadr (which I'd been using) but some things I'd use a lot are well hidden. Lots of annoying dialogs about leaving the page when I'm not though.

flickr blog editor photography tools images
december 2007 by blech

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webdriver - Google Code

The best talk at yesterday's Google Open Source Jam was this web testing framework that hooks into your browser and automates it.

opensource tools web testing development
october 2007 by blech

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MySQL AB :: A Look at the PBXT Storage Engine

An alternative storage engine for MySQL. Useful for big BLOBs?

computing software storage tools mysql database toread via:andym
july 2007 by blech

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Infovore » The CSS Redundancy Checker

This looks like it could be very handy.

css web development tools ruby via:pip
july 2007 by blech

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Yet another one more thing… a new Web Inspector!

This looks a lot more like Firebug (functionally), iTunes (sidebar-wise) and a lot less like a HUD (graphically). Now, what happens when you install Safari 3 + nightlies? And what's this noise about the loss of View Source?

macosx safari development webkit tools firebug
june 2007 by blech

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use.perl.org - petdance's journal - Top 10 reasons to use ack

ack is a grep enhancement for code, and one that I should really install everywhere and get into the hang of using, because it looks very useful

perl unix tools development grep
december 2006 by blech

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PhotoRec - CGSecurity

Found for andym, who inadvertantly lost his movie files on a memory card. I've seen plenty of stuff like this for the Mac and Windows, but it's payware- this is cross-platform and free (GPL).

linux mac photos memory card recovery undelete tools
october 2006 by blech

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Bare Bones Software : BBEdit : New in BBEdit 8.5

Looks a lot like they're playing TextMate catchup, frankly. Code folding, and renaming the glossary to clippings, for example. Plus it's a $30 upgrade (if you didn't buy BBEdit 8.2 this year). Could be a hard sell.

bbedit mac tools editor news
september 2006 by blech

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Presentation Zen: Is a computer like a bicycle for the mind?

"I wouldn't put a person within 15 years of a computer unless I was absolutely sure it was a kind of bike for them"

computer tools software via:ssp
september 2006 by blech

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ack - grep-like text finder for large trees of text - search.cpan.org

Looks interesting and useful and all that.

development tools perl
august 2006 by blech

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Moon Phases :: Calendars

Very pretty. Moon's back to being an evening object for the next two weeks. I suppose that means it's time to buy a tele-extender.