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Bookmark: Flickr URL converter

October 28, 2010

Drag this Flickr img2page to your bookmark bar. Click it to see the original Flickr photo page for a Flickr image. If you sometimes get an URL like http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1435/5113313258_e96785710d_b.jpg and want to see the original Flickr photo page with all the comments and tags, you can use this simple JavaScript snippet to get there. Drag…

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Wappu is here

April 23, 2010

Here’s a little something to get your wappu spirits way up high: – Wappu dance – A happy engineering student Yes, I know. These things are too awesome. Note: Wappu is a very important festival for the engineering students in Finland. Extra note: for some reason, I cannot write “wappu” with the regular ‘v’.

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WP Super Ache

March 12, 2010

For some reason, I messed up the installation of WP SuperCache and it was serving old versions of the site to some visitors. I’ve fixed this temporarily by disabling WP Super Cache. I will update this post when I get it fixed for good. On a related note, I also tweaked the RSS feed last…

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Link: Problem with app choice

November 19, 2009

Steve Litchfield presented a great metaphor of the problem with choice people are having with assorted app stores:

You head down to the jam aisle to ‘get some marmalade’ and are presented with 33 different alternatives, including about 20 subtly differently flavoured and quality-graded variants under the supermarket’s own ‘brand’. Which one do you go for? [the chances are that you'll actually walk away]

Here’s how Steve says it should be:

one room. You ask for marmalade – they stock two brands. You make your pick – that was easy.

Indeed. Thrash or hide the real bad and useless apps, and instead make good content easily accessible.

I bought an iPhone and a MacBook Pro (13″) about two weeks ago

October 23, 2009

I’ll probably write more about them later. And I’m _probably_ not switching, mainly just wanna try what OS X is like with my own hands. Opinion after two weeks: iPhone’s great, MacBook has a weird keyboard layout. Been pretty busy lately working on a refresh for my website, building an iPhone app and organizing GetOnlineLAN…

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