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PHP: Script to extract one’s contacts from email (Gmail, Yahoo,Hotmail,AOL…) and send invites – OpenInviter to go!
Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
You’ll find many scripts to extract email contacts, but many of these are either commercial or just given as apis. For the last case, it’s good to extract contacts from an email using an external server, because that’ll help reduce the server load, but what if the website providing that service goes down? Not good. [...]
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Firefox 3.5: The web is not ready!
Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
I’ve noticed that some websites still don’t show up correctly in the new Firefox 3.5 (3.5.2-3.5.3). I was looking for some photos on Deviantart, but I couldn’t scroll the page to see all results. On twitter, some buttons don’t work.. sometimes. Google Adwords complains that the new version of the browser is not fully supported. [...]
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WikiPedia: New beta look. I don’t like the new website template
Posted on 17. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
..because it’s non-professional. The current layout looks more solid, more professional and more like an Internet encyclopedia. Why don’t they hire a professional web designer to make them a perfect website template, or better ask the people what they want new to be added. Though, I don’t think any changes should be made to the [...]
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Acid3 Test: Best browser performance Opera 10 beta 2. Firefox 3.5.3 and Epiphany 2.26.1 slightly fail
Posted on 12. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
First of all, I am a Ubuntu user, so all tests made by me were performed on a Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope OS. Results may differ a little bit in other operating systems. So, I took the Acid3 Test with three different browsers – Opera 10 beta 2, Firefox 3.5.3 pre and Epiphany 2.26.1 . Note [...]
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Rare icons: AOL Logo/Big Icon PNG
Posted on 10. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
It was pretty hard to me to find AOL’s logo/icon in PNG format (with transparency). However I found it, but in JPG format. So I had to remove the white background and make the edges smooth. Here’s what I got: Hope you need it sometime.
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Twitter news: The updating, deleting of statuses, direct message (…) issues are now solved for Firefox 3.5
Posted on 09. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
Yay! Twitter is usable again for me, after two days of no possibility to update/delete statuses, send direct messages and so on. Hopefully this won’t happen again
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Google search engine: is indexing everything, but how accurate? Strange things happening on IconArchive.com
Posted on 09. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
No, really, it’s strange when you see that Google is suggesting you some results that are not relevant at all to your search! I was searching for a ß icon on iconarchive.com with Google’s Custom search engine, but instead of getting relevant results to my query, I got strange results, that only computers understand. It [...]
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Twitter: Downtime has ended but some features don’t work (following/unfollowing/status updates)
Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
Twitter is up and running again, but some essential features, such as the following, unfollowing, status updating, sending direct messages, all are still not working. It seems Twitter is facing a very difficult issue, that happened too fast, taking on assault Twitter’s servers. Hopefully tomorrow everything will be fine, or too many users will get [...]
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Web Buzzz: Twitter is becoming slow and inaccessible. Often connection timeouts
Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
These days Twitter has become inaccessible for me too many times. I’m wondering if those guys at Twitter are doing something to improve the system, because in my case, I am getting really pissed of those continuous timeouts. If you’re getting this notice “The connection was reset while trying to connect twitter.com” , you’re most [...]
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Web buzzz: How to check if a person you’re following on Twitter, is following you
Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
It seems there are no official methods on Twitter to check if a person you’re following is also following you in return. However, here’s what I found on Twitter: In addition to public updates and @replies, you can send followers private tweets, called direct messages, too. If someone is following you, you can send a [...]