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Archive 10. April 2005
Lickr: Flickr, without the Flash
For those of us who don't like Flash in the browser but still occasionally click on Flickr links out of curiosity, you know the feeling: you feel cheated because no image appears. And you wonder what the Flash is actually for, after all, you just want to display a lousy image ...
The solution for us anti-Flashers: Lickr: Flickr, without the Flash - a Greasemonkey script that rewrites the Flash stuff before display into a normal HTML+JavaScript story that works perfectly in Firefox without Flash. And finally, you can admire all those stupid pictures.
My Firefox Extensions
New meme at Pepilog: Post Firefox extensions. Well, ListZilla makes it quite easy, here are mine:
- [Adblock][1] 0.5.2.039
- [Bookmarks Synchronizer][2] 1.0.1
- [BugMeNot][3] 0.6.2 (somehow it seems not to work)
- [Conkeror][4] 0.18
- [Disable Targets For Downloads][5] 0.8
- [Google Pagerank Status][6] 0.9.4
- [Greasemonkey][7] 0.2.3
- [Html Validator (based on Tidy)][8] 0.5.6
- [JustBlogIt][9] 0.2
- [ListZilla][10] 0.5.1
- [Live HTTP Headers][11] 0.10
- [mozcc][12] 1.0.0
- [QuickTabPrefToggle][13] 0.0.4
- [Resizeable Textarea][14] 0.1a
- [SessionSaver .2][15] 0.2.1.025
Multimap - nice toy
Found at Call it YASBLOG: Multimap allows zooming into a map down to a scale of 1:5000 - you can see where I live at the link, in case someone wants to nuke me from orbit
Ok, not as technically cool as Google Maps, but it works with German addresses. Very practical when you want to give someone an exact location - just set a link to the map.
However, I'm not sure if linking is allowed. Their terms of use state the following:
The reproduction, copying, downloading, storage, recording, broadcasting, retransmission and distribution of any of the maps and digital data shown on this site is not permitted without prior written consent of Multimap.com.
Hmm. Links are also digital data and therefore I should not use the link that was generated for me below the map without written permission ...
I like that the Charivari Puppet Theater is included in the map - few Münster residents know about it ...
SISC - Second Interpreter of Scheme Code
SISC Scheme is a very complete Scheme interpreter and compiler written in Java. Particularly interesting: there is a continuation-based web framework for it.
Other interesting features include good integration into the Java world through the Java-Scheme interface. In principle, all libraries from the Java world are also available in Scheme.
SISC Scheme also supports SLIB (an extension library for Scheme with many useful modules) and various SRFIs (Scheme Requests for Implementation - the formal way to extend the Scheme language with standard modules).
The Studs MVC Framework is a port and extension of the Java Struts Framework to PHP. In doing so, frameworks initially map a J2EE-like basic structure for servlets in PHP. To me, that naturally sounds like fighting the devil with Beelzebub.
Tags from Terms
Jonathan Luster has released his Y! Terms Extraction Plugin for WordPress. It uses the Yahoo services to extract relevant keywords from a posting text and presents them as Technorati tags in the post. If anyone tries this out: I would be interested to know how well it works with German texts.
By the way, I would also be interested to know when blogg.de offers an API. I mean, it's about time to catch up with the features of Technorati and Yahoo, right?