Skype for iPhone
I’ve just downloaded Skype for iPhone and I’m amazed. It’s a very good iPhone conversion. Everyone who has an iPhone or iPod Touch and uses Skype should try this application. With Skype you can talk to your friends for free if you’re connected to a wlan-network. Click here to download Skype for iPhone.
YouTube’s April Fools
Today it’s April 1st and that’s April Fools’ Day. As April Fools’ joke YouTube adds the paramenter flip with value 1 (1 means on, 0 is off) to all URLs of videos promoted on the homepage. This flipmode cause video and text on YouTube to be displayed upside down.
Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5f_lth7zdA&flip=1
To clarify that it’s an April Fool, YouTube added this site:
Your New Viewing Experience
At YouTube, we’re always looking to improve the way you watch videos online. As part of that, today we’re excited to introduce our new page layout. Here are some tips for getting the most out of your new YouTube viewing experience:
1 Turn your monitor upside-down
Our internal tests have shown that modern computer monitors give a higher quality picture when put upside down—just like it’s best to rotate your mattress every six months. You might find that YouTube videos look better this way.
2 Tilt your head to the side
Imagine you have water in your ear and need to get it out. Tilt your head towards one shoulder and watch the video (gentle head-smacking on the opposite side is optional).
3 Move to Australia
As you probably know, everything in Australia is upside-down, so moving to Australia may provide you with a more natural YouTube viewing experience. (Note: If you live Down Under and the page is still upside-down for you, then we recommended moving to the northern hemisphere.)Of course, if you prefer the way things used to be, just click the “I prefer the old-fashioned layout!” when watching a video.
Happy April 1st!
YouTube replaces the following characters:
| Before | After |
| a | ɐ |
| b | q |
| c | ɔ |
| d | p |
| e | ǝ |
| f | ɟ |
| g | ƃ |
| h | ɥ |
| i | ı |
| j | ɾ |
| k | ʞ |
| l | l |
| m | ɯ |
| n | u |
| o | o |
| p | d |
| q | b |
| r | ɹ |
| s | s |
| t | ʇ |
| u | n |
| v | ʌ |
| w | ʍ |
| y | ʎ |
| z | z |
| 1 | ⇂ |
| 2 | ᄅ |
| 3 | ᄐ |
| 4 | ㄣ |
| 5 | ގ |
| 6 | 9 |
| 7 | ㄥ |
| 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 6 |
| 0 | 0 |
| . | ˙ |
| , | ‘ |
| ‘ | , |
| “ | ,, |
| ´ | , |
| ` | , |
| ; | ؛ |
| ! | ¡ |
| ¡ | ! |
| ? | ¿ |
| ¿ | ? |
| [ | ] |
| ] | [ |
| ( | ) |
| ) | ( |
| { | } |
| } | { |
| < | > |
| > | < |
| _ | ‾ |
| \r | \n |
RapidShare.com down
I just noticed, that jDownloader stopped my RapidShare.com downloads. It seems that all rapidshare servers are down at the moment. According to twitter (rapidshare – Twitter Search) RapidShare is not available worldwide.
I think rapidshare will be up again shortly.
Update: 21:20: RapidShare is up again!
WhatPulse 1.6 released
The day before yesterday, on March 12th, WhatPulse team released a new Version of the WhatPulse program: WhatPulse 1.6. WhatPulse is a program that tracks your keyboard and mouse usage. If you want it can tell you how often you pressed a specific key (keystroke frequencies).
What they changed:
- Optimized the data inside WhatPulse.wpw to minimize corruption.
- Store WhatPulse.wpw inside a Windows assigned place. (fixes problems with Vista)
- Brand new login window. (for existing accounts and registering accounts)
- Ability to determine the place of stats inside the geek window. (will be made easier)
- Redirected server communication through port 80 again.
- A lot of bugfixes.
In 4 weeks all versions below 1.5 will be disabled and for that reason you should update to 1.6 as fast as you can.
WhatPulse team started working on a version for linux, which probably can be tested in a few months.
You can find my WhatPulse profil here.
Click here to download the new version.
Multilingual Wordpress
I want to blog in German and English and searched a plugin, that allows me to blog multilingual. First I tried the Wordpress-plugin Gengo.
Gengo is a full featured plugin that provides multi-language blogging for WordPress 2.5+. It allows for an unlimited number of translations and summaries for any post and provides template tags to display language information. It allows you to edit translations side by side, detects and filters by language automatically when a visitor comes to your site and automatically generates semantic information for links and content blocks. It is configurable via an options page.
If you use Gengo you have to create a new article for every translation and link them. But I want to write only one article. Also Gengo does not work correctly with Wordpress version 2.7. Some pages are linked wrong and a lot of plugins won’t work if Gengo is activated.
Today I installed xLanguage and it seems to be better. This plugin has no problems with 2.7 and you have only to write one article. With <span lang=”LANG“>…</span> or [lang_LANG]…[/lang_LANG] you can mark each translation. The only problem I’ve found yet: You can’t use the “more”-tag, else article previews are displayed wrong. But it will work if you use excerpts.
xLanguage is a full featured plugin allows you to blog in different language, and allows user to select which version to read. It works for blog post, page, tags, categories. The user language preferences will also select the right theme and plugins MO files.
iPhone Firmware 3.0 preview on 17. March 08
I just read on NeOtRiX.de, that engadget got a press invitation from Apple today. It’s about the new iPhone OS: Firmware 3.0 and a new version of iPhone’s SDK (Software Development Kit). The event will go down on Tuesday, 17. March. I wonder what’s new. But I think it will take a while until Firmware 3.0 comes out.
Redirect domain to www, but exclude subdomains
I used to add a VirtualHost with “Redirect / http://www.DOMAIN/” for every TopLevelDomain to redirect example.net to www.example.net, but since I use SysCP for domain administration, I set www.example.net up as an alias for example.net, that’s why “Redirect” won’t work here any more. At Sabiro (a German weblog) you can find a way to redirect users with Apache’s module “mod_rewrite“:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
But I want, that my users will be redirected from example.net to www.example.net, but not from subdomain.example.net to www.subdomain.example.net. Subdomains should be excluded from the rewrite rule. If a user requests www.subdomain.example.net, the page should redirect to subdomain.example.net. For this purpose I use the following code: Read the rest of this entry »
ReMichael.de online
Posted by ReMichael in ReMichael.de on March 10th, 2009
I just put my new site online: ReMichael.de.
It’s powered by Wordpress, an open-source blog system.
Actually I want to write this site on my own with PHP, but I installed Wordpress to blog while I’m programming the site.
There isn’t much more to say…
Many articles will be there soon.
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