First let me start by saying, I love using Plurk! Together with friends we have created a wonderful community on Plurk. But, there is a problem, No Official API with which we could have some Wonderful third party tools to access Plurk. There are a couple of iPhone apps and some failed web apps/Blackberry apps.
A moblie web page does exist for Plurk, but it's just not a great way to access Plurk.
I created a Plurk account on June 1st 2008 and never looked back. I basically stopped using Twitter after I created my Plurk account. (My Twitter account was created in April '07)
Why? Friend KDFrawg said it best last year in his blog post: Twitter and Plurk, Announcements and Conversations.
Then something happened in March/April 2009, I got tired of carrying a backpack to work every morning and back home every night. Why was I carrying this bag? It was to tote my notebook back and forth from home to work and work to home. I used the notebook to listen to podcasts/steaming radio/audio books and best of all to access Plurk, it gave me a solid 2hours a day with which to connect to friends.
I noticed a plug for a Standard earphone on my Blackberry. So I looked on the net and found some apps for the Blackberry which would let me listen to streaming audio and I was able load mp3 music to the Blackberry via the 8gb mem card I had placed into it. I then found out about Blackberry apps for twitter. (yes, I know iPhone does all this, but the Blackberry was 'free')
I noticed a number of Plurk friends where using twitter in much the same way we used Plurk.
I then started every morning using the Blackberry to 'tweet' with the friends and using Twitter like an 'off-line' Plurk.
It's been a busy time at work but, I noticed you could run Tweetdeck and get notices when a "tweet" came in. So I created a group in Tweetdeck of my known Plurk friends, which allowed me to keep updated with them while I worked. I was still using Plurk, but found it easier to keep up with Plurk friends via Tweetdeck.
I started tweeting on #followfriday all of the Plurk friend friends I had found/friended on twitter. Doing so with the hope we could grow the community on twitter as we have on Plurk.
So after a few months of getting back into using Twitter, I see how we have turned twitter from just a "notice" site into a bit of what we have on Plurk with just a different interface.
Maybe Twitter is our Plurk App?
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Plurk and Twitter
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
twitter still failing. Neat.
Here we are in June '09, you would have thought Twitter would have gotten past this point.
Neat.
Free Music from Amazon
Amazon sometimes prices albums and singles for Free. Here is a list of some of them.
Update:
Romantic Moments Digital Sampler
Free Albums:
Ropeadope Label Sampler
World Music Network Amazon Sampler
6 Picks - Essential Radio Hits Sampler
Now Hear This -Discover New Music - Rock
Now Hear This - Discover New Music - Pop
A Walking Oliver Sampler) by Paul Austin Kelly
Umcg Spring Sampler
(Worn & Grazed) - A Park the Van Sampler
Dead Oceans 2008/2009 Sampler
Stax Sampler for Amazon
Shanachie - Cool Urban Jazz
Emo Is Awesome Emo Is Evil 2
Secretly Canadian 2008/2009 Sampler
Alive Records 2009 Sampler
Jagjaguwar 2008/2009 Sampler
Victory Records Label Sampler
Slumberland Records Spring 2009 Sampler
Anti Sampler 2009
Delicious Vinyl Sampler
Be On The Lookout!
Savoy Jazz 2009 Free Sampler
1959 - Jazz's Greatest Year
Gigantic Music Sampler
X5 Free Sampler - Jazz
(Sub Pop) - Amazon Sample
Barsuk Records - 2009 Amazon Digital Sampler
Free Singles
(Mama) - by Holly Williams
(She Loves Everybody) by Chester French
(Seasons) by The Veer Union
(Maybe California) by Tori Amos
("Deja Vu") by Strange Attractor
(Ssshhhh) by Hess Is More
(The Key) by Speech Debelle
(Sodom, Gomorrah, Washington D.C.) (Sheep in Shepherds Clothing) by Anti-Flag
(The Drawing Board) by The Features
(Hey Fella, Ya Fell) by Other Girls
(Waiting For The Night To Come) by Mundy
(I Got Blues For You) by The Homemade Jamz Blues Band
(Don't Tempt Me) by Todd Snider
This list in no way includes all of the free music on Amazon, but it gives a good jumping in place to find even more.
Friday, May 29, 2009
CSS Sites
A friend, TopSurf ask about some CSS sites, so I thought I'd put together as list of sites I've used/use to help out learning and coding CSS.
Learning CSS - a very nice comprehensive resource
Cascading Style Sheets and Dreamweaver CSS Reference Sites - another very nice comprehensive resource
CSS from the Ground Up
CSS Reference
CSS selectors
CSS Layout Techniques
Free CSS Templates
CSS Zen Garden
Site Reference Forum - HTML/CSS Help
Position is Everything - CSS Positioning / good info on what doesn't work in which browsers and More
There are many many more out there on web, hope this helps out
Friday, April 10, 2009
adsweep - ad blocking for Chrome
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Hint for an easy way to keep google chromium updated with the latest build
Chromium Home page
First go to this url:
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp/LATEST
You'll see a single number displayed, for example:
9223
Remember this number.
Click on the url below and replace the xxxx with the number from above:
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp/xxxxx
Paste the url into your address bar, change the xxxxx to the number you saw on the "LATEST" page from step #1.
Open the web page using the completed url and you'll see a list of files. You want to download the file called:
mini_installer.exe
After the installer runs, you'll have the latest update of chromium installed.
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Plurk Down - Not been a good couple of weeks on Plurk
ah...what?
"Oops... The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable.
Please try again in a few moments."
Plurk is down....
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
A "Thank You to Plurkville"
The Community we have created in Plurk goes beyond what was originality thought of as Plurk and has pushed the limits.
We have created something from nothing, may it continue to live online and offline in the real world.
Using Plurk we have:
Seen the warmth given when Plurkers are not well.
Seen Plurkers travel and visiting other Plurkers.
Learning from other Plurkers.
The sending of Christmas Cards between Plurkers.
Learning about different foods and recipes.
Enjoying nights of Plurktalk; when Plurkers get together to talk with each other, even getting to see Plurkers via the webcams.
Thank You for the time and support you have given to our fellow Plurkers.
Without You there would be no Community, without the Community, we are just twitter sideways and nobody wants that.
Thank You Plurkville for being a wonderful place.
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Giving gift cards around the holidays? Watch out.
Giving gift cards around the holidays?
You need to be careful the gift cards will be honored after the holidays.
Stores who are planning to close after Christmas are still selling gift cards through the holidays, even though the cards will be worthless January 1.
There is no law preventing them from doing this, it is referred to as 'Bankruptcy Planning'.
Below is a list of Store Fronts which will be closing, I am sure there will be more, if you know of any, please let me know and I'll add them to the list:
Watch out for:
Circuit City (filed Chapter 11)
Companies Closing # of stores fronts
Ann Taylor- 117 stores nationwide closing
Disney closing 98 stores and will close more after January.
Eddie Bauer to close stores 27 stores and more after January
Ethan Allen closing down 12 stores.
Footlocker closing 140 stores, more to close after January
GAP closing 85 stores
Home Depot closing 15 stores, 1 in New Brunswick, NJ
K B Toys closing 356 stores
Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug ,and Catherine's to close 150 stores nationwide
Macys to close 9 stores after January
Pep Boys Closing 33 stores
Sprint/Nextel closing 133 stores
Zales closing down 82 stores and 105 after January
Some store fronts Closing:
Dillard's - some stores closing
JC Penney closing a number of stores after January
Loews - some stores closing
Wilson Leather - some stores closing
All Store fronts Closing:
Bombay - All stores closing
Cache - All stores closing
Levitz - All stores closing
Linens and Things - All stores closing
Movie Galley - All stores closing
Piercing Pagoda - All stores closing
Sharper Image - All stores closing
Whitehall - All stores closing
Wickes Furniture - All stores closing
Talbots is closing down specialty stores
- J. Jill - All stores closing (owned by Talbots)
- Pacific Sunwear - All stores closing (owned by Talbots)
More information can be found at Snopes.com
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Plurk Updater CSS code - updated to remove the speaker after you turn off the sound
/* the display for when you have new plurks/responses */
#updater {
border: none;
background-color: #0174DF;
color: silver;
}
#updater a {
color: white;
}
You can change to diff colors from what is used; also i set border to "none", why have a border?
For the new 'speaker' icon, you can use the following code with the above code, AFTER you turn off the sound. the code below will remove the speaker icon from your update display
.cmp_sound_off {
opacity:0;
width: 0px;
}
So, All together it will look like this:
/* the display for when you have new plurks/responses */
#updater {
border: none;
background-color: #0174DF;
color: silver;
}
#updater a {
color: white;
}
.cmp_sound_off {
opacity:0;
width: 0px;
}
Friday, October 24, 2008
Some updates were not installed - Windows XP Update Error and how to fix it
"Some updates were not installed" - Windows XP Update Error
I had this happen today, first time I've seen it. I rebooted/deleted/tried again, no go.
Here is how to fix it.
1) Create a folder on the root of your "C" drive called T (easy simple name, we will delete when done)
"C:\T"
2) http://download.windowsupdate.com/v7/windowsupdate/redist/standalone/WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe
Download and save the file from the URL above to the "C:\T" folder you created in #1
3) Click on 'Start/Run', type the following:
CMD
Click "OK". This will open a command/dos window.
Now type the following in the command window:
CD c:\t
This will change to the "T" folder you created in #1
once you are in the "T" folder type the following:
C:\T\WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe /wuforce
This will force a reinstall of the Windows Update agent.
After the program is done installing, you can delete the "T" folder and the file within.
4) Open IE and go to the Window Update web site and try to update again.
I used this process today and it worked great!
Side note: if you have windows explorer open, and you've saved the file you downloaded to the "T" folder, you can rename the file to "W.exe" (no quotes of course) and then when you go to the command window and change to the "T" folder, you only need to type:
w /wuforce
have fun.
Sunday, October 05, 2008
The BBS Documentary - Parts 1-8 (MUST WATCH)
The BBS Documentary - Parts 1-8
Want to see a bit of Computer History?
Want to see what online life was like before the internet?
Want to learn how online communities started?
Want to see the people whom helped to make it happen?
It's long, but well worth the time, everyone should see it at least once.
Watch this:
Friday, September 26, 2008
Amazon 4-for-3 Paperback Book Deal
Do you Like Sci-Fi books? Or other Genre paperback books?
Check out Amazon's 4 for 3 deal! The "4-for-3 Books Store" is full of good books.
You get Free Shipping(over $25) and in most States you pay no Tax.
They update the list with new books every month.
I order about every 2 months, I sort by date and work backwards.
One of the nice things about ordering from Amazon, when you open a page for a book, they'll tell you at the top of the page if you already bought it from them.
Some Hints:
1) Place an Order with 4 6.99 books in one order and then Order with 4 7.99 books in another order, this way you max out the discount.
And you can make an Order with 8 7.99 books and get 2 free. Etc..
2) If you see a paperback "pre-order" add it to your cart. Then go to the cart and under the book title, click on "save for later".
When the book is released, you'll see it listed as "In Stock" under the book title in the 'saved' list in the your Cart. Then add the 'In Stock" book to the cart. :-)
For example, I about 74 items saved :-) mostly pre-orders, but also some hardcover books.
I leave the hardcover books for later, then when Amazon drops the price, you'll get a notice at the top of the cart as the prices change.
3) You can mix/match Genre to get the 4-for-3 deal.
A nice site: Fantastic Fiction - GREAT site for Fiction books. I find the site useful to find books by the same author. Or other books from authors whom I'm not read before.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
How to Block a Plurker who is not a friend
This the URL below:
http://www.plurk.com/Friends/blockUser?block_uid=XXXX
where XXXX is the avatar number of the plurk you wish to block
Avatar number? you ask?
To get the 'uid' (Avatar) number of a plurker; copy their avatar picture location URL and then paste to URL and you'll see a #; that # is the number you want.
That is called the 'uid', put that number in place of the XXXX, then copy/paste the URL to your address bar, press enter and BAM and you'll block the plurker.
Example; copy your own photo location url and paste to your plurk box, you'll see the url/xxx-medium.gif, you want that number.
Now; a problem, What if the plurker has a 'clown face', no problem.
If you do the steps above and you get this:
http://www.plurk.com/u_img/default_medium.gif
Here is how you get this plurker's 'uid' number
1) Open the plurkers profile page in plurk
2) View the source code for that page; for example in firefox, click on top menubar "view", then click on the menu choice "page source".
This will display the code for that plurkers profile page.
3) do a text search for the following:
var GLOBAL = {"page_user": {"page_title": "", "uid"
After "uid", you will see ": XXXXX" where "XXXXX" is a set of numbers, that set of numbers is the "uid" number you need to use to block the plurker.
4) use the url with the 'uid' number to block the plurker
http://www.plurk.com/Friends/blockUser?block_uid=XXXXX
Hope this helps
Update via @highdef
If the plurker has commented on a plurk in your timeline, you can block him/her via his/her dropdown box. But only from within your own timeline
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Plurk CSS Code to change the "Loading" image you see in the middle of the replies when you click on a plurk.
The "http://i34.tinypic.com/xxel4.gif" is where you place your own image.(or use this one)
/* Loading Image in Plurk Response */
.list img[src="http://static.plurk.com/static/indicator.gif"] {
background-position: left top;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
overflow: hidden;
height: 0px;
width: 0px;
}
.list img[src="http://static.plurk.com/static/indicator.gif"] {
height:80px;
padding-left: 125px;
background: url(http://i34.tinypic.com/xxel4.gif) no-repeat scroll left top;
}
/* End Loading Image in Plurk Response */
Update: Plurk CSS code to create a bigger box for inputting reponses. Adding a "background:" will allow you to color the text box.
http://www.colchis.com/clrtable.html color table
Add the following line to you current CSS code for the #input_small code:
background:#A7CEE8;
/* make a bigger input box for the responses */
#input_small {
height: 75px;
background:#A7CEE8;
}
Plurk CSS Code to change the "Loading" image you see in the middle of the screen when you timeline is being loaded/updated/F5ing it.
The "http://i34.tinypic.com/xxel4.gif" is where you place your own image.(or use this one)
/* Timeline Image Loading */
img[src='http://static.plurk.com/static/loading.gif'] {
filter:alpha(opacity=0);
-moz-opacity:.0;
opacity:.0;
}
#div_loading {
background-image: url(http://i34.tinypic.com/xxel4.gif);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position: 50% 60px;
}
div.loading_div {
background-image: url(http://i34.tinypic.com/xxel4.gif);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position: right center;
}
/* End Timeline Image Loading */
Sunday, September 07, 2008
Google Chrome: How to Change Google Chrome Theme on Windows Vista and Windows XP
Google Chrome Themes - themes for download
How to Change Google Chrome Theme on Windows Vista and Windows XP
1. Download a Google Chrome Theme
2. Extract the files from the downloaded archive
3. Go to the (Replacing USERNAME with your username)
If using Vista:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\0.2.149.27\Themes
If using XP C:\Documents and Settings\username\LocalSettings\AppData\Google\Chrome\Application\0.2.149.27\Themes
*Note: If you install an update to Chrome (for example "0.2.149.29") update the "Themes" folder under the latest release your using.
4. Backup your existing default.dll file; example: rename default.dll to default.org
5. Copy over Default.DLL from your extracted file into the Themes folder
6. Open up Google Chrome, You have a new theme installed.
Google Chrome: Google Chrome Xchrome Theme Manager
Google Chrome Xchrome Theme Manager - forum post/download
Taken from the post:
Install Instructions:
1) Download the .zip file.
2) Extract the files to a folder
3) Run Xchrome.exe (it adds some entries to the registry for Paths to Xchrome files)
4) Execute any theme.exe built within Xchromes theme builder (Xchrome doesn’t need to be running)
Please note that Xchrome Theme Manager uses certain process like file copying, registry editing etc, which makes Antivirus to believe it as Virus.
Xchrome is still in beta stages hence there is no error handling is done, many new features are going to get added in future.
List of features of Xchrome Google Theme Manager
- Automates the Installation of Google Chrome themes
- One place to download and install Google Chrome themes
- Lets you to Edit and build Google Chrome Themes
- List all Google Chrome installed Theme with preview and theme author details
- Theme Installer makes Chrome theme installation one single step process
- Theme Maker to create your own custom Google Chrome Themes
Google Chrome: Google Chrome Anonymizer
Google Chrome Anonymizer - (Look for the "Download:" link)
Google Chrome Anonymizer is a tool that has been specifically designed to remove the client id from the Local State file so that the submitted data cannot be used to identify a user over several surfing sessions.
Google Chrome Anonymizer can be started from any location on the hard drive and alters the Local State file directly before starting Google Chrome afterwards. This means that no client id is transferred to Google when using Google Chrome.
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