Monthly Shaarli

All links of one month in a single page.

May, 2012

The History Of Usability: From Simplicity To Complexity
Howto: Integrate Facebook Open Graph With Wordpress

In today’s post, we are going to look into how to integrate Facebook Open Graph with a self-hosted WordPress in a detailed step-by-step guide. It will require editing your existing WordPress theme and creating a Facebook application (if you don’t have one).

How do I find my Facebook user ID? - Quora

If you have a Facebook username, go to http://graph.facebook.com/yourname and you can see your id in the return string.

National Round Table – Table ronde nationale

We bring the environment and the economy together.

Atelier / Visual Arts, Design & Life

Atelier is an educational alternative born from the connection between a Fact and a unique Initiative.

Subtle Patterns | Free textures for your next web project

There has always been great resources available online for designers and developers, and I’ve been using these myself since I started making websites some twelve years ago – that’s the fantastic thing about the web community. Now I’m using Subtle Patterns as my way of giving back to the next (and current) generation of web designers and developers or anyone else who needs some high quality patterns.

jQuery iCalendar

A jQuery plugin that sets a div to allow recording an event to an iCalendar implementation, as well as various utility functions for events.

Synchronize system time on Windows on schedule

This page explains how to make the Windows network time (NTP) client synchronize its time more often than the default once per week.

Bringing Apple’s two-finger right-click to Windows | TechBlog | a Chron.com blog

One of my favorite features on Apple’s notebooks is the set of multitouch gestures on its touchpads. I am particularly enamored of using two fingers to bring up a context or right-click menu.

Aspect Ratio Calculator

If you work with digital video, you know that when it comes to compressing your files you have to get the aspect ratio (or dimensions) of the video right. The Aspect Ratio Calculator for digital video helps you make these calculations. You can choose between 16 x 9 and 4 x 3 formats. Then all you have to do is enter one of your dimensions and it calculates the other dimension for you. You can either use the online version or free downloadable version. So pick one of the Aspect Ratio Calculators and save time compressing your digital videos!

Extending Custom Post Types in WordPress 3.0 - Konstantin Kovshenin

In a previous article about Custom Post Types in WordPress 3.0 I outlined one of the most exciting features coming up in 3.0 and I noticed that people have already started building websites upon these new features. It’s not a secret that I’m working on a project myself which involves 3.0 so just like everybody else, I can’t wait to see it being released!

Fuzzco

Good Ideas. Good Design. Good Relationships.

FLVExtract - extract audio and video from FLV files

Extracts video and audio from FLV files without decompressing or recompressing.

Simultaneously open multiple files with their associated programs when Windows loads or with the touch of a button (Instant File Opener)

Instant File Opener allows you to create a list of multiple files, programs, folders, and URLs to be opened at the same time by opening a single special file or by logging into Windows. Files are opened with their associated program (e.g. MP3 files with Windows Media Player). You can add any type of item to a list: video files, music files, documents, text files, programs, folders, website URLs, and much more!

Learn to Program - учебник по Ruby (перевод М. Шохирева)

Когда вы пишете программу для компьютера, вы должны "говорить" на языке, который ваш компьютер понимает: на языке программирования. Есть много, очень много разных языков, и многие из них — превосходные. В этом учебнике я выбрал для использования мой любимый язык программирования — Ruby.

Packaging Flash&Flex; applications for Apple iOS devices | Adobe Developer Connection

Flash Builder 4.5 includes support for packaging Flex and ActionScript applications for Google Android, Apple iOS, and BlackBerry Tablet OS devices. The process for acquiring signing certificates and provisioning application packages for the various platforms differs significantly.
This article and video aim to help ActionScript and Flex developers complete the necessary steps so that applications built in Flash Builder can be deployed to iOS devices during the development, testing and deployment phases of the project.

TurbineCSS

Turbine is a collection of PHP-powered tools that are designed to decrease css development time and web developer headache.

Canada 2020

Canada 2020 is a non-partisan, progressive centre working to create an environment of social and economic prosperity for Canada and all Canadians.

Visual Complexity - infographics showcases & blog

A visual exploration on mapping complex networks

Grindstone - time-tracking and tasks for Windows

Grindstone is a desktop application, produced by Epiforge Software, that allows users to create and organize tasks and to track time. It includes a range of other features that supplement this primary functionality. The software is currently offered as a free download for Microsoft Windows users.

WordPress › Simple Image Widget « WordPress Plugins

Using this widget you can easily place an image in the sidebar. You can also specify a URL to link to when clicking on the image. It supports multiple instances, so you can use it multiple times in multiple sidebars.

Hide Select Icons From View (incl Hard Drives) | Mac Tricks And Tips

This uses the SetFile program to change the attribute setting (-a) to invisible “V”, for the Volume BOOTCAMP, change the string at the end to anything you want. Use the full path to the file to make sure you don’t hide anything you don’t want.