Last week Amazon Web Services released a feature called “Web Page Redirect”, and the first thing that came to my mind was: “Why not use it to build a URL Shortener?”
The project is a collection of tools to annotate images via web. The main goal to allow online annotation of image collections with rich meta data. The tools will be highly-reusable and scalable.
Exciting information is trapped in web pages and behind HTML forms. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to parse those pages and when to apply advanced techniques that make scraping faster and more stable. We'll cover parallel downloading with Twisted, gevent, and others; analyzing sites behind SSL; driving JavaScript-y sites with Selenium; and evading common anti-scraping techniques.
Bottle is a fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python. It is distributed as a single file module and has no dependencies other than the Python Standard Library.
SiteSucker is an Macintosh application that automatically downloads Web sites from the Internet. It does this by copying the site's Web pages, images, backgrounds, movies, and other files to your local hard drive.
So I made a diagram of a sample URL, chopped into pieces and named according to seven eight nine ten twelve different conventions over the years, in the hopes that doing so might reveal such patterns.
[Proxy JSON calls and proxy caching]
So, we build a web site or an application and want to add search to it, and then it hits us: getting search working is hard. We want our search solution to be fast, we want a painless setup and a completely free search schema, we want to be able to index data simply using JSON over HTTP, we want our search server to be always available, we want to be able to start with one machine and scale to hundreds, we want real-time search, we want simple multi-tenancy, and we want a solution that is built for the cloud.
Keeping you up to date with APIs, mashups and the Web as platform
URL: https://www.instapaper.com/api/add Parameters: usernamepasswordurltitle — optional, plain text, no HTML, UTF-8selection — optional, plain text, no HTML, UTF-8auto-title=1 — optional, replaces title. Instapaper will crawl the URL to detect a title. Use this if you do not know a title for the URL, such as when it’s an inline link somewhere that hasn’t been opened.redirect=close — optional. Specifies that, instead of returning the status code, the resulting page should show an HTML “Saved!” notification that attempts to close its own window with Javascript after a short delay. This is useful if you’re sending people directly to /api/add URLs from a web application.
BandCentral gives bands, managers & labels a suite of easy-to-use tools to help organize everything from; gigs & tours, band finances and release management, to fan relationships and inter-team communication – all from within one central multi-login BandHub™
The soft hyphen is the key to good-looking hyphenation and justification
Editors are really valuable, and, the way things are going, undervalued. These are people who are good at process. They think about calendars, schedules, checklists, and get freaked out when schedules slip. Their jobs are to aggregate information, parse it, restructure it, and make sure it meets standards. They are basically QA for language and meaning.
REST-like discoverability could also be a boon for some services. What if Twitter provided something like this along with a tweet’s JSON?
Also I want to start my blog up again. The most important thing any person can do in this world is get back to their blog. In my opinion.
We've recently discussed several ways of handling duplicate content on a single website; today we'll look at ways of handling similar duplication across different websites, across different domains. For some sites, there are legitimate reasons to duplicate content across different websites — for instance, to migrate to a new domain name using a web server that cannot create server-side redirects.
Example: http://dummyimage.com/640x480
But as I flow through this slippery Web of ideas, it often feels like a waking dream. We don't really know what dreams are for, only that they satisfy some fundamental need. Someone watching me surf the Web, as I jump from one suggested link to another, would see a day-dream. [...] And that was just the first few minutes of my day on the Web this morning. The trance-like state we fall into while following the undirected path of links may be a terrible waste of time, or like dreams, it might be a productive waste of time. Perhaps we are tapping into our collective unconscious in a way watching the directed stream of TV, radio and newspapers could not. Maybe click-dreaming is a way for all of us to have the same dream, independent of what we click on. This waking dream we call the Internet also blurs the difference between my serious thoughts and my playful thoughts, or to put it more simply: I no longer can tell when I am working and when I am playing online
The way I use git is to maintain this website. Yes, I know git isn’t supposed be used for such a menial task, i.e. one developer and one copy of the code, but it works better than the alternatives for me, so I use it.
Wacintaki Poteto is a CSS conversion of Oekaki Poteto 5.x. It is a complete Oekaki BBS with many new features compared to Poteto, including full support for Shi-Painter and Chibi Paint, file uploads, various fixes, and much lower bandwidth usage. Wacintaki also has a nifty resize option, which resizes the paint applet to fit your whole screen (no more teeny applet windows)!
By understanding how reCAPTCHA worked - the team was able to double their productivity (since they usually only had to enter one word instead of two). To further optimize their voting they created a poll front-end that allowed you to enter votes quickly while giving you an update of the poll status (and since it is a 4chan kind of crowd, they also provided the option to stream some porn just to keep you company while you are subverting one of the largest media companies in the world.) [I love it when a plan comes together]
I was trying to find a free SQL database of IP geolocation with country, city, region, latitude and longitude for a project but none was accurate and up to date so I decided to create my own and now I offer it for free.
This is interesting. A fairly detailed taxonomy of the existing business models for web sites. The breakdown is here. Using their taxonomy the researches than examined one Top 100 web app list for 2008 and found that: 34% use Advertising, 12% a Variable Subscription model, and 8% each for Virtual Products (typically digital downloads), Related Products (typically a large software company offering a free product to attract you to their platform) and Pay-Per-Use.
But Unmeasurable about the Combinations of parts.
Disqus is a powerful comment system that easily enhances the discussion on websites. In minutes, connect your community with those of over 25,000 other websites.
The recommended way to write URLs inside e-mails and other plain-text documents to make them clickable even when the lines are wrapped or white space is added during transmission should be <URL: http://www.gnu.org >.
Except the week Organizine lived , I have always used Blogger.
Who are friends in iGoogle? What are profiles in iGoogle? Stay tuned for details.
In many cases, an editor would be a great addition to our process as well as, in some cases, a better and more rational investment than a copywriter.
This page deals only with customizing the appearance of the player.
These instructions concern using that player on non-Wordpress HTML pages.
1. Pluck [Alexa, Compete]
Aha! Too bad I don't have Leopard
A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts
Here is a quick overview of some interesting solutions you can use to generate print layouts “on the fly”.
Any combination of browsing, form filling, clicking and information gathering can be recorded into a macro and iMacros even assists you during the recording with visual feedback.
Craigslist Pic Viewer. Works great, except for listings without pictures!
This will allow you to style the label however you wish using CSS, and the actual input control will be hidden. The form will still collect data as it normally would because the label itself will trigger the hidden input control.
text messages queued up with ohdontforget.com will be delivered at the date & time specified,
Monoslideshow is a Flash slideshow to view your images in a web page. It can be placed on every website, in whatever size you want and filled with whatever content you like.
[UPDATE:] Marcus Breese just emailed me a show/hide layout grid bookmarklet, which is great becasue now I don’t have to make one.
ccPublisher is a tool that does two things: it will help you tag your audio and video files with information about your license and it allows you to upload Creative Commons-licensed audio and video works to the Internet Archive for free hosting.
Welcome to RoundedCornr. Generate HTML/CSS code and images for rounded corners.
has to be better than w3cschools
Before sending the images to Flickr, you can modify them with several tools like cropping, sharpening, color correction and much more.
This article covers a PHP-based technique for automatically resizing—and more importantly, positioning—between two and eight images in what I call a magazine-style layout.
A CSS Solution to ad blocking
How to create your own "Who's Online" script, which is often found on message boards and other community scripts.
Too many organizations unwittingly give their competitors a free kick by having Web sites that are low on usability and high on annoyance. (From Australia. No doubt they got it upside down or backwards.)
Quick access to all 95 CSS 2.1 properties
What do you think it's suposed to be on the side of?
This is just a silly site where you can keep track of your morale and display it on your websicle.
allyoucanupload doesn't have a lot of things - no albums, no photo streams, no profile page, no comments, no friends. It was built to do one thing very well - store and serve images (images right now).
SocialMail can help you turn email into feeds.
Web Geeks Unite! was the original slogan when The Morning News launched in 1999, and though our mission has changed, the spirit is undiminished.
Asoboo, which means "Let's have fun" in Japanese, is a community-based city guide. Asoboo connects people and the places they hang out at, allowing you to explore networks of people and places. We hope that the use of Asoboo will make lives richer in frie
As Akin puts it, "White people are too gullible. They are rich, and whatever I gyp them out of is small change to them."
Headdress turns your Mac into a nice little server, capable of virtually hosting several websites in your local network. With Headdress you won't need to nest your sites or dig through configuration files, and turning PHP on is a breeze with one click act
Estimated Base Value: $516.00, Estimated Actual Value: $44,376.00
Textbook for the MIT course "Software Engineering for Internet Applications". We assume that they know how to write a computer program and debug it. We do not assume knowledge of any particular programming languages, standards, or protocols. The most conc
Stealing this from Jacob, as it may apply to web design for the Nintendo DS.
The Opera browser for Nintendo DS is a version of the Opera browser for logging onto the internet with the WiFi-enabled Nintendo DS. Assuming then what we see here is real...
I didn't really read what this site was about, but I am saving it because of its animated favico file. Hot shit, dude!
This is embarrassing. But I need it for work, and it's no longer supported.
The new version further improves the browsing experience by enabling download of images, MP3s, etc directly to your phone
Our advertising model is a bit different from traditional and online media companies-at FM, the authors are in charge. This means they hold the power to decline ad dollars from any brand that doesn't fit into their community. It also means that once autho
With FeedDigest, mix, filter and republish or syndicate feeds to HTML, JavaScript, WAP or PHP, or to a new feed.
After entering your date of birth and gender, the Kua Calculator will give you detailed information about which directions are best for you and help create more success, wealth, health, and love in your life. (Or, how to reduce a 3,000 year old practice t
VideoDownloader add a small icon on the status bar at the bottom of your firefox window, and a toolbar button. Just click that and download the video you are watching.
A system [that] provides search results from a voice search query. The system receives a voice search query from a user, derives one or more recognition hypotheses, each being associated with a weight, from the voice search query, and constructs a weighte
The Pew Internet & American Life Project produces reports that explore the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life.
We’ve been test-driving quite a few different screen capture applications here at Lifehacker over time for all the screencasts we’ve published. My best experience so far has been with the software I used to produce the Scrapbook screencast: TechSmith
finally. peel doesn't have to look stupid. i hope
a more overall look, mostly at home consoles
my.opera forum - The screens on the Nintendo DS are 256x192 pixels.. so there really is a limited amount of screen space on there. You won't be able to read anything if the full page is downscaled to the screen. That's why the magnification is handy and w
look to N for browser support information, but "Opera for DS has two display modes: Fit-to-width and DS mode. In fit-to-width mode, Opera uses both screens for scrolling up or down a page with both screens completing the view. In DS mode, an overview of t
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A full scale browser seems unlikely but I'd be perfectly happy with a RSS reader, simple POP mail client and a IM client bundled into one cart.
What has been confirmed is that the browser makes good use of the DS's unique dual-screen design. The bottom screen shows a "zoomed out" image of the entire width of the site, which on its own isn't too useful given the DS screens' relatively low resoluti
With an on-screen keypad and stylus, users can easily navigate the Web from their Nintendo DS with PDA-like functionality. Based on the same core as the Opera desktop browser, Opera delivers superior speed and rendering of Web pages on the Nintendo DS.
ds web browser information, comments
recommended by the internet. next question: do i want to?
i'm talking on the phone, what are you doing?
now i'm actually doing stuff for work...
i don't like that the myspace page doesn't match the band website.
i'm more interested in the concept of this tutorial than in the implementation.