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This is personal: Linked Lists
I am trying to get this blog to act as my Facebook replacement, since I quit a while back. This is why I introduced Daring Fireball style linked items. Hope you enjoy them. I will provide a permalink to my excerpts via the infinity sign: ∞
Linked posts will be identified by an arrow icon, for the time being. We’ll see if I can come up with something else.
My goal is to create linked posts more frequently, but with only a short comment from my side. I have often found twitter’s 140 characters too limiting and did not want to write multiple tweets on the same topic. Maybe my blog is the right place for this kind of thoughts after all.
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Wie Künstler durch iTunes Match ihr Geld bekommen
Vor einer Weile schon hab ich über diesen Daring Fireball Link davon erfahren und mir seitdem Gedanken gemacht. Krass, wo heutzutage überall Geld herkommt. Aber toll. Erinnert mich daran, als mir mein Kollege Christophe erzählt hat, wie Künstler megaupload benutzt haben, um Geld für Songs zu bekommen, die sich andere illegal runterladen. Fand ich auch genial.
Bei iTunes Match ist irgendwie schön, dass Songs, die besonders beliebt sind, wohl dann auch mehr Geld machen, unabhängig, wo man sie gekauft hat. Der Künstler bekommt immer dann Geld, wenn jemand seinen Song in iTunes abspielt. Jetzt fühl ich mich auch geneigt, iTunes viel häufiger laufen zu lassen.
Ich glaube, es ist ein ganz gutes System.Quelle: http://blog.tunecore.com/
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Das System gefällt mir auch ziemlich gut. Gerade jetzt, wo Internetpiraterie quasi alltäglich geworden ist und Künstler durch den reinen Plattenverkauf kaum noch Umsätze generieren können ist das eine schöne Idee!
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Free HTTPS image hosting with Dropbox
If you only want the solution, jump right to it.
A while ago I was asked to “design” a facebook page for a client. As I did not have the time to dive into developing a full-on app, I instead opted for the really simple static html solution. their app works wonderfully for the most part, but one issue remained: facebook requires you to provide all your images via HTTPS, which neither I nor the client had at the time. I searched the web and a couple of free image hosting sites turned up. I figured this was good enough until the client had made up their mind about paying for their own certificate. I went with https://freevps.us/img/ at the time, which did not have a limitation on size or dimensions, which was good.
it worked well for a few weeks. Three days ago their service shut down. So did all the images on my client’s facebook page. shit.
today I went to work again, trying to fix this quickly and if possible, for free. all the other free hosting sites had a ridiculous size limit for images. then I came across a great …
D.I.Y. SOLUTION:
I used the public folder of my dropbox account (which is a great service by the way, and free!) to host the five images needed for the facebook page. In order to do this, you simply copy the public link and change the protocol to https. done. I did not know about this. It works great. I’m amazed and wanted to share this.
the URL may look something like this:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/12345678/filename.jpgthere may be complications if your facebook page causes too much traffic on your dropbox account, but for the most of my clients, this won’t be an issue, I guess. I may look into an Amazon S3 solution, which seems like a viable option for little money.
original idea via http://hughbriss.com/
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This is a great find! I’m working on making a secure Desk.com helpdesk look like my site, and this was the perfect solution for this relatively low-traffic application. Really appreciate you documenting it. :)
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OMG! Thank you sooo much for this. You just saved me $100 a year. I was just about to purchase SSL from my hosting company.
It worked. Beautifully!
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Thanks for this. Great solution. There is a real beauty in coming up with free solutions like this for clients.
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just building an email signature and this method works great to avoid security warnings in some email clients
Thanks!
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Unnerving IE6 box-shadow filter bug
I realize it is futile to complain about bugs in year-old software. Still, I have to get this out there, so I know it is documented. I have encountered this numerous times, but most recently during my work for Deutsche Börse (in my function as web developer for ultrabold).
The bug I’m referring to occurred, when I was working to find a replacement for CSS box-shadow, one preferrably employed using CSS and most important, working in Internet Explorer 6 and up. Don’t ask.
I was pretty happy when I came across a solution that used the dreaded filter property to create multiple drop shadows around a given element. It looks nasty compared to the real thing, but better than anything else I had come up with so far.
After I had implemented this rather wordy technique in CSS on multiple occasions, I thought I was done.To my dismay, tests in various versions of IE (6-8) showed a bug that I had no idea how to fix: with elements using this filter, form input elements inside had their text cursors offset by the width of the fake box shadow. which is very much unacceptable of course. you were still able to focus and type, but the text showed up outside the field.
After some research I gave up, as there were few reports of this happening, and no solutions. I had no choice but to replace every instance with more, non-semantic markup, an image-based shadow (which in IE 6 required a PNG alpha fix— facepalm) and a few javascript fixes.Let us hope that those days are behind us, now that IE9 turned out quite nicely, rendering regular CSS box-shadow as
expectedintended.My advice is, this time, no advice. Go without the box shadow filter if you can, and if you are a daredevil, go for it. But think of the form inputs.
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I have tried a variety of plugins and hacks, but didn’t get a chance to look into css3pie yet. thanks for the heads up.
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Form F26-A
I don’t get how formal complaints work (and it is kind of hard to find information on them online). But they seem to be a lot of fun, if you do them right. And I wanted in on that. But as far as I know, Germany doesn’t have a F26-A. This is hard to believe and I hope the Government is working overtime to fix this. But for now, I’m stuck. That is why I rebuilt the F26-A, simply traced it (by hand! I do have standards.) from the photos provided in the 27b/6 post, and tried to make them look alright. The PDF is not perfect, but I think it will get things rolling. I will try to introduce them to my workplace over the next couple of weeks. I do a lot of complaining already, we’ll see if this gets me fired. But in the end, it’s just good fun. To me anyway.
Get the F26-A PDF Document.
PS: If there is an official template for this already, I’d appreciate a copy. Also, I could not figure out the correct spread dimensions from the photos, so I made the PDF fit DIN page sizes. It could use some more work, but as I said, this is a test run. I will update this post, if I make or get improved versions of the document.
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wie schön das jetzt ist. mir gefällts. bin gespannt was du so schreibst!
Lieb von dir. Ich hoffe, es ist ab und zu was spannendes für dich dabei <3
Ich mag’s auch! Es sieht alles so…. CLEAN aus.
Und clean… haja, das wär/is schon gut… ;-)
Ihr seid schon Helden: das Design hab ich seit über einem Jahr nicht angefasst! :D