By arafalov, on November 17th, 2007%
Since Dave Winer declared Chumby the next breakthrough device, there has been a small flood of people talking about how cool it is and how much they want one. The usual TechMeme effect, I guess.
I admit, it is a cute device. I have a black one, which I am hoping will work well as a picture . . . → Read More: Interesting Chumby articles and videos around the web
By arafalov, on November 17th, 2007%
Bee.fm is an internet radio station that allows to stream custom playlists or individual albums. It is similar to pandora.com, but with full manual control over the playlist.
It uses open streaming that can be listened to from iTunes as well as from its own flash player. It can be also listened to with Chumby‘s btplay command.
To . . . → Read More: Chumby HowTo: Playing internet radio from Bee.fm
By arafalov, on November 16th, 2007%
Pandora.com has just added classical music to their already huge collection. It made my day.
I like classical music, but never took enough time to actually figure out my exact preferences or composers. I just recognise familiar or mood pieces when they are played and enjoy them.
So now I can put the name of the piece I . . . → Read More: Two thumbs up for Pandora.com’s new classical section
By arafalov, on November 15th, 2007%
I just found my own oldest webpage (handcoded) and my oldest public source code (Java) at once. Archive.org – that has hosted this long-dead memory since 1999 – is just so great.
Looking back at it, I realise that I was right in the thick of Internet development:
When I just started working with Java, we had to . . . → Read More: Memories, memories
By arafalov, on November 14th, 2007%
Use case
Photos are inherently-social event markers. We take pictures to remember an occasion and – often – people who were present with us at that point. While most of the photographs are not looked at more than once or twice, the more popular ones become very important in our history.
The same does not happen to other . . . → Read More: Viewfinder Friends – idea for Facebook application
By arafalov, on November 8th, 2007%
Does this look different? If not, you are probably reading this through the RSS feed and can just skip to the next item. Unless, of course the feed is now broken. Then, I really want to know.
But for those of you looking at this article on its own website, there has been an upgrade of components. . . . → Read More: WordPress 2.3.1 and other doodads