To download video from YouTube, drag the bookmarklet below to your bookmarks toolbar. You can then click on it whenever you are visiting a YouTube video URL to download the FLV video featured on that page.
This was made possible by ctrl-c.org YouTube API. I put together the bookmarklet because Adobe’s 32 bit Flash plugin is usually not very happy in a 64 bit environment on GNU/Linux. Now I can watch everything fullscreen in MPlayer.
Unfortunately, I haven’t had any interesting to say in English for a while. I’m currently keeping myself busy with the building of a music studio, bloging in Swedish and my studies. Hopefully there will be some brand new spanking news about one of my side-projects in the near future.
Whoo hoo!
When I turned on my desktop computer this morning the Gmail tally in my taskbar had some trouble logging in. Worried that I had lost my internet connectivity (not that unusual if you’re a Blixtvik customer) I fired up Firefox and logged into Gmail. It worked. Then I noticed the Older version link at the top right hand corner and realized that Gmail version 2.0 had arrived!
It’s not just faster. Or the undo messages in a paler shade of yellow. The URLs are finally meaningful. For example:
https://mail.google.com/mail/#all
Show you All Mail, while…
https://mail.google.com/mail/#drafts/10d2c8f89c01a8fe
…is a specific mail, in this case a draft.
I’ve got Skype to work on my Gentoo Linux box by setting the library path by force:
$> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/ skype
I’ve just released PyFTGL which makes it possible to take advantage of FreeType and FTGL to render text in OpenGL program using TrueType, Type 1 or OpenType fonts. PyFTGL wraps the functionality of FTGL into a Python module so it can be used in conjunction with PyOpenGL.
Note that the bindings are still in alpha: they will work if you use them correctly, it’s just the error checking that’s currently missing.
Not many new posts have showed up here in a while due to the fact that a) I have nothing web or code worthy to say and b) I have been busy getting my native Swedish blog going.
But don’t despair. During my summer break this year I’ve started to code a new application in Python that I’m hellbent on completing and releasing. In the process I’m thinking about writing up some brief pythonic posts on topics I usually revisit (or relearn) every time I get back to code in Python. On the joy of Python.
Here is a WordPress plugin that I had almost forgot about only to “rediscover” it during an upgrade of WordPress. The main reason being that it is a drop in replacement for Rochus Wolff Endnotes plugin which I didn’t realized that I had replaced. The main difference is that the drop in replacement don’t need any hacking done to wp-include/functions.php and has a simpler implementation.