Some Russian fellows appears to be using my email address as the from address in SPAM messages about a business curse. I’m getting “mail delivery failed” messages en masse.
Playground (not suitable for children under 30 year).
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.
YouTube
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.