Category: Misc

One click access to Google Mobile Search

Google released a small add-on for N-Series or E-Series that lets you launch a search on your mobile with a single click. You do not really see the search functionality, it is there, you make it visible just be one click, enter your search terms and fire up your search. Awesome.
Downloadable on mobile.google.com.

Via Russell

About Nexlink / Green.ch

The hosting business is not as easy as it could seem, I agree on that one, but I had a really hard time with Nexlink (which get bought by Green.ch). I was a customer for quite some time and I was very happy about the service but then at some point it get really bad, with an expensive-not-effective hotline (I hate waiting on the phone while I am charged CHF2.-/min – like anyone else). The quality of service pretty much changed when they get bought, not sure if there is a relation there – but I ended up giving up and moved all my stuff to Infomaniak with absolutely not problem so far.

Why I am writing this? well I received quite a few comments the last two weeks on an old blog (one I used while I was working for a blog provider :-). Probably people comming from Google and complaining as I was on Nexlink. Looks like I made the right move at the right time.

Not only the technical and the service suck but apparently their administration is lost as well as I keep on getting bills and reminders for a service I quit few months back :-(

Poutzé en 10 minutes

Poutzé!

Ca nous a bien fait rire aujourd’hui… “poutzé”, verbe transitif direct qui signifie “Nettoyer, épousseter, astiquer, dépouiller, vider, éliminer, liquider, terminer”.
Emprunté de l’allement “putzen”,… bien suisse comme expression :-)

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About Microblogging

Automattic released a new theme called Prologue which transform a WordPress blog into a Twitter-like tool. This is awesome! Will fit so well into an existing community or on an intranet! This is definitively underestimated! Might try to integrate that on an existing community to see how it goes.

Chris Borgan: Prologue is More Than We Are Considering, “Install WordPress on a web server inside the firewall and you’ve solved the “private implementation” of Twitter”, yeap!

On a sidenote, I need to change the layout of this blog to make it more micro-blogging friendly… I want to be able to write 160 chars post without title and stop posting on Twitter.

Playing with URLs on YouTube Mobile

(part 1) Wouah. YouTube Mobile is now available for every video, while until now it was only for selected videos. Because they are smart and because every video has a single id you can deduce the URL of the mobile version of a video from the web version. I need now to update my “killing” video plugin for WordPress :-)

Quite easy to translate this link (a video from the Kruger National Park):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cYZSanXWSE

to this (same video on the mobile version):
http://m.youtube.com/details?v=_cYZSanXWSE&warned=1

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