Monthly Archives: April 2011

As found on the web (April 27th)

	frank liked Miles Davis – All Blues – 1964.
	frank liked 2 videos.
	frank posted Lessons From a Cloud Failure: It’s Not Amazon, It’s You.
	frank posted Steve Jobs Responds to iOS Location-Tracking Controversy.
	frank posted Xavier Mertens: Should Dropbox & Co be Killed?.
	frank posted RIP Typewriters: Last Manufacturer Closes Its Doors.
	frank liked 2 videos.
	frank posted twitter communities/the living dead.
	frank posted Tracking Firefox 4’s ‘Do Not Track’ Usage.
	frank published Remove “via @addtoany” from Twitter.
	frank posted 7,000 employees to go from Nokia.
	frank liked radicalfashion / Photo Dynasmo.

Remove “via @addtoany” from Twitter

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Although I don’t do Twitter and even though I removed AddtoAny from my blog over a year ago, people have been stopping by here while searching for ways to remove “via @addtoany” from Twitter.

If you own the site on which AddtoAny is used, removing the “via” is pretty straightforward and documented. Just add some javascript in your pages to define a “template” for Twitter, like this:

var a2a_config = a2a_config || {};
a2a_config.templates = {
    twitter: "Interesting read: ${title} ${link}"
};

Be sure ${link}, and preferably ${title} are in the template. The rest is up to you, really. And while you’re at it, you might want to configure AddtoAny not to do 3rd party tracking?

As found on the web (April 20th)

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	frank posted Apple’s Safari sports ‘do-not-track’ in dev build.
	frank posted How to Use Firefox’s New ‘Aurora’ Release Channel.
	frank posted Sony Ericsson Opens Website Aimed at Unlocking Devices.
	frank Frank bloggen op de trein en dan geen vertraging hebben, da’s pech! ;-)..
	frank published Follow-up Friday: Ubuntu Unity, Android security & WordPress Stats.
	frank liked Magnetic Man – Getting Nowhere ft. John Legend.
	frank posted Mozilla eyes changes ‘to keep our users safe’.
	frank posted Radiohead’s Vinyl-Only Record Store Day Release Leaked to YouTube.
	frank posted For Your Script Loading Needs.
	frank posted Van een “révolution des caleçons” tot een “cordon de velours”.
	frank Frank heeft de internetverbindieng van zus (Saskia Goossens) gerepareerd en moest daar zelfs niets voor doen ;-)..
	frank posted Apple Says Samsung “Chose To Copy” iPhone and iPad, Sues Them.
	frank liked 2 videos.
	frank published Audio-only YouTube embedding with WP YouTube Lyte 0.7.
	frank posted Heaven.
	frank liked The Books – I Didn’t Know That.

Audio-only YouTube embedding with WP YouTube Lyte 0.7

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Last night I finished version 0.7.0 of WP YouTube Lyte. The bump in version number (0.6.5 to 0.7.0) is because of a new feature: the ability to embed YouTube as audio-only player, as seen on Pitchfork. Because after all, as great a source for music discovery as YouTube can be, you really don’t want to force your visitors to watch yet another clumsy fan-made slideshow while they’re listening to your latest musical crush, do you?

Embedding YouTube as an audio-only player is dead-simple; add an ‘a’ instead of a ‘v’ to the YouTube link and you’re good to go!

httpa://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFjgv1MO724

becomes this audio-only embedded YouTube with Dorian Concept’s “Her Tears Taste Like Pears”;

Dorian Concept - Her Tears Taste Like Pears

Watch this video on YouTube.

Follow-up Friday: Ubuntu Unity, Android security & WordPress Stats

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Just a couple of small updates on previous stories to keep you posted really.

We’ll start of with Ubuntu Natty Narwhal; beta 2 has been released earlier today. I’ve downloaded a lot of updated packages over the last few days, so I guess I’m on the second beta as well. The Unity launcher now comes out of hiding perfectly and it scrolls down automatically to show items at the bottom as well. There also was a bug with the menu-items of some applications (e.g. Firefox 4) disappearing which seems fixed. Hope they can get the launcher to behave with Java apps (e.g. my favorite mindmapping application) soon.

On another note: Lookout, the Android app that allows you to locate your handset and -if you have the paying version- remotely wipe it, seems to be getting some serious competition from …. Google. Enterprises who have Google Apps for Business can now locate, encrypt and wipe their Android devices. Especially the encryption is important news, but it really should be available and configurable in the Android OS itself

To finish off with some news about WordPress Stats secretive inclusion of Quantcast behavioral tracking: it seems like WordPress Stats plugin will be replaced by Automattics Jetpack, which according to the site:

supercharges your self‑hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com

Jetpack actually is a “super-plugin” that offers functionality from Stats, Sharedaddy, After the deadline and other previously separately available Automattic plugins. The Jetpack WordPress.com stats module does still include the Quantcast “spyware”, doesn’t disclose this feature and doesn’t provide functionality that warrants Quantcast inclusion (in spite of Matt Mullenweg claiming “We’ve been using Quantcast to get some additional information on uniques that it’s hard for us to calculate”). But there is (some) good news in the Jetpack Stats source code though, because on line 145 it reads:

‘do_not_track’ => true, // @todo

This could mean that blog-owners will one day be able to opt out of 3rd party tracking or it might be that Stats will take e.g. Firefox DNT-header into account for your blog’s visitors. Having both would off course be what I will be rooting for!

As found on the web (April 13th)

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	frank liked FIELD MUSIC – ALL YOU’D EVER NEED TO SAY+SOMETHING FAMILIAR+SHARE THE WORDS.wmv.
	frank posted Celebrating 20 Years of Linux [INFOGRAPHIC].
	frank posted Frédéric Péters: GNOME 3.0.
	frank published Happy conception-day Linux!.
	frank liked Jenny Wilson – Pass Me The Salt.
	frank posted IE9: Microsoft is back in the browser game.
	frank published Daar is ons Lentelieze.
	frank posted Dries Buytaert: Web services in Drupal 8.
	frank posted Yet Another Adobe Flash and Reader 0 Day.
	frank posted IE10 Platform Preview 1 released.
	frank liked Jim Noir – Car.

Daar is ons Lentelieze

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Het is al weer een tijdje geleden dat ik hier nog eens stoefte met het schoonste, liefste en slimste dochterken ooit, maar dat is bij deze dan ook weer rechtgezet:

En ja, het is toch al wreed schoon weer voor den tijd van het jaar geweest eh Meneer?

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Monthly Archives: April 2011

As found on the web (April 27th)

Remove “via @addtoany” from Twitter

As found on the web (April 20th)

Audio-only YouTube embedding with WP YouTube Lyte 0.7

Follow-up Friday: Ubuntu Unity, Android security & WordPress Stats

As found on the web (April 13th)

Daar is ons Lentelieze