Twitter is one of the most fun web apps I've ever used - if you've used it you know what I mean. I was skeptical before I signed up, but it turned out to be very fun. Anyhow, what I love about twitter is that it's a great way to get updates not just for what your friends are up to, but any kinds of updates. Using their API, I made a weather app (http://twitter.com/vanweather) that tweets the forecast for every day at 6AM. Check it out! I'll also be making one for Prague soon since I'll be there for the next seven months.
The most impressive FireFox add-on EVER.
Yes, that required a period at the end, because I've never seen anything even remotely as cool. It's called Cooliris, and you need to download it now. It only works for certain sites, but trust me, it's amazing. Go to Flickr or YouTube then click on the Cooliris icon, and you'll see what I mean.
Bot-proof or just ridiculous?
If you're not new to the internet and you've filled in online forms from time to time, you'll probably know what I'm talking about. For a couple of years now a lot of forms have some sort of "Are you human?" confirmation, generally it shows you a picture of a word, or a random combination of letters and numbers. Clearly hackers have been able to design bots to figure them out, so now they're more and more complicated. I can't even read them sometimes, and here's the latest attempt to ward off bots:
Horatiu Halmaghi
Student, hockey player and photography enthusiast from Burnaby, Canada.
