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19
Jan 12

25 Universities and Colleges Offering Free Courses Online

See also http://opencontent.org/ocwfinder/
If you have trouble accessing the link below here it is
http://freevideolectures.com/blog/2012/01/universities-colleges-offering-free-courses-online/

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25 Universities and Colleges Offering Free Courses Online

Open courseware offered by top universities allow self-learners to access high quality educational materials for no cost. Whether expanding your knowledge on a variety of topics or sampling the programs offered at universities, free courses can benefit you. List of colleges & courses offered: http://goo.gl/j5FFu

You can also access free online course materials from around the world at World Lecture Hall: http://wlh.webhost.utexas.edu/index.cfm

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18
Jan 12

Escaping Flickr

I previously http://bit.ly/x0KSf0 wrote about my troubles with Flickr: my Pro account expired (Flickr cared so much about keeping me as a client that it sent me a total 1 (one) mail about it) and according to Flickr policy I could only access only the 200 most recents og my photos. The solution (according to #Flickr was easy: pay them for another year).

Thankfully, I had most of my photos in my iPhoto library. So for most of the photos I could just export them again to Picasa and then delete them from Flickr. As soon as I deleted some photos, Flickr would release a few more, always holding me on the 200 limit.

So I ended up with about 100 photos I didn't have elsewhere. To the rescue came #Migatr http://bit.ly/xTGzjE . Migatr, a Windows-only application, allows you to migrate from many web platforms to another. The following are supported:
- 23HQ
- Aol Pictures (Import Only) (CLOSING)
- Faces.com
- Flickr
- Menalto Gallery (Self-Hosted)
- Picasa Web
- Phanfare
- Photobucket
- SmugMug
- Zenfolio
- Zooomr

The process was quite pain-free (I was only troubled having to find the .NET Framework that is required not the actual migration). Your photos are first downloaded locally and then uploaded on the service of your choice. Unfortunately titles from Flickr are not saved, but titles embedded in EXIF data will of course be read on the other end (e.g. Picasa in my case). I'd like it the photos were also separated in folders when they are downloaded, as it is they are all dumped in a single folder. Still, it's free and worked without issues, and I'm free from Flickr now :)

See the liberated photos here http://bit.ly/ygyScu

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7
Jan 12

I'm a Flickr hostage

I had seen the notification by #Flickr that my Pro account was expiring. The single mail of notification linked to a FAQ page http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/#73 mentioned that photos above the 200 free limit would be hidden. I made the mistake to believe that that meant that the extra photos would simply be hidden from public view.

Instead, when your account expires, not only the public but also you lose access to any photos over the 200 limit. This means your photos are now hostage to Flickr, which gives you a supposedly funny notice when you login, informing that your photos are "safe & sound". You just have to pay to see them again.

I can't seem to avoid thinking there was a reason why they only send a single notification mail about the account expiration…

So what are my options now (if any?) except from paying Flickr #extortion money?

[update]
1) +michael arrington describes the situation also here (nice photo :) ) http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/08/i-wont-use-flickr-until-they-release-my-photo-hostages/
2) It seems that if you delete some of the most recent photos, Flickr will show you some of the older ones… An still no official way to massively download your photos. Thankfully most of my photos are also stored locally but I don't have them properly categorized in all cases.

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Search Engines / Technology / Web Development — 1 Comment
3
Jan 12

If Google bans Google

[Update]
In an excellent move of fairness, the Google Chrome page no longer appears on the organic results for "browser".
Here is a screenshot (G+ doesn't allow me to add another photo on this post any more)
http://giannopoulos.net/2012/01/03/if-google-bans-google/google-chrome-demoted/
Here is Matt Cutt's post on the matter
https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202/posts/NAWunDzJSHC
It would be nice if they also stopped the paid ad for Google Chrome from appearing on the top spot of the results by the way… :)
[/end]

will it break the internet? :) Apparently Google has been paying for blog posts about Google Chrome, against it's own rules for the rest of the internet. On the issue:

The original article by SEOBook
http://www.seobook.com/post-sponsored-google
Article on Search Engine Land
http://searchengineland.com/googles-jaw-dropping-sponsored-post-campaign-for-chrome-106348
Google's "Paid Links" guidelines
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66736
Google says it's the marketing firm that did it
http://www.theverge.com/web/2012/1/3/2678948/google-unruly-media-response-chrome-sponsored-post

Damn marketers! We told you, "NO EVIL"! :)

P.S. I love the quote from Search Engine Land: "So what have we got? Google’s paid for a content-light post that’s not a review of Google Chrome, nor a review of how Google Chrome helps small business, pushing a video that also doesn’t show how Google Chrome helps small businesses."

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Design / Technology — 2 Comments
28
Dec 11

Introducing… the MacPhone in 1984

Follow the link to see concept work done by Hartmut Esslinger, designer of the Apple IIc. Among them, a design for a future (for 1984) phone in co-operation with AT&T.

http://fudder.de/artikel/2007/07/17/origin-of-the-iphone/artikel/

[Update] see also: Appledesign: The Work of the Apple Industrial Design Group
http://www.amazon.com/Appledesign-Apple-Industrial-Design-Group/dp/1888001259
(thanks +Charis Tsevis)
[Update] the book mentioned above is rare to find (Amazon sells it used for $500), but here is an excellent source on the issue with information and photos copied from the book http://liquidpubs.com/blog/2010/11/08/apple-their-tablet-computer-history/

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Fun / Technology — 1 Comment
27
Dec 11

Wikipedia, point taken

The internet told you to stop putting Jimmy Wales' face on the donation banners so now you show us the alternatives. Ok, point taken. I made a small donation, please bring Jimmy back! :)

That said, here's the donation link in case you've missed it https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Technology / Web Development — No Comments
26
Dec 11

Excellent #HTML5 work!

This really pushes the boundaries of what we consider can be done with HTML :)

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We open sourced the code behind Stanisław Lem doodle and I wrote an article describing it. Hope you enjoy!

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/doodles/lem/
http://code.google.com/p/stanislaw-lem-google-doodle/

Embedded Link

HTML5 Rocks – Case Study: Building the Stanisław Lem Google doodle

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Technology — 3 Comments
26
Dec 11

This will hurt

Hackers claiming to be the group Anonymous said they had obtained around 4,000 credit card details, passwords and home addresses on Stratfor's private client list, which was posted on information-sharing website Pastebin.

The question now is: can an "intelligence" company like Stratfor survive such a disaster?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/26/us-stratfor-hacking-idUSTRE7BO0GM20111226

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Technology — No Comments
25
Dec 11

An Apple Christmas tale

How Apple beat IBM in Steve Jobs' first retail war
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/25/charles_eicher_christmas_1984/

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24
Dec 11

No Google, wrong match :)

No Google, wrong match :)

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