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twitpic and yfrog thumbnails

hack 28 June 2009 | 0 Comments

my facebook newsfeed is full of twits with links to images hosted on twitpic and yfrog. both twitpic and yfrog provide a super simple way to get thumbnails from these links. so, until facebook or some facebook-app does this for me, i had to do it for myself.
here’s a simple bookmarklet twitpicfix that will convert [...]

Download Kindle books

hack 2 March 2009 | 0 Comments

just got my new Kindle 2 which is totally awesome.
I found this website, http://manybooks.net/ which has tons of books from Project Gutenberg, it also has all the titles in the Kindle’s AZW format.
My friend Amit Shafrir said it would be cool if there were some script that let you quickly download these AZW files, and [...]

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Playing with Yahoo Pipes

hack 17 August 2008 | 2 Comments

So I was sitting this Sunday afternoon, getting pissed that there’s no easy way to monitor replies on Twitter. I talk with people there and there’s no serious built-in feature in Twitter that will notify me when people reply to me, which, other than direct messages, is exactly when I want to jump back in [...]