Edna: the no-nonsense mp3 server

What do you do when you’re at a place where the sound system is connected to one of the local computers, and you want to play your own music?

I guess the way civilized people do this is via UPnP, but it never worked for me. Here in the third world, most people don’t have a UPnP client, and when you want to listen to music, the last thing you want is to install something (be the death of the party). Continue reading

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+2 widgets for WordPress

If you have a wordpress blog, the easiest way for you to add the +2 widget to it is by installing a plug-in that supplies an English variant of Heise’s widget.

I’ve just found out that what we use here at noblogs is Lucha‘s plug-in (github), and from Lucha’s readme I’ve learned about other options that are worth checking out (XSD socialshareprivacy, for example).  As I learn more about these (and perhaps other) plug-ins, I may update this post about their pros and cons.

I’ll keep maintaining my version – of course – because not all sites are wordpress blogs 😉

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Deliver us not into surveillance

Webmasters! The esteemed mock preacher of PreacherDude.com urges you to protect the privacy of your users by installing the +2 widget. Continue reading

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The global village’s rusty plumbing

I wake up in the morning to find out that 666kb.com is down [again], which means zillions of pages out there show broken images. At least one of these zillions is mine.

To make things worse, jottit.com is down too – which means we can’t see MagnetHead.jottit.com either. This makes my previous post here lose quite a lot of its weight, and  I don’t mean this in a good way. Continue reading

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Demagnetizr – Tweetable magnet links

Torrent magnet urls are cool, but you can’t tweet them.

Well, now you can. Here’s an example tweetable magnet link. Continue reading

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I stand corrected

I’ve recently tweeted:

First non-German site to use @heiseonline‘s social share #privacy widget is @ThaiFoodBlog‘s

I stand corrected. Apparently the noblogs collective already has an English version of Heise’s widget, and it’s a mighty slick wordpress plugin too (you can see it at the bottom of this post).

So let me rephrase my pompous announcement: Continue reading

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