Christian Heilmann

TTMMHTM: Licenses, Visualizations and Ada Lovelace

January 13th, 2009

Things that made me happy this morning: the Internet’s vanity license number plates with an amazing amount of naughty ones. It misses the “FLUXCOMP” I’ve spotted in Mountain View A visualization of what the world would look like if it were inhabited by 100 people A schema of the names of almost every big heavy […]

Adding transcripts to presentations embedded from SlideShare using YQL

January 11th, 2009

I like SlideShare a lot (yeah, repetition, I know). It is a great way of spreading your presentations as it allows others to embed them into their blogs and web sites and it also allows people to download and re-use what you’ve done. One thing I really like about SlideShare is that it creates HTML […]

Another amazingly useful web site: http://ismycomputeron.com

January 9th, 2009

Sometimes you come across web services that are so amazingly useful, you wonder why nobody has done it before. One of those is Is my computer on? sent to me this morning by Tomas Caspers. While the usefulness of the service is indisputable the lack of RSS feed or API is actually annoying (let’s not […]

Using Twitter as a data provider to automatically fill forms

January 8th, 2009

I hate having to enter all my details when I fill forms – especially when I know for a fact that I’ve entered them before. Looking at Smashing Magazine’s Twitter Avatar WordPress Plugin I got to play with the show API of twitter, which gives you user information. For example to get my information in […]

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