Ramin Hossaini (blog)

7Oct/090

Game: Robokill

Probably one of the most impressive Flash games I've seen


robokill

http://www.rocksolidarcade.com/games/robokill/

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7Oct/090

Game: Left 4K Dead

This simple game is so addictive


4kdead

Left 4K dead

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7Oct/090

Twitter tools

Tweetdeck

Personally, I think this is the best Twitter client/interface I've used so far - they also have a version available for the iPhone.


tweetdeck1

Get Tweetdeck

TweetStats

Find out more about your Tweeting-patterns:


tweetstats

TweetStats

Twitalyzer

Find out about your Twitter 'influence', 'signal', 'generosity', 'velocity' and 'clout':


twitalyzer

Twitalyzer

TweetPsych

This is interesting - build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets:


tweetpsych

TweetPsych

Twitter Karma

Find out who isn't following you back and who you're not following:


twitterkarma

Twitter Karma

BackTweets

Lets you search for links on twitter (even through URL shorteners). Useful if you want to see who's been tweeting about your website. They also have a Wordpress plugin for it.


backtweets

BackTweets

Twuffer

Twuffer is a "Twitter Buffer" that allows you to schedule tweets for a later time


twuffer

Twuffer

Qwitter

Qwitter lets you know when someone has stopped following you


qwitter

Qwitter

Did I miss something? Let me know in the comments. You can also follow me on twitter

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6Oct/090

Creating a tunnel and SOCKS proxy with Putty

Why?

  • Secure a public WiFi connection
  • Bypass country-specific-content websites (e.g sites that only allow users from the U.S)
  • Connect to a remotely-secured MySQL database via localhost

It's pretty easy to do in Linux (and I think the command is pretty much the same in MacOS or with cygwin installed):

ssh -L localport:hostname:remoteport username@Server

This is how to do it with Putty

Open Putty and enter in the basics: the Server and port (22):

putty1

Next, create the tunnel. Enter the source port (in this example, it's 3306 - a MySQL port) and leave the destination field empty (not always left blank, but it works for most cases)

putty2

The tunnel will be open/active as soon as you've logged in. Obviously, you still have to set up your proxy settings in whatever application you're using (for those who don't know, 127.0.0.1 is 'localhost'):

proxy

5Oct/090

I hate Internet Explorer

Any and all versions for that matter.

Text rendering in Firefox:

firefox

Text rendering in Google Chrome:

chrome

Text rendering in Internet Explorer 8 - WTF is this?!

IE

Ok, I admit: I'm using the text-shadow property... but still!

1Oct/090

Google Wave: View all public waves

Search for with:public and you'll have enough to keep you busy testing.

google-wave

Update: To make your wave publicly viewable, add this "public@a.gwave.com"

Note: You have to add it in the contact list on the bottom-left of the screen. It might not accept the email address, but just press enter anyway and it should work.

Note2: Sometimes the address will disappear from your list - in which case, add it again (I know, it's annoying).

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1Oct/094

Google Wave

Got my invitation for Google Wave this morning and I'm already seeing just how useful this can be for collaboration. Especially from a developer's point-of-view: Imagine real-time code-reviews, or dare I say, extreme programming (XP) across continents?.

The editor isn't half-bad at all - it recognizes Tabs (unlike Gmail)

wave-editor

To make it better, pressing Enter at the end of the line goes to the start of the tab, as opposed to the start of the new-line (awesome!):

wave-editor2

The other thing I've noticed is there isn't any mention of overall space-limitations.

More to come later...

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