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If you are a programmer, you will love this little web application. As the description says, Snipt is a place when you can save all your code snippets.

 

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Bugs and some small stuff I don’t quite like about it [+ some ideas]:

  • I can only delete a snippet by clicking on “edit” first.
  • I would really love to have the ability to delete multiple snippets or add a tag to multiple snippets.
  • [BUG] when adding a new code snippet if I don’t add a tag it gives me a warning, but if I forgot to add the short description [or simply don’t want to add it] the snippet is not added to the database and no warning / info appears.
  • When viewing the snippets, it will be excellent to choose between to view-modes: full snippet view & snippet title view – in this way the

Bespin is a Mozilla Labs experiment that proposes an open, extensible web-based framework for code editing that aims to increase developer productivity, enable compelling user experiences, and promote the use of open standards.

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To learn more about Bespin, here it is a video tour-guide made by the developers of Bespin:


Introducing Bespin from Dion Almaer on Vimeo.

I played with it a little bit and I really liked the concept.

I can’t wait to see new features ;) [btw – some color schemes will be nice]. What I liked the most is the fact that will allow collaborations to the same file. Maybe a SVN-like system in the future? Who knows…

Go ahead – make an account and give it a try.

5 Online Ringtone Makers

By Chris on February 17, 2009

1. Cellsea Free Online Ringtone Maker

Cellsea it’s a website that has all kind of stuff for your mobile phone – one of these being a free online ringtone creator. I give it a try and it worked great. The ringtone sounds excellent [it’s on my phone already] and the UI it’s simple, clean and easy to use. You just need to let it load 100%.

IMPORTANT: to save the ringtone you must have an account. It’s free ;)

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Formats supported: MP3, midi, wav, aiff, m4a, aac, mp4, wma, flv

2. The Unlocker Online Ringtone Creator

The Unlocker offers an online ringtone creator for free and you don’t need an account to save the ringtone to your mobile/pc.

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3. Make Own Ringtone

Make Own Ringtone it’s a website specialized in ringtones. It doesn’t have anything else. Just a ringtone creator and a lot of options to use [by choosing the advanced mode]:

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With it I encountered some errors, but I think the server was kind of busy when I test it.

4. ToneBee Online ringtone maker

ToneBee allows you to create and save ringtones, but, just like CellSea, you need to have an account.

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If you load your MP3 file, make your selection and when you want to save you see an error like this don’t panic:

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Here are the steps for creating a ringtone from your MP3.

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Now you can click on Save ;)

5. MyMusicRings

MyMusicRings has the classic MP3 upload function, and, an YouTube video to ringtone converter.

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I didn’t like the User Interface, but… the YouTube feature it’s a really cool one.

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That’s all – enjoy and… make great ringtones !!!

MilBits Free WordPress Theme

By Chris on February 17, 2009

This theme has been developed exclusively for the MilBits blog. Because of the large amount of requests, the MilBits team decided to give MilBits WordPress Theme for free under GPL license.

This theme has a lot of optimizations within the code and defined development strategies to increase performance both for users and search engines.

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Features:

  • WordPress 2.6+ is supported (tested on 2.6 and 2.7)
  • 2 columns
  • Supported browsers: It works on most common browsers under Windows, Linux and Mac: Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Chrome… (only in IE 5.5 and 8.0 the sidebar is broken).
  • CSS is valid. HTML is also valid but WordPress sometimes add code in XHTML, so it doesn’t validate. To solve this trouble, you could install this plugin
  • Widgets are supported
  • If there is no comments on a post it isn’t show; so ‘No comments’ is never shown.
  • Images optimized using CSS sprites
  • In sidebar, last comments are shown using Simple recent comments plugin
  • In sidebar, most commented posts are shown using this plugin
  • Editor’s comments are highlighted using this technique
  • CSS layout. Every part of the pages (sidebar, articles, icons, pagination) are commented and isolated to make it easier to find and edit.
  • Comments and trackbacks are separated thanks to this tips
  • Usable 404 pages to make it easier to understand.
  • Width of lines is optimized for reading using width in ems (usability tip)
  • SEO (Search engine optimization): Archives, tags and categories doesn’t show full articles to help article’s pages to get higher in SERPs.
  • Every article has options to share in 12 social bookmarking sites
  • Subscription to feed is highlighted from sidebar and article’s page.

[Demo] | [Release Page] | [Free Download for MilBits WordPress Theme]

TED – torrent episode downloader

By Chris on February 16, 2009

Are you a TV addict? Do you watch a lot of TV shows? If so, I’m sure you use all kind of websites to search for the newest episodes.

Well… You can delete all those site because ted does all this work for you.

What is ted?

ted can find episodes of any TV show you like to watch. Just add your favorite shows to ted and he will search for the newest episodes and downloads them for you. ted uses bittorrent and RSS technology to get you the newest episodes as fast as possible!

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Offline GMail is here

By Chris on January 29, 2009

enjoy ;)

Details:

We’re making offline Gmail available to everyone who uses Gmail in US or UK English over the next couple of days, so if you don’t see it under the Labs tab yet, it should be there soon. Once you see it, just follow these steps to get started:

  1. Click Settings and click the Labs tab.
  2. Select Enable next to Offline Gmail.
  3. Click Save Changes.
  4. After your browser reloads, you’ll see a new "Offline0.1" link in the upper righthand corner of your account, next to your username. Click this link to start the offline set up process and download Gears if you don’t already have it.

 

via GMail Blog

Anti IE A WordPress plugin can help your IE6 users to get rid of this… “bad habit” [yes, I am an IE6 hater :D].

Shockingly Big IE6 Warning is the perfect solution to inform your users that their version of IE it’s bad, it’s dangerous, and so on…

The plugin shows to IE6 a warning, and can be configured to display a small one or a big one:

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The plugin uses jQuery, but if your theme doesn’t have it, don’t worry – the plugin comes with its own copy ;)

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Yes, this WordPress plugin it’s a must have :D

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