Music & Tech http://alex.simsnetwerk.com Music & Tech Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:20:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en The Top 10 Ways IT Geeks Will Spend The Long Weekend http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/07/06/the-top-10-ways-it-geeks-will-spend-the-long-weekend/ http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/07/06/the-top-10-ways-it-geeks-will-spend-the-long-weekend/#comments Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:20:50 +0000 Alex http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/?p=94 [view link]

]]> http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/07/06/the-top-10-ways-it-geeks-will-spend-the-long-weekend/feed/ Clean Command line Google searching! http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/06/03/clean-command-line-google-searching/ http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/06/03/clean-command-line-google-searching/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:55:28 +0000 Alex http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/?p=87 Always wanted to search google in a commandline textonly style? Then Goosh.org might be something for you. It’s add free googling, really clean and straight forward, Just take a look:

just press H for a list of commands or start your search straighway by typing something and pressing enter.
I searched for ‘Buzz Out Loud’ and the results are clean:

Go and have some fun and try Goosh.org

]]> http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/06/03/clean-command-line-google-searching/feed/ Why I now Hate embed codes! http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/06/03/why-i-now-hate-embed-codes/ http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/06/03/why-i-now-hate-embed-codes/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:42:47 +0000 Alex http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/?p=85 Yes you read it right, I hate embed codes! Why, you ask? Because 99% of them aren’t XHTML Compliant. Since my blog redesign Rosana Made sure it would be XHTML and CSS Compliant (yeah the buttons on the bottom of the page actually mean something now) click them and see what it says:


So now it’s my job to keep it that way, Rosana gave me some tips on doing that. So whats the problem? Well if I want to insert for ex. a CNETTV video my Blog ain’t compliant anymore and that sucks, same with Flickr if I say to Flickr, ‘post this image on my blog’ it will post something that isn’t compliant. Why can’t big companies just make sure that everything is web standards compliant? Is it so hard to make a webstandards compliant embed? or for that matter a webstandards compliant browser?

]]> http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/06/03/why-i-now-hate-embed-codes/feed/ Checking out Plurk! http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/06/01/checking-out-plurk/ http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/06/01/checking-out-plurk/#comments Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:09:37 +0000 Alex http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/?p=83 We all know how unstable Twitter has been the last few weeks, or has always been. So is it time for something new? Lets put it this way, there’s finally a real Twitter competitor, with the time line and the @ replies and the 140 character limit. It’s Called Plurk! Leo Laporte just sent out an invite to everybody following him on twitter.
So as a web 2.0 junkie I saw it as my task to sign up.

So whats it all about, it’s really allot like twitter, a bit more flashy with ajax stuff etc, It doesn’t look that simple. Just take a look at this picture:

It looks really pretty, but I can’t take a quick glance at it an know what my friends are doing. I like the list on twitter allot more.

Anyway I suggest you try it, and take a look for your self. If you want to add me I’m ‘Tales‘ on Plurk.

And click here if you want to get an invite.
Update: Seems alot of people are giving it a try, who knows maybe it really will be the twitter replacement

Update 2: Plurk seems to be dying already, If you try to upload a picture to your profile: ‘ Due to server move picture uploading is currently disabled.
It will be re-enabled during tomorrow - monday.’

]]> http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/06/01/checking-out-plurk/feed/ I hate the weather http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/06/01/i-hate-the-weather/ http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/06/01/i-hate-the-weather/#comments Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:31:05 +0000 Alex http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/?p=81 Dutch Weather

Dutch Weather Sucks, it changes too much! I like it to be around 20 - 23 degrees Celsius, and I don’t like thunder!

]]> http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/06/01/i-hate-the-weather/feed/ New Blog Design http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/05/24/new-blog-design/ http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/05/24/new-blog-design/#comments Sat, 24 May 2008 18:02:11 +0000 Alex http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/?p=79 Yesterday Rosana IM’d me to say my new blog design was finished, yes that’s right a new blog design made by the Rosana Kooymans! after I ran a few times through the house I calmed down and took a look. I was shocked I knew she would make a nice design but this nice? It’s so pwetty <Insert Gadgettes pwetty soundtrack here>

So let’s have a look whats new.

  • Name change: I changed the name, my blog is now called ‘The Photos & Tech Blog’
  • About me tab (yeah I know I still have to edit that
  • Tag cloud and Calender and Last.fm were there before
  • My Desktop: Will show a picture of my desktop in future
  • Flickr: My beautiful photos
  • Lifestream: My activity around the web theres also a mashup link above where you can see it day by day
  • Find me Online: Sites where you can find me
  • SNW: Sims/Spore Websites
  • MD banner: Miss Design (Rosana Kooymans) the designer of my Blog theme
  • And a Favicon!

It’s looking good isn’t it, thanks once again Rosana You make beautiful designs!

]]> http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/05/24/new-blog-design/feed/ December 2007 Clip http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/04/21/december-2007-clip/ http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/04/21/december-2007-clip/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:23:46 +0000 Alex http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/?p=70 I made a nice video of my photos that I shot in December using Animoto:


December 2007 from Tales on Vimeo.

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Doodles
Doodles
Camera: Nikon D40
Aperture: f/4.2
Focal Length: 26 mm
My cat with just one ear. He lost one because of cancer.
]]> http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/04/20/doodles/feed/ Flower http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/04/19/flower/ http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/04/19/flower/#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:21:53 +0000 Alex http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/04/19/flower/
Flower
Camera: Nikon D40
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 55 mm
Flower in our House
]]> http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/04/19/flower/feed/ Dove http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/04/19/dove/ http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/04/19/dove/#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:59:58 +0000 Alex http://alex.simsnetwerk.com/2008/04/19/dove/
Dove
Dove
Camera: Nikon D40
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 200 mm
A dove on a light post just outside our garden.
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