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How to prevent categories from appearing in the WordPress loop 6 Feb 2013 | 02:02 pm
Sometimes, you may want to loop through all the WordPress categories, but excluding some of them. This is useful if you are organizing your content in categories and keeping some of them as “private”,...
How to make Angry Birds tutorials 9 Jun 2011 | 08:40 am
This and this are the two of the greatest game programming tutorials I have ever read. A must read for any aspiring game programmer.
Think different campaign 9 Apr 2011 | 08:34 pm
This advertising campaign from Apple is always actual, and is still inspiring nowadays. Think different!
My first Google Chrome experiment – download YouTube videos with YouVid 9 Apr 2011 | 05:29 am
I have just released my first Google Chrome extension, it’s called YouVid. It lets you download .flv files from YouTube, so that you can save and archive/convert those funny/interesting videos. Furthe...
Invite all Facebook friends bookmarklet 8 Apr 2011 | 08:01 pm
That was easy: after the JS code to invite all your friends to a Facebook event, page, group, etc. I have created a convenient bookmarklet to use it. Just drag&drop this link to your browser bookmark...
How to invite all your Facebook friends to an event at once (code has changed) 4 Apr 2011 | 07:15 am
In the last few days, Facebook has changed the “invite your friends” functionality, which powers suggestions and invitations to events, groups, pages, etc. The result is that old Javascript codes tha...
Mouse: R.I.P. 1963-2010 28 Jul 2010 | 06:20 am
On privacy-risks of location-based networks, again 8 Apr 2010 | 07:14 pm
A few days ago I blogged about location-based services and their privacy risks and implications. I was not that wrong, apparently, if you read this scary article about what happened to people on Four...
Interesting application of wisdom-of-the-crowd intelligence 3 Apr 2010 | 07:38 pm
via fastcompany.com Accordingly to the article linked above, there is actually some collective intelligence in the internet to be gathered from the so-called “wisdom-of-the-crowd”. Actually, I start ...
Location-Based Social Networks: Delightful, Dangerous or Somewhere in Between? 1 Apr 2010 | 02:09 am
Please Rob Me? OK! Says Burglar Not too long ago, a social experiment called PleaseRobMe launched, displaying the aggregated real-time updates from Foursquare users who used the service’s social shar...