Flickr Search iPhone app

Monday 07/13/2009  –  Category: Uncategorized  –  No Comments

Download Flickr Search 1.1

I couldn't find any simple Flickr search apps in the App Store; they had too many other features and the photo viewer wasn't very good.

I wanted the user experience to be like the native Photos app (being able to swipe through results, pinch and zoom) and also have download functionality. To do this, I used Joe Hewitt's three20, a library of useful classes extracted from the extremely popular Facebook app. It has made a lot of developers' lives easier...kudos to Joe!

Prowler: A Firefox extension to quickly send selected text to Prowl

Monday 07/13/2009  –  Category: Uncategorized  –  7 Comments

I stumbled upon Prowl this week and I have to say it's a pretty brilliant idea and an excellent use of the new push notification system in iPhone 3.0. Since they have an open API to send whatever you want to a user (defined by their API key), I decided to create an extension based on IPS to send whatever text you select to your iPhone. This could be phone numbers, directions, recipes...whatever you want to quickly send. It functions like a copy and paste across devices, similar to what Evernote's Web Clipper does but with the added bonus of having whatever you sent pushed as a push notification.

Download Prowler 1.0

Usage:
This assumes that you have the Prowl account and have the plugin and iPhone app installed. If you don't, get up to speed here.

1) Generate an API key under 'settings'.
2) Install the Prowler extension and restart Firefox when prompted
3) Copy and paste the API key you just generated into the Prowler Options preferences (under Tools > Prowler Options) and close the dialog
4) To send text to Prowl, select any text (up to 10000 characters), right click and click "Send Selected Text to Prowl"

That's all! Let me know how it works for you guys.

iPhoneSender updated for Firefox 3.5

Monday 07/13/2009  –  Category: Uncategorized  –  No Comments

If you haven't noticed, I've just gotten around to updating my extensions

Download iPhoneSender 1.0.3

Some new features in this version:

• Default email address: you can now set a default address within Tools > iPhoneSender options. If you leave it blank it will prompt you for an email like before.
• Custom subject: you can edit the subject line to anything you want.

With iPhone 3.0 push notifications, I'm thinking of adding an option to send the map link via Prowl. Prowl is a really neat iPhone app that forwards Growl messages to your iPhone as push notifications (that also get archived within the app). The nice thing is that they provide an API so you don't have to use it through it Growl--you can use the API to push a notification of whatever text you want.

Flickr Original updated for Firefox 3.5

Monday 07/13/2009  –  Category: Uncategorized  –  1 Comment

(UPDATE: Version 1.0.4 available!)
(UPDATE: New and improved version 1.0.3 available!)

Sorry for the delay, I've been away from a computer for a few weeks and have just started getting back into the swing of things.

Download Flickr Original 1.0.2

I'm a bit frustrated that the editors at Mozilla Addons still haven't approved the extension so it's still in the sandbox there. There have been two reasons it hasn't been approved:
1) the extension "must have some reviews either on AMO or elsewhere on the web"
2) "Your add-on uses your own website instead of flickr.com to view and download flickr images."

I gave a long list of sites that have blogged and reviewed the extension but for some reason they didn't acknowledge it the first couple times I submitted. Also, I'm not sure why they are averse to me using the Flickr API through a web service on my server. It's been quite a hassle and I've just about given up trying to re-nominate. You guys can download the sandboxed version anyway.

On a side note, I started rewriting the extension to do the image lookup on the client side via JSON to see if its faster. Perhaps AMO will finally approve it too!

View the initial Flickr Original post

apache2 startup error

Monday 06/15/2009  –  Category: Uncategorized  –  No Comments

If you're getting this error:

* Starting web server apache2
[Mon Jun 15 13:49:19 2009] [warn] NameVirtualHost YOUR.IP.HERE:0 has no VirtualHosts
(99)Cannot assign requested address: make_sock: could not bind to address YOUR.IP.HERE:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
...fail!

In your /etc/apache2/ports.conf file, change Listen YOUR.IP.HERE:80 to Listen *:80