Year: 2006

fd’s Flickr Toys

Maxim calendar: January 2006

For the last few days I’ve been playing with fd’s Flickr Toys. It is an excellent set of simple applications that allow one to utilize a tremendous collection of images – Flickr – in a totally new way.

Basically, you can choose any image from Flickr and easily transform it into magazine cover, billboard picture, inspiration frame, calendar picture, stamp, etc. There are plenty of transformations available and they are really easy to use – just a couple of mouse clicks.

If you are a registered Flickr user, there are even more options for you. There are some games available, like, for example, the one for naming your contacts – you are shown a picture made by one of your contacts and given a choice of three options. You also get an option of uploading resulting images directly to your photostream.

Check this one out – it can grab your attention for some time.

P.S.: I liked some results so much that I’ve uploaded them to my Flickr account. You can see them all here (tagged with “fdsflickrtoys”). There are many picture transformations done by other Flickr users too. You can find them all here.

Updates from Dr.Simos’ office

We took Maxim for another check with Dr.Simos. Doctor confirmed that Maxim is getting better, but said that he still needs to be taken good care of. The antibiotic that we were giving him worked fine, but wasn’t enough and should be continued for three more days. Also, inhalations should be done now only three times a day, and not four. Additionally, two sessions of physiotherapy were prescribed to help Maxim clear his lungs and bronches.

Decimal to binary convertion in Perl

This is a simple thing, but when you need it – you need it. There is no need in implementing a function that does or looking for a module at CPAN. All you are looking for is already there.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

# Get the number from the command line or use default.
my $number = shift || 42;

printf "%b\n", $number;

You might want to refresh you memory of printf or sprintf by flipping though the manual pages.

P.S.: 42 decimal = 101010 binary. Is it cool or what?