If you’ve recently started using Instagram, like yous truly, you probably wondered how you could make all those pictures available on the web. A sidebar widget on your blog is an option, of course. But if you wanted something more, something more like a traditional gallery, then you need to check out Instagrid. Because that’s exactly what it does – creates an online gallery for your Instagram pictures. Here is mine.
Thanks for a tip from Chris.
If you’ve ever rode a motorcycle while wearing an open face helmet, you know the feeling of strong wind against your face. Now imagine that but with an even stronger wind and a photo camera that captures your facial expressions. That’s what “Blow job” project is all about. I’m sure that’s something a lot of people thought about, but Lithuanian photograph Tadas Černiauskas actually organized. Read more about it and see more funny photos.
To all my friends and colleagues who choose to or are forced to suffer coding in Windows environment, here comes GitHub for Windows. No more Cygwin installs, SSH key management, and command line interfaces – all as I’m sure you want.
Via The Next Web I’ve learned that according to StatCounter global stats, Google Chrome has just overtaken Microsoft Internet Explorer as the web’s most used browser. These are very good news! For the amount of pain and suffering MSIE caused to web developers all around the world during the last decade or so, it truly deserves to crash and burst in flames. That not being a realistic option, being kicked out of the web slowly, but surely seems like a good alternative.
Flickr people once again outdid themselves. An update to the design of the single photo page changes things to the better, much better. Now you’ll the image filling almost entirely your screen, instead of a medium-sized thumbnail surrounded by all the navigational clutter. Here is how it looks now.
And for those of you interested in the technical side of the story, there is a blog post explaining all the different challenges. It might even be interesting for non-technical people to read, just to get an idea of how complex some seemingly simple things can be.