These days, most of my work is very related to the online world. Building web sites, reviewing web applications, integrating with web services, coordinating people who are far away from each other, etc. Whenever I find a new tool or service or an innovative, interesting idea about working online, I share it in this category.
Twitter, it seems, is going through some rough times. I’ve seen plenty of Twitter fail whale in my time. But today there is something new. Â My Twitter feed is empty with a message that I’m not following anyone. Â Even though a counter to the right of the message shows that I’m following quite a few people.
I just received an email from PrimeTel, informing me of a scheduled maintenance work. Â Just in case you didn’t get yours, here is the content of that email:
Dear Valued Customer,
This is to inform you that due to scheduled maintenance of our network infrastructure, you will experience service outages during the following period:
30/05/2011, from 04:00 am to 05:00 am Cyprus time.
It is expected that the total downtime shall not exceed 30 minutes and we will do our best to keep it minimal.
We apologize for any inconvenience and please do not hesitate to contact us for further information.PrimeTel Support Team
Customer Support Service: 133
TechChrunch has a nice post covering the developments and ideas in the area of digital money. Â Even though most of the discussed is far from being practical today, the ideas and the progress are still fascinating.
Virtual currencies are in the news again with all the discussion aroundBitcoins, which is limited in supply and can be exchanged anonymously. Our own long experience with another digital currency, Ven, has made us think about the logical conclusion of these activities, and what it means for money at large. And what it means is the end of money as we know it.
Today, I had to create a simplistic tool for one of my side projects. Â What I needed was a quick way to create an image of a specific size, filled with specific color. Â If it was just for me, I could have survived with the Linux command line, of course. Â But there are other, non-technical people involved.
I coded a quick prototype in PHP with ImageMagick, which I called Color Image Generator. Â Once the functionality was there, I cleaned it up a bit and published to GitHub. Â You can grab the sources and use them any way you like, or you can use the hosted version. Â Enjoy!
Today, when I navigated to my Gmail contacts, I was greeted by the following message:
The “Learn more” link points to the page with very simple restore instructions:
- Click Contacts.
- From the More actions drop-down menu, choose Restore contacts.
- Choose the time you’d like to revert your contacts list to (e.g. 10 minutes ago, one hour ago, one week ago, etc). We suggest that you also make a note of the time that you restore your contacts, in case you’d like to return to where you started.
- Click Restore. You’ll see a confirmation at the top of the screen when the rollback is complete.