Category: Web work

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.

Major upgrade to Evernote Clipper for Google Chrome

I am a huge fan of Evernote for a few years now, and one of the reasons behind my support is the Clipper.  Instead of just saving the bookmarks the old (Delicious?) way, Evernote allows to save full or partial pages.  With this, even if the original site removes content or disappears completely, you’d still have the clip in your notes.

A couple of days ago Evernote announced that they are releasing an updated version of the Clipper for Google Chrome.  Here is the quick video with some new features.

It looks like they’ve merged in some of the functionality of their other applications and browser extensions, such as Clearly – a browser extension that can cleanup noisy pages leaving just the content of the article to read, and Skitch – a simple annotations and graphical editing tool.  While it sounds complicated, the functionality actually makes sense.

There are also some other new features, such as setting reminder on the note directly from the Clipper (rather than from the Evernote), and a Share button.  When all is combined, it makes Evernote into a really powerful too.  For example, emailing someone an annotated screenshot is now a quick task of just a few clicks.

Very, very handy tool!

The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back

The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back

We can make surveillance expensive again. In particular, we need open protocols, open implementations, open systems – these will be harder for the NSA to subvert.

 

Google authorship

For a while now I’ve been trying to have my avatar appear next to the search results leading to my blog.   There are many guides online that I’ve tried, but nothing seems to work.  I followed all the steps – verified my email, had a high quality image, linked the site to my Google+ profile, used the “by” string next to articles and the “?author” parameter in the link.  Still, no image.

Today I was looking around to see if I could find any other tip.  And apparently, there is this page now, which clarifies my problem in the first step:

Make sure you have a profile photo with a recognizable headshot.

When you put it this way, then I can see why even the high quality image wouldn’t be recognized.  It’s not a full headshot.  It’s a tight crop that computers might have a problem with, while people see.  Hopefully, this will be enough to finally sort it out.  If it will, I’ll play around with the original avatar to see how far I can take it without loosing the recognition.