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19 Nov, 2008

Spore, Cider and Mac gaming underground

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech

One of the most hyped up releases of this fall, as definitely Spore, a game where you played evolution and evolved the species from a few cells up to the whole galaxy. The exciting thing about it, was also that it wasn’t only a PC release, but that Maxis released also a Mac version.

People tried it out, [...]

18 Nov, 2008

10 Wordpress plugins I can’t blog without

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech

After getting hacked, I moved the host and started over. I only transfered my posts to not loose a few years of content. In the process I had to go out and decide which plugins to reinstall.
It turns out it’s about 10 of them:

Easy Tube - Plugin to easliy place YouTube objects in Wordpress Content By Paul Bain.
FeedBurner FeedSmith - Originally [...]

15 Nov, 2008

Graphing Koornk

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech

Saturdays are the days for hacking (after having a great run earlier of course). This time I’ve been preparing a network data set for a friend. The idea was to take a look at who follows who on Koornk.
Tools used: their API, Python scripts and Pajek to draw the results.
This is what I’ve got after a [...]

13 Nov, 2008

Twitterank and the perceived need for OAuth

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech

In the last few days, there have been a number of stories about Twitterank and the way it asks you for your Twitter username and password in order to calculate something it calls “PageRank for Twitter”.
Image by ecstaticist via Flickr
The issue here, as you might have guessed already, is that the service requires you to [...]

02 Nov, 2008

Tweet Charts - visualize your tweets

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech

As we already know, some of us are seriously addicted to Twitter, which is for us totally ubiquitous now. We’re tweeting at all times of day and organize most of our social life with this nifty little tool. Even more, in order to separate our audiences, some of us are using a number of different [...]