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4Dec/090

flic.kr bookmarklet

The Nokia N900 browser plays nicely with "bookmarklets" - small snippets of javascript that you can bookmark that perform useful functions. One new find is the Flickr short ur generator, its pretty handy if you like twitter / irc / facebook and post flickr urls a lot..

Another one that I like is the Youtube MP4 video downloader - Youtube videos play fine in the N900, but sometimes I want to save a good one..

To use these, just hit ctrl-b in the browser and find the bookmarklet of your choice..

Oh, and I snapped a nice (in my opinion) photo of Quim giving the opening welcome for Maemo Barcelona Long Weekend.

Flickr Tag Error: Call to display photo '4156936743' failed.

Error state follows:

  • type: 2
  • message: file_get_contents(http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?api_key=ab3d8caa418c7e03aeda35edb756d223&auth_token=72157622612115590-eab6a202fba6328e&format=php_serial&method=flickr.photos.getInfo&photo_id=4156936743&api_sig=1bf26e7ca3908d0a46a5c72b9618922f) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found
  • file: /home/tigert/sites/tigert.com/site/wp-content/plugins/flickr-tag/FlickrTagCommon.php
  • line: 176

Filed under: general, maemo.org, web, weblinks No Comments
2Dec/097

Maemo Extras -packages: Droid fonts

The Maemo Extras -repository (and extras-devel / testing) contains community software for the N900 and the older Maemo devices. One of the nice packages available is the open "Droid Sans" -font set, originating from the Android project by Google. Droid Sans Mono works great with the Terminal application:

Flickr Tag Error: Call to display photo '4152754190' failed.

Error state follows:

  • type: 2
  • message: file_get_contents(http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?api_key=ab3d8caa418c7e03aeda35edb756d223&auth_token=72157622612115590-eab6a202fba6328e&format=php_serial&method=flickr.photos.getInfo&photo_id=4152754190&api_sig=6c56c4aae6308af691f21be0d0d12277) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found
  • file: /home/tigert/sites/tigert.com/site/wp-content/plugins/flickr-tag/FlickrTagCommon.php
  • line: 176

You can also hack the system theme to use Droid Sans with a simple perl one-liner.. you need the "droid fonts" and "rootsh" packages from extras repository installed first of course..

DISCLAIMER: Do this at your own risk, I might have made a mistake in this example...

$ root
# perl -pi -e "s/Nokia Sans/Droid Sans/g" \
   /usr/share/themes/alpha/gtk-2.0/gtkrc \
   /usr/share/themes/alpha/gtk-2.0/gtkrc.input_method \
   /usr/share/themes/alpha/matchbo*/theme.xml

Then switch theme to another and back, or reboot the device. Substitute "alpha" with "beta" for the orangeish theme variant if you like. Example below:

Flickr Tag Error: Call to display photo '4152065031' failed.

Error state follows:

  • type: 2
  • message: file_get_contents(http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?api_key=ab3d8caa418c7e03aeda35edb756d223&auth_token=72157622612115590-eab6a202fba6328e&format=php_serial&method=flickr.photos.getInfo&photo_id=4152065031&api_sig=48f44b82612ac8127802f03a6f1e7480) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found
  • file: /home/tigert/sites/tigert.com/site/wp-content/plugins/flickr-tag/FlickrTagCommon.php
  • line: 176

Switching back to Nokia Sans is left as an excercise for the reader ;-)

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