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Needed a little something to take my mind off everything, so spent the morning messing around with Javascript, trying out Last.fm’s Realtime Submission Protocol. It was my first time playing with any kind of API, Javascript and web forms, so I’m pretty pleased with the result.
Enter your Last.fm username and password on the handshake page [...]

This, I had to share… simply because it’s the best explanation for anything to do with Facebook, ever:
You know [he] can actually still see this message despite temporarily deactivating his account. He memorised the source code for this particular website and there’s no privacy for the coding from which the words can be obtained.
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I’ve started playing with an app called Screenflow. As always, I’m totally late to the reviewing-brand-new-Mac-software game, but I’ll throw a couple of compliments in their direction anyway.
Wow, this thing is incredible. Really amazing. On first launch, having read absolutely no documentation, I recorded a minute and a half of me on the new Last.fm [...]

The May 2008 beta version of Last.fm is live for paying subscribers, and I have to say: I really do like it.
It’s a lot cleaner than the current design, though some testers have called it too much like other social networking sites – this is a valid concern, and from the staff posts in the [...]

I guess it’s true that even the simplest things take the longest time:

You may not be able to see it on the above screen captures (right click, view image might make it better) but replacing the logo with a new version to remove some ugly white pixels took four days after the new version had [...]