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Remember that wonderful plugin I had a while back, that let you log in with practically any account you could have?

Today I brought it back, don’t be scared by the “you need to be logged in to comment” it is quick and easy(the registration process is just a login box).

you can even log in with even MORE services now

currently supported:

Twitter

Facebook

Yahoo

Google

Live

AOL

Blogger

OpenID

and Flickr

My Space will be added soon(when I bother to register an app over there as well ^_^)

ps.

This is better for you also, cause I trust your providers so much, I trust that you are human and that you don’t spam my blog, no moderation for you

pps.

Share This! sorry I meant Sociable is also available, see those small icons below each post? click one of the service icons and it will take you to it with a link to that post

Ghost whisperer by Valentina Kallias

I feel so old when I say that, but I just have to rant on about this as well.

Again it’s public transport in the story(yay!).

I was sitting at the tram on my way home, when a bunch of school kids comes on.

first they begin toying around on the tram, running up and down the isle(well nothing wrong about that imo, I did that aswell when I was about their age(8-9 years old), I don’t mind that since I’m also are listening to music and they don’t shout)

Then 3 of them bumps into me(which is also fine) but none of them said sorry!

I’m not going to blame them, but I do want to blame their parents, I learned to say sorry when I was friggin 3!

If you are a modern parent, PLEASE teach your kids to say sorry, this is something I didn’t imagine a parent wouldn’t teach their kids.

about the Picture in this post:

This time I made a bit of exception to my own rule, this picture isn’t Creative Commons, but it is just so amaizing I had to post it(with permissions of course )

Valentina Kallias took this picture of herself, and it just looks stunning, the colors feels so unreal, but at the same time so natural, there is also that little extra you can’t exactly point out. I just love this woman’s gallery, go check it out, MANY wonderful pictures.

and thank you Valentina for letting me use it

ps. I will probably be making another post pretty soon, there is a lot I want to talk about

by nickwheeleroz

Hi

Posted a survey cause I’m curious, what do you guys and girls think of my blog, and what do you like and hate

The Survey is 100% anonymous and everything is optional, so if you like you could send a blank response(but why would you? :p)

Head over to it now and let me know what you think!

Picture is by nickwheeleroz Original picture can be found here.

Picture is licensed CC by nc sa 2.0

Update:

Thanks for all the response,  thanks to all of you who responded to the survey!

Over all people liked my blog as it is which is good news to me

Jeg har forresten presentert bloggen min på Bloggurat.

Recently iPodMovie.info Opened, and as a part of the release i decided to try it.

First thing I noticed is the really neat design. It is very easy to navigate and easy to find what you look for.

iPodMovie.info main page

The minus for me is that I use Firmware 3.0 which means I can’t jailbreak, and that means I can’t watch any movies directly or download them to the iPod on the move, I need a PC, though if you got a jailbroken iPod/iPhone you can download directly, Which i tested and it works well.

Quality of the movies can improve a lot, but considering this is free it’s not that bad. A little hail to apple maybe to get things rolling about movie rental/purchases outside the US…

Over all the page works well, and I would recomend if you can’t get the movie another way in higher quality.

They have also developed a special app for this website, so if you got a jailbroken device, I’d suggest getting the app, it’s in the BigBoss repository and is named iPodMovie.

If you are into movies, and absolutely need a movie, this is a service that could be a savior

overall I’d give this service a 4 out of 6. The good part is that you can get movies quickly on the move, the bad is that you simply get a bad quality video, and you do run the risk of breaking copyright rules.

Notice: There is no guarantee that the movies are legal(as far as I’ve been able to find out), I do NOT endorse piracy except when the ones supposed to distribute it is too stuffed to see that we want it easy, without 50 hoops and drm. If you download a video, I’d suggest supporting the movie studio by for example buying the dvd or similar

Alexander Rybak og Tone Damli Åberge

Today Alexander Rybak won Eurovision Song Contest for norway, beating the finish record of 221 points with 95 points, totaling with 387 points!

The song can be found on youtube (HD if you please )

The cool part is that officially he won on the constitution day, and in 2010 we can celebrate that Norway first time entered Eurovision Song contest!

So today we also celebrate the Constitution day, 17th May. Norway’s Consitution is now 195 years old.

For those of you waiting for the iPodMovie review, It will be around on monday, I hope, things got hectic here so things did’t work out that well at first, Also comming up is a update to the twitter client’s review, as Twitterrific is out in version 2, and several more have popped up.

Since you are here, this is maybe what you really is looking for:
http://thorerik.net/2009/05/17/consitution-day/

Note: I’ll be posting a more in depth overview soon, this post is still very correct(little have changed, mostly aditions)

This post is also featured at iModZone and LovingTech

So I got a good friend who asked me if i wanted to test out the iphone 3.0 firmware beta, so i said why the heck not? and now here i am, after roughly 2 weeks of active use, happy as ever, and relying 100% on the features it provides.

there isn’t as many new features in the iPod as in the iPhone version, I’m only stuck with iPod cause that’s what i got (:()
The home screen looks the same, with some tiny differences(one not shown in the screenshot, but the app is shown later)

Springboard

mainly the only difference is that you got a tiny spotlight icon on the bottom page indicator, if you slide to the left you get access to spotlight:

Spotlight

this thing searches everything by default. Mail, contacts, sms(if your on a iphone), music, bookmarks, and history.

Now the seccond bigest new thing for iPod users is Voice Memos(dunno if iphone had this, but i think it had)

Voice Memo

It do require a iPhone headset or the new Shuffle headset(with the controls), and works quite simply just press the red button and record, press the listing and you can view the recordings you’ve done.

now, back to spotlight a bit:

Spotlight

as you can see, it’s available practically everywhere you’d need to search

Here’s a few more features podcast related:

Podcasts

from left to right, first is mail-to, this links to the itunes page of the podcast you’re listening to, use this to for example tell friends about how awesome Eddie Izzard is , second is used to jump 30 secs back, which is pretty nice, instead of the 10 sec it sort of dose at random where you got no control, last is podcast speed, this setting allow you to speed up a bit(twice as fast, or half speed), useful if you can’t be bothered to use the next function:

Scrubbing

Scrubbing, you could do this before too, but only at real-time speed, which made it hard to fine scrub to the place you wanted to listen/watch from, so by sliding your finger down from the bar you can control the scrubbing speed.

last screenshot:

Bluetooth

Bluetooth! I haven’t gotten it to work properly yet, but I’m not even sure if it’s supposed to work yet(kind of like MMS in beta 1-2 for iphone)

now there is a new feature on the main settings menu, called store, this is ment to let you get a quick overview of your itunes account, not that good looking yet(just a badly formatted embedded webkit view) and not functional.

have any of you guys tested it? what are your thoughts?

I love it

City of Big Shoulders by Timothy Hamilton

So today the blog was back. What happend was that my webhost disappeared(so did the owner btw) so it came to a slight shock to me when my site just flew away while i was writing a post(!), but now it’s back, and this time i was lucky enough to have just a few days ahed taken a quick post/comment backup.

RPX is not working yet (I’m trying to fix it, but something weird is happening whenever i try add the key), but will soon, so until then you don’t have to be logged in to comment.

Now some other updates, The concept code i was talking about a few months ago is taking shape,  the XML-RPX over GPG and SSL module is almost working flawlessly, and soon I might just release it for developer testing(it’s a PHP5 class compatible with PHP 6). If you are interested in testing it for me, mail me:  participate [@] thorerik.net with the header “Beta participation“. please provide this info(if available): name, website, server php version and modules, OS, if it’s a VPS etc. this is so i can if there is many that want’s access that i can choose out so i get variety in the testing.

Some new stuff too, From this post and forward I will pick a random Creative Commons picture that I like and include it in my posts

This time It’s a picture called City of Big Shoulders taken by Timothy Hamilton of the American city Chicago

click the picture for flickr page.

the picture is Creative Commons by-nc-nd licensed, so feel free to distrobute it, but remember that you can’t make any remixes or sell it

This is maybe the one thing people should do with pride, no matter how much they hate their government…

Let me just open up with a short story from yesterday:

I was on the bus and this lady was standing right in front of me with a hideous jacket, I guess it was supposed to resemble some wool or something. on the back of the jacket there was the Tibetan flag, with the company’s own logo on the flag! How lazy are you when you decide to buy a jacket with a flag stitched on the back to show support to a country? This made me so mad I went off the bus one stop too early.

Now, If you ever are going to wear your country’s flag, Wear it with pride! That means, not as a thong, bra, t-shirt, pants or anything else, I don’t mean that you can’t wear a flag as a small badge, but what i mean is as a piece of clothing made out of fabric resembling the flag like this.

In my opinion wearing a flag(not a badge etc. of course) is worse than burning or dragging a flag along the ground(which in most places is considered the worst thing you can do to a flag), I think it’s even worse when you do it to other countries’ flags, like the lady on the bus, as you have no ties to that country, except maybe a political statement, but then you don’t wear that country’s flag, you show your support in a far better way, meet up at their embassy and show your support there.

oh and btw, the company who made the jacket is Bik Bok.

Comment your thoughts about this.

That’s at least while I was at the hospital…
Late last night, while walking up in the woods around Oslo I got this terrible pain in my chest(no not left part). (shortcutting here now :p) I called to a doctor for a quick consult weather it could be dangerous or not, as I really wanted to get up to the cabin i planned to go to, where the doctor I called sent a car to get me cause my general health is exceptional, so it was worth checking out.
I ended up on the hospital til 5 pm today, and with order from the doctor to take it easy.

Just if they had wifi so i could view youtube I’d not be bored to death(I actually managed to complete over 100 songs in Tap tap revenge 2! my hand is still hurting :p)
other than that, swapped out the login system to RPX which allow you to auth with some more than just OpenID or register yay!

also testing a new plugin quickly

A nice youtube vid:

Horde for live – Jiji