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Blogs I’m reading
I decided to add a blogroll to my sidebar, however a complete list would have been waaaay to long. Also, I didn’t like the idea of exporting the OPML from Google Reader and massaging it into an HTML format, because it would have meant an other thing which needed periodic updates. The solution was to…
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Update to the DeShortify Pipe
A while ago I created a pipe to transform short URL’s in their longer versions. However the pipe itself was rather complicated and required a modification for each new service to be supported. Luckily, on the Network Security Blog I saw the link to LongURL, which provides the same action for multiple services (in fact…
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Blogger tag cloud
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Twitter Content
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DeShortify
Update: I created a simpler version of this pipe using the API from LongURL. A positive side-effect of using the service is that it supports many more URL shortening services. Some people feel that URL shortening services like TinyURL are a security risk because they take away the user’s ability to hover over a link…
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How to get random numbers into Yahoo Pipes?
In what follows I will present two methods for obtaining random numbers inside a Yahoo Pipes setup. The first method is based on obtaining the current timestamp and using it your random number. The advantage of this method is that it is quick (you don’t need to access third-party websites). This disadvantage is that it’s…
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Creating your own top commenters widget for blogger