IE8 har en ny ting, Activities. De gjør at du kan markere noe tekst, klikke en knapp og sende teksten til en av de installerte tjenestene. Tjenestene kan være søkemotorer, karttjenester, oppslagsverk eller hva som helst som kan bruke den markerte teksten og (helst) gjøre noe fornuftig med den.

Hvis tjenesten støtter det kan du også få en forhåndsvisning i et lite vindu.

Jeg har laget en activity for Gule Sider, Telefonkatalogen og Gule Sider Kart som tar den markerte teksten og sender den til den valgte tjenesten.

Installer Gule Sider Activity
Installer Gule Sider Kart Activity
Installer Telefonkatalogen Activity

NB: Disse tingene fungerer kun på Internet Explorer 8

Oppdatering: Noen har (selvfølgelig) laget ett tillegg til Firefox som gjør at du kan bruke Activities der og! Takk til Børge for tips!

Yup. "More like faceCRACK".

april 26 2007 - facecrack!

Well, if you can read this then Adobe Contribute CS3 works with DasBlog, which is the blog engine I'm using. When you start Contribute for the first time it asks you to set up a connection. If not, you can select Edit, My Connections.. from the menu and click the Create... button.

Select that you connect to a blog, select Other Blog Servers in the second drop down and specify the URL to your blog. It should automagically find the /blogger.aspx web service file. Click Next, specify your username and password for the blog and you're good to go.

It looks pretty good, it picks up my categories, I can browse my blog in Contribute and just click Edit when I'm on a page I want to edit, it integrates with IE and Firefox, giving me a "Post to blog" button, I can insert documents as PDF and a bunch of other things. All in all, it looks pretty easy to use so I think I start using it to update my blog.

There is one thing I'd like to see though. The ability to just paste an image into the text and have Contribute automatically save the image along with my blog. That would be cool!

Edit: Worked like a charm. Uploaded image and everything. Sweet!

A friend of mine introduced me to SightSpeed the other day, and I must say I'm impressed! My previous experiences with webcam conversations were "less than optimal" to say the least. Poor image quality, lagging, voice out of sync with video, etc.

With Sightspeed I got excellent video quality (comparable to VHS, which is the best I can do with my camera), the voice was crisp and clear, echo reduction built in, easy set up and easy to call. A small thing, but I was impressed with the speed it connects at. When I double-click a contact it almost instantly connects and rings on the other side.

But don't take my word for it, download a copy and give me a call. Use my personal e-mail to add me as a contact. If you don't have my personal e-mail account, send me an e-mail via the link on the right. It comes in two versions, one free and one with a payment plan that gives you conferencing features. It even comes in a Windows and MacOS version.

I have not tested it properly behind several firewalls so I'm not sure how much effort it is to configure it, but browsing through the support page it looks fairly straight forward.

So far, I've only got one negative comment. They offer a Click-To-Call button that you can put on your webpage, letting visitors go to a web page where they can install an ActiveX control and start a video call with you without downloading or installing a program. This seems like a good idea, and it probably is too, but on the web page my e-mail address is displayed in plain text. This is a Bad Thing™. Displaying an e-mail address in plain text enables spammers to harvest it and I really don't need more spam. Too-bad, the Click-To-Call button would have fitted nicely in on the right here... 

The Opera browser was released for the Wii console a week or two ago and already the adult industry is adapting to the new platfom.

I'll never be able to look at a Wiimote the same way again...