Utak Atik
Tinker with something
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Start 2012 by backing up your tweets!
It’s 2012 already. Do you reflect on what you have done in 2011? If so, how do you do that? Me, having kinda short-term-memory, resorted to my thoughts repository, a.k.a Twitter. I can go to Facebook of course, but Twitter is where I post my life updates most of the time. Unfortunately, it’s not an easy thing to do. In Twitter website, I cannot search for my all my tweets during the year 2011, or in other words tweets from January 2011 to December 2011. Couldn’t find any third parties app that can do this either. With Snapbird, I can only read my recent 3200 tweets, which seems like the limit of Twitter API call. If anybody knows how to achieve what I’m trying to do, please let me know!
In the meantime, to avoid “losing” my tweets anymore, I decided to backup my tweets. To do this, I created three tasks in ifttt:
- Tweets to Dropbox. Everytime I tweet, a new file will be added to my dropbox containing the link the tweets.
- Tweets to Google Calendar. Every tweet will be added to Google Calendar as an event. Kinda look messy in GCal website, but looks pretty interesting Lion’s iCal :D
- Tweets to Email. I decided to make one more task to backup my tweets, to my email, since my Yahoo mail seems to have unlimited storage. I created a filter to move emails from ifttt to a folder.
All the services used are FREE. So what are you waiting for? Backup your tweets! :) You can follow me on Twitter if you like :)
Another weekend tinkering: Aruku Japanese-English Translation
What is
Another weekend project of mine, my first HTML5 app. Aruku is a simple HTML5 Web app to make a request to alc.co.jp to translate Japanese from and to English. I really like alc cause the result of their translation is more useful than other services I’ve tried like Google Translate. The source is in my Github.
Demo
Open Safari in your iPhone/iPod, go to http://nicosakura.no-ip.info:8888/Aruku/
Screenshots
Turn your Mac desktop to grayscale
Have you ever experienced those moments when you just felt not in the mood for color? I just did. So I turned my Mac desktop color to grayscale. Everything will be black and white, and gray, I guess. Simply open the System Preferences -> Universal Access -> Check the "Use Grayscale" option.Add connections to your contact info
Just got myself an iPhone 4S after lining up in front of Apple Store Shinsaibashi Osaka for a tiring 15 hours!
But the iPhone is really worth the waiting! What I really like from iPhone 4S so far is Siri and the iTunes wifi sync.
I bet you have read about Siri's hilarious responses from the net. I can tell you that it's really good and funny!
There's something that you can only do via Siri, or at least I haven't found the way to do it manually by finger. It's the ability to add connections to your own contact info. For example, you can add another contact as your spouse. It's very easy. Just tell Siri to call, for example your wife. If you haven't set it up, Siri will ask you her name as you can see from the screenshots. Pretty cool!
BONUS: Do you know that you can tell Siri to call you by another name? Or by anything you want her to call you :DThe one who changed my life
There used to be time in my life where I felt lost, didn't know where to go and what to do in my life. That was the time before I knew about Steve Jobs.What he said in Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 gave me guidance and inspiration.The first iPhone I bought, the 3GS, inspired me. I had never seen something so amazing in my life.Steve Jobs have showed me that I can do great things if I love what I do.Thank you, thank you, thank you, Steve!To Steve's family, thank you, and be strong, and be proud. My prayer is with you.
