This really isn’t a tutorial and well the code could surely use some improvements, but I just wanted to post how I solved a certain problem earlier. The problem was that I had a list of 300+ URLs and I needed screenshots of them all. Read on to see how I did it. More
No it’s not a post about soup (even though soup is very nice, especially the chicken soup kind of soup) but more about the micro blogging site/service called Soup. For a while I’ve been thinking about re-coding an older project of mine which I called ROnotes back then.
It was a simple a thing which would let you post links, images and small pieces of text for future reference. Today I came upon Soup which basically does all that and then some more. I guess this is what you get when you procrastinate so much with your own projects. Someone else comes along and does it even better.
I’ve got my own soup account now as well and I’ll continue testing the various features it offers. But so far I must say that I like it a lot.
There are of course some things which I’d like it to have. Being able to make private posts would be nice (for those posts that you only want to be seen by you), and some kind of content auto detection would be nice.
For example youtube links could be automatically video, text in quotes would be quotes, and links ending with a known image file extension would be images obviously. Would streamline the experience a little I imagine.
Until recently I hadn’t even realised how many Google products I use on a daily, or at least weekly basis. While I was installing the FeedBurner plugin earlier today I noticed that FeedBurner has been acquired by Google as well, and that made me have a look at my Google dashboard to see just what other Google products I use, and I was surprised by how many it is.
Obviously Google Search is one of them. Still one of the best search engines out there, and they keep adding new features and options to it which make finding what you are looking for even easier. Moving on we have other obvious products such as YouTube, GMail, Google Maps and Google Talk. For productivity and office related things I have Google Docs, Reader, Wave, Translate and Subscribed Links.
As if that wasn’t enough I use a whole bunch of products for my web developer shenanigans: AdSense, Analytics, FeedBurner, and Webmaster Tools. Then there’s Chrome browser as well which has become my browser of choice when I only want to surf around. Quite a bit isn’t it? I for one look forward to the near future (Google OS) and more distant future (Google Skynet).
I’m pretty sure that soon enough, if it hasn’t happened already, Google will know me better than I know myself. Scary.