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• Try FlickrStreamr 0.3
• Download the source code (BSD / GPL licensed)
  

I’ve uploaded the newest version of FlickrStreamr. FlickrStreamr is a tool to view a continuously updating stream of all recently uploaded photographs from Flickr. On a normal day, around 3000-6000 photos are uploaded to Flickr every minute. This tool lets you view those photographs in a way that is a little bit more sophisticated than hitting ‘reload’ on the recent photographs page on Flickr.

I’ve done a lot of work on making this new version more easier to use, with a less cluttered interface. There’s just one button right now: play/pause. Hit it, and watch the photographs refresh, hover over a photograph to view a preview or click it to go to the photo page on Flickr.com

I’ve added some JavaScript that adjusts the number of thumbnails on your screen. The larger your screen resolution, the more thumbnails you will see. So, you don’t need to scroll the FlickrStreamr page to view more thumbnails. When all thumbnails are updated, the new thumbnails simply update again at the top-left corner.

You can try FlickrStreamr or download the source code and run it for yourself (you’ll need a Flickr API key though).

Stel dat je ergens wat dingen wilt bestellen bij een webwinkel, dan moeten die ergens worden afgeleverd, toch? Helaas kan dat bij Overtoom alleen op adressen met een straatnaam van 24 letters of minder:

Achterlijk.

En nog zoiets leuks: men gaat er blijkbaar ook van uit dat mensen, als ze zich eenmaal inschrijven bij Overtoom nooit meer verhuizen, aangezien er geen enkele manier is om het factuuradres te veranderen, of om oude adressen te verwijderen.

How many animals do you have in your Dock? I have seven:

A cow

A bird

An elephant

Another bird

A duck

A fox

Another duck

What’s in your Dock?

• Try JSON viewer
• Download the source code or check out the source using SVN (released under the MIT license)

Like many other people, i’m quite charmed by the JSON data interchange format as a replacement for the almost ubiquitous XML format. Unfortunately, there are less tools for viewing JSON than there are for XML, which gets a bit annoying if you have large JSON files that you need to view, such as the JSON feeds for Flickr.

There is a useful JSON viewer made for Adobe Air but unfortunately it doesn’t accept URLs (only text), so you need to copy-paste JSON text around to view the output.

So, you might have seen this coming, i made my own JSON viewer. It’s a very simple thing, using only PHP (which has JSON support since 5.2.0) and the fantastic jQuery JavaScript library for some AJAX calls and effects. If you want you can try it yourself.

The source code is released under the open source MIT license and can be downloaded here.

Update (06/10/2008): Some API’s deliver invalid JSON, such as Flickr and Google Suggest, usually because they deliver the JSON as a JavaScript variable, e.g.

JSONResult = ({"foo": "bar"});

I ‘fixed’ this in JSON Viewer v1.1 by stripping out all code before and after the { and [ characters. Unfortunately that takes a little bit of extra code, and we are essentialy fixing things that Google or Yahoo should fix, but because these feeds are so popular we do it anyway.

Update (13/02/2009): Two small usability fixes: the first node of the tree is now always shown and clicking on the url field only deletes the complete field if it is the default url. Get the source here.

Update (05/08/2009): For your and my convenience JSON viewer’s source and downloads are now available via Google Code. For your hacking pleasures you can also download the source using Subversion. I’ve updated the source a little bit, so let’s call this release 1.3.

Update (11/10/2009): Some minor updates, changed the SVN repo and revised the design to make it a little nicer on the eyes. Release 1.5