Nordaaker http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/ Nordaaker is the company where Arne and Marcus collect all their activities. The name originates from Arne's grandparents' place, close to where Marcus grew up. This blog will contain information related to our web apps, as well as other stuff we find interesting. en Copyright 2008 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:39:59 +0100 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification NetNewsWire adds bookmarklet support For the past couple of months, I've returned to reading my RSS feeds using NetNewsWire. I've been using Bloglines and Google Reader for a long while before that, but I found that I'm simply able to read more news with a native app. Besides, the offline capability of google reader didn't really work for me, as I never remembered to download the news before running off with my laptop.

I was happy to see a new release of it today, and there's specially one feature that solves a problem for me. Our video bookmarking site iwatchthis uses a bookmarklet to save videos. Up until now, I've had to open the videos in Firefox to save them, but now you can use it via the NNW scripts menu:

First, log into iwatchthis. Go to your feed, and if you have videos posted, click the bookmarklet link. Then copy the link by right clicking like this:

marcuswatchthis - user videos

Make sure you have the latest version of NNW, and click the scripts icon next to help, and choose open script folder. Once the folder opens in Finder, make a new file here called iwatchthis.js, and paste the contents of the bookmarklet into the file.

The script automatically appears in NNW, and you can post a video link to iwatchthis by opening it in a tab and clicking iwatchthis from the script menu.

]]> http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2008/04/netnewswire-adds-bookmarklet-s.html http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2008/04/netnewswire-adds-bookmarklet-s.html iwatchthis.com Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:39:59 +0100 New southpark site launched, watch full episodes online The Southpark guys have just launched their new site, which allows you to watch full episodes on the web for free. They also support embedding of clips, so I've taken the opportunity to add support for their videos to iwatchthis.

[via boingboing]

]]> http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2008/03/new-southpark-site-launched-wa.html http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2008/03/new-southpark-site-launched-wa.html iwatchthis.com Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:02:09 +0100 iwatchthis, what do you watch? :) While we're still working hard to improve iusethis, we took a short break during christmas to hack together something we wanted. We've started getting links to neat videos from various sources (company emails, weblogs, friends), and we wanted a place to collect all that stuff, so we can find it later, and to let our friends check out the stuff we're watching. A video log of sorts. Maybe you can call it a vlog ? :-) No matter what you call it, you can see mine here, or maybe you'd like to check out arne's videos?

The leading philosophy behind this is to keep it as simple to use as possible. As our howto shows, we think we've acomplished that goal. That also made it fairly simple to develop, We've spent about two weeks on development, while still keeping it fairly extensible and easy to add new formats. If you still think it could have been done easier, please leave us a comment here with ideas for improvement. :)

We currently support YouTube,Google Video, iFilm, Metacafe and Flickr. If you have some suggestions for other cool multimedia services you'd like support for, we'd love to hear from you. We'd like to make it trivial to post all that stuff content providers wants to let you embed in your blog posts.
So in conclusion, run over to iwatchthis.com and register to get your own free video log thingie now, so you can show us what you watch :-) Take care, and expect some more cool announcements from us very shortly.

*update* iwatchthis now also support http://www.gametrailers.com/, http://www.blip.com/ and http://www.revver.com

]]> http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2007/01/iwatchthis-what-do-you-watch.html http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2007/01/iwatchthis-what-do-you-watch.html iwatchthis.com Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:26:16 +0100