if by design » Technology http://blog.ifbydesign.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:51:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 en Highrise: How to export vCards with photographs for Mac OS X Address Book http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2007/09/18/highrise-how-to-export-vcards-with-photographs-for-mac-os-x-address-book/ http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2007/09/18/highrise-how-to-export-vcards-with-photographs-for-mac-os-x-address-book/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:25:12 +0000 Stuart Johnston http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2007/09/18/highrise-how-to-export-vcards-with-photographs-for-mac-os-x-address-book/ highrise_to_vcard.jpg

Having spent the day importing and sorting my contacts in Highrise I was annoyed to find that the vCard export didn’t include images. I didn’t fancy the prospect of having to go through each contact and manually export their photograph so I created a script to do it for me.

The following Ruby script uses Highrise’s API to export vCards with the photographs intact ready for Mac OS X Address Book.

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]]> http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2007/09/18/highrise-how-to-export-vcards-with-photographs-for-mac-os-x-address-book/feed/ Flickr to Apple TV: How to automatically download a daily dose of interesting photos http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2007/09/17/flickr-to-apple-tv-how-to-automatically-download-a-daily-dose-of-interesting-photos/ http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2007/09/17/flickr-to-apple-tv-how-to-automatically-download-a-daily-dose-of-interesting-photos/#comments Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:27:54 +0000 Stuart Johnston http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2007/09/17/flickr-to-apple-tv-how-to-automatically-download-a-daily-dose-of-interesting-photos/ Flickr on Apple TV

We love our Apple TV. We particularly like the screensaver that scrolls through our photo collection. However, we quickly got bored of watching the same photos stream past again and again.

So I decided to see if it would be possible to automatically download a daily dose of interesting photos from Flickr directly on to our Apple TV.

Here is how I did it.

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]]> http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2007/09/17/flickr-to-apple-tv-how-to-automatically-download-a-daily-dose-of-interesting-photos/feed/ Automatic migration from typo to WordPress http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/06/26/automatic-migration-from-typo-to-wordpress/ http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/06/26/automatic-migration-from-typo-to-wordpress/#comments Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:57:32 +0000 Stuart Johnston http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/06/26/automatic-migration-from-typo-to-wordpress/ Here are two scripts that should help anyone migrating from typo (Ruby on Rails blogging platform) to WordPress. The scripts will import articles, pages, comments, categories and tags through a sequence of SQL queries that map fields from typo to their equivalent in WordPress. Simple, quick and beats importing via RSS.

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]]> http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/06/26/automatic-migration-from-typo-to-wordpress/feed/ Uploading photos to Flickr from Aperture http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/04/19/uploading-photos-to-flickr-from-aperture/ http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/04/19/uploading-photos-to-flickr-from-aperture/#comments Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:47:00 +0000 Stuart Johnston http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/04/19/uploading-photos-to-flickr-from-aperture/ &I’m a big fan of Flickr so when Apple’s Aperture arrived I immediately looked for a clever way to upload photographs between the two. The solution was to use a combination of keywords, smart albums and Automator actions.

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]]> http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/02/28/tagging-emails-in-outlook/feed/ Bubble 2.0, myth or reality? http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/02/01/bubble-2-0-myth-or-reality/ http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/02/01/bubble-2-0-myth-or-reality/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:45:00 +0000 Stuart Johnston http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/02/01/bubble-2-0-myth-or-reality/ In 2000, $105bn was poured into young companies by venture capitalists, mostly dot-coms. There was a land grab mentality to anything and everything ‘internet’. Venture capitalists operated with an almost blinkered vision chasing after ‘eyeballs’. The premise being the more visitors a site had the more valuable it would be.

Then it all went pop. Venture capital funding in dried up and the phrase ‘dot-com’ became synonymous with the worst of the IT industry.

Web 2.0 has arrived and promises the vitality of the dot-com era grounded in a heavy dose of realism and sound financials. But have things really changed or are we just heading towards another internet boom and bust?

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