Oskar Krawczyk – blog.olicio.us

Didn’t you ever wish there was a simple way to display your recent Twitter status inside the Last.fm’s sidebar – I, sure did? Well, with LastTweet.com you can do just that, in no–time (three steps to be exact).

What it does in generating a nice BBCode you can just paste straight into your sidebar.

As for now it only supports Last.fm, but perhaps in the future we’ll allow other websites to use the widget.

Download or install NoteBoard!

INFO: If you’re not able to install the Style from Adiumxtras.com, it’s probably because it was updated and lays in the moderation queue. Meantime you can always grab the most up-to-date version from my dropbox Public folder.

When installing the Style you’ll have the option of choosing from twelve different transitions (variants) and picking the one that you fancy the most. Note that transitions apply only to the follow-up message.

More goodies can be found down at the Wire & Twine web store.

Did I already mentioned that I adore using Subversion and the fact that updating something is not even far as three clicks away? svn up.

A bunch of updated stuff:

• Re-designed the header (including the navigation)
• Ajaxified (the unobtrusive way) the comment form
• Added a search feature to the Archives section
• Re-designed post responses
• Added dynamically generated footnotes
• Added Wakoopa sidebar Will do it later

Which leaves me with less things to do than I had two weeks ago.

That was a weird experience, for the fist few minutes looking for an announcement informing on some kind of a Last.fm – Facebook fusion. Well… What I did found was something explaining a complete site re-design makeover – which (oddly) reminds me of Papa Roach front-man and his normal-guy-to-emo-look-in-one-year.

It’s hard to say whether I do like it or not but at least what I can do is a short pro/con list.

Cons

Why exactly does it look like Facebook? I mean, come on, the current version is one of a kind, has its own cool feeling going on. Don’t get me wrong here – I’m all for simple and minimalistic design, but not like this – there’s a reason why I don’t use Facebook, I simply don’t like the UI.

The player is pretty much the centre of everyone’s attention at the moment – which is not a really good idea for me (at least not on the users’ profile). Which brings me to the point that latest played tracks get a bit lost between the huge player and big…ish user-info box. On top of that it looks a bit retarded – i like the one from Purevolume.com better.

Recent visitors are now only available on the home (ex-dashboard) page. I’d like to have it back on my profile page, please?

I love the navigation… NOT (couldn’t help myself). Let me throw some adjectives here: hideous, odd, confusing, facebookish and whats-with-the-line-thingy.

Coding-wise, why oh why are these guys still using Scriptaculous, really? Scriptaculous? The oldest, most buggy, slow, glitchy framework out there. Why not the un-famous YUI (a life-based example how good it can be!) Or one of the really good ones, Mootools or even jQ.

So these are the things that probably ain’t going to change with a future update. Time for pros.

Pros

One of the things I was looking towards to is the new recent activity feature. Good job.

Finally you can post a profile message which doesn’t have to be separated in two shouts because of a 400 chars limit. Although 1000 characters is not as much as one might think – I’d say 2000 is.

I actually really like the whole Library thing and the fact that (finally) we can remove music from it.

There are a lot of some minor features which have been tuned-up a notch:

• music tagging tool which now uses a nice auto-completer
• album listing now fetches the information about a release being able to buy from affiliates instead of putting a blank link pointing to iTMS and/or Amazon
• etc.

Generally I think it’s a step forward, a small one – feature-wise – but still. The only gap from me being completely for it, is the Facebookish feel. Although, it’s a simple matter of getting used to it.

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