How to install Dexter Screensaver on the Mac

Dexter uses a mac (by bertboerland)

24, lost, house. Sure good tv. But nothing compared to Dexter. Dbxter, By far the best American serie I have seen. Consider me a fan.

So when I saw that Dexter (wiki) had a mac with a bloody screensaver and found out it was available for the Mac, I had to get this as well.

On http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/downloads.do you can download the Mac and Windows version. The mac verson is zip with and .app in it. Howerver, double clicking the application does not give you anything.

So if you want to install this screensaver (not that good by the way) on your mac, here is the workaround:

Download,
unzip,
right click on the file (control-click),
go to "show package contents,
go contents>resources>dexter screen saver.saver

This will open system preferences with a dialog box prompting an install. Say yes and the screen saver will show up in the left hand navigation menu in screen savers. Select it and you are good to go.

And in case you want to become the "dark Defender" yourself, learn from this video series.

What Google could do to make its' service even better on mobile devices (spelling)

I love my iPhone and I love Google. And the combination of these to leads to a nice user experience; when an iPhone user visits Google with Mobile Safari. Google reads the user-agent string and gives the user a page optimized for the user experience on the phone. As stated before, it is not the user that should change and go to m..example.com but the site that adepts to the user('s browser).

This leads to an optimized situation, one can swipe through images in Google images and has the least HTML overhead when visiting Google.com. There is however one thing google can do better. Spelling. Okay, there is also one thing I could do better, but that is not my point Smiling

If google reads a search string and a user-agent, they could guess if the user/iPhone made a small error on the keyboard and hint to that word, just like the iPhone itself most of the times does.

So when I would search for "Ftupal" Google should see this and even though the word Drupal has only a few characters the same, changes are that I wanted to press the D next to the F and the R next to the T.

Doing this makes Google smarter then the iPhones' OS. And better at spelling and syntax as me are. For sure.

Bert Boerland is een top 25 twitter gebruiker in Nederland


Ondanks dat elke celeb nu 100.000 volgers heeft op zijn twitter account dat ge spook-vult wordt door een stagiaire en elke krant een rss-to-twitter account heeft met 10.000enden gelovigen, ben ik nog steeds on top Smiling.

In 2008 top 20 gebruiker in Nederland op Twitter, in 2007, in de top 30. En ook in 2009 was ik in de top25, volgens deze lijst van Jeroen althans. again: kiss my ego, stelletje youpen!

Drupal at FOSDEM 2010


( source flickr, copyright faerie)

Next weekend on Sunday, February 7, we'll have a full day of Drupal talks at the 10th edition of FOSDEM, Europe's biggest, free-est and open-est software conference.

FOSDEM, is a free and non-commercial event organized by the community, for the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet. The Drupal project was granted a developer room at FOSDEM to do exactly that: to share knowledge about Drupal.

The presentations schedule for the devroom was published a week ago on http://groups.drupal.org/fosdem. It features interesting speakers such as Robert Douglass, Károly Négyesi, Roel de Meester and Kristof van
Tomme and even more interesting subjects as mobile device design, AHAH, eID and Views 3. Everyone is invited to attend the presentations.

On Friday the giantesque beer event kicks off the conference. For Drupalistas there is a sprint on Saturday in Zaventem.

Please join, I have been to a couple of FOSDEM's and if you ever attended an Oreilly or Gartner con, you are in for a surprise Smiling

FOSDEM takes place at ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels.

Hagelingerweg Santpoort op ansichtkaart en Google Streetview

Hagelingerweg Santpoort. Twee shots, een straat

Ansichtkaart hagelingerweg Santpoort-Noord


Google Streetview hagelingerweg Santpoort-Noord

Jammer dat er niet meer ansichtkaarten vanuit verschillende hoeken zijn. Zouden we streetview van historie kunnen voorzien. Ik zou best eens door het Rotterdam van 1939 willen "lopen". Welicht maakt Google deze optie ooit nog eens in combinatie met sketchup.