The Domino’s Pizza Tracker is a marketing stunt/tool from Dominos pizza from 2008. I came across this concept when looking at a talk from Dan Norman and wanted write this down, because it’s an interesting talk.

In a nutshell the idea is that the pizza tracker tracks your pizza from “order” to “door”.

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Recently I came across an intresting webservice called IFTTT. In short: “They connect webservices like Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIN, etc”. More on how it works is on their website http://ifttt.com/wtf.

An example :: Twitter -> LinkedIN:

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I was looking up on where I could rent a small boat in Amsterdam to boat through the canals. So I ranked the company’s on price and made an overview. Of course their is a difference in type of boats (it’s based on a 6 pers. boat). You have to see for yourself on what kind of ride you want :)

• Boaty www.boaty.nl – Min. 3 hours – 25 euro per hour
• Boot-Amsterdam www.boot-amsterdam.com – 47,50 euro per hour
• SloepDelen www.sloepdelen.nl – 50 euro per hour
• CanalMotorboats www.canalmotorboats.com – First hour: 50 euro, second hour: 40 euro, etc.
• BootHurenAmsterdam www.boothurenamsterdam.com – Min. 2 hours – 50 euro per hour
• Mokumboot www.mokumbootverhuur.nl – Min. 3 hours – 56,65 euro per hour

To get the counts on the different Social Sharing functions I found the following url’s to get these:

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Edit the text on the fly
The text won’t be saved. But this is very handy if you want to test some textual changes within webdesign. Copy and Paste code below into a new bookmark or rightclick here and “add to Favorites”.

javascript:document.body.contentEditable = 'true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

Highlight what Font is used
This bookmark activates a function where you can hover every text within a website and it will show you the font that is used when hovering over the text. Copy and Paste the code below into a new bookmark or rightclick here and “add to Favorites”.

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When I worked for Dutchview a few days I visted a lot of television studios and in the one of the program Buitenhof I made these pictures.

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Hyves Logo generator Check out: http://www.derkbraakman.com/hyveslogo/

For developing in Adobe Flash you can trace() your results in the output window of the authoring environment. Without the authoring environment you can trace through javascript or to a dynamic textfield. Still it would be much easier to keep those same traces that you have set in your Actionscript code.

This can be achieved by downloading and installing two things (or three if you don’t have the browser Firefox):

1. Download and install the Adobe Flash debug player at http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html. This will give you error warnings of all Flash related errors.

2. Download and install the Firefox add-on called Flashtracer at http://www.sephiroth.it/firefox/flashtracer/ and adjust the settings so the debugger errors/traces will appear in the sidebar of your browser.

Do you have an iPhone? You wanted to use your personal calenders in the iPhone Calender? With iPhone 3.0, that was released two weeks ago, it is possible to add Google Calenders and keep them into sync, like for example the birthday’s of your friends and family.

Here is how:

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