I find it incredibly annoying when an embedded YouTube video can’t be made fullscreen, and I have to switch to YouTube.com just to watch it.
So, I wrote this simple little bookmarklet which modifies the embed code for any YouTube videos to allow fullscreen. It could also easily be made into a user script for GreaseMonkey, [...]
The Google Charts API is a useful little tool for generating charts. The “API” is actually just a set of parameters you pass to a single URL endpoint: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart
It’s a very capable API, and you could write an entire framework around it (as some people have), but I don’t think it’s necessary. A few little [...]
Yesterday Facebook added the “Live Feed”, which is like the existing News Feed, but automatically updates the page without requiring the user to refresh. It simply polls Facebook’s servers every few seconds, rather than the slightly fancier “comet”-style long-polling they do for Facebook chat:
Polling is perfectly sufficient for this sort of updating (it’s not particularly [...]