How to download photos from Dropbox directly to your iPhone or iPad camera roll [feedly]

This is something I wanted to do the other day and was too busy to work it out for myself so this has arrived at a good time. 

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How to download photos from Dropbox directly to your iPhone or iPad camera roll

If you use to store photos and save space on your iPhone or iPad, there may come a time when you want to share those photos to a social network or with a friend. In order to do so, you'll most likely have to save them to your camera roll first.

As it happens, Dropbox gives you an easy way to do this. Here's how:

1. Launch the Dropbox app from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad.
2. Find the photo that you'd like to download to your camera roll in your Dropbox app.
3. Click on the Download button in the lower right hand corner.
4. Now tap on the option for Save to Photo Library.
5. The photo will export directly to your iPhone or iPad camera roll.

Once the export is done you can hop right into your Photos app and upload it to whatever service you'd like.

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From twit to tweet: How Twitterrific helped Twitter get its verb - and bird - on [feedly]

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From twit to tweet: How Twitterrific helped Twitter get its verb - and bird - on

Last week the word "tweet" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Craig Hockenberry, a principle of the Iconfactory, co-creator of Twitterrific, and iMore hall of famer, gave some background as to its origins on his blog, Furbo.org:

It still feels strange to hear a word I helped create be mentioned over and over again in the media. It's a great word to go along with a great service, and in the end, I'm just happy we're not calling each other twits!

More than just the word "tweet", the Iconfactory and Twitterrific are responsible for the bird and a remarkable amount of Twitter's common branding and popular identity. The whole story is charming and enlightening, and a rare glimpse back at the very incommon beginnings of something that now seems so commonplace.

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Mac OSX Mountain Lion Time Machine Backup to NAS slow over Ethernet

Now this has happened to me enough times that it needs to be blogged about so that when I suffer with it again I can come back to these hacks to try and resolve it again.

So on Friday evening I started off my Time Machine back up and today Saturday evening it had only backed up 1.5GB of the 13GB I wanted it to.

24 hours should be plenty to back this amount of data up!

My setup is as follows:

• MackBook Pro connected via ethernet (WIFI connection good but ethernet better for backups)
  
• Western Digital MyBookLive NAS connected via ethernet.
  
• All up to date in terms of Mountain Lion updates and MyBookLive firmware

So in order to fix this I tried the following, one of these worked. No idea which one although I suspect the reboot into safe mode then restart is the magic here.

• Open a command prompt and type without quotes "sudo tmdiagnose" and wait for it to complete.
  
• In a web browser open up http://mybooklive.local and login to the western digital drive.
  
• Turn off the twonky media service if you don't use it.
  
• Turn off remote access if you do not need it.
  
• Turn off the energy saver checkbox so the hard disk does not go to sleep.
  
• Reboot the western digital drive just in case. if in doubt turn things off then back on again.
  
• Ensure your mac is not indexing the local disk by checking spotlight. if it is wait for it to finish.
  
• And now I think the magic. shutdown your mac via the apple logo then after a minute....
  
• Turn on the mac holding down the shift key so that it boots into safe mode.
  
• Stare at the screen for a while then reboot your mac.
  
• Start time machine backup again. 

And then to my relief my time machine backup over ethernet process zoomed along and I saw this screen within about an hour which is much more acceptable.

Now all I need to work out is to back up my Western Digital NAS to Amazon's Glacier storage. I think I'll leave that for another weekend...

IBM throws its weight behind MongoDB for mobile apps — Tech News and Analysis

"IBM throws its weight behind MongoDB for mobile apps"

IBM throws its weight behind MongoDB for mobile apps — Tech News and Analysis:

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Aaronontheweb | What Do You Need to Become an Elite Developer?

What Do You Need to Become an Elite Developer?, What character traits does an elite developer have?

Aaron from MarkedUp makes some good points here.

Aaronontheweb | What Do You Need to Become an Elite Developer?:

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Sorting Algorithms Explained Through Traditional Folk Dance | Software Engineering | Learnist

"Sorting Algorithms Explained Through Traditional Folk Dance"

Sorting Algorithms Explained Through Traditional Folk Dance | Software Engineering | Learnist:

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Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket

Those nice chaps over at bitbucket have added a feature where you can edit a file in the cloud and commit it straight back into its branch on your repository.

Very useful for quick urgent bug fixes or typo mistakes that don't really require you to pull then update then commit and push etc. Actually you may be on a machine without the repo saving you from having to clone the entire repo. They can get quite big and take a while when the codebase gets big or old.

Really the exciting thing about this is when you are out and about with just an iPad or tablet and need to make a change as via the browser you can edit,get syntax highlighting and diff functionality and commit directly on the central repository.

Here is a screenshot of the new edit button:

The following screenshot shows multiple language syntax highlighting alongside a diff tool and smart indenting options:

All good stuff and I shall be giving this a spin the next time i need to fix a bug or typo. So straight away basically!

More info and a link to create a free account from the bitbucket blog.

http://blog.bitbucket.org/2013/05/14/edit-your-code-in-the-cloud-with-bitbucket

A first look at SignalR - Rick Strahl's Web Log

A first look at SignalR - Rick Strahl's Web Log: 

"However, recently I had a chance to put SignalR to use in a real application with a scenario that's a little bit different. Specifically we needed a way to connect a standalone Windows Service application  to a Web browser clients to provide real time updates. 

This project involved a queue service application running as a Windows Service with a Web front end that can monitor and manipulate the queue's operation using any browser."

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Secure Your REST API... The Right Way | Stormpath

A brief overview of the benefits and drawbacks of the top protocols

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milestone reached!

3 months since I gave up smoking thanks to the totally wicked tornado-t vape pipes. hurray!