Some more icons in the library

Clock Mini IconMay 25th, 2009

I started to add some more icons to the PICOL Icon Library. Feel free to have a look. I added some more invisible features on the side. The automatically generated ZIP-Files now generate the icon name for the file name. I´m still having some problems with the ZIP files and the standard unzipping programm on Macs.
I´m planing some more features, but since I´m no programmer and therefore very slow in programming you have to wait a while.
Have fun downloading!

ToDo Tetris

Clock Mini IconMay 1st, 2009

The Heralds Of Resource Sharing –
Documentary on early networks

Clock Mini IconApril 13th, 2009

For those, who don´t know this documentary. This is an documentary from 1972, about early networks, the ARPANET and the beginning of the Internet. There are a lot of interviews with some of its founders.


In this Wiki-Article you can get further information on the movie.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Networks:_The_Heralds_of_Resource_Sharing

And on Archive.org you can get a downloadable verion of the movie.
www.archive.org/details/ComputerNetworks_TheHeraldsOfResourceSharing

YouTube – Direct link to subtitles
and HD quality

Clock Mini IconApril 9th, 2009

I was really overwhelmed by the success of my movie “History of the Internet”.
I never believed in such a success. Here I want to thank all the people, who made subtitles for the movie. The clip has already 11 subtitles, which can be selected on YouTube. I asked myself how to start the clip, with a certain subtitle, by a direct URL. After looking around for a while I found that piece “hl=en” in the URL, which is the key to this problem.



Subtitles

&hl=en

By adding for example “&hl=en” to the URL, you can launch the movie directly with English subtitles. For those, who don´t know it, “en” is an code from the ISO 639.1 language code list. By changing the code you can directly link to the other subtitles.

Full-screen

&fs=1

&fs=1 means full-screen enabled. If you want to change that you can turn 1 to 0

High Definition

&fmt=22

And here is the best and also the most popular part in a YouTube URL. By adding “&fmt=22″ you can launch a clip in HD (720p)

Here is a list of all subtitled versions of the clip “History of the Internet”

Bulgarian (by Andrian Georgiev)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=bg&fs=1&fmt=22
(Doesn´t work as direct link yet.)

Chinese (by Terry Lee)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=zh-CN&fs=1&fmt=22
(Here you have to add “-CN” for China to the language code)

English (by Stefan Badragan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22

French (by Arnaud ‘dehy’ DE MOUHY)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=fr&fs=1&fmt=22

German (by me)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=de&fs=1&fmt=22

Greek (by Pantelis Bouboulis)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=el&fs=1&fmt=22
(Doesn´t work as direct link yet.)

Italian (by Stefan Badragan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=it&fs=1&fmt=22

Polish (by Agnieszka Marciniak)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=pl&fs=1&fmt=22

Portuguese (by Guilherme Euler)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=pt&fs=1&fmt=22

Spanish (by Mauricio Diaz Orlich)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=es&fs=1&fmt=22

Turkish (by Zeynep Can)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&hl=tr&fs=1&fmt=22
(Doesn´t work as direct link yet.)

If you have tips why these three subtitles don´t work, please post it as comment. Maybe I´m wrong with the language codes.

BitTorrent explained with PICOL signs
by Eirik Solheim

Clock Mini IconApril 3rd, 2009

I found this video by Eirik Solheim on NRKbeta, where he explains the concept of BitTorrent. Though the concept is explained in Norwegian it´s understandable for me, due to the clear diagrams Eirik made. Thanks for this piece. I hope more presentations like that will follow in future.

BitTorrent for din bestemor

View more presentations from nrkbeta.

Addition:
Eirik Solheim just sent me an interview, where he showed his presentation (I hope that´s right :) ) in TV program on national TV in Norway.


Just click on the image to see the video. The presentation starts at about 13:00.