If you were won­der­ing what the heck #ktrain is, it’s a social exper­i­ment, born inside the Face­book Group Indi­geni Dig­i­tali to test and reverse engi­neer social Indexes scor­ing algo­rithms (k stands for Klout, the most famous of such indexes). Since early this morn­ing dozens of tweet­ers are retweet­ing and broad­cast­ing the #ktrain hash­tag and checking […]

Won­der­ful, i just put online my last lit­tle webapp: Json­Pack , it’s a web tool to manip­u­late Json. At the moment it can: Refor­mat Json for ease of read­ing Gen­er­ate .Net C# model classes from Json Gen­er­ate Objec­tive C Model classes from Json Two days ago i was just using a small lib to parse json and gen­er­ate classes from the […]

Doc­tor Tunes is a small auto­mated Music meta­data down­load tool: it will scan your music library fill­ing the miss­ing music tags and nor­mal­iz­ing the exist­ing ones. with Doc­tor Tunes you can: fill and cor­rect year and genre down­load album art­work (only when it is not present) nor­mal­ize artist and album name Doc­tor Tunes works best on semi struc­tured libraries (that […]

*updated app I just fin­ished a project : Doc­tor Tunes, a nice Mac app that helps in reor­ga­niz­ing itunes media library. I devel­oped this lit­tle bas­tard to explore itunes and music meta­data apis and to bring order to my fairly big song library. This is what i dis­cov­ered: there are a lot of meta­data apis, […]

My love for Insta­gram and the tiny and col­ored world of pho­tos they are build­ing led me to try their apis. For such a project i decided to make a full imple­men­ta­tion of their apis, an insta­gram web inter­face to browse and dis­cover new pho­tos and peo­ple. If you are inter­ested my app is here: quickagram.com […]

Some days ago i was in need of a sim­ple web proxy app to help me develop some web­ser­vice inte­gra­tion. Brows­ing the inter­net i was not able to find any­thing remotely use­ful and so i built my own: It is a sim­ple web proxy con­sole appli­ca­tion, con­fig­urable using her own app.config file. Feel free to […]

Lately there are a lot of dis­cus­sion about seden­tary work, nutri­tion, sports and health related top­ics and for that rea­son (plus because i am really in this kind of stuff) i built 2 apps around this. But i will do more, i want to share what i think is my lit­tle secret: Orange Juice, 100%, sugarfree, […]

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