I was looking at how we are doing on Twitter and its bad to be honest. We have not prioritized this at all. I used TweetsMap to see how we are spread over the world as you can see below. This has got to change! More followers this way please! We will start try to be more active.
This site is just great!
You can watch all airplanes in the world live on their flights flying from one destination to another. Either watch very locally or the whole world.
You can zoom in on a specific place for a plane or search for a specific plane by its call sign, flight number or registration number.
From here you can click the animated plane for more info like aircraft type, airline, altitude, speed, image and more. You are also provided with a specific URL for a flight on the form http://www.flightradar24.com/flightnumber and you can see x number of recent flights done by this specific aircraft.
As you can see, Europe has a very large amount of planes compared to the rest of the world. The reason for this is the technique that is used to receive information from the aircraft. The technique being used is called ADS-B (Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast). Flightradar24 only shows information about aircraft equipped with an ADS-B transponder. About 60% of the passenger aircraft and only a small amount of military and private aircraft have an ADS-B transponder. About 30% in USA and 70% in Europe.
The trend seem to be that more and more planes get equipped with some form of ADS-B in the future.
Check out Flightradar24! I will definitively use it the next time one of my friends or colleagues is on a trip.
I haven’t noticed this until know.
At the bottom right of the window you can click ‘Change background image’.
Select an image from a public gallery, your computer or your Picasa web photos. When pressing ‘Select’ this image will be your background image on the Google search page.
Now you can backup your Google+ data. That is your +1′s, profile, contact and circles, buzz’s, picasa web albums and your stream.
This has been made possible thanks to Google’s Data Liberation Front. Google Takeout is a data liberation platform that makes escaping from Google products easy (if you’d want to escape). Or you could just use it to backup your data.
Anyway, here’s how to backup your Google+ data:
If you’re a Google+ fan you might want to tweek your profile photo a bit. An easy to use service for creating a Google+ pic of yourself is +me by Turhan Aydin.
Either modify the one for Google+
Or add a “I’ve Moved to Google+’ pic for your Facebook profile:
I am sure you have better material to work with 
Add me to your Google+ circles
Google started rolling out the +1 button in March already for use in search results and ads. Now it has been available to put on pages (websites, blogs etc.) as well.
The +1 button from Google has the same function and purpose as Facebook’s like button. The idea is to press the +1 button to recommend something to your social network and friends as a way to sort out what you consider useful or interesting.
The Facebook like button has an obvious usage. People are logged onto facebook and constantly see friends like’s. I will be interesting to see if this will be useful. You can display your recommendations if you want to and you can see your friends recommendations when searching or in their profiles I assume. But I doubt it will be as good as on Facebook.
For now the +1 button is only available in search results on Google.com.
Read more here and get your own button.
Anyway, why don’t you +1 this entry on Wohill just to try it out?
Cascader is a nice tool that can save some time for you if you want to tidy up some HTML code. You can copy and paste some HTML code in the top textarea and it will be divided into nice css-classes and HTML calling these classes. This is AJAX-based meaning that if you type this in you will see the class and HTML created as you type. Nice!
Good also for preventing duplicate CSS class definitions. See it live here.
I always said I am an early adopter, but sometimes I am a late follower as a colleague said once as he smiled.
I just discovered the Google Talk Guru when browsing the Google Labs and I liked it instantly. GMail is something that is always open and available for me when I’m at the computer regardless of whether I am working or not. Therefore this suits me perfectly.
What you do is that you invite guru@googlelabs.com to your chat. After this you ask the guru questions by chatting with it and you’ll get immediate responses. Something similar to existing SMS text services. Consider that this is yet an experimental project.
Get whether forecast at a specific location. Translate a word to another language. Get currency information or make some calculations Check out the link above for more instructions on how to use it!
However it does not seem like a very challenging problem since we already know that all this can be done using the Web Search.
One of the reasons to why we moved over to wordpress was because the old framework (which was self-developed) got out of date. I didn’t have time to maintain it so this resulted in many things going the wrong way. With WordPress and Thesis we get a lot of this for free by just maintaining the upgrading of the framework, theme and plugins.
However when testing the site I can see that there are still issues needed to look into in more detail to get a high performing site. Here are two good tools to start with right on the web:
ismyblogworking.com
This simple service indicates quickly if something is obviously wrong by looking at security, performance, indexing and response times.
GTmetrix
This service is more detailed and analyses your site to the most tiny bit with a breakdown of the site into what is fast and what is slow and the exact response times with time lines by grading it. History of the site’s performance is also displayed so that you can see what changes your fixes have actually accomplished.
GTmetrix uses Google Page Speed and Yahoo! YSlow to grade your site’s performance and provides actionable recommendations to fix these issues to make the red staples green and increase the page speed and your grade.
Google has announced that they are using page speed in their ranking algorithm!
I think I’m gonna get going with what we have left in performing Wohill to be even better!
When working as a developer, tester or other member of the maintenance team you are most likely using different Salesforce ORGs, since this is the way to work when developing new functionality in Salesforce. You develop in one sandbox, test in another and then put it in production in a third.
We actually have more than three since we are also using Salesforce as an ideas platform. And then I have a personal developer edition account as well. So as you can see there are many usernames and passwords to remember.
I am sure there are many different tools to use to store user credentials in, but the one I have in mind for todays entry suits me well in my hunt for Salesforce chrome extensions.
The Google Chrome extension Force.com Logins by Toshihiro Takasu allows you to add user credentials for your different Salesforce accounts.
So once you have added them you can press ‘tab’ or ‘window’ to login either in a new tab or a new window. There are also functionality to categorize accounts and to import or export accounts.
It didn’t actually work for me to login in a new window but I hope that there is only something with my browser or that it’s a temporary bug.
So, I like this extension although I think it might need some more work.
