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Tumblr Fcheckr – Follower / Unfollower Checker App For Tumblr

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Merry Xmas and happy New Year everybody!

Wouldn’t it be a geeky celebration without playing with some kind of tricky API and finding out how stuff works? Totally not, so today we looked under Tumblr’s hood cause they wouldn’t show you who doesn’t follow you back, which would be a really welcome feature.

Additionally there seem to be no working app out there, that can do the trick, so here is one we made: Tumblr Fcheckr. Just give it the access (needed for the follower/following lists) and it’ll show you the all your followers dirty secrets.

UPD 12.2013: At the moment after another Tumblr API change it is not possible to authenticate into the application. We’ll look into it as soon as we get a minute or an hour 🙂

UPD 07.2013: Since it came up more then once – there is an issue with the “Don’t follow back” list for users who have a lot of followers.
Initially everything worked just fine, but after few updates the system started to close connection before giving up all the followers, so only the first thousand or so would be shown. Since these followers are then used to generate the Don’t Follow Back list, it gets some honest followers too. So if you have a lot of followers – double check “Don’t follow back” list, sorry for that.

MooTools Unobtrusive Background Image Switcher

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MooTools Unobtrusive Background Image Switcher
Update 2013.04.26: we have published the jQuery version of this plugin, please see it if you prefer to use jQuery.

There are plenty of image slider and gallery scripts out there, but recently we had a pretty specific goal – to switch backgrounds of a website, and couldn’t find a good MooTools solution to accomplish it, so we had to create our own MooTools Class.

Here are the basic requirements:

  • Only the first one has to be loaded, the rest must “wait for their turn” and load as needed. After all the images are loaded they just switch. That’s the unobtrusive part so that we can use a lot of heavy background images without having to worry about load times.
  • The image has to be preloaded and only shown after the load is completed.
  • It has to support responsive full screen background feature without breaking the image’s proportions on any screen/window size.
  • As with all the scripts it has to be lightweight and play well with other front end features.

So here it is:

Full screen functionality uses both JavaScript and CSS so if you want the full screen option to work, download the whole package and see our bare bones style.css. The CSS part is based on Perfect Full Page Background Image / CSS-Only Technique #2 from css-tricks.

Images used in this demo are copyrighted and only intended for this demo.

Further information, usage and options: Continue reading →

What’s With All The Taxes?

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Internet Explorer 7 Tax is fun, but here is a controversial one: UN’s global Internet tax on the world’s largest content providers (meaning Google, FB & Co.).

The whole thing has something to do with these content sites eating way too much bandwidth while being based in US so we don’t get enough this bandwidth-related money here in Europe. Anyway, if something like that goes through it might change the “look&feel” of our modern Internet as well as its openness.