#!/usr/bin/alex

I’m happy to announce that after many days of debugging and testing,

I’ve published Picasa Badge! (as you can see on the right bar) ->

Dependencies: LWP::Simple perl module (namely also: perl-libwww)

NOTE: Picasa is a registered trademark of Google Inc. Picasa Badge is not a partner, affiliate, or licensee of Google Inc., nor is it in any other way formally associated with Google Inc.

Use this software at your own RISK!
The author declines every responsability about this software.

Picasa Badge is a perl script that lets you display on your website a badge containing picasa random photos or albums.
You can edit many settings and the style of your badge (it will be displayed on a <div id=”picasabadge”> </div> element that you can edit with you css style).

Usage:
Example:
Include in your webpage the script by this way:
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://your.host.name/cgi-bin/picasabadge.pl?account=YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME&kind=photo&thumbsize=72&max-results=4&total-photos=275&vertical=1&display-logo=1“></script>
As you can see, you can set various options,
Allowed options are:
* account = “Your Account Name”
* kind = kind of display objects: “photo” or “album”
* thumbsize = the site of thumbnails: 32, 48, 64, 72, 144, 160
* max-results = how many photos picasa badge have to display.
* total-items =  total photos stored on your album or total albums (You can obtain it on picasa account or reading the rss code of your account)
* vertical or horizontal = set it to “1” to see picasa badge vertical or horizontal
* display-logo = set it to “1” to see Picasa Badge logo on your badge



NOTE: I’ve added a little security fix to avoid overloading of my webserver: I’ve added my account name directly into source file to avoid that anyone could use it from my webserver, you can feel free to remove/edit it when you have downloaded the source file!

You can find always the latest version of picasa badge at:

http://code.alexworld.it

or directly here: http://code.alexworld.it/code/picasabadge.pl.html

Feel free to contact me for every problem!

bye,

Someday ago, I wrote about Yahoo’s powerness on my mobile phone,

Today I’ve been impressed by a Great Google Service..

Maybe someone already knows this service, but I’ve discovered it today by searching a way to have mail forwarding on my domain: alexworld.it

I’m searching a tiny pop3 daemon to forward my email address of my domain to my gmail.com’s email addres and I’ve discovered it:

http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/var_1b.html - Smart Apps for email, documents, calendar and more! a lot more!

By editing your DNS records you can use Google to manage your domain email addresses, custom domain names for: your calendar, your sites, your google homepage and more, more too!

I leave you some examples:

http://google.alexworld.it

http://calendar.alexworld.it

Have fun, and say with me: “THANKS GOOGLE!” (I Love it!)

stay tuned,

bye,

Alessandro.