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Invite all friends - update for Chrome Users

2012-01-13T09:52:00.000-08:00

A small update to my "famous" post:

http://giacobam.blogspot.com/2011/03/inviting-all-your-friends-to-facebook.html

The new version of Chrome (and Chromium based browser) does not allow to paste links starting with "javascript:" into the browser bar.

To use the script, you need to open the javascript console (press ctr + shift + J) and paste it there, without the javascript: part. Chrome script are:

Version 1:

elms=document.getElementsByName("checkableitems[]");for (i=0;i<elms.length;i++){if (elms[i].type="checkbox" )elms[i].click()};

Version 2:

var elms=document.getElementsByName("checkableitems[]");for(var count=0;count<elms.length;count++){var t = setTimeout("elms["+count+"].click()",100)}

Let me use this post also to "sponsor" a very nice, non-profit site:
Kiva allows you to lend small amount of money to a specific low-income entrepreneur and project across the globe. Please take a look!

How to use the facebook script: video tutorial

2011-03-18T01:08:00.000-07:00

Nice video by Rayven.Michelle on how to use my code!

Inviting all your friends to facebook events: update March 2011

2011-03-16T06:52:00.000-07:00

Update 13/01: Update for chrome user published
Update 18/03: Here is a video explaining how to use the script!
Update 17/03: version 2 of the code

Facebook just changed (on march 15th 2011) the way to invite friends to event, so a new script is needed.
The code I came up with is:
Version 1:

javascript:elms=document.getElementsByName("checkableitems[]");for (i=0;i<elms.length;i++){if (elms[i].type="checkbox" )elms[i].click()};

Version 2:

javascript:var elms=document.getElementsByName("checkableitems[]");for(var count=0;count<elms.length;count++){var t = setTimeout("elms["+count+"].click()",100)}

Since now the facebook system uses lazy loading, only the first 100 friends are selected.
You can prevent this by scrolling to the end of the friend list before applying the script!

As before, the script can take a long time (several minutes for thousands of friends) before actually selecting every friend, so just wait.

If your friends are not too many, you can also create different lists of 100 friends each, and apply the script on each list.

I tested version1 with Chrome, other tested firefox 4 and opera. let me know of problems or better solutions!
Some people reported browser crashes.
The script is probably intensive for a high number of user (i could not test more than 500 :D). In case, try version 2!

I posted 2 version: the first is the "normal" one. The second might be a bit slower, but should avoid browser chrashes (I hope!). I'm still working on a faster version, so check back ;)

How to use it:
Triple click on the script (version1 or version 2) to select it.
Copy (ctr+C) the above script.
Go to the event page and select "invite friends". When the menu opens, select your friend list (or just leave "all friends"). Scroll to the end of the panel, and then past into the url bar the script (ctr+v).
Wait a bit (maybe more than a bit!), and you should find all of your friend selected.
Submit the invite and you're done!
Let me know if this doesn't work. For a guide with screenshots check http://www.v3im.com/2011/03/inviting-all-friends-to-facebook-events/.

Special instruction for use on Chrome:
http://giacobam.blogspot.com/2012/01/invite-all-friends-update-for-chrome.html

A video is also available here.

(see http://giacobam.blogspot.com/2010/09/trucco-per-invitare-tutti-agli-eventi.html for instruction in ITALIAN)

altre release welld

2010-12-20T01:30:00.000-08:00

Altri lavori pubblicati di recente:

http://www.sustain.ch Startup svizzera

http://www.stampademocratica.com giornalismo

http://www.vermenting.com vini da Bonassola

http://ecosumsi.ecoticino.ch rivista online della società di Ultrasonologia della Svizzera Italiana

http://www.associazionelast.it associazione culturale milanese

http://www.corsispinning.it corsi di spinning a Missaglia

LAST-Laboratorio Artistico Società Trasversali: Corso di Film-Making

2010-11-09T00:56:00.000-08:00

LAST-Laboratorio Artistico Società Trasversali: Corso di Film-Making: "12 incontri settimanali per approfondire il mondo della comunicazione visiva. Il corso è rivolto ai principianti che si vogliono avvavvicinare all’arte di narrare per immagini..."

Trucco per invitare tutti agli eventi su facebook

2010-09-15T02:36:00.000-07:00

UPDATE (16 marzo 2011):
Facebook ha cambiato sistema, ho fatto io un nuovo script:

javascript:elms=document.getElementsByName("checkableitems[]");for (i=0;i<elms.length;i++){if (elms[i].type="checkbox" )elms[i].click()};

Purtroppo seleziona solo i primi 200 amici, quindi o si scrollano 200 amici per volta, oppure si fanno liste di 200 amici.

Fatemi sapere se avete problemi (o soluzioni migliori!).

Sto tenendo aggiornato questo post (in inglese):
http://giacobam.blogspot.com/2011/03/inviting-all-your-friends-to-facebook.html
c'e' anche uno script alternativo

Spiegazione (e vecchio script)
L'ho trovato molto utile e lo ripropongo:

1 per selezionare tutti gli amici da una lista di selezioni invitati, non c'e' un bottone, ma si puo' utilizzare un comodo script:

javascript:elms=document.getElementById('friends').getElementsByTagName('li');for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === 'object'){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}

Incollate il testo qui sopra nella barra degli indirizzi, fate invio e tutti i vostri amici saranno selezionati.
La barra degli indirizzi è la casella dove si inseriscono gli indirizzi dei siti ;)

2 Invitate spesso amici, ma non volete invitare sempre tutti? Create una lista di amici. Dalla pagina amici (forse http://www.facebook.com/?sk=ru, comunque ci si arriva cliccando su amici), selezionate "crea una lista". Con il trucco di prima, selezionate tutti gli amici, poi a manina togliete quelli che non volete invitare ogni volta. (es: amici stranieri, professori, gatti..). Date un nome alla lista e salvatela.

Ora quando invitate a un evento, prima del trucco 1, dovreste selezionare la vostra lista dal menu a tendina in alto a sinistra (filter friends in inglese). In questo modo appariranno solo gli amici della lista. Col trucco 1, li selezionate tutti, li invitate, e il gioco è fatto!

Ultimi lavori wellD

2010-05-21T05:15:00.000-07:00

Un piccolo aggiornamento su alcuni degli ultimi lavori di wellD.

Athon SA - startup ticinese, implementazione del sito su design Pfenninger solutions

Fortis Rubinetterie - design e sviluppo sito vetrina

Adele Steli - design e sviluppo sito web

Amici della Musica - Erba - design e sviluppo sito web

Rubinetteria Online - design e sviluppo sito di e-commerce per i rubinetti

Simi Srl - analisi, ottimizzazione per i motori di ricerca (SEO) e campagna pubblicitaria online

20/03/2010: Last e ColorEsperanza per Haiti

2010-03-10T04:36:00.000-08:00

Cari amici e care amiche,

sabato 20 marzo le associazioni Culturali LAST e ColorEsperanza vi invitano a una serata dedicata ad Haiti e all'isola di Hispaniola.

Vi proponiamo un documentario e un momento di discussione e informazione per permettervi di scoprire qualcosa di più su Haiti e Repubblica Dominicana, anche oltre all'emergenza terremoto.

Proietteremo "The Agronomist", lungometraggio che narra la storia di Jean-Dominique: giornalista, fortoreporter ma soprattutto strenuo difensore dei diritti umani e della libertà del popolo haitiano. Una testimonianza toccante e avvincente. (guarda il trailer)

Seguirà un intervento da parte di ColorEsperanza, associazione che opera da anni in contatto con l'altra metà dell'isola: la Repubblica Dominicana.

Questa associazione sta seguendo da vicino l'emergenza terremoto, indirizzando le donazioni raccolte su partner attivi sull'isola, conosciuti in questi anni di attività.

L'ingresso all'evento sarà gratuito, le eventuali donazioni su base volontaria verranno devolute a ColorEsperanza per finanziare i progetti umanitari legati all'emergenza terremoto.

L'evento è organizzato con il patrocinio del Consiglio di Zona 9 e del Comune di Milano.

Per informazioni:

Last - Laboratorio Artistico società trasversali www.associazionelast.it info@associazionelast.it

ColorEsperanza - Associazione Culturale www.coloresperanza.org info@coloresperanza.it

Theory 4:nested flashforwards - Flashforward and time travel theories

2009-11-22T09:12:00.000-08:00

This post is part of a series about flashforward and time travel theories. Might contain spoiler. Please start reading here.

Theory 4: external interventions

In theory 3 we were considering specific interventions of "the people behind the blackout", but it was hard to explain how these interventions could happen and change the predetermined time-line.
This interpretation considers a particular intervention from those people: a second blackout (even in some way it happens "before" the actual one).
This theory starts from the "time flow" stated in theory one. When a flashforward occurs, people see what their future would have been without the flashforward. They have therefore the possibility to act and change this future. Let's look at Figure 5 for a clearer explanation.

Figure 5: double flashforward scenario

In this scenario we have a first flashforward event, somewhere between October 6th and April 29th.
In this flashforward people saw their "old" future, like in theory 1: a future that they will be able to change.
A new flashforward was then introduced, before flashforward "1". In this flashforward, people saw the future that they would have experienced in timeline 2: a word where a different flashforward happened.
Therefore, they will be able to change their future according to what they see.

Good points:

This theory seems to explain many of the problem encountered in previous theories. The future seen in the flashforward is based on a word where a flashforward existed; this would explain Mark's investigation, and many of the "coincidences" found.
The future is not pre-determined, explaining Al's death and all possible changes on future events.

Problems:

I did not find any strong objection on this theory. There are however many open question.
How does the theory addresses the "strange behaviours at flashforward time"? How can a second flashforward be created? Can it be created before the first flashforward? The "first" flashforward will happen in this reality too?

Addressing the problems:

Many of these question will possibly be addressed by future episodes. This theory leaves the future of the series open to different possibilities, and I think this is very intriguing.
The fact that people are behaving in a strange way at flashforward time might be explained by the fact that in timeline 2, flashforward is showing a different timespan (or even a different day). People would not expect a flashforward to happen at that time, and are therefore acting normally.

This ends my theories series for the moment, I hope to get some feedback from you!

Theory 3: external interventions - Flashforward and time travel theories

2009-11-15T09:05:00.000-08:00

This post is part of a series about flashforward and time travel theories. Might contain spoiler. Please start reading here.

Theory 3: external interventions

Ok, theory 2 seems to go along with Mark investigation and some events in the flashforward, but has been invalidated by Al's death. In particular this goes against assumption 2:

A specific "possible world" setting, without any external intervention (par example people causing flash forwards), the future is fixed: starting from the same exact variables events will always evolve in the same way.

What if we theorize a world as depicted in theory 2 (the flashforward shows a future where the flashforward itself is taken into account) and add an "external intervention" ?

Figure 4: a new timeline "manipulated" by a further external intervention.

But what could cause such an external intervention? Who? Here we can start with a lot more theories, but let's start with a simple one: there is a group of people "behind" the global blackout and the flashforward. They have instruments (or powers) that caused this event, and maybe can interfere with the normal time flow in other ways. For example they could cause flashforwards to a controlled number of people (maybe themself?) and act according to the future they see.
One of their intervention could be the attack against the fbi agents.

Good points:
This theory would explain both the fact that the flashforward is "implied" in people vision and the fact that some events (Al's death) made some vision "impossible". It is also possible to find a specific event explaining two changes in the future: the attack against Janis. Janis ends up wounded and it will probably be impossible for her to have a child (invalidating what she saw in her flashforward). By the attack the "Blue hand" investigation starts, Al knows about ghosts and their dispair, and decides to kill himself (invalidating his and Fiona's flashforward).

Problems:

The problem of how people are acting at flahsforward time remains unsolved.
A new problem is introduced: how can those people "intervene" and change the future? Why their intervention is not considered in the blackout vision?

Addressing the problems:

We know very few of how the blackout was caused but we can assume that people that caused the blackout have the power to "change the future". However this theory does not add any clue on the reason for the "strange" actions at flashforward time.

Theory 2: pre-determined future - Flashforward and time travel theories

2009-11-15T08:45:00.000-08:00

This post is part of a series about flashforward and time travel theories. Might contain spoiler. Please start reading here.

Theory 2: pre-determined future

In this theory the future seen in the flashforward is the "real" future, what will really happen on April 29th.

Figure 3: flashforward coming form "flashforward" time flow itself

All events are predetermined, people are moving towards their future, "written" and seen in their own flashforward. In Figure 3 you can see a full line, since there is no space for "changes" in this scenario. There is no relation beetween "flashforward time" and "normal" time.

Good points:

This vision is also simple: the flashforward is a real sight of how the future will be. In this future there are references to the flashforward (Mark investigation) and events where the flashforward is probably involved (Lloyd meeting Olivia, since his child got injured during the blackout).

Problems:

People behaviours during the 2 minutes and 17 seconds do not seem to go along well with this theory. They act normally, as if they did not "lived" that moment before: imagine you saw what you would possibly be doing at a certain time in the future; when that time comes, you would expect what is going to happen, prepare yourself for it and maybe nod if everything would happen according to the flashforward. Instead, people are suprised by what they see (Janis is really moved when she's told about the daughter. But she's been knowing that for months!) and seem to behave without considering what they have seen (what is Mark doing in the office, drinking, with his gun unloaded if he know that masked man are coming to kill him)?
All flashforward should be true, but what happens to Al in Episode 7 invalidates both his and Fiona flashforwards.

Addressing the problems:

While people behavior might somehow be accepted, Al's problem invalidates this theory.

Flashforward and time travel theories - Theory 1: a different future

2009-11-15T03:49:00.000-08:00

The last episode I saw of Flashforward (n° 7, "the gift") caused some discussion and thinking about the possibles "time shifts" scenario in the series.
This serie of post contains SPOILERS on the Flashforward series and on episode 7 in particular. So, if you haven't watched any episode, please start by the pilot. If you've not seen "the gift" yet, stop here and come back after ;).

There are different theories on time travel and related paradoxes. I will try to apply some of them to the "flash forward universe" and see which one match it best.
I'm starting from 2 basic assumptions:

The flashforward shows something "true", something that would happen in a precise "possible word". The flashforward is not just a dream, created ad-hoc with no reference to a possible future.
A specific "possible world" setting, without any external intervention (par example people causing flash forwards), the future is fixed: starting from the same exact variables events will always evolve in the same way.

Theory 1: a different future

Let's start with the simplest theory. In figure 1, there is the "normal" timeline. This is the timeline of events in case no flashforward occours. All the timeline is drawn in a full line, assuming that the future is pre-determined by the starting situation.

Figure 1: normal time flow (no flashforward involved)

Obviously, one flashforward must occour, on October 6. On this date everyone has a flashforward of april 29th.
What happens to our timeline (Figure 2)? The first timeline becomes a possible world, where no flashforward was involved. Our world is rapresented in the second timeline. We have now the flash flashforward on October 6. What is shown in this flashforward? In this hypothesis, people see what would have happened on the world WITHOUT the flashforward. In their 2 minutes and 17 seconds they see what would have happened on april 29th in timeline 1.

Figure 2: Flashforward coming from "natural" time flow

This is therefore a future that can be changed: a new variable is introduced in the world, people have seen their future and can act in different ways in order to change it. What will happen in the "real" world on april 29th is no more pre-determined (dotted line) but can change according to people choices.

Good points:

This vision is quite simple and easy to understand, there are no (let say less) temporal paradoxes. Time "restarts" from the flashforward and the world history is rebuilt according to people actions. Anything can happen, both "now" and on april 29th.

Problems:

It is rellly hard to fit this vision with the flashforwards seen until now: why is mark investigating on the flash forward? How did Olivia meet Lloyd, if in the first timeline the accident that caused Dylan hospitalization would not have happened? How do all other clues rely? How could "blue hand" groups exist?

Addressing the problems:

It is a bit hard to believe, but all the Mosaic investigation in the first timeline, might be based on something else, might not be involving the blackout. In that possible world, Mark might be investigating on a different case, or maybe on the group of people that will cause the blackout in timeline 2. Olivia might meet Lloyd any other possible way, and any other coincidence might be explained. Blue hand might be something different in this world, maybe (still?) connected with people behind the flash forward.

Further Theories are presented in the following posts:

References:

THE PHILOSOPHY OF TIME TRAVEL By Roberta Sparrow (PDF)
Flash Forward Wiki Wikia (Spoiler Alert: this wiki is up to date with the last episode broadcasted in USA)

Acknowledgments:

Thanks to Came, Bond and jjescalante for discussions ;)

Comments Welcome!

Google wave in blog post.

2009-11-14T03:54:00.000-08:00

I received an invite to google wave, but I didn't find a relevant use yet. Let's try to embed it in a blog post.

I'm following the rules listed here:

http://heresmycode.blogspot.com/2009/10/add-google-wave-in-your-site.html

And here (I hope) there is the wave!

First impression? It's very very slow, and well.. ugly :D
I see post as anonymous on Safari..and changes to the wave are not updated.
And, most of all.. see what happens if the user is not logged in into waves.
Maybe I should work on personalizing it..maybe this is not worth the effort?
Do anyone know if there is a better way to use wave to publish content? Sugges sites with a good use of wave embed, if you have any!

By the way, if U need invites I have some available..

Strange Anonymous comments - "good start" ?

2009-11-12T08:06:00.000-08:00

Lately on this and other blogspot blogs I'm receiving strange comments from anonymous users like:

"good start"
“quello che stavo cercando, grazie”
“leggere l'intero blog, pretty good”

and similar phrases. Spam? Sure, but why? No link attached, just the short "appreciation" phrase.
Maybe links were removed by blogspot? Should I remove such comments?

By the way, to subscribe to a Blogspot blog comment feed, the url is:

feed://BLOGNAME.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default

New release: athon.ch

2009-11-10T02:05:00.000-08:00

Last "release" from wellD Sagl, in collaboration with PfenningerSolutions: www.athon.ch

The slide-out menu (made with mootools and CSS sprites) took me a bit, maybe I should write some kind of tutorial on it!

il tuo sito al prezzo che vuoi!

2009-09-14T01:20:00.001-07:00

Approfitto del fatto che ho un blog, anche se mai preso sul serio, per farmi un po' di pubblicità:

WellD, la società che ho fondato con alcuni amici, lancia ora la promozione "il tuo sito.. al prezzo che vuoi!".
Chi ha bisogno di un sito web, invece di chiedere un preventivo, può segnalarci quanto vuole spendere e WellD realizzerà il sito al meglio secondo la cifra offerta!
L'offerta sarà attiva a settembre e ottobre 2009 sul sito di wellD.
In base a una breve descrizione del sito di cui il cliente ha bisogno, wellD elabora un "preventivo al contrario" dove spiega che cosa è possibile realizzare con il budget messo a disposizione.

Il tutto avviene direttamente online, tramite un semplice form!

Se avete bisogno di un sito, ora sapete dove andare! Aspetto commenti, se mai qualcuno passa di qua!

vuoi fartelo leccare da una ragazza? strane pubblicità su facebook

2009-07-20T02:04:00.000-07:00

Pubblicità apparsami su facebook pochi minuti fa.

Non ho approfondito quale fosse esattamente il servizio in vendita.. ma da quel che si intuisce, è una bella caduta di stile!
E soprattutto mi chiedo.. perchè a me??

Le proposte dei blog per salvare il clima

2009-03-11T16:00:00.000-07:00

Non so se qualcuno ogni tanto passa di qua (o meglio, so che non ci passa quasi nessuno), ma sfrutto questo spazio per promuovere un'iniziativa di un amico che mi sembra interessante.

L'idea è di elaborare proposte per l'ambiente tramite discussione su blog, in particolare www.jacopofo.com e blog.libero.it/kudablog, per poi elaborarle in un documento da presentare ai parlamentari..

Tetrapak - dillo a tutti..

2008-10-13T00:33:00.000-07:00

Di solito sono le pubblicità svizzere a spiazzarmi.. questa volta pero' è tutto un capolavoro italiano. Da un po' a milano troneggiano cartelloni giganti di questo sentore:

Un'informazione importante (io onestamente pensavo di no)..E una campagna piuttosto massiccia.. Ma mi sembra che manchi qualcosa.. I cartelloni infatti non riportano altro. Spazio al messaggio principale, che rimanga impresso..e al perentorio ordine di spargere la voce.

Benissimo, vado volentieri a dirlo in giro:

"Ciao Nonna, ma lo sai che il Tetra Pak è riciclabile? Perchè noi lo buttiamo sempre?"
"Ah si? Il cartone del latte? E dove devo buttarlo?"
"..."
"con la plastica? Con la carta?"
"..."
"mbe?"
"..aspetta che faccio un altro giro in metro.."

ma niente da fare..il cartellone gigante non riporta altro! Devo dire in giro di riciclare il Tetra Pak..senza poter dire dove buttarlo!

Dopo aver accumulato cartoni per latte e succhi per qualche settimana, visto che cominiciavano a occupare un po' troppo posto in cucina, ho fatto un lungo giro sul sito internet dell'iniziativa e ho finalmente trovato, in una pagina piccola e isolata..Che la soluzione, per Milano, è il cestino della carta! Ci voleva tanto a scriverlo in quei bei cartelloni del Metro?

Creating a select for all nations using asp.

2008-06-05T00:21:00.000-07:00

A little web development parenthesis.
Yesterday I needed to ass to a website's registration form the choice of nation, including all existing nations.
I wanted to make a "select", with the possibility to preselect a specific nation, or the user previous choice.
Since I didn't find any available code online, I'll post here my solution, using asp and a text file.

You just need an ASP server (but the code can be easily adapted to other languages) and a text file with the nations you'd like to show, one nation per line. In my site I used this file, including all nations in Italian.
Whit asp (or your server side languages) you just need to read the file line by line and build your select.
Here's the code I used:


<% 
'variable holding preselected value. Could be retrieved from user's recordset
Nation = "Italy"

'filestream opening
filename = Server.MapPath("/Nations.txt")
Set objFile = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set filestream = objFile.OpenTextFile(filename, 1, true)

'variable holding values read from textfile
Dim ActualNation
ActualNation = filestream.ReadLine()

'printing select start, and first option (might be set as default)
%>
<select name="Nation" id="Nation">
<option value="0">
    Select your nation:
</option>
<%
'cycle to build the different options and set selected item
DO WHILE NOT filestream.AtEndOfStream %>
      <option value="<%=ActualNation%>" <%IF Nazione=ActualNation THEN %> selected="selected" <%END IF%> ><%=ActualNation%></option>
     <% ActualNation = filestream.ReadLine()
LOOP 
'select closing tag
%>
</select>
<%
'closing filestream
filestream.Close 
Set filestream = Nothing
Set objFile = Nothing
%>

And here's the result:

Hope this can be useful to someone.. Please provide comments, suggestions and improvements!

PS: still no news from protector.. But a new great game demo is out there:
www.maganicwars.com.

Youtube Playlist embed

2008-04-29T09:25:00.000-07:00

Here's the "new" youtube tool to embed entire playlists. Finally something to show a full set of video on a site.. Here are a few ones, from Cameroun!..

Sorry for the lack of updates on Defender maps and codes, but I'm waiting for the protector level creator!

Protector is finally out!

2008-02-10T03:37:00.000-08:00

Protector, the game that follows Uo:Defender has finally been released!

Noxins, the author, promises great development for the future.. But for the moment no editor is provided!

Go play!

Edit: the game is now available also on Newgrounds.!

UO: Defender - news for Noxins

2008-01-27T03:26:00.000-08:00

I'm sorry I haven't posted new maps or codes in thehttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif last month, but I'm very busy..
I have instead an interestin news from Noxins, UO:defender creator.
Finally some update from his site:

blog post
the interesting part is:

the Defender remake is steadily nearing completion..

waiting for that!

Sesto's Spice Girls!

2008-01-10T00:39:00.000-08:00

here are our friends from GASC performing as Spice Girls in Marmaja (Cusano Milanino).

Take a look

U comment, I follow

2008-01-07T00:28:00.000-08:00

this blog is now "nofollow free".
What does thism mean? URLs in comments will now be followed by bots and search engine!

Blogger uses the "nofollow tag" in comments by default, but it's possible and easy to remove it:

just go under "template" and "edit html".

Check "Expand Widget Templates".

search for

<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel='nofollow'>

and cancel the "rel='nofollow'" part! Only

<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl'>

should remain.

it's easy and fast!