Nuclear Bits

Upload Videos to Vimeo via Dropbox

I missed this major Vimeo news last week. Vimeo now allows you to automatically upload your videos to Vimeo by simply choosing an auto-upload folder and placing your video in it. As it finishes syncing with Dropbox, Vimeo automatically uploads it too.

This is sure to make the workflow of a lot of people simpler. I know a lot of producers who stash away the final render on Dropbox anyway, so this feature will be definitely welcomed by them.

You can connect your Dropbox account to Vimeo here.

Some More Sensationalist Crap, this time from TOI

Another day, another major Indian publication decides to go with a sensational headline concerning Apple.

The Times of India, the leading news daily in India, has gone with the following headline on its website:

1 million Apple IDs hacked

Pardon my French, but What the actual fuck, TOI?

There’s a HUGE difference between an Apple ID and a UDID. And no, Apple IDs were not “hacked” in this case.

Regarding Values and Hypocrisy

Prasad Naik responds to a post by Javed Anwer, a tech journalist at The Times of India.

Javed Anwer, who loves to write about technology on his blog WebWise on The Times of India, has today posted an article called ‘No Apple, it’s not about values‘.

If Javed’s name sounds familiar, it’s probably because we’ve met him before. I wrote that post in July last year in response to his ramblings about the iPad 2 after using it for a week. That is still one of the most popular articles on that blog of mine and I had quite a lot of fun while writing that. But I digress.

I couple of people sent me a link to Javed’s latest post, but I couldn’t get to it before late evening. By then, Prasad had already published his post in response to Javed’s. Prasad raises some fairly interesting points about who really copied whom and who exactly was “FIRST!” in bringing a feature to the market.

Comparison of Subscription Music Streaming Services

Having trouble deciding on which music streaming service to subscribe to? This handy chart, put together by the developer of Skip Tunes, will probably help you out a great deal.

Google (quietly) Kills its Weather API

Google seems to have gone ahead and killed its Weather API that was being used by plenty of iOS, Android and Web apps in the market today. A lot of these apps are therefore suddenly unable to fetch and display any weather day, which I’m sure would lead to a lot of bad or negative reviews.

One could argue that Google is allowed to do this as it was an undocumented, private API existing only to serve the iGoogle product. However, it really wouldn’t have hurt if they’d just given a heads up a few days earlier.

Apps that are affected include Weather Eye (Android), Weather Neue & Kelvin (iOS) and Sun & Breeze (Web).

Goodbye, Neil

MaxCDN is FREE for the Next 7 Days

MaxCDN is a leading Content Delivery Network from the house of NetDNA. For the uninitiated, the primary role of a CDN is to make your site load faster by serving files from a “node” that is closer to a visitor’s location. I’ve been using it with Beautiful Pixels for about a year now and have been nothing but happy with the performance.

For the next seven days, MaxCDN has enabled signups for FREE — that is, they have waived off the cost of first slab of the 1TB bandwidth costing $39.95. You can effectively sign up for FREE and use the 1TB of bandwidth on as many sites as you want. You will only pay when you cross that limit.

If you sign up using this link, I get a small kickback from when you upgrade in the future.