André Gil's Blog

UX, Dev, Tech and so on…

Bugzilla and Attached Images

I hate Bugzilla… It’s ugly, hard to use and has one of the the worst UI and UX that I know of. But the thing that annoys me most is when you have some image attached, you cannot open it. When you click at the link, it will download the image and then, you’ll be [...]

How many real Twitter followers do you have?

If you check the profile of all your new followers on Twitter, you’ll notice that many of your followers are just trying to get as many followers as possible by following a lot of people and expecting that they will be followed back. So I was wondering here, how many real followers do I have? [...]

DownFlickr – Flickr Downloader

I always loved photography, since I was young. And since Flickr is probably the best place on the internet to find great photos and inspiration, I always spent a lot of time there looking for great photos and photographers. One thing that I never liked on Flickr, is how hard it is to download photos. [...]

Firefox and the Flash/Flex focus problem

I’m working in a Flex project and the client asked for some Keyboard Shortcuts. It works great on Google Chrome and IE but, for some reason, Firefox doesn’t handle embedded objects focus correctly sometimes. To “fix” this problem, I found a really nice workaround. First, you have to open your application on some browser and [...]

Popout Flash Content (Videos, Games, etc) using this Bookmarklet

Sometimes, when I’m reading blogs, I want to watch some embedded video while I keep surfing on the older posts. Some websites give you the option to open the video in a new window, but this option is not always available. That’s why I created this Bookmarklet! Just right click on this links below and [...]