Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen | solitude.dk

A Thingie is a (usually) small script or program. Usually it's written in PHP because that's the programming language I know. A Thingie is born out of a need to automate or simplify a task. Ie. to make my life easier. And then I thought: “Hey, maybe other people would like to use these Thingies too.” And now everyone can download my Thingies free of charge.

List of Thingies

1. File Thingie — File Manager

   File Thingie is a small file manager. It is meant to run on your website and supplement your FTP-program. You can upload/create, delete and rename files and folders directly on the server. In addition you can directly edit text, HTML and CSS files.

2. Embed Quicktime

   Embed QuickTime is a jQuery plugin that helps you embed QuickTime movies to play directly on your webpage, instead of redirecting your video to a separate page or forcing you to embed a video using Flash. It changes regular image links to the embedded QuickTime video when they are clicked.

3. LIX Indicator

   LIX Indicator is a jQuery plugin which can be attached to any textarea on a webpage. Through a coloured bar it indicates how difficult the text you are writing is to read. You can also see exactly how high your LIX number is, get a word/sentence count and see how many long words you are using.

4. Time Thingie

   Time Thingie is a small tool that allows you to convert a human readable date and time to a Unix time stamp and vice versa. There is no download necessary as it works directly on the website.

5. Linkubator

   Linkubator is an online tool that will create interactive Quicktime movies for you. Based on a movie you provide, Linkubator can add a ‘bug’ to the movie (a small image with a link to your blog entry). It will also create video quotes for you.

6. Gallery Thingie — Photo Gallery Manager

   Gallery Thingie is a tool to handle online photo and image galleries. You can upload images to your gallery and save information about each image (titles and descriptions). You can also attach a category so the images are easier to sort. It is of course easy to integrate the gallery on your website. Gallery Thingie is the most flexible tool of it's kind I've seen.