April 2004
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- Aggregators: Part Two
Sauce Reader Nice installer, nice tutorial/introduction screens. Slow startup (as with all the aggregators that use the .net runtime). Listens for feed:// URLs and listen...
Published on 02 April in general - Aggregators: Conclusion
In between looking at Sauce Reader, Sharpreader and Syndirella, I looked at pretty much all the other desktop aggregators in the weblog compendium
Published on 02 April in general - UKBlogger map advertising
The UKBlogger map is now listed on the WorldKit examples page.
Published on 02 April in general - Ascetic
Fewer, people, fewer. Not "less". This is one of my favourite bugbears, and on Monday I’ll post a picture of the only supermarket I know which labels its...
Published on 02 April in general - The Sunday Post
G says that there are never any posts on a Sunday, so here’s one just for him (late in the day as it may be). A few days ago I finally got around to knocking up what I’ve decided to give the...
Published on 04 April in general - aiiie
My website is now in serious need of a redesign. I know it’s bad when even I can’t stand to look at it 🙂
Published on 05 April in general - iScrobbler
It seems I’m not the only one who’s been busy. G has written a lovely little AudioScrobbler plugin for iTun...
Published on 05 April in general - Uninstall those extensions!
It’s a doddle to install firefox extensions but near impossible to uninstall them unless you know what you’re doing, and if you’re like me, you’ll see a new extension and go “Oooh, that looks good”...
Published on 05 April in general - Time to meet the (foaf:)maker
Whilst writing my LJ Friends Feed script I noticed that in the section of every livejournal u...
Published on 05 April in general - RSSOwl
RSSOwl | RSS & RDF Newsreader A cross-platform desktop aggregator in SWT Looks pretty good, works OK althou...
Published on 07 April in general - Idle sods
SharpReader turns One. So what the fuck’s been going on the aggregator scene in that time? SharpReader is *still* the most pr...
Published on 07 April in general - This platform happens to be my soapbox
I think Anil Dash is missing a trick. Anil says Platforms,...
Published on 07 April in general - Won't anyone think of the children?
If you‘re subscribed to my RSS feed then STOP! Move to my Atom feed. My RSS feed doesn’t h...
Published on 08 April in general - RSSx from Atom
Manuzhai emails to tell me that FeedDemon doesn’t actually support Atom yet, so
Published on 08 April in general - Mark me up, Scotty
Simon writes about the legion of non-HTML text markup languages and introduces his own (we have enough. please stop n...
Published on 13 April in general - Phil says, "Didn't you say..." and so on
Woohoo! Quotes nesting has been implemented in Mozilla!
Published on 14 April in general - saucereader praise
Wow, I’m famous!
Published on 15 April in general - Desktop XUL apps
I was all set to write a post about how we should be using centralised apps with XUL frontends for aggregation to provide native interfaces regardless of location but I find that
Published on 19 April in general - DB eh?
I don’t pretend to be a DBA but currently at work that’s part of my role (what was that sa password again?). Anyway, the Java Performance Tuni...
Published on 20 April in general - Dashboard and Jabber
In the Dashboard architecture, cluepackets are used to send messages between front and back-end applications. Now what if there was a way to tunnel cluepackets through Jabber? Has some...
Published on 20 April in general - Mozilla link bar suXX0r!
The Mozilla link toolbar doesn’t work as well as Firefox’s link toolbar extension does. For about a year now I’ve had rel="bookmark"...
Published on 20 April in general - Gmail for Blogger-ers
asa pointed out that some Blogger users are being given the opportunity to sign up for
Published on 21 April in general - Awesome per-site CSS
The URIid extension for Mozilla and Firefox (via asa) lets you as...
Published on 22 April in general - Handy XML tag outlining
Oooh, I’d not noticed before, but if you’re viewing an XML file in Firefox and CTRL-click an element, it puts a grey border around that element, allowing you to see where it begins and ends – usefu...
Published on 23 April in general - New Mozilla RDF module owner
Hot damn! Mozilla RDF has a new module owner who has this to say: We gonna push for both standards conformance (there are new specs out there since early 2004) and scriptability...
Published on 26 April in general - A slight aside - the weather
What? Nice weather in the UK? In Sheffield? Well, it was last week at least:
Published on 26 April in general - Jabber: framed
From the Jabber Development mailing list comes news of a new Java-based gateway framework After a REALLY long lead time I am happy...
Published on 27 April in general - The Sheffield Peace Gardens
Originally upl...
Published on 29 April in general - No Palm phones in Europe?
I just can’t understand why Nokia doesn’t have an app with similar functionality for its Series 60 phones. Or why some third party hasn’t made one yet – or maybe even an adapter for Pa...
Published on 30 April in general