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Configuring get_iplayer

24 March, 2013 - 78 words
There are lots of ways of setting up get_iplayer. Here’s mine. It means that filenames work across Windows and Linux, removes underscores from names, never deletes old e...

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HTML rendering is hard

20 April, 2009 - 187 words
wxWidgets is a nice, easy-to-use cross platform toolkit for writing desktop applications. It exists for many different languages including Ruby and Python. It includes an HTML renderer. On Windows this ...

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code.flickr.com, Flickr Uploadr 3.0 and XUL

16 April, 2008 - 341 words
Flickr have just launched code.flickr, Your one-stop shop for information, gossip and discussion with the Flickr developer community which I imagine they want to use to draw together the disparate developer resources from the groups, forums, mailing list and more. I guess they also want to use it to

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I need a new aggregator

08 July, 2006 - 218 words
I’ve not used a desktop aggregator for close to a year now, getting my information instead from these strange and archaic webpages, some of which are mini-aggregators like Digg or my del.icio.us network. Recently however, I’ve been slowly picking up the pace again (which means visiting more than thir...

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RSSOwl

07 April, 2004 - 204 words
RSSOwl | RSS & RDF Newsreader A cross-platform desktop aggregator in SWT Looks pretty good, works OK although slightly unintuitive in places and laborious in others, but very feature-complete (including blogthis functionality, grouping, well-implemented searching, multiple languages built-in etc.), cross-p...

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