Agent Frank was super-useful as a personal proxy back in the day, but in the end it introduced too much of a delay into my daily browsing and I turned it off. Now that Firefox’s history is powered by a SQLite database I was hoping to be able to query it for my history every x minutes, request the pages and store and ind...

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I’m an idiot and req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url.path+'?'+url.query) is my friend. Just playing around with Ruby and the Yahoo Web Services. The example they give for calling a web service is this:

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Since Jim stuck it in his del.icio.us bookmarks a few weeks ago I’ve been using MindRetrieve both at home and at work to proxy my web browsing, and I really can’t fault it. As you browse it caches and indexes local copies of we...

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Stef Magdalinski has done something very clever. Fresh from his work on theyworkforyou.com, he’s set up a proxy to the news.bbc.co.uk website which scans the content for capitalised phrases and acronyms and replaces them with links to

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