Just upgraded from Wordpress 2.0 to 2.7.1, works flawlessly. The UI has certainly improved! And the default theme looks just as good as it did 
Archive for the ‘blogging tools’ Category
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Monday, March 9th, 2009Camstudio
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006Yesterdays download of the day by the Lifehacker:
Camstudio, a freeware tool for making perfect screencasts (Windows)! It saves your recordings in avi but comes with a tool to convert them to streaming flash. You can choos to record full screen or a region you can pick your self.
This screencast shows how you can install camstudio. (Don’t get confused by the almost perfect mac-theme on this windows machine)
Bloglines offline
Monday, October 16th, 2006Anyone else experiencing difficulties accessing bloglines, or is it just me?
A librarians opml-wishlist
Monday, October 16th, 2006John Tropea has some wishes on the opml-front:
- A search tool for searching a specific opm-file: I like the idea, but there is a risk when such a tool also searches in the opml-files that it finds within the opml (inclusion). Searching full-text across a massive directory sounds great but it is like asking a search-engine to search on a specific page and also search on all the pages it finds links of on the first page, and so on… What if opml-file #1 links to opml-file #2 and #2 links to #1. How do we get out of the loop?
- Subscribe to an OPML or get services to subscribe to your OPML: I agree, if you are developing a service that can handle opml, make it handle it dynamically and not just import the feeds!
- OPML archive or latest posts for your blog: In my opinion oplm is not such a great format for storing posts. From a developers perspective storing html in an attribute instead of between tags where you can escape the html with [CDATA[]], is a bad idea. Al the angled brackets have to be replaced by < and > and some more. And why would we do this anyway when we have a fantastic format that was designed for storing posts: RSS. Grazr and bitty will handle this very well!
Google Docs & Spreadsheets as a blogging tool?
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006I’m testing that right now. This post is written with google docs & spreadsheets.If this works ok, we’ve another piece that can be loosely joined…
Will it work with images:
wordpress edit: it was not only written but also published using google docs. The posting did work allthough the title was not displayed… to use google docs & spreadsheets as a blogging tool it’ll need something extra i think
But i have to say that it has very nice features, like publishing your document on the web If google adds some wiki-features to this baby then they got them selfs a very interesting collaborative tool!!
Firefox: open bookmark in sidebar
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006Ideas are build on top of each other:
Dan shows us how in Firefox you can open a boormarked site in a sidebar. The Eirepreneur gets inspired and with this newly acquired wisdom he creates a browser based collaborative writing environment!
mmm, but how did he get 3 frames in there? The third frame that you see at the bottom of the page is actually a firefox add-on called ‘Performancing’ which is actually a full feautured blog editor that sits right (at the bottom) within firefox!
wouldn’t it be cool if firefox would feature a ‘open in left-sidebar, right-sidebar, bottom-sidebar’ option? That way you could open your own brand of choice blog editor (wordpress in frame nr 3 (or 4).
Anyway, James shows us how small pieces can be loosely joined: firefox + performancing + grazr + opml + rss + typepad make a full featured browser based collaborative writing environment. How cool is that!
yomoblog
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006hi there i’m posting this mobile from my nokia n90! (how does one enter with this?), using dave winer’s yomoblog.com
I-PHPodder
Monday, August 23rd, 2004I spend my saturday writing a very simple script that would work somehow like Adam Curry’s i-podder script as far as i understand it (I don not have a mac..)
Because i’m an internet developer and do my everyday coding in php i decided to use php. It’s not a brilliant peace of work but it does the job. I decided to call it i-phpodder
The script scans rss-feeds for mp3-links included in the description-tag and downloads these mp3-files to your local-disk.
so here’s version 0.01 of I-phpodder
There are two files in the zip:
1. i_phpodder.php
2. i_phpodder_feeds.db
The first one is the script itself and you should not have to change anything in there. In the second one you type the rss-feeds that you would like to be searched and the destination-folder for the downloaded mp3’s:
http://live.curry.com/rss.xml|N:curry
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100368/rss.xml|N:gilchrist
Make sure you place those in the same directory and that that directory is writable cause the first time you run the script its going to create a third file called i_phpodder_memory.db in which the names of downloaded items are placed to prevent you from downloading the same file multiple times.
php.ini - settings
Because the downloads will take some time the normal setting of max_execution_time (default = 30 secs) will not do. I changed it to 100000 just to be sure
ok, allready told you that the script is not perfect so i’m open for suggestions!
Greetz, Pieter Overbeeke