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Mobile browsing with opmlmanager

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

Dave Winer inspired me with his mini-sites (pda.scripting.com bbcriver.com nytimesriver.com) he created specially for browsing on mobile devices like smartphones and pda’s. I added some funtionality to opmlmanager.com which makes it easy to browse your opml online and read your feeds. Looks like nothing special on your computerscreen, but works great on your mobile device! If you have a smartphone or pda and have internetaccess then you know that it’s not always easy to navigate your favorite sites on the tiny screen. You have to scroll to a whole lot of crap before you find the main content.

Opmlmanager now offers a solution for that. Just sign up for an account, add the rss or atom feeds of your favorite sites, or import an opml-file (almost every newsreader, aggregator will let you export your subscriptions in opml format) and bookmark the mobile browsing address in your phone: http://www.opmlmanager.com/mob/username.

Opmlmanager mobile browsing 1 Opmlmanager mobile browsing 2

Give it a try and let me know what you think!

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yomoblog

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

hi there i’m posting this mobile from my nokia n90! (how does one enter with this?), using dave winer’s yomoblog.com

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I-PHPodder

Monday, August 23rd, 2004

I 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

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