Would readers of this blog be interested in a Planet Thunderbird aggregator that included all posts explicitly about Thunderbird, not just mine or those of Thunderbird engineers, but whatever other regular bloggers on the topic made sense? Or are all those readers already reading Planet Mozilla and happy to deal with that firehose?
Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category
MarsEdit, WordPress, Planet, and minor updates
Dear LazyWeb, I use MarsEdit to author my blog posts, then publish to WordPress 2.2, and see some of my posts aggregated by some Planet sites. Every now and then I need to make a minor change, and that seems to result in resyndication so that readers of the planet feed get duplicates. Is there [...]
Category specific feeds exposed
After a little bit of struggling with PHP (it’s been a while), I’ve exposed category specific feeds. Specifically, if someone wants to keep track of my Mozilla-related posts, here’s the feed (or the browser-oriented archive page). Similarly for ActiveState stuff (feed, archive), etc. I haven’t yet figured out what tweaks are needed to my WP [...]
Shrook Calling Pukka, Shrook Calling Pukka…
AppleScript, Shrook & Pukka experts — is it possible to build a custom keyboard command that lets me invoke Pukka from Shrook? (These names, I know!). I haven’t touched AppleScript seriously since the late 80s I fear, but there’s got to be a way to hijack Pukka’s Mark as Flagged command, no?
Misc software recommendations
I’ve upgraded the software I use for blog-reading & writing. I’m pretty happy with the following so far: I’ve switched to Shrook as my aggregator. It’s the only one I found that could let me quickly reorganize my 300+ RSS feeds into groups. Key word being “quickly”. Most of the others I tried didn’t scale [...]
I guess pings and vanity searches work!
I posted about Ning at 11:41 am, and got a comment from Marc Andreessen himself at 2:06 pm. Amazing.
Productivity boost with feeddemon & bloglines
Install feeddemon 1.5 trial (still trying to figure out an alternative to bloglines) Enable the bloglines synchronization feature Decide the keyboard navigation still feels awkward, and still don’t like having to read blogs in the websites (not as fast as bloglines’ “everyone looks the same” model). Go back to bloglines, and notice that feeddemon marked [...]
Productivity boost with feeddemon & bloglines
Install feeddemon 1.5 trial (still trying to figure out an alternative to bloglines) Enable the bloglines synchronization feature Decide the keyboard navigation still feels awkward, and still don’t like having to read blogs in the websites (not as fast as bloglines’ “everyone looks the same” model). Go back to bloglines, and notice that feeddemon marked [...]
Corante and Firefox
Corante is an interesting collection of blogs. Unfortunately, it renders so slowly in Firefox that I basically can’t stand reading it. I don’t know if it’s Firefox’s problem (IE seems to do ok), but in the meantime it’d be nice if the Corante folks fixed it (yes, I mailed a comment in)…
Somebody fix printing!
I’m going to be on a few planes over the next two weeks (to San Diego for ETech, to San Francisco for a customer visit, and to DC for PyCon). I like to read when I travel, and there’s a bunch of stuff that I’ve been meaning to get to. As batteries run out and [...]
