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Back to using the OPML Editor

Time to test out the OPML Editor for blogging to WordPress again. Been a while since I used this thing and it looks like it’s undergone some revisions since the last time I used it.

For example, now it has a parakeet on its main window.

Actually, I think the last time I used the OPML Editor I was setting up blogs for my roommates on it. Good times.

April 17th, 2008 · Tags Blogging, Software | Comments Off

Lazyweb: looking for icons

Alright, internets: find something for me.

This page on cocoadev.com links to a zipfile of royalty-free (and, apparently, free-as-in-beer) icons by Matt Ball. The problem is that this zipfile has disappeared completely from the Internets, and the site that was hosting them is French, and the user’s site is gone altogether. (Yes, two of those links are 404s.)

So after a little searching, I managed to find where a different blogger was hosting them on his site, except… you guessed it, 404. They’re gone altogether. They are, in fact, the only thing missing out of his wp-content/uploads folder for the month of March. How odd, and what a frustrating coincidence.

Anyway - does anyone out there happen to have a copy of these icons? I need them for an app I’m prototyping. Thanks!

404

April 3rd, 2007 · Tags Annoyances, Development, Icons, Internet, Lazyweb, Mac, Software | 2 Comments »

Links galore

  • Mr. Gosling, why did you make URL equals suck?! A useful warning to Java developers - using URL.equals may be considered harmful, because apparently it does a blocking lookup to the IP address of the machine.
  • No Shredder in TMNT? Peter Laird, series creator of our favorite heroes on a halfshell, suggested the change. The villain is now a more generic ‘monsters and space aliens.’ Maybe it’s this guy, even though he didn’t really come from outer space, per se?
  • The world’s most indispensable Firefox tab: Ctrl-Shift-T (or Cmd-Shift-T on the Mac) will re-open the most recently closed tab. Hallelujah!
  • Slain trees haunt loggers. My coworker’s response: “heh, ent ghosts.”
  • Find out your Windows Vista Experience number. Sort of like a compatibility rating between your computer and Vista - is it love at first byte, or is Vista simply too high-maintenance for a down-to-earth machine like yours? (Pardon the pun - I had to.)
  • O’Reilly Media launched Hackszine.com, an online companion to the Hacks series of books gracing bookshelves for quite a while now. This is already in my RSS reader.
  • MAKE Blog: Do it yourself grassroots media sites using NewsCloud. Twenty bucks a month gets you a Debian install and NewsCloud; I think they handle hosting. Or you can just do it yourself, it’s open-source.
  • Dear God, it’s the Woot-Off that won’t die. The offer as I type this: a 37″ Sova widescreen HD-ready LCD monitor for $649.99 plus $5 shipping. I wish I could afford this monster.

That about covers it. I’m sort of like a bargain basement Weekend Update. (Obvious pop-culture references linked for my friend Sandra’s sake, who recently revealed she has no idea what movie features the songs “Danger Zone,” “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling,” and more. Or, for that matter, has never seen SNL.)

February 1st, 2007 · Tags Computers, Development, Gadgets, Internet, Microsoft, News, Science, Shopping, Software, TV, Technology, WTF?, Windows, lol | Comments Off

Leafletter: what the heck is this?

What exactly (or perhaps better, who exactly) is Leafletter for?

I watched the demo and other than a silly Flash-enabled artist’s portfolio, I can’t figure out who would use this, or for what. Other than maybe MySpace kids, who absolutely love slapping Flash everywhere (consequently, my own MySpace profile is one of the dullest on the web, but also the most readable and possibly the quickest to load… and no, it doesn’t play that damn Nickelback song).

(Snazzy Flickr integration, but everything integrates with Flickr these days. I think a new corollary needs to be added to Zawinski’s Law, something along the lines of, “every web app attempts to expand until it can integrate with Flickr and/or del.icio.us.”)

January 8th, 2007 · Tags Development, Flickr, Internet, Software, WTF?, Webapps, del.icio.us | Comments Off

Goddamnit Parallels

So TUAW mentioned that there’s a new version of Parallels out, and now - on top of the Coherence feature from the last beta - they’ve added Transporter beta3. What’s Transporter do? I thought you’d never ask.

It allows you to migrate an existing Windows install on a PC to a Parallels install over a network. It will also convert VMWare and Virtual PC disk images to Parallel Disk images.

Anyone want to buy my Mac mini and Toshiba Satellite for $1100? ;)

I’m suddenly itchin’ to replace ‘em both with a MacBook or MacBook Pro.

(Incidentally: there’s more about the Coherence feature here and here.)

December 29th, 2006 · Tags Computers, Mac, Software | Comments Off