This morning, I added a new copyright message below each blog entry in my RSS and Atom feeds. This deterrent against the recent outbreak of feed leaches, who take full-content RSS feeds and display them on their sites as if the posts contained in those feeds were their own, has been added via Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter plugin.
Monthly Archives: June 2005
A Comprehensive List of Update Services
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When it comes to pinging RCP and RCP2 update services, I always prefer to ping Ping-o-Matic, because it simply is the best one out there. With one ping, Ping-o-Matic will notify sixteen of the most popular update services. Unfortunately, Ping-o-Matic has become rather unstable over the past month and has been experience several extended periods of downtime. If you ever find Ping-o-Matic to be offline before making a new post on your blog, don’t fret. Elliot Back has posted a comprehensive list of 56 RPC and RPC2 update services.
Blogroll Dive: 6/27/05
Here are the highlights from today’s Blogroll dive:
Bryan is looking for feedback on his place in the rising tech support industry.
Owen has a few interesting thoughts on his involvement in the future of the WordPress Community.
Michael Heilemann is looking for K2 (Kubrick v2) feature suggestions.
John sold Blogging Pro.
Khaled is preparing Broken Kode v4.
Phil launches his Library, and has a few interesting thoughts on parents’ involvement in their children’s training.
Michael Hampton launches the Homeland Stupidity Threat Advisory System.
Jon launches the Amazon Mobile CD Lookup.
Chris releases CJD Notepad.
Angsuman uses WP-Cache to protect his blog from “the Slashdot Effect.”
Mark wants you to sign a petition if you agree with his point of view on the upcoming 9/11 memorial.
Tom ruminates on RSS and its possible uses.
And, Podz discovers that the Googlebot is disobeying his robots.txt file.
VLC Update v0.8.2
VLC has been updated to v0.8.2. “This new release features many imporvements including a full playlist rewrite, improved preferences, Mac OS X Tiger compatibility, a brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin, a port to Pocket PC, mosaic picture in picture system, and easy snapshots.” The release notes are available here. Read the Favored Freeware entry for VLC here.
Library Update: 6/25/2005
In order to coincide with today’s Favored Freeware post, I have decided to break my quarterly update schedule and upload the current version of my Library today. This catalogue of my library is technically complete, but I’m always purchasing new items. If you would like to trade or purchase, please contact me, and we’ll work something out. Current library stats:
Books: 309
Movies: 130
Music: 78 + 463 iTMS purchases
Games: 8
Note: The fore-mentioned library was getting far too large, so it is no longer available, but it was fun while it lasted.
Favored Freeware: DeliciWeb
DeliciWeb enables you to export, in one click, the entire content of your Book, Games, Movie, and/or Music collections [from Delicious Library] to the web. I have tried another tool like this one in the past, but it wasn’t as simple to install and the HTML wasn’t as “clean” as I liked it, so here is DeliciWeb.
Pros: DeliciWeb is very simple to use and creates a clean and concise HTML version of your library.
Cons: DeliciWeb does not support custom image sizes yet, nor does it allow the user to make a distinction between image sizes in the library view and image sizes in the item view. In the current version (v1.2), all message text is displayed in French. Mon Dieu!
Freeware For You and Your Children
The newest addition to the Burnham family was born just hours ago. As such, Brian is out learning how to be a new father. In celebration of this wonderful moment, I’ve managed to dig up a small selection of freeware that will benefit you and your children. And, as an added bonus, all MacMerc.com PayPal donations from Friday, Saturday, and Sunday will be donated to Brian, his wife, and the new little Burnham. Join me for another great Freeloader Friday.
