I have been thinking about moving my subscriptions to a web-based aggregator, but I'm too cheap to join FeedLounge and too impatient for Bloglines. I poked around a bit and found three host-it-yourself web-based aggregators that can give me what I'm after: speed....
If you download the latest weekly release of BlogBridge, you'll be able to tag feeds and individual entries. You can also publish your tags to your del.icio.us account. Apparently BlogBridge will be rolling out its own tagging service in the future, which will help those who don't have or ...
I've been looking at a couple of aggregators this week--one web-based, one java-based. BlogBridge is a java app, so the install is likely to be a little foreign to most non-techie people. Once you ...
As promised earlier, I created a couple of Gataga search plugins for the Mozilla/Firefox searchbar. Since I was mainly interested in meta-search, I didn't worry about searching flickr and technorati; there are already plugins for these (flickr, technorati). Get them on my search plugins page.
Bernie Dodge gave a presentation at NECC on a soon-to-be-released tool, QuestGarden. It looks like a pretty nice authoring system that will make creating webquests much easier. It'll be available starting September 1, 2005. It's free for one year, then $20 for a two-year subscription. Be sure to read ...
If you've got a VHS video that's not available on DVD and that you'd like to preserve for future use, you can digitize the video at the IDEA Center. I will assume that you have taken the proper steps to ensure that you may in fact convert the video from ...
OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is a file format you can use to share RSS subscriptions. If you use an RSS aggregator like bloglines (online) or RSS Bandit (free download), you can import an OPML file and automagically be subscribed to all the feeds in the file. If ...
Snapfish is an online digital photo printing and sharing service. They're offering 20 free prints and you can get 4x6 prints at just 12 cents a pop. Not too bad when most other online printers charge between 20 and 30 cents.
"Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has said the company is focused on search and is not a Web "portal." A Web portal is a site which offers a ...
I visited Google news today and was impressed with the new customization options. Click "Customize this page" and you can add a standard news topic or a custom topic (search by keywords). Then, arrange them however you like on the page. Still no RSS, though :(.
I discovered that Google Desktop search not only indexes the files on your local computer but also files on any mounted network drive. This is tremendous news for us here at Zane State because we have a drive like no other, the dreaded "common" drive. This is the drive ...
You can now subscribe to the RSS feed for the community blog. This feed is generated from the 3 latest posts in each blog, ordered by date. Just visit the community blog and subscribe to the RSS feed.
I wrote earlier about using Slogger with Firefox to save my browsing history so I could search it with Google Desktop. My concern was about how much Slogger kept, and since October 25, my Slogger folder is 518 MB. That's pretty big, I think. Nevertheless, it is awfully handy ...
I had heard that Microsoft had plans on creating fabulous searching capabilities for your local hard drive, but it looks like Google has beat MS to the punch by offering Google Desktop. Just download and you can search Outlook/OE emails, MS Office documents, plain text files, Internet Explorer cache, ...
OK, I downloaded it, I tried it, and I like it! First, when you visit a site that has an auto-discoverable feed, you see this nice orange RSS icon at the bottom-right of the status bar. Clicking the icon ...
It looks like the Mozilla foundation is really taking steps to integrate RSS into its products. From an eWeek article: With the Firefox 1.0 preview, Mozilla also has targeted some of the new features at everyday users. The new RSS reader, called Live Bookmarks, is focused on helping users discover ...
It's important to back up your data. Recently an instructor lost several tests he had saved on a floppy disk when the disk became corrupted. Unfortunately he did not have a backup of those files on his office computer or the network. I think floppies and zip disks are the ...
Kevin compares Wordpress and Blog:CMS. (Kevin, how about enabling comments? :)) While you can run multiple blogs with Wordpress, you have to manually copy and edit a config file and prepend some text to the database table name to manage it. It's not difficult, but the fact that you ...
Now that I've been playing with wikis, I notice that there are a lot of wiki engines with different features. Where can I go to research the wiki that's best suited to my needs? I have not found a very comprehensive wiki comparison site, so I'm starting my own, using ...
I had heard about mozex before but never tried it until I read Clay Shirky's rants about writing on the Web here, here, and here. Mozex is an extension which allows the user to use external programs for these actions: view page source edit content of textareas (possibly utilizing ...
Alan asks where the shining examples of successful wikis (aside from Wikipedia) are. True, wikis are hard to get your head around--I'm still struggling with the concept--but should we use them because they are there? Obviously there has to be some need for a collaborative space, and I wonder ...
I have sung the virtues of RSS Bandit before, and with any luck I'll soon have the perfect aggregator. On one of the forums I recently requested that developers add the capability to export individual feed folders; currently, RSS Bandit only exports the entire feed list. This may ...
I've looked at and played with a few wiki engines but never really had a need to use one--until now. We'll be upgrading our Blackboard implementation before fall quarter, and I think a wiki would be a great way to help with the transitions. The engine I'm testing is ...
In a former blog, which I didn't bother to convert when I switched to WordPress, I wrote about how I would like to see an integrated email/nntp/rss application. I just think it would be nice to have the familiar email interface for dealing with rss feeds. Well I just tried ...
A free service provided by IzyNews is the RSS Reader Security Check. Subscribe to the feed in your aggregator to see if it has any security vulnerabilities. RSS Bandit has two--it does not block the loading of external stylesheets and it does not block embedded ...
