I'm just getting confused now. I kind of mentioned podcasts in my previous post - or at least compiling an ad hoc one using hufduffer.
The podcasts I most enjoy myself are the Mark Kermode and Simon Mayos film reviews podcast on BBC radio 5, the Big Ideas one from tv0 in Canadia. Hang on -- I was going to link to the Big Ideas podcast but the television station's entire website has vanished from the internet. Aw man, I hope they're okay. The domain squatters who are sitting on the site now have even altered the robots.txt so you can't even look at old copis of the page using the Wayback Machine. Damn them!!
>edit a week or two later< Oh. It's working fine now: Big Ideas
Thursday, August 13, 2009
#5 RSS feeds and suchlike
I talked about this in the "blogs I like to read" post back at the start.
I still mostly like Firefox's live bookmarks for reading feeds -- I try to limit the amount I read to as small a number as possible so the physical limitations of that format are a bonus. Plus using Yahoo pipes to conglomerate a bunch of feeds narrows down the amount of things you need to click on.
But I would like to mention the best thing related to RSS feeds I've seen in ages -- Huffduffer.com
What it does is form a podcast rss feed from mp3 files that you find while you're looking around on the internet. You can either use a firefox addon or just a bookmarklet to add each file and it then goes into your own personal podcast feed. This is a fantastic way of keeping all your "stuff that I would like to listen to that I found while browsing on the internet" together -- I have rhythbox on my computer at home set to download whatever pops up in the feed so I can add stuff to it wherever and it'll be gathered there and I can just pop it on my mp3 player. My feed is here. Currently as of this moment it consists of a single entry but I do plan on adding stuff regularly it's just I've not seen anything to add in the last few days.
I still mostly like Firefox's live bookmarks for reading feeds -- I try to limit the amount I read to as small a number as possible so the physical limitations of that format are a bonus. Plus using Yahoo pipes to conglomerate a bunch of feeds narrows down the amount of things you need to click on.
But I would like to mention the best thing related to RSS feeds I've seen in ages -- Huffduffer.com
What it does is form a podcast rss feed from mp3 files that you find while you're looking around on the internet. You can either use a firefox addon or just a bookmarklet to add each file and it then goes into your own personal podcast feed. This is a fantastic way of keeping all your "stuff that I would like to listen to that I found while browsing on the internet" together -- I have rhythbox on my computer at home set to download whatever pops up in the feed so I can add stuff to it wherever and it'll be gathered there and I can just pop it on my mp3 player. My feed is here. Currently as of this moment it consists of a single entry but I do plan on adding stuff regularly it's just I've not seen anything to add in the last few days.
#4 Online applications
Again, see below under #2 where I complain that Zoho Writer doesn't do something that it never claimed it could do, but I still think it's by far the best of the online word processors that I've used. Actually all the things of theirs I've used have been really good - they never got in the way of whatever I was trying to do, which is what you really want from an application.
Hang on -- I've done the numbers wrong
Dammit -- I was trying to do this properly according to the instructions but I've managed to do it totally wrong.
I know... I'll do a few quick posts covering each number, so that all boxes are ticked.
I know... I'll do a few quick posts covering each number, so that all boxes are ticked.
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