Posted by Trejkaz Mon, 23 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT
From time to time I have a need to watch a bunch of links on a web page, where that page doesn’t have an RSS feed.
I use RSS to automate [Azureus][1], so this becomes a major problem for sites with a list of .torrent files but no feed
Read more...Posted by Trejkaz Mon, 09 May 2005 06:28:00 GMT
Today’s dirty hack is Scrolling Incoming Files in XBMC.
This hack allows users of XBMC to scroll the latest downloads in their incoming directory, across the top of the XBMC home screen, so that they know if there is anything fresh to watch before even going into their incoming directory to find out. :-)
Read more...Posted by Trejkaz Wed, 02 Feb 2005 23:06:00 GMT
If you are the sort who likes to do a Google search for something on a regular basis just to see if it drags up new stuff, this service might appeal to you.
When you enter some search terms on PubSub, it creates for you a unique RSS feed which will always contain the newest results of that search. Then you just stuff the URL for the into your favourite news aggregator, and it pulls up news, blogs and random web junk related to the thing you searched for. And it does this at absolutely no cost. I wonder where they get their money from. :-)
They also have a Firefox sidebar which receives PubSub updates on the fly, effectively using XMPP (the protocol behind Jabber) for something which isn’t instant messaging. You get the updates more or less as soon as they discover them, which is as fast as news can get. :-) It’s also something which will increase the number of Jabber users even though the users never realise they’re using it, which is pretty damn cool in itself. :-)
Anyway, in my case, I did a search for instant messaging and learned quite a few new things this week.
I don’t think I’ll ever stop using PubSub now. :-D
The best thing I discovered this week was the release a new plugin for IDEA called IDEtalk, which allows multiple people on a network to chat, show their work to each other, and do a few other things, all through the IDE itself. We’re gradually getting used to it at work and it’s already starting to pay off in time savings from not needing to walk across the room so often. :-)