Archive for October, 2004
Chandler 0.4 Available
The 0.4 milestone of Chandler (OSAF’s Personal Information Manager) is now available for download. Dubbed ‘experimentally usable.’
Works In Progress
Over the weekend I finished most of the new design for rubhub.com. The design is pretty different from the current one, but I like it. Just a few more tweaks, both with the design and the spider, and it will be ready to relaunch. Probably about a week.
Now that the new design is [...]
Discovering last.fm
Last night I finally checked out last.fm after seeing it pop up in a few blogs I read. Five minutes after creating an account and seeing what the service was about, I was totally hooked.
You start by entering in the names of a few artists that you’re into. From there last.fm provides [...]
Citizenship Update
Last night I also got my Australian Citizenship. Don’t worry, I’m still Canadian though. The ceremony was equal parts boring, moving, fun and unintentionally hilarious. My favorite part was when the certificates started being given out to the wrong people. I took some ridiculous photos, mostly out of boredom. There [...]
Rubhub Update
Last night I unleashed the new look xfn spider for a comprehensive test run and the results were encouraging. This means I can now concentrate on rewriting rubhub.com, which shouldn’t take long. I decided to use Tantek as a seed; from there the spider indexed 549 sites until it ran out of urls. [...]
S5 Released
Eric Meyer has released S5, a slick standards-based slide show system, built with XHTML, CSS and JavaScipt. Have a look at the demo; it really is a nicely designed application.
Google Desktop Search
Get it while it’s…in beta
I’m just having a play now; it looks like it runs a server on port 4664 on your machine. You access it via your browser, and there’s integration with the rest of Google’s services through the page. Requires XP or Win2K. Very interesting.
DevEdge Goes Dark
It looks like Netscape DevEdge has been taken offline. Mitchell Baker is currently trying to recover the content so that it can be hosted somewhere else. It would be great if it could be recovered; there were some really useful articles on that site.