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Feeds made easy to understand – for everyone

I love news feeds, podcasts, photocasts, all that fancy feed stuff, i really do 🙂 The only drawback on feeds is, you need to use a feedreader or a modern browser with the ability to display the RSS/Atom feed in a human readable manner…. Some weeks ago a really cool project i was involved in with podcasting was stopped in the last minute, because the people in charge were afraid that the users can’t deal with the raw xml output in their browsers – and they were right, people don’t want to see the XML code, the feed has to be readable.

Installing Flash Media Server 2 on Ubuntu 6.10

The installation script for Flash Media Server works only on RedHat Enterprise by default. With some modifications it works fine on Ubuntu Edgy: apt-get install libnspr4 libstdc++5 libstdc++5-3.3-dev wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashmediaserver/ updates/2_0_3/linux/flashmediaserver2.tar.gz tar xfz flashmediaserver2.tar.gz cd FMS* wget http://www.bluetwanger.de/~mbertheau/fms.patch patch -p1 < fms.patch sudo ./installFMS Live aus der Marschrutka √?¬ª Installing Flash Media Server 2 on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy this howto is written bei Markus Bertheau, please check the original article and his blog here.

The installation script for Flash Media Server works only on RedHat Enterprise by default. With some modifications it works fine on Ubuntu Edgy: apt-get install libnspr4 libstdc++5 libstdc++5-3.3-dev wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashmediaserver/ updates/2_0_3/linux/flashmediaserver2.tar.gz tar xfz flashmediaserver2.tar.gz cd FMS* wget http://www.bluetwanger.de/~mbertheau/fms.patch patch -p1 < fms.patch sudo ./installFMS Live aus der Marschrutka √?¬ª Installing Flash Media Server 2 on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy this howto is written bei Markus Bertheau, please check the original article and his blog here.

How to clean your mighty mouse

i also had some problems with my Mighty Mouse where the scroll ball stopped scrolling down 🙁 i did a quick research and found this link from apple where you’re told how to feedclean your mouse. and yes, it really worked, i took a wet cloth rubbed the nipple of the mouse in all directions while holding the mouse upside down and voil√?¬° – it works again.

i also had some problems with my Mighty Mouse where the scroll ball stopped scrolling down 🙁 i did a quick research and found this link from apple where you’re told how to feedclean your mouse. and yes, it really worked, i took a wet cloth rubbed the nipple of the mouse in all directions while holding the mouse upside down and voil√?¬° – it works again.

disable dashboard or set your widgets free!

lately i realized that dashboard is pretty useless for me because some of the info i want from widgets like the weather os system stats or the clock from another timezone are things i want to see all the time – not when i hit F12.

It came to my mind that some time ago there was a similar thing to dashboard – oh what was is called – konfabulator? yes, konfabulator is still alive (but bought by yahoo! making it free asfree beer).

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display microformats inside your browser

yesterday i stumbled upon a cool extension for Firefox / Flock browsers to display microformats contained inside a page: tails firefox extension (Firefox 1.4+, Flock 0.7+) flocktails (Flock 0.5.14+, Flock 0.7) the plugin scans your currently viewed page in your browser and displays a small, green icon () in the bottom right of your browser if it has found any of the supported microformats inside the page.

XFN network – now see it :-)

XFN is a microformat to describe your relationship on other people. It’s pretty simple, just make a link and add the “rel” attribute: <a xhref=”https://wolfgang.reutz.at/” mce_href=”https://wolfgang.reutz.at/” rel=”me”>Wolfgang Reutz</a> <a xhref=”http://www.musigreview.at/” mce_href=”http://www.musigreview.at/” rel=”met friend colleague”>Andreas Feuerstein</a> oh, cool, but what’s up next?

Installing readline for python on Mac OS X Tiger

If you like to use your arrow keys in an interactive Python on OS X, you definately need readline…. If you download the patch files yourself from ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-5.1-patches (readline51-00[1-4]) and put them in /opt/local/var/db/dports/distfiles/readline, then port install readline will work.