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"Feed Your Reader" Firefox Feed
Extension

"Feed Your Reader" Firefox Feed
Extension 09/20/2004 10:22 AM

When Firefox add ed RSS support, I had mixed reactions. On the one hand, I was excited by the boost RSS would receive by being supported in a popular browser. But on the other hand, for obvious reasons I wasn't wild about how Firefox built RSS into the browser without enabling users to choose an external RSS reader.

So, I was glad when several FeedDemon customers talking about building an extension to enable FeedDemon to take advantage of the new Firefox RSS features.

Michael Koziarski rose to the challenge and created F eed Your Reader, a Firefox extension that enables you to subscribe to feed in FeedDemon - or any other RSS reader that supports the feed: // protocol. Which means that even though the extension was designed with FeedDemon in mind, it's not specific to FeedDemon. Initial tests show that it also works with NetNewsWire on the Mac.

Once this extension is installed, you'll see an additional "FYR" icon in Firefox's status bar right next to the existing RSS icon. Clicking the FYR icon displays a menu of auto-discovered feeds, and clicking one of these feeds will display FeedDemon's "New Channel" wizard to subscribe to it.

Details on Feed Your Reader are h ere, and the project page is here. If you're viewing this in Firefox, the download link to the XPI (extension) is here .

transparent public loo

transparent public loo 07/08/2004 10:09 PM
I-C-U-P. I wonder if you can use it at night?

Transparent Aluminum Is Here

Transparent Aluminum Is Here 08/23/2004 10:13 AM

Transparent Databases

Transparent Databases 08/08/2002 12:59 PM
I had lunch with my old pal Peter Wayner yesterday, and he gave me a copy of his new book, Translucent Databases. In the book, Peter defines translucency as an approach that "lets some light escape the system while still providing a layer of secrecy." -- Jon Udell

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Transparent Mobile IP

Transparent Mobile IP 12/17/2003 09:34 AM
TMip future development

A Plea for a Transparent Burger

A Plea for a Transparent Burger 03/06/2004 01:52 AM
Follow that cow! Tracking beef from birth to plate is the only way to guarantee its safety. By Don Tapscott from Wired magazine.

Transparent Desktop Screens

Transparent Desktop Screens 03/25/2005 09:32 AM

Here's a fun little flickr gallery of "transparent desktop screens". Users take a picture of whatever lies directly behind their displays, crop them accordingly, set the picture as their new wallpaper, and take a picture of the whole set up. Ultimately a lot of time spent on something that only works if you don't move the computer at all, it's a novel little visual trick nonetheless (and not Photoshopped, either.) If nothing else, it might give you some inspiration for fun desktop wallpapers of your own. Or you could use someone else's and pretend to be on another desk altogether.

Transparent Desktop Screens Gallery [flickr via GearLive]

Use a transparent tab in Safari 1.3 to
see other windows

Use a transparent tab in Safari 1.3 to
see other windows 04/19/2005 11:26 AM
I don't have a whole lot of screen real estate, so I like to use tabbed browsing while keeping a single Safari window open at full size. The problem is that this makes it difficult to get at documents behind the browser. Expo...

Fun With Transparent Screen Backgrounds

Fun With Transparent Screen Backgrounds 03/27/2005 02:51 AM

The Importance of Microsoft Being
Transparent

The Importance of Microsoft Being
Transparent 02/01/2005 09:56 PM
At next week's VSLive conference in San Francisco, Microsoft Corp. will be announcing the status of such tools as Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2, SQL Server 2005 Beta 3 and the first Community Technology Preview of Indigo. S. "Soma" Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, who is one of the show's keynote speakers, sat down with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft to discuss the company's plans for these tool releases, as well as the developer ecosystem, dealing with open source and more. Prior to his current role overseeing the developer division, Soma served as corporate vice president of the Windows Engineering Services and Solutions group within the Windows Division. Prashant Sridharan, senior product manager for Visual Studio Team System, joined Somasegar in the interview.

What's Up With The Transparent Window In
Safari?

What's Up With The Transparent Window In
Safari? 04/18/2005 06:32 PM

My question is... why? By Laurie Duncan, Unofficial Apple Weblog

3M Develops Transparent Aluminum

3M Develops Transparent Aluminum 08/23/2004 02:40 PM
Free Internet Press Aug 23 2004 7:18PM GMT

Actual Transparent Windows v2.5

Actual Transparent Windows v2.5 12/10/2003 01:11 AM
Actual Transparent Windows lets you apply transparency effect to any window in Windows 2000/XP. The transparency effect looks very impressive and may be useful with such windows as Windows Taskbar, WinAmp, Start menu and drop-down menus, Instant Messengers and others.Actual Transparent Windows lets you set individual transparency rate from 0% (fully transparent) to 100% (solid) for each window to achieve the desired effect. [Shareware $14.95 14 Days 1.7 MB]

Transparent Transistors Are Coming

Transparent Transistors Are Coming 12/29/2004 08:09 PM

"Flickr Transparent Screens Pool"

"Flickr Transparent Screens Pool" 03/26/2005 05:08 AM

Giving choice through transparent
delivery

Giving choice through transparent
delivery 05/24/2004 02:22 PM
newmediazero May 24 2004 6:15PM GMT

"Transparent Screens - a photoset on
Flickr"

"Transparent Screens - a photoset on
Flickr" 03/24/2005 04:11 PM

Flickr: The Transparent Screens Pool

Flickr: The Transparent Screens Pool 03/26/2005 05:35 AM
Transparent Screens Community @ Flickr.com .. a flickr group

flickr.com/groups/transparentscreens/pool
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Make BT more transparent, say rival
telcos

Make BT more transparent, say rival
telcos 06/23/2004 07:35 AM
The Register Jun 23 2004 11:37AM GMT

Transparent Screens - a photoset on
Flickr

Transparent Screens - a photoset on
Flickr 03/24/2005 08:43 AM
Transparent Screens .. very neat hack .. transparent

flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637
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Mirage: transparent OR mapping for Java

Mirage: transparent OR mapping for Java 12/31/2003 07:23 AM
Delegator v2.0 released

Daily Gallery image: "transparent 30"

Daily Gallery image: "transparent 30" 04/03/2005 08:21 AM

Transparent Desktop Opens Doors

Transparent Desktop Opens Doors 07/09/2004 04:44 AM
Researchers have come up with a nifty virtual workspace/video conferencing system that functions with the Quartz graphics engine in Mac OS X. By Leander Kahney.

"Scotch Transparent Duct Tape"

"Scotch Transparent Duct Tape" 04/14/2004 09:03 AM

Scotch Transparent Duct Tape

Scotch Transparent Duct Tape 04/14/2004 02:27 AM
amazing technological breakthrough .. Scotch Transparent Duct Tape

3m.com/us/office/scotch/transducttape
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Apple's GUI Patent Strategy Is
Transparent

Apple's GUI Patent Strategy Is
Transparent 05/13/2004 07:55 PM
Apple seems to be righting its previous errors by stockpiling user interface patents for an impending war. By John Kheit, Mac Observer (via MyAppleMenu)

"Their injuries are clearly visible
through their transparent chador."

"Their injuries are clearly visible
through their transparent chador." 09/27/2004 11:25 AM
Dutch Muslims outraged by 'insulting' film .. new death threats .. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=11 451&name=I+won't+be+intimidated+for+expressing+my+views
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Create semi-transparent Chess pieces

Create semi-transparent Chess pieces 12/22/2004 01:05 AM
You can rotate the board in Chess by clicking and holding on the edge of the board while dragging. This may seem obvious, but I have used Chess for ages without noticing it. And now for the semi-transparent pieces. Backup you...

VB tips: Making windows transparent in
2000 and XP

VB tips: Making windows transparent in
2000 and XP 01/03/2003 02:50 AM
CNET Jan 3 2003 1:02AM ET

Watch iTunes visualizer through
transparent windows

Watch iTunes visualizer through
transparent windows 07/20/2004 09:42 AM
OK, this is beyond useless, but cool. I recently read this article and thought the idea of seeing through your workspace was cool. Sure, you could use this to collaborate, but why not use it to make web browsing or email, o...

Video Chat Via Transparent Desktop
Overlay

Video Chat Via Transparent Desktop
Overlay 07/12/2004 02:41 AM

New Transparent Paypal Merchant and
Gateway Accounts

New Transparent Paypal Merchant and
Gateway Accounts 06/17/2005 05:10 PM
Paypal introduces Website Payments Pro, a totally transparent payment and gateway processing - aka: Functional Merchant Accounts.

Joy of Tech cartoon parodies the
Transparent Desktop craze

Joy of Tech cartoon parodies the
Transparent Desktop craze 04/11/2005 10:16 AM
Nitrozac and Snaggy's latest Joy of Tech creation pokes a little fun at the Transparent Desktop phenomenon. Check it out and be sure to enter their Mac Gaming Giveaway while you're in their neighborhood.

New Photoshop Tutorial: The Simple
Transparent Desktop Effect

New Photoshop Tutorial: The Simple
Transparent Desktop Effect 04/06/2005 11:04 PM



You've seen them over at Boing Boing, Gizmodo, and Engadget -- they're transparent desktop optical illusions and are made by posting a desktop picture of whatever is behind your screen. They make it appear as if you can see right out the back of your monitor. Well, I've just posted a Photoshop tutorial that will teach you how to do it without cheating. Once you're done, post your results on the Transparent Screens Flickr photoset and make sure you let people know where you learned the technique!

Transparent Screen Lock for Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003

Transparent Screen Lock for Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003 07/15/2004 08:15 PM

Meshcube: transparent tiny meshing
access-point

Meshcube: transparent tiny meshing
access-point 06/28/2004 06:39 AM
The Meshcube is a tiny, kit-built meshing WiFi (802.11a/b/g) access-point. It's kinda pricey (€199 and up), but it looks great and meshing networks are genuinely cool. Link (via Engadget)

Transparent screen illusion: set
laptop's wallpaper to a photo of the
wall behind it

Transparent screen illusion: set
laptop's wallpaper to a photo of the
wall behind it 03/24/2005 05:05 AM
Cory Doctorow: Transparent Screens is a Flickr photoset of laptops whose deptop wallpaper has been set to a digital photo of the walls and windows behind them, so that they appear to have totally transparent displays. The effect is striking. Link (via Waxy)

Boing Boing: Transparent screen
illusion: set laptop's wallpaper to a
photo of the wall behind it

Boing Boing: Transparent screen
illusion: set laptop's wallpaper to a
photo of the wall behind it 03/24/2005 08:43 AM
Transparent screen illusion: set laptop's wallpaper to a photo of the wall behind it .. via boingboing

boingboing.net/2005/03/23/transparent_screen_i.html
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XML-RSS-Feed-1.05

XML-RSS-Feed-1.05 04/29/2004 12:37 AM

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Firefox Live Bookmarks == IE CDF?

Firefox Live Bookmarks == IE CDF? 09/20/2004 01:06 PM

William Slabbekoorn (see his comment in Firefox RSS Support) duplicates Firefox Live Bookmark feature for IE with a bit of server-side ASP code that transforms RSS into CDF.  You remember CDF don't you?  If my feed was in CDF format, server-side component wouldn't have been necessary which makes Live Bookmarks as uncrappy and useful as CDF.

Below is a partial screenshot of my feed displayed as IE's 'Live Channel':

Full screen version from William Slabbekoorn (Local Copy).

IMHO, false praises are worse than no praise at all.

What are live bookmarks?

What are live bookmarks? 09/14/2004 06:37 PM

mozilla.org/products/firefox/live-bookmarks.html
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GMail Firefox Extension

GMail Firefox Extension 07/09/2004 08:34 AM

GMailC ompose: If you have a GMail account and use Mozilla or Firefox, this extension is right up your alley.

Makes mailto: links load a google mail compose window and adds a GMailCompose link to the context menu.

Apparently Google has created a URL spec for doing just this. Good for them — client integration has always been a weakness of Web-based mail.

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Firefox extension for Allmusic

Firefox extension for Allmusic 08/03/2004 09:38 PM
Last month, people voiced their disappointment with AllMusic's for-the-worse facelift, and a week later someone at holovaty.com wrote a Mozilla Firefox extension that "routs around the damage" and allows for cleaner browsing. Some are pondering the legal consequences.

GooglePreview, firefox extension

GooglePreview, firefox extension 07/25/2004 03:42 PM
adds thumbnail images to search result pages

GooglePreview Firefox Extension

GooglePreview Firefox Extension 04/08/2005 06:44 PM

FireFox Extension Creates Stir

FireFox Extension Creates Stir 03/23/2005 05:18 PM

A new FireFox extension called Greasemonkey allows users to modify webpages as they view them. It gives users the capabilities to manipulate DHTML of a page to prevent ads from appearing, transform links, make a page more printable, change colors, ad your Amazon ID’s in links, change the way links open, and much more. There are literally hundreds of GreaseMonkey userscripts. This all sounds like a great idea, but news.com has some security concerns. 

The trouble with Greasemonkey and user scripts in general is that scripts can be used for both good and ill, and end users scanning through lists of enticing scripts might fail to distinguish between malicious and benign code."A user JavaScript file can in no way harm your computer or stored data, but badly written files can slow down Opera, and malicious files can spy on your browsing," read the browser maker's caveat. "Never install and use a script library from someone you don't know and trust--if in doubt post in the Opera forums, newsgroups or mailing lists and ask if the script you would like to use is well written and exploit-free."

User scripts also could facilitate password-stealing schemes, said security consultant Richard Smith, who runs the Computer Bytes Man Web site."The bad guys could likely create a script for stealing usernames and passwords in login forms using this tool," said Smith. "They would still need to break into someone's computer to install the script, but the tool would make the theft process much easier."

Checky Extension for Mozilla and Firefox

Checky Extension for Mozilla and Firefox 04/25/2004 09:53 AM
Checky 2.1 - Extension for Mozilla and Firefox

"Google Preview Firefox Extension"

"Google Preview Firefox Extension" 07/26/2004 09:11 AM

Scribe, Mozilla Firefox Extension

Scribe, Mozilla Firefox Extension 05/18/2004 05:50 AM
scribe, mozilla plugin for text areas .. Scribe

prismicspiral.com/scribe
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Firefox readies new extension for
unwanted pop-ups

Firefox readies new extension for
unwanted pop-ups 04/05/2005 01:10 AM
If you've noticed pop-up and pop-under ads sneaking into your surfing despite your browser settings, you're not alone. Firefox users will soon have a new tool to fight the annoying ads.

Terri Schiavo status Firefox extension

Terri Schiavo status Firefox extension 03/25/2005 01:56 AM
Xeni Jardin: Boing Boing reader Nik says,

I wrote a Firefox extension that sits in the status bar of Firefox, and tells you at a glance the morbidity status of Terry Schiavo.

Link

Mozilla Firefox Extension Update
Screenshots

Mozilla Firefox Extension Update
Screenshots 04/25/2004 03:20 PM

Firefox extension google preview plugin
thumbnails

Firefox extension google preview plugin
thumbnails 07/25/2004 08:50 PM
GooglePreview website .. GooglePreview

ackroyd.de/googlepreview
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Live from Etech: Flickr and the end of
Day One...

Live from Etech: Flickr and the end of
Day One... 02/10/2004 11:53 PM

So ETCon Proper Day One ends and I'm basically high on some kind of highly emotionally charged intellectual hysteria-generating buzz. So far I've only managed to write about the things that have caused me frustration and irritation - probably because irritation can be easily quantified and described while the enjoyable papers cause an explosion of possibilities that are hard to collate and contain. The papers I've found most stimulating today have been threefold:

• Fl uidtime: Timing Tools for Social Networks
• Le veraging RSS at Disney
• Th e Future of Cyberspace Economies

The first two in particular I can't rave enough about and have pushed me into some kind of weird euphoric intellectual trance - but I think it's best that I talk about them later when I'm feeling more centred and can produce a more rational response. The Castranova piece on cyberspace economies intrigued me and stimulated me because of the question-and-answer component rather more than the paper itself - which was more of a bringing-up-to-speed piece for people who haven't been reading Terranova or read Richard Bartle's Designing Virtual Worlds.

But it was the final talk of the day that was the most heady, but more because of the launched product and the play around it than the talk itself. I'm going to let Cory describe what was launched because - frankly - I'm a bit fried:

Flikr is a social image-sharing application: it's a mechanism for creating ad-hoc chats, using a drag-and-drop GUI interface that lives inside your browser, and share images from peer-to-peer and within conversational groups.

I've beta-tested this at various points and at each time I've been struck by Ludicorp's amazing combination of utilitarian, usable interface aesthetic and genuinely witty whimsy. As Ben Ceivgny, a developer on the project, said:

We collect images with cameraphones and so forth, but we have no good mechanism for advancing them out into the world. Here's a mechanism for batching them into a locked-and-loaded tool for firing them into the world.

I'm not a Ludicorp adviser, but I have been beta-testing it. It's bloody good fun and I highly recommend it. Much much better than Orkut - introducing Flickr!

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Getting Firefox to Live Bookmark Your
RSS Feed

Getting Firefox to Live Bookmark Your
RSS Feed 12/28/2004 06:53 PM

Sorry stole the headline but their was no better explanation for the story. I have been doing some research on OPML today and found some cool info on Live Bookmarking RSS feeds. [NukeTown Blog]

SysTray for Java

SysTray for Java 03/15/2003 04:03 PM
Version 2.3 released

MR Tech Systray 2.1.31 Beta Released

MR Tech Systray 2.1.31 Beta Released 03/13/2003 10:15 AM

Atom autodiscovery RFC

Atom autodiscovery RFC 12/30/2003 06:29 PM

Writing good specs is hard. Anyone who says differently is lying. Anyone who says that I ever said differently is lying. (69 words)

Note: The "dive into mark" feed you are currently subscribed to is deprecated. If your aggregator supports it, you should upgrade to my Atom feed, which includes both summaries and full content.

MR Tech Systray v3.0 Alpha Preview 1 -
Refresh 3b

MR Tech Systray v3.0 Alpha Preview 1 -
Refresh 3b 11/03/2003 09:03 PM
MR Tech Systray is a utility that can shut down, restart or log off Windows, clean your hard drive, organize MP3's and optimize your system. [Freeware 150 KB]

A microcampaign to turn on
autodiscovery...

A microcampaign to turn on
autodiscovery... 03/13/2003 10:16 AM

1) Key Problems with Movable Type. If you're a Movable Type user then you probably share a few key experiences with me. To start off with, you've probably mis-spelt it Moveable Type more than a few times. You've probably chortled to yourself as you realised your mistake. How foolish you've been. Ha! The other thing you've probably done at some point is scratch your head to the point of bleeding about this whole "Trackback" malarky. I know I have. I know because my outboard brain tells me so.

2) Solve the Trackback confusion by turning on 'Autodiscovery'. One of the most confusing aspects of the whole Trackback debacle is this idea that a different URL is used to ping for trackback than the URL that you use to visit the post itself. This aspect of the relationship is essentially very simple, but it's quite hard to explain and so remains essentially incomprehensible to many web-users. So it's important wherever possible to not draw attention to this process - in fact to conceal its workings as much as possible. The best way to do that is by encouraging the use of autodiscovery. Autodiscovery works like this - when you post something that includes a link to a trackback-enabled weblog, your version of Movable Type goes and has a look at the trackback-enabled weblog's page and tries to find the trackback URL associated with the thing you're linking to. Then it pings it. Nice and easy. You don't have to know the trackback URL (which means they don't have to display the trackback URL anywhere as well). It also means that there's no clunky manual pinging process. It's all nice and neat and self-contained and (more importantly) easy to explain to punters. So why don't you go anc check that autodiscovery is turned on right now...

3) Trackback manners. In fact, I think there's probably only one set of circumstances where it's not a good idea to use auto-discovery, and that's the same set of circumstances when it's not appropriate to use Trackback at all. As far as I'm concerned there are at least two of these. Firstly, there's when you don't accept trackback pings yourself. Frankly, if you're not prepared to maintain your place in the embedded conversation, then you don't deserve to participate at all. The other circumstance when you shouldn't enable Trackback at all is when you're maintaining a pure and commentary-less link-log - like the side-panels on kottke.org or anil dash. I think it's important to try and remember what Trackback is for and what it's not for - it's not supposed to be simply a way for you to get a link to your site on highly-trafficked weblogs (although clearly that's what some people use it for). It's supposed to be a way of maintaining the links between posts in such a way that the thread of a conversation can be maintained. If you're not contributing to the conversation in any way, then there's no need for you to use Trackback. In fact every time you do so, you slightly diminish the utility of Trackback and the likelihood of people following the links therein...

Atom autodiscovery test suite

Atom autodiscovery test suite 12/20/2003 04:56 PM

Mark Pilgrim has released the Atom autodiscovery test suite, comprising 148 tests:

When we say that Atom is going to have better specs, validators, and conformance tests than anything you’ve ever seen before, this is what we’re talking about.

Mark's atomautodiscovery.py (based on Python's sgmllib module) passes all of the tests using a surprisingly small amount of actual code. The neatest thing about the test suite is that each test provides a <link rel="next" ... attribute pointing to the next test in the suite. atomautodiscovery.py uses these links in its test() function to run through every test in the suite, meaning that new tests can be added without modifying the test execution code.

Phil Ringnalda Musing Feed Autodiscovery

Phil Ringnalda Musing Feed Autodiscovery 04/17/2005 03:02 PM

Subscribe

Subscribe 01/22/2004 02:38 AM
On the left I added a few new buttons for the new feed:// protocol. It's simply a quick way of having a news aggregator subscribe...

Time-Interval-1.0.3

Time-Interval-1.0.3 05/15/2004 12:04 AM

Number-Interval-0.01

Number-Interval-0.01 06/15/2004 12:15 AM

Time-Interval-1.0.5

Time-Interval-1.0.5 05/18/2004 12:14 AM

Time-Interval-1.0.4

Time-Interval-1.0.4 05/18/2004 12:14 AM

How do I subscribe to an RSS feed?

How do I subscribe to an RSS feed? 06/05/2005 11:37 PM

First off, what is an RSS feed? I think I understand it, but I’m not sure. Also, how do I subscribe to an RSS feed and why would I want to?…

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Transparent RSS Feed Upgrades?

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