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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 .

Improving our mirrors. Can you help?

Improving our mirrors. Can you help? 08/03/2004 10:37 AM
Finks decision to gradually build its own network of mirrors has payed off. To make sure that we can continue to offer a high quality service we need to improve our mirror network. It has been some time since we last asked for more mirrors. It is time to do so again. Fink is very grateful for the resources granted to us by our community. To further improve our service to the community we require an even better mirror system. We especially lack mirrors in central Europe, Russia and the Far East. If you feel that you have at least two Mbit to spare for a rsync mirror or more to offer a distfiles mirror please contact us. To get a better understanding of the different types of mirrors Fink offers, please go and review finkmirrors.net. This is the official homepage for all mirror related issues. If you feel that you can offer other types of resources, web-space for testing as an example, please do not hestitate in contacting us as well.

Business improving across the UK

Business improving across the UK 05/19/2004 07:16 PM
Trading conditions are getting better for companies in each and very part of the UK, says a CBI survey.

Improving Zend.com

Improving Zend.com 06/05/2002 07:24 AM
The Zend.com Web site tries to address far too many target groups at the same time. What is really needed, is to get a Web professional on board, redesign and refocus, to become the lighthouse of PHP.

Improving Win apps with .NET

Improving Win apps with .NET 01/17/2003 03:26 AM
CNET Jan 17 2003 2:23AM ET

90nm G5 Supplies Improving?

90nm G5 Supplies Improving? 05/11/2004 07:36 PM
Appleinsider reports that Apple has received new 90nm PowerPC shipments and seeded several test PowerMac units to partners. The test models are rep...

20 Suggestions For Improving The Mac
Experience

20 Suggestions For Improving The Mac
Experience 07/14/2004 06:41 PM
By Jeff Adkins, Low End Mac (via MyAppleMenu)

Improving online credibility

Improving online credibility 07/29/2004 12:59 AM

If you've browsed Amazon's product reviews recently you may have noticed an interesting new feature: Badges< /a>, little icons displayed below certain people's names. This isn't a new idea by any means - many online communities use special icons as rewards for members who make valuable contributions (SitePoint is a good example). What's interesting about Amazon's badges is that one of them is "Real Name". Amazon's Real Names FAQ explains the badge, and includes the following:

Why is Amazon.com encouraging the use of Real Names?

In general, we believe that a community in which people use their Real Names will ultimately have higher quality content, since an author willing to sign his or her real-world name on a piece of content is essentially saying "With my real-world identity, I stand by what I have written here."

Real names certainly add credibility to online discussion: I for one find it much easier to trust information if the author appears to have signed their real name to it. The challenge is verifying that the name is accurate, and Amazon's solution is so simple-but-smart that I kicked myself: they match the name against the user's credit card details. Genius.

I wouldn't be surprised to see this trick taking on a key role in the field of online identity management - provided Amazon's patent lawyers don't get there first.

Improving Google Images

Improving Google Images 06/17/2002 02:01 PM
Google Images is an ambitious project from Google and of course it's nowhere near as good as the original Google Web. But much to Google's credit, it's continuously getting better. However, I think I have a few suggestions to make it better:Use Google Web - Google Web is incredible, it will very often bring back the right match as the first hit. Take advantage of this -- display images on that page.Search ALT tags - Although they're not used everywhere, ALT tags are a big source of useful information about pictures. Also, if Google Images uses them, it will encourage more authors to put better info in them, which helps Web Accessibility.The first or only image is often right - On many web pages there's only one image (like my own) or the first image is right (like Guido van Rossum's) or it's the first non-space image (like Land Rover's). Return these as results!Google Web is an incredible thing and it doesn't make sense Google Images not to take advantage of it. Right now using Google Web and then picking an image off the page is often better than Google Images. I hope that changes in the near future. Example searches that can be improved:W3C - on Google Web's first result, the W3C logo is the top image, the biggest image, the only image with "W3C" in the alt text and the only image with W3C in the filename)Scripting News - on Google Web's first result, the Scripting News logo is the largest image (and the first non-spacer) and has an ALT tag of "ScriptingNews").Do you have suggestions? Mail them in!

Improving the security of xinetd

Improving the security of xinetd 07/22/2004 09:59 AM
The xinetd package used by Panther provides a number of security features, including the ability to finely control access based on source IP address and time of access. It features extensive logging, and also provides some p...

Improving Friendster, an MIT approach

Improving Friendster, an MIT approach 01/07/2004 04:19 PM
http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/6171/2003-fall/friendster&nbs p;contains ideas for improving Friendster collected from students in this semester's 6.171.  Given how much press attention Friendster received last summer I thought folks would be interested.

Improving WLAN Management

Improving WLAN Management 05/14/2004 03:01 PM
Smaller wireless-switching companies are challenging incumbent hardware vendors such as Cisco for the attention of users looking to improve the manageability of their WLANs.

Improving the Chain Gang

Improving the Chain Gang 06/17/2005 03:40 PM
Staying in a drab chain hotel can suck the life out of any traveler. We asked three design professionals their strategies for bringing the surroundings up a notch.

Circuit City's Improving

Circuit City's Improving 09/17/2004 02:33 PM
The No. 2 electronics retailer is making strides and beats estimates.

Are exclusions improving schools?

Are exclusions improving schools? 06/24/2005 07:06 PM
The BBC's Mike Baker looks at what the latest batch of exclusion figures show about school discipline.

Improving Your Internet Security

Improving Your Internet Security 09/26/2004 01:15 PM
Castle Cops Sep 26 2004 5:12PM GMT

Apple Improving Open-GL?

Apple Improving Open-GL? 03/27/2005 06:28 PM
Apple appears to be actively recruiting individuals to improve their Mac Open-GL implementation according to a post on the Mac Open GL mailing list.Th...

Tech IPO picture improving

Tech IPO picture improving 01/03/2005 02:59 PM
Dotcom era survivors finally go public while the number of public offerings more than triples in 2004.

Improving Your Career In Any Economy

Improving Your Career In Any Economy 01/31/2003 08:03 PM
The basic principles for advancing your career have always been the same, regardless of what the economy is like.

Improving Scientific Literacy

Improving Scientific Literacy 03/14/2005 05:07 PM
According to a poll conducted by The Science Advisory Board, scientists believe that governments can best improve the scientific literacy of their citizens by "teaching teachers to teach." Sixty percent of those surveyed believe that countries will get the most return on their education tax dollars by supporting teacher-training programs. [PRWEB Mar 3, 2005]

40-pound Michigan teenager improving

40-pound Michigan teenager improving 04/11/2004 10:30 PM

Improving patient care is key to new DoH
body

Improving patient care is key to new DoH
body 07/07/2004 06:32 AM
Computer Weekly Jul 7 2004 11:14AM GMT

Consortium Works on Improving Internet

Consortium Works on Improving Internet 12/02/2003 12:15 PM
Miami Herald Dec 2 2003 10:53AM ET

Steven Frank’s tip for improving
your RSS

Steven Frank’s tip for improving
your RSS 01/18/2004 06:02 PM
Steven Frank has a great simple tip for improving your RSS: subscribe to your own feed (or feeds).

What if your feed appears weird, or doesn’t appear at all, in NetNewsWire? Validate it. Ctrl-click on the subscription and choose Validate this Feed. (Yes, this command should also be in the main menu. In the future it will be.)

It the feed is valid, but NetNewsWire does something strange, then let us know about it: it’s mostly likely a bug.

But if the feed is not valid, you have a few options for fixing it:

1. If you’re running your own software, then you may have a bug to fix.

2. If you’re running someone else’s software, but you’re using a customized template or script to generate your feed, check your work.

3. If you’re running someone else’s software, but you haven’t customized anything, report a bug to the person or company who created your software. Be sure to include the URL of your feed, so they can validate it too and see what the problem is. (Important: be nice. Software has bugs. Most developers are conscientious and work hard at fixing bugs.)

IBM CEO Says Tech Spending Improving
(Reuters)

IBM CEO Says Tech Spending Improving
(Reuters) 05/19/2004 12:05 PM
Reuters - The chief executive of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM.N) on Wednesday said spending on technology is improving and that IBM expects to grow more quickly than the overall market as it taps into new markets.

Improving Cocoa/ObjC Enumeration

Improving Cocoa/ObjC Enumeration 12/28/2003 11:21 AM
jonathan "wolf" rentzsch: "I have a number of issues with enumeration in Cocoa/ObjC. Indeed, I have a problem with every one of the three lines necessary in the standard idiom. It even goes beyond that -- I have an problem with the very fact it's three lines of code versus one."

Improving Remote Access Using MOF at
Microsoft

Improving Remote Access Using MOF at
Microsoft 06/21/2004 12:30 PM

Improving undergraduate research skills

Improving undergraduate research skills 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
Much like students might, they became overwhelmed, turning to databases they regularly use (and even, it can now be told, to Google) for help. ...

Billy Graham Improving After Hip Surgery

Billy Graham Improving After Hip Surgery 01/11/2004 01:33 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 11 2004 0:43AM ET

Gartner: Microsoft Security Improving

Gartner: Microsoft Security Improving 02/10/2004 12:13 PM
A recent Gartner report corroborates what industry observers have known for months: Microsoft's security initiatives are paying off for the software giant, and as customers move to more modern Windows versions such as Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, they will participate in the benefits as well. Gartner did, however, hedge its bets by chiding Microsoft for blaming many of its security compromises on those who write malicious code, perhaps in a bid to make its otherwise glowing report on Microsoft security seem less one-sided. The report is also careful to cast Microsoft's security improvements in guarded terms.

News Streams Improving, Keynote Says

News Streams Improving, Keynote Says 05/12/2004 02:24 PM
theWHIR May 12 2004 6:39PM GMT

12 Steps To Improving Your Mac's
Performance

12 Steps To Improving Your Mac's
Performance 07/17/2004 02:54 AM
What happened to cause your computer to slow down, and why does it run more slowly than it did the day you bought it home? By Joli Ballew, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

Buyouts Aimed At Improving Security

Buyouts Aimed At Improving Security 12/30/2003 01:38 AM

Improving Usability Guideline Compliance

Improving Usability Guideline Compliance 06/26/2002 01:01 PM

N. American Ties Improving, Still
Strained (AP)

N. American Ties Improving, Still
Strained (AP) 03/22/2005 06:43 PM
AP - Early in his first term, President Bush proposed easing immigration restrictions and establishing a free trade zone throughout the hemisphere. His first two foreign trips were to Mexico and Canada, emphasizing their importance.

Improving Linux Driver Installation.

Improving Linux Driver Installation. 09/10/2004 11:49 PM
O'Reilly Network: Improving Linux Driver Installation. Auto-downloading drivers was my first thought when I saw HAL, but as the article points out there are many pitfalls. BTW, I'm tired of reading about auto-compiling drivers or kernels or whatever. I don't want to run untested stuff, and anything compiled on my machine is by definition untested.

Microsoft improving bug rate – Allen

Microsoft improving bug rate – Allen 08/10/2004 10:57 AM
A senior Microsoft New Zealand executive, Terry Allen, confirmed this month that the company’s antivirus plan includes “behavioural” strategies, monitoring the kind of actions viruses attempt to perform on a computer system, rather than relying wholly on signatures. The conventional strategy of regular updates to a database of malware signatures is becoming more and more difficult to sustain as the lag between Microsoft’s notifying an exploitable bug in its software and the first hacker exploitation of it becomes shorter, says Allen, the manager of Microsoft's enterprise sales and partner group. With Nimda, three years ago, the interval was almost a year; for the recent Sasser worm, it was 18 days.

At Microsoft, improving security isn't
so simple

At Microsoft, improving security isn't
so simple 07/18/2004 06:29 PM

Improving SLT's international and
Internet communications

Improving SLT's international and
Internet communications 04/16/2005 07:34 PM
Sri Lanka Sunday Times Apr 16 2005 9:49PM GMT
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