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Saving RSS bandwidth

Paul Westbrook | 30 November, 2004 19:33

Hack the Planet weblog as a post about different service offering to save bandwidth for users and webmasters. Of the two listed on that post, I think that the most promising is RSScache.com. RSScache.com is a web proxy that supports rss feeds.

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Another blog linking service

Paul Westbrook | 30 November, 2004 07:30

I Hate My Cubicle!!! had a post about BlogLinker.com, which is a blog linking service. The way that it works is that you add web sites to your url list. Then, in addition to that url appearing in your list, your url will appear in their list, if they have also signed up with BlogLinker.

This is an interesting way to get traffic to your website.

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HitMaps down

Paul Westbrook | 28 November, 2004 08:18

In this post, I mentioned HitMaps. It looks like their service is going through an upgrade. Adding new users and counting for existing users has been suspended, until the upgrade is complete.

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Azureus

Paul Westbrook | 28 November, 2004 06:02

I have been playing with BitTorrent for a little while, and Azureus is a great cross platform client. It is written in Java, and it runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It allows you to quickly download large files quickly, by using a little bit of everyone's upload bandwidth.
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eBay to RSS feed

Paul Westbrook | 25 November, 2004 17:31

In August, Boing Boing had a post about a eBay query to RSS feed service. I just started to use rssauction.com, to keep an eye out for parts for my 1993 Nissan Sentra. It is pretty cool, since you can see the new auctions in your rss aggregator.

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Wireless X10 light switch

Paul Westbrook | 24 November, 2004 08:54

Wireless X10 light switchOur son's room does not have an overhead light, so I install this wireless X10 light switch. It has been working great, except it gets reprogrammed periodically. This switch gets programed by pressing an hold the buttons for a few seconds. Since our son is tall enough now to press the buttons, he reprograms it regularly.
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Get TV shows via RSS & BitTorrent

Paul Westbrook | 23 November, 2004 20:14

Engadget has a good article on how to setup BitTorrent and RSS to automatically download video content as it becomes available.

I have gotten these instructions to work on Mac OS X and on my RedHat 9 Linux computers

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xname.org

Paul Westbrook | 23 November, 2004 15:00

XName is a service that provides primary and secondary DNS servers for people with their own domain. These services are free, but they do ask for a donation if you like the service. This is good to have in case your primary DNS server is not available. You will still be able to potentially get email and web traffic.
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XM Radio Online adds Mac support

Paul Westbrook | 22 November, 2004 20:09

MacCentral has a post that mentions that XM Radio adds Mac OS X support to their XM Radio Online. It looks like it will support any platform that can run Windows Media Player 9.0 or newer. This is pretty cool, as I listen to XM Radio driving to and from work, and now I can continue to listen when I am not in my car.
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GearLive

Paul Westbrook | 22 November, 2004 20:07

If you are trying the websites like FreeiPods.com or FreePhotoiPods.com, GearLive is a way for you to trade your referrals. When you register, you can list all of your current open offers. You also list all of the offers that you are eligible for. Then you can search for all of the people who can help you fulfill your offers.
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10x10

Paul Westbrook | 19 November, 2004 19:15

10x10 is a website that has an interesting way to display the news. It shows a 10 x 10 grid of photos for the top 100 news stories. When you click on an image, it will take you to news story.

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IM Smarter

Paul Westbrook | 19 November, 2004 19:04

IM Smarter is a interesting service, that works with most IM protocols. It is a services that keeps a log of all of your im, so you can search through them later. The more interesting features are:

  1. Set up reminders
  2. Create blog entries directly from your im clients

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Blocking a blog spammer

Paul Westbrook | 19 November, 2004 08:43

I have been noticing that there have been requests to my blog, with the referrer of "http://12.163.72.13/". One of the interesting things about these requests is that the whole url has been converted to lowercase. (Which means that they were only seeing the main index page, and not the page that they indented.)

After I searched for that referrer url on Google, I found this post. It looks like this is a signature is for a blog spammer. Even though they did not successfully post any spam comments, I decided to blog these requests.

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Updated MetaWeblog support in plog

Paul Westbrook | 18 November, 2004 13:59

I have updated the changes that I mentioned in a previous post, to better support the metaWeblog API in plog. The new file is here. In order to use it, remove the .txt extension and place it in your plog directory.

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ecto

Paul Westbrook | 17 November, 2004 19:38

I have been playing with an xmlrpc client for posting to my blog. ecto is the best client that I have seen so far.

It is client that supports any weblog system that uses any of the standard xmlrpc APIs. With this appliication, you can create new entries, as well as manage the existing ones.
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