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Filterset.G and Adblock

Paul Westbrook | 10 July, 2006 21:39

I saw this post yesterday that mentioned Filterset.G.  I have been using Adblock for a while to help block web ads.  Filterset.G is a set of filters for Adblock.  I have been pretty impressed with the effectiveness of these filters, in fact it is able to block text-based Google Adsense ads. 

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OpenDNS

Paul Westbrook | 10 July, 2006 17:22

OpenDNS is a company that provides DNS resolving for networks or individual computers.  They offer some interesting features:

  1. Phishing protection - Will display a warning page when attempting to view a known phishing site.
  2. Increased speed for browsing - OpenDNS has a large DNS cache to speed host name lookups.  In addition to this their DNS servers are located near the computer making the DNS request.
  3. Fixing spelling mistakes - OpenDNS will help with common spelling domain name spelling mistakes

I am going to try this out on our network at home.  Unfortunately this really does not work for me on my laptop, and I think that they need to call the following situation out more clearly.
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newTunes

Paul Westbrook | 10 July, 2006 14:05

newTunes seems like a pretty cool dashboard widget.  It will let you know when new music is in the iTunes Music Store for any of the artists in your iTunes library.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work well for me.  I installed it on Friday, and on Monday it still doesn't display anything.  The problem is that the widget launches an AppleScript that, I believe, is building the list of the artists and the local tracks for those artists.  On my library that has 7800 tracks, this takes a long time. 

I think that it would be better for this widget to parse the iTunes Library xml file itself.  (I believe that Apple has an API to do this, this is what iPhoto uses to show the list of tracks for slideshows.)  This would be a lot faster, and would allow the widget to show status while the list is being built.

[via TUAW]

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