It’s been a long time since I used FeedLounge and I’m sad to see the doors closing. It was truely a great app, maybe not the best service but the functionality was everything you’d need out of an online RSS reader.
After hearing I commented on Alex’s site:
Sadly I think the only logical option would be to opensource the project. For everyone to use on their own server and help contribute to fix the bugs and increase the overall functionality. Then if Scott wants to host feedlounge it could be ad supported or a paid hosted service.
I remember the days when fl had so much of my attention. Like Chris after you left it lost it’s appeal and GR launched it’s new UI.
I’m sure he’s not only spent a lot of time but a fair share of money so the open source solution while attractive for us may not be an option for the committed. However, I’m interested to see how much Scott gets or even wants.
I’ve been a loyal shopper of Amazon for years and I just noticed this last Friday that the problem to my unsaid grief for the last year or two have been the result of two accounts. It was a real pain to not have any order history online except my email archive. And I don’t know how it happened either because the puzzling thing, both accounts had the same email address and password. So there was no way to tell, except when I went to change my e-mail Friday I noticed my history showed up and I could log in with my other email perfectly fine.
Other then having a limited experience with amazon everything is fine now. Even my Prime memberships have been straightened out. And yes I actually had two paid for memberships; one I bought 6 months before the second without realizing it had only been 6 months. What a strange incident.
Thanks to loops and Dennis Turner for enabling me with the fixes to release a new version of Search Everything.
Version 3.1 includes:
OpenDNS added shortcuts today. I’ve been an OpenDNS user for sometime and it’s an excellent service. I haven’t noticed any speed advantages from their caching but I’m glad that we’re safer with it blocking phishing sites, it also helps with some quick URI typos.
Setting up the shortcuts feature took 2 minutes. I just needed to setup an account and add my IP (which was already populated for me) then add a few shortcuts. Now instead of http://www.google.com/reader/view/ I can type gr or rss and the page loads. I’m actually impressed that I have this functionality without needing to install anything and without it being slow what-so-ever.
If you’re not using OpenDNS on your network or your computers your going to have to spend a few more minutes configuring your router or computer but I’d fully recommend OpenDNS even if you don’t care for shortcuts. Even the network admin has a bunch of great tools like network stats.
Thanks for the great service guys.
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April 22
Today was my first blue screen in about a year and my first with Vista.
Doesn’t it just bring back memories of the good ol’ days?
Also, My lack of blue screens due only because I’m using OS X primarily for work and home even this screen of death was in parallels on OS X and not because Windows is getting better.
Articles like this make Smashing Magazine one of my favorite readfeeds.
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April 19
I already posted about using the technique of updating wordpress through SVN but it just dawned on me that the instructions I (and many others) used committed us to the 2.1 trunk. And since 2.2 is a few weeks away I’m thinking of how to transition.
If your running a few sites, the easy way would be to just run these commands:
svn switch --relocatehttp://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.1/\http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.2/
Not that big transition since I can control who gets the updates and who doesn’t just in case 2.2 doesn’t play well. If I don’t use the above steps I’ll just copy my nightly script and simply modify it with the above command to run a single update for everyone in a few seconds.
The other option would be to use the wp trunk rather than the stable release repositories.
http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/I’m not to keen with the latter but it is an option.
