Category Archives: Technology

WordPress and the one and only loop

Grrr. Looks like I’ve run into a serious limitation of WordPress, namely the lack of blog aggregation. It turns out you can only have one loop on any given page, therefore you cannot merge two (or more) blogs. Why would you want to do that? To have a sideblog or linkblog. Here’s a good explanation. […]

Welcome to Scrybe

Woot! Joined the Scrybe beta after receiving an email invite yesterday.

Bloglines Beta First Impressions

Bloglines just announced the launch of Bloglines v3 in a beta open to the public. The announcement reads:
Blogliners we’re proud to introduce a beta of our latest redesign of Bloglines. Our About Beta overview outlines the key features a personalizable home page, 3 reading-views and drag-and-drop foldering in an Ajax interface. […]

Quick Review: NewsGator Online and NewsGator Mobile for the iPhone

Inspired by the Brent Simmons interview, I installed the trial of NetNewsWire 3.0 and configured it to sync with NewsGator Online. I used NetNewsWire on the PowerBook, NewsGator Mobile on the iPhone and the NewsGator Beta Online Reader elsewhere.
In the browser
Marking articles as read
Mark Items Read on View - From my previous experience with NewsGator […]

Shawn Blanc » The Brent Simmons Interview

Great quote from the developer of the fantastic NetNewsWire.
A third thing is that, at heart, I’m an extreme minimalist. An anti-pack-rat. NetNewsWire has a bunch of features, yes, no doubt — but were I not compelled by my temperament to prune and cut and simplify obsessively, it would be, well, a very different app.
I was […]

.Mac Web Gallery vs. Flickr

Two similar questions posed today on O’Reilly Mac DevCenter and Lifehacker got me thinking. Is there really a competition between .Mac Web Gallery and Flickr? Or, are they instead complementary?I gave the new .Mac Web Gallery a spin last night. It’s fast and very easy to use. Literally within minutes, I created a new event […]

Google Reader updated for the iPhone?

I am not sure when or how this happened, but it appears that Google Reader has recently been updated to detect the iPhone. Where before visiting http://reader.google.com/ on the iPhone would simply bring up the desktop reader, now it automatically redirects to Google Reader Mobile at http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/.In addition, Google Reader Mobile has now gained the […]

.Mac Wishlist

MacRumors, AppleInsider, AppleGazette, TUAW and I’m sure others are all hinting at a possible .Mac refresh to be announced at the Apple Media Event today, based on a “scheduled maintenace” outage to coincide with the event.I’m hoping to see at least some of these being announced today:

Push email for iPhone and Mail.app, hopefully using IMAP […]

iPhone - Gmail reverse halo effect

OK, for the life of me I can’t understand how iPhone’s launch caught Google Mail so unprepared.They do have a renewed love for all things Apple. Its top brass sits on Apple’s board. They’ve partnered to deliver YouTube content to AppleTV and iPhone. They’ve been into mobile applications for quite a while. So who forgot […]

Email WTF

Oh, what a clusterfuck I got by mixing the iPhone, webmail and POP access.Got me a little iPhone and hooked it up with few email accounts. Gmail, which I had and love. Yahoo! Mail Plus, because it’s the only push mail that works with the iPhone, at least for now. And a regular ol’ IMAP […]