Archive - January, 2004

FeedDemon 1.10 Beta 1

January 31 4 Comments Category: Really Old Posts

The first beta of FeedDemon 1.10 is now available to registered customers.
Please note that this beta release will not work on your computer unless you’ve purchased FeedDemon 1.0.
Along with the usual bug fixes, version 1.10 includes a number of new features, including:

New Features
Keyword search of existing news items
Basic support for Atom 0.3 feeds
Update all groups
Support [...]

Squarespace, a Movable Type alternative?

January 26 8 Comments Category: Really Old Posts

Mike Rundle (Phark.com) points us towards SquareSpace. Squarespace is a flexible, streamlined way to create and manage a website.
Squarespace lets people focus on what they know best, instead of forcing them to focus on HTML design and layout. Focus on writing your blog entries and publishing your files and pictures instead of worrying about how [...]

MSN Toolbar Beta

January 26 2 Comments Category: Really Old Posts

Microsoft have released the MSN Toolbar for Internet Explorer.

With MSN Toolbar you can:
Search the Web from any Web page.
Use the Highlight Viewer to quickly locate your search words.
Use Quick Links to launch MSN Hotmail, MSN Messenger, and your personalized MSN home page.
Get rid of pop-up ads with the Pop-up Guard.

No doubt this will be massively [...]

Spam soon to be a thing of the past?

January 25 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

Bill Gates says that email spam will soon be a thing of the past.

“…ultimately, Mr Gates predicted, spam would be killed through the electronic equivalent of a stamp, also known as “payment at risk”.
This would force the sender of an e-mail to pay up when an e-mail was rejected as spam, but would not deter [...]

ITunes European Debut Held Up by Red Tape

January 24 2 Comments Category: Really Old Posts

Reuters says:
“Old-fashioned red tape is delaying the eagerly awaited European launch of Apple Computers’ Internet music store iTunes, a company official said on Saturday. A maze of licensing contracts, music release dates that differ by country and incompatible billing systems have combined to sidetrack the service, which many recording executives still hope will make its [...]

10 reasons why RSS is not ready for prime time

January 23 2 Comments Category: Really Old Posts

The title and content of this blog entry pretty much sums up what I’ve been mulling over for the past week.
And it’s definately one of those “I wish I had posted that” type posts.
10 reasons why RSS is not ready for prime time.

Dr. Sam Allardyce and his amazing healing ways…

January 23 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

An excellent creative write-up on Dr. Sam’s healing ways.

UK record companies suck!

January 22 1 Comment Category: Really Old Posts

I’ve been purchasing CD’s from CDWOW for a couple of weeks, as they are a couple of quid cheaper than in the shops (each CD is around £7.99), and I have the added benefit of ordering them from in front of my computer.
However, I received an email this morning informing me that once again I’d [...]

Full Post RSS Feeds – Now Available

January 19 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

I’m now providing full posts via my RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 feeds.
I have a feeling this may cause some duplicates to appear in some newsreaders… my apologies.

Mozilla 1.6 – Now Available

January 16 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

The Mozilla Organisation have released version 1.6 of their Mozilla browser.
Suprisingly though, Mozilla seem to have added “Ask Jeeves” functionality to the browser. Now I don’t know whether its just me or not, but Jeeves has never worked for me… and now it’s in my favourite browser — oh joy! “Translate Page” has made it’s [...]