Skinning GMail Over at “persistent.info”:http://persistent.info/, Hammers has used the “URLid”:http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/uriid extension for Firefox to create a “personal skin for GMail”:http://persistent.info/archives/2004/10/05/gmail-skinning using CSS. The result is less than stunning, however does show the potential. Personally, GMail’s interface has put me off – not just the look (which is so 2002), but…
My morning routine before leaving for work goes a little something like this: # Get up & dressed # Wash # Watch BBC Breakfast to see if aliens have landed # Check the web for Underground news (“London Underground”:http://tube.tfl.gov.uk/) # Check the weather (the “BBC”:http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml) # Quickly scan mail to…
My new design is up. There are a few kinks to work out, but I decided to do that on a running system. More information on the redesign to follow. Feel free to “provide feedback”:http://www.magpiebrain.com/contact if anything seems screwy…
An email from Atlassian’s Mike Cannon-Brookes pointed out something which I really hadn’t noticed – the “del.icio.us”:http://del.icio.us links being spliced in using “FeedBurner”:http://www.feedburner.com seem to be getting a huge number of hits – not just compared to the normal dross I put out, but compared to everyone else too. So…
“Rome”:http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javawsxml/Rome is another Java API which provides RSS parsing capabilities. Unlike the more mature “Informa”:http://informa.sourceforge.net it also supports Atom. Their comparison with Informa makes interesting reading – they state that Informa is hard to use! The mind boggles – here is how you can parse a feed: FeedManager feedManager =…
“Bloglines”:http://www.bloglines.com/about/news continues to add enhancements to their excellent free online feed aggregator service, and further improvements are being added by others – “Chad Everett”:http://www.cxliv.org/jayseae/2004/05/10/extending_mozilla.html has developed a very nice plugin for Mozilla and Firebird which embeds the bloglines notifier in the browser’s status bar, and also adds a right-click context…
I’m a big fan of the “del.icio.us”:http://del.icio.us/ bookmark service. I started using it primarily because it enables me to keep bookmarks synchronized, but have come to appreciate the ease with which you can categorise your bookmarks into multiple categories, and enables you to look at the bookmarks of other people…
As I “mentioned before(Generate footnotes for printing)”:http://www.magpiebrain.com/archives/000231.html, I recently wrote some Javascript code to produce a more printable version of my pages. Since then I’ve updated the code a little, added a link to each page and refined my printing CSS. The Javascript code handles two tasks – firstly it…
As this blog has attracted more and more visitors each month, the number of comments I’ve been receiving has also been on the increase. Every now and then one of my threads generates some extremely interesting feedback, and it was starting to get annoying that I couldn’t reference these comments…
Made quite a few changes to the site over the last few days – some more noticeable than others. Internally I’ve reorganised a lot of stuff to make more use of Movable Type “Template modules”:http://www.movabletype.org/docs/mtmanual_templates.html#template%20modules to cut down on the reproduced code. I’ve also added a new category for “static”…
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