January 2004 - Posts

• ITunes for RSS Geek.

  I'm a half PC, half Mac geek. I'm currently saving some dough for a new PowerBook, preferably a possible G5 version. Anyway, I'm also an avid music nut and of course ITunes being the best online music source at the moment I was hanging around the site and came across The ITunes Music Store RSS Generator. This is quite awesome IMHO. You generate a feed for New Releases, Just Added, Top Songs, Top Albums and Featured items. All broken out by genre's. I'm trying to hold off right now since I am currently going through my feeds and removing some, since my SharpReader is now saying that I have almost 20k worth of unread feed items. Listening to: Away From The Sun - 3 Doors Down (3:51) Posted Jan 30 2004, 11:21 AM by jtucker with no comments Filed under: System.Web

• Orkut seconded..

  even though Chris beat me to it, I thought I'd like to also see if anyone would like to sponser me for getting into Orkut. I'm interested in seeing how Google/Company they aquired does the this whole social networking thing. Maybe we could start a round of bloggers from this site and start a circle. Just an idea. It's a “trusted” community.... so I guess you have to be invited to get in. I am really interested in seeing what it's all about, anyone out there in asp.net world trust me enough to invite me in :) .:: currently rockin' out to: Leech - Incubus (4:19) ::. Posted Jan 23 2004, 01:55 PM by jtucker with 7 comment(s) Filed under: System.Net

• Converting email to RSS. Check!

  Saw this over on XMLMania: iUpload(TM), a net-native content management solution provider, is making available a free service called MailbyRSS for authoring RSS feeds by e-mail. The service will help organizations avoid enforcement liability of the CAN-SPAM Act, which took effect at the beginning of this year, through a service that transforms e-mail campaigns into RSS feeds. MailbyRSS will allow organizations to replace or augment their opt-in e-mail campaigns with RSS feeds, providing them a way to ensure that the information they publish reaches subscribers without being filtered out by spam lists or filters. MailbyRSS accepts both text and rich content e-mail, requires no new computer hardware or software, and is invoked by simply emailing content to a free MailbyRSS account. Sounds interesting Posted Jan 21 2004, 01:11 PM by jtucker with no comments Filed under: System.Net

• Appforge Crossfire 5.0 availible now.

  As Biff pointed out, Appforge has released Crossfire 5.0. Crossfire allows VB.Net devlopers to create mobile applications for Palm, Symbian and Pocket PC applications. I've been on the beta for the product for awhile and will hopefully be releasing a few demo apps to show off this product. But if you can't wait, check out Appforge's website and get the evaluation here. .:: currently rockin' out to: DJ Shadow & Roots Manuva-GDMFS - DJ Shadow & Roots Manuva (6:25) ::. Posted Jan 21 2004, 11:44 AM by jtucker with 2 comment(s) Filed under: System.Net

• New C# Blog Tool

  Alex at Mineblogging has added some screenies of his bloggin project TypeWriter. Using C# and starting from scratch with a little inspiration from ecto and NetNewsWire, it's starting to take some shape. Good Luck Alex. Posted Jan 12 2004, 05:04 PM by jtucker with 5 comment(s) Filed under: System.Net