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Free Opera license (until 12 AM PDT August 31)
I'm not an Opera user, but for it's nice to have a copy on hand for testing. Opera's giving away free licenses to celebrate their 10th birthday:
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Monoppix 1.1.8 - New Release
Monoppix 1.1.8 is live!
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TagCloud - Automated Folksonomy generation from RSS feeds
TagCloud is an automated Folksonomy tool. Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds. Clicking on the tag's link will display a list of all the article abstracts associated with that keyword. TagCloud lets you create and manage clouds with content you are interested in, and lets you publish them on your own website.
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How to run IE7 (Beta 1) alongside IE6
UPDATE:
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Random idea: Using MIDI for WAV file compression
Since even mobile devices now have basic General MIDI support now, what about approximating digital audio as a stream of very short MIDI notes?
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Wish: Subscription Abstraction Layer
RSS.NET and Atom.NET[1] are great, but they sure could use an abstraction layer. I'll bet the same conditional logic has been written hundreds of times, but I haven't found anywhere that it's been abstracted out as a standalone library. Think ADO.NET - it's a general data access framework that allows any data provider (SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Text, write your own) to be accessed as generic interfaces (IDataReader, etc.).
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isIE=document.all; //only kind of true
Internet Explorer 4 used document.all['elementName'] to refer to document elements while waiting for the W3C standard, which turned out to be document.getElementById('elementName'). IE 5 and above, plus all other modern standards based browsers, all support document.getElementByID(). IE 4 usage was below .5% in 2002 and isn't even being tracked anymore, so there's no good reason to be using document.all anymore.
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[OT] Torture Tapes podcast feed
I was looking around for the Most Unwanted Song since I seem to have lost my copy. This song was scientifically designed to be liked by "fewer than 200 individuals of the world's total population", and oddly enough I'm one of them. They conducted surveys on least liked themes and instrumentation, then comissioned a song full of rapping over tubas, operatic interludes about the cowboy life, and children's choirs singing about politics, religion, holidays, and advertising. Wonderful.
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OpenNetCF - Smart Device Framework
Heard about the OpenNetCF Smart Device Framework on Wally McClure's ASP.NET Podcast. It's a shared source framework that "enriches and extends the .NET Compact Framework by providing a rich set of classes and controls not available in the .NET Compact Framework."
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How to Speed up RSSBandit (while waiting for the Nightcrawler release)
RSSBandit is a great RSS Aggregator, but it's just about unusable with over 1000 feeds. CPU use goes through the roof, and it's got some GDI leaks. It runs, but the computer's not very usable. I've been starting it up every few days and setting the process priority to "Below Normal" in the Task Manager, but it's enough of a pain that I've just been browsing to a few pages in a browser (shudder) and ignoring the other feeds.