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		<title>&#8220;Error 1330 Installing Java Runtime Environment&#8221; (JRE)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ageor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>This client&#8217;s PC running Windows XP kept refusing to install the latest Java Runtime Environment. It seems such a problem is not that rare&#8230;</p>
<p>To cut a long story short, I came across this RAC_Reaper&#8217;s post Re: Error 1330 (Invalid digital signature in data1.cab) installing 1.6.0_11, where he states:</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230; I believe a regsvr32 initpki.dll is all [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This client&#8217;s PC running Windows XP kept refusing to install the <a href="http://jdl.sun.com/webapps/getjava/BrowserRedirect?locale=en&amp;host=java.com:80" target="_blank">latest Java Runtime Environment</a>. It seems such a problem is not that rare&#8230;</p>
<p>To cut a long story short, I came across this <a href="http://forums.sun.com/profile.jspa?userID=1165064">RAC_Reaper</a>&#8217;s post <strong><a href="http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10819649#10819649" target="_blank">Re: Error 1330 (Invalid digital signature in data1.cab) installing 1.6.0_11</a></strong>, where he states:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; I believe a regsvr32 initpki.dll is all you need to run and the 1330 error will go away.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>What this means is:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open a command prompt (console) window with administrative rights</li>
<li>At the prompt type &#8220;regsvr32 initpki.dll&#8221; (without the quotes and hit &#8220;Enter&#8221;</li>
<li>Run the JRE installation again. It should now work</li>
</ol>
<p>It sure worked for me, thanks RAC_Reaper!</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Restart Firefox to complete your changes&#8221; keeps appearing after add-on installation or update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ageor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever found yourselves in a situation with Firefox for Windows where you keep getting the message &#8220;Restart Firefox to complete your changes&#8221;, even after a restart? It happens if Windows has Offline Files enabled, the Firefox profile resides in an offline folder and you have installed or updated an add-on sensitive to the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever found yourselves in a situation with Firefox for Windows where you keep getting the message &#8220;Restart Firefox to complete your changes&#8221;, even after a restart? It happens if Windows has Offline Files enabled, the Firefox profile resides in an offline folder and you have installed or updated an add-on sensitive to the situation. </p>
<p>It turns out that certain add-ons require the profile folder to be online to install or update properly. Until this happens, they keep asking for a restart to successfully complete installation.</p>
<p>Luckily, the solution to this is simple: start Firefox when the profile folder is online and these add-ons will complete installation properly. If you need to, you can go offline again (preferably after closing Firefox while still online). On next start everything will keep working fine.</p>
<p>If this also happens under different circumstances, please let me know.</p>

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		<title>WM, Android, or, maybe, a Maemo smartphone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ageor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I am a long time user of Windows CE, Pocket PC and lately Windows Mobile devices. I am no fan of Microsoft&#8217;s. However, I have always thought their mobile OS, although not always the best and, certainly not open, it was a step in the right direction with decent devices and plenty of software.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a long time user of Windows CE, Pocket PC and lately <a title="Windows Mobile" href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile" target="_blank">Windows Mobile</a> devices. I am no fan of Microsoft&#8217;s. However, I have always thought their mobile OS, although not always the best and, certainly not open, it was a step in the right direction with decent devices and plenty of software.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time for a new smartphone. I admit habits die hard and this is the first time since 2000 I am actually considering changing mobile platform. Not because touchscreens were &#8220;non-existent&#8221; before multi-touch, as Apple fans would put it, but because Microsoft has, or is close to managing what seemed impossible: lose in the software availability arena. Most new mobile applications for new Web 2 needs are created for the iPhone and <a title="Android Platform" href="http://www.android.com/" target="_blank">Android</a> first and for Blackberry and WM later.</p>
<p>Microsoft clearly failed to recognize the mobile devices market trends in time and doesn&#8217;t even seem to do anything serious about it. WM updates are drugged by hardware and other developments and are nothing to write home about. Devices are still best-of-breed, thanks to <a title="HTC" href="http://htc.com" target="_blank">HTC</a> and others, but this can&#8217;t be credited to MS.</p>
<p>So, these are the lists for and against staying with WM:</p>
<h3>Stay with WM</h3>
<ul>
<li>10 years of usage (habit)</li>
<li>It does work, most of the time</li>
<li>I have almost all the applications I need</li>
<li>MS Outlook synchronization. What about Outlook synchronization with Android? <a title="Android Market" href="http://www.android.com/market/" target="_blank">Android Market</a>&#8217;s web interface is bad to useless. It&#8217;s a Google product with no search! <img src='http://dipot.com/dipot/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </li>
<li><a title="HTC HD2" href="http://www.htc.com/europe/product/hd2/overview.html" target="_blank">HTC HD2</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Leave WM</h3>
<ul>
<li>WM is not open. Android or <a title="Maemo" href="http://maemo.org" target="_blank">Maemo</a> would be candidates as open platforms</li>
<li>Most hip programs and services are first available on other platforms. Android is the only candidate here as the iPhone is closed, regulated and not the best hardware around</li>
<li>All else being equal, open platforms are also hosted by cheaper devices</li>
</ul>
<p>Any thoughts would be appreciated!</p>

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		<title>PeopleBrowsr: The Multi-Social-Networks Client Pros, Cons &amp; Wishlist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ageor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>PeopleBrowsr is an excellent multi social networks client. Although still in Beta RC 1.5, it is very rich in features and often leads the way for dedicated clients. On the flip side, it has a number of issues that prevent it from being the hands down client of choice, nor a one stop shop for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PeopleBrowsr is an excellent multi social networks client. Although still in Beta RC 1.5, it is very rich in features and often leads the way for dedicated clients. On the flip side, it has a number of issues that prevent it from being the hands down client of choice, nor a one stop shop for the networks it supports. All comments are about the Air version of PeopleBrowsr, running under Windows XP SP3, although most are valid for the <a href="http://my.peoplebrowser.com/" target="_blank">PeopleBrowsr web version</a> as well.</p>
<h2>Pros</h2>
<ul>
<li>The PeopleBrowsr people listen and respond</li>
<li>Multiple Stacks</li>
<li>Very Strong Search</li>
<li>Multiple networks support (alphabetically): Bitly, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, FriendFeed, Identica, LinkedIn, MySpace, Photobucket, PingFM, Plaxo, Seesmic, Trim, Twitter, Webpage, YouTube etc.</li>
<li>Multiple accounts on each supported network</li>
<li>Both a Web and an Adobe Air version</li>
<li>An impressive list of Options in Settings, including but not limited to:
<ul>
<li>Auto refresh rate in seconds</li>
<li>Auto sync Following/Followers</li>
<li>Auto Refresh</li>
<li>Show real names</li>
<li>Show Location</li>
<li>Persistent Stacks compression for more information in the same space (Stacks can be individually set to be compressed or not, but the setting is not saved when the session ends)</li>
<li>Show absolute times instead of how long ago posts were posted</li>
<li>Added value among PB users</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Combination Stacks like DM+Replies+Stacks for Twitter</li>
<li>PB Groups can contain accounts from different networks, thus not becoming obsolete after Twitter introduced Lists</li>
<li>Color-coding and custom names for Stacks</li>
<li>Twitter threads (when available)</li>
<li>Posts can be delayed, repeated and post on multiple networks at once</li>
</ul>
<h2>Wishlist &amp; Shortcomings</h2>
<ul>
<li>Trim down the top</li>
<div id="attachment_1899" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 581px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1899 " title="peoplebrowsr_top" src="http://dipot.com/dipot/wp-content/uploads/peoplebrowsr_top.jpg" alt="PeopleBrowsr top part" width="571" height="47" /><p class="wp-caption-text">PeopleBrowsr top part</p></div>
<p>The top &#8220;Post&#8221;, &#8220;Search&#8221;, PBIDboxes, PBExpet and Logout boxes/buttons/choices are too wide and actually takes a 1030pixels wide window for it to display properly! When narrower than that, the Search box goes down and sits on top of these stacks&#8217; titles. Very annoying.</p>
<li>Improve non-latin text support: Sometimes Greek, Cyrillic etc. text decoding fails to display properly</li>
<li>Keep Twitter Lists up to date: My lists seem to have been read once and have not been updated since</li>
<li>Keep FriendFeed Lists and Groups up to date: They seem to have been read once and have not been updated since</li>
<li>Friendfeed Lists and Groups cannot be managed at all</li>
<li>Improve the Twitter Lists and PB Groups manager: As it is, it leaves a lot to be desired; see the &#8220;<a href="http://dipot.com/2009/12/twitter-lists-support-management-status-optimization-wishlist/" target="_blank">Twitter Lists Support: Management Status &amp; Optimization Wishlist</a>&#8221; post</li>
<li>Fix the &#8220;Font Size&#8221; setting to work in both the Stacks and, while it used to work properly, now (v1.5) only sets the Quickstrip&#8217;s font size and is not persistent between sessions</li>
<li>Improve the memory management: PB keeps allocating more memory while running, eventually bringing any system down on its knees</li>
<li>Fix program exit: When I close PB Air, it remains resident withholding large amounts of RAM &amp; virtual memory and can&#8217;t start again until its previous process is killed</li>
<li>Prefill #hashtags and all @twitterers in replies</li>
<li>Add a &#8220;delete post&#8221; feature</li>
<li>Update the database when posts are deleted from other clients, so deleted entries do not keep showing</li>
<li>Support OpenID</li>
</ul>
<p>I like PeopleBrowsr; a lot! And I&#8217;m impressed with the work done so far. Which is why I expect even more from the development team <img src='http://dipot.com/dipot/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>

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		<title>Twitter Lists Support: Management Status &amp; Optimization Wishlist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ageor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I follow 2001 Twitter accounts (the limit Twitter inexplicably imposes for my number of followers). I have created some Twitter Lists and added some accounts in them, usually as I come across them. Twitter&#8217;s web interface leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to Lists management, so, this is a slow, painful process. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I follow 2001 <a href="http://twitter.com" target="_blank">Twitter</a> accounts (<a href="http://dipot.com/2009/11/twitter-unable-to-follow-more-people-following-2000-limit/" target="_blank">the limit Twitter inexplicably imposes for my number of followers</a>). I have created some Twitter Lists and added some accounts in them, usually as I come across them. Twitter&#8217;s web interface leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to Lists management, so, this is a slow, painful process. I had also created groups in <a href="http://Peoplebrowsr.com" target="_blank">PeopleBrowsr</a>, <a href="http://TweetDeck.com" target="_blank">TweetDeck</a> and <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pocketwit/" target="_blank">PockeTwit</a>. Having done part of the work to organize those I follow in Groups and Lists in a chaotic manner over time, I now wish for an easy way to bulk organize everything in Twitter Lists and be done with it. I wish for a Lists Manager that will let me optimize the process. While searching for it, I came across the following facts (please note that this is by no means a thorough survey; I just went through the clients I know of and use):</p>
<ul>
<li>Clients that support Twitter Lists
<ul>
<li><a href="http://seesmic.com/seesmic_desktop/windows/" target="_blank">Seesmic for Windows</a> now offers read only support</li>
<li><a href="http://socialwhale.com" target="_blank">SocialWhale</a> offers read and add support on a per user basis, like Twitter</li>
<li>PeopleBrowsr initially offered read only support and now also supports additions</li>
<li>TweetDeck was the last to market but offers the best support so far, including read, easily add and export of its own Groups to Twitter Lists</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Export the application&#8217;s Groups to Twitter Lists
<ul>
<li>SocialWhale asks users to import their preexisting Groups to Lists at login</li>
<li>TwitDeck fully supports copying Groups to Lists</li>
<li>PeopleBrowsr initially did the opposite; it copied Twitter Lists to PB Groups. It does not do it in the right direction</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Bulk-add accounts to Twitter Lists
<ul>
<li>Twitdeck shows a selected Group, List or the complete list of followed accounts and allows to multiple-select-and-import any account from all friends, TweetDeck&#8217;s own Groups or Twitter Lists to a Twitter List</li>
<li>PeopleBrowsr shows 16 accounts already in the Group or Twitter List with an &#8220;x&#8221; next to each one for one-by-one removal. To add an account to the List, one needs to manually type (part of) the names one by one and can&#8217;t bulk select them from a full list or PB&#8217;s own Groups</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Applications&#8217; own Groups vs. Twitter Lists management tools
<ul>
<li>Oddly enough, both TwitDeck and PeopleBrowsr have different Managers for their own Groups and for Twitter List</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The winner, so far, is TwitDeck; hands down. The race is not over, though and neither is my work, as I still have the PeopleBrowsr and PockeTwit groups to convert to Twitter Lists. So, I am waiting for them to add a competitive Lists Manager that not just gets the job done, it also removes some of the pain that goes with it. Some optimization suggestions to that extend:</p>
<ul>
<li>Show the avatar, full name, site&#8217;s URL, following and followers along with account names</li>
<p>Long lists are difficult to handle just by a nick name.</p>
<li>Make the list auto resizing with the size of the window</li>
<p>The more the information available, the faster and easier the process.</p>
<li>Make it reliable and responsive</li>
<p>PeopleBrowsr often shows me a partial list of Twitter Lists and TwitDeck sometimes retries and fails to add accounts to Twitter Lists.</ul>
<p>With Christmas and New Year around the corner, it&#8217;s a good time for wishes to come true&#8230; Meanwhile, I will update this post will any relevant information I come across, so check back.</p>

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		<title>Outlook crashes when switching keyboard language? Check Outlook Connector!</title>
		<link>http://dipot.com/2009/10/outlook-crashes-when-switching-keyboard-language-check-outlook-connector/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ageor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Does your Microsoft Outlook crash lately? A client of mine&#8217;s kept crashing for the better part of two consecutive mornings.</p>
<p>To cut a long story short, each time he tried to switch the keyboard to EL (Greek), it would hung with no exception. Several times it even crashed by itself while (re)starting. Repairing the .pst file [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does your Microsoft <a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/default.aspx" target="_blank">Outlook</a> crash lately? A client of mine&#8217;s kept crashing for the better part of two consecutive mornings.</p>
<p>To cut a long story short, each time he tried to switch the keyboard to EL (Greek), it would hung with no exception. Several times it even crashed by itself while (re)starting. Repairing the .pst file did not help. After realizing it was switching the keyboard that did this, I googled the issue and found the thread &#8220;<a href="http://office-outlook.com/outlook-forum/index.php/m/264965/" target="_blank">Outlook 2007 crash when I typing Thai language</a>&#8220;. Result: No solution or workaround (yet), but <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_Outlook_Connector" target="_blank">Outlook Connector</a> was to blame.</p>
<p>Well, not any more, it&#8217;s gone now and we all are back in business. I was very reluctant to recommend <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_Outlook_Connector" target="_blank">Outlook Connector</a> to begin with, but there were no issues with it for weeks. What can I say? Can&#8217;t tie the issue to an update, either.</p>
<p>Sorry for not troubleshooting this further, MS, we both had real work to get done&#8230;</p>

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		<title>WordPress: External RSS Feeds Optimization with KB Advanced RSS</title>
		<link>http://dipot.com/2009/04/wordpress-external-rss-feeds-optimization-with-kb-advanced-rss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ageor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Apart from its own Ice Tea tech blog, Dipot.com also displays two external feeds relating to Optimization and Standards. I needed to optimize the post titles of these two feeds by getting rid of their long suffixes, both for better looks and for more content within the same space.</p>
<p>The feeds were served by the standard [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apart from its own <a title="DiPot: Ice Tea tech blog" href="http://dipot.com" target="_blank">Ice Tea tech blog</a>, <a title="DiPot, the Digital Pot" href="http://dipot.com" target="_blank">Dipot.com</a> also displays two external feeds relating to Optimization and Standards. I needed to optimize the post titles of these two feeds by getting rid of their long suffixes, both for better looks and for more content within the same space.</p>
<p>The feeds were served by the standard RSS <a title="WordPress blogging CMS" href="http://wordpress.org/" target="_blank">WordPress</a> 2.7.1 widget, which is fine, except it does not support much customization. After some search, I found <a title="Advanced RSS WordPress Plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-rss/" target="_blank">Advanced RSS 1.0.1 WordPress plugin</a> and <a title="KB Advanced RSS WordPress Plugin" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kb-advanced-rss-widget/" target="_blank">KB Advanced RSS 2.1.3 WordPress plugin</a>. Smart RSS only works until WP 2.7.0 and I didn&#8217;t want to tweak with that. Advanced RSS  only works until WP 2.6.2 and requires PHP5, DOM and XSL extensions loaded on the server and I don&#8217;t want to depend on those if I don&#8217;t need to, so the choice was easy.</p>
<p>Installation of KB Advanced RSS worked flawlessly right from within wp-admin. Then, on my first attempt to configure it, I came across a problem which could very well had been a show stopper: for some reason, except for the feed&#8217;s URL and Title, the widget would not commit any of the other parameters to the &#8220;Options&#8221; table of the database. Troubleshooting this issue, I ended up reading all the users&#8217; comments on the plugin&#8217;s site. As usual, I was not alone; this is a common issue. Thankfully, <a title="Wesley of http://www.improvingtheweb.com" href="http://www.improvingtheweb.com" target="_blank">Wesley of  http://www.improvingtheweb.com</a> had already posted the <a title="solution to PHP4 not committing widget field changes in WordPress" href="http://adambrown.info/b/widgets/2008/01/28/released-today-kb-advanced-rss-21/#comment-3812" target="_blank">solution to PHP4 not committing widget field changes in WordPress</a>. The solution worked like a charm. And, as expected, when I later upgraded to PHP5 the problem wasn&#8217;t even there to begin with.</p>
<p>KB Advanced RSS is well thought-out, very straight forward with good documentation and examples. It supports all the features of the standard widget (including multiple instances) plus formatting and full support of all the feed&#8217;s fields to display or not (including the debugging tool to show which these fields are)! It further supports two modifiers to optionally manipulate the string before display, by taking out a number of characters from the start (ltrim) and/or trimming it to a specific length (trim).</p>
<p>Alas, what I actually needed was to take out a number of characters from the end of the string. Fortunately, as it turned out, KB Advanced RSS&#8217;s code is pretty straight-forward and extending it with my own modifier (rtrim) to do just that was only a matter of 3 lines of PHP code added to the version of the plugin that runs by my version of Wordpress; there&#8217;s one for versions up to 2.7 (pre-wp-2-7.php) and one for versions after that (post-wp-2-7.php). Here is the PHP code from the modified post-wp-2-7.php (my rtrim extension is in blue):</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>///////////////////////////////// CUSTOMIZATIONS /////////////////////////////////////////
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// If you want to write customizations, put them here. The variable to modify is $text. See the FAQ.
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

<span style="color: #333399;">// right trimming
// cuts $rtrim characters from the right
// by ageor, April 9, 2009</span><span style="color: #333399;">
$rtrim = (is_numeric($rtrim) &amp;&amp; 0&lt;$rtrim) ? (int) $rtrim : null;
if (is_int($rtrim))
$text = substr( $text, 0, strlen($string)-$rtrim );</span>

// left trimming:
$ltrim = (is_numeric($ltrim) &amp;&amp; 0&lt;$ltrim) ? (int) $ltrim : null;
if (is_int($ltrim))
$text = substr( $text, $ltrim );

// length trimming (do after left trimming)
$trim = (is_numeric($trim) &amp;&amp; 0&lt;$trim) ? (int) $trim : null;
if (is_int($trim))
$text = substr( $text, 0, $trim );

return $text;</pre>
</blockquote>
<p>The way this is written, the string in question can undergo any mix of all three trimming types necessary.</p>
<p>All setting up and troubleshooting took place by adding one instance of the widget and configuring it, then a second instance. When all was done and I had what I wanted, I removed the original two instances of the original RSS widget, positioned the new ones on top and saved, certain I was done. However, as the resulting &#8220;Widgets&#8221; Wordpress admin page suggested after saving, something was very wrorg. It displayed the message &#8216;You are using 3 widgets in the &#8220;Left Sidebar&#8221; sidebar&#8217; but not the widgets themselves, nor the &#8220;Save Changes&#8221; button. Sure enough, I ended up with an unworkable site, as these where the first 2 widgets on the left column of Ice Tea tech and the page that appeared ended with the title banner. Disaster!</p>
<p>To cut a long story short, plenty of &#8220;trial and error&#8221;s later and with the help of <a title="Vicki Kolovou of netWire on FriendFeed" href="http://friendfeed.com/talos" target="_blank">Vicki</a> of <a title="neTWire: Thinking Wide" href="http://netwire.gr" target="_blank">neTWire</a>, here is my conclusion: For KB Advanced RSS widget to work with WP 2.7.1 and the <a title="Atahualpa fluid configurable WordPress Theme" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/atahualpa" target="_blank">Atahualpa WordPress theme</a>, the WordPress RSS widget needs to be activated and positioned above it. That&#8217;s how I temporarily solved my problem, until (if ever) I have the time to look deeper into the code involved or newer versions of  the theme and/or the plugin solve it for good.</p>
<p>Just to be clear, none of the problems and troubleshooting it took to solve them can be traced back ato KB Advanced RSS alone. Atahualpa is a great but complex theme and it is their combination that turned out to be problematic. It&#8217;s not the first example of a bad mix and it won&#8217;t be the last. On the flip side, with each such incident we get to learn something new that will potentially save others and ourselves some frusrtation and time in the future.</p>

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		<title>Feeds to Content &amp; Categories Optimization in WordPress</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ageor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>At some point I added the category &#8220;Bookmarks&#8221; in Ice Tea tech. Thanks to the &#8220;YAAB&#8221; (short for Yet Another Auto Blogger) WordPress plugin, this category automatically gets its content directly from my Delicious feed. This way I get my own copy of what I put up there and my blog gets some added value [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At some point I added the category &#8220;<a href="http://dipot.com/category/bookmarks/" target="_blank">Bookmarks</a>&#8221; in <a href="http://dipot.com" target="_blank">Ice Tea tech</a>. Thanks to the &#8220;<a href="http://scribido.com/yaab/yaab-autoblogger/" target="_blank">YAAB</a>&#8221; (short for Yet Another Auto Blogger) <a href="http://wordpress.org" target="_blank">WordPress</a> plugin, this category automatically gets its content directly from <a href="http://delicious.com/ageorg" target="_blank">my Delicious</a> <a href="http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/ageorg" target="_blank">feed</a>. This way I get my own copy of what I put up there and my blog gets some added value in one move.</p>
<p>YAAB has an unusual but effective interface that allows adding content to any category of a WordPress blog from any number of feeds, even offering its own scheduler, if needed. It sure works as advertized.</p>
<p>Ever since then, I meant to further optimize the blog by separating the bookmarks from my other posts. This is just what I did, with the help of the &#8220;<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-category-excluder/" target="_blank">ACE</a>&#8221; (short for Advanced Category Excluder) WordPress plugin. From now on, bookmark posts won&#8217;t appear in the main feed, like they don&#8217;t appear in the home page. For those interested, the Bookmarks feed is at <a href="http://dipot.com/category/bookmarks/feed" target="_blank">http://dipot.com/category/bookmarks/feed</a> (or find everything I post in <a href="http://friendfeed.com/ageor" target="_blank">my FriendFeed stream</a>).</p>
<p>ACE gives a WordPress blogger full control over which Categories are hidden in any of 6 sections of their blog: Archive page, Home page, RSS feed for Posts, RSS feed for Comments, Search results &amp; robots&#8217; crawls. It is very straight forward, has a clean interface and works as advertized.</p>
<p>I consider both plugins to be great assets to WordPress blogs. Which are your favorite plugins? What functionality do you put/expect in a blog?</p>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The first incarnation of  Ice Tea tech was in Joomla 1.5. I admit I can&#8217;t resist the temptation to tweak my own blog and never got to understand the Joomla philosophy well enough to do it extensively. So, with neTWire&#8217;s help (they set it up for me and successfully imported Joomla days&#8217; posts), I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The first incarnation of  <a href="http://dipot.com/" target="_blank">Ice Tea tech</a> was in <a href="http://www.joomla.org/" target="_blank">Joomla</a> 1.5. I admit I can&#8217;t resist the temptation to tweak my own blog and never got to understand the Joomla philosophy well enough to do it extensively. So, with <a href="http://netwire.gr/" target="_blank">neTWire</a>&#8217;s help (they set it up for me and successfully imported Joomla days&#8217; posts), I decided to give <a href="http://wordpress.org/" target="_blank">WordPress</a> (currently 2.7.1) a try, therefore I am a newbee with it. The WordPress environment is very clean, straightforword and promising. From this point on, to me, blog optimization means to choose a Theme, drop in all the plugins necessary to provide the functionality I want and get going issue-free.</p>
<p>After extensive search I found <a href="http://www.bytesforall.com/" target="_blank">Bytes for All</a>&#8217;s <a href="http://wordpress.bytesforall.com/?cat=15" target="_blank">Atahualpa</a>, a WordPress theme that is customizable enough so I wouldn&#8217;t need to dive deep into <a href="http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/" target="_blank">CSS</a> just yet. It supports a dynamically resizing main column plus 2 sidebars and lots of user definable parameters. Being a novice, I also installed, among others, the <a href="http://www.qianqin.de/qtranslate/" target="_blank">qTranslate</a> plugin to support multiple languages in Ice Tea tech, in case I need it in the future.</p>
<p>To my surprise, as I&#8217;m afraid some of you noticed, post dates did not appear correctly. The date format was correct, but the date itself was wrong. To cut a long story short, in theory, WordPress supports any PHP function for date formatting, qTranslate supports the PHP &#8220;<a href="http://gr2.php.net/date" target="_blank">date</a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="http://gr2.php.net/strftime" target="_blank">strftime</a>&#8221; functions and Atahualpa, due to its highly configurable setting, seems to have the PHP &#8220;date&#8221; function hardwired in some places.</p>
<p>After some trial and error and with the valuable help of neTWire&#8217;s <a href="http://friendfeed.com/talos" target="_blank">Vicki Kolovou</a> it turns out that, actually, qTranslate only works correctly with the &#8220;strftime&#8221; type of date formatting. So, there is no way it can coexist with Atahualpa or <a href="http://ikarus.wpthemespress.com/" target="_blank">Ikarus</a>, another highly customizable theme I  tried.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t have that much troubleshooting time for myself and Ice Tea tech<a href="http://dipot.com/" target="_blank"></a>&#8217;s environment is currently only in English. So, I&#8217;m sorry to report qTranslate had to go, at least for now. I hear it causes other issues, too. It&#8217;s a pity, as it otherwise really is a very well thought-out plugin&#8230;</p>
<p>It seems such issues are still commonplace. After this experience, my new definition for blog optimization is &#8220;the most functionality that actually works as it is supposed to&#8221;&#8230;</p>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>I apologize for the flood of links of the past few days.</p>
<p>I have been trying to implement Yet Another Autoblogger to bring my Delicious and StumbleUpon bookmarks in WordPress-based Ice Tea tech. It seems that, while everything finally worked fine with Delicious, StumbleUpon kept returning the same posts over and over to Autoblogger causing a [...]]]></description>
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<p><!--:--><!--:en-->I apologize for the flood of links of the past few days.</p>
<p>I have been trying to implement <a title="Visit plugin homepage" href="http://www.psypo.com/yaab">Yet Another Autoblogger</a> to bring my <a href="http://delicious.com/ageorg" target="_blank">Delicious</a> and <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/ageor/" target="_blank">StumbleUpon</a> bookmarks in <a href="http://wordpress.org/" target="_blank">WordPress</a>-based <a href="http://dipot.com/category/bookmarks/" target="_blank">Ice Tea tech</a>. It seems that, while everything finally worked fine with Delicious, StumbleUpon kept returning the same posts over and over to Autoblogger causing a flood in the blog itself and to its <a href="http://dipot.com/feed/" target="_blank">RSS feed</a>, <a href="http://friendfeed.com/ageor" target="_blank">FriendFeed</a> &amp; <a href="http://twitter.com/ageor" target="_blank">Twitter</a> by extension.</p>
<p>I stopped using StumbleUpon a while ago, because it didn&#8217;t support greek-encoded titles. It seems there is also an issue between its feed and Autoblogger. So, at least for the time being, I removed it, which is not that much of a problem, as I don&#8217;t post there any more.</p>
<p>Sorry about that, I&#8217;ll try to contain such incidents in the future. Thank you all for your patience and especially @<a href="http://twitter.com/sotomi" target="_blank">Sotomi</a>, @<a href="http://twitter.com/cybereddie" target="_blank">Cybereddie</a>, @<a href="http://twitter.com/Chriiiiis" target="_blank">Chriiiiis</a>, @<a href="http://twitter.com/Botchagalupe" target="_blank">Botchagalupe</a>, @<a href="http://twitter.com/Alexnewbee" target="_blank">Alexnewbee</a>, @<a href="http://twitter.com/Skoroneos" target="_blank">Skoroneos</a>, @<a href="http://twitter.com/Jimeh" target="_blank">Jimeh</a>, @<a href="http://twitter.com/VTripolitakis" target="_blank">Vtripolitakis</a>, @<a href="http://twitter.com/Spdd" target="_blank">Spdd</a> and those I may have missed for taking the time to notify me about it.</p>
<p>In an attempt to minimize the impact, I erased all the Ice Tea tech feed (with posts) from FriendFeed (I don&#8217;t know how to bulk-erase the relevant twits, any ideas?). The sideffect is that, as I am about to recreate the feed in FriendFeed, multiple blog and bookmark posts will appear at once, possibly in Twitter as well. Please forgive me, hopefully it will be the end of this annoyance.<!--:--></p>

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		<title>FriendFeed Optimization Feature Requests</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>As I mention from time to time, I never have enough of a good thing. FriendFeed is more than good, it&#8217;s great. Greatness has a tencency to increase expectations. These are a few optimization suggestions to raise the experience from &#8220;great&#8221; to &#8220;near perfect&#8221; (as new requests will probably always exist):</p>

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<p><!--:--><!--:en-->As I mention from time to time, I never have enough of a good thing. <a href="http://friendfeed.com" target="_blank">FriendFeed</a> is more than good, it&#8217;s great. Greatness has a tencency to increase expectations. These are a few optimization suggestions to raise the experience from &#8220;great&#8221; to &#8220;near perfect&#8221; (as new requests will probably always exist):</p>
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<li>Discussions is a great strength of FriendFeed. Threading keeps all comments together. However, when following an interesting discussion, one needs to scroll all the way up to comment. Please also give us a &#8220;Comment&#8221; option after the last comment.</li>
<li>Lots of people, including myself, have asked for a <a href="http://twitter.com" target="_blank">Twitter</a>-like direct message (the only thing it does FriendFeed does not). An opt-in email-based scheme has been suggested as well. The only reason against direct messaging I can think of is desire to keep all conversations public. If this is the reason, please, go ahead and say so.</li>
<li><a href="http://friendfeed.com/realtime" target="_blank">RealTime</a> is great. However, it does lack some options otherwise available, like &#8220;hide&#8221;. Please unify the experience across all views. This would include a Realtime option for every view as well.</li>
<li>A person&#8217;s badge available everywhere is indeed very handy. It would be nice to also appear on mouse over the person&#8217;s picture and name in the title of a thread and on top of his/her feed. Even more important, subscribing to the author of a comment from his badge in the middle of the thread should not return us to the top of the page, especially with &lt;number of&gt; comments appearing collapsed, driving productivity way down, not to mention frustration.</li>
<li><a href="https://friendfeed.com/rooms/" target="_blank">Rooms</a> are indispensable. However, when posting, we are asked to choose our feed or one single room. This results in the posts not reaching all their potential audience, unless effort is duplicated. Please support multiple destinations for posts.</li>
<li>Many posts are actually links. The same links are often posted from different people at different times. They also result in interesting and informative conversations which end up being held in different parts of FriendFeed. Please merge all posts referring to the same link to the same thread. More posts of the same link can become &#8220;like&#8221;s and comments can all contribute to the same conversation.</li>
<li><a href="http://friendfeed.com/rooms/friendfeed-feedback " target="_blank">FriendFeed Feedback</a> serves, among other things, for feature requests. Chaotic as it is, it is impossible to marshal all these ideas. Please officially use a rating system for feature requests, so people can vote the most important ones in an orderly manner and FriendFeed can respond onte time for each of them.</li>
<li>When I read posts I often catch myself subconsciously filtering by author, instead of by content.Please give us an option for a view that hides or moves the author at the end of posts (maybe in small print).</li>
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<p>Finally, on a personal issue: I tried for a while to rely on RSS to read my FriendFeed feeds. To my surprise, Google Reader does a very poor job on catching these feeds. Consequently, I end up with 40 entries every 3 hours, instead of what should be around that many per minute during peak hours! Is this a Google Reader flaw, a FriendFeed flaw, or a matter of communication between the two systems? Can something be done about it?</p>
<p>My only real complaint with FriendFeed is in requests feedback. And I&#8217;m hopeful they will respond and optimize it and their response. They constantly improve things, so it&#8217;s only a matter of time.<!--:--></p>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ageor</dc:creator>
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<p>During my early days as an IT support person (well before USB flash drives, external hard disks and recordable CDs), I picked up the habit to not be dependent on anything not included in Windows (v. 3.0, at the time) if I could help it. So I got used to working on the setups my [...]]]></description>
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<p><!--:--><!--:en-->During my early days as an IT support person (well before USB flash drives, external hard disks and recordable CDs), I picked up the habit to not be dependent on anything not included in Windows (v. 3.0, at the time) if I could help it. So I got used to working on the setups my clients did.</p>
<p>I rarely support people this way any more. Although old habits die hard, I increasingly get used to my own, optimized setup. I am a Windows person wishing for a Linux future, so, I keep trying to use software also available for it in an effort to prepare for the switch at some point. I also prefer portable applications, ones that can run fully configured from a flash disk. Firefox is my browserfits these specs plus there is a plethora of great, value-adding add-ons to optimize it.</p>
<p>This is the list of the Add-ons I can&#8217;t live without (in alphabetical order):</p>
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<li><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6424" target="_blank">Better GReader</a></li>
<p>As the name implies, Better GReader is a collection of scripts (also available for GreaseMonkey) that improve the Google Reader experience. I use the ones that bypass the GReader-iGoogle choice, color-code the list items, massively mark the items above the current one as read, show the feeds&#8217; favicons and make better use of the window real estate to fit more items in each page. Among other choices, there&#8217;s also the preview item within GReader choice I know people like, but I don&#8217;t use it. Better GReader does not require GreaseMonkey to work.</p>
<li><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201" target="_blank">DownThemAll!</a></li>
<p>&#8220;The mass downloader for Fireox&#8221;. GetRight is better, but it&#8217;s not free. The only item in my wishlish for DownThemAll is ability to change the saved name of the document.</p>
<li><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684" target="_blank">FireFTP</a></li>
<p>Not everyone uses FTP any more. If you do, FireFTP covers all the bascis: local and remote &#8220;explorer&#8221; windows, permissions change, synchronization, initial folders after logon etc.</p>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/FT3/intl/en/" target="_blank">Google Toolbar for Firefox</a></li>
<p>Firefox does support several search engines out of the box and a lot more by customization. The Google Toolbar is very versatile and Google is my search engine of choice. I don&#8217;t use all of its features but those I do use save me a lot of clicks and data entry.</p>
<li><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419" target="_blank">IE Tab</a></li>
<p>IE Tab is still one of the first add-ons I install, as it allows use of Internet Explorer&#8217;s rendering engine within a Firefox Tab. Furthermore it can remember IE-specific sites and kick-in automatically. I would prefer such sites did not exist (and they do tend to become extinct) but if you are a web developer, you need it anyway.</p>
<li><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636" target="_blank">PDF Download</a></li>
<p>Earlier versions of Firefox did not work very well with acrobat documents. I think both Firefox and the acrobat plug-in have now improved but I&#8217;m still used to choosing whether to save or to just view a .pdf up front.</p>
<li><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/668" target="_blank">PlainOldFavorites</a></li>
<p>Windows and IE Favorites are not as compact as Firefox Bookmarks. I don&#8217;t like importing them, though; I prefer using PlainOldFavorites that adds a &#8220;Favorites&#8221; menu entry that works almost exactly like (Internet) Explorer&#8217;s. If only Shift Organize worked the same, it would be perfect! This is a must-have for people whose primary browser is IE.</p>
<li><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5457" target="_blank">Shareaholic</a></li>
<p>If you like to post sites you visit on an extensive list of supported services (including my favorites Delicious, Facebook, FriendFeed, Google Reader, Twitter and many more), this is the tool of choice. Many sites use widgets for that but why not be prepared?</p>
<li><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4287" target="_blank">Split Browser</a></li>
<p>I can live without Split Browser, except when I can&#8217;t. Like on US election day and Obama&#8217;s inauguration, when I had a tab split into 3 or 4 panes to follow several video etc. streams at once. If you need it, you need it.</ol>
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<li><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865" target="_blank">Adblock Plus</a></li>
<p>Due to the debate whether blocking ads is hurting the Internet, I scruple about such add-0ns. Having said that, I asked about the most valuable Firefox add-on in Twitter and FriendFeed and the answer I got was Adblock. I am presenting Adblock Plus, which knows how to block many ads and is easily further configurable. Additionaly, four expansions, <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4042">Adblock Plus Filter Uploader</a>, <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1136">Adblock Filterset.G Updater</a>, <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4364"> Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper</a> and <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7037">Adblock Plus Watcher</a> help share our filters, update them automatically, hide text ads and debug Adblock Plus for even better results.</ul>
<p>There go my most valuable of around 35 Firefox add-ons I use. Which browser do you use and how do you optimize it? Please do share!<!--:--></p>

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		<title>7 Favorite, Value Adding FriendFeed Applications</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ageor</dc:creator>
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<p>I like FriendFeed much better than Twitter; that&#8217;s no secret. In a conversation with @Trianta earlier today, it seems the only FriendFeed desktop clients out there are the Adobe Air-based Twhirl and feedalizr. They both leave a lot to be desired. There is also the announcement of  .NET-based FriendFeed Client. Web-based FriendFeed applications are also [...]]]></description>
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<p>I like <a href="http://friendfeed.com" target="_blank">FriendFeed</a> much better than <a href="http://twitter.com" target="_blank">Twitter</a>; that&#8217;s no secret. In a conversation with <a href="http://twitter.com/trianta" target="_blank">@Trianta</a> earlier today, it seems the only FriendFeed desktop clients out there are the Adobe Air-based <a href="http://www.twhirl.org/" target="_blank">Twhirl</a> and <a href="http://www.feedalizr.com" target="_blank">feedalizr</a>. They both leave a lot to be desired. There is also the announcement of  <span id="ctl00_ctl00_MasterContent_Content_wikiSourceLabel">.NET-based <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/friendfeedclient" target="_blank">FriendFeed Client</a></span>. Web-based FriendFeed applications are also scarce, compared to Twitter&#8217;s.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t a wish list. It&#8217;s a wish come true list, including existing applications that accomplish specific tasks and add great value to FriendFeed. True, there are many more than the following but those are my favorites (in no particular order):</p>
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<li><a href="http://comments.deasil.com/2008/05/29/friendfeed-like-compatibility-calculator/" target="_blank">Friendfeed Like Compatibility Calculator</a></li>
<p>FriendFeed stats only show 10 people who like me and another 10 that I like most. It&#8217;s not enough. Friendfeed Like Compatibility Calculator lists who gave a user the last 300 likes. Utilizing the 3 included modifiers, the list can show people with similar interests. It also shows the subscription status with a small &#8220;sub&#8221; next to each user. No password or passkey is required.<br class="spacer_" /></p>
<li><a href="http://ff.deasil.com/friendzone/" target="_blank">FriendZone?</a></li>
<p>Find out the top 100 subscribed to people among the people you subscribe to. This defines your friendfeed neighborhood, or FriendZone and results to contacts you may want to subscribe to, if not already. No password or passkey is required.</p>
<li><a href="http://ff.deasil.com/friendvenn/" target="_blank">FriendVenn</a></li>
<p>This is one function FriendFeed should perform itself. FriendVenn answers who subscribes to you that you don&#8217;t subscribe to. Only for oneself, as it requires both username and password (not passkey). It returns 3 columns: &#8220;people you are subscribed to&#8221;, &#8220;people who both sub to you and you sub to&#8221; &amp; &#8220;people who only subscribe to you&#8221; with totals for each.</p>
<li><a href="https://twitter2ff.appspot.com/" target="_blank">Twitter2FF </a></li>
<p>Twitter2FF helps sync Twitter follows and FriendFeed subscriptions both ways. It requires usename/password for Twitter and username/passkey for FriendFeed. It then provides a one-page, one-click per user interface to invite or subscribe to Twitter friends in FriendFeed and follow FFd Friends in Twitter. It uses its own expanding database of Twitter-FriendFeed account pairs, as well as the Twitter feeds of people you subscribe to in FFd. Friendfeed recently added its own support to massively <a href="https://friendfeed.com/settings/import/twitter" target="_blank">Find (and subscribe to) your Twitter friends on FriendFeed</a> but Twitter2FF is still useful for the other half of the job.</p>
<li><a href="http://www.frienddeck.com/" target="_blank">FriendDeck </a></li>
<p>FriendDeck runs different concurrent FriendFeed searches live. Each result includes all poster&#8217;s details, the originating service and Like, Re-Share &amp; Link ability.</p>
<li><a href="http://friendfeedlinks.com/" target="_blank">FriendFeedLinks</a></li>
<p>&#8220;FriendFeedLinks is a memetracker that tracks links shared on FriendFeed&#8221;. It also makes them available via RSS.</p>
<li><a href="http://ffholic.com" target="_blank">ffholic</a></li>
<p>ffholic reports (collectively or per user) on the most Discussed, Liked, Commented, Popular or Active Entries, Users, Rooms, Photos, Music or Videos (not all combinations exist) for the last 1, 7 or 30 days. The good thing is Entries, Photos, Music &amp; Videos reports are available in RSS feeds and include a language filter, powered by <a href="http://google.com">Google</a>. Last but not necessarily least, ffholic also presents user metrics and <a href="http://www.ffholic.com/ActivityPoints.aspx" target="_blank">calculates &#8220;activity points&#8221;</a>.</p>
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<p>Find more in <a href="http://ffapps.com/" target="_blank">FriendFeed Apps</a> and, please, let me know of other FriendFeed apps, clients etc. that you find useful. There is also <a href="http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer" target="_blank">Robert Scoble</a>&#8217;s discussion <a href="http://friendfeed.com/e/1e1a5ec7-5d66-427a-a585-b697bd58b084/To-new-friendfeeders-there-are-thousands-due-to/" target="_blank">“To new friendfeeders (there are thousands due to Twitter invites and follows), here&#8217;s what you need to know:”</a> on Friendfeed, with plenty of tips and links.</p>
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		<title>Which Service should a Post go to?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>I have been trying to organize/visualize the way I post, be it blogging, a comment on FriendFeed, an interesting link a came across etc. During the time it took me to complete the flowchart, more services were added as sources or carriers of my posts. As a result, the chart got more complex than originally [...]]]></description>
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<p><!--:--><!--:en-->I have been trying to organize/visualize the way I post, be it blogging, a comment on FriendFeed, an interesting link a came across etc. During the time it took me to complete the flowchart, more services were added as sources or carriers of my posts. As a result, the chart got more complex than originally anticipated. Interestingly enough, there is a pattern and the flowchart works for me most of the time.</p>
<p>Also <a href="http://dipot.com/docs/posting_flowchart.dia" target="_blank">get the Posting Flowchart as built in Dia</a> (hence the crudeness), for your own use. So, there it is:</p>
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<p>Please do comment. Is posting a one-way street for you? Are there any general rules or do you post on a case by case basis?<!--:--></p>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!--:en-->I read about <a onclick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/home/oha/');" href="http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/" target="_blank">Open Handset Alliance</a>&#8217;s <a href="http://www.android.com/" target="_blank">Android</a> platform and cellular phones with great interest. The web is full of specs, reviews, <a href="http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/compare.php" target="_blank">comparison</a>s and the like. I just can&#8217;t help but share the following thoughts:</p>
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<p>I can&#8217;t understand why Android-based HTC G1 and other touch devices are automatically compared to the iPhone. Yes, it is a great looking device. It has a great touch screen. And that&#8217;s where innovation ends and limitations begin.</p>
<p>Great as the iPhone may (or not) be, it&#8217;s not clearly and objectively superior to Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Mobile devices hardware-, software- nor appearance-wise. Plus, Windows (Mobile and its previous incarnations) has been, so far, dominant in the touch arena. So, how come the iPhone (a new comer with plenty of flaws of its own) is the ad hoc point of reference? And how come all Windows Mobile&#8217;s long-standing features (touch screen, great sofware library, multitasking) are rarely mentioned?</p>
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<li>Android, anyone? Sure, on what hardware?</li>
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<p>Maybe I understand a new platform like Android needs to come with new hardware for psychological (marketing) reasons. Now that&#8217;s over and done with, why not introduce Android for old and new hardware? Wasn&#8217;t one of Linux&#8217;s advantages better performance on old PCs? I&#8217;m sure I would love to run Android on my current Windows Mobile Phone but I fear this won&#8217;t happen any day soon, if at all. How about selling the HTC Touch HD (my favorite, in the absence of an Android phone with no hardware keyboard. With a camera flash, please) with a choice between Android and Windows Mobile? Better yet, sell it able to dual-boot both platforms? I would buy it right now. Now this is not so, I just have to wait and I am not happy about it at all.</p>
<p>Consider how nice it would be to compare different platforms&#8217; sales and performance on the same hardware (isn&#8217;t that what Apple avoids at all cost on the PC market?)! How different the HTC G1 is from the Touch HD or any other current model?</p>
<p>It is my prediction that we will see Android and Windows Mobile running on the same hardware not later than 2009. And this will be the start of a new era on the &#8220;choice&#8221; and &#8220;objective comparison&#8221; fronts.<!--:--></p>

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<p>My personal favorites (therefore wishlist) that are not working yet (in alphabetical order): Firebug, FireFTP, Google Browser Sync, Google Toolbar for Firefox, PlainOldFavorites, SEOpen, AddThis.</p>
<p>In all fairness, I am also thankfully mentioning the ones that are already working: BlockSite, DownThemAll, Facebook [...]]]></description>
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<p>My personal favorites (therefore wishlist) that are not working yet (in alphabetical order): Firebug, FireFTP, Google Browser Sync, Google Toolbar for Firefox, PlainOldFavorites, SEOpen, AddThis.</p>
<p>In all fairness, I am also thankfully mentioning the ones that are already working: BlockSite, DownThemAll, Facebook Toolbar, Forecastfox, IE Tab, IE View, iMacros for Firefox, MySocial 24&#215;7 Bar, PDF Download, Shareholic, Web Developer.<!--:--></p>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!--:en-->There is an indirect update to my December 16, 2007 &#8220;<a href="http://blog.dipot.com/index.php/ice-tea-tech-blog/4-web-browser-standards-opera-software-vs-microsoft.html" target="_blank">Web browser standards: Opera Software vs Microsoft</a>&#8221; post in the &#8220;<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/12/19/internet-explorer-8-and-acid2-a-milestone.aspx" target="_blank">Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone</a>&#8221; <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/default.aspx" target="_blank">IEBlog</a> post. The way I see it, Microsoft effectively confirms allegations about not complying with standards (by, at least, not seriously updating IE6 in over 5 years and creating lots of problems with IE7) promising it will do so with IE8:</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230; <em>IE8 now renders the &#8220;Acid2 Face&#8221; correctly in IE8 standards mode.</em> &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230; <em>With respect to standards and interoperability, our goal in developing Internet Explorer 8 is to support the right set of standards with excellent implementations and do so without breaking the existing web. This second goal refers to the lessons we learned during IE 7. IE7&#8217;s CSS improvements made IE more compliant with some standards and less compatible with some sites on the web as they were coded. Many sites and developers have done special work to work well with IE6, mostly as a result of the evolution of the web and standards since 2001 and the level of support in the various versions of IE that pre-date many standards. We have a responsibility to respect the work that sites have already done to work with IE. We must deliver improved standards support and backwards compatibility so that IE8 (1) continues to work with the billions of pages on the web today that already work in IE6 and IE7 and (2) makes the development of the next billion pages, in an interoperable way, much easier.</em> &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>If you wonder who made the &#8220;existing web&#8221; prone to &#8220;breaking&#8221;, I don&#8217;t. In my mind, it was Microsoft. When IE was dominant, it never completely adhered to standards, while extending HTML in all sorts of ways. When standards emerged or caught up, was IE updated accordingly? No.</p>
<p>Is Microsoft finally entering a standards compliance era? How, by adding a &#8220;Standards mode&#8221; in IE8? I still have my doubts and for good reason. You see, past experience says otherwise.</p>
<p>Web developers, Microsoft hasn&#8217;t and won&#8217;t ever do it for you. If you are interested in every computer owner being able to fully utilize your sites, please do us all a favor and comply to universal, not Microsoft standards. Windows percentage in the PC market is still very large but dropping. Make them build a decent browser; or not, who cares? Firefox, Opera etc. are excellent, compliant and multiplatform browsers. Don&#8217;t build the Internet depended on ActiveX and anything else non-standard enough so only IE (therefore only Windows) users can view.<br />
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		<dc:creator>ageor</dc:creator>
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<p>I have always wondered why any web developer would block all Linux &#38; Mac OS users out of their sites and frustrate a good portion of Windows users, those who prefer Firefox. On top of that, some [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!--:en-->Don&#8217;t you just hate it when a web page won&#8217;t show correctly in Firefox or any non-Internet Explorer browser?</p>
<p>I have always wondered why any web developer would block all Linux &amp; Mac OS users out of their sites and frustrate a good portion of Windows users, those who prefer Firefox. On top of that, some sites don&#8217;t even look the same in IE6 &amp; IE7 due to incompatibilities of their own, which recently forced Microsoft to decide to make IE7 available to illegal Windows owners as well!</p>
<p>Over time, it is a well-known fact that Microsoft won&#8217;t respect standards very much. Java has been a good example and HTML compliance is no different. So, what&#8217;s new about any of that? This extract from the Friday, December 14, 2007 8:00 AM PST Paul Meller and James Niccolai&#8217;s PC World article &#8220;<a title="Opera Seeks Tougher Remedy in Microsoft Case" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140573-c,internetexplorer/article.html">Opera Seeks Tougher Remedy in Microsoft Case</a>&#8220;, describing the &#8220;&#8230; <em>antitrust suit filed with the Commission this week</em> &#8230;&#8221; by browser maker Opera Software, which I find especially interesting and long overdue:</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230; <em>In addition to the bundling charge, Opera also complains that Microsoft does not follow Web standards, putting rival browsers at a disadvantage. The issue is significant because if all Web browsers do not use the same standards, Web site developers are likely to design their Web sites to work with the most widely used browser, which is Internet Explorer. That gives people a disincentive to use other browsers.</em></p>
<p><em>Microsoft often takes part in debates over Web standards, and says it will implement them, but ultimately does not, Opera&#8217;s Lie said. He pointed to CSS, XHTML and DOM as areas where Microsoft does not comply with or is inconsistent.</em> &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>I will follow up on this with great interest. I would prefer users and the industry to force Microsoft (and web developers) to comply by (prefferably open) standards (the cornerstone of the Internet), but a court might as well do it&#8230;<br />
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