Archive for the ‘monkeychow’ Category

Nominate MonkeyChow at Sourceforge!

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

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Favorite iPhone apps revisited

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

Back in August 2008, a mere month after the iPhone was released, I published my list of apps that I used.  I had quite a list back then and still have the personal rule that I won't have more than 4 pages of apps since it's too hard to find ...

Re: Will Twitter Replace RSS

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

This post is in reply to the article Will Twitter Replace RSS. I use Twitter to watch human feeds, because you cannot follow too many people before being able to lose track of what is going on.  I believe the maximum number of personal connections someone can really truly follow is ...

MonkeyChow now with Wordpress support

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

I've just now added support to MonkeyChow to post to a Wordpress blog.  In fact, knowing that some people maintain multiople Wordpress blogs, you have the choice of up to three at this time.  In prefs, you will need to enter the URL of your site, and a nickname for ...

MonkeyChow with Twitter support

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

The MonkeyChow RSS reader now has built-in Twitter support.  You can click the Twitter icon for an article and it will automatically post the link and title to your Twitter account.  In order to see the Twitter icon for articles, you will have to enter your Twitter email and password ...

5 Things I Love About Twitter

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

[Continued from 5 Things I Hate About Twitter] Keeps you consise Twitter limits you to 140 characters, like the old 8-bit SMS communications.  We tend to get very wordy and I've found that I can write the same post in fewer characters than I could have if I didn't have those limits.  ...

MonkeyChow RSS Reader updated for iPhone 3G

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Having grabbed an iPhone 3G on Friday, I spent some time over the past few days making tweaks and changes to what was already done to support the previous model iPhone. Below are the results. As you can see, the iPhone 2.0 firmware now seems to support the ...

MonkeyChow now with iPhone support

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Just added a bunch of code which has been uploaded to svn and rolled up in the latest tarball to add support for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This is the beginning of the use of different style sheets which will lead to preferences for different styles for your ...

Getting in Touch with your Tunes

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

It was almost two years to the day that I purchased my 4GB iPod Nano and just a couple of days after post this. At the time it seemed like a lot of space, but I really filled it up pretty quickly. Apple advertises 1000 songs on ...

The MonkeyChow Reblog Publishing Platform

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

A recent query from a MonkeyChow user about reblogging got me to rethinking about how it is currently implemented in MonkeyChow. This is not the first time someone has asked me about automatically feeding a blog system like Wordpress with the reblog/recycle feed from MonkeyChow (rss.php). I had ...