Archive for the ‘rss’ Category

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MonkeyChow Moves?

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

I recently tried to add some new content to MonkeyChow at SourceForge's SVN repo. Looks like they moved and renamed the repo so that even this #svn sw https://monkeychow.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/monkeychow does not work: svn: 'https://monkeychow.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/monkeychow' is not the same repository as 'https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/monkeychow' So, to get further SVN updates, you will need check out a new copy ...

Feed icons in MonkeyChow version 0.5.5

Friday, May 11th, 2007

In an effort to provide MonkeyChow with a little more color, I've decided to add favicons from the various feeds you browse into the view. As you can see, the individual feeds in the left get the icon as well as the individual items. This replaces the bland RSS icon ...

RSSSaver

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

This neat screen saver can stream your favorite RSS feed to your screen. However, I strictly recommend that you only point it at a feed that are devoid of NSFW articles or you may be in for a shock when you come back from lunch.

RSS in plain english

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Know someone who could use an introduction to RSS? This whiteboard and paper presentation by Common Craft is actually well produced and touches all the basic points in an easy to understand fashion. http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english Click To Play There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don't. ...