December 2004 - Posts

RSS Bandit

I'm a big user of SharpReader for reading blogs, I thought perhaps it's time to have a look at one of the others to see what they now offer.

I looked at RSSBandit about 6 months ago and wasn't convinced it gave me anything that SharpReader didn't. Then, over the last few days I read Steve's entry about the latest version, so I thought that today was as good a day as any, so I downloaded the latest preview release. After installing it I couldn't get the proxy stuff to work (also found that it didn't seem to remember the proxy settings I had entered in between starts), so uninstalled it and went to the previous version.

So, at the moment I have version 1.2.0.117 and it seems ok so far. Have got the proxy stuff working on this one, so must have been broken in the latest version (or it's me!). So will give it a few weeks of use before I go straight back to SharpReader.

One thing that struck me was a utility to convert the SharpReader cache rss files into RSSBandit cache files would be useful as I use the filtering on SharpReader quite a lot as I have about 41000 entries at the moment and there a lot of very useful information in there that's a shame to lose just because of a change of aggregator.

If anyone knows of such a tool, let me know please.

Cheers.

posted Tuesday, December 28, 2004 10:16 AM by vexem

Gmail Invites?

My previous post offering GMail invites seems to have turned into a bit of a forum of it's own. In the comments there are numerous people offering invites if anyone wants one.

Mine are all gone, so please don't mail me.

Cheers.

posted Wednesday, December 22, 2004 10:56 AM by vexem

Dot Net Rocks

Listened to DotNetRocks for the first time today. It was the one with Julie Lerman and was quite amusing. Her big secret was quite surprising.

Definitely worth a listen to.

[Listening to: Virgin Radio: today's best music and classic tracks - Virgin Radio 1215AM 105.8FM - (00:00)]

posted Wednesday, December 22, 2004 10:50 AM by vexem

w.Bloggar Settings...

I'm never going to remember where I found the settings for w.Bloggar to allow posting to DotNetJunkies blogs, so thought I would keep a post of them. So, ignore unless you have also been trying to get it to work.

Host : www.dotnetkunkies.com
Page : /weblog/yourblogname/services/metablogapi.aspx
Posts : metaWeblog API
Categories : metaWeblog API - Multi

[Listening to: TheCodeRoom_MSDNTV_300k - - (29:45)]
posted Saturday, December 18, 2004 4:16 PM by vexem

IanG - What power he has!

Ian moaned, Microsoft listened, it got fixed.  Satisfying day at the office today then Ian?

 

posted Thursday, December 16, 2004 6:40 PM by vexem

GMail Invites?

Seems that some people are still after GMail invites.

First 6 to leave a comment will get one.  Don't forget to leave your email address.

**Update** - 3 left now.

**Update** - 2 left now.

**Update** - 1 left now.

Sorry, all gone now plus comments closed.

posted Wednesday, December 15, 2004 8:36 AM by vexem