Category: Tech
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Structured blogging
PubSub have published Structured Blogging a website about a new way of marking up reviews of things in a similar-ish way that RSS marks up news. It also displays reviews in a different way to normal posts. Structured Blogging will hopefully allow all sorts of network effects across the “blogosphere”. I can imagine a Technorati like site, spidering blogs and collating reviews…
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Google speed-up
Google have just announced a prefetching feature found in mozilla based browsers such as firefox or camino. Basically if you’re using a mozilla based browser then google will start downloading the first search result in the background while you’re on the results page. This should give a little speed boost, this would be a useful feature to add to other websites as…
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After experimenting with drupal I decided to switch back to WordPress as I feel it is better for blog usage. However when I opened my drupal database backup it was corrupted, so I lost the last two weeks of posts, a couple of comments and a user (apologies Nick). I’m left feeling quite dumb. UPDATE: I’ve since managed to…
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Google News
Google have recently revamped their news service. It now features a “customisability” mode which lets you rearrange the order of the news categories and the number of items that appear in each category. They do this by dragging and dropping news category names around a little faux page, once you save your changes they reload the pieces…
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Google Desktop Search
Google Desktop Search (or GDS as it’s becoming known) has just been fully released. I reviewed the beta a while ago. The new version is much the same to most people, with the most notable addition being the ability to search more kinds of files. However google have included APIs for developers to create plug-ins for different filetypes…
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Site update
I’ve upgraded wordpress the software that powers my website to the latest version – 1.5 (Strayhorn). The only differences that you should notice is that you will be required to wait till I validate your first post before it will display, once that’s validated any future posts will be instantly displayed. That and the pretty new theme you’re…
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Ubuntu
I’ve installed the Ubuntu “Warty” release and played around with it for a couple of days, configuring and exploring it. I quite like it, it has a nice, ungimmicky default theme, has firefox as the default browser and uses the very nice gnome 2.8. It seemed really easy to use, kind of ‘clean’ and well,…
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Google video
Google have just added video search to their lineup. It’s currently only a beta version and only indexes content from a handful of tv stations (including fox news :/). It works by searching the subtitles for your search term. Once you click on a result you can see screenshots of that program, and the subtitling…
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Ubuntu Linux
I’ve decided to give Ubuntu Linux a try, seeing as I’ve not ran a linux distro properly in a few months. The cd I downloaded was corrupted so I thought, that with the aid of Knoppix and chroot I’d do an install over the internet. I’ve got problems running depmod however and so my system…
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Cheap meat
I’ve just checked my mail after a couple of days away from the computer and was greeted by over one hundred new blog comments notifications and around four hundred ‘please check this comment’ messages. All of it spam. This resulted in something like 20 times my usual page hit count and a lot of time…
Dean Sas 