October 2009
2 posts
Failed experiment - Finding things to do via RSS
I recently decided I was going to try and grab lots of feeds from local sources like libraries, city-hosted event calendars and the like and see if I could come up with a good radar on family friendly things to do. I’d much rather be out and about on the weekend with my family than watching TV or surfing the net (No, really, I mean it.).
After a few weeks of watching feeds from:
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Send To bit.ly or TinyURL from FeedDemon
You: “Really? Another FeedDemon tip? Is that all you do?”
Me: “Um, yeah.”
This isn’t a power tip per se, just a click saving trick to make it easier to send a post’s URL to bit.ly or TinyURL for tweeting or the like.
Fire up Notepad, or your favorite text editor, and paste in the following:
<?xml version=”1.0”...
September 2009
1 post
Feeling awfully glad that I mothballed my WP blog.
Update - that said, don’t know how useful the Tumblr Mac Widget is… It makes posting to Tumblr like tweeting, but with more words fewer followers. May just have to pull the trigger on that MarsEdit upgrade.
August 2009
1 post
Great article on HandBrake configuration
Great article on the mystical settings of HandBrake. Some of that stuff actually makes sense now!
Beyond HandBrake’s defaults - Christopher Breen - Macworld.com
July 2009
1 post
Hello, again
Remember me? I’m the guy that used to post things at blog.crankygeek.com. I can’t believe I haven’t posted anything for a year.
I’ve been playing around with the idea of outsourcing my blog. Well, the engine at least. I’m moving things over to Tumblr. I’ll eventually set up a custom domain name for it back at casa de crankygeek, but for now, you can see me at...