John Udell has written a program (no code published yet) for collaborative filtering with del.icio.us. His program first finds people that he has many links in common with, and then reads in all their links into one file. Then it looks in that file to see which links are popular and serves those up. It […]
I have been quite excited about all the buzz in the blogosphere about Web2.0 and I have spent several hours reading opinions about the future of the Internet. While there is a lot of hype, (and hope and excitement) one thing is certain : the web is evolving as a platform. It is […]
I wrote a little shell script to export Safari’s RSS feeds as an OPML file. This enabled me to import my list of feeds into other News Aggregators.
Update: I have also created an Automator Applicaton, so that the opml file can be created by just doubling clicking.
Usage
Click here to download the Automator Application - […]
RSS has changed my web surfing habits. However, now that I am trying to manage 30+ RSS feeds, I have been getting cranky with Safari’s RSS reader. It frequently resets every few days and marks all the posts as unread. I guess this is to make up for the fact that there is no way […]
I wrote a wordpress plugin to help me link to things more effectively while writing a wordpress post in the browser. For example when I wrote the previous sentence, I selected the word wordpress and clicked the “Lucky” quicktag. The plugin automatically searches google for wordpress, (using AJAX sans XML) grabs the first link http://www.wordpress.org […]
Nat Gertler figured out how to abuse Amazon.com’s image server and get it to send back strange images. He has a cool gallery set up and a guide on how to hack the image server. The image you see above has been loaded from
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006ZATKU.01._PIdp- schmoo2,BottomRight,-190,-190_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
I got the amazon server to create this risqué […]
I have decided to post URLs that I find interesting at http://del.icio.us/sameerd.
If you use Firefox to navigate to the link above, then you should be able to see this icon on the bottom right corner of the browser. (It will probably be different if you do not use the default theme.) If you […]
I have two new ways of wasting my time.
http://www.technorati.com/tag/mathematics
This searches the blogosphere for articles that have a mathematics tag.
http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/math - RSS feed
This searches del.icio.us for social bookmarks that have a math tag.
Of course you can replace mathematics with any other topic you want to browse. Interesting things come up.
Desktop Weather Widget 0.1 shows Apple’s Weather widget on the desktop instead of hiding it on the Dashboard Layer.
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It uses an unsupported API to make a “transparent webview”. The cool thing is that it works on Panther (10.3.9) as well as in Tiger. An experienced developer might easily be able […]
I have been dying to get my Dashboard widgets flush with with the desktop like I used to be able to do with Konfabulator. So I decided to write my first cocoa app. Thanks to this hint from Gus Meuller, the Objective C tutorial from Apple and help from Skiadas : This is the result. […]