Friday, October 31, 2003

Feedster. If you haven't already done so, go and take a look at feedster.com. Think of it as Google for RSS feeds. The status page lists the total number of feeds and items indexed. My favourite feature is the ability to return the results of any search as an RSS feed. So the results of this search for "Lotus Workplace" are also in this RSS feed. The search or RSS results can be returned by relevance, date or blogrank. As well as setting preferences for result order, you can specify your personal and favourite feeds (as OPML) and then either include or exclude those entries from the search. So I can use feedster to create a private search of only those blogs on my list, or search only those feeds I don't read. [justinknol.net - a stack of useful stuff] 2:54:37 PM

Unofficial Cocoa-dev FAQ. Alastair Houghton created a FAQ which answers questions on learning Cocoa and developing Cocoa apps. [ranchero.com] 2:37:16 PM

A Shutterbug's Guide to Meting Out the Megapixels. How many megapixels is enough? What picture format is best for your needs? A look at some of the fundamentals and trade-offs in digital photography. By Ivan Berger. [New York Times: Technology] 2:27:24 PM

The inter-personal information manager (iPim). With 40% of the online population now having always-on, broadband connections, new types of tools are needed for consumers to better manage the online information that flows through such connections. This blog discusses the attributes of one such tool, which I call an inter-personal information manager, or iPim for short. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs] 2:09:46 PM