Well, it wasn’t working last night, but it tells me it has worked today.
Facebook, finding new ways to make its walled garden more appealing, rather than breaking down those walls, has allowed people to import syndicated feeds into their notes (that is, import their blogs).
I decided to use the feed on my livejournal blog rather than yamahito.net - the difference being that each post cross-posted to the livejournal blog includes a link back here in the article itself. I might change my mind on that one, though: livejournal only seems to put chronologically recent blog posts on its RSS feed, so there’s none of my past posts. Maybe y’all should be grateful. Read the rest of this entry »
It was only a few days ago that I was bemoaning facebook’s closed off attitude: no syndication was my biggest gripe. So now there’s some good news (and some bad:)
They’ve added some RSS, but it’s still not enough. Don’t get me wrong: I applaude the improvement. So far I’ve found RSS feeds for my friends’ status updates and my notifications. That’s great: it means I can switch off email notifications, which have been cluttering my inbox.
I’d really like to be able to syndicate my mini-feed and my news feed. I mean, they’re even called feeds, facebook: come on, finish the job
Particularly for those of us running parallels across multiple monitors, here is a method of creating a floating Windows SystemTray using Geoshell:
For those of you not running parallels across multiple monitors and who are wondering what the problem is, parallels doesn’t reallly ‘do’ multiple monitors properly. It just resized the windows desktop across all monitors. I’m using parallels 2.5ish, but they still haven’t implemented proper multi-monitor support in 3.0 - it does make me wonder how well they’ll cope with Spaces when 10.5 is finally released. Anyway, it means that the Task bar is spread across both monitors which is a) ugly as sin and b) a right pain, hiding the system tray if, like me, your monitors are on different horizontal baselines.
I’m assuming you can edit the registry. If you don’t know how to do that, I wouldn’t recommend any of this. I am not responsible for you screwing up your computer. Read the rest of this entry »
No, I’m not talking about going linux or BSD. I’m talking about the latest version of Parallels.
Yes, I know everyone is getting sick of me talking about my imminent move over to Mac OS X. But I think people may not realise how blurry the lines between my two primary OS have become. Check out this video; the last sentence is why I’m ‘making the change’:
I’ve been talking for about nine months about moving to apple as my main desktop OS. It’s also the main direction my career seems to be moving towards. A lot of people tend to think this means that I’m pro-apple and anti-microsoft. Funny, because most of my mac-cy friends have always thought I was pro-microsoft and anti-apple.
The truth is, both companies are doing things wrong. Scoble’s post talks about microsoft’s oversights, but apple surely has some, too. They’re wrong about their attitude to security updates, as SilentBob will tell you. I also think that in the past they’ve been less than adequately open with prospective developers - that almost put them under in the past, and it looks like they’re doing the same thing with the iPhone.
At the end of the day I’m choosing mac because it offers me the most flexibility. I can open a bash terminal on a mac. Applescript, to be frank, has been a revelation to me. These days, I can even change hard drives or add OEM memory/graphics cards. But the deal clincher? Parallels. I can run windows on a mac, but not vice versa.
I’ll be ordering my mac pro in the next two weeks.
