Putting Yahoo Pipes to work
You know how Excel is mostly really good but weirdly weak in a few areas? Here's a fix for one issue: String concatenation. And while we're on the subject of data manipulation, let's take a look at a remarkable Web service, Yahoo Pipes
Chill Pill brings RSS Fever to your desktop
Today's RSS-client market is dominated by NetNewsWire and Google Reader, in no small part because both are good and free. But folks on the lookout for a different--better, some say--experience have been checking out Fever, a self-hosted, Web-based reader with a flexible interface and a fresh approach to slicing through the Internet's thick jungle of news.
Building an RSS podcast feed, Part 1
So, you want to set up an RSS feed for a podcast? Ah, young grasshopper, there is much data to munge and so little code to munge it with … at least code that you can live with.
iPhone RSS readers
What makes the difference between a run-of-the-mill RSS reader and an extraordinary one? Having spent a fair amount of time using several RSS apps for the iPhone and iPod touch, I've come around to the view that it's the little things.
iPhone to Verizon -- or, how rumors get started
Apologies if that headline makes you think that the iPhone is coming to Verizon. It may, in fact, be coming to Verizon, but you know, probably not.
Esther Schindler
If the comments are ugly, the code is ugly
claird
SVG a graphics format for 21st century
pasmith
Take Chrome OS for a test spin
Sandra Henry-Stocker
Solaris Tip: Have Your Files Changed Since Installation?
jfruh
Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith
mikelgan
What Gizmodo missed about the Pro WX Wireless USB disk drive
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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iPhone to Verizon -- or, how rumors get started
iPhone RSS readers
Building an RSS podcast feed, Part 1
Chill Pill brings RSS Fever to your desktop
Putting Yahoo Pipes to work
Programmer uncovers Safari RSS vulnerability