Via Geek News Central comes a link to a great list of sites that offers free Royalty Free Images.
These are images that you can use in your own projects, commercial or not, without paying for them.
Where To Find Great Free Photographs And Visuals For Your Own Online Articles
I use the excellent OpenVPN for my VPN needs. Since version 2 it supports printing a nice status file of currently connected clients but unfortunately it is a bit ugly.
I wrote a simple php library that can parse this file and returns a associative array of logged in users, you can then easily display it using Smarty or whatever you use for templating.
You can download version 1.0 here you can also check out the README and a Sample that I did using Smarty.
In my previous post about 5 minutes ago I slagged off feedster.com and I wondered now if it is a Firefox thing or a Feedster thing.
So I tried a few searches with Safari, it worked better actually, nice and quick even with obscure terms which I thought wouldn’t be cached, but after a while this happened.
I have in the past been pretty hard on Feedster and I don’t like just beating someone down if I know they are really trying hard. So every now and then I give them another go because I think the service they provide will be a useful one and because the major search engines doesn’t seem to be jumping on the feed search bandwagon.
So today I thought I’d give them a go, I did 4 things:
1) Added a search into NetNewsWire, this just gave me no results, but I can’t be sure this isn’t the fault of NetNewsWire so no problem there.
2) I went to the actual page and searched for ‘pienaar’ halfway through rendering the page I got an error from Mozilla.
3) I searched for ‘pienaar’ again, it worked a charm.
4) After some time I searched for ‘apple’ and again, halfway through I got an error. Screenshot below.
Is this a problem with Firefox on the Apple? I am not sure, but I do recall getting this error before on my Windows machine too.
As before I am posting here when I unsubscribe from feeds. I do not bother mentioning ones that just stop updating etc, thats just the normal life cycle, some annoy me though and force me to unsubscribe.
As I mentioned before I understand why people put ads into RSS feeds, and I do not mind them in full text feeds. A very good example of good ads would be those found in the feeds from boingboing.
Now to todays offenders, the fine people from Security Focus have started putting ads into their feeds, their feeds contain like a 1 or 2 line summary of the article and does not even usually contain a very usable clickable link to the full story. Now though as if that isn’t stupid enough they also include a text ad that by my rough estimate is about 5 times as big as the actual readable text in the feed. Get Real people, would you watch TV if the advertisements lasted for 45 minutes and the program for 15?
I hope you lot get a clue soon, but I don’t think I’ll be rushing to subscribe to any of your feeds again soon.
