by R.I. Pienaar | Nov 18, 2004 | Usefull Things
Something that always annoys me is the lack of spell checking in the whole browser based app world. I have often wanted to spell check input fields in the browser but couldn’t and ended up relying on 3rd party tools to do things like blog posts because they have spell checkers.
No more, I noticed via Geek News Central a link to a nice post by Matthew Bishoff that mentions Spell Bound. It is simple to use, just right click on a input box and choose check spelling and it does the rest. More than 30 language files are available.
by R.I. Pienaar | Nov 17, 2004 | Usefull Things
Everyone knows FF 1.0 is release but I have been holding off upgrading all my machines since the excellent Tabbrowser Extensions had some issues. Even though you set it to open links from external apps in new tabs it would just ignore that setting. This was a total show stopper for me, I read my RSS feeds by opening new tabs in the background for whatever I am interested in and going back to read them all once I am done in the aggregator.
They have now fixed this (on the 13th already) so finally I can upgrade everywhere.
by R.I. Pienaar | Nov 11, 2004 | Uncategorized
Somehow, more than any other online service, Feedster really annoys me. For the last few days I noticed some 404 error on their feed of the day feed. I really should have unsubscribed from it when I said I would, but then they fixed it.
So this is what happens, they seem to be returning error codes based on user agent:
Connected to feedster.com.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
GET /search.php?q=f-botd&limit=15&type=rss HTTP/1.1
Host: feedster.com
User-Agent: NewzCrawler/1.7 (compatible; MSIE 6.00; Newz Crawler 1.7; http://www.newzcrawler.com/ )
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
compare that 404 error with this:
Connected to feedster.com.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
GET /search.php?q=f-botd&limit=15&type=rss HTTP/1.1
Host: feedster.com
User-Agent: test
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
wtf? One less feed to worry about.
by R.I. Pienaar | Nov 6, 2004 | Photography
I tried to go see some fireworks last night but they started a bit early to get to on time so tonight there were some more and this time very conveniently close to my house. The organizers claimed it was the biggest free fireworks display in England and I can easily believe that.
It went on for a whole 18 minutes and was absolutely spectacular. They expected 30 000 to 40 000 people would show up, I am sure there were more.
Some photos that I took can be seen here.
by R.I. Pienaar | Nov 2, 2004 | Usefull Things
I previously mentioned I am enabling highlighting of search terms on some of my pages, the solution I used there was Google specific. Dave Lemen left a comment on that entry about a javascript he wrote but this one supports multiple search engines and not just Google.
His code can be found here and it is rather nifty. It provides a little legend on top of the page showing what is going on and allowing the user to turn the highlighting on and off on the fly.
