Apparently I am rapidly becoming ‘Geo Guy’. I seem to be adding Geo / Gps support and plug-ins to everything I use… I just finished adding ‘Insert GPS Link’ support to PockeTwit (a great little Windows Mobile twitter client – really, go and get a copy now…) Previously I added GeoRSS support to dasBlog for [...]
Archive for the ‘RSS’ Category
Listen Live
July 21st, 2008
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Too much effort reading my ramblings ? Want to listen instead ? Now you can !! Courtesy of the excellent odiogo, the excellent text to speech service. This is a free service that bloggers can use, it takes your RSS feed, splits it out to each separate post and then creates a MP3 for the [...]
Insert Geo Microformat Plugin for Windows Live Writer
September 15th, 2007
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I have just completed a new Windows Live Writer plugin. This extension allows ease insertion of geo microformat information. It allows the user to easily choose the location they want to insert (in microformat) from a Virtual Earth map and also configure how it is displayed (if at all on the post. Recently I (with [...]
GeoRss for dasBlog
September 8th, 2007
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I have completed stage one of GeoRss enabling dasBlog. In the config page I added some options for enabling GeoRss, specifying a default lat/long and enabling ‘integration’ with Google maps. There is also an option to use the default lat/long for any non geocoded posts. If GeoRss is enabled then the edit entry screen [...]
Word 2007 Blogging Fix 2
April 17th, 2007
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One of the developers on the dasBlog team (Nick) looked at this and found that there was a fairly easy fix we could do to dasBlog that would get around the Word 2007 issue. The metaWeblog API states that the blogid parameter is ‘the same as defined by the blogger API’The blogger API defines it [...]
Word Blogging Fix
March 26th, 2007
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On 13 December 2006 I wrote this post demonstrating why Blogging from Word 2007 to Dasblog (and other blogs that correctly implemented newMediaObject) was broken. Recently I noticed a number of my referrals come from www.codesecurely.com (by Rudolph Araujo). Rudolph goes one step further than I did with the Word blogging problem and actually outlines a FiddlerScript that [...]
Outlook RSS and downloading podcasts
February 21st, 2007
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Today, I wanted to configure an Outlook 2007 rule to process RSS items as they are received. By process I mean I wanted to check for attachments/enclosures, if it had any MP3s attached/enclosed then save them to a folder on my desktop (that way I simply sync my Creative Zen Vision: M with the desktop [...]
Outlook RSS and why I deleted TechNet Radio
February 19th, 2007
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I have been using the new RSS feed feature in Outlook 2007 for some time now and absolutely love it – I’m in Outlook ALL day, it’s the centre of my communication universe and having it collate my RSS feeds just makes sense. I’m a regular listener to a few podcasts : Hanselminutes Dot Net [...]
Blogging from Word 2007
December 4th, 2006
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Windows Live Writer is currently being a real pain for me. I have my ‘My Documents’ redirected to a network drive in our UK office (where I usually work), but I am currently in our Westboro, MA office so my ‘My Documents’ is now effectively on the end of an interoffice VPN. This seems to [...]
RSS Support in Outlook 2007
December 4th, 2006
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I am/was a big fan of RSS Popper - when using Outlook 2003 it allowed me to pull blog posts into a selected folder in my mailbox (I used cached mode, so it was also available offline). It is currently at version 0.36 and has support for downloading enclosures (great for grabbing podcasts) and a neat [...]
