MacMegasite has a new sponsor, Mac Poker. I’m not too thrilled about it, but their site isn’t objectionable and they paid in advance. Thanks to their payment, I increased the memory & cpu allocation for my virtual private server, which should make all of my hosted sites faster.
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Enhancements for iPhone FriendFeed app
I just added a few small enhancements to my FriendFeed iPhone app. It now shows only 10 items per page and lets you view more items a page at a time. It also now remembers the login cookie for 30 days or until you log out.
More enhancements for iPhone FriendFeed app
I’ve added some major enhancements to my FriendFeed web app (http://iphone-apps.net/ff). You can now add comments or like an item.
Clicking the ‘>’ at the bottom of an entry opens the comment form. Clicking the ‘+’ at the top of an entry marks that you like it. If you already like an entry, it will show ‘-‘ instead and you can click it to unmark it.
New features added to FriendFeed app for iPhone
I’ve added a few enhancements to my FriendFeed App for iPhone. It now makes links clickable and shows comments.
FriendFeed Web App for iPhone
I’ve been getting really annoyed with FriendFeed on the iPhone, so I decided to whip up a quick web app. You can see the result at http://iphone-apps.net/ff. It only has minimal functionality – you can log in and view your friends, your items, or the public timeline.
Photos in my RSS feed
Since I’m using FeedBurner for this blog’s feed, I’ve activated Photo Splicer, so my latest photos on Flickr will now appear in my feed.
FriendFeed API
I’ve been playing with the FriendFeed API in Objective C, although I don’t have anything ready for public consumption yet.
Since the fetch methods basically work like RSS feeds, they can be handled easily using PubSub. Most of the code I had to write was to decode the entries returned into something more useful. The methods which require authentication turned out to be no big deal; it can be handled using PSFeed’s login property and the setPassword: method. My next step will be to tackle the publish methods, which can be handled using NSURLConnection.
To make time to work on this, I haven’t been reading my RSS feeds regularly (or checking Twitter). Setting NetNewsWire to manual refresh only is a huge productivity booster. I also haven’t been blogging regularly, as my readers probably noticed.
Evernote Invitations
I still have All of my invites are gone.I have 2 one Evernote invitation available for any of my readers who want one. Just leave a comment here.
Stolen Content
Checking my Akismet queue, I found several trackbacks from spam blogs scraping and reposting my content. They all seem to be using the same template, usually starting with “(some blog name) wrote an interesting post today…”, always giving it some random name linked to my blog.
I don’t mind my feed being included in an aggregator, but this is pure content theft.