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- Google Israel - Now Availbale in ArabicMarch 2
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Just noticed this: Google Israel (google.co.il) is now localized into Arabic, as well as Hebrew.
- “Share on Friendfeed” Plugin for RSS BanditJanuary 25
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Personally I prefer using RSS readers which come in the form of client applications rather than online services. My favorite for many years was Omea Reader but unfortunately ever since JetBrains stopped working on it and made it open source, the product development is simply stuck. Combined with a few annoying bugs, I am gradually pushed towards looking for a replacement.
I haven’t settled on anything yet but lately I decided to give RSS Bandit another try. So, while working with it I thought it would be nice to add a “Share on Friendfeed” functionality. RSS Bandit supports the IBlogExtension plugin interface, and following Dare Obasanjo’s del.icio.us sample made it very easy to develop a Friendfeed plugin.
The IBlogExtension framework is supported by other RSS aggregators so this plugin may work with other applications but I only tested it with RSS Bandit. Let me know if you successfully use it with other apps.
Download and Installation
Share on Friendfeed Plugin (12Kb)
1. Download and unzip the plugin to RSS Bandit’s plugins
- Is that a late Syrian president in your doodle?December 24 2008
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Couldn’t resist this one. The guy in this year’s Google holiday doodle really reminds me of Hafez Al-Assad, the late Syrian president.
See for yourself:
- FriendFeed Images on Amazon S3 - Potential ExploitsSeptember 30 2008
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It’s been a while, I know. Been busy, still alive, thanks for asking.
Here’s a little test I performed. About two months ago I deleted an entry which had an image attached to it. I noted the URL of the uploaded image (the location where FF stored it on Amazon S3 storage service).
I checked this URL a few hours later, the next day, next week and so on, assuming there’s some sort of garbage collection process that would delete this resource, but the image is still there at the time of writing. I have repeated this test more than once.
This raises a few concerns:
- Potential exploit #1 - someone who wants to save on their site’s bandwidth costs can store images on FF at no cost.
- Potential exploit #2 - storing files on Amazon S3 costs FF money (currently $0.15 a month per 1GB), so if someone wants to increase FF’s monthly bill they can just dump a lot of large photos there. Not to mention bandwidth costs (think Digg homepage kind of traffic).
- An entry you delete might not really be deleted - if FF doesn’t bother deleting these binary resources, one may assume the text is kept as well, which is a bit of a problem if you shared something by mistake and wouldn’t want it popping up in the future.
Of course this could all just be a bug and these images should have been deleted in the first place. I’m just speculating here.
- FriendFeed Suggestion: Two Column ViewJuly 12 2008
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FriendFeed has a very clean design but it doesn’t utilize wide screen real estate. On a 24″ display using 1920×1200 pixel resolution, you can show at least two columns of FF feeds and still have some room to spare.
I’m not sure how to balance width vs. scroll. Having two columns can be confusing, and I certainly don’t want to scroll down to read the left column only to scroll up again to read the right one. However I’m sure this screen real estate can be used in some way to enhance my productivity.
Maybe something along the lines of the Pagerization Greasemonkey script, only horizontal? Still thinking about it. In the meantime I’ll just keep scrolling down.