After reading Dave’s piece on the “Google-It!” macro, I had an idea for a cool Google service. How about a web service that allowed someone to submit a URL and some search terms, and get the rank of that URL based on those terms? For example: http://www.google.com/rank?q=Weblog&url=http://www.scripting.com Would return a number, it’s value being the current rank of that URL based on a Google search for Weblog. It would be a boon for those obsessed with or merely curious about their rank of the Google ladder. The tie-in to Radio and Manila is that you could write a macro that…
OK, I’m back online with RU.
OK, I’m back online with RU. Not that I’m really sure what I am going to do with it yet; I’ve just been feeling so out of the loop with everything going on that I just had to get it. If I know Dave W. and Co., this will end up being the best $39.95 I’ve ever spent.
I should mention that I’m now using iCab on my PowerBook G3.
I should mention that I’m now using iCab on my PowerBook G3. It’s still a tradeoff. It runs much quicker than MS/IE, and shares CPU cycles in a much more congenial manner. However, it doesn’t display a lot of my favorite sites very well; one told me that I need to get a newer browser. The search for the perfect browser continues….
I can’t think of a better way to test the fix of my iTunes scripts than to post that I haven’t had a crash for hours.
I can’t think of a better way to test the fix of my iTunes scripts than to post that I haven’t had a crash for hours. This is such a blatant challenge to Murphy that I can’t imagine it going unanswered. Here we go….. Maybe he didn’t here me. I said I HAVEN’T HAD A CRASH IN HOURS….. (as he hits the ‘Post Changes’ button) Well, either Murph lives an eastern time zone and has gone to sleep already or I really have fixed the scripts. So far so good…
I hadn’t seen the As The Apple Turns website before.
I hadn’t seen the As The Apple Turns website before. The layout would make one awesome Manila theme. I wonder why Apple’s legal pitbulls haven’t gone after these guys for “look and feel” issues.
Brian Huges sends Dave some feedback on MS/IE.
Brian Huges sends Dave some feedback on MS/IE. I’ve about had it with MS/IE myself. I gave up Navigator for it when MS/IE 5 for Mac came out. It does render a bit faster, but it really does lock up the processor on my PowerBook G3 from the time you request a URL until the page is drawn. I need to give iCab a try.
Putting the Radio back in Radio Userland. I’ve been spending way to much time with Radio Userland this weekend.
Putting the Radio back in Radio Userland. I’ve been spending way to much time with Radio Userland this weekend. Mucho mahalos to Sam Devore for helping with some iTunes scripts. I now can publish a list of my most recently played MP3s to my Weblog. The side benefit is that it can also publish the same list to my Manila site. That part is a highly modified version of a script Lynn Siprelle sent me way back. Life is good. Its not clean or completely automated yet, but the difficult stuff is mostly done so I’m going to bed now.
I want to put the ‘radio’ back in my Radio Userland.
I want to put the ‘radio’ back in my Radio Userland. I’d like to have RU (or Frontier for that matter) query iTunes every minute or so to see what’s playing, a build up a database of the stuff I’m spinning, and maybe publish it. I think I can handle the Usertalk side of this and storing the data in my odb (sufficient prior art there). However, I’m stuck on have RU get the data from iTunes. I imported the aete resource (using Frontier). I’ve gone through Preston Holme’s Object Model docs and can’t figure out how to do this.…
Here’s some macro processing within a page; it uses xml.rss.readService to grab and story an RSS feed, and xml.rss.renderWithTemplate to render.
Here’s some macro processing within a page; it uses xml.rss.readService to grab and story an RSS feed, and xml.rss.renderWithTemplate to render. Still working on it, but when it’s clean I’ll post the macro.
Robert asks “How does one measure speed? Is measured by clock speed? Could it be that one’s perspective of speed is relative?” Of course my comments were based on my perception.
Robert asks “How does one measure speed? Is measured by clock speed? Could it be that one’s perspective of speed is relative?” Of course my comments were based on my perception. The only thing I really have to meaure against is the machines I have. When I switch from OS 9.2 to OS X on the same 733 Mhz G4, bootup and application launches both seem considerably slower to me. Can’t quantify it. Most of what I do is web based, Frontier website management, email, etc. No heavy graphics, page layout or anything. Of course, I should add that I’ve…