SimplePie for RSS
I have been working a fair amount with parsing RSS feeds for a personal project. I tried a few different PHP libraries but the easiest to use was SimplePie. It worked as expected pretty much right out off the bat and made it easy to go through feeds getting the items. MagpieRSS is also popular [...]
Copying files onto the iPod Touch easily
The problem was basically that I wanted to get eBooks (text files) onto the iPod Touch, but not having a wireless network, that was proving to be somewhat difficult. The only real possibility was to try and find an unsecured network somewhere and bring a laptop, connect them both to the network and SCP (secure [...]
Sony Least-Green : Greenpeace
Greenpeace released its quarterly ranking of the leading mobile and PC manfacturers based on their global policies, their taking repsonsibility for their products (recycling) and how much they are working to remove harmful chemicals from their products. Sony used to place quite well (5th), but with each passing ranking has consistently dropped and is currently [...]
Google to lose gmail???
It looks like there is a fairly large amount of despute going on over the intellectual property rights over Googles Gmail service. Another British company (IIR) alleges that they had the rights first and that Google is infringing on them. Current the case is tied up in court back in the USA. Thankfully, IIR is [...]
First Try with Google Adwords
For the first time, I am currently having the opportunity to play around with Google’s Adwords as part of a site that I am currently working on. The tools are definitly very powerful but it looks like they are very hard to overcome for the person who isn’t very familiar with computers or marketing in [...]
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