Monthly Archives: November 2004

Google Software Downloads

InsideGoogle reports: Just like I first reported last month, Google has released all of its major free software as a single download, now available on the Google Software Downloads page. The programs included are Google Toolbar, Google Desktop Search, Picasa, … read more →

Egosurfing with PHP and Google

From the first time I discovered Google WEB APIs, I thought that this thing is ideal to create an “ego-surfing” script, that is a script that looks up google for, let’s say, my name and returns the results. I have … read more →

lilina 0.5.1

I released lilina 0.5.1 today. For most of the changes in this version I have to thank Robert Baker for his great work on the CSS and the UI in general. lilina is quite stable now, I think you should … read more →

MagpieRSS 0.7 is out!

Magoie 0.7 is out and this has improved character set detection and improved date handling. Read the rest here. This is great news. I’ll make sure lilina takes advantage of these features…

Overture Testing RSS Ads

“You can now put Overture ads in your RSS feed. I don’t plan on doing it yet, but I think its great. Many blogs lose half their traffic to RSS, and for bloggers that make their money that way, ads … read more →

weird g-metrics findings

how could “sony ericsson” and “on-line * betting” be related? read more →

Cool ASCII Generator

This is so cool, I couldn’t help linking to it (although it’s late and I ahve to go to bed…) ASCII Generator turns any text into ascii art. Very helpful for e-mail signatures, text-based e-mails, etc. Very nice work. (by … read more →

Next-gen aggregators?

As a supplement to my previous post, here are some links to what could be the building blocks of the aggregators we will see in the future: newsmap (from kraneland) 10×10 (from kraneland) RS3 (from Doc Searls’ IT Garage) New … read more →

lilina v0.5

Ok. They said “release early, release often” and that’s what I’m doing. lilina v0.5 has some news features (like favicons) and bug-fixes (thanks to Dimitris for his comments and code!). There is still one issue with dates, actually two issues. … read more →

Parsing XLS files with PHP

We (at work) often offer clients the solution to batch upload data to a web site using excel files. The obvious alternative is to uplad a tab delimeted text file, but then you have to explain to the end user … read more →