mostfoolhardy.org » two-point-oh http://mostfoolhardy.org That was a particularly bad idea. Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:40:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 New Version (coming soon) and other miscellaneous updates! http://mostfoolhardy.org/2007/06/16/new-version-coming-soon-and-other-miscellaneous-updates/ http://mostfoolhardy.org/2007/06/16/new-version-coming-soon-and-other-miscellaneous-updates/#comments Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:27:01 +0000 Alex http://themak.org/2007/06/16/new-version-coming-soon-and-other-miscellaneous-updates/ Here’s a preview of what’s soon going to be the new look of themak.org:
Picture 1
All critisism welcome for the new design.

The new theme is also going to mark a whole new version of themak.org, the move from the brilliant PALGN free hosting to an ASO shared hosting plan where I will also move this blog from WordPress to a hand made django weblog platform.

I now only have 4 exams left until I’ve finished with my GCSEs, and I feel fairly confident about how I’ve done (which is good) and I’m now only a few short days away from purchasing my guitar and hosting package.

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  1. My Adium Set up.My Adium set up: as you can see this offers little clue as to who’s online apart from their avatar(display picture, buddy icon etc.) However, I find that this approach uses far less screen space than having their name displayed. Growl is highly utilised with this approach as I assoiciate their icon when they log in, or mouse-over to find it. It’s also set to auto-hide on the left hand side of my screen.
  2. iClip4, this is essentially a multi-clipboard, which; for me is essential. I use it at the bottom of my screen where the Dock would usually go, and although it’s slightly sluggish on my PPC mac mini- it’s reasonable.
  3. The precise location of the dock- right and bottom aligned. (Using deeper) Small icons, hiding on and no magnification.
  4. Cytv this lets me watch tv on my ibook, whilst the tuner is plugged into my mac mini.
  5. Letterbox Mail plugin, because I spent too much time in Outlook 2003 before switching. Quicksilver and Visor. Emminently neccessary. Visor especially for living in a terminal window.
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[regains composure]
jUploadr 1.1 was released today, and now is probably the only Zooomr bulk uploader, and seems to be very good.

]]> http://mostfoolhardy.org/2006/09/04/juploadr-11/feed/ 1 Hope for the weeks Zooomr updates http://mostfoolhardy.org/2006/09/03/hope-for-the-weeks-zooomr/ http://mostfoolhardy.org/2006/09/03/hope-for-the-weeks-zooomr/#comments Sun, 03 Sep 2006 00:03:01 +0000 Alex http://themak.org/2006/09/03/hope-for-the-weeks-zooomr/ Over the next week the Zooomr team is going to be making some fairly major updates to progressively beta photo sharing site Zooomr.
Personally I hope for:

  1. Stories.
  2. Better support for privacy settings.
  3. The ability to edit those things that are locked from first upload.
  4. A wordpress plugin.
  5. The bulk uploader.

And thanks to zooomr for the qouta reset.

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userbar- woot

Here’s a quick teaser of the website that I’ve been working on for a while.
As to what it does, I’m not telling quite yet.

Teaser 2Teaser 1

Oh and A Django site..

]]> http://mostfoolhardy.org/2006/08/27/teaser/feed/ 2 Sxore 2 mockup (unofficial) http://mostfoolhardy.org/2006/08/26/sxore-2-mockup-onofficial/ http://mostfoolhardy.org/2006/08/26/sxore-2-mockup-onofficial/#comments Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:17:21 +0000 Alex http://themak.org/2006/08/26/sxore-2-mockup-onofficial/ Recently I have been pointed to the sxore roadmap where they promise far tighter integration with wordpress for comments, such as using the wordpress comment database and form for the comment system. Also with the addition of multiple single sign on technologies. Yes, that is oxymoronic, but I won’t tell anyone if you don’t. I’ve been thinking about what the next version of the plugin will look like.

Sxore 2

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Zooomr fell through the net the last time I was looking for a photo-sharing site, but when I bumped into it- I saw something that wasn’t available with the other contenders: to better Flickr- a liberal upload limit; and to better Riya- full size copies of the photographs.

Zooomr has been described by some as Flickr on steroids, and certainly has a plethora of unique features which Flickr is lacking. Although on the other hand Flickr has many features not in Zoomr and far better documentation.

The things that I would like to see in Zooomr are:

  1. More versatile searching.
  2. A bulk uploader.
  3. A wordpress plugin.
  4. The ability to edit tags from the browse page (or inspector).
  5. Better documentation and help.
  6. Easier lighmat for non googlemap areas.
  7. A way to mark a photo as favourite.
  8. Being able to flag a photo as offensive.
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Update:After giving Opera a go I can only flaw it on it’s OSX integration; it really should be better. It needs to be able to switch to a textured window when demanded by skin, similar to the way it does on Windows. And it needs to support keychain- even if it is rudementary such as backing up the passwords to keychain and checking the keychain on startup. Above that I really like the full screen mode and would love tab bar support under it.
Might just have to import Opera DS. :D Opera DS

]]> http://mostfoolhardy.org/2006/06/24/opera-9/feed/ 0 RSS Reader showdown http://mostfoolhardy.org/2006/04/18/rss-reader-showdown/ http://mostfoolhardy.org/2006/04/18/rss-reader-showdown/#comments Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:39:40 +0000 Alex http://alex.palgn.co.uk/2006/04/18/rss-reader-showdown/ After having used google reader on and off for a while (mostly off) I decided that it was time to look into a decent not-web based RSS reader that was good at serving me news. Firstly I had a few requirements:

  1. Must be free.
  2. Must not suck.
  3. Must not have too many annoying quirks.

So after some searching I found two candidates:

NetNewsWire Lite NetNewsWireLite GUI Things that I like about NNWl:

  • That really shiny unified interface.
  • The ability to send things to a blog writing program. Note to self: Find blog editing program which is free.
  • It’s user inteface.
  • That icon.
  • The polysyballic name.

Things I dislike about NNWl:

  • Opening a browser window every time I click on a link.
  • Not being able to have the reading pane to the side
  • The fact that it could be so much better- if I payed for it :P

Vienna- From the open source corner. Vienna GUI Things that I like about Vienna:

  • Being able to say it in one breath :P
  • The icon less UI
  • The built in tabbed browser- which is based on Safari
  • The right aligned reading pane.
  • Its’ open source -itude.

Some things which I dislike about Vienna:

  • The Metal UI.
  • No custom favicons.

Conclusion Net news wire lite is a well built but understandably feature anaemic, due to its’ bigger brother Net News Wire Pro. Vienna has a plethora of features and is a fully fledged rss aggregator although could do with more of its options accessible from the preferences section and would do well to lose the metal in favour of a dark-metal theme such as the one featuring in iTunes 6. The winner? Bye bye NNWL! Vienna! XD

]]> http://mostfoolhardy.org/2006/04/18/rss-reader-showdown/feed/ 0 Updates to site- and sxore http://mostfoolhardy.org/2006/04/14/updates-to-site-and-sxore/ http://mostfoolhardy.org/2006/04/14/updates-to-site-and-sxore/#comments Fri, 14 Apr 2006 22:47:40 +0000 Alex http://alex.palgn.co.uk/2006/04/14/updates-to-site-and-sxore/ I’ve been updating the site and added some features such as those syndication buttons and updating the sxore plugin.

Now sxore is quite an interesting beast, I first heard about sxip when looking through the firefox roadmaps to see it’s potential to tempt me back :P but I read a comment which linked to this quite amazing presentation which I found really interesting so I signed up for sxore within 10 minutes. After watching another highly energetic and interesting presentation.

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