July 2007
6 posts
AideRSS -- Filter the RSS
AideRSS is a new service which filters out RSS feeds to present before you only selective good posts. It may be useful for people who are get hunderds of feeds and are not able to spend time reading the most important ones. The idea is important because of the increasing usage of RSS. However, I was not quite satisfied with the results of this site for my blog :(
(via Anurag’s Weblog)
Feedburner Integration!
Ever since acquisition by Google, Feedburner has made some interesting features free and created some new features. My brand is one such feature allowing feedburners to retain their domain-name in the feed. I used this feature to convert my feed address to http://feeds.anurag-kumar.com/anurag-kumar from the earlier http://feeds.feedburner.com/anurag-kumar . Blogger has started allowing feed...
Create sessions to access terminal on multiple...
On a linux machine, nohub command can be used to keep a program running even if a terminal is closed. But if you want to use a session from more than one computer, screen command can be used. Matt Cutts has a good short tutorial on how to use screen for working on a session from more than one computers: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/a-quick-tutorial-on-screen/ ...
Anti mosquito software !
Mosquitoes are a big menace and people keep finding ways of driving them away in different ways. A number of softwares are available now which use different methods for keeping the mosquitoes away. - Anti mosquitoes is a unique software which creates a low noise to keep the mosquitoes away. Various parameters need to be adjusted to suit it to the mosquitoes of your home :) - Download.com also...
Google spreadsheet accessible with filters!
A very important feature which I find lacking in google spreadsheets is filtering. However, what sets it apart is its capability of collaboration and APIs. A google intern has created a simple and nice application for viewing google spreadsheets with filters using publicly available APIs. This can work as a great filler till spreadsheet starts allowing filters in its main version.
(via...
Setting up cron in Linux or Unix using shell...
Setting up cron is an easy way of performing time-scheduled jobs in linux or unix machines. Cyberciti has a good tutorial on how to setup cron. Sometimes you may want to execute a script on 2nd Monday or 4th Thursday only. A one line shell script can do it for you. Consider this: $ date +%a The output is: Fri Now to execute a script on first Friday: $crontab -e Now, append the following...