One week ago I started my latest experiment online. At the MacHack.it/news url you will find “a selection of Macintosh-related technical news from multiple sources”, as also stated in the slightly ironic description on the bottom of the page. ;-) Leggi il resto »
For me it all began last year with a message on the Yahoo! Developer Network del.icio.us mailing list.
In the message, thefangmonster[0] was introducing a a bookmarklet to make easier the saving of a particular tag when adding bookmarks on del.icious. Leggi il resto »
I just read on MacDailyNews that Noel Dellofano, who is part of the ZFS dev team at Apple, has published a post on Mac OS Forge that goes:
So Christmas comes a little late this year, but at last it’s here! We now have a new page as part of the wiki that will hold the latest ZFS source code and ZFS binaries all for your downloading pleasure:
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What follows is a mix of trivia, notes and precious explanations provided by Grant Morrison: I collected this during the translation of Morrison’s The Filth comic book series into italian and I’m providing it here, in a per issue list, in the hope some of the readers of the series will find some interesting and/or useful info.
The Filth 1 - Us Vs Them Leggi il resto »
(questo testo è disponibile anche in italiano)
In other words: how to obtain your favorite RSS or Atom feeds and then read them when at last you have some time or it’s quiet but there’s no Internet connection.
- Add the feeds as bookmarks in Safari (from version 2 onwards). Feeds are loaded in the background and are then readable when offline.
(only for Macintosh)
- Choose Google Reader as your feed reader and extend it to work offline thanks to Google Gears.
(for any platform)
- Use xfruits. One of the “bricks” of Xfruits is “RSS to Mail” and it can send you (hourly or daily) any feed you choose via email message.
(for any platform)
It took me almost two months but I more or less managed to read Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Galapagos.
I borrowed it at the (very good) local public library just after the writer’s death, when they put a series of books as suggested readings. A couple of them were in the original english edition, i.e. not translated into italian.
I picked Galapagos, which is one of those I haven’t still read and, to tell the truth, I read almost entirely in the bathroom, one or two chapters at a time. I usually read during travelling but I didn’t do it that much and when I did there were overdue jobs to do like updating my website. Last year I tried to read Bret Easton Ellis’ Lunar Park but got only so far as one third or half of the book. Leggi il resto »
Based on my two previous posts (both in italian) and the developers mailing list thread here’s a condensed list of resources available to check one’s del.icio.us bookmarks for dead urls, this time in english: