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Month: December 2008
Another use for RSS feeds
Caphyon, the vendor of Advanced Installer, has a feed for updates of the software. A brief look at the feed shows a pretty regular schedule of updates. Each entry in the feed contains the release notes, with new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.
Quick thanks to my friend Dave, who sent me a tweet about this product. Now we’ll see how it stacks up against InstallShield.
Clever Twitter Client
Some googling for Mac OS X Twitter clients revealed this clever one. I wasn’t aware of Fluid, Hahlo, or site-specific browsers (SSBs) before checking out the little video.
Finally joined Twitter
Being part of The Borg Facebook wasn’t enough–I joined Twitter a couple of weeks ago. At least so far, it has succeeded in connecting me with the few friends of mine I haven’t found on Facebook yet. I don’t use it from my iPhone that much yet, but fring seems to be a good enough client.