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MailBucket MailBucket is an experiment in alternative methods of email management. For now its only feature is a public email-to-RSS gateway: forward your email to slurp@mailbucket.org and have your news reader pick it up at mailbucket.org/slurp.xml (where you choose slurp, having checked that it’s not already in use).

» 25 Ways To Improve Your Site Today » fadtastic – a multi-author web design trends journal

Yes, the title may look like this post should be on an amateur blog and that it will be full of references to clip art and animated gifs, but this is serious. I’ve compiled a list of what I think are 25 ways to improve your website in as little time as possible. All can be done in a matter of minutes. Now, a website is hard work and usually there are no quick fixes but this list should provide you with a few pointers to make some updates today. If you like, it can also be used as a basis for a quality check document.

I use EventCalendar to maintain family “repeating” events like birthdays and anniversaries. Let’s say it takes a bit too long to do it the way I have in the past.

I know SQL. 8)

There are probably many ways to do it. I didn’t want to deal with changing the plugin code, so let’s do it all in the database.

Here’s my submission to the EventCalendar mailing list with an example of how to automatically take care of repeating events. -

PictoBrowser: Free Flickr Image Browser for your Site, Blog and MySpace click the INFO button on any PictoBrowser to get yours

HOW TO Quickie: Embedded Flickr Slideshows – PaulStamatiou.com

Dig those flash Flickr slideshows? All that’s needed is a bit of code to embed them within your website to give your readers something dynamic.

lazyi.net // Ryan Prins’ Blog » NNW: Subs to HTML

Out of boredom and also because I stopped using Bloglines a while ago in favor of NetNewsWire I needed a way to update my blogroll on my site. So, I took my first foray into AppleScript and hashed out a simple little script to populate my blogroll page like Bloglines once used to.

Nice. Now I have a page that contains all of my news sources.

I may have to figure out how to automate the generation and updating of the page in WordPress. Probably just dump it to a file and include that.

Josiah Cole » 19 Things NOT To Do When Building a Website

I’ve compiled a small list (or rant) of some very basic and fundamental rules that all webmasters must learn and respect when developing a website that needs to make actual money. This list can also be used by companies looking to hire a web development firm or to evaluate an already deployed website project.

Why thank you Sam – a great list.

Mac OS X Things » sed vs. PERL

sed vs. PERL

sed one-liners are here sed FAQ is here

I wanted to change all occurrences of PRIVATE to NJPRIVATE in a bunch of files. It’s a simple command in sed, but what about replacing the file? output to temporary, then copy? yes, but.

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Turning the web into ‘sushi belts’

The way people find websites, blogs, and other content they like on the net is changing.