RasterWeb!Tonight, when the guards are gone, we block out the sun.
People who sit inside all day staring at computer screens should not have bright lights shining on them. That what we call a “bad idea” around these parts.
Operation SunBlock is in motion!
As you may remember, I am not a big fan of Skype (Proprietary! Proprietary! Run Away! Run Away!) but when someone wants to interview you, and use Skype to do it. It’s time to launch Skype.
Or try to launch Skype. I haven’t used it in a few months, so it promptly told me I had to get a newer version, and then it quit itself. Luckily it made my browser go to skype.com to download a newer version. At this point I’m annoyed because I have to deal with downloading and installing a new(er) version. It gets worse, because during the install I have to agree to a new license as well. I mean, it might be new, or it might be the same as the last one. Who can tell? (Unless you saved and read each version. Even me, a member of the License Police has a limit…)
So remember kids, with each new version you (are forced to) install, check that license for what rights you may be giving up this time in using “free” software. Urgh…
Thanks Lifehacker! Thanks for this bit on iTunes 4.9:
Videoblogger Pete at The Last Minute posted a screencast of these steps as well.
Just to set the record straight (because that’s what we do here) it was Duncan at The Last Minute who posted about Video Blogs in iTunes 4.9 and included the text from an email I sent explaining things…
So Lifehacker got it slightly wrong. While I might be “Videoblogger Pete” over at tinkernet or the Videoblogging group, Duncan is the guy at The Last Minute, and he did the screencast. Oh, and I’m also the guy here at RasterWeb! in case you didn’t notice…
Ok, I took the output from GeoURL, which is RSS 1.0, and through the magic of Perl and regex (I know, two problems…) output an RSS 2.0 feed with the geo:stuff in it, and pass it through the Yahoo! Maps API and get this GeoURL/Yahoo! Maps thingy…
I’m really liking the Yahoo! Maps API, since it builds on RSS 2.0 using namespaces. It’s trivial to do neat stuff with it. More to come…
(Update: Urgh… It seems to sometimes not work, which I am going to blame completely on Yahoo! ;)
Update: Try these links instead:
But I hate Microsoft and don’t want to help you out…
’nuff said!